Time of Corruption
by DarkPluto4
DarkPluto4@aol.com
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Chapter 4 - Abandon Destiny?

Author's Note: Gotta read the previous chapters.  And if you're bored,
ACTION
IS COMING.  I PROMISE.  In the last chapter, we stopped when Pluto can't
keep
up the debate.

        Pluto broke down and fell on the bed, crying and sobbing.  A new
rain
of tears covered the bed and the pillow again.  She never did cry often, but
no one had ever seen her when she did.  She never let anyone.  She was
supposed to be the calm, placid, serene, almost stony, and emotionless
Pluto,
always composed and reserved.  But she could not handle this pain.
        A strong hand pulled her up.  It was the man.
        "What do you want?  Don't you think you've done enough damage
tonight?" she snarled. "I'm friendless and I have nothing left in the
world."
        "You still have me.  That's why I came.  I'm your friend," said the
man as tenderly as ever.
        " *Right*.  For pity's sake, I don't even KNOW you, even though
strangely, you seem to know me too well."
        "I have a proposal to make with you," he said.
        "A proposal?" she said.
        "Yes, but before we start, give me your hand," he ordered.
        She stared at him suspiciously for a second, but shrugging, held out
her thin, tear-stained hand to him.  He held her.  Suddenly, strong pulses
of
pain fell through her and she collapsed on the floor.
        Weakly, she stood up.  "What was that for????" she screamed in fury,
whipping her Time Staff up and ready to attack.
        "I'm SO sorry!" the man gasped apologetically and immediately ran
into the kitchen and came back with a kit.  He took a dampened cloth and
moistened her forehead and began massaging her.
        "Don't you ever try that again unless you want a seriously beating,"
warned Pluto.  "I'm not the most violent one on the team, but I'm certainly
not mild, especially when I'm in as bad and bitchy of a mood as I am in
right
now."
        She had recovered.  But?but something was different.  She could feel
it.  She felt?so?different.  Something had changed in her.  She could feel
inside her?the hot, vengeful streaming of her blood and the hate inside
her?the hate that had always been there.  It was growing and growing and
battling fiercely with the good inside her.  The battle had always raged.
Chaos was everywhere in people.  But her good had always been able to lock
up
the Chaos, and rarely did it bother her except when she saw the Queen and
the
daughter and Endymion.  But now, the evil, the Chaos?it was raging out of
control.
        'No!  I am a Sailor Scout!  I stand for all the good and justice in
the world!  It is my duty to help preserve the Universe!'
        'Don't you think you've suffered enough as it is helping the
Universe
against a bunch of people who say they're your friends and in reality could
care less about you?'
        'They do care!  They are my friends!  They have suffered as much as
I!'
        'Yeah, right, so why do they never visit you?  Why do they not know
anything about your suffering?  Why do they neglect you on your BIRTHDAY and
many other of the social gatherings?'
        The fights raged on inside her.
        "STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed.
        "Setsuna?  Pluto?  Sailor Pluto?  Puu?  Are you okay?"  the man
asked.
        "Don't you EVER call me Puu.  No one calls me that?except Small
Lady," the name was said so quietly it was barely audible.
        "Are you well enough to proceed?" he asked, showing some concern.
        "I'm FINE," she muttered.
        That was encouragement enough.  "Good.  I have a proposal to make.
A
plot for revenge.  A chance for you to punish your enemies and all those who
have hurt you and all the Sailors who are in league against you,"
        She cut him off.  "ALL the Sailors???" she cried, her eyes widening.
        "Why, of course.  You are the one with control over time.  The only
one," he explained.
        "What?  I'm the only Soldier with control over time?" she said,
astonished.
        "Of course.  Why else would there be no other sailors to take over
watch over the Gates of Time and allow you to have free time?  There *IS*
only one Gate of Time, you know.  And that is the one you watch over every
day.  Now, I have a plan, a plan that will make you stronger than you can
ever imagine - strong enough to destroy your enemies and receive the man you
love and allow you to live a happy life,"
        Pluto was silent.  "And what's in it for you?"
        "Your friendship," he smiled.
        "Hah.  Very funny.  You think I'm stupid, don't you?" she said
wryly.
        "Ok, ok.  Fine.  But there is a condition?I will provide you with
all
the power necessary to capture THIS system for yourself and wreak revenge on
those who have wronged you.  But you must do something for me in return," he
announced.
        "What?" Pluto looked at him warily.
        "The rest of the universe must be mine," he stated.
        "Oh no!  You're one of those people after the universe.  I should
kill you right here," she said, gripping her Time Staff.
        "I am, I don't deny it.  But you get the Sol Solar System, the Moon
Kingdom, and the one love you've ever had.  And much more power than you
could ever imagine," he replied.
        "So if you're so powerful as to be able to give me enough power to
take over this solar system and the rest of the galaxies and the Universe,
then why don't you take it over yourself?" she challenged.
        "I have my reasons.  Besides, you being a Sailor too, the other
Sailors will hesitate to openly challenge and kill you.  And it allows you
to
get a good start at first just by shocking them so much by turning against
them.  The surprise at the beginning will give you a great advantage," he
smiled.  "Do you accept?"
        Pluto was silent.  Here was the opportunity to escape the Gates of
Time, to live a life she had always wanted to live.  Here was the
opportunity
to revel in the feelings of vengeance that had lived in her so long.
        But she was a Sailor.  She was born a Sailor.  Her destiny was to be
the good in the Universe.  To protect her Queen, to protect the universe
against evil.  She was to fight for justice, for peace, for the Good in the
world.  By succumbing to this charming man, she was to destroy her destiny
and work against all she had fought so devoutly for in life.  It was to
abandon her destiny, to abandon the future she had battled so hard for.  It
was to betray all her friends, all the people she cared for.  In a sense, it
was betraying the person she had become.
        Or once cared for.  Or all the people she thought were her friends.
She would be avenging all the days she had spent in misery and depression.
It would be the day she would come back and show them she was still strong.
It was the day she could shake off the life that was so burdening and
confining.  As for destiny, she was tired of it.  Destiny had ruined her
just
as much as the Gates had.  And the person she had become?  She seemed on the
outside as faithful as a scout as ever, but she could not deny the other
half
of her - the darkness in her.  Yes, all the rage and fury and resentment and
bitterness.  They were as much her as the good side of her was.
        She could let go of her duty, of her destiny.  She could let the
evil
within her flourish and for the first time, conquer over her good.  She
could
be the evil lurking behind that beautiful face and the large, soulful,
scarlet eyes.

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