Richforce: Sorry it's been a little while for me to start this final chapter of part two, I've been working on a lot of projects including a original series on called Heart and Soul , be sure to check it out at All characters belong to their original owners.

Chapter Thirteen: Behind the Mask

In the Blackstar fortress Vega was finishing conversation with Merlor. "I'm beginning to wonder if you and Scorpio aren't planning something together."

"My lord, I'm sure Scorpio has a good reason for his recent absence."

"He had better not have me dispatch Draco, the Darkness Warrior of Wrath; even father can scarcely control him."

"I'll see that he returns at once." Prim and Axel came out after Vega left.

"You sure had him fooled by pretending not knowing what Scorpio was up to." said Axel.

"I wasn't fooling, it's been sometime since he contacted me, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark."

"I thought the Sailor geeks lived in Japan." said Prim.

"It's Shakespeare, read a book!"

"So now what?" asked Axel.

"We're out of nightmare stones until Scorpio comes back, we'll wait for his next move and then bring him back!"

Molly had just come back from school and was heading to her room when she tripped over a box that was left on the floor. "Jenny again." She muttered to herself. She went into her little sister's room, which was a total mess as usual and found her looking at another trinket she picked up at the nearby pawn shop. She had orange hair and yellow eyes. "How many times does mom have to tell you to not to leave your junk laying around?"

"It's not junk sis." said Jenny. "They're all Gucci collectables." Jenny's hobby was collecting anything with the Gucci brand name and usually spent quite a bit of allowance on them."

"I thought collector's keep their stuff organized. Look at this place, do baboons live in here?"

"I like a messy room."

"Sometimes I wonder if she's really human." Molly said to herself after she left. "Unfortunately it looks like Kaede shares that messy habit."

She went into her room and looked at her birthday picture. She remembered that her mother was very pregnant with Jenny when she took it. "I barely remember daddy, but you never knew him." Molly heard Kishal barking and went to see what was happening. "What's going on?" she asked Kaede.

"I think Kishal was found something outside..." Kaede said as Kishal was barking out the window.

The next day after at Sparrow Hill elementary the girls were talking at recess. "Kaede says she has a surprise for us." said Hope.

"I wonder why it's just the outer mini-scouts who are getting this surprise." said Faith.

"Well we'll all find out at the shrine." said Maggie.

"We all better get there then." said Madelyn.

What they didn't notice was as they left the school Jenny went another way to a pawn shop. But she was grabbed by a pair of hands and drug into an alley. "I found some suitable bait for my trap..." Scorpio said.

"So what did you bring us here for?" asked Moonbeam. Everyone was gathered at the shrine.

"Well Kishal found some old friends of ours." Kaede said. She stepped aside and to show five kittens with Lunan marks on their foreheads. The outer mini scouts rushed to four of the kittens. "Titan!" Madelyn said while picking up a cream colored boy kitten with purple eyes.

"Miranda!" Faith said picking up a tiger striped girl kitten with navy colored eyes.

"Triton!" Hope said picking up a sea green kitten with red eyes.

"Charon!" Maggie said holding a purple kitten with yellow eyes.

"Did you miss us?" the kittens asked including brown girl kittens with green eyes Kaede was holding.

"Yes Terra, we did." Diana said.

"Are they also part of the same litter as you?" asked Artemis.

"No." said Crescent. "They were born a year after us."

"Good." sighed Luna.

"Yes around the same time as our brothers." said Daisy.

"Brothers?!" said Serena. "The others I could understand but I thought the queen could only have one heir."

"Something else must have changed." said Rini. "Darius is one of the most important people in the world to me, even if we do fight sometimes."

"Now isn't this touching?" asked voice from the shadows. Scorpio stepped out.

"Boy did you make the wrong move." said Amara as they got ready to fight.

"Attack me and Sailor Earth there will never see her little sister again!"

"What have you done to her?!" said Molly.

"Nothing for the moment. Come to the nearby automotive factory tonight. If you don't come the girl dies!"

"If you touch one hair on her head..."

"The clock is ticking..." Scorpio vanished.

"Let's go!"

"Molly wait!" Serena said. "I know how you feel about Scorpio."

"He tricked me into hating my best friend, he stuck me in a dream world where I had to fight off my worst fear as a child and now he's messing with my family!"

"You can't let him push you like this, we'll face him together but you can't let your personal feelings towards him get to you."

"I'm sorry."

"We're a team remember? That means that we stand with each other through thick and thin and everything in between."

That night they went to the automotive factory and found Scorpio waiting for them. "For a moment there I thought you wouldn't show up."

"Is Jenny ok?" asked Sailor Earth.

Scorpio pointed to the control booth. "She is up there peacefully asleep. If you want to get to her, you will have to go through me first! PSYCHO BOMB!"

They dodged the attack and Scorpio then used his mind to start the machines. "Great now we have two things to worry about." said Sailor Jupiter.

They tried to attack as they dodged the machinery.

"PLUTO FURIOUS CYCLONE!"

"URANUS STONE HAMMER!"

"NEPTUNE PIERCING RAIN!"

But when the attacks hit they found that they were really aiming at one of their allies. "He's projecting illusions of himself on us!" said Sailor Mercury.

"That is the danger of relying on someone else. You have to constantly worry about whether they will be hurt or if you can depend on them when the truth is the only one you can depend on is yourself."

"That's not true!" said Sailor Moon. "The reason we're so strong is that we're a team!"

"It's only a matter of time before I defeat you all."

"Not if you keep talking!" said Sailor Earth. Earth Knight, Sailor Mini-Earth and her used his voice to identify the real Scorpio.

"EARTH FURIOUS ROAR!"

"EARTH TWINS FANGS!"

"EARTH SAVAGE SCRATCH!"

Each attack hit Scorpio in the face cracking his mask the first and second time but the third shattered it completely. The Scouts and Knights were shocked. "His..."

"Yes, my face." Scorpio said. His face was disfigured and blackened, noting pretty to look at. "It was this way long before you attacked me just now. I was an orphan for as long as I can remember, I was a handsome child but I passed for adoption time and again because people feared my mental powers. One day the orphanage caught fire and all of my so called friends perished trying to find help while I was trapped. From that day on I had but one purpose, to further my own mental powers. I lost a battle to the Black Vanguard's leader and he saw that I had potential and so he enlisted me."

"You think the bad luck in your life gives you the right to harm innocent people?!" asked Sailor Moon.

"If I learned one thing it's that there are no innocents. Now taste my full wrath! DARK EVOLUTION!"

Scorpio turned into a scorpion monster with a humanoid torso above eight legs. For hands he had scissor like claws and he had a poisonous stinger tail. "If he wasn't ugly before he sure is now." said Sailor Venus.

"TOXIC STING!"

Scorpio thrusted his tail missing Sailor Mercury and melting a machine.

"I'm afraid I'll have to cut this fight short!" Scorpio's claw missed Sailor Moon cutting a beam in half.

"It's time to end this!"

"MOON POWER!"

"MERCURY POWER!"

"MARS POWER!"

"JUPITER POWER!"

"VENUS POWER!"

"PLUTO POWER!"

"URANUS POWER!"

"NEPTUNE POWER!"

"SATURN POWER!"

"EARTH POWER!"

"SAILOR PLANET ATTACK!"

Scorpio took the full brunt of the attack and collapsed. "You may think you have won but our leader will come. He is stronger than the three of us combined! Your days are numbered..." A blue column of light came from Scorpio with four smaller ones spiraling around it; he disappeared as it shot up through a skylight.

"How's Jenny?" said Sailor Earth.

"Fine." said Sailor Mars. "Just asleep."

"I better take her home then."

"I understand." said Sailor Moon. "We better get the other kittens settled in."

As Sailor Earth put Jenny back in bed her sister started to stir. "Are you Sailor Earth?"

"Yes."

"Then you and the other scouts beat that creepy masked guy?"

"Yes, he won't bother you anymore."

"Before you go can you tell my sister something? Tell her I'm sorry if I get on her nerves sometimes."

"She knows."

"Good." Jenny fell asleep.

Molly reverted and went to her room. "Jenny, after I graduate I'll probably won't see you as much, so I'll try to make the best of the time we have."

Back at the Blackstar Fortress, Merlor had to give some bad news. "Scorpio was defeated after he tried to attack on his own."

"This is a bad turn of events." said Vega.

"Yes, without Scorpio we can't create anymore Nightmares!"

"I'm left with no other alternative then to call for Draco. You I don't want to do this but Sailor Moon has forced my hand."

After the meeting Merlor raged in his lab. "Why, why after so long to my plans have to fail because of some people who are just stepping into adulthood?!" He threw a book against a wall and it opened to some pages after it fell to the floor. "What is this?" Merlor said looking at the book, he then started laughing. "Of course! The keys were right in front of me the entire time, but I was too blinded by my own ambition to see where they were! Now that I know what shape the keys take, it will just be a matter of waiting for Draco to get here before the return of Astra!"

Richforce: Now that Merlor has found the keys and with Draco on the way things are starting to look bad for the scouts. Find out how they will fare in the Vega Saga part three: Ragnarok