Finally getting to this as well. Backlog isn't so big this time:

                                                    3 April, 19XX
                                                    London, England

Dear Daddy,

I had my first real, all-out battle a couple of days ago. They

came straight out of nowhere and started busting up the town.

They do that, you know.


 We

of the building before it burned down. Since then, we've become the

best of friends. She's got the best fashion-sense I've ever seen!

And in the end, isn't that what really matters?

 I

like her a lot and we've become a great team.

Err, duo. It takes more than two people to make a team.

energy makes my powers stronger, and, if I swing it right, it can cut

through just about anything! I honestly think that now, I could crush

Endymion's

Endymoon's (I think that's how you spell it.

Don't worry, though. I'll come back someday, I promise.

   Lotsa Love,
    Yours Truly,
      The Cute and Fluffy,
        Formerly Oneshot Warrior,

She actually refers to herself as a Oneshot Warrior?

Lynne signed her name with a flourish, put down her pen with
the pink feather-puff on the end,

I once dated a girl who had one of those. Thankfully, it didn't last. :)

"Should I really tell him that?" the teenage girl asked
herself. "It sounds so cliche!" Her lips fell into a pout. "I hate
out-of-style, non-retro cliches..."

She should use neo-retro ones instead. :)

The girl ran her fingers through her long, orange hair while
continuing to think to herself aloud. "Daddy overreacts most of the
time to everything, so how can I put it so he won't take it in the
wrong way?" She took up her pen and started writing again, speaking
aloud in a gruff voice, "Sweet Ol' Pops, I'm sorry I had to duck out
on you, but I found lots of new opportunities to blow things up real
good over here, where there isn't as much competition from other
people trying to do the same thing. Bet you'll like that, heh heh
heh!"

Actually, that probably would work.

"Well, eliminate the probable, and all you've got left are the
impossible," quoted the girl

Yep. Mina's rubbing off, all right.

 >

going about here. Would you believe the hamburgers here cost only

about half a pound? That's not even one sixth of a kilogram!

Sigh. I should have seen that coming.

"Ha-hah!" she whispered to herself in triumph. "I don't HAVE
to taste the foul envelope-stickiness, not when I've got my handy-
dandy bottle of glue!"

Sigh.

The blonde bombshell laughed nervously to herself while the
angry mutterings came through the line. "Oh, yeah! Time zones.
That's right. That would explain why I've had this sudden,
overwhelming urge to wear loose-fitting denum trousers lately. Isn't
that what they call jet drag?

Sigh.

Mina laughed wryly. "Not really. I've always had Mom and Dad,
and since I've been traveling, Artemis never seems to want to close
his mouth." She glared down at him suspiciously. "I wouldn't mind
so much if he'd actually say something useful, like maybe telling
us EXACTLY HOW MANY BAD GUYS WE'RE UP AGAINST???" She directed her
capitalized words at her cat.

Heh

Artemis grinned sheepishly, and wandered off to the window
sill. "I'm not quite sure myself," he whispered in a soft voice to no
one in particular.

"I miss not having anyone to talk to,"

Makes it sounds like she misses solitude. Maybe 'I miss having people to
talk to.'

 Lynne admitted wistfully.

"It'd be nice to have someone like Artemis around when we're not
fighting anyone together."

"Ah-hah! That's what local phone calls are for, girlfriend!"

"Yeah, I guess so... But still, I'd like to have some cute,
sweet, cuddly, furry, lovable, huggable..."

Mina; You're in luck. I'm available. I'll come over for some hot lesbian
cuddling in a few minutes.

Lynne took a breath and went on, "Fuzzy, fluffy, puffy animal
to hug and talk to." She sighed, looking at one of her plush toys.
"You know what I want? A seal. A cute little harp seal."

How's about an Arbyfish instead?

Meanwhile, sitting in a small dog house somewhere in central
Wyoming, a harp seal groaned in utter depression as he felt Destiny
calling upon him.

Heh

Touring the studios of the world-famous BBC Television Centre
was nice, Mina thought. Coming face to face

face-to-face

She had also blown a hefty wad of cash seeing it all, and that
was why she couldn't afford bus fare and had to walk all the way over
to the appointed meeting spot.

Ah ha.

By far the most economical solution, dumping sewage into the
River Thames became a commonly accepted practice by the early to mid
1800s. The Thames, already weighed down somewhat by silt and other
dissolved solids by the time it entered the city, soon became
saturated with unwanted compounds and slowed down substantially
before it passed through more than a fourth of the way. By the time
it left, an agnostic could have hopped down and walked across it.

Hehehehehe. I loved that one.

Then, just as Mina finally started making progress on her quest
for delivery from her gastronomical burden, a heavyset man in a black
shirt, brown trousers and a grey cap ran by, shoving Lynne aside and
knocking the blonde over the railing.

Oops.

Mina cracked her joints. "Oh yeah, and besides, I've gotta show
'em for trying to knock me into that stinking, dirty river!" She
wrinkled her nose and, finding as concealed a spot on the open bridge
as possible,

Yeah. Wondered about that. She is out in the open.

His resolve beginning to fail him, Artemis turned away. He
determined

'determined' seems off. 'decided' woudl be better, IMO

"Mommy!" the adorable little blue-haired girl cried, struggling
in vain within the large man's strong grip.

The girl's mother stared agape in shocked horror. "Oh no!"

Woman: That's the third time this week she's been taken hostage.

"Sailor V Kick!" Fluidly leaping into a somersault, V dove
face-first off the building, then spun into a kick. Her cumulative
velocity drove the toe of her right slipper into the beast's neck.
The impact not only shattered all of its neck vertebrae; the
reverberation also cracked its skull and destroyed what remained of
its circulatory system.

Now that's a kick.

Unseen by the two warriors for Love, Justic, Beauty, and
Fashion, the pile pulsed, then melted into a puddle of goo before
beginning to expand.

Ah ha. So it was too easy after all.

"My, that certainly was a shock," Katrina noted. The two
sailor-suited girls turned toward her. She smiled pleasantly. "Ah,
the famous mistresses S and V.

Better than S and M. :)

Thank you ever so much for taking care

of that villain for us. I thought he just wanted to avoid paying a
parking ticket--how odd he would turn out

he turned out

"MMMH!" S grimaced when a short spike bit into her back, but
her innate flexibility helped guard her spinal column from serious
damage.

Heh.

Regaining her composure, S reached over her left shoulder and
unsheathed the Crystal Wink Sword. In a smooth motion, she lopped
off the beast's head before it could react. In the same combination,
she proceeded to impale it in the heart, slice off the arm that
held her, and bisect it vertically, straight down the middle.

Now that takes talent.

"I beat you, so your powers are mine," S whispered at the
dust, looking rather miffed. She held out her hand toward the dust
and scrunched her face down in concentration. The ashes disappeard,
and in their place formed a greenish, eight-sided crystal with a
glowing sphere in the center. The gem floated toward her chest and
vanished, absorbed into her body.

Interesting. So she can absorb them. Didn't realize that.

Relaxing and sheathing her weapon, the girl felt a new power
flow through her. Her clothes shifted slightly. Her two-piece red,
white, and blue sailor suit turned to emerald shades, her shoulder-
guards elongated down her arms slightly. Yellow flowers appeared in
her hair and a few green vines weaved themselves into her bangs. Her
short boots became embossed by images of trees, flowers, and other
things of nature.

Ah. Power Up crystals. How nice.

"The creature," Katrina cut in, "claims to be part of an
organization called the Dark Agency. I imagine such accomplished
warriors such as yourselves have had to deal with it in the past?"

V tensed noticeably. "Y-yes."

Why is she tensing?

"Really?" S whispered to the blonde. "What happened?"

"I'll tell you later," V replied quietly. "For now, let's just
say I had a couple of bad relationships."

Oh.

"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant the way she found those
two," Chief added to himself. Something occurred to him. "Now if
she'd have told me why she was wearing her dress uniform to
work. There weren't any large public events scheduled for today..."

Katrina; Because it's stylish.

Think it needs more sugar? ^_^

Nope. It works as is.

Nice work, as always. Look forward to seeing more.

D.B. Sommer




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