Fic: [Sailor Moon] Senshi Sabers
Title: Senshi Sabers
Series: Sailor Moon, Bubblegum Crisis
Type: Fusion
Links: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1320515/26/Senshi_Sabers
Chapter 25
Haruka paced restlessly, the sandy-blonde haired young woman roaming around the underground lab. "Calm down," Michiru called, the blue-green haired young woman calmly sitting at the monitor screen, keeping track of Makoto and Minako's movements as they tailed Madigan and her bio-boomer captor.
"I hate waiting," Haruka admitted with a laugh, running a hand through her short hair, dressed in her usual long pants and a t-shirt.
"I do, too," Michiru admitted, "but Rei and Ami are on their way."
The doors to the lift opened up soon enough for Rei to hear that last bit. "Correction, we're here," she called out, having put on some sweat pants to go with a loose t-shirt.
Ami turned to Rei, her expression serious as she said, "Rei, I hate to ask this but...."
"You want me to stay here and monitor," Rei nodded grimly. "I don't like it, but there's no way I can armor up with a busted arm," she admitted.
As Ami briskly headed to the truck she hesitated, then stopped. Walking back to Rei she kissed her, lingeringly. "For later," she breathed out quietly.
"Right," Rei gulped, suddenly wobbly as she made her way to the main computer terminal.
Ami had a faintly self satisfied look as she headed back to the Silky Doll truck, but her voice was all business as she said, "Michiru, I've rigged up a spare suit for you to use and I loaded it earlier."
"I can't wait to see it," Michiriu mused, a faint smile on her face.
"What about me?" Haruka asked eagerly.
"I'm going to have to put you in by back-up suit," Ami admitted as they climbed in the van, "and it hasn't been modified for you. You'll have to slow your reaction time to compensate."
I see," Haruka nodded as Ami started the van, her taking the shotgun seat and Michiru getting in the back.
As the truck roared off Rei stood and called, "Good luck!"
Meanwhile, in another part of the city Madigan sat in a car seat, looking with undisguised loathing at the thing at the driver's seat. The feminine bio-boomer had ordered her in and took off,
threatening to kill her if she disobeyed. She rather suspected this was payback for some of the things she had done for Infinity over the years, but why now?
"Do you have a name?" Madigan had to ask, sitting belted into the passenger side, the straps rigged to hamper her movements.
The bio-boomer ignored her, staring ahead as her eyes flickered inhumanly fast, taking in all it's surroundings. "Do you have a bodyguard?" she asked suddenly, her voice flat and artificial.
Madigan looked at her curiously, but decided lying would not be healthy. "No," she said, "my employer Mr. Kou doesn't think I need one."
Still looking straight ahead the bio-boomer calmly noted, "Then you were being tailed. There is a motorbike back there that has followed us through two turns, staying between three to four car-lengths back."
Madigan felt a flash of hope for a rescue, then squashed it firmly. There was no reason to assume the followers were friends, after all. She shifted to try to get a look, but couldn't manage it. "I don't know who they are," she scowled.
"There are several possibilities," the bio-boomer seemed to be thinking aloud as they drove through the city, "the police may have determined we were targeting Infinity staff and assigned a officer, it could be someone you wrong in your previous employment seeking payback, it could relate to your current employment, or it could be they are Senshi Sabers after me."
Hearing the remark about targeting Infinity, Madigan felt a chill run down her spine. She had always known her actions for Prof. Tomoe would come back to haunt her, but she had hoped it wouldn't be this soon. Shifting in her seat she knew she was tightly bound up top, but her legs were mostly free. Maybe she could....
"Do not attempt to kick or otherwise interfere with my driving," the bio-boomer said, keeping a wary eye on their tail, "you would not like the results."
Madigan looked at her grimly, "You're going to kill me anyway."
The bio-boomer nodded, acknowledging that. "Yes," she said, "but there are deaths and there are deaths. Some are quick and painless, others... linger."
Madigan shivered at the remorseless tone in that statement and sat still. "Where are we going?" she asked after a few moments.
"To meet the greatest product of Infinity's research," the bio-boomer said, looking straight ahead and therefore missing the van barreling out of a side street to ram them in the side.
"Shit!" Madigan cursed as the car careened sideways, the internal safety systems spraying a air permeable, quick drying safety foam to protect her from injury. 'And,' she noted brightly, 'it might even be enough to keep the bio-boomer from killing me, too.'
The Silky Doll van skidded to a stop, the sound of feminine cursing coming from the back hold. Ami nearly had her full suit of armor on as she grumbled, "That is the last time I let Haruka drive."
"Haruka tends to directness," Michiru conceded as she pulled on her dark green and black armor, "but it worked, didn't it? You did want Madigan and her captor stopped, after all."
"Point," Ami admitted as she pulled on the helm for her ice blue suit.
Haruka climbed into the back, stripping as she did so, "Looks like Madigan is gummed up in safety-foam, and the bio-boomer is trying to chip her out of it."
"All right," Ami nodded as she and Michiru headed to the rear doors, "armor up and follow us out. Also, I bet Minako and Makoto will be up here soon, too."
"Got it," Haruka nodded as the naked woman pulled on the undersuit.
"Use ECM as we leave the truck," Ami murmured to Michiru as they moved out, deliberately dampening their emissions as they moved clear of the van. She did not want the Senshi Sabers at all connected to Silky Doll, which was the other reason she was annoyed at Haruka's ramming tactic.
Meanwhile out in the street the bio-boomer doggedly chipped at the safety-foam, and if she could curse she would be. The rapid hardening stuff was deliberately designed to be tough and hard to damage without the right solvents, which only emergency personnel carried. So she was stuck using brute force to tear segments of it away, while also trying not to hurt Madigan too much. Not that she cared about the woman personally, but her Mistress wanted her alive....
"Get away from that car, bio-boomer!" the artificially boosted voice boomed.
With a burst of inhuman speed the bio-boomer bounded away from the car, trying to get near enough to successfully attack the armored women. She calculated only a thirty-five percent chance of success in such a attack based on models of previous Senshi Saber combats, but the odds were improved by their being only two opposing units.
As usual the leader deployed the supercooled blades that were her primary weapon, and she dodged both arm mounted blades handily. She had not, however, expected the burst of super-concentrated fluid that bowled her over, leaving her open to a sword strike. Seeing her end coming she sent a burst transmission of the combat data so far to her mistress, then went silent as the icy blade pierced her brain.
Ami retracted her arm sword, feeling a certain satisfaction in how quickly the fight ended. "How did the hydro blasters work?" she asked as she collected the remains in a electromagnetically shielded bag.
"Quite well," Michiru admitted, "though aiming will be difficult."
Minako walked alongside Makoto who was pushing their motorcycle past the broken glass and material left by ramming the car. "Did you have to kill it that fast?" Makoto complained as they started ripping safety foam out of the car, "I wanted to take a shot at it."
"It wasn't a combat augmented type" Michiru shrugged, "in fact I suspect it was designed for covert operations."
"Exactly my thought," Ami agreed as they stripped more of the white crap out, "it had a very low EM signature compared to a usual type."
"Meaning we'll have a harder time tracking it," Minako sighed, the blond helping dig much more reluctantly.
"About time you got here," Madigan growled, glaring at them while still bound up in buckles and belts, as well as still shrouded in foam.
Deciding a official presence might explain why she was there Minako flashed her badge, "AD Police, ma'am. I picked up on the distress call and responded along with the Sabers here."
"Distress call?" Madigan asked.
"Someone saw you get picked up at the Three Lights club," Minako smirked. "Care to tell us why you were visiting there, by the way?" she asked as they more carefully peeled the foam away from the woman's body.
Madigan actually blushed, "If you must know my brother preforms there."
'Sure he does,' Ami thought, making a note to check out the club later. The wail of sirens in the distance made Ami pull back, looking at Michiru and waving her off. "Sorry to say we have to go," she said crisply, "good luck, Ms."
The twin armored figures bounded off, then resignedly Minako and Makoto went back to trying to peel her out without taking too much skin off. "So," Minako asked calmly, "why did the bio-boomer want to kill you?"
"I have no idea," Madigan lied flatly.
Within moments a AD Police cruiser pulled up, two very familiar figures climbing out to sweep the situation with their eyes. "Let me guess," Usagi Tsukino sighed as the blond took in the bagged wreck of a bio-boomer, "the Sabers beat us here again?"
"Looks like it," Naru agreed, the brown haired girl following her friend and partner over to the damaged car.
"Officer Aino," Usagi recognized her, "what are you doing here?"
"I was out with my friend when I heard the alert," Minako shrugged, "I was nearby, so...."
"Makes sense," Usagi conceded, not really paying attention to Minako's friend, her gaze focused on the captive woman. "Well, well, if it isn't Madigan," she mused, "been a long time. Are you still shutting out police investigations?"
"I was under orders from my boss at the time," Madigan growled. "Now get me out of this!"
"But of course," Usagi got up as she asked, "I suppose you couldn't tell me why that thing was trying to kill you?"
"I don't know," Madigan lied.
With that Usagi gently tugged Minako and the others away from peeling off foam,. "I understand. However, we're going to have to wait for a emergency team to get here with the solvent for that foam."
"But your officers were just...," Madigan yelped.
"It's really not safe to handle by hand," Usagi said gently. "But don't worry," she added, "the team will be here in half a hour, tops."
Madigan went red with anger, "You must be joking!"
"Well, maybe more than a half hour," Naru added cheerfully, "but we'll try to keep you hydrated while you wait."
Madigan glared at both of them. "And if I tell you who I think is after me?" she growled out, even though she suspected she knew the answer.
"I suppose I could ask for some volunteers to get that stuff off you," Usagi said.
"I hate you," Madigan sighed, defeated.
"I can live with that," Usagi shrugged. "Well?"
"I'll tell," Madigan slumped.
To be continued....
Series: Sailor Moon, Bubblegum Crisis
Type: Fusion
Links: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1320515/26/Senshi_Sabers
Chapter 25
Haruka paced restlessly, the sandy-blonde haired young woman roaming around the underground lab. "Calm down," Michiru called, the blue-green haired young woman calmly sitting at the monitor screen, keeping track of Makoto and Minako's movements as they tailed Madigan and her bio-boomer captor.
"I hate waiting," Haruka admitted with a laugh, running a hand through her short hair, dressed in her usual long pants and a t-shirt.
"I do, too," Michiru admitted, "but Rei and Ami are on their way."
The doors to the lift opened up soon enough for Rei to hear that last bit. "Correction, we're here," she called out, having put on some sweat pants to go with a loose t-shirt.
Ami turned to Rei, her expression serious as she said, "Rei, I hate to ask this but...."
"You want me to stay here and monitor," Rei nodded grimly. "I don't like it, but there's no way I can armor up with a busted arm," she admitted.
As Ami briskly headed to the truck she hesitated, then stopped. Walking back to Rei she kissed her, lingeringly. "For later," she breathed out quietly.
"Right," Rei gulped, suddenly wobbly as she made her way to the main computer terminal.
Ami had a faintly self satisfied look as she headed back to the Silky Doll truck, but her voice was all business as she said, "Michiru, I've rigged up a spare suit for you to use and I loaded it earlier."
"I can't wait to see it," Michiriu mused, a faint smile on her face.
"What about me?" Haruka asked eagerly.
"I'm going to have to put you in by back-up suit," Ami admitted as they climbed in the van, "and it hasn't been modified for you. You'll have to slow your reaction time to compensate."
I see," Haruka nodded as Ami started the van, her taking the shotgun seat and Michiru getting in the back.
As the truck roared off Rei stood and called, "Good luck!"
Meanwhile, in another part of the city Madigan sat in a car seat, looking with undisguised loathing at the thing at the driver's seat. The feminine bio-boomer had ordered her in and took off,
threatening to kill her if she disobeyed. She rather suspected this was payback for some of the things she had done for Infinity over the years, but why now?
"Do you have a name?" Madigan had to ask, sitting belted into the passenger side, the straps rigged to hamper her movements.
The bio-boomer ignored her, staring ahead as her eyes flickered inhumanly fast, taking in all it's surroundings. "Do you have a bodyguard?" she asked suddenly, her voice flat and artificial.
Madigan looked at her curiously, but decided lying would not be healthy. "No," she said, "my employer Mr. Kou doesn't think I need one."
Still looking straight ahead the bio-boomer calmly noted, "Then you were being tailed. There is a motorbike back there that has followed us through two turns, staying between three to four car-lengths back."
Madigan felt a flash of hope for a rescue, then squashed it firmly. There was no reason to assume the followers were friends, after all. She shifted to try to get a look, but couldn't manage it. "I don't know who they are," she scowled.
"There are several possibilities," the bio-boomer seemed to be thinking aloud as they drove through the city, "the police may have determined we were targeting Infinity staff and assigned a officer, it could be someone you wrong in your previous employment seeking payback, it could relate to your current employment, or it could be they are Senshi Sabers after me."
Hearing the remark about targeting Infinity, Madigan felt a chill run down her spine. She had always known her actions for Prof. Tomoe would come back to haunt her, but she had hoped it wouldn't be this soon. Shifting in her seat she knew she was tightly bound up top, but her legs were mostly free. Maybe she could....
"Do not attempt to kick or otherwise interfere with my driving," the bio-boomer said, keeping a wary eye on their tail, "you would not like the results."
Madigan looked at her grimly, "You're going to kill me anyway."
The bio-boomer nodded, acknowledging that. "Yes," she said, "but there are deaths and there are deaths. Some are quick and painless, others... linger."
Madigan shivered at the remorseless tone in that statement and sat still. "Where are we going?" she asked after a few moments.
"To meet the greatest product of Infinity's research," the bio-boomer said, looking straight ahead and therefore missing the van barreling out of a side street to ram them in the side.
"Shit!" Madigan cursed as the car careened sideways, the internal safety systems spraying a air permeable, quick drying safety foam to protect her from injury. 'And,' she noted brightly, 'it might even be enough to keep the bio-boomer from killing me, too.'
The Silky Doll van skidded to a stop, the sound of feminine cursing coming from the back hold. Ami nearly had her full suit of armor on as she grumbled, "That is the last time I let Haruka drive."
"Haruka tends to directness," Michiru conceded as she pulled on her dark green and black armor, "but it worked, didn't it? You did want Madigan and her captor stopped, after all."
"Point," Ami admitted as she pulled on the helm for her ice blue suit.
Haruka climbed into the back, stripping as she did so, "Looks like Madigan is gummed up in safety-foam, and the bio-boomer is trying to chip her out of it."
"All right," Ami nodded as she and Michiru headed to the rear doors, "armor up and follow us out. Also, I bet Minako and Makoto will be up here soon, too."
"Got it," Haruka nodded as the naked woman pulled on the undersuit.
"Use ECM as we leave the truck," Ami murmured to Michiru as they moved out, deliberately dampening their emissions as they moved clear of the van. She did not want the Senshi Sabers at all connected to Silky Doll, which was the other reason she was annoyed at Haruka's ramming tactic.
Meanwhile out in the street the bio-boomer doggedly chipped at the safety-foam, and if she could curse she would be. The rapid hardening stuff was deliberately designed to be tough and hard to damage without the right solvents, which only emergency personnel carried. So she was stuck using brute force to tear segments of it away, while also trying not to hurt Madigan too much. Not that she cared about the woman personally, but her Mistress wanted her alive....
"Get away from that car, bio-boomer!" the artificially boosted voice boomed.
With a burst of inhuman speed the bio-boomer bounded away from the car, trying to get near enough to successfully attack the armored women. She calculated only a thirty-five percent chance of success in such a attack based on models of previous Senshi Saber combats, but the odds were improved by their being only two opposing units.
As usual the leader deployed the supercooled blades that were her primary weapon, and she dodged both arm mounted blades handily. She had not, however, expected the burst of super-concentrated fluid that bowled her over, leaving her open to a sword strike. Seeing her end coming she sent a burst transmission of the combat data so far to her mistress, then went silent as the icy blade pierced her brain.
Ami retracted her arm sword, feeling a certain satisfaction in how quickly the fight ended. "How did the hydro blasters work?" she asked as she collected the remains in a electromagnetically shielded bag.
"Quite well," Michiru admitted, "though aiming will be difficult."
Minako walked alongside Makoto who was pushing their motorcycle past the broken glass and material left by ramming the car. "Did you have to kill it that fast?" Makoto complained as they started ripping safety foam out of the car, "I wanted to take a shot at it."
"It wasn't a combat augmented type" Michiru shrugged, "in fact I suspect it was designed for covert operations."
"Exactly my thought," Ami agreed as they stripped more of the white crap out, "it had a very low EM signature compared to a usual type."
"Meaning we'll have a harder time tracking it," Minako sighed, the blond helping dig much more reluctantly.
"About time you got here," Madigan growled, glaring at them while still bound up in buckles and belts, as well as still shrouded in foam.
Deciding a official presence might explain why she was there Minako flashed her badge, "AD Police, ma'am. I picked up on the distress call and responded along with the Sabers here."
"Distress call?" Madigan asked.
"Someone saw you get picked up at the Three Lights club," Minako smirked. "Care to tell us why you were visiting there, by the way?" she asked as they more carefully peeled the foam away from the woman's body.
Madigan actually blushed, "If you must know my brother preforms there."
'Sure he does,' Ami thought, making a note to check out the club later. The wail of sirens in the distance made Ami pull back, looking at Michiru and waving her off. "Sorry to say we have to go," she said crisply, "good luck, Ms."
The twin armored figures bounded off, then resignedly Minako and Makoto went back to trying to peel her out without taking too much skin off. "So," Minako asked calmly, "why did the bio-boomer want to kill you?"
"I have no idea," Madigan lied flatly.
Within moments a AD Police cruiser pulled up, two very familiar figures climbing out to sweep the situation with their eyes. "Let me guess," Usagi Tsukino sighed as the blond took in the bagged wreck of a bio-boomer, "the Sabers beat us here again?"
"Looks like it," Naru agreed, the brown haired girl following her friend and partner over to the damaged car.
"Officer Aino," Usagi recognized her, "what are you doing here?"
"I was out with my friend when I heard the alert," Minako shrugged, "I was nearby, so...."
"Makes sense," Usagi conceded, not really paying attention to Minako's friend, her gaze focused on the captive woman. "Well, well, if it isn't Madigan," she mused, "been a long time. Are you still shutting out police investigations?"
"I was under orders from my boss at the time," Madigan growled. "Now get me out of this!"
"But of course," Usagi got up as she asked, "I suppose you couldn't tell me why that thing was trying to kill you?"
"I don't know," Madigan lied.
With that Usagi gently tugged Minako and the others away from peeling off foam,. "I understand. However, we're going to have to wait for a emergency team to get here with the solvent for that foam."
"But your officers were just...," Madigan yelped.
"It's really not safe to handle by hand," Usagi said gently. "But don't worry," she added, "the team will be here in half a hour, tops."
Madigan went red with anger, "You must be joking!"
"Well, maybe more than a half hour," Naru added cheerfully, "but we'll try to keep you hydrated while you wait."
Madigan glared at both of them. "And if I tell you who I think is after me?" she growled out, even though she suspected she knew the answer.
"I suppose I could ask for some volunteers to get that stuff off you," Usagi said.
"I hate you," Madigan sighed, defeated.
"I can live with that," Usagi shrugged. "Well?"
"I'll tell," Madigan slumped.
To be continued....