"So why are we searching here again?" whined Usagi while following Makoto towards the small workshop on top of the hill.
Makoto sighed. "Because this is where Angel Island came crashing down, so it's very probable that many shards of the Master Emerald came falling down here. Perhaps Ami's brother has seen some."
"All right," the hedgehog of the moon grumbled. "But I wish we would at least know into how many pieces that thing broke."
Then, they heard something. Usagi perked up her ears. "Aha, I know that sound." It sounded like something fast was approaching their location. Something very fast.
And when a blue blur zoomed past them, turned around and came to a stop in front of them, Usagi nodded. "I was right! I hear that sound every last time I get carried to school. Hey there Sonic!"
Sonic grinned. "Hey there, girls. What's up?"
"Well, you know, we're helping Rei and Knuckles searching for the pieces of the Master Emerald. Somehow it broke apart last night, and therefore, the whole island came crashing down," Makoto explained.
Sonic looked up at the rocky side of the fallen island that was rising above them. "I thought this place looked kinda different. It's supposed to float a little more up there, right?" He gestured towards the clouds.
"Right," Usagi nodded. "Did you see, by any chance, some of the shards?"
Sonic shook his head. "Sorry. Can't say I have. Then again, I mostly speed past everything so fast, I barely have time to look at the ground."
"Okay, we see," Makoto said. "Thanks anyway. We were just going to ask Tails the same."
While they were talking, two two-tailed foxes came running down the hill. "Hey Sonic," Tails shouted. "Usagi, nice to see you again. And, um, what was your name again?"
The tall rabbit smiled. "Makoto! Hi there Tails! Hey Ames, what's up?"
"Nothing much," her blue-furred friend answered. "I just finished installing the necessary software on the navigation system I built in Sonic's plane."
"Hey, that's sweet," the blue hedgehog grinned. "Can't wait to try it out. Hey, Tails! You might have noticed that something happened to Angel Island..."
Tails glanced up the enormous island resting right next to the hill. "Um, yeah, could be..."
"Means the Master Emerald broke into pieces," Makoto explained. "So we help Rei and Knuckles finding them. Both of them are searching in town right now. We wanted to ask Minako for help too, but you know... Every time we need her, she has gone away with her thieving bat-friend."
"You're helping them too, Sonic?" Tails asked.
"Um, no," Sonic replied. "I just heard about it from them. I was actually going to have a look at your little project. How's it working?"
Tails shook his head. "Not as good as I thought it would. I have still a few bugs to iron out... the Chaos Emerald's powers are unpredictable."
"You use a Chaos Emerald as a power supply?" Makoto asked in amazement. "Pretty bold, I gotta say."
Ami grinned at her brother. "Yeah, that's my bro: Always trying to test out his theories, no matter what."
"Well then," a new voice said. "You wouldn't mind giving me that emerald now, would you?"
And then he descended in his floating Eggmobile: The rotund scientist Sonic and his friends knew and detested: Dr. 'Eggman' Robotnik.
"Hey look," Sonic shouted. "It's a giant, talking egg!"
"Silence!" the scientist thundered. "I'm Dr. Robotnik, the greatest scientific genius in the world!"
Usagi smirked. "Whatever you say, Eggman!"
"Enough," he shouted. "Give me that Chaos Emeralds, or else..."
"Or else what?" Makoto said. "You're gonna throw your little flying pod at us?"
Eggman growled. "Know that this Eggmobile is one of the most cunning, ingenious inventions I ever created. I can combine it with almost every weapon I built... like my newest, greatest invention: The Egg Hornet!"
And from the sky, a hovering aircraft came flying down, provided with two big drills on it's front, three enormous engines and a rocket launcher. The round Eggmobile hovered up and lowered itself into the Hornet to serve as cockpit.
"So you like to do it the hard way, doc?" Sonic grinned. "C'mon, Tails! Let's party!"
And while the two friends charged at Eggman, Usagi turned to her two friends. "We have to help them. We should transform somewhere!"
"Let's hide behind those trees," Ami suggested.
But when they turned around and started moving, something cut through the air in front of them and got stuck into the ground.
Usagi gasped. Could it be?
"T... Tuxedo Kamen...?"
But it was no rose.
It was a blue, metallic spike.
Metal Sonic jumped down from the tree he was hiding in. "So, we meet again, my old 'friends'." His eyes glowed as he approached them.
Makoto growled. "Mamoru... you betrayed us!"
"That's Metal Sonic!" the robot snapped. "And I didn't betray you... the doctor jut showed me the true purpose of my existence. Becoming the prince of the Earth... how absurd! Dr. Robotnik will be the Earth's greatest ruler, and robots will reign supreme! And I... I will be his right hand."
Usagi looked at her roboticised ex-boyfriend. "Mamo-chan... that can't be true. The robotication process brainwashed your mind. That's not you talking... Let me turn you back into your old self, and everything will turn out fine."
Metal Sonic looked at her, and for an instant, Usagi thought she had convinced him.
But then he smacked her with a massive punch of his metal fist. "Wake up, Usagi," he snarled. "Your so-called 'Crystal Tokyo' is anything but an Utopia! It's a dictatorship... where you and your Senshi will be the ones that decide over life or death! And by protecting this country from the Great Freeze, you'll doom the other people of the Earth. There will be no eternal peace, Usagi. It's only a matter of survival." He made a fist. "And only the strongest will survive! Think about it... an empire of robots, where everything is perfect. The Great Freeze won't affect robots, so we'll be safe from it's effects. I once offered you to join me in that paradise..." Again, his eyes glowed in a dark red. "But you had your chance... and you rejected me! And that means: You're my enemy!"
He curled his body into a ball and rolled towards Usagi like a living buzz saw.
Usagi saw the deadly ball of sharp spikes and spines rolling her way and almost saw herself dying an ugly death...
...when suddenly, Ami came flying towards her, picking her up and carrying her to safety.
Metal Sonic bounced into the air, uncurled his body and landed a short distance away from them. "A bold move, Ami," he said. "Does that mean you want to die before your princess?"
"No one is going to die today," Ami said in a determined voice and raised her transformation pen.
"Ami, no!" Makoto shouted. "Sonic, Tails and Eggman would see it."
"I know... but it's the only way. Mamoru probably told the doctor our true identities a long time ago... so it's only fair my brother and his friend, one of the greatest local heroes, know our secret as well. Mercury Star Power, Make Up!"
Makoto nodded and raised her pen as well. "Jupiter Star Power, Make Up!"
And finally, Usagi transformed as well. "Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!"
And they all transformed into their Senshi forms.
"Heh," Metal Sonic said. "Even if all of you were here, you wouldn't stand a chance against me." He crouched down and activated his back jet. He sped along the ground and forced the girls to jump out of the way.
He smirked. That was too easy. First scatter them, then take them out one by one. Again, he curled up into a ball and spun around rapidly while firing his metal spikes at a high rate.
This time it was Mercury that became his target, but Jupiter threw herself in the way of the incoming projectiles.
She screamed as they got stuck in her back. "Jupiter!" Sailor Moon cried out terrified.
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Sonic zipped around the battlefield, all the time avoiding Eggman's rockets. In the meantime, Tails tried flying towards the cockpit, but always had to dodge the launched rockets.
"Now you made me really mad," the scientist yelled. "Get a load of this!" He extended the two drills on the front of the Hornet and dove towards the ground. Sonic skillfully jumped aside, and the whole machine got stuck. "Grrraaaaah," Eggman yelled angrily. "I hate that hedgehog!"
Sonic just smiled, jumped up and smacked his body into the cockpit. "Looks like your little toy is pretty soon ready for the junk pile, doctor!"
Then he saw something flashing from the corner of his eye. "What the...?"
Tails, who was flying over him, gasped. "Ami... Usagi... and Makoto... they're the Sailor Senshi!"
Eggman smirked. "So, are they now? Well, well, it looks like Metal Sonic didn't tell me anything he knew."
Tails put his hands on his mouth. "Oh no!" he cried. "I just gave away their secret identities."
"Can't be helped now," Sonic sighed. "But it looks like they're in trouble. Go to them, I'll handle the egg-head."
Tails nodded and flew over to where the Senshi were battling Metal Sonic.
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Metal Sonic chuckled. "Hey, looks like all of you want to die badly. But I really can only kill one of you at a time, you understand? Let's just begin with you, Jupiter..." As a ball, he rolled towards the fallen Jupiter, shredding everything in his path.
Only to be hit with an electrically charged ball.
The electricity flowed through his system and made him cry out in pain. He couldn't maintain his ball form and crashed down on the floor.
Ami got up from where her cousin had shot her curled up form. Using the powers of the Chaos Emerald, he had launched her body at Metal Sonic. And while the electric field had shocked the robot, it had protected her from the spikes.
Tails landed next to her. "That's what I call a Thunder Shoot! Never mess around with the Prower siblings!"
Metal Sonic watched him closely. "So, you are Ami's brother, huh? She never told you about being a Senshi, did she?"
Ami looked down, but Tails got pretty annoyed. "So what? That only means she tried to protect her family from evil guys like you!"
"Tails, I'm sorry..." Ami began, but her brother shook his head. "It's okay, I understand. But you know, I can fight, too. And using the emerald, I even have similar powers like you Senshi."
"So you have the emerald," Metal Sonic realized. "That makes my job easier..." He once again activated his back jets and rushed them, hovering over the ground. He also extended his spiky finders.
"Ami, watch out," Tails shouted and pushed his sister out of the way. The robot grinned and tackled the young fox to the ground. Afterwards, he just took the Chaos Emerald. "Thanks! Now if you two excuse me..."
He zoomed up the hill using his Spin Dash and hold up the emerald. "I got it, doctor," he yelled.
Eggman's Hornet just got smashed by Sonic the Hedgehog, but his Eggmobile survived the crash. He hovered over to his metal minion and took the jewel from him. "How very nice," he chuckled. "Now, come out, Chaos!"
"Chaos?" Ami asked in surprise.
Usagi was kneeling next to Jupiter. "Makoto, are you all right?"
The rabbit of lightning painfully erected her upper body. "It's okay, but I think I have to sleep on my stomach for the following nights."
They all watched as the liquid monster rose out of the ground.
"Hey, isn't that the monster I fought the other day?" Sonic shouted.
Eggman threw the Chaos Emerald towards Chaos, and the water monster caught it and absorbed it into his body. Instantly, his body grew and now towered even over Metal Sonic.
"Oh yes, it's really happening," the doctor shouted in excitement. "Every time I feed him a Chaos Emerald, he becomes stronger. He will destroy Station Square for me, where I will build the ultimate city, Robotnikland!"
"And that's from where he and his robots will rule over all," Metal Sonic added.
"Now, let's leave to find the other emeralds, shall we, Chaos?"
The bigger water creature nodded and raised his arms. In a flash of light, the three villains were gone.
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