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Mythic Sailor Moon
Episode 3

    A Back Road in Southern Macedonia, Crystal Era
    En Route Toward Bulgaria

Makes me wonder whether that pint-sized archaeologist
adventurer and her side-kick had any descendants.  

The jeep leapt several feet in the air as the front wheels cleared the
mound of dirt and stones in the corner of the narrow track that was all
that served as a road.  The passenger yelped in surprise, and perhaps
terror as well. He was a tall man, with a scar that nearly divided his
face in half; long, curly black hair except for a shock of white from

His hair didn't look curly to me.  

the brow near his scarline. He wore an old fashioned suit and a
Victorian rain cape. He was a doctor, and he even carried a little black
bag.  Surgeons are known for the agility of their fingers; this one was
using raw strength to hold onto the jeep's foam-wrapped roll bars. 

"I have no idea, I think I'm about to go hysterical."  The Nemesite
gulped.
"Could you please try not to? The are some combustables onboard and we

"combustibles"  

MIGHT just be able to make it out of this mess."

Rei grinned, her teeth clenched tightly. She would not break. No, she
was strong. If someone was going to start laughing like a hyeana in a

"hyena"

situation like this it would certainly be Minako-- Rei shook herself to
clear her wild train of thoughts. "What happened? Did we misjump?"

"No, I don't think so," Topaz replied as he tried shifting. Rei came
over and started examinging his firm, muscular leg. "I think someone

"examining"

saboutaged the jump drive. I had this ship custom-modified with an

"sabotaged"

auxiliary drive; it's only capable of a microjump but it comes online if
there's engine damge, such as stress damage after a battle that was
undetected."

"You've fought others in space before!" Rei exclaimed. Topaz nodded
levelly. "A few. I guess you could call them 'border skirmishes.'

New paragraph with a new speaker.  

Anyway, the auxiliary kicked in and eased us back into normal space when
the main drive failed. But where we are . . . it seems like we've
crashed."

"Doesn't feel like a planetary gravity," Rei said with a frown. She went
to the locker marked 'Emergency' and took out a first aid kit. Inside
she found a self-inflating splint and some choice medications.  "If we
got say, halfway through the Eridani Corridor, we might be in a space
debris field." Topaz began to nod his assent but broke off with a gasp
as Rei straightened his leg and then wrapped the plastic cast around his
lower leg and up past his knee.  She broke the inflation tab and a
chemical reaction inflated the cast and solidified it moments later.
"Don't try to move for at least five minutes. That thing has to harden
in place." His teeth gritted, Topaz agreed.

Rei got up and started looking at the instrumentation panels. Topaz
directed her to the damage control station and she brought the auxiliary
controls online. Lights around the bridge began to glow faintly and she
sighed with relief. The ship wasn't totally powerless; the main system
power had just cut out like a tripped circuit breaker.  She brought up
the ship's hull integrity display and groaned.

Quite clearly, the large round shape sticking into the hull was NOT
supposed to be there.  "Kamis," she muttered. "We've hit an asteroid."
Topaz moaned, and not from his leg injury.

The Palace of Neo-Queen Serenity, Crystal Tokyo, Crystal Era
Inside The Queen's Crystal Pinnacle Garden

"MAMORU!" screamed Neo-Queen Serenity as she started to crumple toward
the sitting bench. King Endymion leapt to her side from where he had
been tending one of his rosebushes, and caught her before she fell to
the ground. He gritted his teeth as he felt the sensation of something
tearing at the sudden movement. He hadn't been out of bed long, in fact
he still had a touch of frost on the hair at his temples from the
physical strain his body'd been under.

He was somewhat relieved to have discovered that his hair had NOT turned
lavender with age; it had simply been a color distortion effect of his
astrally projected state.  Though he did have one lavender Tuxedo he
sometimes wore for Sunday walks in the park. Chibi-Usa loved it but he,
personally, thought it was somewhat unmanly. Still, he could wear it now
and then to make his daughter happy.

"Usako!" he hissed under his breath. Even here, they kept up the fa�ade
of "Endymion" and "Serenity."  With publicity, their birth and pet names
for each other had become powerfully intimate. As he held her in his
arms, he saw that her pupils were nearly fully dialated; it was as if
she was looking beyond him. His breath nearly caught in his throat.  He
didn't know what had caused this but he was ready to try his healing
powers to save her, if need be.  But just as suddenly as the attack came
on, her eyes began to return to normal.

"Mamo-chan," she whispered in his ear, "Just now, I felt something, it
almost felt like it was coming through the link I share with the senshi.

Something dark and evil suddenly struck, like a coiled viper. I almost
missed it but . . . I don't know what it was Mamo-chan, but there's
danger again. Now. Pluto warned me. . ."

The quiet hiss of the elevator door heralded the arrival of a palace
servant. Endymion bent down and pressed his lips against Serenity's.  He
heard a tray dropped the and the elevator button being pushed
repeatedly.   Let the palace think that the King and Queen had lost all
decorum in the wake of the King's long immobility. Better that than to
even suspect that the Queen might have been struck at again, or gain a
hint of a new crisis before Serenity was ready to announce it.

Serenity, however, appeared to like the idea and returned his kiss with
ardor.  It soon had him thinking a common musing of his: formalwear took

"formal wear"

too long to take off. However, he dismissed the thought and commanded
the lawn to grow into a soft cushion of grass beneath them. Likewise,
dozens of new roses rapidly grew into existence and filled the air with
the perfumed scent of the flower of passion.

Some time later a glowing Serenity sat up. "Wow. You've been waiting for
this haven't you, dear?" she said.  Her husband had the good grace to
look slightly bashful as he grinned. Around them the small,
terrarium-like garden was now a riotous jungle of color as every plant
had gone wild in the wake of their passion. She looked around. "People
think *I* did a lot to regenerate the biosphere but they have NO idea
how much you added to the healing of the Earth. "

He smiled. "It's in the legends. Kings are tied to their lands, it's
health is their health and vice-versa. "

And he's the Senshi of Earth, after all.  

A huge ball of energy, looking for all the world like a giant snowball,
came streaking over the hill to the right and at the Nemesites. The part
that really got her attention was the way the sphere glittered and shone
much in the same way as the energy spheres that Sailors Uranus, Neptune,
and Pluto had used as attacks. When there had been Sailors Uranus,
Neptune, and Pluto, that is. Before the Chaos-posessed Sailor Galaxia
destroyed their powers, and those of their teammate Sailor Saturn.

How does Mamoru have his powers then?  He was, after all, the first to fall
to her.  A thousand years and still no replacements?

Assuming the OS got taken out isn't unreasonable I suppose to help explain
Earth's initial defeat by the Nemesians.  Still, the powers should be there
ready to be used by someone...  And there will always be Pluto.  Time travel's
funny that way.