Title: Damnation
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #9, Damnation
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: AU, Shoujo-ai, angst, Character Death

“Lance…” Her voice shook, even as she held her sword in her hands, white-gloved hands hiding the tightening of her knuckles around the hilt. “Don’t make me do this…”

“Why do you listen to her, Red?” Lance asked, arms crossed, silversteel wings folded neatly behind her back. “Why must you obey the Princess, even when she calls for my death?”

“I…I have no choice…” Red held out her wrists, and Lance hissed as she saw silver bracelets, almost invisible chain, wrapped around her arms.

“That little bitch! She put control bracelets on you?”

“Y-Yes…” Red fell to her knees as an electric shock ran through her body. “I-If I don’t obey her orders…”

“I knew from the start that Princess Ashline was impure. I suppose the idea that one of her precious Sailor Senshi would turn against her was too much for her to stomach. At least I saved Pluto and Saturn…”

“Lance! Please! This is high treason! I can’t…” Uranus staggered to her feet, propping herself up with her Space Sword, even as she pointed it forwards in an attack stance Lance was all too familiar with. “Space Sword…”

“Atlantis Tide!” Lance slammed her own attack into Red’s body. A vicious smile curved her lips as she walked closer, her boots tapping on the ground. Uranus struggled to stand, but could not.

“Shh, my precious…” She crooned, placing white-gloved fingers in Red’s hair. “I’ll not let them punish us for Galaxia, Red. Besides, the precious Princess needs her entire set of guardians to use her power…”

Red gulped as Lance bent down and kissed her, before her tiara vanished, leaving the sign of Neptune blazing blue on her forehead. A cold lump settled into her stomach as she realized what her lover was going to do.

“I’m going to take your Crystal now. It won’t hurt, I promise you.” As Red watched, Neptune’s wrists shimmered, a pair of very familiar golden bracelets appearing on her wrists.

“Ashline is right, after all. I am a threat, because when we defeated Galaxia, her power became mine…”

She laughed delightedly and Red sighed, as her star seed appeared in her lover’s hands and she faded away, the Space Sword falling to the ground along with the silver control bracelets.

Lance casually picked up the sword, tucking it into subspace as she scanned the surface of her Deep Aqua Mirror.

So, Ashline had been watching her… she had suspected as much, but she doubted the main Sailor Force would head out after her.

Neptune and Uranus had been expendable. She would take Red far, far away, and with Pluto and Saturn, they would create the Holy Grail and destroy this twisted parody of paradise.

Crystal Tokyo was built on the broken dreams of the Senshi, stolen from their energy and heart’s blood.

It should not glitter so beautifully…

Ashline felt like throwing up as she and the rest of her Inner Court watched.

“She- she actually did it… she killed Uranus!”

“Neptune’s gone mad. We have to defeat her quickly!” Mars snapped.

Mercury looked oddly pensive, and Venus shivered. “But how? If she has Galaxia’s power…”

“I don’t know.” Sailor Moon, now Neo-Queen Ashline sighed. “I wish I knew… but she has damned herself. Even the Silver Crystal cannot save her now…”

She laughed. Damned? She supposed she was. After all, it was treason to betray Princess Ashline, was it not? But…

Neptune ran a finger down her sharp silversteel wings, as she tucked Uranus’s crystal into her heart, along with Saturn and Pluto’s.

Soon.

You broke me first, Princess, even if you can’t remember.

She laughed.

End Fic

Completed 11/26/06

Yeah, I hate Sailor Moon, and I don’t like Ash Ketchum from pokemon much, so I made her a naïve, whiny little bitch! ^^

Lance: *Hugs Red*

Red: You killed me!
Phantomness: It’s a plot device, love…

Lance: *Hugs Red some more*

Ash: *Glares*