HG Cavalier wrote:

Hello all,
I am delurking and finally posting a story. It's also
sort of the kind of story I swore never to do. It's
a songfic that could be more. Whether or not this
becomes a full story will depend upon what kind of
feedback I get from this. For now, consider this a
stand alone/oneshot. Hope that you like.

It's Not Easy(To Be Me)

�Going live in Three� Two� One�Live!�

�Good evening Tokyo and greetings from the Nerima Ward. Move over Sailor
Scouts, there is a new hero in the city and he�s a real Superman.  In the
six months since the demise of Superman while fighting the monster Doomsday,
there have been sightings of so called �supermen� from one corner of the
world to another. No
less than 17 different beings claiming to be Superman have
surfaced and over half of these have been disproved.�

A good chunk of those Supermen would be laying claim to the vacant 
position without claiming to be the resurrected dead guy.  

*       *       *
�Father, come quickly� she�s on again.�
*       *       *

For the last few weeks, various sightings have occurred within the
Tokyo Ward of Nerima, which I am sure everyone knows is situated next
to Juuban Ward, the home base of the super heroine�s the Sailor Scouts.

superheroines known as the Sailor Senshi

Earlier tonight, a battle was waged between the Sailor Scouts and some
unnamed monsters. The battle spilled over into the Nerima Ward, and
just when things looked darkest for the intrepid band of heroines a man
arrived to help them. A Superman.

OK, kind of a wussy, psycho Superman with epicanthic folds but...

�Cutting to footage in Two� One� Relax, go with voice over.�

�As you can see in this video footage, The Scouts are clearly
beleaguered and rapidly starting to tire when suddenly he appears.

*       *       *
Scene cut:
Sailor Jupiter is down and bleeding. A quick pan of the battleground
shows Sailor Mars to be holding an obviously broken arm and Sailors
Venus and Moon to be standing back to back and surrounded by four large
creatures that appeared to be part man, part cockroach, and part�
chicken? As the camera panned back Sailor Mercury was stepping over the
prone figure of her teammate, worry and fear clearly stamped on her
face, looking at two more of the strange creatures.  Suddenly a dark
shape interposed itself between Mercury and her opponents.

Tuxboy should be there somewhere.  Also, you've got tense confusion.  

�Not this time� No more.� The cold voice is clearly heard, even though it is
spoken lowly.

Faster than the eye can track the creatures are flying backwards away
from the newcomer. As he steps out clearly into the light he becomes
fully visible. Dark black pants tucked into equally dark low boots. a
black shirt with a dark red �S � upon the chest,  a dark red cape with
a sable �S� upon it attached to his shoulders, and a half-mask that
covers his face from just above his mouth on up. The battle after that,
while not exactly one sided, is never truly in doubt.  The scene ends
with the mysterious man helping a bruised Mercury to her feet and smiling at
her as a video crew attempt to close in and interview him.
The same voice reporter's voice from the beginning of the newscast is
heard.

�Sir, sir� are you the Nerima Superman?�

He turns away from Sailor Mercury and looks at the reporter. �I�m just
a man, doing what�s right.� And with that he leapt into the sky and
disappeared.
*       *       *

The scene cuts back to the young lady reporter. �I have the feeling
that this will not be the last appearance of our mysterious �Superman�.
For Newscene 8, this Tendo Nabiki bidding you and yours a good evening.
And Superman, wherever you are� Thank you.

*       *       *

On a business street in downtown Nerima a short red-haired young lady
stands watching the newscast through the window of a video store along
with a small crowd of other onlookers. As she walks away she
whispers, �You�re welcome.�

I can�t stand to fly
I�m not that na�ve.
I�m just out to find
The better part of me.

*We see a well built man in his late teens going through some martial
arts katas. He spins and leaps forward in a kick that seems to defy
gravity for a moment. His black ponytail flutters and his blue eyes
are ablaze in concentration*

Grey!  His eyes are grey!  He does not have the same eye colour in male
form (in the anime) that he has in female form.  Her eyes are bright blue.
His eyes are grey.  Am I the only person who ever checked?  

I�m more than a bird�I�m more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It�s not easy to be me.

You know in the video for that song, Jennifer Garner turns to kiss a 
short black woman who turns into a tall white man as she approaches.  

Story could be worth doing, if you've got an ending.


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