Chapter 2

Calling All Scouts

Tokyo, Japan....

"Miss Tsukino! Miss Tsukino!" The little child shouted over and over as he jumped up and down for his kindergarten teacher's attention. "Miss Tsukino!!!" He bellowed out one more time.

Serena snapped out of her daze and smiled down at Mike. She bent down and came eye to eye with the little child. "What is it Mike?"

"When's lunch?" Mike asked in a small greedy voice.

Serena laughed and cocked her head. "In ten minutes. I'm going to call everyone in soon and then we'll go down to the lunch tables and have lunch. How does that sound?"

"Great!" Mike piped happily. Then he was gone, running off to play with his friends as they ran around the playground happily.

Serena straightened and smoothed down her flowery dress. She looked up at the sky and saw that it was darkening. She frowned as a bad feeling went through her. She had been getting bad feelings for a week now and she didn't know what to make of them. Sometimes she would wake up screaming from a horrible dream that she could barely remember. All she knew was that something bad was going on in the dream and she didn't want to remember it. She just wanted to go on with her life normally without any trouble at all. She wanted to marry Darien and have a good life with him.

Suddenly the sky rumbled and cracked as rain began to pour down heavily. All the children screamed as the heavy rain drenched them.

"Inside, children! Inside! We have to stay out of the rain! Quick! Run!" Serena shouted as she gathered up all her kids and took them back inside the classrooms. In there she tried to get them as dry as possible with towels that she kept in a cabinet just in case they ever had a wet project and needed to be dried down.

"It just suddenly began raining really, really hard," Sara remarked as Serena helped the little girl dry up.

"Yes but everything is fine now. Your all getting dry and I think the rain will go away. It is winter," Serena said cheerfully. She watched as all her kids continued to dry themselves. They were all excited over the sudden rain but Serena just had another bad feeling about it.

She walked over to the window of the school building and looked out. The sky was as dark as night and it was raining harder than anything Serena had ever seen in her whole life. She tried to push away the nagging fear inside of her but it was just impossible. It looked like doom was rearing its ugly head again.

In Germany....

Amy Mizuno sighed as she watched the news in German. She was tired from all her work as an assistant doctor. If assistant doctor was this hard, being a real doctor must be even harder. She was going to get her Ph.D. in one more year and she was excited to know that. She was very close to finally completing her studies. She heard that Darien was going to get his Ph.D. this year. She was proud of him. She knew that Serena was probably just as proud.

Suddenly everything began to shake. Amy gasped and struggled to stand up as the shaking began to get worse and worse as seconds ticked by. She screamed as her whole apartment began to fall apart around her. Dropping down on her knees, Amy covered her head and screamed as the TV fell off its entertainment system and crash down the ground, spewing glass everywhere. She covered her face as the shards went flying, cutting her.

The floor rocked and bounced as the earthquake continued horribly. She screamed again as she heard her dishes shatter in the kitchen. Things fell off the shelves and slammed in the ground, sending shards of dangerous materials every where.

Amy screamed as she felt more and more sharp points cut into her arm and her bare legs. Suddenly a vase slammed into the ground. The thick pieces went flying and cut into Amy's head. She screamed as felt blood stream down her forehead and into her eye. She quickly rubbed it away and tried to ignore the continue flow of blood.

Another rocking of the ground sent Amy flying slightly up into the air. She fell hard and was knocked unconscious. The last thing she remembered was the ceiling cracking open.

In France....

Corinne Ten`ou and Nerissa Kaiou were relaxing on their property outside of their beautiful mansion when suddenly ice started falling from the clear sky. Everything darkened and more hail came falling from the sky. They were as big as golf balls and hurt a great deal.

Nerissa screamed as a piece of hail slammed into her arm. She gasped and fell against Corinne who quickly caught her and lifted Nerissa into her arms. She ran towards the mansion. Taking all the blows from the hail as she covered Nerissa with her own body.

"We can't survive this!" Nerissa shouted in a frightened voice. "The mansion is too far. You can't deal with all this hail for that long, Corinne! Put me down! You can't run and carry me at the same time."

Corinne shook her head and continued to run. Nerissa screamed in pain as a piece of ice got her leg. It cut her and blood began to drip from it. Corinne wasn't making a sound as the hail slammed into her back, ripping her clothing. One got her head and blood began to seep through her dark blond hair.

They neared the mansion when Helen Tomoe threw open the door. She was breathing hard and looking very tired. She had came to France for a visit, to get away from all the pressure of healing the world. Her shoulder length, black-purple hair was a mess. She had been napping.

"Faster, Corinne!" Helen screamed as they got closer to the mansion.

Corinne ran faster and threw herself through the threshold. Helen slammed the door shut and leaned against it, she was breathing harder and sweat was pouring down her face. It was obvious she was worn out. The girl had been stretching herself lately. It was better she returned to France for rest but she just seemed more exhausted after running across the mansion to open the door for them.

"Corinne, let me go," Nerissa said softly. Corinne nodded and lowered Nerissa back down on the ground. Blood soaked her head. Nerissa reached up and touched the wound. Corinne flinched.

"We've got to get that cleaned," Helen said quietly.

Corinne nodded. "Yeah. It really hurts."

"What was that?" Jennifer Meiou stood at the threshold of the foyer. She was breathing very hard, her dark garnet eyes wide with fright.

"Hail. Nothing I've ever seen in France," Nerissa said.

"Corinne!" Jennifer gasped.

"I'm fine. I just need it cleaned and Helen can heal it," Corinne said a bit faintly. She looked very pale and the blood made her look worse. "It's only a flesh wound. Nothing serious."

Helen nodded and they walked over to the kitchen. Corinne sat down on a stool and waited as Helen slowly cleaned the wound and then heal it with her special touch. The pain disappeared and Corinne could feel the wound mend up and disappear.

"All you have to do now is wash out the blood," Helen instructed as she washed her hands with soap and warm water.

"That's all right," Corinne said, gingerly touching her bloody hair. "I'll do it later. Let's try to figure out this hail. One moment it's a clear sky and the next it's dropping ice pieces. Doesn't that seem a bit unnatural?"

"Of course it's unnatural," Nerissa said. She stood beside Corinne, pale and afraid for the wound and the effects it might leave. She was afraid Corinne could have a concussion and was only fighting it off. Corinne was stubborn like that. Never admitting that she was weak and got wounded badly by ice.

Jennifer looked very deep in thought as she looked out the window. Then she turned and faced them all. "Time came to me about a week ago. Death is coming to the world. The apocalypse is coming and we have to do everything we can to stop it."

"The apocalypse," Helen repeated, unbelieving. "Another one?"

Jennifer smiled at Helen's disbelief. "Yes. But this time it's a final one. There is no Silence Messiah to destroy the world like the last time when Super Sailor Moon was able to stop it all and have Helen reborn herself. This time it's natural disasters and pollution. The world has finally destroyed itself. But we have to try and slow the effects."

"Then how are we going to prevent that? It's suppose to happen," Nerissa said.

"The future, Nerissa. Don't you remember the 30th Century? It's suppose to happen. But we have to deal with this, the present. Somehow we stopped all of this and was able to create the 30th Century, the Crystal Millennium. But how, I don't know. I was never allowed to know because that would change the future."

"So your saying we have to try and prevent these natural disasters and pollution so that the future might exist?" Corinne asked. "But we don't even know how to stop things that are created by nature. This isn't some kind of monster or demons from some dark side of the universe but things that have to happen. No one can stop that."

"We have to. We have to try and save the world. We have to try and stop all these natural disasters and pollution from happening," Jennifer insisted.

"This is insanity!" Corinne shouted.

Helen shook her head. "We have to try, don't we? We have to try and stop all of these things from happening before the world is destroyed by it. We won't be able to survive if these strange things continue to happen."

"The world is going to end if we don't try and stop it," Jennifer said quietly.

Nerissa nodded. "You right."

Corinne started cursing very fluently.

In London, England....

Mina covered her mouth and coughed very hard. She looked out the window of her London flat and couldn't believe what she was seeing. The whole city was wrapped in a poisonous haze. Pollution had finally reached its high in England and it was killing everyone in sight. Disease had broken out and everyone was getting sick. The hospitals were full of patients with breathing problems and many forms of lung disease. It was like hell.

One day London was just regular London with its minor pollution problem and the next it was death. Pollution had risen greatly and it just blanketed London in its disease.

Mina was saved from it because her scout power protected her mostly from the more harmful poisons but she was still sick from breathing the bad air.

Suddenly the phone rang. Mina sighed and picked it up. "Hello?" she croaked.

"Mina? You sound horrible," the voice gasped on the other line.

"Nerissa?" Mina asked.

"Yeah. Look, I know this isn't the right time with your rising career as a model, but we need to get back to Serena. Can you get a flight back to Japan?" Nerissa asked. "We have a scout problem. The world is going to come to an end."

"Again?" Mina asked.

"This time it's a bit final," Nerissa said in a deadly serious tone.

Mina took a deep breath and then regretted it. She immediately went into a fit of coughing.

"Are you all right?" Nerissa asked worriedly.

"London has became a death trap. The pollution here is horrible!" Mina coughed.

"I know. Hail is coming down hard in France. In Germany there was a horrible earthquake. I hope Amy's all right."

"She's strong. I bet she'll make it."

"All right. So do you think you can get a flight to Japan?"

"Of course. If not I'll just transport myself there with my scout power," Mina assured.

"Great. We'll see you there." Then Nerissa hung up.

Mina placed the receiver back on the cradle. She wouldn't mind getting out of London and breathing some fresh air. Even if it did mean she would have to fight for the world again when everything is between a life and death balance. She was already near the brink of death herself with all the coughing fits she had been experiencing.

"Artemis! Start packing! We're going back to Japan!" Mina shouted.

In Germany....

Amy opened her eyes slowly and groaned. She felt tired, numb, weak and sick all over. She slowly sat up and cried out as a piercing pain shot through her head. She reached up and felt sticky copper blood on her head. She rubbed her eye free of dry blood and sighed as she leaned against her couch. She looked around and almost screamed at all the wreckage around her apartment. The ceiling had cracks all over and some of it had fell around her, thank goodness not on top of her.

She stood up shakily and made her way to the kitchen. She found a bottle of water and slowly began to wash her wound. Then she found her first aid kit and quickly rubbed an ointment on the nasty cut and wrapped the bandages around her head. She wished her friends were around to comfort her. She sure felt pretty hopeless right then. Alone in her apartment while everything was falling apart. It wasn't safe.

Suddenly a soft beeping noise caught Amy's attention. "Huh?" She stumbled through the kitchen and followed the noise to her bedroom. She worked her way through all the things that had fallen and reached her closet. The beeping got louder. She pulled the closet door open and fell to her knees. She brought out the trunk where she kept all her old things and lifted the lid. Her Mercury communicator was going off like crazy.

Amy picked up the communicator and pressed the little blue button. "Hello?" she said in a cracked voice. She cleared her throat. "Who is this?"

"Amy? Are you all right? We tried calling you but the phone line is dead. We heard about the earthquake in Germany," Helen's familiar voice said.

"Helen? Yes, I'm all right. A little cut and bruised but I'm fine. What's going on?" Amy asked, getting right down to business.

"Amy, we need you back in Japan. We have to reach Serena. The end of the world is coming soon and all scouts have to be together and prepare for it. We have to stop it," Helen's voice said worriedly.

Amy nodded. "I understand. I'll get a flight to Japan as soon as possible. If not I'll transport myself there with my power."

"That's what Mina said. All right, see you in Japan." Then Helen was gone.

Amy sighed and leaned against the door frame of her closet. It looked like getting that Ph.D. was a long way away. She had to save the world first.

In Boston, America....

Lita Kino groaned as she waded through the thigh high water that had flooded into her third story apartment. There had been heavy rains in Boston but that was usual. Then suddenly a really bad storm hits, all rivers are clogged and a flood happens. Lita was just grateful that she lived high enough so that the water didn't ruin everything in her apartment like the apartments in the first and second floor.

She made her way to the phone and picked it up. The line was dead. She slammed it back down angrily and sighed. What was she going to do? She would have to leave and then come back later after the water level went down and cleaning up could begin. But how was she going to leave? The water was far too high and she could just drive to the airport. The whole flood was unexpected.

A small beeping noise caused her to look up in confusion. Where was that noise coming from? Lita began to move around her apartment as she searched out the sound. It didn't sound like her beeper. She knew her beeper was probably flooded with water.

The beeping noise got louder as Lita walked closer to her bedroom. She pushed the door open and waded through the water to reach her dresser drawer. Suddenly she knew was beeping like crazy.

"My communicator!" She took a deep breath and dove underwater as she reached the last dresser drawer and pulled it open with all her strength against the pressure of water. She searched around and finally came up with her old communicator. She never knew it was water proof.

Lita quickly surfaced as air was starting to get short. She leaned against the dresser, breathing hard as she pushed her wet hair out of her face. She pushed the green button. "Hello?"

"Lita, I'm so glad you remembered the old communicator. What's happened? I couldn't get through with the phone," Amy's worried voice said. Wasn't she in Germany?

"We just had a flood," Lita reported. "The phone lines are down and people are starting to evacuate."

"My goodness," Amy gasped. "It's hell all over the world. There was a horrible earthquake over here in Germany, strange hail began to fall in France, the pollution level in England has risen dangerously high, and now Boston has a flood. I hear there was a hurricane in Cuba and tornadoes all over the place."

"That's horrible. What's going on, Amy?" Lita asked. She waded over to her closet and pulled it open. She searched out for a jacket that wasn't wet and wrapped it around her soaked body. She was starting to get cold.

"The end of the world, obviously," Amy sighed. "I just got a call from Helen and the Outer Scouts, Jennifer has been told that the end of the world is near and we have to try and stop it."

"All right. What kind of monster is it this time? Is it from the Dark Moon?" Lita asked.

"No, this time it doesn't involve any kind of evil that wants to take over the world. This time we're facing off with Mother Earth from what I'm guessing. Helen wasn't very specific on how the world is ending but I've watched the news and this is what I've come up with."

"You've got to be kidding me!" Lita exclaimed.

"It looks like the world has finally died on itself but we have to try and stop it. There's the future that we have to save."

"How do we fight tornadoes, earthquakes and floods? Amy, this is crazy."

"I know it is but we have to try and find a solution to all these natural disasters. We're all going back to Serena. Get a flight out of Boston and hurry to Japan. The scouts must be together through this."

"Okay, Amy. Whatever you say."

"Thank you, Lita. See you in Japan. Oh! And don't forget to tell Darien," Amy said. Then she signed off.

Lita fixed the communicator around her right wrist and waded out of her bedroom. She would have to go and find Darien and tell him what was going on. He didn't have a communicator like all of the other scouts and all the phone lines were dead so she would have to go in person. Thank goodness he lived in the same apartment complex, only one floor up.

Lita opened her front door and waded out of her apartment. She slowly made her way down the hall to the staircase and collapsed on it. She was so tired from walking through water. But she gathered up all her energy and started up the stairs. Half way up she felt tired again.

"I can't go on like this." Lita sighed as she sat down. She stuffed her hands into the pocket of her jacket and was startled to find her transformation stick in there. She looked at it and smiled. Then she stood up and held it up in the air.

"Jupiter Crystal Power!" She quickly transformed into Sailor Jupiter and was happy to find that her strength had returned to her. She quickly ran up the stairs and down the hall. It was dry since the water didn't got that high. When she reached Darien's door she transformed back to Lita and stuffed her transformation stick back into her pocket. She knocked on the door waited for Darien to answer the door.

The door opened and Darien stood there, a tired look on his face.

"Lita?" Darien Shields said, confused.

"Look, Darien, we need to go back to Japan," Lita said quietly. "Can I come in?"

"Sure." Darien stepped aside and Lita walked in. She sat down on a chair and shivered slightly. She hated being cold. "The world is coming to an end, again. We need to go back to Japan and fix things."

"How's it ending?"

"Floods, earthquakes, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes. The world is dying on itself and we have to try and stop it. I know, it sounds crazy but we have to face off with Mother Nature and try to stop the ending of the world," Lita said quickly. "There's also pollution. In England, people are dying from this sudden pollution fog that's wrapped around London. Poor Mina, I hope she's okay."

Darien nodded. "All right. I'll try to get a flight for us."

Lita stood up and smiled. Then she left the apartment. She had to pack for Japan. But what was she going to pack? Her all things were soaked. Lita walked down the stairs and headed back to her apartment to at least try and find some things that weren't soaked from the flood.

In the Mountains of Japan....

Raye walked into her room immediately heard a soft beeping noise. She frowned and walked over to her dresser. She pulled it open and saw that her communicator was lighting up. No one had used it in years. Why were they using it now?

"Hello?" Raye asked. "Who's this?"

"You know, it's a good thing you brought this thing with you. Your mountain temples have no phones," Lita's voice said over the communicator.

"Lita!" Raye smiled. It was nice to here from an old friend. She had only been able to communicate with her friends through letters since there were no phones in the temple. "What's up?"

"The end of the world. Raye, you need to go back to Tokyo. There's an emergency scout business."

"But I have my training as a high priestess to finish," Raye protested. "They're not going to be happy once they learn that I'm going to leave. I have to have a good reason."

"I think the world ending is enough," Lita exclaimed. "Look, Raye, I'm not Serena where I can come up with a good insult but you have to stop thinking about yourself. I know you thought life had ended as a scout but it just begun. The world is going to die from natural disasters and pollution. We're going to have to try and stop it before the world is destroyed and the future is nothing."

Raye sighed. "I understand. All right. I'm going to Tokyo."

"Thank you, Raye." Then Lita signed off.

Raye's shoulders slumped. Again her life has been put on hold to save the world. She turned and walked out of her room. She would have to talk to her masters and hope they understand.

In Tokyo, Japan....

Serena slowly sat down on her white couch and looked out the window. It had stopped raining hard a few days ago and now it was nice and dry. Evening was starting to blanket Tokyo and a full moon was appearing as Serena thought about all the odd things that had been happening lately. A strange diseases in Africa was killing most of the animals such as elephants, lions, and antelope. Including humans. London's pollution was getting so bad that Serena was fearing for Mina. She didn't want her friend to get sick from bad air.

Scientists had found that many old oil drums that had been thrown into the ocean were beginning to open up and pollute the waters, killing everything that touched it. Toxic waste was starting to surface after so many years of being buried by evil companies too cheap to get rid of it properly. People exposed to it were dying from cancer and all sorts of horrible diseases.

It looked like the whole world was dying away slowly. She sighed and looked down at her hands. A small diamond ring was on her left hand ring finger. She missed Darien. She wished that he was there beside her. Twenty-one, twenty-two in a few more months. She hoped Darien would be able to come home for her birthday.

Standing up from the couch, Serena walked into her bedroom and went to bed. She had to go to work tomorrow and needed to be fresh and ready for anything the kindergartners had for her.