Damn, no sooner to I get around to this one, than I see 21 out of 18 as
well...

"Twen'y out a' eighteen?! S'pose it could work..."

Actually, going by the theory of parallel universes, not only could it work,
but
somewhere it HAS to have worked.

Yes, I got another tidbit done, and I saw that it was the perfect size
for another little post. Oddly enough, it still demanded to be part of
Chapter 10, part 2. The reason for this is obvious: I have no clue what
I'm doing.

Don't worry.  You're faking it really good.  ^_^

Well, I might have a clue, but that's all. Actually, when I finish what
is now considered part 10-2 and give it a nice spitshine, I am going
to further confuse the masses by renumbering all the chapters, chopping
them up and redesignating most sections "Books" and chapters as
subsections.

Actually, we're all mad here.

Tea, my good man?

Find the rest of the madness and its companion spinoff series at:

http://rakhal.com/florestica/ben-oliver/index.html

And check out the new Sailor Stylin' image. It's very well-done!

I must be blind, cause I can't find that image.

    In a lavish Dark Kingdom equivalent of an apartment, which
consisted mainly of hard black stone and jagged cavern walls with
a stalactite-jutting roof, one General debriefed the other on how
the seek-and-destroy mission had gone.

    "The search-and-destroy mission went flawlessly.  It just
turned out that _we_ weren't the hunters," Zoicite whispered weakly

The irony was a killer.

in a rather lame attempt at humor. Her jacket was off and her chest
was thickly bandaged. She lay facing upwards on a rectangular stone
slab. The blonde took a breath, trying to reassure herself that she
was, in fact, still capable of doing so. "Am I going to live?"

    Kunzite nodded reassuringly. "Of course. You'll be up and
around in no time," he said as he read through her last will and
testament, which he had cunningly forged, to be certain that there
were no problems or loopholes to prevent him from getting everything.
The only task remaining was to get her to sign it...

Hey, they're bad guys...assuming they even cared about a will, why not just
forge it?
Still...I suppose some things have to be done properly, even if you are a
bad
guy...or maybe I'm just overanalyzing the joke.  I hate it when that
happens. ^_^

    Soon afterward, pair of servant youma zipped up the body bag
and tossed it into the flow-through sewer system, where it
disappeared, never to be seen again.

<Shaggy> Let's cut his kidneys out and sell them on the black market!
<Jay> *in a tub of ice* NOOOOOOO!

    Zoicite awoke once more, sitting up with a gasp. She hadn't
_really_ been thrown out, but her current disorientation made her
feel like she might as well have been. "Unnnnhh, it still hurts..."

    "What do you expect?" Kunzite whispered, gently rubbing the
other's hand. "He put his sword through your heart. Had you been
any slower in returning and had I taken any longer in getting to
you, then you would have been very, _very_ dead."

<Kunzite> Yup...dead, dead, dead.
<Death> Then I could have taken her to Hell, Hell, Hell. Heh heh heh.

    SPOILSPORT, Death sighed, and disappeared through the wall.

Some days it just doesn't pay to be the spirit of death.

    "Did you just say something?" Zoicite asked, peering into
the poorly-lit chamber.

    "I was just saying that you are very lucky that you're still
with us," Kunzite murmured. "And you must be quite delirious,
Zoicite. Because earlier, I thought you said that you discovered
that the Starlight Knight was really Admiral Knight--or, StarKnight--
whatever."

You'd think the name would be more than enough giveaway, but given the
general lack
of paying attention to the obvious clues from EVERYONE in this series, it's
not
entirely surprising.  But this is still pretty bad. ^_^

    "He is," the female general insisted.

    "That's impossible. He died back before we destroyed the Moon
Kingdom!"

    "I know, but he came, and he killed EVERYONE!"

I think I'll just bask in the glow of this awesome line.......okay done.
Heh.

    Kunzite shook his head. "I saw him die, Zoicite! Twice." He
paused and considered his last statement. "Oh, I see your point,"
he deadpanned.

Heheheheheh

    "What're we gonna do?" the blonde moaned, drawing Kunzite
closer. "What are we going to do?!"

    "Well," Kunzite hesitated, "did you say that the rest of
the Sailor Scouts were incapacitated?"

    "They were rather worn down, if that's what you're asking."

    "And the Starlight Knight--Admiral Tim--will likely have
departed by now?"

    "I don't know, this is the first time I've fought him! For
all I know, he's gone back and set up defenses!"

<Zoicite> It was horror I tell you!  Pure HORROR!  Like an Olson Twins
Marathon!  He
came!  He kicked our asses!  He killed all the Youma!  He could be setting
up some
Barney-androids as we speak!

    The Fourth General glanced sideways at the woman and shook
his head. "I know you are in pain, and have just been fiercely
startled, but there's no need to go around second-guessing

startled?  Heheh, a master of the understatement this one is.

ourselves and overestimating our enemy. After all, the Scouts
and the Admiral were all defeated, eventually."

    "But they keep coming back!"

<Springer> It's not hard to knock em down, it's getting them to stay down
that's the
trick!
<Arcee> They're indestructable!
<Daniel>  And they're everywhere!

    Kunzite frowned. "Yes, I can see how that would be a
problem." Suddenly, he stood. "But that's no reason to give up
the fight. If they keep coming back to haunt us, then we'll keep
coming back to haunt them!"

Problem is the badguys never come back like that, except in Marvel Comics.
I mean,
they never plan on getting the Dragon Balls or a Silver Crystal to take care
of that
little oversite.  I mean it gets pretty obvious after the 5th time they come
out of
certain death they've got something going for them that's a blatent foul in
the good
versus evil game, heh.

    *Vrrrr...*

    "What do you mean?" Zoicite blinked in the faint light and
noticed a faint hum building up in the background. "You mean,
we'll never give up until we've dominated Earth?"

<Zoicite> But what do we do after we dominate?
<Kunzite> Uhhhh....Plushies for everyone?
<Zoicite> Yay!  Plushies!

    "That too," Kunzite replied, his voice taking on a slight
reverb as he spread his arms wide. Lightning started crackling
around him. "But no, what I REALLY mean is that we will resurrect
our fallen legions and give them power beyond their comprehension!
Then, with hateful souls filled with the Spirit of Revenge, they
will seek out the pitiful little Sailor Scouts and that idiotic

YYYYESSSS!!!  FEEL THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE!

Knight... and maybe even that wimpy tux-guy, too. And that cat...
And all their little friends, and, and, and, and, and-"

    *WHACK!* Zoicite smacked her boyfriend.

Don't you hate losing your train of thought in the middle of an evil
overlord speach? Just takes the whole dramatic effect out of it.

    "Thank you. Ahem, now, where was I?" The silver-haired man
scratched his head in an attempt to put his scratched phonograph
record of thought back on track.

    "The resurrected monsters will seek them out-"

    "Yes! They will seek them out and DESTROY them ONCE and
for ALL! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

KILL THEM ALL!  KILL THEM ALL!  KILL THEM ALL!

    "You've finally gone mad," Zoicite noted, not without the
slightest bit of satisfaction. "We just might be able to win..."

    "Yes, sweet cherry blossom--we will win!" Kunzite clenched
a fist at the other general. "Join with me now. Together, we can
CRUSH these Sailor Scouts and brink CHAOS to the Terran Empire!"

Ah...the mangling of Star Wars quotes.  Can't beat that.

    "Err, I think most parts are democracies, not empires--"

    "No matter! We will CRUSH them anyway." With an increasingly
dramatic flair in his voice, Kunzite spun around, clicked his heels,
and spoke into the wind, "ANCIENT SPIRITS OF REVENGE! TRANSFORM THIS
DECAYED--ER!! REVIVE MY FALLEN MONSTERS AND GIVE THEM POWER BEYOND

the shear amount of mangled quotes in this rant deserves some sort of award,
but I'll be damned if I would know what. ^_^

BELIEF; POWER TO DESTROY THE SAILOR SCOUTS FOREVER! BY THIS NAME, I
CALL YOU, I CALL YOU-"

    A large, black Ninja Mushroom popped out of the stonework in
the floor. It squeaked, looking around with the marble tile on its
head, then screeched and clamped down on Kunzite's heel with its
huge, pointy teeth.

    "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Kunzite screamed in pain.

<Zoicite> Awwwe!  How cute!

    "Scream?" Zoicite wondered in her doped-up state. Apparently,
Nephrite's former youma doctor hadn't spared any expense in treating
her condition.

    In the next instant, the big, black 'shroom dove back down the
hole, the stone tile clattering back into place behind it.

Though if he was a ninja shroom...who was he working for I wonder? Heh.

---

    By the time Molly and Nephrite had hobbled off into the
distance, Sailors Mars, Mercury, and Serena spent a minute or two
composing themselves before heading off together. Behind them, a
shape stood, emerging from the ashes of the battlefield.

    "So, Nephrite's really Molly's dad," Serena mused while hefting
Mars's weight on one shoulder and Mercury's on the other.

Strong girl.  Or is she still in her Sailor form?

    "We probably shouldn't leave her alone with him," Mars muttered
softly. "Since he _was_ working for the enemy a short while ago."

    Serena stopped, the sudden jerking motion nearly toppling
Mercury in the process. "Oh!" she said, realization slowly filling her
eyes in much the same way that maple syrup fills a plate of pancakes.
"So, maybe we should go back and keep an eye on them, for a while, at
least..."

    "Unnnh," Mercury groaned. "No, I think they'll be fine."

    Mars started to slip from her friends' arm-over-neck hold.
"I second that. Sailor Moon, keep walking!"

But this is only the disguise pen, as I recall...damn that girl must be
stronger than
she looks. I mean she's only about 4'11 from what I remember of her stats
and skinny
as a bean pole (despite how she eats).

    Serena's eyes were still wide as her slow-clocked brain went
through the possibilities. "But what if he tries to drain her energy
again? Shouldn't we be, like, you know, cautious?"

You ever notice that Molly just has this thing about attracting the big bad
nasties
from the lower deapths of Abadon to drain her energy?  That girl must have
some
serious power in her...I shudder to think what might happen if she learned
how to use
it.  Heh.

Another thing that just struck me, is how the Negaverse really needs to take
lessons from the Decepticons in the "How To's" of a cosmic smash and grab of
energy (to borrow a quote ^_^).  I mean, asside from the usual "Decepticons
Retreat!" of the day that was the only thing the censors would allow, they
somehow got enough energy to completely wrest control of Cybertron from the
Autobots, driving them completely from the planet by the year 2005.  There
is no way they were as incompetent as they were made to be to be able to
accomplish that little feat.

Damn...I'm ranting again.  Please ignore. ^_^

    Mercury breathed in a long, slow sigh. "Look, Serena," she
said, throwing secret identities and disguise powers to the wind for
the moment, "I was in the hospital yesterday and nearly all of today.
I went through a major operation, and some WEIRD MUSHROOM left its
shoe in a major blood vessel! Plus, did you see everything I fired
off at the monsters?!"

    "Yeah," Serena managed a soft whisper. "So...?"

    Mars cleared her throat. "We're tired, we're burnt out, and
right now, we don't want caution. We want sleep!"

Attack bad guys!  Right now!  Make the evil overlord proud!

    "Oh..."

    The two weakened Scouts were mostly moving under their own
strength, but still needed a little help in order to get home. The
plan, Mercury had said, was to help Mars limp back to her shrine.
Once that had been accomplished, Mercury would feel quite honored to
be carried in Serena's arms to her apartment.

Shit, they might as well just crash at the shrine if they're in that
condition.

    "You were kidding about me carrying you, right?" Serena
hazarded.

    "Most certainly not," Mercury replied succinctly.

    "Mmmm, okay."

    The trio had barely managed a few more steps when a terrible
yell split the air behind them.

    "WAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! I YAM ALLIVE!!!"

I remember someone at the end of Movie 5 of DBZ doing this.  Piccolo then
sniped him
pretty good, he did.  Could have sworn I heard "HEAD SHOT!" after that. Got
a major
warm and fuzzy off that scene.  Heheheheh.

    Both Mars and Mercury shut their eyes. "Oh no, not again," they
whispered together."

extra " at the end of together.

    Serena craned her neck, looking over her shoulder to see
something hanging back behind the shadows. "Ummm, what do we do?"

<Mercury> *Visor comes over eyes*  We die!

    "Brace yourself, everyone," Mercury said, "because this is
_really_ going to hurt." She wedged her eyes shut, and Mars did
likewise.

    *SKKKKKUUURRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMUUUU!!!!*

    A tremendously powerful sonic wave ripped through them,
blasting the three girls loudly and painfully against a brick wall.
They spasmed wildly as they fell to the ground, slamming into the
concrete with a dull thud. A white smoke wafted off of them.

One of the cool things about sonic waves is all the neat destructive things
that can
be done with it.  Even more fun are the things that Tesla pulled off with
Alternating
Current (like the possibility of the AC weapon that could destroy as much as
a nuke,
but quite cleanly if I read the article correctly).

    "Waaaaaaah, that huuuuuurt!" Serena whined, not any particular
mood to get back.

    Mars grimaced and rolled over. "Ack..."

    "I told you," Mercury noted, flat on her back. Wincing from

She really did too. Heh.

the inhumanity of it all, she sat up and pulled out her computer,
clicking her earring to activate her visor. She started typing things
in.

    Serena, feeling rather like a sack of potatoes that had just
gone through a french fry factory, looked up to see their attacker
emerge into the light.

    It definitely looked like one of the youma from earlier--the
one that kept on screaming and blasting them with those sound waves.

Soundwave superior.  Constructicons...Inferior!

Except this time, it had grown half a meter taller and had bits of
metallic red armor all over it, complete with a set of large spikes
on the shoulders and huge, jutting teeth. In short, Scream had come
back to life, more powerful and frightening than ever, as Scream II.

Or StarScream! 

...alright, I'll try to can the Transformer jokes. Heh.

    "ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA GET'CHEW THREE DIS TIME!!!" Scream II
announced through her exceptionally enlarged mouth. She held up a
microphone and large speakers popped out from behind her back.

You know, all the Youma seem to be female.  How do they reproduce?

    Mars scooted around, muttering something to herself.

    "Uh, so, anybody got any ideas?" Serena whispered urgently.

    "Ideas, yes," Mercury whispered back. "Power, no."

    "HAH-HAH!" Scream II laughed. "YOU'RE OUTTA POW-ERRR! NYAH-
NI-NYAH-NI-NYAH-NYAH!" She pulled down her small eyelid and blew
a long and slobber-filled raspberry at them.

    "Source of all power," Mars whispered loud enough so that
the big-mouthed youma could hear.

    "WHA?" Scream II peered at them strangely. "WHAT'CHEW TRYIN'?"

    "Yaaay!" Serena exclaimed, clapping her hands. "Mars still
has some power!"

You know, I always did like your addition of giving Mars, who throughout the
series demonstrates enormous spiritual power, the ability to cast
spells...even if they are Slayers spells ^_^.  One would think it would be a
logical extention of her native abilities...but then the Senshi of the
original series DID have a problem with thinking outside the box.

<snip>

    Serena clicked open the Moon Transformation Brooch. It was
normally bolted shut, but its recent damage had broken several of
the rivets. Inside were what looked like the magical equivalent of
electronics, and at the center, was a clear gem, broken into a
dozen tiny fragments.

And so here is the biggest weakness with powers that rely on
artifical/outside devices.  You break it, get it stolen, misplace or
generally lose it, you're SOL.  

<snip>

    It would be more or less at this point where a split-screen
phone conversation would be appropriate. The cheerfully happy face
of Kasumi Incognito appeared on one side and Serena's countenance
remained on the other.

Is Kasumi, Wonderwoman on the side? 

    The woman held a hand to her cheek. "Oh my, did I catch you at
a bad time? I can call back later, if you'd like."

    "We're kind of in the middle of something," Serena admitted,
"but it's great to hear a friendly voice..." She gasped as something
important occurred to her. "Is Terra there?"

    "Oh, I'm so sorry," Kasumi replied, her voice fluently
apologetic, "Terra can't come to the phone right now. Her grandmother
would be very disappointed if she had to leave right now. Actually,
that's why I called. She said she felt something bad might be
happening, and wanted me to check up on you." She brightened. "How
are you doing, by the way?"

<Serena>  Terra's mom just asked us how we're doing?  Isn't she so nice?
<Mars> *deadpan*  Beaten.  Tired.  Bloody.  About to die.  But other than
that, really peachy!  Ask her how she is.  

    Serena considered her response, remembering that Mrs. Incognito
already knew all of their secret identities and there would be little
point in hiding anything from her. "Well, we're not doing all that
great. We stopped a small army of youma with the Starlight Knight's

And a Tux guy who finally got a REAL MAN's weapon. ^_^

<snippage!>

    The ponytailed woman put a hand to her chin in thought. "Hmm,
have you tried out all of your most powerful attacks yet?"

    "Oh yeah, a WHOLE bunch!" Serena frowned. "But we kinda ran
out..."

Heh, overwhelming numbers.  Gotta love em.

    "Oh, that's right. Did you get any special powerups recently?"

    "Sailor Mercury got these crystals and was Super Sailor Mercury
for a while, but she's now run out of power and so have they."

    "Hmm, anything else?"

    "Uhhh. Sailor Mars has these spells she's been trying out..."

    "Did she try out all the ones she knows?"

    "Uh huh. But her hair turned white and she collapsed."

    Mars looked over at the blonde. "Hey, I'm getting better!"

    "Oh my," Kasumi added, rubbing her neck. "Do you have your
Destined, True-Love Prince with you?

    "Destined, True-Love Prince?" Serena asked with a raised

<Mars>  How come she gets one of those and we don't?
<Mercury>  Yeah!  I say we strike until we get one of those!

eyebrow. On a whim, she glanced around. Nobody there but Mars,
Mercury, and the rats. "Not exactly... The Starlight Knight left
already."

<ASK>  Heheheheh....fire...Fire...FIRE!

    "Oh dear, that certainly cuts our options down. Have you had
any dreams about a Pegasus?"

Nah.  He's only interested in LITTLE girls. ^^

    Serena started scratching her head, idly wondering from where
Terra's mother was coming up with this stuff. "Uh, no. Not since I
was six, anyway..."

What'd I tell ya? 

    Kasumi rested her cheek on her hand. "Hmm, this isn't a simple
problem, is it?"

    "Nope."

    "Do you have any wands or anything you haven't used yet?"

    "No," Serena quickly replied, then remembered that she did.
She pulled out the Crescent Moon Wand. "Weeeeeell, just this crescent
moon stick-thingy here."

About this point, I'd be really wondering how she knows all this stuff. Heh.

<snip>

    "I heard what she said," Mercury replied, and patted her
outer thighs. "And I'm afraid we're fresh out." She irritably tilted
her gaze upwards. "Look, is she just making wild guesses, or how does
she know all of this?"

Heheheheheheheheh, good ol Mercury.

    Serena nodded, and then her heart skipped a beat when, at the
forefront appeared an image that outshadowed them all. The Starlight
Knight came into focus in the tall, dark, and handsome way that she
remembered him. Her mind went through the dozens of occasions that
he'd rescued her and then passed by the memory of how he defeated the
remainder of the attacking youma army.

    A surge of emotions rushed through the girl's body when she
examined once more the memory of how he proclaimed his love for her,
then the moment went through her mind when he took her into his
large, powerful arms and kissed her.

..................................I'm not sure if I should laugh, cry, die
of an overflow of saccarine or feel sorry for one, the other, or both.  ^_^

<more snippage>

    Scream II stalked forward through the alleyway, her face full
of menace. And, given the tremendous size of that face, an
exceptional amount of this particular brand of menace was being
displayed.

Menace brand softdrink!  Availabe at all convenience stores near you! ^_^

    "Do it now!" Kasumi called through the phone, which had fallen
behind a dumpster.

    "Right!" Serena said, grimacing. She fumbled around for the new
locket, and found it after a moment. She stood, then held it up and
shouted, "MOON-STARLIGHT HONEY-LOVIN'-SQUISHIN' POWER, MAKE-UP OR
BREAK-UP!!!"

    "HUH?!" Scream II asked, cocking a large eyebrow at the girl.

What she said. ^_^

    "Whoa," noted Sailor Mercury, shielding her eyes with one arm.

    The entire section of the city lit up brightly, shafts of
light shooting out the alley, scorching bricks and searing concrete.
Mars and Mercury hid behind a pair of garbage cans, whose contents
promptly burst into flames.

    Some transformation music would have been appropriate more
or less at this moment, whether it was high-pitched celestial
chimes or some down and dirty heavy metal. Either would have been
quite appropriate.

Heavy Metal for my personal preference.  What was yours when you were
writing this line?  What song, if any, I mean?

    Serena's glistening body twirled around midair in an oval of
brightness, her extremely long ponytails flowing around her. She
thrust a finger into the air and a big bunch of pink bows encased her
body, forming her white, suimsuit-like, sailor-style leotard. Red
ribbons winked into place at the center of her chest, bound by the
heart-shaped brooch. She crossed her arms in front, allowing her
elbow-length, red-rimmed white gloves to form. Her white-rimmed
red boots with the crescent-moon motif appeared next, then her
blue pleated skirt. A glowing heart appeared on her forehead, from
which sprouted a golden tiara with a red, heart-shaped gem at the
center. At the same time, crescent-shaped earrings formed and red,
circular gems appeared on the buns of her hair.

    When Sailor Moon finally struck her patented wide-stance
pose-salute with the big, glowing crescent moon behind her, the
entire transformation sequence was complete.

*nods* Cool.

    Badly scorched, Scream II had to wait for her eyes to
regenerate before she could tell what was going on. She picked her
huge cranium off the pavement and listened to one of the girls
speak.

    "Kicking people while they're down is foul play! Trying to
kill helpless girls on their way home after such a rough day is
unforgiveable!"

    "WHADDA-HUH!?!" Scream II gibbered when the girl's image
wavered into view.

    "For LOVE and meting out JUSTICE, I am the BEAUTIFUL,
sailor-suited soldier," the blonde exclaimed while going through
a whole bunch of flashy and obviously unnecessary poses, "SAILOR

Hey it's Sentai!  Wouldn't be proper if she didn't! ^_^

<small snip>

    *WRING-WRING-WRING!!!* A sphere of light focused itself
between the tips of the Wand, growing larger and more concentrated
before Sailor Moon braced herself and held her weapon forward,
shouting, "Moon Cutey Heart-Thobbing-Reflex Missile!!!"

Ack!  Cutsey attack names!  Saccharine...damnit...where's the insulin I had
lying around here.

    The energy pulsated for a second, like a fast-beating heart,
then shot itself directly at Scream II. The blast dissipated
the youma's attack as if it were a light breeze, then impacted
directly on her chest.

    *KERBLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!*

    Scream II wailed in pain as the shot tore her apart, the
energy burning her with its pure light. The buildings for miles
around rattled as if by a minor earthquake. "@#%@$^&@$&@#$&@$&@!!!"
was all the monster could think to say as it went through the
utter vaporization process.

Been watching the Cell Saga of DBZ again? 

    When it ended, a small mushroom cloud and a strong gust of
wind was all that remained of the attacking creature.

    Sailor Moon did a quick pirouette, twirled her wand around
some more, then put it away and struck a victory pose.

*que Final Fantasy victory music*

    "Show off," Sailor Mars muttered, climbing out from behind
the garbage can.

    "Good work," Sailor Mercury said, using the wall to help
her efforts to stand back up. She looked her blonde friend over
from head to toe. "It would appear that you have your powers back."

    "And then some," Mars added, trying to avoid letting anyone
know that she was seriously impressed.

    The Mars Cellphone rang again. The black-haired girl stumbled
over and picked it up. "Hello?" She frowned and held it over to
Sailor Moon. "It's for you again."

    Sailor Moon rubbed her hands together for joy, breathing
quickly and bouncing up and down like a happy-boinky rodent on _way_
too much sugar. "All right!" She took the phone. "Hiya there!"

    The aforementioned split-screen conversation resumed.

    "Hello, Sailor Moon," Kasumi greeted sweetly. "How did it go?"

    "It went GREAT!" Sailor Moon replied with great, big, sparkling
eyes. "THANK you for calling!"

    Kasumi nodded. "That's very nice. We normally reserve this sort
of thing for when we need a _really_ big upgrade to fend off some

'We?' ^_^

huge interstellar threat," she mentioned, almost offhandedly. "It
would have been better with a proper crystal, though. But I think
it'll be okay for a while with what you've got right now."

    Sailor Moon took a deep breath to revel in her newly regained
power for a moment. "Oh yeah, I love it! I'd like to see those Nega-
Creeps try something right now!" She tried a few fast experimental
punches, which made sharp whooshing noises in the air. Then she
stopped, frowned, and started fidgeting when the paradox hit her
right square in the noggin. "Er, Mrs. Incognito? How did you know
about all this stuff?"

It's bad when even the ditz notices enough to ask the obvious questions.
Heh.

    Kasumi blushed. "Well, you, um, sort of have to know these
things when you're a mother." She laughed a pleasantly nervous
laugh. "I hope you had fun dusting the monster! B'bye!"

    *Click!* And thus ended the Split-Screen Phone Conversation.

    Sailor Moon stared at the phone for a second before shrugging
cluelessly and handing it back to Sailor Mars.

    "All right," Mars said. "Let's go home." She looked down the
long street and recalled just how long of a walk it was to the
shrine. "Oh, forget it." She opened up the Mars Cellphone and started
dialing. "I'm calling us a taxi."

*snicker* Probably the first smart thing they've done all night. 

---

To be continued...

Some people might have wanted a bit more, so I sent this part in.
Others may still be stuck at the first couple of sections, waiting
for the thing to be completed.
Yet others may not have cared at all. ^_^

Could have been worse.  Could have had the responses I got with the latest
chapter of one of the terrible fics I was working on.  *listens to the
crickets chirp* Anyway.... *^^*

"Awl part a' th' job, Oye s'pose. Roight. G'day, then!"

Oh! And I'd like to know what everyone would like to see in the
upcoming part where Terra talks with Grandma. Any preferences?

No...the uhh...scene was quite...uummm...icky enough. ^_^  I'll see about
getting to that chapter as soon as I can.

Hope this helped in some small way. Heh.

K'thardin
"One shall stand, one shall fall."
	-Optimus Prime



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