"Sailor Slave"

"Raye! Are you home?" Serena belted out as she ran up the concrete stairs of the Cherry Hill Temple, carrying Molly.

"She's finding out who Sailor Nega is!" Mina explained as she helped Serena carry Molly up the steps. "What happened?"

"Sailor Nega did! She drained Molly and she almost drained me, but I got out of the way at the last second! Also I found out where Amy was!" Serena babbled.

"At school?"

"No, she was missing! I found out Sailor Nega transformed her into a monster named Amphead!"

"I call upon the power of Mars, show me who is behind the mask of Sailor Nega!" Raye whispered firmly, staring into the flame before her.

A face appeared in the fire. As delicate as an angel but as venomous as a snake. She had long, flowing brown hair. Her eyes were a limpid blue. She wore a smile of happiness. But slowly her smile became a frown. Her eyes burned with hate into an eerie red.

Raye screamed and jumped back from the fire. Once she had calmed down, she realized that the face was one of a stranger. Until she was to see that person, she was stuck in another dead end. And if they didn't find out the identity of Sailor Nega soon, it would be. A dead end. For all of the scouts.

"Serena, you tell Raye! I'll go transform and find Amy. Also, I'm sure it'll be okay with Raye if you put Molly in one of the guest rooms!"

"Okay, bye!" Serena called.

Mina ducked behind one of the large oak trees near the front of the temple. "Venus, Star, Power!!" she cried as she held up her transformation pen. A small thread of stars came out and quickly grew. Soon, Mina was surrounded by a spiral of golden stars. They disappeared, and Sailor Venus ran off.

"Hey, Miss Haruna! Have you seen Serena anywhere?" a voice called.

"Oh! Darien! You startled me!" Miss Haruna replied.

"Sorry."

"What are you doing here? I thought you were in college!"

"We're on break. I'm getting some extra money tutoring. Something's up and I have a feeling Serena's in trouble... Where is she? Which room does she have detention in?"

"It's a miracle! She didn't have detention today! She went chasing down Lita and Amy! Why? What's up?"

"I don't have time to explain! Bye!" Darien ran off to find the others. I just hope I'm not too late.

"Raye! There you are!" Serena called as she saw Raye opening the door of the room she had been in.

"Serena? Where's Mina?" Raye looked confused.

"She transformed. I put Molly in one of the rooms. She got drained by Sailor Nega!"

"So what's up?"

"Okay, Amy got turned into a monster and Lita is just missing! Did you find out who Sailor Nega was?"

"Nope! I didn't recognize her!"

"Then describe her. Maybe I know her."

"We can deal with that later. We have two missing scouts right now."

"Then we'd better help Mina!"

"Right on!"

"Moon, Crystal, Power!!"

"Mars, Star, Power!!" Flames swirled around Raye then fell to the ground, disappearing. Sailor Moon had already left, so Sailor Mars decided to just follow.

"We have to save Amy!" Sailor Mars cried. "Running around all day isn't any good but to help you lose weight!"

"Oh, shut up, Mars... But where is she?"

Sailor Mars sighed. "Sailor Moon, don't you have some sort of tracking device?"

"I have the wand, but it's only good for tracking down the rainbow crystal carriers! Wait!" Serena jerked to a stop and sat down on a bench, thinking.

"What is it?"

"Well, when Luna first gave me my powers, I could hear Molly screaming," Serena talked, thoughtfully.

"Tell me!"

"Maybe I could hear Amphead!"

"Who is Amphead?"

"Amy!"

"No, she's Sailor Mercury!"

"I wonder if Sailor Nega knows... who she is... Hmmmm..." Serena scratched her head. "Wait! You made me lose my train of thought! Oh, yeah! Sailor Nega transformed Amy into Amphead. By what I heard, it seems Amphead makes a lot of noise, so I'll use the super-hearing to find her!"

"Where'd that vocabulary come from?"

Sailor Moon pushed the red meatball in her hair.

"Raye, they're gathering more energy for the nega-verse!" Sailor Moon exclaimed

"Let's stop them!" she replied.

"Wait, Rini's in trouble, too!" Serena turned off the super-hearing.

"Hiya, ladies!"

"Darien.."

"Sailor Moon, you mustn't call me that. You never know who might be listening.

"B-but-"

"Mars, you team up with Venus, wherever she is, and stop Amy! Sailor Moon and I will stop whomever's attacking Rini! Let's go!"

"Hmm... Crystal subroutines... Five back entrances, each leading to one of the five crystal points. And I can't transform the four sisters back on my side, without their willingness. I need more henchmen! Sailor Nega is only a teenager and can't exactly run a store. Maybe, if she were to transform the four sisters again... That just might work!"

"What would work?"

"Oh! Sailor Nega! I didn't see you. You startled me!"

"I apologize. I have gathered more energy. My Dark Stone is incapable of absorbing any more. I will empty the energy to you, to send to our fleets in the future!"

"You have done well. I have another job for you."

"What is it, now? Being on your side is so much fun!"

"See the holograms? These are the four sisters. They sell cosmetics now. I want you to transform them. But I want you to wait until this weekend. You shouldn't need to be out of school at the same time Sailor Nega shows up somewhere; that's too suspicious. Someone at your school just might be able to put two and two together, so we shouldn't give it to them to put together."

"I forgot!"

"Forgot what?"

"I made friends with one of the schoolgirls. We were supposed to meet at the local arcade."

"Then go!"

"Nega, Dark Stone, Transport!!"

"Venus, is that you?"

"Mars! Hi!" Sailor Venus breathed heavily. Then she sat down on a big rock nearby.

"Why are you jogging?"

"Um... So I stay fit while fighting the Negaverse!"

"Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon are rescuing Rini from the clutches of the Negaverse. Amy got transformed into a monster named Amphead! She's gathering energy at the moment! Somewhere there are a lot of people!" Mars explained.

"Where could that be?" Sailor Venus asked.

"Osa-P's tri-annual 50% off sale!" they exclaimed in unison.