(and webmailing again, trying to flush out my uncooperative Outbox)


Morgan Hudson wrote:

And then I read it, and I am happy. It's really a beautiful and

delicate part of the cycle of life.

    <Breaks out into a Disney tune>
    <beats self senseless with Tendo, Inc Hyper-Mallet-Sama>

I would like it noted that I was under the influence of severe

medication and sleep deprivation when I wrote that. Plus, there were a
whole bunch of little gnomes who kept poking me and making me do it.
Blame the gnomes.

But just out of curiosity - which Disney tune? I like "Poor Unfortunate

Souls", myself. That, and "Jack's Lament". You can't mess with the
Pumpkin King! ^_^


    Unfortunately, it was "Circle Of Life" from The Lion King.

It's about the only thing they haven't tried yet, though. Work sucks:

write fanfic. ^_^


    ...okay, you've been SPYING ON ME, haven't you?  You're PART OF THE
CONSPIRACY!

"Convergence (n) - the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit."

    But never actually reaches it.

Aw, you figured it out! I honestly expected that to take longer. :(

    Math humor.  I'm just waiting for an opportunity to break out the
"Spherical Turkey" joke...

    Makoto had always firmly believed in happy endings. With her life,
she had needed to. After all, if everything didn't turn out okay in the

    My inner ear suggests dropping the second 'had,' but that's just me.

Okay, sounds good to me, but won't that change the past tense of the

sentence? I'm a little hazy on some points of grammar. Which shames me,
since I speak the stupid language, like, every day.


    I'm just going by "sound."  The "always" is talking about the past,
but the "need" is not only past, but still ongoing.  Just IMO.

Well, not everyone in Ami's club will be as good as her. I figure she

would be president, if she ever bothered to run for the position. As it
is, she is likely the club secretary or something equally important yet
easily overlooked. Still, she would hate to miss the opening stare-off.
Or the smack talk. The Juuban High Chess Club's smack talk is legendary.
^_^


    "I must say, as an opening gambit, this tactic of yours appears to be
somewhat... lacking.  Perhaps I should allow my response to be
directed by a mere seven-node Beowulf cluster running a badly-ported
beta of Deep Blue's runtime image, in order to better match your
demonstrated skill level?"

I remain convinced that Usagi learned to fly from the Hitchhiker's

Guide. Namely: throwing herself at the ground and missing. The wings are
purely there for decoration. You know that old saying "if it weren't for
gravity, you wouldn't even hit the ground?" Well, she found a way around
that. ^_^


    ...now THERE's a spamfic looking for a victim to write it....

    This was where I had to stop reading and walk away for a minute. 

The heck of it is, I think they're *serious.*

I vaguely recall a joke in one of the old dub episodes where they

established that Usagi is, in fact, unable to both chew gum and walk in
a straight line. It was in the first season, so I can only assume that
Mamoru was somehow responsible for her embarassment. I have but a hazy
memory of the episode in question, though - I remember the gag, but not
the plot or the context of it. Somehow I've never caught it again in all
my years of wandering about the Internet, so I'm not even sure if the
joke was in the original Japanese.

Regardless, I thought it was funny, so I brought it back. Considering

how hard Usagi works to cure her other ills, I figured she might very
well be hiding out in her room and working on the "step, chew, step"
routine. For some reason, the mental image strikes me as cute. Maybe
because my mental image has Luna yelling into one of those megaphones
that they use in boating races to call out the strokes while she's doing
it. And that Usagi is wearing a helmet and pads. ^_^


    <SEVERE BREAKAGE>

    Makoto laughed and shook her head, and bid her farewells to her
friends, and walked off with a spring in her step to determine the rest
of her life. After all, nobody liked a whiner, right? She vaguely
remembered her mom telling her something like that once. Ami was way too
busy trying to help Usagi get over her compulsive failing, and Rei was

    "compulsive failing" just doesn't work for me.

Yeah, I need a better way to put that. I'll look it over it later and

see if anything comes to mind. Suggestions?


    Dunno... maybe "her nearly pathological inability to pass her classes..."

Nah, this is just a bit of foreshadowing as to Rei's motivation. You

know Rei: just because she pretends she doesn't care doesn't mean she
isn't losing sleep over the ol' meatball head. Sailor Moon's current
lack of power is a big concern for Sailor Mars - there will be more on
that later.


    I think that's what I'm missing -- I'm afraid I bailed on SuperS early
on, and that's where the thing about Usagi's powers being shaky seems
to be coming from.  On the first read, I was thinking that something
happened to her in your Ch2 (which somehow passed through my Inbox w/o
a ripple), and I'd missed a major Plot Complication.

Yeah, but I was lucky enough to catch the live-action Great Teacher

Onizuka on a friend's laptop a while ago, and it was awesome. Sanjiro is


    I've never watched the anime *or* live action version.  Worth checking
out, d'ya think?

not GTO, but he is seriously making his best attempt, here. He is still

new enough to think he can make a difference, so at least he tries. Some
kids may be irredeemable, but a lot of them are not. I think we can
agree that Makoto fits into the "needs another chance" category.


    You and I know that, but there's no denying that Makoto picked up a
pretty bad rep (deserved or no) prior to becoming Sailor Jupiter. And
since then, while her fighting problem has probably gotten better, the
cumulative effect of being bad at book-learning and losing study time
to Life-and-Death Battles...

Yeah, of COURSE the home economics teacher thinks Makoto shows signs of

greatness. It's the only class where she gets better marks than Ami. ^_^


    Ami... in Home Ec.  The mind boggles.
    Not that I expect Ami would be another Tendo Akane, mind you. But
she'd need someone to help her keep her mind on her cooking, instead
of getting distracted by her latest re-read of Tolstoy (rather like
Touma, in fact -- they both need keepers, just slightly different
kinds).

    The girl throws lightning bolts from her fingertips.  She toys with

elemental universal forces bare-handed.  Physics may be no good for
her, but it's certainly good *to* her.

Yeah, but she still sucks at it. Probably because she is able to ignore

so many of those pesky little laws on a regular basis that learning them
seems almost stupid. The chapter on electromagnetism alone must have
seemed like a huge joke at her expense.

Makoto: "Stupid book! What do you MEAN I can't? I just DID, dang it!"

    As we both noted later, Makoto's much better at hands-on than 'pure'
learning.  She'd be a good candidate for a school that was labs-heavy.

    Nah, you just need to fit the questions into her context. Like:

"Calculate the height from wich to drop a broken egg into a
pre-heated frypan in order to achieve maximum spread without
splatter, preperatory to creating a fluffy omlette."  Or:
"Determine the minimum amount of force required to destroy a
second-generation daimon via experimental testing.  Be prepared to
present your notes and perform a practical demonstration in front
of the class."

    See?  Easy.

Yeah, Makoto's biggest problem is that she lacks focus. In one of the

manga, she admits that every time she sits down to study she starts
thinking that she needs to go make some tea, or that the curtains need
cleaning...


    She "thinks with her hands."  I know the type.  Am one myself, a bit.

Books are not how Makoto learns. Unfortunately, almost the entire

Japanese school system is learning by rote: read it from the book,
repeat it out loud and write it back down until you get it right. It's
small wonder she does poorly in school.


    <shudder>  High school was like that for me.  And while I don't have
Mako-chan's problem to the same degree, there were entire courses
where the disconnect between the textbook author's thought processes
and my own were insurmountable.  Add to that teachers who weren't
qualified to do any more than read out of the book (not their fault,
they tried really hard)...

Plus, there's that whole thing where demons keep trying to devour the

world right when she's about to get to her homework that really
interferes with her study session. ^_^


    "Do you have ANY IDEA how HARD it is to find enough STUDY TIME in my
life?!?  I ALMOST HAD THAT PROBLEM LICKED!  Now I've completely lost
it, and I'll have to study that chapter ALL OVER AGAIN!  For hurting
my GPA (more than it already is), I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU!"

How do you study? I mean, do you leave the book open while you're
doing other things, like watching television? Do you study with your
friends?"

    "Well, usually Ami lectures me while we're fighting for our lives

againt the Force Of Darkness Du Jour..."

Great. Now I have a mental image of Sailor Mercury standing in the back

of the battle with an open text book and a bunch of flash cards for the
other Senshi while they're fighting. Thank you for that. :p


    It's scary, how similar that image is to mine...

Seriously, how much work do you think those girls actually get done at

those constant study sessions we always see them at? I'm betting Usagi
deliberately changes the topic of conversation to evil every time she
starts to get bored. Or hungry. Or sleepy. Or...


    Well, people natually gravitate to what they know they can do well.
And Usagi has proof that, no matter how bad she screws up along the
way, she generally manages to pull off Saving The World better than
Passing The Test.

Hey, look!  Convergence!  Well, more like an intersection, really...

Hey, not every pair of heroes need to meet in the middle of a battle.

Given how bright Touma is, this seemed like a nice, non-aggressive way
to get him into Makoto's life. Plus, the idea of Shuu selling him on
eBay to the highest bidder really stuck in my head for some reason. It
just seemed like such a perfect example of the kind of trouble Shuu can
get Touma into.


    I'm not certain which one he is (orange armor, big club, huge
appetite?), but I like him already.  Wouldn't let him talk me *into*
anything, mind you, but I like him...

Shuu Rei Fuan is not one of those friends who will bring you bail money

at two in the morning. Shuu Rei Fuan is the kind of friend who will be
in the cell with you, sitting on a cot and saying "Man, that sure didn't
LOOK like a cop, did it?"


    At which point Nasuti walks in and gives you both Unholy Whatfor.
    (for whatever reason, Nasuti sticks out in my memory of the previous
incarnation of Ronin Summer)

    She used the *Mercury Copmuter* for a web browser?  Don't they have

cybercafes in Juuban?

Yeah, but cybercafes cost *money*. Borrowing Ami's stuff while she is

asleep is always free! ^_^


    ...okay, point.  Although now I have this image of Makoto staring at
the MC, going "Blank screen?  What's this little sideways-arrowhead
down in the corner?  And the little blinky line?  Where's the buttons?
 Where's the moving arrow/hand thingy?  Where's the MOUSE doohickey?"
    Yes, Ami strikes me as a mistress of the CLI.  Probably contributes a
ton of code to Open Source development in her spare time -- after all,
coding an entire lightweight OS only takes about ten minutes or so...

staying in Juuban to help out. Ami had been working hard enough all year
trying to keep Usagi's grades at floor level: she deserved a break as

    Maybe "ground floor"?

Maybe. I was working off of the "grades so low they are posted in the

basement" reference earlier. Ami may be helping Usagi a little, but
she's not a miracle worker.


    So was I.  I was thinking that, with Usagi's grades *normally* 'in the
basement,' that getting them up to ground level (say, C average?)
would be an accomplishment, as well as a major undertaking.
    But I think my building blueprint differs from yours a bit.  :)

    She really hoped this guy was going to be worth it. What kind of
tutor sold himself on eBay, anyway? Then again, considering how heavy the

    You saw that Digg.com article too, eh?

No, actually - it just seemed like the sort of thing Shuu would do to

Touma. What article? Now I'm interested.


    Couple/three weeks back, some guy with a shiny new aero-eng degree
from, IIRC, Berkely, was auctioning himself off on EBay after he
couldn't get any bites on his resume going through normal channels.
Last I checked, no bids.

    Venkmann:  "Touma and Ami?  We have *got* to get these to together."
    Spengler:  "Peter, I think that would be extraordinarily *bad*..."

Nice Ghostbusters ref. That movie rocked. ^_^

    I just want to see Touma and Ami collaborate on building a superweapon
fit to make Pharoah 90 go running home to mommy.
    "AMI!" Usagi shouted, sounding aggrieved, just as Ryo bellowed "TOUMA!"
    In near-perfect unrehearsed chorus, they both went on:  "How many
times do I have to tell you, NOT ON THE PLANET!?!?!?"

    Makoto began feeling better almost instantly, especially when he
slipped his hand into his pocket and donned a pair of large oval glasses.

    <snerk>

Oh, come on. You know that all blue-haired super geniuses have to wear

big glasses. Not often, just occasionally enough to remind you that they
are, in fact, smart. :)


    Not to mention, making for *great* romantic scenes where the
Megane-ko's bf/gf reaches out and gently pulls their glasses off...

It was like the gods had cut her a break and sent her a fill-in Ami!

Aside

    Cologne:  "Okay, who's been nipping the Instant J-water again?"

And while they're at it, someone might want to take a look at Ryo and

Rei and Seiji and Minako, too. Talk about seperated at birth... O_O


    And ANOTHER spamfic looking to be written...

    "Hi!" she said cheerily, bowing so quickly that she nearly hit
herself in the face with her own ponytail. "I'm Makoto Kino: thanks for

    Instead, she hit *him.*

That would be so cool if I had done that. ^_^

    I had an idea percolating once for an ANC whose running gag (one of
several) would have been that *every* long-haired girl would *always*
hit him when they turned around.  Twice, for Usagi.

Well, the power grid was out. They needed to be able to see where they

were going. And once you've got a mob with torches, you just KNOW
someone is going to start passing out pitchforks. It's like how there
always seem to be rotten tomatoes on hand right when you're getting
upset at the person giving a speech. One of those universal things. ^_^


    Yabbut, haven't these people ever heard of *flashlights* (he asked
plaintively)

It's not that he builds them badly; it's that he builds them TOO WELL.

Poor guy never means any harm, he just gives them death rays because
THAT IS WHAT GIANT ROBOTS HAVE. ^_^


    He just needs to style his personality matrices more on Astroboy than
Largo.

    Match made in heaven, eh?

Well, they ARE both from outer space, so I guess you could say that. :)

    Really?  Makoto as Princess of Jupiter is a standard trope, but I
thought the Troopers were all from Earth.

Still, Makoto is likely one of the only girls who could be equally

convinced that his latest invention was actually going to end in
something other than disaster. Plus, she'd be real convenient to have on
hand when he needed help sweeping up the debris and putting out the
fires. If he's smart, he'll hang onto her.


    *I* would.

And we both know that Touma is very, very smart. ^_^

    Just needs a clue.  Or two.

Too bad -- Touma seems like the kind of guy who oculd use a keeper. 

Someone who can cook, and maybe clean things up a bit, and call down
thunderbolts on the occaisional Unruly Peasant Mob...

And best of all, no more sitting around the lab with Igor playing cards

and waiting on the weather to complete your latest creation! With Sailor
Jupiter, you can crank out inventions like there's no tommorow, and
you'll never run out of lightning! ^_^

They are going to have the WEIRDEST kids....

    You're going to write that, right?  RIGHT?

Touma has the second largest appetite of all the Troopers. He only comes

in slightly behind Shuu Rei Fuan. Canonically, he admits to having a bit
of a sweet tooth. In doujinshi, he is usually able to steal the other
Troopers' food while they are not looking: especially Shuu's. Picture
Ami, but with Usagi's appetite.


    ....###KERNEL PANIC -- BUFFER OVERFLOW (IMAGE.LIMIT)###

He really is a bit absent-minded at times. I think Makoto would be very

happy picking up after him.

The boy is in desperate need of some kind of attention, and Makoto is

the queen of giving attention to people. True, it is usually unwanted
attention, but in this case...


    I would have said more that she's the queen of *taking care of*
people.  Their kids won't lack for mothering, that's fer darn sure.
    Heck, most of the next generation of Senshi/Troopers will probably
have two 'moms' -- Makoto, and the biological one.  :)

    "Honestly? I think this is the best food I've eaten in about
three years." Touma quickly shovelled some more into his mouth and

    Somewhere, Nasuti just decided to strangle Touma, for no special

reason she can determine.

Touma gets that, sometimes. One of my favorite things from the previous

Ronin Summer was Touma's trademarked "smile that made girls want to
smack him on general principles". He has no charm whatsoever. It's like
he has this strange kind of anti-charm that actually makes him cute and
endearing in a clumsy, puppy-dog kind of way.


    Girls like it when they realize that they can see straight through to
the bottom of the Really Nice Guy's soul, b/c he doesn't have *any*
hidden nasty bits, and it turns out he really *is* that nice.

    Hm.  So the YSTs are leftovers from Endymion's Earth? Interesting.

I wonder what their relationship to the Fab Four was?

They weren't fans. ^_^

    Why not?  I mean, they had GREAT lyrics:  "It's a hard Dark Kigndom,
and I'm working like a youma..."

Seriously, though, the YST are a little too late to be from Endymion's

Earth. Their creator, though, is another matter entirely. YST made it
clear that Kaos (or the Ancient One, if you prefer) had been defending
Earth for countless ages before he first encountered Arago (and took him
down with one hit, thank you very much!). Kaos then built the nine
mystical armours to fill in for him and defend the world in his place
when Arago returned one thousand years later.


    Sooo... if Kaos was that badass, what happened to him?  And is s/he/it
going to come gunning for the Troopers?  And why didn't he make the
Troopers more powerful?
    Or are these questions that will be covered later?  :)

That old monk kicked way too much ass not to be from the Moon Kingdom. I

figure he was the last of his breed - a lone warrior from Endymion's
forces who was left behind after the fall of the Silver Millenium and
had to hold everything together as best he could. The Troopers were his
attempt to replace the Senshi: nine great warriors who controlled the
powers of the elements and could unite against the forces of evil that
threatened the world. Since they were not lucky enough to be born with
special powers, he built magical armour that would give them the
strength they needed.


    And if only Tony Stark or Sylia Stingray had been around...

And so goes my slightly revamped origin of the Samurai Troopers, based

in a world where Sailor Moon was equally canon. I'll get into it in more
detail in the fic itself. ^_^


    Backstory!  YAY!

    It does seem as if Toshi has missed a few recent events, though --

Beryl's return, Pharoah 90 and the Death Busters, the whole Nemesis
thing.  The senshi are victims as much as the Troopers, and in much
the same way.

True, but I can explain. (I actually worked this out!)

    Snip detailed and much-appreciated explanation -- I live for good
worldbuilding.

it had all been their fault. They had left humanity to its fate without
any warning, and now, just when it was all finally returning to normal,
they had waltzed back in like they somehow deserved to own the place.

    ...say what?  Did he somehow miss the fall of the Silver Millenium?

I'm *sure* it was in all the papers.

Toshitada is only about 600 years old. Most of what he knows about the

fall of the Silver Millenium he picked up second hand from Kaos and
Sailor Pluto. Given his natural habit of being highly critical of
whoever is currently in charge, it's clear he has been drawing his own
conclusions based on information that is sketchy at best.


    Still, he's drawn a conclusion that's *very* at odds with reality. The
Senshi didn't 'leave,' they *got wiped out.*  At worst, he could
accuse them of being incompetent, or arrogant, and getting wiped out
by their own carelessness, hence leaving Kaos and his proteges to try
and hold the center...

Fool that he was, he preferred to think that they had been more than just
another machination to each other.

    Heh.  If you're retaining the elements I vaguely recall from the

original run of Ronin Summer, that's a safe bet.  But only time
will tell, I guess.

I'm retaining a fair number of the elements I used in the original Ronin

Summer, but some of them are not quite being used the same way. Last
time, Shutendoji was the one who first brought the Troopers and Senshi
together. This time, he seems to be more interested in keeping them
apart. As for the whole Setsuna/Shutendoji connection, well.... wait and
see. I can't go giving it all away so soon, now, can I? ^_^


    IalsoSTR that 'doji-kun designated himself as Hotaru's second -papa
(as Setsuna's disembodied boyfriend), and was regularly drilling  her
in combat in the Dreamscape.

    <emoticon of raised eyebrow>  Oh HO!  And no, she is definitely NOT

"over it."

Heck, no. She's not even doing a very good job of lying about it.

And what the heck would that emoticon be? Surely, we must have come up

with one for that by now! It's, like, the most common emotion we have to
stuff! Can it be that the raised eyebrow has no emoticon? O_O


    /o_o  /o_o\  /o_O  /O_O  /O_o

    I dunno, none of them really seem to convey the right look.

I like how you and Makoto have about equal opinions on her odds of

getting out of this in one piece. Touma's going to end up wearing that
girl like a wet sweater if he isn't careful. Welcome to glompville,
population: you. ^_^


    I'm sure his complaints will be... muffled.

Touma: I am a teenaged mad scientist! Sailor Jupiter on coffee is what

ALL of my plans look like!


    ...backing away, slowly....

He had once tried to build his
own coffee maker when he had been bored, but somewhere along the way he
had been forced the shelve the design due to lack of plutonium. In fact,

    @_@  No, I don't think I want to know.

It started out perfectly normal, I swear. But by the end of the

blueprint, there was a big box with "plutonium goes here" written in it,
and SOMEBODY must have put it there, right? I mean, you can't NOT put
plutonium in the part marked "plutonium goes here". That would just be
madness.


    Well, yeah, but... I mean... that is...

For certain given qualities of "brilliant". I mean, he wasn't exactly

being compared to Stephen Hawking, here. The Shittenou were cool, and
all, but none of them were exactly going to take away a Nobel Prize for
genius in the field of villany. Keep in mind that most of them managed
to wipe THEMSELVES out while Sailor Moon stood nearby and watched.


    True.  Hard to square that with their rank in the old Earth Kingdom,
though.
    My personal fanon explanation has always been that getting their
brains overridden by Beryl (probably by means of jacking up their
obsessions while supressing their critical faculties) made them much
less than they would have been otherwise.

Supercolliders are one of the many things that people try to keep Touma

away from. He's enough trouble when all he has is a penknife and some
juice cans to work with. ^_^


    For me, it was a hot dog and a lamp cord (plus I had a Swiss Army
Knife).  I'm *still* trying to live that one down.

    It's amazing how no one in the canon series ever stops to ask,

"hey, what if some other branch of Evil Inc is attacking in, say,
Peru?  Or France (good riddance)?  Or Mexico City (who'd notice?)?"

Well, Sailor V was nice enough to go and check out London. And the

Troopers did visit New York. I think the trick is that they are only
willing to go places where their shows are popular. ^_^


    "My new cunning plan -- we will attack WHERE NONE OF THESE 'HEROS''
shows have ever aired!!!!"
    "Um, m'lord?  What about fansubs?"
    "....drat."

Yeah, Touma is a gigantic softie at heart. He's a huge romantic trapped

inside a walking calculator.


    Sorta like Mr. Spock, actually...

Makoto does not sleep well. She has certain issues which we are all well

aware of. It goes a little beyond just a fear of airplanes, IMHO. ^_^


    Heh.  One of the elements driving that proto-ANC I mentioned earlier
was that he was supposed to end up as Makoto's boyfriend... and he's a
*pilot.*
    Worse, his idea of a good date was taking his gf out over the ocean
for some aerobatics training.  Plus the occasional bit of skydiving...

You have very good taste in fight music, incidentally. Well chosen. ^_^

    Thankyew.

I mean, someone who throws LIGHTNING BOLTS is mad at you. If you have

any instincts at all, they ought to be telling you to run like hell and
never look back, right?


    Well, if I'm Touma, I blink a few times and start building a
plutonium-powered lightning rod/surge arrestor gadget out of duct tape
and a busted stereo...

That is the true form of Fei Lian. He doesn't use it quite as much as he

used to back in the old days. Fei Lian and the Archer go WAY back. All
the way to the Moon Kingdom, actually. They were enemies when Beryl was
still just toying with the idea of maybe going bad someday.


    You ARE going to explain this eventually, right?  RIGHT?

Somewhere along the line, Fei Lian became convinced that Touma Hashiba

was "the Archer" (Because they dress alike, perhaps? It's hard to say).
He may be right, or he may be wrong. The important thing right now is
that *he* believes it.


    See above.  RIGHT?

Well, that would be standard hero mistake number one: playing fair.

Striking an enemy down from behind is cowardly and dishonourable: your
first shot should always be a warning shot, so that you can get his
attention and let him know that you have come to destroy him. It's also
why sentai heroes are big on speeches: it is only fair to let your enemy
know who he is confronting, so that he has a chance to realise he is
outclassed and back down without losing face.


    One of these days, I'm going to write that story where the combined
Magical Girls/Armor Boys/Insane Martial Artists are *so* outgunned,
they *have* to fight dirty.

    That... did NOT go at ALL like I thought it would.

Hang on, I'm not done yet. ^_^

    It better not!  Or I'm going to hunt you down and make you write a
happy ending!

That is almost exactly what Touma is thinking right now. If Fei Lian was

not his mortal enemy before, you better believe that he is going to be
NOW. And Touma is one of the two Samurai Troopers you never want to see
angry. The other one? Shin Mouri.


    "Never piss of an engineer.  We get INVENTIVE on people's asses."

    Write.  Faster.
    grrrrrrrr

I shall do my best. Work on my next chapter is already under way (I just

took a little break so I could get back to you in a timely manner).


    Oh, great.  C&C in order to keep the author writing, or *don't* C&C so
he doesn't get slowed down?  Oh, the dilemna!  Somehow, I MUST DO THEM
BOTH!
    <ahem>






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