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A long, long time ago...In the time before times, what we now call "The Bronze Age" in our contemporary story, was a truly terrifying period of history to inhabit. Death and chaos was the norm, it was the law of survival of the fittest at it's peak.Food, livestock and water were scarce, so hard to preserve, that wars where common. Knowledge was even rarer, writing was in a form so primitive, it required massive effort just to make mathematical records that those Ancient Kingdoms needed to stay afloat.But the scariest part of this period, were the leaders of The Ancient Kingdoms.Someone had to allow and encourage all of the violence that took place long ago. The group of individuals in power invented and spread this system for their own benefit.It was the Gods!Didn't you notice?! Have you read the sacred texts of your religion? The Gods displayed there acted like tyrants. Using their divine powers to rule and punish their subjects, to the point they developed Stockholm Syndrome and started adoring their executioners. What a tragedy...The tales you know aren't fiction, they come from "The Bronze Age". Gods exist and they ruled over people, in an absolute monarchy that makes the most treacherous of regimes you find today look like child's play.I, Hermes Trismegistus, was one of them.My role was that of an advisor to the more powerful gods, you may know them by many names. Like Ra, Horus, Zeus, God, etc.I used my mystical abilities. Astrology, alchemy, tarot reading, magic and a high degree of observation and common sense, to devise strategies to keep them ruling for the longest time possible. At that time, they were considerably more powerful than me, not helping them would have meant a assured death.But i eventually grew sick and tired of it.As the God of Information, i got firsthand access at all the sins committed by my rulers and the imitations that our subjects, The Humans, were doing. This endless killing and wide spread suffering couldn't continue.I started employing tree different plans. The first one was to try and convince, in a way that didn't summon the wrath of death to my doorstep, that Humans are not numb sheep. That they were organizing a revolution, dangerous enough to dethrone them if they didn't evolve form these violent ways.My second plan, was to strengthen my relations to The Humans. I was treating them as equals in a fight against the tyrants. I gave them control over fire and teached Humans the craft of writing, astrology and moon cycles, necessary to decipher the dominance of cultivating food, alchemy, strategy, mathematics, and many more of the arts I rule.My third plan, a pretty straightforward one, was to increase my powers to finally surpass the other Gods. Putting all of my trust in Humans would not harbor good results, I needed the strength to face them on my own.Only my first plan, as I so expertly predicted, failed. The Gods were too stubborn to listen, their minds where fixed on prolonging the absolute power they created.But they were also blind, nobody noticed my schemes to overthrow them.Decades passed and I granted me a docile army with a burning passion to stop all wars with a final conflict, together with the perfection of my powers. I, Hermes Trismegistus, achieved immortality after drinking The Elixir!Humans learned well, they recorded the battle that unfolded. You may know these series of conflicts in the present as "The Late Bronze Age Collapse".With my great army, the ones you now know as "Sea Peoples" i started stomping kingdom after kingdom. Zeus, Hades, Horus, Osiris, Anubis, Seth... Nobody stood against me. With each battle won, my army grew stronger and more powerful, our determination to finish this era of tyrants was at it's highest.Unfortunately, we got cocky. The final battle of the war took place at the doorstep of The Nile. Mother of all rivers and deltas, the light of hope for life in the vast Saharan desert, was our doom.Geb, Khonsu and Mercury, the new apprentice replacing my old advisory position, devised a plan to stop me and my soldiers.The final showdown was fierce, our number of troops was equal and each warrior killed on one side, took a life with them to eternal rest.In the end of the conflict, their alliance started to show dominance. Mass panic began in my overconfident warriors, the enemy was in their mind. The thought of loosing the battle drove them to start ignoring my orders. Chivalry charges when the opponents had their spears ready, catapults targeting fast moving soldiers, incomplete battle formations...Even after more than three thousand years, my genius is still ashamed of my biggest military defeat.The only choice I saw at that critical moment was to call a truce with the condition that I would fight the three remaining gods on my own, and that the winner would be called God of Gods, King of Kings.Retreating would have been the smart choice.Geb and Khonsu where clashing with me, my strength was enough to match both of their powers. My whip, reinforced with steel blades, constantly deflected Geb's sword and Khonsu' blasts from her rod. Not even their perfect teamwork of ranged and close combat attacks was a match for me.Well... They did achieve their goal of distracting me from the real danger.In that brief instant of fighting, Mercury finalized a weapon capable of rendering immortality useless, an eternal cage, impossible to break and capable of draining your energy until every single cell of your existence is completely empty. The only thing capable in the whole universe capable of killing me, the immortal being.Entropy Armageddon.Using his prodigious movement, Mercury ran at a speed fast enough to be completely invisible to my eye. In less than an instant, he placed himself behind me and unleashed Entropy Armageddon on me.The pain was unbelievable, that cage was the only time in my life i felt completely powerless. Every part of my body was numb, it was like lifting an object so heavy, that it makes you feel like your strength is non existent.With my last effort and utilizing the shock of the battle to my favor, i called a last order. "Go into hiding my Hermetists! Free me from this prison and together we will take revenge!".Entropy Armageddon, that impossible object, generated fractals with the toughness of steel itself around me, soon everything looked like a kaleidoscope and i lost consciousness for millennia.Once Entropy Armageddon finished caging me, it shrank in size to a cube compact enough to fit your hand, the cube looked like someone had sculpted a perfectly polished onyx into that shape. From the words of my followers, it was so cold to the touch, that freezing water with it was possible.Mercury was completely drained from the effort of unleashing the trap. He collapsed into the ground to never wake up again.Against all odds, my words reached into Geb and Khonsu's heart. They allowed my soldiers to retreat into hiding with my eternal prison, Entropy Armageddon.My subordinates told me that Geb and Khonsu decided to enact a series of drastic measurements to prevent any more power hungry gods to rule Earth like that again. To “prevent another Hermes”.One of the choices was to revive a very select group of gods and link them to The Solar System's planets, to ensure protection against all threats.They also made a magic rule to sharply reduce their powers and link them into two objects called The Silver Crystal for Khonsu and The Golden Crystal for Geb. The revived Gods also had their powers limited, although they were made considerably less powerful than the main Gods to guarantee their rule over The Solar System, truly ironic.The guardian gods would act as a fierce royal guard for both Gods and The Solar System.After that, with a big pain in their hearts that recently discovered love, Khonsu vowed to be permanently exiled to The Moon and Geb to the Earth.To finalize the new beginning, The Gods decided to erase their memories, in an attempt to destroy their sins committed to Earth and Humanity and to prevent a revival of the tyranny.What a bunch of sweet words! Like I would ever forgive them for what they did to me and humanity. Replacing me... Hoping that forgetting the events would undo the damage!Acting as the all pure saviors of the universe, it makes me sick!Neo-Queen Serenity! Endymion! My time to rule has come! I will free humanity from your fake utopia and unleash a punishment on you ten times worse than what you made me go through!I am Hermes Trismegistus and I will enact my revenge!!!
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Somewhere in the 21th Century, in Tokyo. A terrible regime has complete control. It's the worst kind of authoritarianism, the one that hides in plain sight, selling the illusion of freedom and being so effective at hunting dissidents, that nobody dares to speak up.
But this twisted world was blessed to have flowers of hope, flowers determined to make the world shower in eternal spring.
This is the story of one group of these flowers of hope.
"And class, with that final battle in the center of her castle, is how Hermes and his brave group of resistance fighters, ended the tyrannic rule of Neo-Queen Serenity."
The professor, teaching an overly attentive class, ended his passionate speech abruptly. He noticed that one of her students, Hikaru Shizumi a sixteen year old girl with long blue hair that usually covers her eyes, fell asleep in class.
This angered Mr. Furuhon, like few things in life could.
"Miss Shizumi!!!"
His loud screaming was heard from the floors below and above, it was like a military instructor dropped freezing water on one of their tired soldiers.
The shock for Hikaru was so big, she jumped backwards in her chair, falling over and erupting the class with an unstoppable laughter.
Her thoughts were racing, the fear and embarrassment filled her emotions, but Hikaru erupted like a volcano in a fit of anger, improper for such a peaceful young girl.
"Ahhhahh... What the hell was that for teacher!?" And you don't laugh at me, I didn't sleep well last night!"
Hikaru's honest reaction managed to kick some sense into her classmate's heads, stopping their laughing. But the despicable teacher wanted to humiliate her further, he decided to change his script to be the victim.
"Excuses, excuses! You have no right to talk to your teacher like that, due to your poor management skills, you missed the crucial event that lead to the wonderful and free republic we live in!"
"2 hours of detention after class, with an intensive study of The Silver Millennium's dictatorship!"
The young lady had no choice but to comply. Avoiding a more severe punishment was a priority.
"Yes, Mr. Furuhon, I'm sorry."
As she said those words filled with repressed anger, the bell rang, for everyone else it was time to go home.
Her teacher only gave Hikaru 5 minutes of rest inside the class. Soon after, he started an intensive lesson on the crimes of Neo-Queen Serenity and her cult.
She had to battle herself from falling asleep and trying to understand something from Mr. Furuhon's ruthless teaching methods.
By the time the class ended, the twilight was starting. As the pink tones started to dye every building in the industrial city. Crows started cawing and the lights in the street began lighting up. Hikaru began to wander in her thoughts.
Was Mr. Furuhon right? That event was pretty important, how they tricked everyone... But i have the right to rest too, what a jerk, interrupting my sleep just before the bell rang!
Once Hikaru snapped off her train of thought to check the road were she was supposed to cross, terror struck.
The walls of the buildings were filled with menacing graffiti marked with the signs of street gangs. Her lack of sleep backfired even outside the classroom, the exhaustion was enough to disassociate Hikaru from reality, as she took the wrong turn.
Before she could do anything to correct her course, four gang members appeared from opposite ends of the street, surrounding Hikaru.
Soon, the gang members in their slow but intimidating approach, started harassing the poor girl.
"Hey little beauty! Are you lost?"
"Did you miss the bus or were ya looking for us?"
She was absolutely terrified, stuck like a plant in its place, and unable to get any word out of her mouth.
"Are you mute? hahaha... We will be gentile"
The gang members were at a mere two meters from her, five more seconds and tragedy would have struck this innocent person.
But sometimes, fate has better things prepared for us. A serene and stoic voice, with enough authority to make even the mightiest criminal pray for his life, screamed.
"Leave her alone!" The cloaked vigilante, jumped straight at the gang members. In the middle of her stylish fall, she chanted "Mars, Flame Sniper!" and a magical bow with the color of lava appeared with two fiery arrows already ready to deploy. In an instant, the arrows knocked out the two closest gang members to Hikaru with a force strong enough to send them crashing into the wall.
Taking advantage of the surprise attack, the anonymous savior, who already landed in the ground, chanted "Olympus Kick!" while her leg moved at unprecedented speeds straight at the neck of the third gang member, leaving him unconscious.
With a rapid movement, she hit the remaining opponent with an elbow straight to the stomach. And with her free hand, grabbed the grim man with superhuman strength, just enough to send him flying at a light pole, leaving the last gang member completely knocked out.
Then, moving her hand like a candle light waving with the breeze, this savior engraved a moon shaped symbol with fire in the closest wall, marking another person saved.
Like all of that was just a warm up, the cloaked vigilante removed her hoodie, revealing a girl with a royal and benevolent face, but with imposing and direct eyes.
"Are you alright young lady?"
Hikaru, who almost peed herself due to the sheer shock, gave the mysterious girl a surprising but familiar stone cold gaze, enough to startle the expert at talking with her eyes.
She just recognized the vigilante, but where..? Of course! As one of Neo-Queen Serenity's most important terrorists, Sailor Mars, also known as Rei Hino.
In the book that Mr. Furuhon uses to teach, there was a small segment detailing how Rei used her shrine as a cover up to disappear children, later brainwashing them to become loyal followers.
Those twisted teachings were now engraved in Hikaru's mind. Coupled with the panic of her earlier experience, it was enough to bring her back to reality, filled with adrenaline. Without saying a word, she ran away faster than Rei could blink, leaving the dedicated soldier of justice very confused about what happened.
Hikaru ran as fast as an Olympic athlete, not checking her surroundings while running, her clothing and hair got all dirty and scratched up.
She arrived home quite a bit sooner this time, to the point she managed to compensate her late exit from school.
Once she unlocked the door to her house, the shaken up girl gave the impression to her parents of a natural disaster survivor rather than a peaceful high-school student. Her mother was the first one to greet her back.
"Welcome home Hikaru!"
"Oh my dear, your hair, your clothes!"
She rushed straight to her daughter, checking that she was indeed okay. Although her overreaction didn't help Hikaru one bit, relaxing after the hard day was the only priority in her mind.
"Yes Mom, of course I'm okay! I wanted to reach a nice flower, but i fell into some plants while reaching it... Anyway, I'm going to take a bath so talk to you later!"
The young girl distanced herself from her mother and rushed upstairs before she could keep talking.
She grabbed her change of clothes from her room in an instant.
"What's the rush?! I'm not helping you with your hair young lady!"
Her frustrated Mother returned from the bottom of the stairs to the living room, were her husband is.
"What are we supposed to do with this girl, honey?"
"Don't worry that much, if Hikaru really needs our help she will ask us, she is not a little girl anymore"
"Hmm, you're right, our little angel is getting more independent with each day."
In the water, Hikaru usually feels at peace, but this time she felt uneasy, like someone was watching. Her intuition was proven right when she glanced at the window in her bathroom. A silver cat with a bald spot on it's head, shaped like a crescent moon, was looking at her, with a set of strangely human and unsettling eyes.
Oddly enough, both the young girl and the peculiar cat felt at ease in their staring contest, almost like they knew each other from a long time ago. In this trance, to her complete surprise, Hikaru whispered a name unknown to her, "Diana".
The cat widened its pupils and very quickly jumped away from the window, disappearing into the night.
The strange incident calmed Hikaru's doubts. What happened to her with Sailor Mars needed to stay secret, lying to her parents about something so important was necessary.
In another part of the city, in a disorganized two-story apartment building filled to the brim with all kinds of papers, illuminated by a dim desk lamp, a young man with short hair and a skinny appearance was hanging and rearranging a lot of pictures from all possible sources, in a cork-board placed in his wall.
It was a complex diagram that included the pictures of Neo-Queen Serenity and all of her important followers, including the vigilante we just met, Sailor Mars. To the right side, there was a similar diagram with a lot of evil looking faces.
These were mostly government officials, including the four times reelected president, and leader of The Sun Resistance at the top, Hermes Tertius, a man that looked fake due to how unremarkable his appearance is, even with his prodigious charisma during public speaking.
This young man, named Daisuke Hatameku, was murmuring things to himself. "Where are they hiding you, Sailor Moon..."
"Hmm, in the past sixteen years only Sailor Mars was seen fighting."
"Your death's report must be false, but in what building are you?.."
Daisuke, to his misfortune, was not alone. A tall and nearly anorexic girl, dressed in black with stylish and revealing vestments, plus her dazzling dark purple hair, was watching from the roof of the closest building.
With her sharp eyes, she managed to identify herself in one of the pictures that Daisuke hanged. She murmured to herself
"Ohh... You got my picture."
She smirked and jumped to the void, transforming part of her robes into bat wings located at her back, with which she began flying at unprecedented speeds straight to the outskirts of Tokyo, entering inside an abandoned church.
In the center of the church, she chanted
"Hermes Trismegistus, the thrice greatest! I summon you!"
A dark blue smoke started appearing at the place the most prominent stained glass previously decorated.
The witch felt fear when she saw the smoke and immediately knelt down in his direction.
An old man with short white hair and a long garibaldi beard, with imposing dark robes adorned with golden stitching, appeared levitating in the lotus position, just were the smoke was.
His pale blue eyes had the stain of mischief and experience, with an imposing voice he directed himself to the vampire.
"What are your reports, Agatha? You came here a day early. Keep them brief, as I am very preoccupied these days"
"Master, it's just one report. I found a journalist that is very close to uncovering the conspiracy relating Silver Millennium, he suspects us directly. I need your help"
"Did you seriously asked me that question? With just one thing to report? You are lucky to have my respect, Agatha, otherwise…
Hermes gave a stare filled with anger to the vampire. Then, his facial expression relaxed and he signaled with his right hand that it was her turn to speak.
"Sorry Master, but he is also spreading the word of his investigation inside his newspaper's building. His death requires to make it look like an accident inside his home, to destroy all of his research."
Hermes stayed silent for a second, he understood the seriousness of the situation. A wonderful idea came to his head.
"Listen carefully Agatha, as the stars indicate, tomorrow night, crash a truck carrying fuel at his apartment building. An accident of that magnitude will also cover up any attempt from the newspaper at publishing his research."
"And don't forget to add red herrings at his apartment." "
Yes master, that's a truly brilliant idea. You will read the news at the newspaper, am i correct?"
"Of course, those pathetic reporters are already better at your job, now go!"
Agatha, with no other choice, flew away with her battered pride.
The next morning, Hikaru followed her lonely routine to school. She was a lot more observant than other times.
Not only did she notice the beautiful cherry trees, just a few weeks away from flowering, but the silver cat that appeared at her bathroom window, was following her during the trip to school.
At one point, the cat, that was walking on the edge of a wall, jumped at the her face, and it started clawing away with all the strength a small cat can display.
"Kyahhh!!! Get away you filthy demon!"
Hikaru quickly grabbed the cat by its neck and she trowed it at one of the cherry trees. That mysterious cat landed with a great acrobatic movement and hissed at her, almost like it was trying to communicate, immediately after, the cat disappeared with some quick evasive movements.
Why is my luck so horrendous these days?
Hikaru thought, as she had no choice but to arrive at school with her face all clawed up.
Once at school, she could feel the whispering of her classmates making fun at her for falling asleep in class and now coming to school looking like she tried to separate two street cats fighting each other.
Fortunately for Hikaru, it was Friday! That means she had permission to go to the arcade in the closest boulevard!
Once school was finished, she rushed straight to the arcade.
Today, she chose to play the now retro Sailor V game, renamed Sparkling Beauty to comply with the regulations in place by The Sun Government, to avoid reviving the trauma the poor people affected by Silver Millennium faced.
Hikaru was a beast at the arcade. The levels looked like tutorials with how simple they seemed and in a few hours, with a crowd forming behind her, she defeated the final boss, getting a high score!
A cute sky blue pen, with Mercury's symbol engraved in it, dropped out of the machine as a reward.
The public started cheering.
"Hi-ka-ru! Hi-ka-ru! Hooray!"
The shy girl blushed a bit and checked her phone to see the hour. It was already 7:00PM! Her parents would kill her!
Hikaru excused herself from the celebrations and once out of the arcade, she arrived just in time for another unfortunate situation.
A medium truck carrying flammable fuel was driving at top speed in the neighborhood's boulevard, maybe the brakes were broken?
Suddenly, a purple glow appeared in its tires, they all were stopped at the same time with that spell, making the truck tumble to its side.
Sparks started flying in all directions from the scraping of the truck's cargo with the concrete, a strident, screeching sound dominated the provoked accident. Without loosing speed, it went straight to the corner of a two-store apartment building in the corner of the boulevard, crashing and igniting all of the fuel in a gigantic explosion that made the night look like day.
Panic ensued, every citizen close to the explosion started fleeing however they could from the quick spread of the growing blaze. Such an explosion is capable of making the bravest veteran remember their worst days.
Hikaru was outside the range of the blast. With a quick reaction she crouched covering her head and ears, protecting herself from the deafening explosion. When she looked again, the fossil fire was beginning to eat away the apartment building.
Sailor Mars very quickly arrived at the scene, with the hopes of using her pyromancy to save the trapped victims in their own home. But she was intercepted by Agatha, who appeared from the darkness inside the entrance of the building, that looked like hell in earth.
"Not so fast Mars. You are not saving anyone today."
The stoic soldier of justice made a quick choice, deciding to getting rid of Agatha to save the people.
But the nefarious vampire was expecting Sailor Mars' action.
Before she could run close to her, Agatha bounced at the same time she deployed her wings, gaining an unprecedented acceleration. She directed one of her transformed claw shaped hands straight at Mars' neck, that she miraculously stopped using both hands and all of her strength.
All of this was part of the plan of Hermes, making Sailor Mars feel helpless fighting his subordinate, while watching the people burn, just to get blamed in press for the attack.
Agatha, with her hands firm in Mars' sailor uniform, started dragging her across the sky, gathering enough altitude to guarantee death. But Sailor Mars fought worse, she prepared a talisman and chanted "Akuryo Taisan!", throwing it at her face.
This made all of the muscles of the vampire freeze in place, leaving Mars free reign to climb at her back, from where she shouted "Burning Mandala!" lighting in fire the wings of Agatha.
Right before their impact with the ground, the soldier of justice evaded it by jumping and landing with an acrobatic roll.
As this fighting was happening, the fire kept growing out of control, without intervention it would consume the whole building. Hikaru felt helpless, she really wanted to save those people but it would mean certain death for her.
"Hikaru! Your forehead! quickly, shout: Mercury Power, Make Up!"
This startled the young girl for a second, and she let out a scream
"Kyaaah!!!"
"Ehhh, sure... But did you just talk!?" "Yes, my name's Diana. There's no time to lose, shout it now!"
"Mercury Power, Make Up!"
A blue light quickly enveloped Hikaru, transforming her clothes into a sailor uniform with light blue accents. This felt oddly familiar to her, like she had done it thousands of times in the past. A sensation of peace and security inundated her feelings.
Once her transformation finished and before Hikaru could understand what happened, Diana rushed to boss her around.
"Hikaru, you are the new Sailor Guardian, that rules over water, wisdom and intelligence, Sailor Mercury! Now summon your weapon and save the people!"
Diana's speech left Hikaru stunned.
She quickly glanced at her new clothes and looked back at the cat. Her following screech, quite stronger than the first one, could be heard blocks away. Even at Mars and Agatha's location, making Rei worry even more, as she recognized that noisy voice.
"Ahhh, nooooo! You turned me into a terrorist you pest!"
The poor girl took the news badly, all she could think of were the lessons of Mr. Furuhon, where they studied the various crimes of Ami Mizuno, the previous Sailor Mercury, including the distributing indoctrination computer programs she programmed. Now she was one of them! Hikaru's worst nightmare turned true.
"Sailor Mars will explain you later, get your senses together!"
"Right now those people need help, and you are the only one who can do it!"
Diana's logical words resonated with Hikaru's inner feeling of wanting to help the trapped people.
She had to reunite all her courage to stop her body from shaking with fear.
"W-what should i do..."
"Listen! Chant this and your weapon will appear: Mercury Dew Breeze!"
Hikaru obeyed and an open metallic tessen (Japanese war fan), with shimmering blue glimmers and Mercury's emblem engraved in the center of the weapon, appeared in her left hand.
"But... You said i was the guardian of water! How's a fan going to help here?" "You can create and shoot blades of water from it you dummy... Now, aim at the base of the fire blocking the door and chant: Mercury Mist Blade!"
While doing a horizontal motion with her weapon in hand, Hikaru chanted it and a big, crescent moon shaped fluorescent blast of water came out of the tessen straight at the fire, extinguishing it.
Hikaru's face lighted up and a wide smile appeared at her mouth. It was like a children watching snow for the first time.
"Great! Now repeat it inside the building and save everyone!"
The new soldier of justice and her bossy cat entered the endangered building. Quickly, the burning smell of smoke and the abrasive heat halted their advance, even with Hikaru's efforts at putting out the surrounding fires.
"Quick, deploy your Mercury Goggles. Just think in shielding your eyes"
She thought that and instantly, the goggles appeared at the girl's eyes. They had a fancy interface with lots of different measurements, most of which indicating grave danger.
"Now, use the scanning mode and open a path. I will help you from outside, if you need it."
"The goggles have a communicator built in! See you!"
Diana quickly rushed out of the building, leaving the nervous but focused Sailor Mercury to finish the job.
Hikaru quickly got the hang out of her goggles, finding and opening the path for an old lady, a young mother with her child on arms and a group of university students.
Those young men pointed Sailor Mercury to the apartment of one of their friends, Daisuke, telling her that he was probably trapped there.
She thanked them and rushed to the scene and indeed, they were right.
The young reporter was surrounded by flames, his small house, filled to the brim with papers, made it a sarcophagus. With great effort, our heroine made her way to Daisuke.
He was hiding in the bathtub holding a box filled with research like a mother holding her infant child.
"Daisuke! Talk to me! I'm getting you out of here!
The barely conscious man only could say a very faint "thank you" to her savior. Both made their way outside, just before the building collapsed in a grim fireball.
Meanwhile, Sailor Mars and Agatha's fight reached its climax.
The powerful vampire, even with her burnt wings, was filled with anger and was decided to fulfill her mission.
She went all out with her claws at Mars, that with great skill dodged all of them, counterattacking with a powerful Olympus Kick to her stomach that sent Agatha away from her.
The worried vigilante, tired of loosing time with this threat, took advantage of the distance and recoil that her enemy was dealing with, to chant "Mars Flame Sniper!".
With her bow ready, she aimed at her head, making Agatha's body erupt with flames, killing her. In the end, the only one who burned to a crisp was the pyromaniac who caused the fire.
Sailor Mars quickly ran at the direction of the building, only to see that it was all over. The people were safe and a familiar figure was standing with Diana, watching the building get turned into ashes.
With tears of joy on her face, Rei whimpered a name she didn't say in a long time. "Ami!"
Hikaru turned, like someone was calling her, but it wasn't her name. The two guardians exchanged glances, in complete silence and admiration of each other, their teamwork saved lives.
Only Diana's screaming managed to bring them back to reality. "The police is coming! We need to run! Noooow!"