Okay, this is the wrapup for the first arc.  Enjoy.  Oh, and there are
some questions at the bottom that I need answered for future parts of
this series, so if you'd be so kind, I'd love to hear from you.

Disclaimer goes here.  (Sailor Moon and Tenchi Muyo!)

Part 11

	Usagi struggled to keep her eyes open through Washuu's lecture.  It
wasn't easy since she was running very low on sleep.  
	The entire night before had been one long unending series of tests and
examinations, sometimes together, but mostly one at a time.  Sleep had
been gathered in ten and twenty minute packets, but never enough.
	"... and so you see the Soja was tied into multiple dimensions at the
same time.  That means that when it exploded, some of the force from the
blast tried to spill over into the other dimension but was blocked by
the safety precautions that I had installed.  Those precautions,
however, were not designed to handle a blast of quite that magnitude."
	Washuu was lecturing from behind a small podium.  Usagi finally gave in
and let her head sink toward her desk.  
	Before it could make the landing, though, a chalkboard eraser whizzed
across the room and smacked her on the forehead.  "Ms. Tsukino, I would
appreciate you paying attention in class."
	Usagi groaned but forced her eyes open again.  "Yes, ma'am."
	"Where was I?  Oh, yes, when the safety buffers were overloaded, a
dimensional resonance was created which then transmuted into a wave. 
The fabric of dimensions is very hard to shift, but once you get it
started, it can go a long way before it stops."
	"When Soja exploded, such a resonance was created and a loop of this
reality was sent hurdling across the multiverse.  As it went, it slowly
lost speed from each dimension that it passed through until it finally
came to a stop in your world.  At the point where it stopped, the two
dimensions "overlapped" for a few milliseconds before it began to return
to it's normal shape.  During that brief period of overlap, it seems
that your astral signatures were imprinted on this reality and it
brought you back with it."
	Washuu paused as Ami raised her hand.  "Yes, Ms. Mizuno?"
	"Ms. Washuu, why did Lady Mercury come into this world with her body
and her ship while the rest of them didn't?"
	"Good question.  I'll be glad to explain it to you as soon as Ms. Aino
wakes up!" Another eraser found its mark.  "Thank you."
	"The wave apparently manifested in your world at roughly the point
where it was created in this world, near Earth.  Thus it was still
moving and didn't fully overlap.  Mercury, however, was much farther
from Earth and thus was closer to the point where our reality stopped,
and as such, was more fully copied into this dimension.  It is because
of her strong astral signature and, her strong ties to the ship's
computer that they were copied at all.  Normal humans, and most other
races wouldn't have been picked up by this reality, no matter how
"close" they were."
	"Any questions?  Yes, Ms. Kino?"
	"But, if we were just being copied, why did we end up in the same
bodies as our other selves?"
	"Simple.  When you were copied, the reality must have tried to
overwrite the copy of your astral signature that already existed in this
world.  That would have meant that you would have ended up in younger
bodies but without the younger minds.  Instead, the differences in your
astral signatures were so great that they didn't actually cover each
other and you just ended up in that body.  Things would have been worse
if the wave had hit your reality a few hundred years earlier."
	"Any more questions?  Ms. Aino?"
	"Will there be a quiz on this?"
	Minako, fortunately, was saved by the bell, or buzzer, as it was. 
Their new bodies were ready.

***

	Both copies of Haruka, Michiru, and Hotaru woke up a little while after
the Inner Senshi started their own separation process.  They were all a
bit groggy, but the feeling that they were alone in their own heads was
more than enough compensation for Haruka and Michiru.  All four of
them.  Hotaru didn't really notice a difference as her personalities had
been mingled almost the entire time that she had been conscious..
	They just sat quietly for a while, savoring the silence.  Well, except
for the Hotarus where were chatting away and giggling.
	"Hello, girls.  Good to see that you're awake.  How are those new
bodies?"
	Haruka smiled and made held out her arm and made a fist.  "They seem to
be just fine.  Is there any reason why we look the same age as the other
bodies?  I mean, couldn't you have made us look at least a little
different?"
	Mercury frowned a little.  "I don't really know.  Washuu did all the
designing, even though I did manage to talk her out of a few things that
she wanted to try...  I guess she just decided that it would be more fun
this way."
	"Fun?" interjected younger Michiru.  "How are we supposed to explain a
set of twin sisters?"
	"You'd be surprised how much �fun' has to do with getting Washuu's help
at all.  As for appearing as twins, I'd advise against it, actually. 
Change hair styles and pretend to be cousins, maybe.  I'll hack you some
documents later if you want to go to school."
	"Yeah, that'd be nice.  I'm going to need a driver's licence," elder
Haruka added.
	Her younger self looked at her strangely.  "Don't even think about
driving my car."
	"Why not?  I'm you so your car is my car.  Only makes sense."
	Soon they degenerated into an argument and Mercury was forced to turn
to the Michirus for conversation.
	"Well, what are your plans after this?  Are you going to join the other
Senshi?  I believe they have planned some sort of training program or
something."
	The older Michiru thought about it for a few moments.  "No, I think we
need to make sure the Deathbusters are actually gone.  We didn't do a
very thorough job of it this time.  Besides, we need to make sure that
Hotaru's taken care of."
	Mercury nodded, knowing well Michiru's soft spot for the younger girl. 
"I see.  Professor Tomoe is around here somewhere, I believe.  You might
want to talk to him about a place to stay if you want to take care of
his daughter and I'd personally like for you to keep an eye on him and
make sure that his research doesn't cause any problems.  Washuu was
giving him some advice and God only knows what kind of trouble that'll
get him into."  
	She looked down at her watch.  "I'd better be getting back to the lab,
the others should be coming out of the protein bath any minute now."
	Both Michiru's bowed to her and she reciprocated and left. 
	The younger Michiru turned to the older and asked a question.  "So,
what about us?"
	"You?  You're going to get some training, too."
	"I see.  What kind of training?"
	"Combat, tactics, some basic magic, diplomacy, everything that you're
going to need to be a Senshi.  Oh, and the most important skill of all."
	"Most important skill?  I'd have thought it would be combat."
	"No, not by a long shot.  The most important skill that you can learn,
my dear, is controlling Haruka."
	"Oh," she replied quietly.
	"Haruka!" her older self called.  School was in session.

***

	Some hours later, the rest of the Senshi woke up and after a little
initial confusion, began to make the plans that they had all been
thinking about but didn't voice because they doubted that they would
ever actually get separate bodies.
	"So, what are we going to do now?  I mean, we can't just go back home
and hope that no one notices that we're suddenly twins," younger Rei
said.
	"Well... ah..." older Makoto began.  Everyone looked at her
expectantly.  "Well, Minako and I decided that... well, we're not going
back to Tokyo for a while."
	A mummer of alarm rippled through the other Senshi.  
	"Is there any reason for this decision?" Serenity asked calmly.  Even
if her body was identical to Usagi's there was no mistaking the two.
	"Yeah," Minako leapt in.  "We're going to England to see what became of
the Dark Kingdom's other gateway to Earth.  If Sailor V didn't destroy
it like she did in our world, then we need to find out if its usable or
not.  If it's already open, we need to destroy or disable it so we don't
have to fight on two fronts at once.  If it's still closed, we should
see about strengthening the barriers in case we decide to use it as a
back door later."
	Serenity nodded but still had her reservations.  "How long do you think
it will take?"
	"A couple weeks to destroy it, more if it's not open and we have to
figure out how the wards work," Makoto said.
	"Don't take too long.  How about you, Rei-chan?"  Serenity directed the
last towards elder Rei.  
	"Umm... well, I can probably cut my hair and put on a little make-up or
something and pretend to be a distant cousin who wants to work at the
shrine.  It shouldn't be too hard to convince grandpa to put up a pretty
young thing like myself," she grinned, her cheeks dimpling cutely.
	Some of the others groaned at her display, younger Rei most of all.  "I
can't believe that I ever turn into her," she muttered.
	"What was that?  Did you say something?" elder Rei asked, somehow
managing to keep up the ultra-cute look and appear menacing at the same
time.
	"Ah... I was just wondering what Serenity-sama's going to do.  Her
parents probably won't go for the distant cousin thing..."  She trailed
off when she noticed the elders giving her a strange look.
	"Good idea!" Serenity exclaimed and turned to Mercury, who no one else
had noticed come in.  "Can you whip up a Luna-P?  I'm going to need to
do a little mind control on mom and dad."
	"Wouldn't it just be easier to do it telepathically?" Mercury asked.
	"Easier, yes, but the Luna-P's effect lasts a lot longer.  Besides,
it's worked before."
	"Yeah, that brings up another topic, what are we going to call you? 
Chibi-Usa, maybe?" elder Rei jibed.
	"I think that Serenity is a perfectly acceptable name.  Though having
two Reis is going to be strange."
	"I'll think up something.  But isn't Serenity a bit too European or
American?"
	"We have a few relatives in California, so I'll just pretend to be from
there.  Fake an accent for a week or two and no one will ever notice. 
That is, if Mercury can create us identities on paper, too."
	Mercury nodded and soon talk drifted to other business.

***

	Endyminion, one time King, and Mamouro, future King, awoke in a
separate room where Professor Tomoe was sitting, pouring over a sheaf of
notes.  Every so often he would giggle in delight and keep on reading.
	After a few minutes of watching him, Endyminion decided to risk
disturbing him, if that's possible.  "So, Professor, what do you have
there?"
	"Little Washuu, God bless her," he hugged the notes to his chest,
"showed me what I was doing wrong with the teleportation research!  With
these notes, I'll have a working prototype in no time at all!"  He was
almost frothing with joy.
	"Ah... Professor, didn't that get you into a lot of trouble last time?"
	"Yes, but she also showed me why that happened.  I'm not going to let
the device be that undirected again, believe me."
	"If you're going to do it at all, make sure that you're careful.  The
last thing we need is some interstellar horror rampaging through Tokyo
or a terrorist group with the power to plant bombs anywhere."
	The professor, for his part, didn't seem to be paying attention.
	Mamouro decided that this was a pointless conversation and made a
suggestion.  "Why don't we go and find the others?  It's probably
getting about time for us to be heading home if I'm going to get any
sleep before class tomorrow."

***

	The train ride home was just as uneventful as the ride out to Okayama
the day before had been.  Usagi and Mamouro sat close together, though
not as close as before, and Endyminion and Serenity sat far closer.  
	Ami, for her part, was trying to get a head start on the assignments
that Lady Mercury had given her.  Mercury planned to stay with Washuu
for a while and work on some things but had decided that was no reason
not to help Ami better herself, or so she claimed.
	Probably for the first time in her academic career, she was being
challenged.  It was a bit annoying, but she was enough of a realist to
understand that she would gain far more knowledge this way.
	Besides, the first task was to write a more effective piece of youma
detection software than the Mercury computer was currently using.  There
were some notes and data files included with Mercury's specs to help her
along, but it was still going to take a while.  
	The two Reis, for their part, were busy getting a head start on
"training."  They'd already been at it for a couple hours and younger
Rei did seem to be having a bit of success.  She was conjuring up a tiny
needle of flame and getting it to move about her palm without burning
her.  She'd already burned herself several dozen times, but that didn't
stop her from continuing.  
	The burns, after all, were quite mild since her control broke the
second she felt the pain and the little flame disappeared.  And as the
ride went on, her yelps grew fewer and farther between.
	Minako and Makoto were both lost in thought trying to figure out why
their other selves hadn't stayed around once they got new bodies.  
	Outside, finally, the Juuban station began to roll into view and they
began to gather their things for disembarking.  Serenity took up the
rather bulky bag of gadgets that she had gotten Mercury to produce
before they left and checked to make sure that everything was still in
place.

***

	Far away, in a slightly different dimension, Washuu was watching the
data she had gathered on the Senshi scroll past and chuckling to
herself.  She would have paid quite a lot for this kind of information,
certainly more than a handful of cloned bodies.
	"Little Washuu?  What do you have there?" Mercury asked from behind
her.
	She jumped slightly in surprise.  "Nothing!"  She quietly keyed the
clear screen command.  "I was just reviewing some data that the external
sensors picked up earlier.  Say, why are you still here?"
	"You said that you needed a lab assistant for something and I've no
other pressing engagements so I thought that I'd stick around..."
	"Yeah, I did say that, didn't I.  Hmm..." Washuu pondered.  "First
thing we can do is go down to the tribble pens.  I've got a very
interesting specimen down there."

***

	In another laboratory, this one much darker and even more sinister, a
shadowy figure sat.  His monitor was slowly scrolling data stolen from
Washuu's computer via a tap he had planted many years ago.  He hadn't
thought it would be that useful at the time, but now it was proving
invaluable.
	He laughed manically as he contemplated his revenge.  Yes, this was
exactly what he needed to grind Washuu into the ground with.
	He wouldn't make the same mistakes twice.

END ARC

I'd just like to say: "WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!"  That's better.  This is the end
of the first arc of the story.  The second arc is being thought about
even as I type and the third arc already has a little set up going on it
(the last scene in this part).  The next arc is pure SM, well, almost,
anyway.  It's got little or no Tenchi content.

Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone that wrote to me while this thing was
being produced.  Your kind/not so kind words were of much help in the
motivation department, if nothing else.  Any ideas on what you would
like to see in the next arc are more than welcome, as well as any
thoughts/gripes/whatever on this and previous chapters.

Anyway, I've got a few questions that I need answered before I start on
more stuff, they follow:

1) What were the original names of the Dark Generals?  Did they ever
say?  (This is a manga question, BTW, I know they didn't say in the
anime.)

2) What were a few of Jadeites least silly ploys?  I went back to start
watching the first season (recorded DIC from TV) but the taped marked
"Sailor Moon tape 1" was for at the start of the second arc of R (that
never got done) which means that I must have borrowed the recordings of
the first season from a friend who has since recorded over them.

3) Who were the carriers of the Rainbow crystals?  Names, if you can
find them, and brief description, please.  I know that there was the
painter lady, Ryo Urawa, the priest and... geeze, that's all I know. 
Also, in all, were there 7 or 8 or some other number?

4) I need a suggestion for a name for elder Mars.  Preferably Japanese
and not overused in fics/anime in general.  Otherwise we're going to end
up with something cutsie (I don't trust myself on this one).

5) I'm getting ahead of myself here, but what were the Cardians from R
(arc 1) called in the Japanese?

And that should hold me for a few chapters, at least.  Please note that
the daily fanfic thing will probably take a hiatus or perhaps stop all
together (not me writing, but I'm not going to write at the same speed).
I kept it up for 11 days averaging around 18k a day so I'm proud of
myself.
-- 
Tim Williams
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/twillia/ 

"This time, we're leaving nothing to the imagination.  We tried that
last time, and, in our opinion, it didn't work." -- Henry Rollins,
"Driveby Shooting"