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Note From Author: Hi, I wrote this one real quick in my Computer class. We had yet another assignment wherev we had to write a short story. This one had to have Voice Registration Password Thingies in the main plot line.
I wrote it quick and didn't have the time, or room, to really explain what was going on. Hope ya like it!
Disclaimer: The characters Serena, Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, and Tuxedo Mask are not mine. I borrowed them from the wonderfully-wonderful Naoko Takeuchi and the names are by DiC. The story though, is completely mine.
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It was dark. Quite dark. Just a glimmer of light
from Sailor Moon's Silver Crystal and from the Sailor's own tiaras lighted the way.
They were in a small, long, dark tunnel which seemed
to stretch on forever. The walls were smooth and
cold, possibly made out of some well-polished metal of
some kind.
The whole group was there, Sailor Moon, Jupiter,
Venus, Mars, Mercury and Tuxedo Mask. Sailor Moon and
Tuxedo Mask lead the way down the corridor. Mercury
and Venus were in the middle, and Jupiter and Mars
covered the rear.
"Is there any sign that we are nearing the end
Mercury?" inquired Venus as they walked down the hall.
"No...it seems that the hallway stretches of for a
long time. But, we should be careful." warned Mercury
as she typed into her little computer. "I'm detecting
that the negative energy in this place seems to be
growing the farther down we walk."
The group looked around warily. They had been
walking down this hall for what seemed like days, and
for all they know it had been days. They had come
across the front door to this place while tracking
down a large negative energy reading Mercury had
picked up as they were walking the park. They had
transformed and followed the energy reading, till they
eventually came across a doorway. Just a plain
doorway, except for the fact that it was standing in a
clearing in the woods and had nothing on either side
of it. Cautiously they opened the door and stepped
through the threshold, finding themselves at the
beginning of this tunnel and the door gone.
The hollow echo of their footsteps sounded ominously
down the corridor. Sailor Moon winced slightly and
clung tighter onto Tuxedo Mask's hand. "I don't like
this place, It gives me the creeps!"
Tux nodded slightly but remained quite, as did the
rest of the group. And on they walked. Further and
further into the dark trap.
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They were stumbling now from weariness. At once, as
though they had made a spoken agreement, they all
stopped walking and slumped tiredly to the ground.
Sailor Jupiter, who had sat against one of the walls
blinked slightly then smiled and said, as she pointed
to the side of the hall across from her, "Look, a
door!"
Sure enough, a large door had appeared there and it
appeared to be slightly ajar. A small control panel
was on the wall beside the door.
"Wow! It's gotta be the way out!" screeched Sailor
Moon as she darted to the door.
"Stop Sailor Moon! It might be a trap!" but Tuxedo
Mask was too late, she had already opened the door and
scampered through.
"Hurry up guys!" yelled Moon from the other room,
but, before any of the others could follow the door
swung shut from its own accord and disappeared. Not a
trace of the door was left except for the small
control panel.
"Oh no! Sailor Moon!" Jupiter and Venus yelled at the
same time.
"And she's gotten herself into yet ANOTHER mess..."
muttered Mars to herself, though the worry in her face
was evident.
Tuxedo Mask rushed to where the door had been and
began pounding on it. "Sailor Moon! Sailor Moon!
Can you hear me?"
All that was heard in response was a digital voice
from the control panel, "Incorrect Password, Access
Denied."
And, as fast as lightening, Mercury had taken out her
computer again and began to scan the control panel for
a way to re-open the door.
Tux Mask, though, was working on opening it with more
physical powers. Rose after rose he flung at it, but
with no help, they didn't even scratch the wall.
"Dammit!" he shouted.
"Stand back Tuxedo Mask..." said Jupiter as she
powered up, "Jupiter Thunder ...CRASH!" Large bolts
of lightening struck the wall where the door had been.
Unfortunately the attack was absorbed into the wall.
No effect.
"Let me try! Mars...Celestial Fire..."
"No!"
"Huh?" Mars stopped the attack. "Why not?" She
looked to Mercury who had stopped her.
"Because you might harm the control panel which seems
to be the only thing that will open the door. Your
attack would have had only the effect of tiring you
out needlessly."
"Well then, how are we suppose to open this door?"
"It seems to be controlled by a voice code...which
means that it'll only open for a certain password said
by a certain person's voice..." Mercury put away her
computer and starting punching buttons on the panel.
"How are we suppose to open the door then Mercury?"
asked Venus.
Mercury didn't answer as she continued to mess with
the panel. All of the group gathered around her as
they waited for her to figure the thing out.
"Hmm..." Mercury smiled as she decoded the password
then pressed a button and spoke into the little
microphone on the panel. "Rhy House Cow"
"Incorrect Voice Signature. Access Denied" rang the
electronic voice.
This time the Sailor Scout tried speaking in a higher
tone, "Rhy House Cow"
"Incorrect Voice Signature. Access Denied"
"Rhy House Cow" Said she as she tried it with a lower
voice.
"Incorrect Voice Signature. Access Denied"
"Here...lemme try..." Tuxedo Mask said as he stepped
up to the mic. He raised a brow slightly as he looked
to Mercury. "Rhy House Cow...what a STRANGE
password..." He then spoke into the microphone, "Rhy
House...Cow"
"Incorrect Voice Signature. Access Denied" said the
panel once again.
"Arg! Isn't there like some way Sailor Moon can open
it from the other side? She's such a Meatball Head
running into there without waiting for us." scowled
the angered Sailor Mars.
"Maybe she's in trouble and can't open the door.
Maybe there are some really mean enemies on the other
side of that door..."
"Or maybe that IS the way out and she's safe, but.."
Sailor Jupiter looked down the hallway, "I don't know
how safe we are..."
"Either way we MUST get through. Mercury...is there
anyway you can get the voice signature from the
control panel and have your computer copy it then
record it so that the door will open?" Tuxedo Mask
glared at the door separating him from Sailor Moon,
determined to get through it somehow.
"I'm sorry, but it was the most I could do to get the
password and...."
They all looked suddenly to the door which had
reappeared and began to open. They readied themselves
to attack, not sure if it was friend or foe coming
through the door.
"Ack!" squealed Sailor Moon as she held the door open
and saw them ready to attack. "It's just me!" Bright
sunlight filtered through the open door...illuminating
the tunnel, making the others blink till their eyes
adjusted to the light.
Venus was the first to recover. "Sailor Moon!
You're safe!"
"Yeah! I went through the door and found myself back
in the woods. I kept on trying to open the door but
it was locked..."
How did you open it then?" asked Tuxedo Mask.
"Well..uh...I spent a looong time trying to blast it
open. Then I uh...turned the key in the keyhole and
it opened..."
They all acquired Sweat drops.
"So we all spent alll that time worrying about you,
stuck in that horrid, dark tunnel, and you could have
just opened the door right away? You are such a
ditz!" reprimanded Mars.
Serena just shrugged and grinned after
they powered down and left the tunnel. She looked to
them all with a big smile. "So, who wants to go get
ice cream?"
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Please send all comments to the author at Daynachan@SailorMoon.Com
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