Jupiter blinked. "And you're behind me for that?"
"Uh-huh..."
"Wonderful..."
"Exactly," Dark Pluto murmured as she ran the whip across her lips. "It's nice to be so... feared..."
"Great for you."
"I know. It'll make our future... 'relationships' rather... nice..."
"Somehow, I don't think that she's talking about tea and cookies," Mars muttered.
"I'd think that'd be obvious Rei-chan," Mercury responded.
"Just as obvious as getting rid of your meager protection will be," Pluto murmured, snapping out the Time Whip so that it wrapped around the wrist of the arm that Jupiter used to block the strike. She pulled forwards, certain that she'd have the girl trying to pull back in defense of herself and her friends.
The tall girl did not cooperate though, and as she felt the tug, she used it to speed herself up as she charged at the elder Senshi. Colliding with the leather clad woman, she smashed one palm forward and up into a tanned nose, resulting in a cracking sound. Blood flowed from the broken nose, but there was no time to consider that as the emerald eyed fighter followed through with a backhand across the jaw.
Realising that her initial wish to treat the girl merely as a brawler was incorrect, Pluto shoved her back and wiped at her bloody nose. Her eyes stayed on the girl as she smirked slightly, silently remarking on the other girl's skill. But she wasn't about to stay still, and she didn't even look as she used the whip to leave a searingly painful injury along the creeping Moon's back. The princess' yelp was like a quick snack for her, and she gave the odango haired blonde a lashing that set screams of pain out along the mists.
That was when a voice called out "Venus Love Me Chain!" and she was yanked off her feet to slam onto her back. That knocked the wind out of her for a moment, but she sent out a shot that cut across the blonde's cheek, making the chain go loose as the girl was jolted out of her concentration. She then kicked off the links and pulled herself up again, but a call of "Fire Soul!" did set her hair on fire.
As that needed immediate attending to, she had to fall back down and put the fire out. Fortunately for her, it had only singed her locks, and she was able to leap up at Mars before the raven haired Senshi knew what was coming. Her knee impacted with the teen's belly, sending the air bursting from her lungs, and she fell to gasping as she gasped on the ground.
"Shabon Spray!" yelled Mercury, and the mists at the Gate increased, but it was no matter. As soon as she detected the short haired girl coming up to her bearing a long pole like weapon, she knew what they were planning. She snapped her whip at the head of the approaching attacker, and got satisfaction as a stifled cry went up as the lash met the top of the supposedly creeping girl's head. As that girl tumbled away, she knew that she had taken out their most powerful weapon.
And then she made a simple decision as Mars choked out "Akuryou taisan!"
"As much as I'm enjoying this game, I think that it's time to stop it, don't you?" the corrupted woman said as a quick set of strikes with the whip reduced the wards thrown at her to confetti.
The girls there grimaced at her, and she knew that they were aware that she had something coming for them. Not wishing to disappoint them, she decided to accommodate their conclusions. She cracked her Time Whip around in a complicated pattern that left the weapon blurring in their vision, but without her coming close to them.
But then she didn't have to. Time manipulation allowed the whip to be in more than one place at once, and each of the five girls was 'treated' to a series of lashings to keep them off balance, followed by a whip pulling at each limb. Soon they were hanging in the air by the time shifted bonds, and she smiled as she sauntered up to them.
"Oh, how much fun are we going to have," Pluto whispered as she cupped the princess' chin in her palm.
"Setsuna..," Moon said softly.
"Don't worry. Everything will be fine... for me."
"You can't..."
"Oh, I can. And I will. But each of you will have a role to play. I mean for you to be begging me for the pain that confirms my possession, especially you," the leather clad woman told Jupiter.
Only a snort came back from the brown haired girl.
"Just what I would expect from you. Such... strength and forcefullness. But I'll train you well..."
"You won't get the chance."
"How can say that? I..." Pluto began, but trailed off as she saw the welt that came past Mercury's hairline. "Where's Saturn?"
"Right here, Setsuna," came a soft voice.
The Senshi of Time turned to her side, and saw the youngest of her opponents standing there with a resolute look on her face. Realising the situation that she was in, she decided to strike first, and sent the lash of her weapon out to cut across the girl.
That was not to be, as Saturn swung her Glaive to cut the Whip in half as she called out, "Silence Glaive Surprise!"
Her blade came down at Pluto, and the energy of the strike exploded in the older Senshi's face, enveloping her in its power. A blast that blew light, wind and debris everywhere slammed into the corrupted woman, echoing through the air with a deafening sound. There was no blocking it, and with the power put behind it, there was no wish to let any defense occur apparent.
When the smoke cleared, there was a crater where the strike had burned the ground clear, and a slash in the ground from there to where something lay, though just what it was was obscured for the moment.
Saturn pulled her Glaive back up to an upright position, and stood there for a moment, while:
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