Insertion

 

    Part 69

 

    Vahn's Revenge Part 2

 

+++++++++++

 

    Yohiko Hibiki smirked as she looked at Coach
Mitaka. 
He was worn and tired. "So, how are you
enjoying your job so far?" They were 
both standing
in the schoolyard after classes had ended for the
day with 
most of the students long gone.

 

    "How can you stand it here?" he 
grumbled
irritably.

 

    "Easy, I'm the biggest fish in this little
pond," she 
replied calmly.

 

    Mitaka nodded and sighed. "Right."

 

    "How are your studies coming?" she asked 
him
calmly.

 

    "I've improved a lot since that trip," he said
with a 
smirk. "I imagine you wouldn't even break a
sweat though."

 

    "That's good," she responded with a nod. "How
about 
it then?"

 

    Mitaka blinked. "You're not going to hurt me
are 
you?"

 

    "As much as I'd enjoy that, I think I can go
easy on 
you," replied the woman calmly.

 

    Mitaka nodded and moved into a combat stance.

 

    Yohiko smirked; his defense was actually
pretty 
solid. "Not bad," she commented.

 

    "Thanks," he said nervously.

 

    "Come on then, attack me," she said with a
small 
sigh.

 

    "Right," replied the man as he rushed forward.

 

    Yohiko dodged around him easily, his speed was
good, 
but he was still little more than an
educated idiot as far as she was 
concerned. "Well,
you have improved haven't you?"

 

    The man stopped his attack and backed away,
panting 
for breath. "Yeah. I think so anyway, I'm
still not ready for your class 
though."

 

    "I'd give you a year or so," she replied with
a 
shrug. "Yusaku would wipe the floor with you.
You need to build speed more 
than anything else.
Your technique is surprisingly good for as long 
as
you've been at this."

 

    "Well, I have been taking classes since I 
was
little," grumbled the man. "I'd like to think that
counts for 
something."

 

    "You had a good teacher then," said the woman
with a 
smirk on her face.

 

    "Most people don't take this as seriously as
you do," 
he said with a small snort.

 

    "Well, most people don't need to," she replied
with a 
shrug.

 

    "Yeah, I figured that," muttered the man.
"Fighting 
off the boy's classes, and escaping
those perverted girls probably 
helps."

 

    "Ha!" said the woman in genuine amusement.

 

    "What?" said the man with a hurt look forming
on his 
face.

 

    "Nothing, your method of training is similar
to 
someone I know. He does it intentionally
though."

 

    "Intentionally?" muttered Mitaka dumbly.

 

    "Yes, his name is Happosai," said the 
woman
cheerfully. "You probably wouldn't like him much."

 

    The man shook his head. "I'm finally able to
at least 
hold a class now."

 

    "Yes, I'd noticed. You haven't been getting
chased 
around the campus much these days," she
said with a smirk on her face. 
"You'll get this if
you keep up. Maybe even before the year is up if
you 
keep working at it."

 

    "Right," said the man. "Are you doing 
anything
tonight?"

 

    "Now Mitaka, you know you don't stand a
chance. Just 
give up and find another woman. There
are plenty of women more willing than I 
am."

 

    The man sighed. "I don't want another woman."

 

    "Yes, I know. I'm out of reach though," she
replied 
with a shrug. "I'm past pining for my
husband, and I'm enjoying myself as 
things are
now. I don't want a man in my life."

 

    A man walked up to the pair with a smirk on
his face. 
"Oh? What am I then? Chopped liver?" He
had a long pigtail going down his 
back all the way
to his waist, and was dressed in silk 
Chinese
clothing.

 

    "Huh?" said Mitaka.

 

    "Mitaka, this is Carrot," said Yohiko with a
frown 
forming on her face. "He's...an old training
partner of mine."

 

    "Hiya. I'm Yohiko's lover," said the man
cheerfully 
as he politely bowed to the man. "You
must be Mitaka."

 

    The poor man about choked where he stood.

 

    "You are not my lover!" screamed 
Yohiko
angrily.

 

    "What would you call it then? Fuck buddy?"
replied 
the man with his smirk remaining strong.

 

    "You bastard!" she snarled as she stepped back
into a 
combat stance.

 

    Carrot merely smiled at her and looked at
Mitaka. 
"Good luck, I'd be happy if you managed to
take her off my hands."

 

    "What?" cried the man in shock.

 

    "I'll kill you!" screamed Yohiko.

 

    "Maybe later, in private," said Carrot
cheerfully. 
"You seen Dan around today?"

 

    Yohiko relaxed slightly and growled. "No. Not
since 
you two left." The group had separated at
the end of the last lunch period 
about two hours
earlier.

 

    "Hmmm. I hope he's not getting drunk 
again,"
commented Carrot with a shrug.

 

    "Dan?" said Mitaka in confusion.

 

    "He trained with us too," said 
Carrot
cheerfully.

 

    "Oh," said the man as he found himself
becoming more 
and more confused. "He's lying,
right Miss Yohiko?"

 

    "Not really," said Carrot lazily. "We don't
get along 
very well, but we just can't seem to
help ourselves. It's weird 
really."-

 

    Mitaka was white as a sheet, and Yohiko was
turning 
red with anger.

 

    "We can fight about it later, I'll see ya,"
said 
Carrot as he turned away and started walking
towards the gates.

 

    "That bastard!" snarled Yohiko.

 

+++++++++++++

 

    "Ah, Carrot," said Cologne as her former son
in law's 
doppelganger walked into the restaurant
and sat down at one of the 
tables.

 

    "Hiya," said the boy cheerfully.

 

    "What brings you to this place?" said the 
old
woman.

 

    "I've been using that new technique to hang
around 
town while I'm teaching classes."

 

    Cologne nodded at this and sighed. "I see.
It's a 
shame it's not more permanent."

 

    "Not really, I'd probably end up killing most
of the 
Amazon tribe in the end," he said with a
thoughtful frown.

 

    Cologne coughed in surprise. "I think 
you
overestimate yourself."

 

    "Naw, you'd get me in the end I think, but I'd
take a 
whole bunch of you down with me. Not
economical really."

 

    "It's a moot point, but I fail to see how
you'd 
survive against three thousand years of
Amazon techniques."

 

    "With two thousand year old martial arts
counters of 
course," said the boy cheerfully.

 

    Cologne almost sprayed her tea across the
table, but 
managed to control herself. "Pardon?"

 

    "I've been studying up," he replied with a
shrug. 
"The old Musk techniques would be useful,
as well as a few of the techniques 
of that old
monastery that used to be around your area about
fifteen 
hundred years or so ago. They had all
sorts of counters, as I recall, you got 
the
Hiryuushotenha from them. They had a counter for
it; I've almost got 
it. I learned how to defeat
the Splitting Cat Hair's technique about two 
weeks
ago."

 

    Cologne's eyes about bugged out of her head.
"Where 
did you learn about that?"

 

    "It's a secret," replied the boy cheerfully.
The 
Mercury computer they had was very useful to
them. It couldn't predict the 
future, or alter
reality, but its information database was
flawless.

 

    "The counter techniques for the Hiryuushotenha
and 
the Splitting Cat Hair's techniques were
destroyed with that hellish place. 
We burned it to
the ground, along with everything and everyone
inside 
it!"

 

    "Yeah, a real shame," said Carrot lazily.

 

    Cologne simply sat where she was and mulled
over this 
revelation. "There's no way! It's
impossible for any of those techniques to 
have
survived that inferno."

 

    "Don't look at me. It's not my fault your
elders were 
so hateful in your world."

 

    Cologne seemed to relax suddenly. "So that's
it! In 
his world, they must have survived, or the
Amazons didn't destroy that 
knowledge. A pity."
She looked up at him as her thoughts ended. "Yes,
my 
ancestors were foolish in that regard."

 

    "Haven't changed that much," he replied with a
snort. 
"Three thousand years of staying the same
ain't healthy ya know."

 

    "We have survived this long because of it!"
she 
snapped.

 

    "Naw, you survived this long because you're
living in 
the mountains, it was too much trouble
to be rid of you. Sending an army up 
there would
have been difficult until recently. If the Red
Army decided to 
get rid of you..."

 

    Cologne snorted at this. "Preposterous!"

 

    "Yeah, don't go getting all belligerent on
me," said 
the boy casually. "I think you're smart
enough to realize what a battalion of 
tanks and
soldiers would do to your little paradise, to say
nothing of the 
Chinese Air Force that would
precede them."

 

    Cologne merely sat in her chair, shaking.
Carrot 
couldn't tell if it was anger or simply
fear of the idea he'd just placed in 
her head.
"I'm sure your political contacts and herbal
medicine have been 
able to keep yourself beneath
notice though. As long as you're useful, 
you've
got nothing to fear."

 

    Cologne's head snapped up at him and her 
eyes
narrowed. "How would he know about that?"

 

    "Don't look at me that way. I'm not your brain
dead 
son in law. I've learned a lot over the
years," he replied calmly. "It's the 
same way you
avoided notice where I'm from. The higher offices
of the 
Chinese Government benefit from your
counters to poisons, cures for rare 
diseases, and
assorted magic. To say nothing of the use of some
of the 
poisons that are only available to you in
your area."

 

    Cologne sighed and shook her head; she was
actually 
chuckling with laughter. "You never cease
to amaze me boy. It's a shame you 
weren't born a
woman."

 

    "Who says I wasn't?" retorted the boy calmly.

 

    Cologne's head snapped up again.

 

    Carrot chuckled as he decided to put the
finishing 
touch on his little game of psyche out.
"The dreaded training ground of 
Jusenkyo Hot
Springs. Each pool cursed with a tragic legend."
Ranma 
started screaming obscenities inside their
head at this announcement.

 

    "What?" muttered Cologne.

 

    "Well, I did tell you I wasn't from this
world," he 
replied with a shrug. "You don't think
a boy would be as smart as I am do 
you?" He
shifted to his older female form and grinned at
her.

 

    Cologne gasped, everything made sense now.

 

    "But..."

 

    "I have a daughter Cologne, I'm her mother,"
said the 
woman as her eyes sparkled with
amusement. "My name is Yohiko Hibiki, you 
don't
think my parents would name me Ranma if I was born
a woman do 
you?"

 

    "This is..." stammered the woman in shock.

 

    "I've been watching this place for a while,
ever 
since I was sent to this world. I've been
here for a while ya know. I even 
got married, my
husband died about seven years ago."

 

    Cologne simply stared at her, unable to speak
or 
move. Everything was starting to make sense
now.

 

    "I've always been fascinated by Ranma Saotome.
What I 
would have been had I been born a man."

 

    "So, you were sent here from another world,
into the 
past," said the old woman as she nodded
her head. Things were starting to 
make sense.

 

    "Something like that," agreed the woman
casually. 
This was probably the greatest session
of bullshitting she'd ever done. It 
was immensely
satisfying.

 

    Cologne frowned. "That would explain your
reluctance 
to allow my Shampoo to chase you, and
your attitude about fighting off these 
girls. The
male Ranma would never do such a thing without a
good 
reason."

 

    "You're catching on," said the woman as her
face 
contorted into anger for a moment. It quickly
shifted back to a pleasant 
smile before Cologne
noticed.

 

    "I see," replied the old woman as she nodded
her head 
and sighed. "A daughter?"

 

    "Yes," said the woman cheerfully. "Her name is
Usagi 
Hibiki, by a strange coincidence, I am Ryoga
Hibiki's aunt in this world. I 
had no idea Keiichi
was related to them."

 

    Cologne jolted from this mild shock, shaken
already 
by the previous revelations.

 

    Yohiko looked down at her hand and smirked.
"Looks 
like my time is up. Later old lady."

 

    Cologne merely stared as the woman started to
fade 
away. "Wait! I..." She sighed as the woman
vanished completely. "This changes 
everything. I
can't have Shampoo chasing her around anymore. The
council 
would pitch a fit if they found out about
that." She mulled over her problem 
for a moment
and sighed. "Oh dear. I suppose it's time to tell
her."

 

+++++++++++++

 

     Within a minute, they were all back together
in 
the apartment.

 

    "So, now what?" asked Carrot lazily.

 

    "Time for afternoon class," said Xianfu
irritably. 
"You and I are gonna have a little talk
later."

 

    "Yeah, yeah, whatever," replied Ranma with an
angry 
snort. "We got some stuff to tell ya about.
Carrot's being an asshole 
again."

 

    "Heh. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist! Admit it,
the 
look on her face was worth it!" replied the
voice cheerfully.

 

    Ranma tried to be angry, he really did.
Finally he 
sighed. "As much as I hate to admit it.
It was kinda funny."

 

    "That's the spirit!" said Carrot.

 

    "What the hell have you done now?" snarled
Dan.

 

    "I know this is gonna bite us all in the 
ass,"
snapped Xianfu.

 

    "Probably, but we can deal with it. It's only
the 
Amazons," said Carrot.

 

    "Oh, that's okay then," replied Dan with 
a
shrug.

 

    "Right," agreed Pissant. "It wasn't mean was
it?" he 
asked hopefully.

 

    "Not really," said Ranma. "Well, at least not
for 
Carrot."

 

    "Oh, well then," replied Xianfu.

 

    "Anyway, let's go get our lazy students," said
Carrot 
cheerfully.

 

    Ranma growled slightly as they walked out into
the 
hall and moved towards Yusaku's door.

 

    They opened it and smirked at the scene
inside. 
"Well, hello."

 

    Everyone froze and stared at the woman for 
a
moment.

 

    Yusaku was halfway through the act of putting
a beer 
to his lips. Usagi was beside him talking
with Akemi, and the rest of the 
residents were in
the process of getting rather drunk.

 

    "Um. Miss Yohiko..." said Yusaku dumbly. "I
didn't 
think you'd join us..."

 

    "That's Sensei, Godai, get dressed, I feel
like a 
workout," she replied calmly as she turned
away.

 

    Usagi and the boy looked at each other with a
frown 
forming on their faces. "Again?" grumbled
Usagi. "We already did that 
today!"

 

    "Do you really want her to come get us?" 
said
Yusaku.

 

    "Right," grumbled the girl as she stood up and
walked 
out of the apartment.

 

    "Everyone out, I gotta get changed," said
Yusaku as 
he glared at the drunks for a moment.

 

    "Hey. I ain't goin nowhere," said Akemi with a
sultry 
looking grin.

 

    "Me too! Me too!" agreed Itchinose.

 

    "Out!" cried Yusaku as he shoved both women
out the 
door.

 

    Yotsuya quietly slid back through his hole in
the 
wall and left the boy to change.

 

+++++++++++++

 

    "Why are we doing this right now?" 
grumbled
Usagi.

 

    "Silence!" snapped her mother. They were
standing in 
the middle of the abandoned lot they
used for practice. "Yusaku! One hundred 
Bakusai
Tenketsu! Get started!"

 

    "Right," muttered the boy as he walked over to
a 
large pile of rocks that he and Usagi regularly
lugged to the site during 
their normal training
hours.

 

    "As for you," said Yohiko as she stared at 
her
daughter. "You're going to keep practicing the
Katsutenshin Amaguriken 
for the rest of the day. I
won't have you two slacking 
off!
Bwahahahahahahaaa!"

 

    A moment later, Cologne pogoed over the wall
just in 
time to see Yohiko laughing. She paused
for a moment and noticed what the 
girl's students
were doing. "Well, it seems I've caught you in the
middle 
of a lesson."

 

    "Huh?" said the woman as she blinked and
turned 
towards the hag. "Oh, yes. My lazy students
aren't working hard enough 
lately, so I'm giving
an extra lesson today! Bwahahahahaaa!"

 

    "Is she always like this?" asked Cologne as
she 
turned to the young girl.

 

    "No, she's usually much worse," grumbled the
child as 
she rubbed at the burns forming on her
hands.

 

    "Yes, I thought she was taking it awfully easy
on 
you," said the crone with a shrug of her
shoulders. "You must be 
Usagi."

 

    "Huh? Do I know you?" said the girl 
in
surprise.

 

    "This is Cologne, she's an old friend of
mine," said 
Yohiko.

 

    "Ha! Old is right!" said Usagi cheerfully.

 

    Cologne promptly whacked her on her head with
her 
staff. "Faster! You'll never master that
technique if you're slacking off and 
talking to
me!"

 

    Usagi sniffled with a tear in her eye and
turned back 
to the small fire she had just
started.

 

    "What brings you here?" said Yohiko calmly.

 

    "Not much, just checking up on the chi
signature I 
felt. I thought it was you, but these
two others had me wondering."

 

    "Ah, not much to worry about," said 
Yohiko
calmly.

 

    "Yes, I can sense they are both mere
beginners," 
agreed Cologne.

 

    "About half a year, they've come along rather
well. I 
thought it would take at least two years
before I could start these 
techniques with them."

 

    "Six months?" muttered Cologne in wonder.
"You're 
joking?"

 

    "Huh? Not really, it's been a little more than
that, 
almost eight months really."

 

    "And they are already up to this level?" said
Cologne 
as she turned to look at the pair. "Most
impressive young lady."

 

    "Really? I didn't think so, they're both
slackers," 
snorted Yohiko calmly. "I have to keep
them both on their toes all the time. 
They keep
trying to get out of training. Yusaku's not so
bad, on account 
of he's still trying to get into
my pants."

 

    The boy paused his exercise for a moment, only
to 
receive a thwack on his head from Cologne. The
old woman didn't even look at 
him, or stop her
conversation with Yohiko. He grumbled and 
started
again.

 

    "It's a good motivator," replied Cologne.

 

    "Yeah, I've been trying to beat him out of it,
or 
wear him down. He's stubborn though," replied
Yohiko.

 

    "Well, I'll leave you to your students then,"
said 
Cologne cheerfully. As she hopped away, her
mind worked diligently. "A woman 
like that, could
be useful. If she was able to teach her students
to be so 
strong in such a short time!? Plus her
teaching degree in academics?! This is 
a prize I
cannot pass up!" She smirked as she put the small
camera she had 
hidden in her palm into her robes.

 

+++++++++++++

 

    "What is this?" snorted Tanaka as he glared at
the 
paper in his hand.

 

    "Your next assignment," replied the man in a
dark 
suit that stood in front of him.

 

    "A brothel?" snorted the man irritably.

 

    "Yes," said the man calmly. "We have reports
of a 
drug lab being run inside this operation."

 

    "Again?" said Tanaka irritably. "The last time
we had 
a suspected report of this kind of
thing..."

 

    "You understand then," said the man with a
small 
chuckle.

 

    "Oh, I see. You think he's going to show up
again," 
said Tanaka calmly.

 

    "Yes, go there, eliminate the one who is doing
this 
without our consent, and take over the
operation. Don't shut it down."

 

    "Vahn will be pleased to hear this, he's
growing 
impatient," said Tanaka calmly. "I'll be
take care of this right away."

 

    "Excellent."

 

++++++++++++++

 

    A small moving truck backed into the back of
the 
large mansion. It was unmarked and the estate
was on a rather large lot. It 
was a high-class
brothel frequented by some of the most powerful
men in 
Japan. The Oyabun would not be pleased that
a drug lab tainted this operation 
at all. In fact,
the order probably came from him. It was very
unusual for 
someone as high ranked as the person
running the operation to become greedy 
and do
something so stupid. He probably thought he could
get away with it 
because he was so high.

 

    Tanaka snorted as he jumped out of the
passenger seat 
of the truck and glanced around. He
turned towards the well-built man who was 
driving.
The man was wearing overalls and a mover's
uniform. "Let him out, 
send him into the basement.
Tanaka pointed at the large pair of doors 
that
lead into the basement.

 

    The back of the truck was opened, revealing a
pair of 
red glowing eyes deep in the blackness of
the rear.

 

    "Go in, don't kill too many people, and try
not to 
damage anything. This place is our bait."

 

    "As you wish," replied the mechanical voice.
There 
was a whirring sound as the thing stood up
and began to climb towards the 
door. "At last, the
time for my revenge grows near."

 

    Tanaka smirked to himself as he turned away
and 
started walking towards the front of the
building. "I might enjoy staying 
here for a time."

 

++++++++++++

 

    That night, Usagi Hibiki stood on the rooftops
of 
Tokyo with a frown on her face. She was in the
guise of Sailor Moon, and had 
yet to find anything
of interest. "Man, this is boring."

 

    Xellos appeared before her and grinned.
"That's a 
good thing. It means you're doing a good
job."

 

    "Jadeite is still out there, I know he's
plotting 
something," replied the girl sourly.
"I'll be happy when I get him."

 

    "I'm sure you will," replied the man calmly.

 

    Usagi paused, she was on the outskirts of
town, and 
noticed something unusual.

 

    Several men in suits, surrounding an old man.
They 
led him to a limousine and climbed in around
him.

 

    "What's a guy like that doing in a place like
this?" 
muttered the girl in confusion. She wasn't
in the best neighborhood in Tokyo. 
It was a run
down looking place really, graffiti cluttered the
walls, and 
trash was thrown carelessly on the
streets. The whole place looked rather 
grimy and
gray.

 

    "Probably a Yakuza," said Xellos as he noted
the 
quiet display. "Nothing for us to worry
about."

 

    "Yakuza are criminals," replied Usagi.

 

    "Yes, very powerful ones at that," agreed
Xellos. 
"He's not doing anything wrong. He
probably owns a lot of the property around 
here.
Just let it be."

 

    Usagi frowned at this and snorted. "There's
nothing 
else of interest around here. I'm gonna
follow him."

 

    "I don't recommend it," warned Xellos.

 

    "Screw it, I'm bored," she responded as she
jumped 
away.

 

    A moment later, Xellos appeared on the rooftop
where 
she had once been standing. Another image
appeared in front of him, Jadeite's 
face. "We have
a problem. I need you."

 

    "Why, I had no idea you swung that way old
friend," 
said Jadeite calmly.

 

    "You've been spending too much time around
Zocite and 
Kunzite," replied the man casually. "I
need you to distract Usagi, she's 
following a
Yakuza somewhere. Looks like he's pretty high
ranked 
too."

 

    "In over her head?" asked Jadeite with 
a
chuckle.

 

    "Not really, but it's more trouble than I
think she 
wants to get into if she does find
something. This is more of a hobby for her 
than
anything, those kidnappings and such were mostly
one-time things. If 
she's not careful, she'll get
pulled into something a lot more serious 
and
complicated than she's ready for."

 

    "I see," replied Jadeite calmly. "I'll see
what I can 
do."

 

    "Do that," said Xellos as he vanished.

 

++++++++++++

 

    Usagi frowned as she looked down on the
mansion that 
the limo had driven into. "What? I
guess he just went home," she said with a 
small
sigh. She waited anyway and frowned when several
other expensive 
looking cars pulled up to the
building. "What's this? A party?" Her 
eyes
narrowed as she jumped down into the street and
started towards the 
building.

 

++++++++++++

 

    Getting into the building was easy enough. 
She
changed her appearance and now looked like a woman
in her early 
twenties. She was wearing a business
suit and her long blonde hair was now 
tied into a
tight bun on the back of her head. A pair of
sophisticated 
looking glasses appeared on her face
as well.

 

    No one tried to stop her as she walked into
the 
building. What she found, she definitely
wasn't expecting. She was standing 
in the middle
of a whorehouse. She snorted in disgust and went
in anyway, 
it would seem odd if she just walked
out. Xellos had taught her a lot over 
the past few
months. She knew it would be best if she waited
for one of 
the men in suits to leave, and followed
him out. It would look like she was 
working for
him, and he'd stopped off for a little relaxation
after a 
meeting or something. Then she could slip
away quietly.

 

    One of the men walked up to her and 
smirked
lecherously. "How much for a night with you?"

 

    "Do I look like one of these whores to you?"
she 
snapped as she leveled a glare at him angrily.

 

    The man chuckled at this and grinned. "No, but
that 
makes you more interesting."

 

    "Find yourself someone more willing, pig," 
she
snapped sharply.

 

    "I see, you're upset your boss isn't satisfied
with 
you," he said with a small shrug. "Is that
it?"

 

    She turned away and stormed off in a huff.
After a 
moment, she sat down in one of the chairs
that lined the walls, away from the 
whores that
lounged around the room lazily, waiting for
someone to find 
them interesting.

 

    She was pissed after almost fifteen minutes 
of
watching more men come in. No one left, but there
were a few other 
women sitting with her now. Most
of them in the same position.

 

    "Why do they bring us to these places," said
the 
redhead to her right. She was in her early
thirties and had a scowl on her 
face much the same
as her companions.

 

    "Who knows? I think they either just don't
care, or 
they want to humiliate us," responded the
brunette to her right.

 

    "Why do you put up with them if you don't like
it?" 
asked Usagi with the same irritation in her
voice.

 

    "Hey, you're here too. They're all sexist
pigs, 
disgusting perverts, and complete jerks. We
all know that, but we put up with 
them because
they take care of us. We're relief at the office,
we work 
well, and their wives are good at ignoring
us more than they ignore places 
like this."

 

    "No better than the women who work here I
suppose," 
said Usagi with a small sigh.

 

    "Don't say that darling. I can see you're new
to 
this," said the redhead sympathetically. "We
only do what we do for money 
it's true, but we
only do it for one man." She winked at her and
smirked. 
"As long as we're young and pretty, we're
set. The retirement plan is great 
too, they'll pay
for us for the rest of our lives out of gratitude,
and to 
keep us quiet."

 

    "If they don't kill us that is," joked 
the
brunette.

 

    "You make it sound...not so bad," muttered
Usagi in 
surprise.

 

    The redhead laughed at this. "We aren't
criminals 
dear, but our lovers are."

 

    "Hey! My boss is a governor!" snapped 
the
Brunette.

 

    "If he's here, you can bet he's dabbled in a
little 
criminal behavior. In fact, that's what
this place is," responded the 
redhead.

 

    The woman blushed slightly and turned her 
head
away.

 

    Usagi had stopped paying attention though,
something 
had caught her eye. A man in overalls
walked over to one of the men hanging 
around the
back of the room. He'd come from a stairwell that
led to the 
basement. The man leaned into the
character in a suit and whispered something 
in his
ear.

 

    Usagi stood up and started walking towards
them 
slowly. She was cautious and moved slowly.

 

    "Hello," said a man who walked up to her and
grabbed 
her arm roughly. "I haven't seen you
around here before."

 

    Usagi gasped and glared at him as she jerked
her arm 
away from him. "Back off I'm not here to
entertain you."

 

    The man snorted in disgust and grabbed her
roughly. 
"How dare you speak to me that way wench!
I think your boss will appreciate 
me teaching you
a lesson! He started to pull her towards the
stairs 
roughly.

 

    That was when he suddenly jerked to a stop and
almost 
lost his grip on the woman. She was
standing firmly in place, and seemed to 
almost be
riveted to the floor. "Let me go, or you'll regret
it," she said 
coolly. Everyone had their attention
on her now.

 

    The man reared his hand back to slap her, but
stopped 
as her features slowly melted away,
revealing a much younger girl dressed in 
a fuku.
Long tendrils of ribbons floated in the air behind
her, and an 
aura of menace surrounded her. "I was
going to leave quietly, but then I 
noticed
something is going on downstairs. Plus, you've
gone and done 
something stupid. I think I'll have
a little fun before I leave now."

 

    The man jumped back in horror, but not before
the 
ribbons lashed out and snagged him. He was
thrown into the wall and left a 
crater in his
wake. He slumped down against the wall as Usagi
was lifted 
into the air as several of her ribbons
latched onto the floor. There were now 
dozens of
them floating around her, grabbing men in suits
indiscriminately 
and tossing them around the room.

 

    The one by the wall with the man in the
overalls 
simply stared in shock. He turned his
head and said something to the figure 
in the
overalls. The man dashed down the stairs and he
continued to stare 
at the girl.

 

    "What are you looking at?" she snarled as she
moved 
towards him. Her ribbons acting like the
legs of a spider as she crawled 
across the floor
and walls towards him.

 

    "Cool!" he exclaimed with tears in his eyes.

 

    Usagi blinked and almost fell out of the 
air.
"Huh?"

 

    "A real magical girl! What's your name!?"
cried the 
man as he almost fell to his knees in
front of her.

 

    "I'm...uh...Sailor Moon," she replied dumbly.

 

    "Can I have your autograph?" said the man with
a 
fanatical smile on his face. "This is so cool! I
didn't think stuff like this 
was real!"

 

    Usagi took the pen and pad he'd offered her
and 
signed it. She wasn't quite over the shock of
her situation. Her ribbons 
continued to work
around her, disarming thugs and throwing people
around 
the room.

 

    "Do you have a handsome and mysterious
boyfriend?" 
asked the man cheerfully as he took
his pad back.

 

    "Yeah, kinda. How do you know about that?" 
she
muttered dumbly.

 

    "This is so great!" said the man. "I'm Tanaka.
I'm an 
evil Yakuza. It's always been my dream to
be one of those villainous Bishonen 
guys! I never
thought my dream would come true!"

 

    "Huh?" said Usagi with confusion clear on 
her
face.

 

    "Are you doing anything later?" he 
said
cheerfully.

 

    "Gross! I'm fourteen! You pervert!" snapped
the girl 
angrily. Her ribbons started to reach for
the man.

 

    "Oh, you've probably already got a boyfriend
then," 
said the man as he looked at the floor and
mulled over this.

 

    "I just told you I did!" snapped Usagi.

 

    "Well, I'm pretty bishonen, don't you think? I
could 
be better," he said cheerfully.

 

    "Not really, you're kinda short, and your hair
is all 
greasy," replied the girl as she pointed to
his slicked back hairstyle.

 

    "Hmmm, maybe I should start fluffing my hair
some? Do 
you think I'd look good with long hair?
Maybe I should grow it out 
some..."

 

    "Um, you'd probably look better with short
hair 
really," said the girl honestly.

 

    "You're right. I should fluff it out some.
Maybe get 
an earring too," said the man with a
small snort. "Of course, I'd need a 
cape, and some
armor. A really big sword or a rapier would
probably help 
too."

 

    "You'd still be too short," said Usagi
irritably. 
"Look, I've got to destroy this place
in righteous anger. So, sorry about 
this."

 

    Tanaka blinked as he saw one of the ribbons
wrap 
around his waist. There wasn't really anyone
left standing in the room 
anymore. People had
stopped bursting from the bedrooms, and most of
anyone 
who could had already run away.

 

    "Well, I suppose I'll have to stop you," said
Tanaka 
cheerfully. "Man this is so cool!"

 

    Usagi blinked as a strange sound emerged from
the 
stairwell that led to the basement. "What's
that?"

 

    "That's just Vahn. I'm sorry about this, but I
am the 
villain it seems. I have to try and kill
you now. You understand? Hopefully 
you'll escape,
and we'll have all sorts of interesting battles!"

 

    "Right," grumbled Usagi as she tossed him
aside and 
he hit the wall roughly. The man
staggered to his feet and she ignored him in 
favor
of the doorway with the strange noises coming from
it.

 

    The small wooden frame exploded outward, and
Usagi 
gasped. "What the fuck?!!"

 

    "Meet Vahn, my servant," said Tanaka as he
stumbled 
forward a little.

 

    The thing emerged from the hole that had once
been a 
door. It was huge, eight feet tall and
completely metal.

 

    "A robot?" gasped Usagi as she backed away.

 

    "Cyborg actually," replied Tanaka proudly.

 

    The mechanical legs were bent back, like those
of a 
bird. The metal claws on the end dug into the
ground, supporting the massive 
weight and
balancing the thing as it stood there. Its torso
was huge, 
almost four feet wide. A skull like head
glared at her with glowing eyes. A 
closer
inspection revealed it to be more of a helmet than
an artificial 
head. The arms were the scariest
part of it. Two thick cable like protrusions 
that
resembled a pair of muscular human arms. On the
ends of both arms was 
a huge set of claws. One
resembled a human hand, while the left arm 
had
four finger like protrusions opposite one another.
Each of them ended 
in a sharp blade. In the center
of the palm was a small hole. Usagi could 
see
quite a few door like seams in the chest and
shoulders. Probably 
hiding hidden firearms of some
sort.

 

    "No fucking way!" she muttered in horror.

 

    "Impressive ne?" said Tanaka cheerfully. His
face 
fell as he snarled at Vahn. "Kill her."

 

    "You are not the one I seek," said the thing
as it 
started towards the girl.

 

    "You're not so big. I'll kick your ass!"
snarled 
Usagi as she rushed forward.

 

    The thing leveled its left arm at her and the
girl's 
eyes went wide. A roar filled the room and
Usagi found herself sprawled 
across the ground and
rolling on the carpet in pain. She had noticed 
a
small hole in his shoulder that spat out around
twenty spent shells. Her 
chest was smoking, and
there was a scorch mark on her chest. "Damn!"

 

    Vahn chuckled as he lurched 
forward.
"Interesting."

 

    "Monster! I'll kill you for that!" snarled the
girl 
as she sat up.

 

    Vahn responded by grabbing her face with his
left 
arm, the four claw like fingers grabbing her
head.

 

    Usagi screamed in pain as the barrel burned at
her 
face. Vahn lifted her up off the ground and
held her. Her ribbons were 
desperately wrapping
around the thing. Sparks were being thrown off 
the
thing's hide as they met with the razor edge of
the ribbons.

 

    Vahn ignored this, and began to increase the
pressure 
on her head, a long threaded rod began to
slowly rotate out of the back of 
his shoulder as
the claws started to crush her head. "I had hoped
this 
would be more interesting. My true opponent
will be less disappointing I 
hope."

 

    Usagi screamed as her head pounded in pain.
Finally, 
she grit her teeth, her entire body
suddenly changed. She turned silver, and 
the sound
of gears grinding inside Vahn's shoulder sounded.

 

    The metallic Usagi raised her fists forward
and 
pointed them at Vahn. Her hands turned to
metal spikes and shot forward, 
slamming into the
thing's chest. A few sparks flew from the impact,
but 
Vahn's chest was little more than slightly
dented.

 

    The cyborg snorted and opened fire with its
arm 
cannon, blasting Usagi in the face at point
blank range. She flew from his 
grasp and slammed
into the wall. She grunted from the impact, but
slowly 
rose to her feet again. "Bastard! It'll
take more than you to kill me!"

 

    Vahn had started his next attack already
though. 
Usagi gasped as two compartments on his
shoulders opened. Two mini-guns rose 
up on either
side of his head and started firing.

 

    The girl screamed as she was pelted with 
high
velocity bullets. Her costume protected her, but
she could feel the 
bruising they were causing on
her body. "Damn!" she screamed again as she 
fell
to her knees.

 

    "You are no match for me," said Vahn coldly.
His 
right hand slid into his wrist, and a blade of
energy formed on his arm. It 
looked something like
a four-foot blowtorch.

 

    "This is really gonna hurt," muttered Usagi as
she 
struggled to move. Her eyes were latched onto
the flame as the thing moved 
towards her. She
wasn't sure if her costume could protect her from
that. 
She screamed in effort and her ribbons
lifted her off the ground and onto the 
ceiling
away from the thing's slash just in time. "Damn
it!"

 

    Vahn snorted and looked up at her. Usagi's
eyes went 
wide as she saw something large emerge
from its back. A jetpack, the thing 
had a damn
jetpack. The jets roared to life and Vahn crouched
to leap up 
at her.

 

    "No!" she screamed as she willed herself to
move, but 
it was obvious she wouldn't be fast
enough.

 

    "SHI SHI HOUKOU DAN!"

 

    "Wa?" gasped the girl as a beam of power
slammed into 
Vahn and sent him crashing into a
wall. She dropped down to the ground, but 
didn't
have the strength to stand despite the fact that
she'd landed on 
her feet.

 

    A familiar pair of arms wrapped around her and
she 
gasped.

 

    Ryoga Hibiki was glaring at the thing in the
wall as 
it struggled to right itself again. He
glanced at Tanaka and then started to 
back away.
"Sailor Moon. Are you all right?"

 

    "Not really," replied the girl weakly.

 

    "Bastards," growled the boy as he turned and
ran, 
carrying the girl in his arms.

 

++++++++++++++

 

    A few minutes later, Ryoga was sitting in a
quiet 
park with a fire going in front of him.
Usagi was lying on the ground resting 
next to him.

 

    "Are you hurt?" he asked her gently as he
touched her 
face lightly.

 

    "Not really, that thing was really strong
though. 
I'll be a little sore, but I'm fine thanks
to you."

 

    Ryoga nodded and frowned at her. "You
shouldn't have 
tried fighting that thing! You
could have been killed!"

 

    "I can't run away," she replied calmly. "If I
don't 
fight it, who will?"

 

    Ryoga closed his eyes and nodded. "Still."

 

    "Don't worry. I'm sure it has a weakness, I've
just 
got to find it," she said with a smile on her
face. She blinked suddenly. 
"Hey. What the heck
were you doing in a place like that?"

 

    "What? What place?" he replied dumbly.

 

    "That was a whore house! Why were you there?
What, 
I'm not good enough?"

 

    Ryoga went beet red. "What? No! I heard the
noises, 
and went to check it out! I had no idea!"
he replied as fast as he 
could.

 

    "Oh," said the girl sheepishly. She wrapped
her arms 
around his neck. "Thank you Ryoga."

 

    "Yeah, sure," he muttered in 
embarrassment.
"Anytime."

 

    "I don't know what I would have done if you
hadn't 
come along, I mean it," she replied.

 

    "I couldn't let anything happen to you,"
replied the 
boy with a romantic look on his face
for the briefest of moments. "You should 
get home,
you need rest."

 

    "Ryoga, I don't think I need any sleep," she
said 
with a smirk growing on her face. She pulled
him down into a kiss and he 
floundered on top of
her for a moment before relaxing.

 

++++++++++++++

 

    "Oh my," muttered Jadeite as he stared at the
scene 
for a shadow. "Who could have known she had
it in her?"

 

    Xellos appeared beside him. "Oh, again?" he
muttered 
in slight disgust.

 

    "Aren't they..." asked Jadeite as he looked at
Xellos 
for a moment.

 

    "Yes, neither of them knows though," said
Xellos with 
a smirk on his face. "Still, this
thing could be a problem."

 

    "You're right, Usagi might not survive 
another
encounter with it. I couldn't make it fast enough
to stop her," 
said Jadeite. "I arrived just about
the same time he did. I would have had to 
blow my
cover and save her if not for him."

 

    "Such a shame," snorted Xellos lazily. "In any
case, 
I'll set mother on the right path, she
should be able to handle this. This is 
right up
Dan's alley really. They'll probably enjoy it."

 

    "Should we interrupt them? Yohiko won't be
pleased to 
find out her daughter is sleeping with
her cousin," asked Jadeite 
nervously.

 

    "No, as far as I'm concerned, neither one of
us knows 
about this. We're safer that way," said
Xellos with a slight wavering in his 
voice. "I'm
surprised the boy didn't pass out yet. Look at
what she's 
doing to him."

 

    "I'd rather not. Incest isn't my thing," said
Jadeite 
with a slightly sick frown. "Zocite and
Kunzite I can deal with, this is just 
sick."

 

    "I'll be surprised if the boy manages to
survive when 
her mother finds out about this,"
agreed Xellos as he started walking.

 

    "She doesn't know about Sailor Moon yet? 
I'm
surprised, she gets pretty banged up sometimes,"
commented 
Jadeite.

 

    "I've been healing anything major," said
Xellos. 
"Small wounds can be attributed to her
training."

 

    "Oh," said Jadeite with a small shrug. "I'll
be 
seeing you."

 

    "Yes, it's almost time," agreed Xellos as he
faded 
into the shadows.

 

    Jadeite shuddered as a cry of pleasure floated
over 
to where he was standing. "Little perverts,"
he grumbled as he faded away as 
well.

 

++++++++++++++

 

    TBC...

 

    Next time: Vahn's Revenge, the final chapter!

 

 

 

Perfect Carrot- Consuming the universe, one Aspect at a time.


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