For those waiting, this is part two of ORC.
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Operation: Reality Check
A Sailor Moon/Reality Jumpers FanFic
By Roehl Sybing
Last time, on O:RC....
A figure of the past, Lisa, enters the scene. She once (and maybe she still
does) had a crush on the missing Jumper, Jake Tyler. In fact, she is the
first to notice that Jake is still alive when he enters into her dreams.
Lisa must tag along with the Jumpers/Scouts team to take out an abandoned
military complex where Jake is held. However, the always-infamous Queen
Beryl has a few surprises planned.
"And now, the continuation..."
Episode 13b: Shadows of the Past
(sub-chapter two)
This place was formerly known as Phoenix, Arizona. Formerly. In the first
months of the U.S. Border Wars between the West and the East, Phoenix was one
of the first cities to fall. Few buildings have been extremely lucky to
remain standing. Currently, there is a cease-fire order and most areas of
the war zone formerly called the United States have been evacuated.
One of the buildings left standing is the once-famous forty-eight floor
Lincoln Reconassiance/Intelligence Military Building Complex. For some
reason, it seems awfully busy the past few days. In fact, some say the
cease-fire was ordered because of the movements inside the building.
Suspicious, the military on both sides of the Dividing Borderline have sent
whatever few aircraft each side has left to view the activity inside the
building. But anyone or anything that has come within thirty feet of the
building was blown up or torn apart. Washington and Los Angeles are looking
for answers, but they aren't getting any.
The people inside the building do not care. They're setting traps, but it's
not set for the West or the East. It is set for two teams unknown to the
participants in the war, the Sailor Scouts and the Reality Jumpers.
The building's main lobby. A portal opened in the ceiling of the large room,
and out of it came nine kids who fell flat to the ground.
"Ow," Sailor Moon said.
"C'mon, guys, get up," said Chris who was still on the ground.
At that moment, all nine heard the sound of guns loading. They looked up in
the direction of the building's entrance and saw fifty men pointing weapons
at them.
"HEY, GET UP!" shouted Chris.
In a second, the team of nine got on their feet and ran further towards the
splitting hallways of the building. In that same second, every weapon went
off, causing major damage to the lobby. One weapon managed to hit Lisa's
shoe. Fortunately, the bullet didn't hit her foot, but was one small notch
off. But it caused her to fall, forcing her to crawl out of sight from the
gunfire.
Lisa dragged herself to the opening on her left. She leaned herself onto a
wall pointing away from the enemy and tried to catch her breath. She peeked
out to see that the fifty gunmen were still firing non-stop. Lisa jumped up
when Kim tapped her on the shoulder. Kim handed her gun and shouted, "You
gonna use this or not!?"
She took the gun, pointed, and fired. As flames came out of the gun, Lisa
quickly turned away. After a few seconds, the gunfire stopped.
"Did we get them?" they all thought. Lisa looked back and still noticed that
the enemy was still there. Again, they fired off their weapons, and Lisa put
her head out of sight.
"They're supposed to be gone!" she screamed.
Sailor Moon stood up and said, "Here, let me try." She took her tiara and
shouted,
"MOON TIARA....MAGIC!"
The tiara flew across the lobby and took out the gunmen in an instant. The
gunfire stopped for good.
"You have to aim," Sailor Moon said proudly.
"Oh, be quiet," Lisa replied. "You gonna get your headpiece or not?"
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In another room, there stood Jake, taking out his anger on a doorknob.
"C'mon, you stupid door!" Jake shouted as he bounced back and forth holding
the doorknob in the hopes that the door would unlock.
Suddenly, someone behind him appeared out of nowhere. This time, it wasn't
Queen Beryl, but a man dressed in tight black clothing. Jake recognized him
from the short battle with him last Monday.
The man said, "You're not so tough without your mirror, are you?"
"You going to kill me now?" Jake replied.
"Not right away. We were just wondering how long you were going to be
attacking that doorknob over there."
"I'll get out of here, I swear!"
"Well, we'll make sure that never happens." The man disappeared from the
room, leaving an exhausted Jake still attempting to open the door.
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Mike handed Lisa a spare stun gun, and said, "We'll split up, just one-man
teams. Search the entire building, and don't use the elevators if there are
any; take the stairs. Find Jake, we regroup back here in twenty minutes.
OK, go."
The team of nine split up in all directions down the winding hallways of the
first floor.
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Sailor Moon took a stariway up to the second floor. As she walked down the
hall, she came across a door on each side of the hallway. "Which one should
I go through?" she thought. When she opened the door to the left, the door
fell off, causing it to fall through a huge hole in the floor. Sailor Moon
heard a loud thud once the door hit the first floor.
She looked down, saying, "Ack! Not that one, I guess..." Sailor Moon turned
around and opened the other door. She stepped through the opening, not
noticing there was a hole in the floor in that room as well. As Sailor Moon
fell, she grabbed onto the floor where the opening was and hung onto it.
"Great! What do I do now?" Sailor Moon looked down, noticing the twenty
feet drop to the bottom. She screamed as loud as she could, "HELP! SOMEBODY
GET ME OUT OF HERE!!"
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Mike kept on searching throughout the first floor. He peeked into empty
rooms and tried not to make any noise walking down the corridors.
"Freeze," someone said behind Mike. Mike turned around and saw another man
holding a gun. He put his hands up, saying, "You're not going to use that,
are you?"
"Just come along with me and you won't get h--"
"VENUS CRESCENT BEAM...SMASH!"
Luckily, Sailor Venus was behind the man. The beam knocked him to the
ground.
"Thanks," Mike said as he put his hands down.
"No problem."
Mike walked up to the fallen enemy and checked for a pulse, "Hmm, you
flatlined him..."
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Kim inspected the eighth floor and found a radio in one room. With a bit of
curiosity, she turned it on and scanned a few channels. She was able to pick
up a conversation.
"Is this *bzzt*nel secured?" one man said.
"Yes *crackle* is, sir," another replied.
"Good, prepare our bomber. I want a bomb dropped on that bui*bzzt* within
the hour."
"But sir, there are people in there!"
"Yeah, no doubt *bzzt* the eastern forces. Is that clear?"
"*crackle*, sir! Give us twenty-five minutes!"
Kim thought, "They must be talking about this building! Hmm..." She scanned
the channels again and picked up another conversation.
"It is no secret the western *bzzt* are up to something in that building!"
"What do you suggest we do?"
"What else? Activate our *crackle*ground explosive device immediately!"
"But s-sir...*bzzt*"
"Are you questioning me?"
"No sir!"
"Then set it! Twenty-five minutes!"
"*crackle*....yes sir!"
Kim became more terrified, "We're in BIG trouble!"
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On the fourteenth floor, Sailor Mercury checked out the large communications
room. It was filled with monitors and computers, but she didn't notice an
infrared sensor still functional on both sides of the room. When she crossed
the invisible light between the two sensors, a laser weapon next to one of
the sensors activated silently and fired an energy beam. Sailor Mercury was
able to notice it in the corner of her eye, but couldn't react fast enough.
Fortunately, out of nowhere, Chris ran and pushed Sailor Mercury out of the
way, leaving him to take the beam. The two were lifted off the ground as the
beam hit his shoulder. When they landed, he said, "Ow.....I was here before
you, you know...."
Sailor Mercury replied, "Thanks."
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For the past five minutes, you could hear Sailor Moon scream throughout the
second floor, "HELP!!" She was still hanging onto the second floor, trying
not to look at the long drop below her. But she couldn't help it. When she
looked once more, she became frightened and her hands slipped. The second
she fell, someone grabbed her by the hand. Sailor Moon looked up and saw
Jackie trying to lift her up.
"How did you manage to fall into that hole? You blind or something?"
"You don't have to comment, you know!" Sailor Moon replied.
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One man, armed with a gun, walked down the twentieth floor. He opened the
door to a room and saw Jake pointing a gun directly at him.
"Think about it," Jake said, trying to catch his breath.
The man took his gun, but Jake was faster. He fired a shot to the head, and
killing him. Now the door was open. As Jake walked out, he said, "Hey,
thanks," to a second dead body in the room.
Trying his best to walk, Jake limped down the hallway, leaning against the
wall. He had the stolen gun in his hand, pointing away from him so that it
was in front of him.
Lisa was walking down an intersecting corridor, holding the stun gun in both
hands. As she came to the intersection, she saw two hands holding a gun out.
She almost made a noise, but she didn't. Lisa raised her stun gun up in the
air, waiting to strike that person with it.
At that moment, when Jake walked across the intersection, he felt someone had
hit him on the head and then in the back. He fell to the ground very
quickly, face down.
Lisa looked down and used her foot to move the person's body to see who it
was. She was very surprised to see who it was, "Oh no, Jake! I'm so sorry!"
Jake opened his eyes and saw Lisa. "Well, hello to you too," he replied.
"C'mon, get up! We gotta get out of here!"
Jake took his arm and wrapped it around Lisa so that she could help him walk.
They took the stairway down to the first floor. As they almost finished the
flight down the stairs, Jake asked, "So, you really did hear me?"
"Of course I did! That's why I'm here."
"............Thought you'd forget about me, after all that..."
"............"
"Lisa?"
"Look, I'm sorry about what happened."
"No, I'm sorry. It was my fault."
"Your fault?"
"Yeah, I should've never opened my mouth and said...you know."
"Really, it's my fault. Should've never slapped you when you said that.
Fact is, well....um..."
"Yeah?"
"......Forget it. It's not important anymore."
"Lisa?"
"Jake?"
"Look, I...."
As Jake and Lisa got down the stairs to the first floor, they looked at each
other. And, without thought from either one, they got closer and they
kissed. When they could say something, they smiled and said, "Wow."
After a minute, Lisa said, "C'mon, we better get going."
"....Yeah," Jake replied. He leaned against the wall and followed Lisa to
the lobby. Lisa crossed another intersection in the hallway, but Jake wasn't
so fortunate. When he walked across, he was hit in the body with a good
kick. He was knocked to the ground again.
"Heh, got one," Sailor Jupiter said.
Lisa turned around and saw the Sailor Scout leaning over Jake. "Um, Sailor
Jupiter," she said. "Meet Jake Tyler."
"Oops...um, sorry."
Jake tried to stand up, saying, "No problem, ow..."
Sailor Jupiter said, "Well, now that we found what we're looking for, I'd
better go find the others..." She disappeared into a hallway.
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Jake was able to stand on his own as he and Lisa walked into the lobby. But
there was someone standing in the lobby with a sword in hand. It was the
same person in black clothing Jake met up with just minutes ago. "You
again," Jake said.
"You cannot leave," the man replied.
"Oh yeah? You can't stop us."
"Is that a threat?"
"Whatever."
"Well, then...." The man pointed his sword at Jake as Lisa moved out of the
way. Jake moved too as the sword moved in.
During the next few minutes, Sailor Jupiter came back along with the rest of
the crew. They stood next to Lisa, at least ten feet away from the battle.
The Jumpers were watching carefully, including the Scouts, who were too
surprised to say anything.
For ten minutes Jake dodged the man and his sword until Jake leaned against
the wall. The man pointed his sword and thrust it toward Jake. He moved out
of the way again, causing the sword to dig into the wall. As the unknown
person tried to get it out, Jake threw his fist and hit him in the face with
it. He hit him three more times in the face as the man fell to the ground.
Jake pulled the sword out of the wall and looked down on the person on the
floor.
"I don't need a mirror," Jake said as he pointed the sword at him.
As the nine on the side looked, Sailor Venus said, "It can't be, that's,
that's...."
Kim asked, "You know him?"
Sailor Moon didn't respond to Kim, but shouted, "Darien! It's us!
Remember?"
Jake and the person Sailor Moon called Darien turned their heads to see the
group.
"What?" Jake said as he looked at the man on the ground.
"Y-you're....Darien?"
Darien didn't respond as he disappeared out of thin air quickly.
"It's him! It was!" Sailor Moon kept saying.
Sailor Jupiter sighed and added, "Well, looks like he's brainwashed again..."
At that moment, they heard a plane flying overhead just outside the building.
Kim jumped up and shouted, "Uppt....that reminds me, we gotta get out of here
and fast!"
Mike took a TRT device from his pocket and opened up a portal. But it was
too late. A bomb dropped from the fighter plane and exploded on the ground
surrounding the building. At the same time, an explosion occured underneath
the building. Everything was falling apart around the group of ten.
Everyone except Lisa, Jake, and Sailor Moon jumped into the portal at the
same time and disappeared.
"C'mon, Jake!" shouted Lisa as she jumped in as well.
Jake replied, "Yeah, I'm coming!" He looked at Sailor Moon and shouted,
"Serena! C'mon!"
Sailor Moon, still surprised, said, "Yeah....OK..."
The two jumped in just in time before the entire building collapsed to the
ground.
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Monday morning, JFK International Space/Airport. International/SpaceCol
Departures. Jake still had a hard time walking, and so used a wheelchair to
move around. He was with Lisa, who was confirming her boarding pass with a
clerk. After she received her boarding pass, Jake looked up and said, "The
others are waiting at the gate."
Jake followed Lisa to the gate. "You sure you don't want to stick around a
bit longer?"
"I can't, Jake. You know that."
"So you're just going to leave? Like that?"
"Please, don't do this to me."
"Face it, Lisa. You can't make trips like this every weekend. Or every
month. Or maybe even every year. You'll go on without me, I'll go on
without you, right?"
"Why are you doing this, Jake?"
"I don't know, really. But it's true, right?"
"....Yeah, guess you're right..."
The two continued on to the gate where the other eight were at. Just then,
someone from an intercom said, "Eastern AirWays, flight SC3-52G, gate 14,
non-stop service to SpaceCol 3, last call for boarding."
"Well, I guess that's it then," Lisa said to the others.
"You going to come by sometime?" Mike asked.
"I don't know......well, goodbye." She turned and headed for the gate.
"Last chance, Lisa," Chris shouted.
Lisa turned around once more to look at Jake, but kept on walking towards the
gate and disappeared.
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"Insensitive"
Jann Arden
(lyrics edited)
How do you cool your lips after a summer's kiss?
How do you rid the sweat after the body bliss?
How do you turn your eyes from a romantic glare?
How do you block the sound of a voice you'd know anywhere?
Oh, I really should've known by the time you drove me home
By the vagueness in your eyes, the casual goodbyes
By the chill of your embrace, the expression on your face that told me
Maybe you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive
Insensitive
How do you numb your skin after the warmest touch?
How do you slow your blood after the body rush?
How do you free your soul after you've found a friend?
How do you teach your heart to cry? To fall in love again?
Oh, you probably won't remember me, it's probably ancient history
I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you
I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch, I fell too fast, I feel too much
I thought that you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive
(instrumental)
Oh, I really should've known by the time you drove me home
By the vagueness in your eyes, the casual goodbyes
By the chill of your embrace, the expression on your face that told me
Maybe you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive
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After a final look at Lisa walking away, Jake sat back in the wheelchair. He
felt someone's hand on ohis shoulder. He saw it was Serena as she said,
"C'mon, let's get out of here."
"Sure."
The group of nine walked down the hallway to the exit. Kim said, "So, Jake,
how does it feel to be back?"
"Oh, I don't know..."
"What do you mean you don't know?" Jackie asked. "We all thought you were
dead!"
Jake laughed a little, saying, "Oh come on. From the looks of it, Mike,
Mina, it looked like life went on without me, right?"
"What're you talking about?" the two said at the same time.
"Heh. Never mind..."
TO BE CONTINUED....