And here we go on the Merry Go Round of maddness that is Nuke 'Em:

    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," Z

Oops.

    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...

Heh. How evil.

    Soon afterward, pair

a pair

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

    Kunzite shook his head. "I saw him die, Zoicite! Twice."

Which should be the tip off. When you have to kill them more than once,
there's no telling how many times you'll have to kill them.

 He

paused and considered his last statement. "Oh, I see your point,"
he deadpanned.

See? :)

    "What're we gonna do?" the blonde moaned, drawing Kunzite
    "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,

know. This

    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!"

That's the spirit.

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

Heh. The Barney Ranma xover had a Mum-Rah reference as well.

    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.

Heh. Nice metphor.

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

Prolly right.

one that kept on screaming and blasting them with those sound waves.
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.

It leveled. Cool.

    "Light which burns beyond crimson flame," the Fire Scout
continued,

Of course. That spell. :)

    Scream II peered dumbly at Mars's gloved hand.

    "LIGHTNING!!!" Mars cried, her hair turning white again.

Heh. Mako might not like her turff being trod upon though.

up to her ear. "Hello? What?" She frowned and yanked off her boot,
staring into it. "Six and a half. Why--?" She tilted her head and
put her footwear back on. "No, I DON'T want to save eight cents off
of every long distance call!" She clicked the talk button, cutting
the connection. "Oooh, why do they have to follow me everywhere?!"

Hehehehe.

    "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,

Heh. I like that term.

    "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!"

Heh

    "Does it have a crystal on it?" Kasumi asked.

    The girl checked. "Uhhh, yeah, a red one, on the handle."

Heh. This is almost surreal.

    "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?"

It sounds pretty educated to me.

    "We'll have to do it the old fashioned way, then," Kasumi said.
    "Okay..." The blonde started concentrating as hard as she
could. If anyone could have seen the thought bubble hanging over her
head, they would have seen the following: First, her mother and her
father appeared, then came her younger brother Sammy.

brother, Sammy

    "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!!!"

Cute

    The word "yipe," hadn't entered into the youma's vocabulary.
Then again, it wasn't a very smart monster to begin with. Actually,
that went a long way toward explaining why the beast laughed
confidently, put her hands on her hips and cried, "OH YEAH?!!
WELL, I'M GONNA GETCHA!"

Heh. So doomed.

    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?"

    Kasumi blushed. "Well, you, um, sort of have to know these
things when you're a mother."

Heh. Serena just might buy it too.

Nice work. A good amsuing short piece, and even had the obligatory SM
upgrade. Liked it a lot.

D.B. Sommer



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