<Lavender mists swirl...four times. Four Eternal Lost Lurkers appear in the
theater, accompanied by one Hikaru.>

Lurker 4: I guess Tora just couldn't take it anymore.

Lurker 2: How long are we gonna have to put up with this?

Lurker-1: Hopefully not too much longer. <scowls> Nobody is to go Super
during this MST, got it?

Lurker 3: <smirks> Che...who died and made you boss?

Hikaru: Guys...the fic?

Lurker 4: She's right, let's get started.

In the streets of Crystal Tokyo, darkness met light and war raged.  

Lurker 2: War was jealous of Darkness because he wanted to ask Light out.

Lurker-1, Lurker 4: <groan>

Roaring incoherently, Blood blasted Apollo with a gout of flame from his
other hand.  Apollo flew back and impacted a building, the wall cracking
under his impact.  "Did you really think I'd not be able to stop such an
amateurish attack?"  The black flame that wreathed his body grew higher

and

darker, and flowed from his hands, bathing Apollo in the chilling fire.
Apollo held his sword in front of him, and the flame split in twain, the
two streams striking the wall behind him, both freezing and burning it. 

Lurker 2: Nothing worse than freezerburn.

"You could never beat me, Apollo,"  Blood taunted, his aura flaring as he
sent spurt after spurt of dark fire at the silver man.  "I was always
better than you.  You always lost to me, and you're going to lose again
now!"

Lurker 4: How's that for a pep talk?

Lurker 2: If that's supposed to be brotherly love, it sucks.

The burning darkness was mere inches from Apollo's sides, and he could

feel

the heat and coldness on his skin.  "You're right," he hissed in pain as

he

felt the flame lick at his skin, and he knew the power that had protected
him was almost gone.  "I could never beat Ares."  Sudden realization hit
him, and with it, a resolve he had never known before. Like a dam

bursting,

he felt power flow into his veins.  Apollo straightened, and silver
lightning crackled across his skin.

Lurker 3: Looks like he's been busy with Jupiter...

<Hikaru bashes Lurker 3>

"I could never beat Ares," Apollo said through clenched teeth, and the
lightning seemed to fill a sphere around him, so that he was painful to
look at.  "BUT YOU ARE NOT HIM!" he roared.  

Lurker-1: *Good* line.

He charged at Blood, cutting
through the dark flame like it was nothing.  He swung his sword in a

deadly

diagonal cut, the blade driving deep into the space between Blood's
shoulder and neck.

Lurker 2: Kore wa itten da.

Lurker-1: <winces>

Lurker 4: You want to translate that for the readers who don't speak
Japanese?

Lurker 3: <groans> Don't do it...

Lurker 2: <grins> There can be only one.

Lurker 3: Kuso....

As the blade entered Blood's body, the black flames winked out and his

eyes

cleared.  "Apollo," Ares hissed as the sword was removed.  "Quickly,

finish

it.  Kill me before he takes control again."  Apollo raised his weapon,

his

aura flaring brighter, and then he looked into Ares' eyes.  His aura
flickered out, and Ares shook his head in negation.  "Do it!"

Lurker 2: Just do it.

<a giant purple Nike falls on Lurker 2, crushing him>

Lurker 4: Knock it off.

"NO!!!" Mars cried, and ran toward the two men, placing herself between
Ares and Apollo.   She awkwardly held up Crimson's shield as she tried to
ward off the blow, and tears streamed down her face.  "No!  I just got

him

back, Apollo.  I can't lose him again.  I just can't!" 

Lurker 2: <Mars voice> I need him to open this jar for me...

"Rei," Ares said, his voice hoarse.  "Move out of the way.  It's the only
way."  He reached up his arm and tried to push her out of the way, but
before he could touch her, his eyes began to mist over with redness.  "I
can't hold him much longer, Rei."

Lurker 2: <bad Scottish accent> She cannae take much more Cap'n, she's
breakin' apart!

They crumpled to the ground and lay very still.  "Fools!  You handed me
victory," Blood laughed into the streets of the city.  "This body is

mine! 

This city will be mine!  This world will be mine!"  He walked a few steps
and sneered down at Crimson's shield.

Lurker 4: Not *too* ambitious, is he?

Once again, pain burned in Blood's head, and he looked in horror as he

took

a step towards the shield, then another.  "NO!  You can't do this!  I

won! 

She's dead!  I WON!"  Another two steps, and Blood fell to his knees. 

His

arms shook as he fought for dominance.

Lurker 4: Wanna bet?

*Ten thousand years you bastard three lifetimes I've loved her I'm gonna
kill you*

Lurker-1: Whoo boy. 

Blood's universe was the pure, seething agony that came from the shield

he

was being forced to hold, and the blinding, staggering pain that Ares
inflicted on him from within their shared mind.  Seconds felt like eons

as

he tried to fight off Ares's regained control, and he felt himself come
under attack from those twin fronts.

*GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!*

Lurker 2: "It won't give up it wants me dead goddamn this noise inside my
head..."

<The other Lurkers dogpile him, and beat the living shit out of him>

He lifted her body up, and held her in his lap.  "Rei?" he whispered,
shaking her slightly.  She moved like a manikin, every muscle limp, and

Lurker-1: Mannequin

tears formed in his eyes.  "I'm sorry, Rei, I failed you again."  He

hugged

her body to his chest, and rocked her back and forth.  "I failed you
again," he repeated, and cried.  After a minute, a scream tore from his
throat and echoed through the city streets.  "REEEEEEIIIIIII!!!!!!!"

Lurker 4: <Rei voice> GEEENNNDOOOOUUUU!!!

Lurker 2: Wrong Rei, aho.

"Dammit, stupid idiot lone-wolf amateurs!" Sailor Uranus cursed for the
tenth time.  "Why couldn't Apollo wait for us?"  She, Neptune, and

Jupiter

stood on the roof of one of the few skyscrapers in Crystal Tokyo.  "We'll
never find him in this city!"

"Do what we always did," Jupiter suggested.  At Uranus's inquisitive

look,

she elaborated. "Listen for the screams."

Lurkers, Hikaru: <ROFL>

Over one of streets in the city, a black cloud hung.  As they watched, it
grew bigger, and larger, boiling and rolling as it expanded.  It seemed

to

shift and move until it was a vaguely humaniod shape.

Lurker 2: Alright, who's been eating the chili again?

The first thing that greeted the three Senshi's eyes was the devastation
the battle had wrought.  The street and sidewalks were cracked with

craters

and littered with debris.  The walls of the nearby buildings were caved

in

or scorched.  In the center of all this wreckage, a twenty foot tall
humanoid cloud stood, its black form furiously boiling and writhing.

Lurker 2: Nothing like a bad case of gas...

Lurker 4: That is nothing like a bad case of gas.

Near them, his back to the cloud, Ares sat on the ground, hugging Sailor
Mars to his chest.  He rocked her back and forth, oblivious to the threat
behind him or the recent arrivals.  Sailor Jupiter looked around the
carnage, and caught sight of Apollo crumpled on the ground.  She went to
his side and checked him out.

Lurker 3: <Jupiter voice> He looks just like my sempai!

"SPACE SWORD BLASTER!"  Neptune pushed Ares away, and turned to look at
Uranus and the humanoid cloud.  Uranus was preparing for another attack
while trying to dodge the wildly swinging enemy.  As she watched, the

cloud

stopped its charge and turned to look at Ares and Mars.  With a roar like
the winds of a typhoon, it charged at them.

Lurker 4: How do you stop a cloud from charging?

Lurker 2: Take away his Counter materia.

Lurker-1: <groan>

"CRIMSON BRILLIANCE!"  Ares stabbed his fist at the ground, and brilliant
red light burst from the impact.  First, red light washed over him,

turning

him into a silhouette of a man wearing armor.  He stood, and silver light
exploded from his bracers, washing away the red light and revealing the

red

and silver armor Serenity had gifted him with.  Red and orange flame

danced

over his body, swarming at the locations of his wounds and burning them
away.  "All right, you bastard, let's go,"  Crimson growled.

Lurker 4: Yes! Time for round two!

The monster pulled its arm back, and made a wild sweeping punch at

Crimson,

which the man caught on his shield.  Grunting with exertion, he held the
fist back, and bowed his head under his shield as the shadow rained blow
after blow on him.  "Michiru," he yelled.  "Get Rei out of here, and then
back me up!"  He rolled out of the way as a World Shaking from Uranus
plowed through the area where Crimson had stood.  "And watch where you're
shooting, Haruka!"

Lurker-1: <chuckle>

He jumped high into the air, and came down behind the giant shadow, his
shield passing through one of the creature's arms, which dissipated into
the air.  Roaring in pain, it reformed the arm, growing slightly shorter

as

it did so.  The monster whirled on Crimson and sent a flurry of blows

after

him, which he jumped, rolled, and weaved around, lopping off its hand in
the process.

Lurker 2: Gotta hand it to him...

Lurker 4: <decks Lurker 2 in the jaw> Don't.

Following a reflex he couldn't understand, Crimson caught the bolt on his
shield, which seemed to transform into pure fire.  Whirling on his feet,

he

threw the shield straight at the monster, the burning disk flying from

his

hands and passing right through the creature's chest, leaving a gaping

hole

in its wake.  

Lurker 2: "There's a hole in my heart..."

Lurker 4, Lurker 3, Lurker-1, Hikaru: <groan>

"It's over," Crimson said, and caught his shield as it flew back to him. 
He turned to Mars, and she ran over and hugged him, weeping in his arms. 
Tears of joy falling from his own eyes, he held her as he transformed

back

into Ares.  "Never again."

<applause>

Ares stopped his ministrations and sighed.  "Do I have to?  I'm really

not

up to dealing with the marriage crew right now."  He groaned inwardly as
Rei turned and gave him a wide-eyed look.

"Don't you WANT to marry me?" she asked, and set her lower lip trembling.

"I thought-" she was cut off as Ares kissed her firmly.

"Dummy," he scolded her good-naturedly.  "Of COURSE I want to marry you."

He paused.  "But did we have to let Minako plan the wedding?"

Lurkers, Hikaru: <chuckle>

"It was either her or Serenity, and she wanted to make it a public event,
complete with a national holiday.  I refuse to have reporters at my
wedding," she insisted darkly.  "Let them annoy her and Endymion, I want

us

to be left alone."

Lurkers, Hikaru: <laughter>

"I am, Rei, trust me," he assured her quickly while opening the door, and
grinned at his brother who was waiting in the hall.  "Morning, Apollo,

you

look..." he struggled for words.  "...tired."

Apollo shook his head in negation.  "Don't go there, bro.  Just don't go
there."

Lurker 3: Heh heh heh...

Other Lurkers, Hikaru: <sweatdrop>

In a private room in Crystal Tokyo, a child was born.  The mother held

her

child in her arms and beamed up at her grinning husband.  "He's

beautiful,"

she whispered.

"Have you two decided on a name?" the doctor asked her friends.

The man looked at his family and smiled.   He opened his mouth to speak,
but was struck dumb as the boy's eyes opened and shone with a golden

light.

 The symbol for Uranus pulsed for a moment of his forehead.

Lurker 4: Uh-oh!

Rei looked up from her child and smiled sheepishly at the stunned Ares. 
"His name is Auric," she told Ami.  "A Shieldsman."

THE END

<massive applause>

Lurker-1: That was an incredible ending, God-boy. Absolutely beautiful. 

Hikaru: Well done.

Lurker-1: Well, now Shieldsman is over...when are we going to see more of
Oh! My Brother? We'll be here...<looks around> Ahem, Hopefully, only *one*
of us will be here...for your next fic. Ja ne!

<Lavender mists swirl four times, and the group vanishes>

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Another Not Gonna Do It production...

"Senshi....Sailorize!"
"Anima-mates...Terrorize!"

Transformers: Sailor Wars
Not gonna do it...wouldn't be prudent.

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