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                      Sailor Moon: Strategy and Tactics
                                by Ken Arromdee

                                   Chapter 5
                               Nondestined Couple

    The Dark Kingdom had, recently, been pretty good to Tsukino Usagi.

The

main reason for this is that, due to her unceasing efforts that made

things

go just a *little* better than they would have otherwise, it wasn't

around.

Nice way to summerize things.

    It was actually sort of fun, thought Usagi, to look for new Senshi.

There

was no real danger, unless she wanted to count the chance of mistaken
identity,

Or wander into the house of some deranged lunatic that opens fire on her for
not giving the 'secret password.' :)

    The building that the new Senshi candidate lived in, though, seemed a
little intimidating.  It was a condominium, and if it wasn't that case of
mistaken identity, whoever lived there would have to be rich.  Usagi had

never

really known anyone rich before.

But now that she did, she could have them finance her. Building her the
Sailor Moon cave. The Sailor Moon utility belt. The Usagimobile, and host of
other things she couldn't otherwise do.

    The person who answered was wearing a boy's school uniform.

It turned out Ukyo Kuonji and snuck in and decided to make things a
crossover.

    The cat whispered "I think so" as Usagi put her down on the carpet.

    "So", asked Haruka, "would you like to go out with me?"  Haruka added

a

little laughter, as if making it into a joke in case 'his' target thought

it

was a little too pushy.

    "I, er...  well, I'll think about it" answered Usagi."

Extra quote

    "Oh, I'm disappointed.  I thought you came here to meet me."

    "No, it's something different.  This may seem like a strange question,
but Haruka, what do you know about the Sailor Senshi?"  She'd have to be
careful in asking, though.  Luna didn't have Haruka's magical pen.

That would make it a bit twitchy.

    "Oh" replied Haruka.  "I've heard of them but I don't know a lot about

    "A fan of yours?  What do you do?"

Haruka; Gay porn.

Usagi: Cool. I always wanted to do that.

    "Oh, that must be why you can afford a place like this..." said Usagi,
looking over the things.  It seemed this Haruka person really was famous

among

some crowds.

Yeah. Crowds of loser racing enthuseasts. Only otaku were bigger losers.

 But she was at a loss as to how to get Haruka to become a Sailor

Senshi without a transformation device, since Luna didn't have it.

She could always slap Haruka around, triggering the change through her
anger. Oh, wait, that's what makes Bruce Banner the Hulk. Never mind.

    "So anyway, Dumpling Head, is that it?"

    "Well, yeah.  It's been really nice meeting you.  I probably should
go...."  Usagi wondered if Jehovah's Witnesses felt this way.

Do they even have those in Japan?

    "About that date...  I know you have my phone number.  Why don't I get
yours?  Just in case I might want to talk to you some time again, you

know.

Or you could call me first."

Usagi: Sure, it's 1-800-FAT-CHANCE.

    "It's a nice place", said Rei.

    "A perfect place for a date" replied Usagi.

"An even better one for an orgy," Makoto said.

And then they had group sex. The end.

    "I'm glad you all like it", said Ami.  "I come here to read all the

time.

The owner of the land sold it and it's not going to be here any more.

They're

going to put up a big building complex instead."  She pointed to some

heavy

construction machinery.  "In just a few days, they'll have torn most of it
up."

    "That sounds like it would be much uglier"

uglier,"

And not to the people that will be using it. :P

said Makoto.  Usagi really

didn't think it would be that bad...  Haruka lived in a big building

complex

and that place looked great.  It even had plants around the outside.

She'd

love to live in a big building like that.  Tear down the park, and build a
*big* castle made all of crystal on the spot....

Ah, Usagi's dreams of World Conquest already begin to form. I bet Dr. Evil
got his start the same way.

    "Really?  I thought that your college was pretty hard to get into.  So
what's he like, Motoki?  I want to know!"

    "Umm..."

Motoki: He's gay. So why don't you go out with a straight guy, like me?

    Usagi broke her concentration on the game to ask Makoto "What does the
guy look like?"  Her lapse was rewarded with damage when Sailor V's kick
connected.  But who would really care about losing some color on a life

bar,

if she was going to find out more information about Mamoru in the process?

    "He's blonde...  taller than me, wearing a Mugen Gakuen uniform...."

    "Oh.  That's not Mamoru.  Mako-chan, you made me get hurt in the game!
Mamoru's got dark hair, he cuts it short...

has a thing for flowers and hitting on high school girls.

    Then the teen smiled at Usagi.  Usagi frowned--she *knew* that person.
"Hi Haruka",

Hi, Haruka

 she said.  "I didn't know that you were into video games."

    "Hi, Usagi.  I come here all the time; you must have just never

noticed me

until now.  Oh, I like the racing games.  Do you see all those T-H

scores?"

she said, indicating the list being flashed on the screen of one of the
machines.  "Those are mine."

    "But you're a racer.  Isn't playing racing games like going to school

all

day and then reading in order to have fun?"  (To her credit, Ami barely
blushed.)

Instead of slapping Usagi, like she deserved.

    "I don't race all the time.

Haruka: I enjoy hot lesbian sex as well.

    At least until the pole she walked into threatened to occupy the same

space

as her head first.  *WHAM*.

    It hurt...  it didn't just hurt Rei's head, but it hurt that she

looked

like an idiot in front of Mamoru.  What would he think of her now?

Mamoru: Hot high schooler. I'm there.

    "Are you okay?" asked Mamoru, approaching.  Could it be?  He was

walking

towards her.  He liked her, right?

    "I'm...  I'm fine!  It was just an accident.  I wasn't looking where I
was going and I bumped into a tree."  Meanwhile, Rei completely failed to
notice that the arcade door was opening and that Usagi was hovering in the
doorway, listening.

    "Do you mean a pole?" asked Mamoru.

Rei: No, I'm sure it's not Polish.

    A minute later, Usagi figured out that she was lying to herself, and

she

just wanted to know more about Mamoru and make sure that Rei didn't get

too

far.  Of course, it didn't stop her from continuing to sneak around behind

the

two.

Heh. Nice to see her enhanced thinking also allows her to admit why she was
doing it.

    A block later, Luna caught up with her.  "What are you doing?" asked

the

cat.

    "I'm following Rei and Mamoru.  What does it look like I'm doing?"

    "You're being silly, Usagi.  I thought you were trying to be smart?"

Don't think it's a question. More like a statement.

    "Anything you say, Usagi, as long as you don't just spy on your

friends and

run away from me when you get the chance."

    "Would I do that?"

    "I don't know, Usagi.  We've barely met.  I hope you won't...  I

really do

like you."

Haruka: Wink, wink. Nudge Nudge.

Heh. Just out of curiosity, I wonder if anyone has done a Haruka/Usagi match
up.

    They entered the shop and sat down at a table next to Rei and

Mamoru's,

the better to listen to them from.

Just say 'the better to eavesdrop' Spelling might be off, but it's far
simpler that way.

 Usagi picked the side closest to Rei's

and paid careful attention to their conversation while Haruka gave the
waitress their order.

    After a minute of this, Haruka cleared her throat and tried to attract
Usagi's attention.  "Dumpling Head?" she asked.

    "What?" replied Usagi.

Sad that she replies to that. :)

    "We're supposed to be on a date", said Haruka.  "Why shouldn't I and a
sweet girl like you be talking to each other instead of listening to

someone

at the next booth?"

Usagi: I'm trying to figure out how to get us in a four-way.

Haruka: I take back every dumpling head remark I said.

    "I don't think I'd ever be a Prince Uranus, Dumpling Head."

    "You don't like the idea?"

    "There's just something about being a prince that's not right for me.
Besides... what if you were someone's enemy in the past.  You shouldn't be
forced to feel that you hate them just because of that.  Or what if you

were

engaged to two different people in two diffferent lifetimes, or if in a

past

life you were engaged to your brother...."

    "But it would be so romantic!

Usagi: I just love the whole idea of incest. It's kinky.

    "Uh...  hee...  I'm not watching you.  We're not watching you, really!
Not at all!" replied Usagi.

    "How could we be watching you?" asked Haruka.  "We were just going to

see

a movie.

Thought she would say they were just about to make out and then give Usagi a
kiss. Better amusement potential that way.

    "Haruka, I really do want to be friends with you.  But I'm not sure I

want

to find out what my parents would think if they knew I was dating a girl,

and

I'm not sure I'm into that sort of thing anyway...."

    "You knew!" said Haruka.

"I sort of grabbed your crotch when I pretened to fall and that's when I
knew," Usagi explained.

    "Fair?"

    "Haruka, I used this date as an excuse to spy on Rei.  And you used it

as

an excuse to go on a date with a girl.  How many other times have you

flirted

with a girl knowing that that

think you can drop one 'that'

 the way they saw you wasn't the way you really

were?  How many of them did you go out with when she said 'aww, he's

cute'?

If I'm playing tricks on people, so are you.  At least I told you."

    "It really isn't much more than a joke, Usagi.  One date is about as

much

as I can do like this.  It would be silly to have a steady girlfriend who
didn't know what sex I was."

    "And you'd never be able to get her in bed", said Usagi.

My, so forward of Usagi.

    Maybe it was time to tell her all the details.  Haruka was clearly a

good

person.  Now that Usagi had gone on a date with her, she knew it.  "Well,
Haruka, it goes like this", she said.  "I think that...."

    Suddenly a woman around Mamoru's age crashed into Haruka from behind.

A

paper bag she was carrying ripped, spilling vegetables and tofu blocks all
over the sidewalk.  "Excuse *me*?" said Haruka.

    "Oh, I'm so sorry" replied the woman, pushing her long greenish-black

hair

back with a hand.  "I really should watch where I'm going.  Are both of

you

okay?"

Heh. So Pluto enters the scene.

    The air shimmered above Pluto's head and suddenly it was no longer

theory.

The little pink princess fell, yelling, into Pluto's lap.  Pluto caught

her

and smiled at her--the girl must be terribly frightened by the Dark

Kingdom

invasion,

The way usagi's going, I'm surprised there is one.

opened up the papers that Small Lady had found so important.  She would

get them

to Usagi in a year, but first, she would read them...  perhaps they held

some

clue as to why things had been going wrong.  The Dark Kingdom was gone.

Usagi

was on a date with Haruka.  Small Lady had appeared in the wrong time

period.

If things became too different from what they were supposed to be, the

future

would become completely unknown.

Which is for the best. :P

 Neo-Queen Serenity's future kingdom was a

place of goodness, of happiness...

That was built upon the ruins of a catclysim, as I recall. Might be better
to allow it to evolve from the world slowly rather than at the cost of most
of it.

    "To the Usagi of the 20th Century.  I'm Neo-Queen Serenity, ruler of
Crystal Tokyo and the world, in the year 2995.  Your future self.  I'm
printing this out on a computer so that I know all the kanji will be

correct--

Your Ami-chan would be really amazed what those machines can do now.  But
anyway....

Heh. That's Usagi all right.

    "Pluto assured me that when it receded, I would have my kingdom of

peace

and prosperity, and she proved as good as her word.  It all happened as
promised.  But there were always doubts in the back of my head.  Doubts

about

whether this was the right way for the human race to live...  and worse,

there

was always that realization that I had refused to save many, many people,

for

the sake of preserving the timeline.

Heh. Just as I mentioned. I see great minds think alike... or is that simple
minds think alike? Never was sure which is appropriate when regarding me. :)

    "With this information, none will die to Wiseman's Black Moon, not

even

his fleeing minions.  Stopping Galaxia earlier will save billions of lives

on

other worlds.  When the ice comes, you will be fully prepared, and when

the

Black Moon attacks in the 30th Century, the kingdom will be safe.  You

don't

need to follow Pluto, Usagi.  You don't need to be a pawn of destiny.  My
timeline will fade into nonexistence, but I am you, and you are eternal.

Heh. And Pluto's going to muck it up. Nice way to interject some more
seriousness into it.

    There was a signature and one last sentence before the information--
information that Pluto dared not let Usagi get.  But she didn't understand

it.

She mulled over that last phrase as she tore the papers up: "And to you

and

the Senshi of the 20th Century: Be excellent to each other."

Heh. Cute. Definitely makes Pluto out to be a bad guy here. Nice touch.
Looking forward to more.

D.B.Sommer

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