Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon HYBRID Presents: UNSonic
Episode 9: Fighting for Time! The Return of Sailor Pluto

Summer is almost here for me!!! I am soo happy...thank god!!!...Wow, I have nothing more to say right now. Is that a good thing? Actually, it might be, if only for the sake of getting the chapter in under the length of 7,000 emails! Size does matter on AOL. Drat. Oh, well, at least this is a good story! It's well worth it! Enjoy!!!

-Jessica

Down in the streets of Creecreeopolis, Manic and Rotor were walking towards Magic Cups. Their faces were slightly worried.

"And you haven't got the slightest idea," Manic asked, "of what might have caused the change in Sonic?"

"Not a single clue." Rotor shook his head. "It's really very mystifying. He'll be all right one day, then the next he'll be completely secretive, then he'll be very angry about Tails. I've asked Sonic about what is going on but he claims to have no idea."

"You know," Manic looked at Rotor. "Maybe he's on drugs."

"Drugs?!"

"Yo!" Nathan sulkily walked behind them. "Don't rat on me. I don't take drugs to begin with."

"Not you, Nathan." Manic chuckled.

"Oh, well, anyways," Nathan looked at Manic. "I was wondering...about the Freedom Fighter thing..."

"Nathan, I told you, it's not the Freedom Fighters!"

"But you are in a anti-Eggman resistance movement?"

Rotor's question made Manic jump. He looked over at the walrus, his face full of shock.

"How did you know?"

"You're too secretive to be just the co-owner of a freak shop." They rounded the corner. "Sonia too. You can't decieve me. I'm a Freedom Fighter as well."

"Yeah, I know." Manic turned back to Natthan. "As for you, I don't know if you can join. You have ask Sonia, she's in touch with our leader more than I am."

"Can do!!" Nathan sped over to the door.

"Nathan..." Manic shrugged. "Ever since Tails first met him, it's like he's been seeing things. Know what I mean, Rotor?"

"Yeah." Rotor silently remembered the two sailor suited girls. "I know what you mean."

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Up in Tails' room in the school, Uranus and Neptune sat across from Knuckles. Tails sat on the bed.

"And so you were attacked by Cleona?"

That's right." Knuckles nodded. "Somehow, she had absorbed the power of the Chaos Emerald that was kept in Sandopolis. I couldn't understand it at all."

"Huh? Why not, Knuckles?" Tails asked. "Anyone could use a Chaos Emerald, right?"

"Not without power rings."

"What?"

"That's right." Knuckles closed his eyes to remember. "This woman...Cleona...she accessed the power of the Emeralds...without the help of power rings. It's almost impossible to do, unless you have two emeralds in your possession, which she didn't."

"That's a crux." Michiru agreed. "But being the guardian of an island filled with them, you're the leading expert on Chaos Emeralds, correct?"

"In a matter of speaking..." Knuckles turned a little redder. "I learned most of what I know from my dad (may his soul rest in peace...he was killed by an avalanche) and my grandfather. But, from what I can decipher, there's someone else still who might know more than me, I'm sure."

"Well, if they do," Haruka crossed her legs, "we can certainly ask them when we find them. Now, about that watch..."

"I told you already." Knuckles quickly shook his head. "I can't tell you who gave it to me. I was told that my guardian's identity would be revealed to you, but not by me. My guardian prefers to do it...on its own terms."

"Very well." Haruka stood up. "But you should return to the island, guardian. This battle, this enemy, this mission has nothing to do with you."

"Or it has everything to do with me. I've been told that I have to stay here also, until this enemy's defeated." Knuckles also stood up. His eyes furrowed. "Besides, even if it wasn't my guardian's wishes, I want to meet the dogs who are responsible for nearly killing my companions. And I want them to know how I feel about it."

With that, Knuckles left. Haruka and Neptune looked at one another, then looked at Tails.

"Well," Haruka plopped down on Tails' bed next to the fox. She gave a sigh. "One more thing we all have to worry about."

Out in the hall, Knuckles stepped into the elevator alone. He gave a deep sigh as he went to press the button for his floor. Before he touched it, however, the button lit on its own.

"What?"

"Don't worry about what floor you're going to." Knuckles swerved around to face the red-eyed woman. "You leave that to me."

"So...Setsuna..." Knuckles had paused before he had said her human name.

"How long is this secrecy going to last?"

"Not long." Setsuna replied as the door closed. "Not long."

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Sonic sat down on a bed, holding his head. The sun was going down.

"What is wrong with me...?" He looked out the window. "These strange feelings. One moment I'm fine, the next I feel angry about Tails, then....wait...where is Tails?"

He stood up and looked around, his face worried. He ran around the apartment, looking, to no avail.

"I've got to find him!" He burst out of the room. He ran out of the room, and down the stairs, flying past Rotor and Manic.

"WOAH!!" Rotor jumped up.

As Sonic flew through the door that led into the Magic Cups shop, a window above Manic shattered. A large shard suddenly stabbed him in the back.

"Aaaaie!!!" Manic's eyes bulged in shock. He doubled over.

"Manic?!" Rotor leaped down. Manic's back was covered in blood. "Dammit, Sonic...what's wrong with you?!"

"Ugh...don't worry, Rotor..." Manic patted Rotor's shoulder. "I'm fine."

"Fine?! You have a huge shard of glass in your back!!"

"Yeah...just stand back. I might hit you with the glass."

Rotor stood back. He went up two of the stairs, Manic's back to him. Manic stood up. Though the blood dripped down to his hands, he took his hand and felt for the shard. Then, in a casual manner, he picked the shard out of his back. He then took off his vest, revealing a huge gory cut. Suddenly, to Rotor's shock, the cut stopped bleeding, shrunk down into a scar, and finally completely disappeared. Less than a minute after taking the shard out of his back, the wound was completely healed, with no trace of scar. Rotor's eyes grew wide.

"How...you just..."

"I have a mutation in my DNA. It came from when my mother took drugs to try to concieve children. Mainly Protractizen."

"Your mother tried to have children with that drug?!" Rotor was shocked.

"Did your brothers and sisters turn out to be mentally deformed in any way?"

"Nope. I'm an only child in my family. It damaged her uterus."

Manic took his vest and motioned Rotor to follow him. They went into the shop, then into the freak show room. Manic took a left and opened a trap door. In the secret room within was a washer and dryer. Rotor followed him down.

"The mutation in my DNA gave me some sort of rare terminal albinistic skin disease when I was born, but I survived. The result was that I aquired this power to heal myself completely from any wound that I recieve."

"So that's why Sonia tortures you."

"Yeah. That's also why I joined...well, you know."

"I suppose I do."

After putting his vest into the washer, the two proceeded back up into the freak show room. In the room was Sonic, frantically looking under boxes.

"Tails?! Are you here?"

"Sonic?" Rotor, a quizzical look on his face tapped on Sonic's shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

"Rotor! Have you seen Tails? I can't find him!"

"Um, Sonic...you sent him to that school."

"What school?"

"Uh, Sonic?..." Rotor's face became more worried by the minute. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah..." Sonic rubbed his head. "Just a headache..."

"Sure?"

"Yeah...I guess...if Tails is at school, then I guess he should get an education..."

Sonic's shocked facial expression betrayed his words as he dejectedly slinked out of the room. Manic looked at him, then back at Rotor.

"Yo. Something is very wrong."

"Yeah." Rotor's expression became saddened. "Now I'm really beginning to think that either Sonic's going mad, or..."

"Or what?"

"Or something else. I don't know what it could be. He's been like that ever since the Night of Stars." Suddenly Rotor's mind clicked. "Could it be..."

"Rotor, I have a suggestion."

Manic looked over at Sonic as he went into the apartments.

"I say we watch him. That's the only way to get to the bottom of what's going on."

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"Attention, students!" The school radio boomed. "Tonight we're having a meeting about our football team! Those who would like to attend should come to room 1345..."

"Charming." Haruka walked down the halls. "Charming. It's like being in a prison here..."

From the corner of her eye she saw Knuckles entering a classroom.

"Who could be his guardian?" Uranus pondered. "Is it...no." Uranus pushed the possibility from her mind. "It can't be her. She's gone, dead for breaking the laws of time. Even if it was her, she wouldn't hide from us, would she?"

Meanwhile, Melanie and Knuckles say next to each other.

"Now, we are going to have our placing test." The teacher handed out paper. "If you are fit for this class, you will stay. If not, then..." the teacher turned to see someone making a cutting movement on their throat.

"Excuse me." She abruptly slammed his head with a ruler.

"Dammit." Melanie thought. "I know nothing of this crap! How will I be able to invade this school if I can't even pass a friggin test!"

She secretly looked over to her sides to see everyone else's answers. As she scanned to her right, her eyes met the pair of hands that worked.

"What strange hands..."

Struck, she slowly scanned the body of the student next to her until, finally, she met the eyes of the red echidna. Her cheeks suddenly flushed. She felt weak in the knees. For some odd reason, little dancing milkmaids and flowers filled her imagination. Her eyes twinkled.

"Wow..."

"All right." The teacher's voice snapped Melanie out of her daydream.

"Turn in your papers, and then you're dismissed."

"Shit!!!" Frantic, Melanie closed here eyes. Out of nowhere, answers came up on her paper. "There. That should please the old biddy."

Knuckles turned in his papers, then left. Almost without a second thought, Melanie stood up, tossed the paper at the teacher and dazily followed Knuckles out the door, her eyes sparkling. She followed him into the courtyard of the school.

"All right..." Knuckles looked at his watch. "Maybe I should call my guardian now..."

A sound made him turn around. He jumped to find the girl in his quantum physics class.

"Huh?!" Knuckles started right into her eyes.

"Oh!" Unrealizing, Melanie gave him a dreamy smile. "I'm so sorry. Did I startle you? I didn't mean it. But...oh, your eyes caught my attention, and I couldn't help but stare at the beautiful things. They look so royal and fierce..." At this, Melanie turned bright red. She suddenly looked around, and she realized where she was.

"Umm...you should get to your class." Knuckles looked at her with a quizzical look.

"Oh...right!" Turning pale, Melanie zoomed off.

Knuckles looked around to make sure no one else was within the courtyard.

He shook his head in pity.

"Sheesh..." He clicked his watch on. "If I didn't know better, I'd think she was hitting on me."

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Melanie burst into a bathroom, gasping for breath.

"What the hell am I doing...mingling with that rat? And yet..."

She looked in the mirror. She was still flushed from seeing Knuckles.

"This is a new feeling...it feels different. I should be careful of things like this. My comrades would be shocked."

With that she locked herself in a stall. She sat on the toilet and looked around. Her eye caught the roll of toilet paper. She took it off the dispenser and examined it.

"What a strange thing..What do you do with this..." She looked down. "And why is this thing filled with water?"

"Melana, what are you doing?" Mahjong's voice suddenly filled her head.

"What are you doing in that pen?"

"N-nothing..." Melana, shocked that she had been caught procrastinating, looked down at the roll of toilet paper.

"Well, you should get going if you are to ever learn anything!"

"Actually..." Melana's mind clicked. "I was just formulating my next attack."

"Oh, really?" Mahjong's impatient voice sighed. "Well, then. You had better get going. Master does not like to be kept." With that, her voice faded away.

"Heheh..." Melanie stripped off her disguise, revealing herself to be Melana. "I summon from my monster seeds...Latrine!"

She took out her gun and threw the toilet paper up in the air. She shot at it, and a monster seed slammed into it. The toilet paper seethed and morphed until it was transformed into a demon.

"Master!!" It floated down. "What do you ask of me!"

"Go out into the halls and bring back children for our master..."

Melana's eyebrow crimped when she saw what the demon looked like. It had a toilet paper roll for armor, and its legs and arms were wrapped in toilet paper. The demon was pale, almost white, and it had red eyes.

"...and, uh, try to destroy those sailor soldiers when they come to confront you."

"You got it!"

It threw itself through the bathroom door, while Melana looked on, somehwhat red with embarrassment.

"Hmmm..." Melana looked down and saw her jug of almond dust. "Eh...while you do that, I, uh, think I'm going to go down to the city below...almost forgot to do something!"

She disappeared. Meanwhile, the monster started to roam down the hall. At that moment, the bell rang, and it licked its lips.

"Heheh..."

Suddenly, one girl in the hall turned around and screamed at the sight of the giant toilet paper roll. She was snatched up and wrapped inside the toilet paper, then hung up onto a ceiling pipe. Other students panicked, took the call and ran off.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!" One boy screamed. He flew by Michiru's room.

"Huh?!"

Michiru and the other students in the room ran out into the hall to see this huge roll of toilet paper attacking the students.

"Let's get out of here!!!" All of the students, save for Michiru, ran off in the other direction.

"Come back here!" The monster, seeing them run, attacked them with her paper, wrapping all of them up. They were thrown into the wall, where they were hung by toilet paper to the ceiling pipes.

"Damn!" Seeing the demon's attention was averted, Michiru ran off.

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Nathan silently crept into the freak show room while Sonia was setting up for the next performance.

"Let's see..."

Sonia heard a sound from behind. She whipped her head around in time to see boxes fall on Nathan.

"NATHAN!!!" Sonia threw the boxes out of the way and picked Nathan up by the ear. "You little prick! What are you doing?!?!?"

"I...I just wanted to ask you a question!" Nathan winced.

"You little crackhead!" Sonia threw him across the room. "The answer's no! How many times do I have to tell you! I swear, if I had the power to get rid of every annoying, stinky, stupid, slimy, filthy whore bagging, pimping, drug addicted, bastardly shitbag man on this planet -" Sonia went over and kicked him in the balls at this " - YOU WOULD BE FIRST!!!"

She suddenly picked Nathan up and threw him out. He flew across the store, went out the door and landed in a garbage can across the street, his feet hanging in the air. He looked out of the trash can in time to see a brown haired girl enter the store.

"Friggin stupid..." With a sigh, he tipped the trash can over, tumbling out. "How am I going to serve a customer looking like a damn trash compactor?" With that, he huffingly walked over to the store.

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Haruka was walking to the nurse with another girl. The girl's left ankle was covered in blood.

"Oh, thank you..." The girl said gratefully. "I am so happy that you're doing this for me. I could never have gotten out of the chemistry class by myself! I can't believe that creep spilled all of that acid down my leg."

"Well, don't worry," Haruka promised. "We'll get you medical attention."

At that moment, Knuckles walked out of one of the doors.

"I'll take her."

"Huh?" Haruka looked shocked. "Knuckles, how did you-"

"Trust me. I'll take her. You just..." Knuckles wasn't too sure how to put it, so he simply said, "Go back to class or something."

"Oh." Comprehension dawned on Haruka. "Right."

Leaving the girl to Knuckles, Haruka dashed down the hall.

"Now, what could have gotten her so riled up?" The girl thought. She looked up. "Huh?"

Knuckles looked over and gasped. A woman with dark hair was following Haruka.

"Setsuna...!"

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"Get away! Get away!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

The hallway was filled with toilet paper wrapped students. Tails, who was going towards his next class, stopped short when he saw the monster and the students.

"Aie..." Tails broke out in a sweat.

"Come to Papa!!" The monster attacked Tails with toilet paper.

"Aah!" Tails ran out of the wing and into another hallway.

"Come back here!"

The monster started to run towards him, only to be attacked by a ball of water. The toilet paper on the outer part of her armor became wet and stringy.

"Hey! Hey!!" The monster looked around. "Who did that?!"

"I did!" Netpune appeared. "You are nothing but a disgusting mutant of a product that helps prevent diseases! For elegance, Sailor Neptune!"

"Hey!" The monster raised its arm. "Nobody insults Latrine and gets away with it!"

A blast of toilet paper lashed out at Neptune. She jumped up to avoid it.

"Hey! Pretty impressive!" The monster laughed. "Now look at this!"

The blast circled back and caught Neptune's leg, throwing her to the ground. She was hit in the head as she came down, and the blow knocked her unconscious.

"Neptune!" Haruka rounded the corner.

"Hey, another one!" The monster blasted at Haruka, but she dodged it.

"Damn!" Haruka thought. She ran into the boys' bathroom.

"Hey, where'd she go?" The monster started walking over to the main hall, dragging Neptune with her. "Come on, don't you want to save this girl?"

In the bathroom, Haruka took out her transformer.

"No time to lose!" She held it up. "Uranus Planet Power, Make-Up!"

"Huh?" Outside the bathroom, the monster saw light seeping under the door. "Someone's in there!"

Before she could investigate, Knuckles flew in front of the door.

"You're not geting in there!" Knuckles went into a fighting stance. "Not if it's the last thing I do!"

"Hey, you wanna fight? Let's fight!" The monster blasted him with toilet paper as well. The echidna dodged it and went to attack the monster. "Now it's your turn! A Knuckles Sandwich!"

Knuckles threw a powerful right jab at the monster's torso, only to bounce off and fall to the floor.

"Huh?!"

"Hey! I'm as soft as cotton!" The monster laughed. "You inferior fighting has no effect on me!"

"Oh no!" Knuckles thought. He scrambled to get up.

"Have this!!" The monster attacked him again, and this time it wrapped him up.

"Mmmm...mmmph..." An annoyed sound came from the paper as it wriggled around.

"Now to whoever's in here..."

The monster flung open the door. It was greeted by a blast of yellow light, and it flew back into the wall. From the bathroom, Sailor Uranus emerged.

"You use your disgusting powers to destroy this school!" Uranus walked towards the monster. "You and your master shall not be forgiven! For magnificence, Sailor Uranus!"

"D'oh!" The monster grunted.

"World Shaking!"

The monster dodged the move, but the whiplash caused it to fall face first to the ground. Being inside toilet paper armor, the monster wriggled its amrs and legs furiously to try to get up.

"Oh! Oh! Damn you, sailor!" The monster angrily seethed.

"Neptune..." Uranus saw Npetune lying on the ground. She ran over to her partner. "Neptune, are you all right?"

"Mammmmmmph..." Knuckles struggled to get out. He was starting to lose air.

"Don't worry." Uranus carried Npetune into the boys' bathroom and closed the door. "I'll take care of him. Your injuries will be avenged!"

Knuckles rolled over, desperate to try to open an air passage. Meanwhile, the monster started to wriggle out of its armor.

"Huh?" Uranus saw the wriggling toilet paper and raised her arm.

"World..."

"Don't!"

The monster suddenly flung a roll of toilet paper at Uranus. In mid-air, it stopped and hovered.

"What the..."

Suddenly, the toilet paper grew and engulfed Uranus, swinging her up to

the ceiling pipes.

"NO!!" Uranus struggled to break free.

"Hahahahahhahahahahaha!!" The monster laughed. "My master's victory...at last!"

The wriggling toilet paper on the ground suddenly flopped. It then became still.

"Finally, I can get rid of you!" The monster suddenly ran towards the bathroom.

"NEPTUNE!!" Uranus screamed at the thought of her partner being killed.

Suddenly, a flash of red light engulfed the monster, creating a sonic boom. The monster writhed and screamed as it was torn apart.

"What?!" Uranus lookd on in shock.

"Nooooooooooooo!!!" The monster looked over to the right. "It can't be...I failed to get all of them...fogive me master....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh..."

The monster disintegrated into nothing. All of the toilet paper around the school distinegrated, and the students fell to the ground. Uranus' bonds disintegrated, and she jumped to the ground. Next to her, the paper also withered away to reveal an unconscious Knuckles.

"Knuckles...?" Uranus gasped. She shook him to no avail.

"Knuckles...guardian...can you hear me? No...it can't be..."

"Do not worry." A voice from behind made her gasp. "He will be all right."

Uranus slowly stood up. She turned around and gasped.

"It can't be..."

In front of her was a red-eyed woman, wearing a black sailor suit. In her hands was a staff resembling a key.

"It's you...you gave him the watch?" Uranus stood stunned. Her knees became weak. "You came back."

The woman nodded.

"Yes. It's me. A fighter for love and justice, and the guardian of time."

The sun began to set outside. "For reformation, I am Sailor Pluto."

To be continued...