Not having the heart or inclination to destroy them, she simply turned and left. As they were, they were not a threat and the creatures that would have harvested them were now dead.
Somewhere out there was the nasty who'd worked out this, whoever had sold this stuff to the Principal. Whether at the hands of Ranma Saotome or Sailor Overkill - someone would have to make them pay.
Another flashback thundered across his/her mindscape.
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"I've got to save them," said Nike. "I've got to... but how."
"Nike! Get to safety! You can't help us," said Sia, struggling as the Chaos Fragment held her in tentacles of darkness and began lifting one of the others - Rain - towards a mouth that opened like a blooming flower.
"No!" said Nike, picking up and throwing a rock. "I can't just let you die!"
"Nike!" said Kina. "Go, you idiot!"
"No," said Nike. "I can't!!!" FLASH!
"A transformation pen?" said Kina, hope flaring. "Quick, take it up!"
"Nike! It's a hensshin wand. If you're going to stay, do something!" said Sia. "Didn't you say how much you wanted to help us?"
"Right!" said Nike, picking it up. "So I just say... Sagittarius A*Prime, Make Up?!"
Sia's expression changed from pained/irritated to horror. "Sailor..."
"'Sagittarius'?" asked Kina, hope crashing and burning on her face.
"'A-star-prime'?" asked Silver.
The lights finished flashing. Nike flipped her long red hairbraid back. "I am - Sailor Sagittarius Galactic Prime. Let my friends go or I'll punish you!"
"GRAR!" said the Chaos Fragment, sending tentacles towards her.
Attacks flitted across her consciousness before she chose one. "Piercer."
The bullet of light formed and fired. It went through the tentacles, went through the body of the Fragment, shot through the atmosphere, left near-orbital space, and finally exploded in a plasma flare 4.3 light minutes away. As the flare cooled, it left behind a cloud of expanding hydrogen.
Sia and the others picked themselves up off the ground, staring at the new Sailor.
"I did it!" said Nike. "Yay! I did it! I - why are you looking at me like that?"
"METAL BURST!" said Silver, pointing her hand and unleashing an attack.
Nike tried to block instinctively, but there was a meaty crack as the blast hit her blocking arm and shattered the bones. "Wait! Stop!"
"We can't," said Sia. "You're the Star Destroyer. You're the one the Enemy has been looking for. You could accidently destroy an entire star system. I'm sorry, Nike."
"NOOOO!" said Nike, turning and running.
Ranma shook his head to clear it after changing back and then using hot water to change back to a guy. Nike had died only a few hours later. One problem was that as Sailor Overkill, she was a shipkiller. Piercer was meant to be an armor-piercing attack to go through hardened shields. It was the lowest destructive-power attack she'd been able to manage and it still had gone through the Chaos Fragment and eventually exploded with a blast radius of almost 100km.
The other two attacks that had occurred to her during that flashback were of less use. "Gravija" would have certainly destroyed the Chaos Fragment, but at least hurt her friends and destroyed a good section of surrounding scenery. "Starburst" would have been even worse, as it was a "shotgun" sort of attack.
Pondering this in guy form on the top of a building, Ranma decided:
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