I guess I'll be continuing this thing in bits like this - small
eppisodes - for now.  Sometime soon it may become more of a major plotline
undertaking, but for now this is how it's going to be: eppisodic.

hope you enjoy it!


	The next week or so, I sweated.  Jeddite hadn't yet returned, and I was getting
antsy - seeing Sailors around  every corner, that sort of thing.
	Of course the experimentation I was doing with my powers probably didn't
help - it used up lots of energy - energy I had to replace regularly.
Endurance, I just didn't have.  But I did find out a few things that in
retrospect, make more sense than they did at the time.
	Youma, you see, universally posses the capability to become mages.  Most,
however, don't.  Because there are always a few magical talents that come
easily to you - things you can do instinctively, without resorting to spells
- and Youma are really low on the 'personal effort' thing, for the most part.
	They always want the easy way out, and never put in the time and study
necessary
to learn spellcasting.
	I don't know how it is for Senchi, but I'd assume it's the same.  Then
again, maybe not...

	With me it was teleporting and sensing that came easily.  I quickly found
out that I could sense energy (most youma can, but I'm exceptionally good at
it - I can even sense energy in empty space if I go into a meditative
trance), and that I could teleport quite well.  I just needed to have a
vague idea where I was going, and enough energy - though it takes a *lot* of
energy - believe me people like the Generals and the Sailors - who teleport
at the drop of a hat - are the exception, not the rule.
	I also had an energy bolt - more or less a concussion blast like Largo's
but not
nearly as strong.  I could get the same result out of just hitting something
- it wasn't real useful.
	But I was fast.  Really really fast.
	That saved my life when I tried to move to Singapore...

	Now, you're probably thinking, as I was, that Minako, Aka Sailor V, was in
London at about this time.  After all, that's all the place the Dic series
says she went, but, well, Dic conveniently forgets to mention she was in
Italy and Hawaii as well.  And she spent a couple of very *eventfull* nights
in Singapore. (something about a late flight and missing her transfer..)
 	I know, I was there for one of them.
	I'd just had a particularly close call involving two sailor suited heroines
and a black, youma sensing cat, and decided that a week on the run and a
thoroughly destroyed Ferrari were quite enough excitement for one month.
	I needed to move a less hostile clime, and flights to Singapore were cheap.
(hey, have you seen the prices for rent in Tokyo lately?  I was getting
short on cash!)
	So I figured, 'what the ****, they couldn't possibly follow me, what could go
wrong?' and flew the coop. 
	And of course, by this time I'm almost totally tapped out, so by the time
the plane touched down I was in serious want of some power.  So following
well honed instincts (or not so well honed, concidering what happened..)  I
decided to go to a rock concert I'd seen advertised, and glut myself.  
	I figured that if I could take in enough power  in one sitting I could go
underground and not have to worry about being spotted anymore.  And besides,
it was a goth concert - The shadow song, or some such band.  Everyone there
wanted to be terminally depressed anyway, so if I kept my draining low
level, who would notice?
	Famous last words...

	So I get there, but of course I had to walk, so I'm late.    And of course
the Shadow Cabinet is the band in concert, and of course, they're all youma
on assignment. 
	And *of course* Sailor V has shown up to defeat their 'nefarious plot.
(Which it
was, anyone who would sing *that* drivel in front  of an audience deserves
to be shot) 
	Some days you just can't win.
	The instant I walk in the door I notice the crowd (in a frenzy), The band
(glowing with dark power and practically *shouting* 'we're youma'), and
Sailor V (throwing crescent beams all over the place and making me very
nervous.)
	So I mutter something highly uncomplimentary and turn to leave - so it's
then that I notice the force field on the door that's keeping the fans from
leaving.  And I don't have enough power to break out.
	By this time I'm in a really bad mood.  So when this true died-in-the-black
goth
bumps into me and asks who I am, I snapped.
	"I'm from the department of energy - and I'm taking yours." I said, and I
did. Didn't bother to be subtle either, which was a mistake.  Instead I just
hauled off and drained as many people into unconsciousness as quickly as
possible, filling every containment gem I'd been able to make. (I copied
them from the one Jeddite made me.  The fact that I didn't know what I was
doing didn't especially distress me..amazing what one can do when one
doesn't know what one can't do....)
	So at this point the Shadow Cabinet has vamoosed, and Sailor V notices me.
	I got lucky the first time: I'd missed sensing the Crescent Beam building
up but
tripped over an unconscious concert goer  and kissed dirt.   But the second
and third bolts I legitimately dodged.  By that time that Mina was getting
mighty annoyed and I'd forgotten something about our heroine(maybe because I
was staring at those legs...).
	Out comes the gun, and blam, blam, blam.    She obviously doesn't want me
here.. I obliged her by teleporting like a scalded cat.   Where does she
hide that thing anyway? 
	I only got to the edge of the sheild.  
	I immediately realized that while that thing was up, I wasn't going
anywhere.  I
found out later that it was a parting gift from the Shadow Cabinet, for
moving in on their turf. 
	Unfortunately this leaves me in a coliseum with half a million unconscious
people and a pissed off senchi who has obviously had her concert going plans
for tonight ruined.   I decided instantly that standing still was a bad
idea, and jumped up to the ceiling braces (good move).  Then I decided to
see if I could talk my way out of this (bad move).
	"Hey! Um, Sailor V?" Don't make her panic by using Minako, gotta
remembernot to do that.."Could you not shoot at me, please?"  I assayed in
my best 'I'm just a worker youma' voice.  This immediately required more
dodging...blam, blam, Crescent beam, blam yada yada..so obviously not.
	"You've deprived innocent concert goers of their well deserved fun!  Your
friends may have fled but you'll not escape the wrath of Sailor V!"  Ouch.
She must *really* have wanted to go to this concert.
	"They're no friends of mine!  They trapped me here! Uh, I'm sorry about
the, you
know, the other fans.  I sorta panicked." Ohshitonmeteleportnow.  That
Crescent Boomerang move isn't nice at all, especially when she uses the
Crescent slender beam to lead it.  It cut down most of the lights and
rigging I'd been hiding behind..
	"There is no excuse for such evil actions!"  By this time the inside of the
place is starting to look like an observatory..holes everywhere..She's
obviously very pissed.  And moving to take better aim.  My time to
rabbit..again.
	"Um, they'll be all right in the mourning.  They're just tired." Ah HA! A
door to the roof!  I slammed myself into it.
	"You loose."  I bounced.  Damn forcefeild.  Unfortunately Mina had me
dead-bang: 
I'd fallen from the second floor catwalk onto the stage - no cover in sight.
	I did the only thing I could: Return fire.  
	Her turn to dodge while I headed for cover and my force bolts took chips
out of the floor.  At this rate even the hoard of energy I took isn't going
to last long...I needed a way out...I hid.  Then I tried to sense the force
field - successfully as it happens.
	It had a very interesting flaw: It didn't extend underground - it cut off
at ground level and only blocked teleports from that direction, not bodies.
I guess they figured the ground would do that.
	I headed for the sewer.  I'd sensed a manhole just inside the field - it
had been built over, but a really over powered force bolt took care of that
problem.
	Unfortunately Mina followed me.
	Fortunately I was able to loose her by hiding underwater.
	Unfortunately she somehow managed to find me again as I hit street level.
	Oh well.  At least now I could run.  I did.
	It was fun until the we ran into the ninja hit squad.  They were just
getting off a job, and climbing down some apartment building I'd decided to
climb up (it had neat ledges that made great cover).
	We were witnesses.  Witnesses are overhead.
	Things got ugly.
	Now, some hour and a half later, between the two of us, there are twenty or
so less ninja in the world.  Supernatural powers go a long way in these
situations.
	Of course by that time we were both exhausted out of our minds.  She, after
all, had already done the four-on-one drive off youma thing once tonight
before starting this whole chase thing.
	I had problems enough just keeping ahead of her.   I still had two charged
gems left, but using that energy takes something out of you to.
	So as the last ninja falls, I half collapse against a water tower that
dominates the roof of the skyscraper we ended up on, and groan, She manages
to sit up and point that gun at me.  I manage to lurch to my feet and it
goes 'click', and she gets this comical expression.
	I managed to find my voice on the third try.  
	"Truce? Please?  At least until we can get off this building?"  She just
nodded, and panted.  After a minute, she said "I'll get you tomorrow." and
lurched over to the edge - then she sank back from edge of the building in
exasperation.  
	"Problem?" I managed to croak out.
	"It's..to bloody..far down. " I laughed, She glared at me.
	I staggered over to her and offered her a hand, which she looked at
uncertainly.
	"Here, I'll give you a ride down."  Caution warred with exhaustion for a
bit, but she eventually took it.  
	Just to make a point I half drained another gem to teleport us both.  It
apparently isn't a comfy ride for others - she looked ill afterwards.   It
wasn't fun for me either - I was tired, and teleporting two is *hard*.
	I took her over to a bench to sit down, smiled at the cat, muttered, 'nice
legs' and tried to vanish into the crowd.     
 	From the sound of things I don't think she'd noticed the condition of her
skirt until then.
	That's how I met Sailor V.
I figure someday I'm going to pay for my parting words.