Story: Hentai Crystal

 

So that's the Demon, huh? Loan Shark stepped out from the underbrush like the cock of the walk. Earlier, his confidence had been shaken - maybe even outright shattered by that Sailor Moon girl under the effect of this thing's powerup. But now that they had her under lock and key, he was feeling a whole lot better about the situation. Confidence restored. He could settle this score and pick this creep off with ease. Look at him, over there with his back turned to who he thinks is his ally. Heh! He'd learn, he'd learn exactly what he was dealing with before too long.

"Oh, you're that Loan Shark guy, right?" the being calling itself Libra asked. "I saw you talking with Usagi before. Don't try to pretend differently. You won't catch us off guard this time."

"You sure about that?" Loan Shark asked. He snapped his fingers - and out they came. "Got a couple favours to pull in. From a few dozen people. You sure you're gonna be in the clear?"

They came from all walks of life. Young and old alike. Ah, wait. There were no rich people here, so not all walks of life. Pretty much every other demo in the local area though. He had, what, about three dozen favours called in? All completely normal people, surrounding them, making their move to come in and jump on this Demon and rip him to shreds.

"Uh... You do realise the problem with this plan, right?" Libra asked. "I mean, if I'm half the bad guy you think I am, then I won't really care too much about any of these guys. Not to mention, I'm not exactly alone here."

Enter the fake Sailor Moon, stepping behind him. She lifted her hands, charged up a magic attack-  and then Libra ducked, sweeping her legs out from under her.

"As you can see, you actually are alone here," Loan Shark chuckled. "So, how about it? Feel like you can take on both them and Sailor Moon at the same time?"

Sailor Moon grabbed Libra's legs, pinning the fiend in place. "Gotcha!" But even so, the monster was smiling from ear to ear. Huh? Now, why the hell was it - 

"When I said I was alone, I didn't mean her."

Then, they leaped in out of nowhere. A whole bunch of slutty girls wearing far too little, with bodies that were blatantly augmented by supernatural means to maximise their sex appeal. Tsk! So this was how it was gonna be, huh?! Fine by him! He was ready for a rumble anyway! And since he had their Historian created leader on side to... Alright, you sluts, let's put you in your place!

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This was a bit disconcerting. Mercury had not taken into account the possibility the enemy would use this many civilians for their ambush. But it was fine. It was fine! This would be easier if they had the real Sailor Moon on the team, as she'd be able to purify all these people, or Sailor Mars would do in a pinch, but... They should still be able to manage.

First things first, she needed to remove the core advantage that numbers had, by removing their ability to work together. Once that was done it would be easier for the others to deal with them. Maybe they could have Libra purify them or something? No matter!

"Mercury Molesting Mist!" she cried out, and summoned an enormous cloud of mist to cover the temple. Within the mist a host of mostly translucent hands formed, reaching out to grope the unwary civilians who had unknowingly wound up being brought into this. There! Now they could focus their attention on the two real threats.

At least, that was meant to be the idea. Unfortunately, Priestess Mercury wasn't quite as familiar with her new power as she had assumed. Nor did she have quite as good control over it as she thought, and her allies weren't used to it either yet. As such...

"Pardon me!" Maker yelped. The Starlight had moved in to clear a path to Loan Shark, and had even started to charge up her signature attack, Star Gentle Uterus, summoning a star in front of her chest for the purposes of sending the civilians flying - but instead, the misty hands had grabbed her thighs. Stroking up and down her legs, drinking every bit of her in. Slipping under her shorts, groping her butt, and in so doing altered her focus and - Made her charge her attack in front of her butt instead of her breasts!

"Maker, wait!" Mercury yelled. Oh no! This was a terrible miscalculation! She hadn't accounted for her own technique behaving like this, she thought it would only grope the enemy, not her allies! Worse yet, when Mercury tried to move away from the incoming blast she found her own legs caught and <i>fuuuuuck</i> those watery hands really knew what they were doing. Oh dear! She really needed to think quickly about this, before -

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If there's anything you can say about Priestess Jupiter, it's that she's not afraid of a fight. Not even against this many! Mercury had gone south, so she went west, making a beeline straight for that Loan Shark creep.

"Oh, eager to scrap are we?" Loan Shark shrugged. He snapped his fingers again, and a crowd of people got right in between them. "Go on then. After you work your way through this lot, let's see how you feel!"

How she might feel? Heh! Confident! She'd wanted this jerk to bring all these people together, because now she was in a much better place to clear a path for the others. She could see Fighter on the edge of her vision rushing up behind her, all she had to do was use her brand new technique.

"Supreme Tit Thunder!" Jupiter yelled, putting her hands behind her back and thrusting out her enormous heaving bosom. Lightning shot from the nipples, jumping from person to person. It pulled them, magnetised them and their attention completely to her amazing boobage! They could no more escape staring than they could jump into space! "That's right everyone, follow me! Hehehe, there's no escape for any of you now!"

"Oh wow, her rack is amazing!"

"B-But I have to fulfil my debt..."

"Maybe if I pin her down and motorboat her, that would do the job...?"

Hehehe! That's right, losers! None of them were hot enough to rock her world anyway, and she doubted any of them could hold her down. This way, she could lead them around the temple without hurting them, and let Fighter get her mitts on this guy.

It was the perfect plan. Completely flawless. Right up until Fighter hugged her from behind and started to grope her boobs.

"Hey, what's the big idea?!" Jupiter yelled, "You're meant to cave his face in!"

"Sorry, but... these boobs of yours are just too unreal, I can't stop staring at them," Fighter said. "Nnngh! I can't take my hands away! I need to point to use my attack!"

Oh, great! Her range had been a bit broader than she'd expected! Ah, nuts! Here she was thinking that she had the perfect plan, but now... they were being surrounded by a group of boob happy civilians looking to cop a feel. Not exactly the best place for her right now, huh?

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Priestess Venus was on the scene! The most seasoned veteran present, she could see already that Mercury and Jupiter had things well in hand. She leaped away from the mist, and let Jupiter head off to take care of the enemy. Her attention was going straight to Libra.

While their benefactor was clearly strong it was also their first rodeo. The last thing they needed was the enemy managing to sneak off with some unnoticed underline, nab Libra and make a break for it. Hah! See how smart she was? Like this, she'd be able to make sure everything went perfectly!

"Oh, is this adoring crowd for me~" she sang, saluting cutely and spinning around in place. She was the very embodiment of a super hot idol, arriving by surprise amidst her beloved fanbase. "Oh? You're more interested in Libra? Teehee! Then perhaps I can change your - Hello there cutie, doing anything later?"

Because, of course, Venus was always kinda boy crazy even before she had been corrupted by a long trapped sex demon. It's only natural that a cute guy would get her attention. "Sorry, busy paying off a debt," the guy said.

"I'll let you pay it off with. My. Body!" Venus said, walking backwards seductively, which is a much harder thing to manage than you might think.

"I'm his girlfriend, stop hitting on him!"

"Oh!" Venus gasped, then turned to look at said girlfriend. "Well, the more the merrier. You're pretty hot too, come on, let's ditch this and have some fun!"

"Venus!" Libra called out across the temple. "I don't have any problems with you being horny but - Oh fuck me, I'm prioritising something over lust, I'm becoming everything I hate..."

Right! Right, of course. One thing at a time. The boyfriend and girlfriend reached out for Venus, but not in a fun way. Not even in a "not a fun way, but actually still fun" way. Which was very annoying, because it meant flirting time was done. Still!

"Love Me Lock!" she cried out, bringing forth a boundless sea of yellow chains and locks, which formed over the hearts of the debt ridden wretches compelled by the enemy to act on their behalf! Hehehe! Now she was able to spin around in place, knowing full well she had their full attention.

"On second thought... Maybe the debt can wait," the boyfriend grunted.

"Oooh, she's so pretty! I wanna be a slut like her!" the girlfriend swooned.

Similar sentiments were playing out all around her. Hah! Just as planned! Of course, if she wasn't on a time crunch Venus was pretty sure she could have put on a song and dance and brought them to their knees in no time at all.

Unfortunately for her, cockiness would be her undoing. You see, she hadn't been the only one to be concerned with Libra's wellbeing. Now, you might wonder why she hadn't coordinated with that other one previously, and the thing was... she kind of had. Before they leaped out, Venus had asked Healer to help her keep a close eye on Libra. Venus would deal with the obvious threats, while Healer was to stick close to Libra and look out for less obvious problems.

Which was all fine and good. Healer would be well away from Venus, and therefore would not be caught in the radius of her Love Me Lock. You see? So simple, it worked out perfe-

"Star Sensitive Ass Inferno!"

"I'm sorry what was that attack name?" Venus asked, moments before energy washed over her and those around her, knocking her on her butt... which promptly made her cream uncontrollably, right there on the temple floor. "Oh fuck, oh fuck that's gooooood!"

For you see, not all of the group had been caught in her attack either. Some of them had gotten close enough that Healer had felt the need to make use of her special technique, and that explosive orgasm had caused the area of her attack to spread a little bit wider - meaning that now, it had caught up with Healer, locking her heart behind total lust for Priestess Venus.

It just wasn't their day, was it?

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To say that Priestess Earth was a little nervous would be a gross understatement. She was the newbie. She had only just been brought into this whole thing tonight. Received strange powers which she was still sort of getting used to. Filled to bursting with motherly affection, and finding herself face to face with a girl who was a twisted copy of her best friend.

"Oh, this is rich," said the fake Sailor Moon. "You're the one coming to face me? What, were you hoping for some power of friendship nonsense to carry the day? The truth is, 'Priestess Earth', that the power of friendship is on my side! I can see how you've been corrupted, so come back to the light already!"

She ended that with a salute that was typical of Sailor Moon, and it felt plain bad and wrong being on the wrong side of that. Still, Earth adjusted into something like a battle posture, ready to bring the fight to her enemy. "You're not the real Sailor Moon," she said. "You're some crummy fake!"

"Yeah, I guess you've been saved enough by now to know the difference."

Sailor Moon leaped forward, and thrust her leg upwards while yelling "Sailor Moon Kick!" As if a leaping front kick was some kind of special attack! Even so, Earth manipulated the ground beneath her feet to haul her pretty butt well out of harm's way, cycling around into her blind spot where she immediately put her hands behind her head, thrust her chest out and sprayed milk out, with the force of a firehose.

"That's right! I've been saved quite often by Sailor Moon! Now it's my turn to repay the favour!"

"Oh please," the fake Sailor Moon tutted, using her wand, spinning it around rapidly to displace the milk, sending it flying to the ground around her. "Naru Osaka, you've wound up getting caught by the bad guys again and don't even know it. I mean, look at you!"

Without warning, Sailor Moon was suddenly right above her, leg extended for another brutal kick. Earth immediately retreated once again, making the ground itself carry her away. Even so, bits of the ground where she landed kicked up a lot of dust and debris, and in the middle of that dust she could plainly see the distinctive figure of Sailor Moon walking confidently towards her.

Damn, though. It's been said that confidence was sexy, but until now Earth hadn't really gotten the meaning behind it. Goddamn but he wanted to do such utterly filthy things to her right now. Shame about, you know, the murderous intent.

"Corrupted." Sailor Moon kicked the ground at her feet, sending a chunk of rock flying that she quickly struck right at Earth. Easily dodged. But then she started to do it again and again, a little quicker each time. "Lustful." A hail of chunks of dirt flew right for Earth like bullets, but bigger. "Your body twisted beyond all recognition into a lewd parody of femininity!"

Earth tried creating a sweeping arc around her enemy in an attempt to keep clear of the attacks. She knew Sailor Moon was strong, but - this was otherworldly! It wasn't long at all before she had to keep up a much less predictable pattern, to the point where she actually had to physically roll and use the earth ahead of her as a barrier. Not that it did any good! The chunks being kicked by this fake were screaming through them like bullets through a pane glass window. If she wasn't careful then she might bring it down on top of herself!

"That sounded a bit too highbrow for my friend to come up with, did you get coached?" Earth quipped back. Where was she now...?

"Nah, I'm just not holding myself back anymore, like your 'real' Usagi..." Sailor Moon whispered in her ear, right before grabbing her in a full nelson. "Can't use that breastmilk on me if I've got you pinned down, right? Let's see. If I remember correctly from what Jupiter told me that one time, a full nelson is an insidious thing. You think you're fine. You fight. You struggle. It's not completely closed off your air pipe... but it's closed enough that before too long, you'll fall asleep."

Guhhhh! Earth tried to struggle against it, but to no avail. This was bad. This was very, very bad! Now she'd get dragged away too, just like Moon and Mars! No! She refused to be kidnapped again! Th-Think! Think about this, you've got to get out, you've got to escape. But how?!

"You know, it's kind of pathetic you didn't notice for all this time," the fake Moon continued to taunt. "I mean, we start hanging out less right about the same time the Sailors start showing up. Then I make new friends right before new members appear. I mean, for pity's sake! We're all colour co-ordinated!"

There was only one way out of this. She wasn't going to accept this. Earth staggered forward, and Moon dragged her back.

"Ah, ah, ah! No escape for - Woah!"

That's right, bitch! When you adjusted your footing to maintain a better hold, it made for the perfect opportunity to raise the ground beneath your feet! The perfect chance to toss you over head, breaking the lock through sheer physics! Never Sailor Moon's strong suit, physics.

"Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth!" she yelled, quoting Archimides. Moon was undaunted, turning around and rising, moving in for another attack. But this time, when she took a step Earth made the ground lift up directly beneath her feet, so when she did step, she stumbled instead. "I'll show you. I will show you how useful I can be!"

"You!" Sailor Moon sniffed, suddenly finding herself further back than when she started. The ground itself moved her further away. "H-Hey!" She tried to jump, and the ground sank beneath her feet - but unevenly, ensuring she couldn't quite get the elevation she wanted. "Woah! Stop that, you loser!"

"Just more proof that you're a fake," Earth said. "The girl I know would never call someone a loser for something like this!"

She returned instead to her previous strategy, and tried to kick the earth at her feet - only to find a deep hole where her foot should have gone. No. She tried again, this time finding the leg she was standing on was elevated. Then again, leaning down to punch the earth - to no avail! Finally, she jumped and found the ground perfectly keeping with her, keeping the impact from breaking anything at all.

All the while, Earth was really, really wanting to get freaky with that bitch. Oh, she was such a bitch, it would be so much fun to break her in.

"Y-You! You!" Sailor Moon hissed. Then flopped to the ground and - "Waaaaaaah! Wahahaaaaaaa!"

A sonic attack! Ah! It felt like her eardrums were being ruptured! Earth collapsed to the ground as well, clutching at the side of her head. No! Crybaby Usagi's worst impulses were shining brightly right now! Ah! Like this, she couldn't concentrate! Any moment now, the fake Sailor Moon would take advantage, and - 

And the crying suddenly stopped when something flew across the temple, striking Sailor Moon in the head. Huh? What was that...? A flower?

"To see this mockery of my one true love berate her best friend, so..." Tuxedo Mask sternly said from a nearby rooftop.

"Wait, you were watching all that? Why didn't you do anything?" Earth asked.

Tuxedo Mask ignored her, and continued. "Be ashamed of yourself, for such sinister mind game strategies! They are beneath my beloved's contempt! To see you strut around with such an expression, in her image, it would make her sick to her stomach!"

"Oh, shut up Mister Useless!" Moon yelled. "All you do is stand on the sidelines hucking flowers and spouting poetry! You don't actually do anything! Just like she said! You're completely useless!"

"I don't know, he makes a pretty good distraction," Earth said. Moon turned around, but... too late! Earth tackled her to the floor, making sure to smother her completely with her breasts. "There, there! Shush now. Take a big gulp of my MILFY milk. Shhhhh!"

Sailor Moon was able to push her away, but a fraction of a second too late. Earth's milky goodness had already passed her lips. "Oooh! It'll take more than that to -" Moon began, before her head lunged forward of its own volition, suckling greedily at her tit. Just like always, Usagi's stomach was her second brain. Earth lovingly stroked her hair. Oh! But it seemed that her hands were still being a bit violent. In fact, she was kicking and thrashing away, which was hurting quite a bit. At this rate, in spite of the milk having a clear hold on her by now, Earth was going to wind up getting shoved away.

She could hear this fake sneer at her for the attempt. Call her a whore, unfit for the motherly role she portrayed herself in. Belittle her as a friend and as a person. The perennial victim, never the hero. Well. That changed today. If the milk wasn't enough to put her under, then it was time for the earth itself to move!

"Hrmph!" Sailor Moon grunted into Earth's nipples. The ground beneath them had begun to vibrate ever so gently. Carefully stimulating underneath her body, and as time passed she became less and less eager to push the attack. If anything her hands started to grab for Earth, pulling her closer, closer still, until she was curled up in Earth's lap greedily supping down the magical milk.

"Mmmmmommmmyyyyyyy!" the fake Sailor Moon whined, milk dribbling down her chin to the point you couldn't see an inch of flesh. And then she began to work on the other breast.

"Excellent work, Sailor Earth! I knew you could -"

"Could you please stick it in her, right away?" Earth interrupted. "I'm not sure how much longer I can hold her, and I'm pretty sure if she's being bred then she'll become compliant."

"Ah... I'm not sure how I feel about fucking a clone of the woman I lo-" Tuxedo Mask began, and so Sailor Earth squirted a jet of milk right into his waiting mouth. Five seconds later he had a firm grip on Sailor Moon's hips and was fucking her like their lives depended on it.

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Normally, Loan Shark would advise against enjoying your work. Enjoy it too much and you get a bit sloppy with it. You start getting careless, distracted, unfocused. Him though, personally? He loved his work. He couldn't help it, he loved making sure the unwary knew their damn place.

Today, he was especially loving his work. A cocky group of sluts thought they could pull one over on him? Please. It was obvious if you looked at them what was wrong. Coordination. Leadership. Guidance. Without Sailor Moon they weren't a shade of what they were fully capable of. It didn't help they had another five with them than usual, and Mars was missing too.

In particular, he was finding great amusement in the plight of Jupiter and Fighter. Hehe! A sight any pervert would enjoy. Fighter worshipping Jupiter's boobs, hanging onto her with great affection. Electricity coursed through the two of them. Hah! What losers.

"I know this problem all too well," Loan Shark. "Way too popular for your own good. Shame that. Really is a shame. Tell you what though, how about I do you a solid and -"

"Fat chance, pal!" Jupiter yelled back. She cradled Fighter to her bosom, practically carrying her bridal style, and began to leap around the temple grounds. Retreating? Back towards that mist over there...? Oh, she was leaping over it? Fine. The debtors wandered in anyway and - 

Hands appeared in the mist, made up of water. They started to grab at the debtors, squeezing their thighs. Caressing their legs, their butts, their hips - everywhere they could reach. Groping them wantonly from every direction imaginable. So that was her big plan, huh? Slow 'em down by getting them in the middle of that mist? Well, whatever. All it meant was that he had to avoid it!

"Well done, well done!" Loan Shark yelled out, sarcastically applauding. "You lured a bunch of simpletons into a trap - and now you're coming back to pick me off." He scoffed, he rolled his eyes. Yeah right. Now they were leaping back over the mist to resume their battle one on two. "Does your partner there have anything to say, or is she too caught up in your -"

Fighter pointed her large round, barely hidden ass at Loan Shark and fired a laser of some sort out of it at him. Tsk! It blew up the ground at his feet, but no matter! He immediately counterattacked with his own little technique! He'd purify them the same way he purified that Sailor Moon girl, and then they'd be at his mercy!

At least, that was the idea, before a yellow chain appeared out of nowhere and yanked Jupiter down to the ground. Looking over, Loan Shark could see Sailor Mercury being carried along by her groping mist hands, alongside Venus and the other two Starlights. They all looked a bit beat up for whatever reason. Venus in particular didn't seem to want to move her legs too much.

"Something wrong, Venus?" Loan Shark yelled out. "Perhaps the sound of your own cheeks clapping finally got to you!"

That was mostly bravado, though. This wasn't exactly the best situation to be in. They'd lured away the debtors, trapped them in some stupid pervy trap or other. He could purify one of them probably before the others hit him with something really nasty.  Tsk! And there was Libra right at the back, watching the girls from behind like the corrupted deviant that it truly was.

"Well, you know what they say," Loan Shark bowed. On the corner of his vision, he could see that reinforcements had arrived. The fake Sailor Moon was walking out towards the group. He might as well let her deal with them now. It was obvious she was a worthless asset now, and it wasn't as if Historian couldn't make more like her at the drop of a hat. There was only one Loan Shark, though, so he absolutely had to survive. "Bye, sluts! Catch you next time!"

Sailor Moon leaped towards them, and Loan Shark turned to go as well - only to run into a sudden, inexplicable trench. He moved towards it, intending to leap across, but the ground itself moved him away.

"There will be no next time," Sailor Moon said. What? Turning back, he could plainly see Sailor Moon standing proudly among the others, pinching at Mercury's butt, then Venus (which made the girl leap and shriek a bit), rubbing her cheek into Jupiter's breast and licking her lips in quite a lascivious manner. "Foul prude! You and your lies kept me from the joys of love and passion!"

"Oh shoot they corrupted you already," Loan Shark said. "H-Hey, listen! How about I do you a favour? I'll tell you where your friends are! Special deal, all you gotta do is - "

"No deal!" Sailor Earth said, standing on top of a pillar of earth right behind him. Cheeky little - "Now, Sailor Scouts! Hit him with everything you have!"

There was nothing else for it. Loan Shark grit his teeth, and summoned the energy of all his debts at once, pulling them into a forcefield right in front of him. Lightning crashed, icicles flew, chains whipped out, energy blasts of astounding strength flew forth - and when they hit his shield they all amounted to nothing!

"Should've taken my deal!" Loan Shark tutted. "Now I'm gonna have to break some legs."

"Sailors, focus your power into me," Libra said, stepping forward at last. "It's about time I did something directly useful!" The Demon lifted its hand, extending its fingers to show the full flat of its palm. The Sailors all put their hands on Libra, anywhere they could reach and then - "Horny Rainbow Orgy!"

That didn't sound great, but if it thought it could bypass the forcefield then it had another thing... Another thing...?

Huh? What was this now? He heard something like laughter. Just then, an image appeared. Sailor Moon, blowing a kiss at him. Next to her, the other Sailors appeared one after the other. All staring at him with bedroom eyes. Some of them, playing with their boobs. Others, squatting down and rubbing their butts up against his forcefield.

It was weird. They looked like... Outlines, sorta? Mercury was an outline of ice, Venus was yellow hearts, Jupiter green electricity, Earth was - well, earth, and Moon was a dark blue crescent moon. The Starlights were there, too, all cast in a jet black outline but no less lewd than the others.

"Hey, cut that out," Loan Shark yelled. "Get off my forcefield! Stop grinding up against it like that!"

But to no avail. Urgh! Those perverted sluts! Everywhere he looked they were dancing and behaving all lewd, shaking their butts, flaunting their breasts, making no bones about their feminine appeal. They made out with each other. Spanked each other. Sent their fingers out to beckon towards him. But to no avail. He wouldn't be tempted. Couldn't be tempted. He was better than that. Stronger than that.

As time passed they became more and more lewd. He could plainly see Jupiter and Mercury start to scissor. Fighter was sitting on Maker's face, while Healer had her face stuffed between Maker's thighs. Moon and Venus were clinging on to one another, sticking their tongues in each other's mouths, holding on to one another's bodies, then slyly looking in his direction, and beckoning, always beckoning with their fingers.

"Fat chance!" he said, though he had to admit, his erection was getting quite painful. "You ain't beating me like this! Take your stupid orgy and - And - Urggh..."

The pressure had been building. Rising. Always rising and building and building. He'd resisted the sweetest temptation known to man. The forbidden fruit had been dangled in front of him, but it didn't stop the lust from growing and growing and growing. If he wouldn't be corrupted? If he was incorruptible (laughable given his nature as a Loan Shark) then it would have to come out some other way.

And come out it did, after the pressure had swollen up to an impossible degree. Thighs. Hips. Butt. Breasts. Waists. All of them on full display. They twerked, they flashed their boobs, and though they were outlines the effects they had with each of these moves were completely obvious. Lewd dancing, wanton yuri behaviour, flirtation, seduction, appeal. Build up that pressure, more and more and more and - 

"Hey, can I do you a favour?" the outline of Sailor Moon said, leaning against the seemingly invincible forcefield. She licked it and kissed it. "Let me take that pressure off for you."

She snapped her fingers - and then Loan Shark exploded from the sheer blue balls he'd been forced to endure. With him, the fake Sailors also vanished. A shame, really. He'd have had a lot more fun if he'd lowered the forcefield and let them kill him in a whole other manner. They weren't lying with their body language about what they wanted to do with him.

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Victory tasted bitter. The Priestesses all looked at one another, and saw them all beat up to some degree. Except Moon, and Earth looked more dishevelled than beat up. Still, the point was that they were all the worse for wear after that encounter, and -

And that was when they were ambushing the enemy. They'd gotten in each other's ways. Barely managed to haul their hot sexy butts from the fire and turned it around. In fact, it felt like they only really started to win when they had Sailor Moon to help them out. Support them. Guide them.

"Hey, thanks for that," Venus said. "If you hadn't switched sides, I'm pretty sure we would have lost."

"Don't mention it, sweet cheeks," Moon replied. "Ah... But I'm pretty sure I'm going to vanish now. Historian won't take long to figure out I've been liberated from her control, so... You know."

They did know. It was a sombre moment for them all. For a moment they had retrieved Sailor Moon again, and won the day with her presence. Now, they were going to head directly into the villain's headquarters without her - and they barely felt like they had a cohesive idea of what to do. This was a wakeup call. Libra's powers weren't going to be enough here. They needed something more than that.

They needed teamwork. Cooperation. They needed a little bit of order to put an end to the evil group calling itself Order. And as they stood there, watching the formerly evil simulacrum of their leader, their friend, their lover fading into the night, waving at her with that big familiar smile on her face?

They all walked away more determined than ever to bring their friends back to them.