I liked this a lot. This surprised me because I dislike both SM and YST.
Maybe some of this will be useful for you.

                      RONIN SUMMER: CONVERGENCE

  A Bishoujou Senshi Sailor Moon / Yoroiden Samurai Troopers cross-over

                          by Morgan Hudson

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


Chapter 5: The Ghosts That Haunt Me

        Once, long ago, the entire earth realm had been united under the
banner of the great King Hyperion. His people had called him the Golden
Emperor, and his dominion had stretched from one horizon to the other.
Concerned with the welfare of his people, he marched his armies even into
their dreams, and quelled the various beings he found in that strange

land.


Okay, That line is why I read this whole fic. That is one of the best into's
I've seen in a very long time. Oo rah, Chambers style


In power and in stature he was second only to the graceful Queen

Serenity of the Moon Kingdom, to whom he had grudgingly given his
allegiance long ago. A bold and honourable warrior, even in his advanced
years, Hyperion had abided by the conditions of his truce with Queen
Serenity, and spread his borders in the mortal realm no further than the
reaches of his own planet. From the realm of sleep, however, he stumbled
upon a world of turbulent nightmares that posed a threat to his people
in both the realm of the waking and the lands of the dreaming. This, he
had decided, would not do. Leaving the mysterious 'Metallia' and her
people alone never crossed his mind.

        The Golden Emperor decreed, and his three sons moved to make his

word law. Queen Metallia and all of the peoples of her land were to become
the mortal enemies of mankind. Had he been stronger, King Hyperion would
have led the advance himself, but in his weakened state it had fallen to
his son Prince Orcus, the regent of the dreamlands, to carry his banner
into this twisted Dark Kingdom. The armies of the dreaming had clashed
for ages with the evil minions of Metallia and her realm of nightmares,
battle heaping on top of battle with no sign of ending. Queen Serenity
had listened patiently to Hyperion's request for assistance, but quietly
refused to send her Sailor Senshi, or any of the troops of the other
planets, to aid Prince Orcus and his forces. Why should they attack
Metallia, Serenity had asked, when she had done nothing to provoke it?
Surely there had to be a more peaceful way. After all, it had been Orcus
and Hyperion who had begun the assault. Metallia could not be blamed for
defending herself. Escalating the conflict was out of the question.

Liked this whole segment. Had a kind of epic flow to it. Good lay out of the
characters, can see the seeds of Hyperion's demise, generally speaking a
nice setup. The formal prose refering to the past produces a nice
juxtaposition with the colloquial flow of the present.

        "Can it be?" A female youma stepped into the corridor, her dark
almond eyes widening slightly as she stared at him. "Jadeite? Is that
really you?"

No. Burglar.

        Jadeite raised an eyebrow as he tried to remember who was speaking

to him. She was attractive, in an exotic fashion: her skin was coral pink,
and she wore her chestnut hair in a thick bob that accentuated the length
of her neck. The youma was dressed -if he could call it that- in a red
swimsuit that showed off far more of her body than Jadeite was comfortable
with, and exaggerated white dress cuffs adorned her wrists. A golden pair
of wings fluttered nervously on her forehead as she waited for him to
respond. He frowned. Golden wings? Ah, of course!

Tyra Banks?

Yeah, I'd buy it.

        "Lord Jadeite," Badamon wheezed, "I must insist-"

Badamon. Bad-ah man. Oh, he must be the good guy.


        Badamon ground his teeth together with frustration and watched as

Jadeite wandered off with the female youma. On the one hand, Radanthus
had wanted Jadeite in his ranks for exactly this reason: many youma who
would otherwise resist helping him would be swayed when they learned that
they would be working with Jadeite again. On the other hand, Badamon was
less than happy to see that he had found yet another self-important fool
who thought that he could be ordered around like a common servant. It was
important that Jadeite learn to play along very quickly. The last thing
Badamon wanted was for a third party to start muddying the waters and
messing up his own backstabbing.

A very missunderstood good guy.

        "Follow them, Nise Suiko. We don't want Jadeite getting any of the
wrong ideas about who is running things, here. If he wishes to oppose
Radanthus, then he is welcome to join us. If he does not wish to join
us, well..." Badamon shrugged eloquently. "Accidents do have a way of
happening around you, don't they? Make sure one happens to him."

Very, very missunderstood


        "I don't have evil twin envy!" Ryo objected, sitting up on the

couch and glaring spitefully at Shuu. "I'm just saying that we've been
doing this for almost two days, now, and we're going in a bunch of damned
circles! Forget about Nise Suiko - let's just hit the streets, find some
youma, and pound some answers out of them!"

All right, this is the other thing I realy liked about this fic. I can
completely see a group of teenage heroes bickering just like this. MY
friends have bickered like this since we were teenagers. Keep this up



        "Oh, no," Shin said, suddenly bolting to his feet and casting a

worried glance at the door. "My God, Shuu - it's today, isn't it? Today
is the day that Luna...."

Was spayed?


        "What?" Shuu glanced over at the calender and his mouth fell open

in astonishment. "Oh, man! No way we could forget something that important
to him! Ryo, he must think.... Why didn't he SAY something?"

**********

        The Castle of Eternal Regret was a place where hopes and dreams
came to die.

oooh. Not so good, Al


        "You tied me up!" Touma repeated incredulously.

        "Had I been wiser, I would have included a gag!" Toshitada snapped

Yeah. Bad choice, old man

        "A good theory," Toshitada admitted, nodding to himself, "but the

O-Bon is not for several weeks. Also, I shudder to imagine what kind of
cruel and sadistic universe would consider *you* to be my family."

The same one that's going to have the end of the world in a few weeks? I
mean, long enough to get a good despair on, but not enough time to do a damn
thing about it.

        "I think I'm going to let you down, now," Toshitada said, raising

"You're a jackass and she doesn't like you."


an eyebrow as he began to loosen the ropes. Part of him understood what


Oh. Right. Sorry

room increasing. What in the world was he doing here? Why wasn't he
anybody other than him?

Well, genealogically speaking...

        "Uh," she stammered, "Was there s-something you wanted, Ryo?"

        "I was just thinking... do you want to get out of here and go out,
or something?"

        Ami sat down abruptly on the edge of the bed.

Ahem.

HA!

        "He obviously has other skills," Jadeite said, raising an eyebrow
as he carefully stepped around the hulking brute of a youma. Blind or not,
anybody who ran into that fellow on a dark road was going to either have
a very good reason for being there or be fleeing in the opposite direction
soon afterwards. He was carrying a TREE, for Beryl's sake! Who was going
to try to bluff a minotaur that was armed with a PINE TREE?

Someone with cahones.

vulnerable. "Make sure to tell the cook that you'll be recieving some of

my special reserve tonight."

I have the oddest feeling she's setting him up. I hope she is.

        "So," he said, as he stretched out on the pillows next to her and
plucked a shred of meat from the meal on the table, "tell me again about
how you crushed Sailor Mercury with your bare hands...."

He was buttered up real well, and as a result did something real stupid.
Hmm.

Daisekai museum back in Chinatown." That seemed like a safe bet. Ryo was

guessing that a smart girl like Ami would enjoy going to the museum.
Unless she hated museums. Did girls like museums?

        "Sounds fun," Ami said, smiling bravely.

Dude, you can feed her shredded cardboard. The museum is fine.

        "Well," a strange man in a straw hat said as he walked around the
corner to join them, "that seems to be the last of... oh! Sorry, didn't
mean to interrupt your little tea party, over here. Is it too late for a
scone? I'd have stopped by earlier, but I was busy FIGHTING ALL THOSE
MONSTERS."

I love that guy

The rest is more of the same. I really like the lighthearted banter. The
fight scene kinda bored me, as it was a bunch of youma I don't care about
fighting some dude, and it ended pretty much as expected. I mean, we know
you ain't going to pop Nise Suiko or Jadeite, so the ending is pretty
predetermined. I'd imagine I'd care more if I had read the previous
chapters, though, so maybe it's just me. The really emotional scene between
Ami and Ryo was fine; again, I'd probably care if I had read the previous
chapters.

All in all, really good fic. You may want to work a bit on the pacing. One
long, knock-down drag-out fight towards the middle of a chapter is kinda
hard, especially considering the only other fighting was done real fast.
Meh. The ratio of dialogue to description to action is usually pretty good.

Miashara


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