After leaving the lab, Roll made her way into the city and soon found herself outside an art gallery. Looking at the art gallery, she saw a broken window with a strange scene. She saw a young woman with glasses being threatened by a floating person holding a black double termination crystal towards the woman.
'Okay is that a girl or boy? I can't tell,' Roll thought.
The robot girl's thoughts were derailed when a bolt of black energy leapt from the crystal and struck the woman in the chest. What looked like a black warp appeared on the woman and a green gem lifted out of the spiraling blackness.
'Sizzling circuits! That poor woman. I have to do something,' Roll thought, as her left hand pulled back into the arm bracer.
As Roll's left arm revealed the vacuum cleaner, the person in the gray outfit said in a loud voice. "Wake up, Monster Vena!"
Roll looked on in shock as the woman turned into a green skinned woman with white wings, wearing a pink dress. A large gold ornament adorned each shoulder of the newly transformed woman.
'I don't know what's going on, but the chances of that guy being male went up, due to the voice,' Roll thought. 'I'd better pull back a bit and think on how I'm going to tackle this problem. That woman is probably under some kind of mind control and I'll have to fight her. I'm not Mega. I don't have a plasma blaster.'
The robot girl faded back into the shadow of a building and mentally went through some plans. A loud voice stopped her rapidly forming plan.
"Moon Prism Power! Make Up!"
Roll looked around and saw a young girl heading towards the art gallery. The girl was dressed in a white cheerleader outfit with a blue skirt. The girl was wearing white gloves that reached her elbows and at each elbow was some kind of guard done in red. A pair of red boots, a large red bow on the chest, and a similar bow at the small of the back completed the outfit. Roll saw that the two in the art gallery were flying towards a construction site.
'She looks familiar,' Roll thought and quietly followed the trio. 'That might be one of the girls that I'm supposed to find information on.'
Roll grabbed her arm brace with her right hand and gritted her teeth. 'I'd better not do anything obvious, unless stuff gets out of hand. I don't know what I'm dealing with.'
She watched as the girl confronted the guy in gray and Vena. Unlike humans, Roll could shut down her voice and did so to allow her to groan in exasperation without being heard. She reactivated her voice and stared at Sailor Moon, who had just finished her introductory speech.
'That was...well...stupid,' Roll thought. 'So, the guy's name is Zoicite.'
"Sailor Moon, whatever. Play with her Monster Vena," Zoicite said calmly.
Vena formed a feather quill and tossed it above Sailor Moon. The quill drew an image of a rock in the sky and the rock became real and fell. Sailor Moon dodged the rock and Vena started firing off more quills to draw more rocks.
'It's time to derail this rain of thoughts,' Roll thought and her left hand retracted and was replaced by a dust buster vacuum.
Roll fired a blast of dust that covered Vena, Zoicite and obscured vision all around. She ceased putting the cloud of dust out and hid back behind a building and her arm returned to its default setting. Roll noticed with satisfaction that both Vena and Zoicite were coughing at her little stunt. Sailor Moon was now being carried above the dust cloud by a man dressed in a tuxedo.
"Tuxedo Kamen!" Sailor Moon declared. "Thanks for saving me."
Tuxedo Kamen looked down at the dust cloud and bit his lower lip and then shook his head. Tuxedo Kamen landed and set Sailor Moon down. Still coughing, Zoicite saw Tuxedo Kamen and growled. The Dark General ran through a halfway completed hallway with Tuxedo Kamen right behind. Sailor Moon saw Vena, who was still coughing from the dust and lifted the Moon Scepter.
"Moon Healing Escalation!"
Motes of energy rained down upon Vena and the image of a crescent moon appeared in front of the monster.
"Refresh!"
Roll watched as Vena turned back into a human being and dropped to the ground, just as three more people dressed like Sailor Moon showed up. There was also a cat with a crescent moon on its forehead and started talking in a female voice.
"Make sure she's all right. I have to make sure Tuxedo Kamen is okay," Sailor Moon said as she ran the direction the two men went.
'Okay. I'd better see what's going on with that. I'll have to be careful that those three girls and that cat don't see me. Sailor Moon really needs to work on speeding up her attacks,' Roll thought. 'I wish I had Rush with me, so I could fly after Sailor Moon. Well, maybe not.'
Roll stealthily made her way from the site of Vena being defeated to see Sailor Moon toss her tiara into the path of an attack by Zoicite and saving Tuxedo Kamen.
'If Mega saw this, he'd be eating his words,' Roll thought with amusement.
Roll cranked her audio receivers up so she could listen in on the conversation between Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. The robot girl heard that the green crystal that Zoicite had taken was one of a group of stones called the Rainbow Crystals. She also heard the critical information that there were seven stones and four had been found already. One was held by Sailor Moon, one by Tuxedo Mask and two by something called the Dark Kingdom
'Zoicite must work for the Dark Kingdom. If I can get a hold of one of the Rainbow Crystals and that black gem thing of Zoicite's, I think I can get all seven gems gathered. I'll have to wait until all seven are released, before making a move on that black gem. I don't know what the Dark Kingdom wants those crystals for, but I don't intend to let them have it,' Roll thought.
Roll waited until both of the magical warriors left before she headed back to the lab. She had a plan already formed on how to deal with the Rainbow Crystals. As soon as she reached the lab, she put a basic plan down on a piece of paper and then went over to the recharging bed and put herself in standby mode until it was time to get ready for school.
===/\===
Sailor Moon went back to the other Sailor Senshi to make sure the painter Yumeni was okay from being turned into a Youma.
"You did very well for yourself, Sailor Moon," Luna said.
"If it wasn't for Tuxedo Mask putting out that dust cloud, I don't think I could have lasted as long," Sailor Moon replied.
Sailor Mercury was examining the slowly descending dust with her visor and computer.
"If he did it, he didn't use magic to do it," Sailor Mercury said. "There is no magic in the dust cloud."
Sailor Moon shook her head sadly. "It doesn't matter how he did it, he helped me out. But still, he did say that he was going to take the Rainbow Crystal I had when the time came."
"You can't trust him, Sailor Moon," Luna said. "It's time to head back home."
"What about Yumeni?" Sailor Moon asked.
"She's coming to and she'll be all right," Sailor Mercury said.
The four Sailor Senshi stood on a fence until Yumeni had fully woken up and saw them. Luna had already left for the Tsukino home before that. The four girls looked at Yumeni and jumped away, leaving the artist inspiration to paint more pictures and the courage to stop hiding.
===/\===
The next day at school, Roll listened in on the classes with part of her attention elsewhere. During the day, a test was given out to all the students. If Roll hadn't been preoccupied with what happened the previous night, she would have avoided the mistake of getting a perfect score on the test.
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