Episode 1
"Mina Hides a Dark Secret"

"Thank you for coming, please place all trash in the trash receptacles and have a great night."

That was what the usher replied as people began to pour out of the movie, Mina among them. Originally she was supposed to get with the others, to study for the high school exam, but she decided that it was time to be with herself, to unwind and relax.

Artemis told her to be careful on her way back home, how there were dangerous people out there, people with dangerous intentions - intentions that would hurt her.

"Don't worry," she had assured him. "I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself."

Mina's muscles ached, she didn't want to go to the Cherry Hill Temple to meet her friends, she just wanted to get out of her old clothes and slip into a hot bath.

The full moon shone from above, along with all the lights from all the buildings lit up the streets. Mina's hi-heels clicked against the pavement as she walked. She looked at her watch, it was getting late so she turned down a dark alleyway. It was all right, she was a big girl; she could take care of herself.

She tugged on the collar of her sweater, even though it was a chilly night, she was feeling a little warm. She took a deep breath and proceeded down the alley, which was a mistake that she would regret for the rest of her life.

Mina stopped dead in her tracks, as three figures emerged from the shadows - and they didn't look like the kind of guys who'd want to sell her a box of cookies.

She recognized one of them as Rocky, one of the kids from her school. Wearing a T-shirt, sunglasses, and ripped jeans, Rocky looked like street trash to Mina. His two friends that were hanging with him, had the same look of intent in their eyes. Mina recognized one of them as Harvey, or Harv at school, he was a big blob of a man, wearing a T-shirt and jeans - he was massive.

But Mina didn't recognize the third fellow, he was short and lanky, his entire appearance screamed "toad" - right down to the beady eyes.

"Well, well, well," said Rocky. "If it isn't Miss Goody-two-shoes."

"Go away, Rocky," Mina retorted. "I'm not in the mood!"

She tried to walk past him, but Rocky wasn't ready to let it happen.

"You're not going anywhere, Blondie!" And he backhanded Mina across the face, knocking her to the ground.

Harvey gave a deep chuckle, as he watched Mina land on her ass, her body covered in dirt. "Dont mess her up too much, Rocky." He said. "We can have fun with her."

'Fun?' Mina thought to herself, as she slowly got up, with a look of disdain in her eyes. 'I wonder what kind of fun they had in mind.' But in the end, she knew all too well.

Rocky grabbed her by her sweater, and yanked her up to her feet. "Relax blondie," he said soothingly as he pulled her close to him. "You'll enjoy this - I know you will." He gently kissed her on the cheek, his hand went probing down the front of her sweater, his fingers feeling her breast.

The toad-kid couldn't stop giggling like an insane asylum prisoner. "Yeah yeah! Keep it up! Keep it up!" he snickered.

As soon as Rocky's fingers made contact with Mina's nipple, her eyes shot right open and immediately she delivered a swift knee to his groin. He had pulled his hand out of her sweater and grabbed his crotch, moaning in pain, giving Mina the chance to run.

She would have succeeded had Harvey not grabbed her arm with his huge massive hand. "Don't go!" He replied. "Fun's just starting."

Like a cat, Mina took a swipe at the big juggernaut. Harv tossed her aside, where she slammed into a brick wall. Mina hit the wall hard, she cut her lip, blood trickling down her mouth.

Rocky was recovering a little quickly, but his crotch was still a little sore. He limped over to Harvey and smacked him upside the head - or at least tried to. "You idiot! Don't hurt her!!"

"But, Rocky, you saw! She tried to take a swipe at me, the little bitch."

"We need her alive to do a foursome, right here - right now."

Toad-kid cackled. "Yeah yeah yeah! Foursome foursome!"

"But Rocky," replied Harv. "There's only ...." He tried his best to count. "One ... two ... uh ... nineteen .... fifty billion ... uh ..."

Rocky smacked him upside the head. "Don't bother trying to figure it out! I wouldn't want your brain to explode."

Mina didnt look back, she moaned, her whole body ached. "I wasn't aware that he even had a brain," she said. Harv was about ready to pound some more sense into her, but Rocky held him back.

"Wait till I'm dont with her," he told him. "Then you can beat her as much as you like."

An evil smile appeared on Harvey's face. Mina didn't see it, but she could feel it. She knew she was in deep trouble, if only she could turn into Sailor Venus. She could reach into that inner space to get her henshin wand, then she could transform and teach those punks a lesson. But Mina knew she couldn't, because it would be putting her secret identity in jeopardy.

Rocky approached Mina slowly, he began fighting with the belt buckle on his jeans, trying desperately to get them off. She tried to get up to her feet, but a sudden searing pain shot through her body like a current of electricity, she started to moan, the pain was so great she was digging her long nails into the brick wall like it was made of butter.

Rocky smiled, she was finally starting to enjoy it, but when he saw the look in Mina's eyes, he realized that he had made the biggest mistake in his life - as did his friends.

Mina moaned and groaned loudly, her eyes were pure white. She found it difficult to think amongst all the pain, only one thing was building inside her and that was rage - and it was getting bigger.

Her clothing started to shrink on her, then it was realized that she was growing. Her shoes strained to keep together as her feet began to expand, finally the heels snapped due to the weight. Her skirt rode up her waist, until finally it started to tear at the sides of her thighs, ultimately falling to her feet. Her sweater stretched across her swelling chest, stitching gave way, breaking apart and revealing expanding cleavage, the sleeves burst open as her biceps and triceps began growing. Her skin began changing to the color of pure green, her long blonde hair was now completely black.

The 5'5, 115 pound Mina was gone, and in her place, wearing what remained of her clothing was a muscular 7'1, 245 pound green Amazon. Rocky, Harvey, and toad-kid were quaking in their boots, none of them could speak a word.

The creature looked directly at Rocky, and gave him a fierce roar that would have caused any normal man to soil his shorts.

"Wha happened?" Harvey yelled to Rocky. "What is it??"

"I don't know," he answered. "But it doesn't scare me." And with that, he flipped out his switchblade.

He tried to slash at the green goliath, but she grabbed the knife like it was nothing, and crushed it in her bare hand, dropping the broken remains of what used to be his knife.

"She ain't human, Rocky!" shouted the toad-kid. "What should we do now?"

Before Rocky could answer, the monster grabbed him by the jeans and hurled him into an open dumpster. He moaned in pain before finally going into unconsciousness.

Harvey knew that this creature wasn't human, let alone a woman, so he turned her towards him and delivered a hard punch that would have leveled any ordinary human being - only this punch didn't phase her. The creature delivered one of her own power blows, sending the poor boy flying into a nearby brick wall, he too was knocked cold.

She turned to watch toad-kid run for his life, run into a parked patrol car. He told the cops everything that had happened. One of the officers pulled out a flashlight and shone it into the alley, the creature was nowhere to be seen.

The officer went into the alley, he noticed Rocky slowly climbing out of the dumpster, and Harvey slowly getting up, and this creature was no where to be found. All they found were pieces of a sweater and some broken remains of what used to be a woman's black leather pump.

The creature ran through Tokyo, through the shadows, it panted loudly as it ran. The strength slowly started to fade, the rage began to ebb.

It climbed up into an open window of someone's house, and climbed into the bed, it's skin slowly drifted back to it's original peach color, her dark hair brightened to blonde, it then passed out.

Mina woke up from her long slumber, last she remembered was coming out of the movie theatre - the rest beyond there was a complete blur. She slowly sat up, to see Artemis watching from the open window.

"How long have you been there?" She asked.

"I was wondering when you'd get home," he said. "I didn't see you."

Mina scratched her head. "I don't remember, I must have been so tired, that I fell asleep as soon as I got home."

"Still I WOULD have remembered."

"Artemis! No need to be snooty!" She giggled, Artemis had a tendency to act that way.

Artemis however wasn't impressed with Mina's humor. "I worry about you, Mina - even if I am a cat. Now you better get ready, you're supposed to get with the girls for study session at Raye's."

Mina yawned. "Yes, yes, I know! I know!" She began to climb out of bed, Artemis' eyes were open wide - his mouth dropped.

"MINA!!" He exclaimed. "What happened to your clothes?!"

Mina was confused. "What do you mean?" She looked down and gasped in horror.

There she stood in her underwear, her sweater torn beyond belief, both the straps of her bra and waistband of her panties were stretched beyond belief.

"Wha .. wha happened? ... My clothes ..." Mina was shocked.

"How did this happen?"

"I don't know ... why can't I remember?!" Her waistband finally broke as her panties dropped to her ankles. Quickly, Mina recovered and wrapped her sheet around her waist, covering her modesty.

But Artemis did know, he knew the truth and what could have caused this. "I think I know how, Mina." He said. "I've kept this secret from you for a long time now, and I've waited for the right moment to tell you ..."

A sweatdrop appeared on Mina's forehead. "Er ... he-he .. I love you too, Artemis .. but .."

Artemis glared at her. "Hentai no baka!!"

Mina yelped in surprise. Artemis began to calm down and started to explain.

"I've kept this from you for a long time," he said. "That time to tell you is now."

To Be Continued

Artemis reveals to Mina the deep dark secret, how a simple blood transfusion from a Bruce Banner caused her to change into the green goliath. Mina wants to tell her the other scouts, but she believes that curse should be only hers to bear.

Next time, on Sailor She Hulk: Episode 2

"Dark secret - REVEALED"