Act X: Lunar Eclipse (Part 2)

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"World Shaker!"

"Deep Submerge!"

"Deathly Scream!"

"Final Judgement!"

The four outer solar system guardians launched their attacks as one. Their violently rotating balls of energy—resembling the planets from which they drew power—soared toward the enemies, expanded on impact, and combined their devastating explosive yield. It was as if a bomb had been dropped on the park.

"Is it...over?" Sailor Moon asked hesitantly.

In answer to her question, scores of gelatinous enemies began to emerge from the cloud of smoke and dust created by the assault. The outer soldiers engaged them immediately with their Talismans, but as visibility improved, the severity of the situation began to sink in. Despite the large number of defeated enemies surrounding the blast site, the alien Queen was producing replacement fighters at an alarming rate. She was essentially a portable army.

The inner soldiers joined the fight, and the dark park was soon alive with all the color of a firework display.

"There's too many, Uranus," Sailor Saturn called out as she danced across the battlefield, proficiently dissecting one creature after another with swipes of her Silence Glaive. "You should all go. I'll use the glaive's power."

"No! You're not sacrificing yourself again!" Uranus spat as she tore through her opponents with her sword.

"It's fine, I'll be reborn!"

"I said no! There might be a lot of these things but they're weak. We can handle them! Besides, it's too late for that."

Saturn silently agreed. She might be reborn after employing her powerful sacrificial attack, but the others wouldn't, and with this many enemies, it wouldn't be easy for them to escape.

"Space Sword Slash!" Uranus roared. She cut the air with her bejeweled, glowing weapon, releasing a spread of flying energy blades to stem the tide of yellow creatures. The attack rent through a large section of the horde, but more quickly took their place. "You and Pluto go support Venus, the aliens are trying to flank her."

As Saturn changed location, Neptune communicated to her partner, "Sailor Jupiter appears to be doing okay on this side. Go for the queen. I'll clear a path."

"Do it!" said Uranus.

"Submarine Reflection!" Neptune cried, and a stream of turquoise light burst forth from her mirror. A far-reaching segment of the horde was vaporized instantly, creating a passage for her ally.

Uranus ran like the wind, sprinting through the opening and toward the queen. Before the enemies closed around her, she jumped into the air and gathered wind energy in her palm. "World Shak-argh!"

The yellow beings below had stretchered their malleable bodies upward, grabbed the woman by the ankles, and slammed her down onto the ground."

"Uranus!" Neptune cried. Momentarily distracted with concern for her partner, she too was captured by the enemy, several of them binding her with stretching, rope-like limbs, causing her to drop her mirror. With two soldiers restrained, the invaders swept across the battlefield.

"Crescent Be—yahhhhhhh!" Sailor Venus screamed. A pair of enemies had merged, stretched to an impressive height, and lifted her off the floor by her hair, dangling her like a hangman's cross.

"Sailor Venus!" Pluto called out, but she and Saturn were inundated with opponents of their own, even more now that another of their allies had been immobilized.

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