Sailor Moon Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon

[The Ero-Sennin]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Disclaimer: I will distract you from my weaknesses with fanservice!


Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon
The Second Soldier

Cool, cool Mercury

[6.]


Jadeite was brooding, pacing back and forth in his personal chambers. One more failure of this magnitude, and Beryl would want to have words with him. He was well below quota and slipping into the red. Worse, he got another General’s youma turned to dust–he wasn’t going to hear the end of it.

On the plus side, he came to a few understandings about his opponent. Sailor Moon was highly destructive yes, but she was far from reckless. In all the incidents where he faced her directly, she made an effort to avoid getting people hurt, be it kicking him away from those radio hosts, evacuating the gym before leveling it, and focusing his and Derella’s attention on her rather than risk endangering the people in the audience. With that weakness, he found possibly another: Tuxedo Kamen.

In every instance he faced her and seemed to gain the upper hand, that well-dressed bastard would show up, throw a rose, and the momentum of the battle would shift straight back to her. “Deus Ex Rosa” as Thetis humorlessly referred to it. If Jadeite could somehow use that against Sailor Moon, he’d have a chance to take her down–she was strong but she was not invincible. He’d need a plan and a strong youma, no… two strong youma. He didn’t want to have to rely on Thetis, however…

“Ohohoho…”

He immediately tensed as he looked back and found an effeminate youth with wavy blonde hair floating in the shadows of his chambers, reclined with one leg crossed over the other. “Don’t think too hard, Jadeite, you might hurt yourself.”

“Don’t you have places to be?” Jadeite asked.

“My, my, aren’t we annoyed? Since I’ve been so far past quota recently, I decided to drop by and see how my good friend Jadeite was doing. I can see for myself that you’re not doing so hot so I was wondering if you could use a little more help.”

The condescension in Zoisite’s tone annoyed Jadeite even further. “Your help is neither wanted nor appreciated, buzz off.”

Zoisite pouted. “Hey now I loaned you a youma, you lost it, and I’m still willing to help you! You should be a little more grateful.”

“Derella was an idiot who couldn’t get any energy,” Jadeite shot back.

Zoisite stared at Jadeite, and then his eyes widened. “Oh! That was its name? Oh man, I never remember that kind of stuff. Thank you, I couldn’t think of it and it was kind of awkward~”

Sneering, Jadeite looked aside. “Don’t know how you can manage to get nearly as much energy as Nephrite with your attitude towards your youma…”

Zoisite smiled. “Oh it’s quite simple; I don’t waste my time with overwrought plans like you or through divination like Nephrite. The best way to collect life energy is to release it all at once, after all.”

“Psychopath…” Jadeite hissed.

“Queen Beryl said we had to make quota, how is irrelevant. You do remember what we’re gathering energy for, right?”

“Discretion in our operation has its benefits. A body count attracts attention. Especially now that we have to deal with Sailor Moon interfering.”

Zoisite immediately waved dismissively at Jadeite. “Oh shut up you fool. If you were actually good at being discreet, you wouldn’t be here. I can see that even now, you’re weighing your options on taking that little skank out, but your resources are running low. You only have a handful of youma left, Nephrite’s method of gathering energy doesn’t help you, and Kunzite has none of his own to lend. Worse yet, because Thetis got injured, Beryl’s wary of letting you anywhere near her stock. You’re desperate for a breakthrough so you can go back to your precious status quo.”

Once again Jadeite was seething as Zoisite proved himself right on all counts. He turned away from the other General, who immediately teleported directly behind him and rested his hands on his shoulders before leaning close. “I can loan you another youma… I have quite a few to spare.”

Zoisite rested the side of his head against Jadeite’s, and he felt his shoulders tense up. Zoisite began to rub them. “I can’t promise much in the way of gathering you energy… but…”

Bringing his lips to Jadeite’s ear, he whispered. “It’s better to chance it than having to explain to Beryl why you can’t kill a single… little… girl~”

Jadeite lashed out at Zoisite, who teleported away back to his previous position, laughing derisively down at him.

As Jadeite glared up at him, he finished. “I’ll let you use my plant trio.”

That changed things considerably. “You mean Housenka, Grape, and Suzuran?”

“You know if you know their names you should really write them down and give the list to me. I really hate having to say ‘Hey, you’ all the time. They give me looks,” Zoisite replied, “Yes, I’ll let you use my youma…”

Jadeite immediately narrowed his eyes. Of course, making a deal with Zoisite meant… “… For a price.”

“What do you want?” Jadeite asked, knowing he would regret doing so.

Zoisite’s often present smile darkened, as he grabbed Jadeite’s behind roughly. “…Oh you know what I want.”


At the “Running Dragon School of Indiscriminate Grappling” Usagi was trying something new. She was facing against five lower ranked students, all wearing protective gear, as her Sensei and Makoto watched from the side. Over the last few days she had been hitting not the mat but the books, studying combat against multiple opponents in particular. Today was going to be Usagi’s first attempt at implementing what she’s been studying.

“All right, are you ready?” Sensei asked, and all students involved bowed to one another. “Begin!”

Usagi gave no warning, rushing forward and grabbing a student’s arm before kicking him first in the stomach and then in the back. Turning around, she threw the student to the ground as another attacked.

He swung a punch at her, and missed–only to be punished with several rapid-fire blows to his stomach and groin before Usagi hooked a leg behind his and threw him to the ground.

“Wow,” Makoto said as another student grabbed Usagi’s long hair tried to pull her down by them.

Leaning back and twisting her body as she turned around, Usagi went with the pull and drove her shoulder into the attacker and spear her into the ground. As she lay there, she delivered a quick punch to her throat before rolling back up her feet and kicking another attacker first in the knee and then the groin before getting quickly to her feet and elbowing the side of his head, throwing him onto his back.

The final attacker lunged at Usagi with a prop knife to the back of her neck, but she was seen coming. Turning around she grabbed the knife and guided it away from her before twisting her opponents arm to relieve her of the blade, taking the knife into her other hand deftly, she guided her controlled opponent around and then brought the knife up to her neck before pretending to slice her throat with it.

“And finish!” Usagi called out, and the other students got up, their reinforced padding having protected them from Usagi for the most part. She still hit like a man twice her weight and muscle build.

Makoto and Sensei, as well as a number of other witnesses, broke into applause.

Sensei was particularly impressed. “That was amazing, Usagi-chan! What was this art called again?”

“Krav Maga, it’s an Israeli thing!” Usagi cheerfully replied.

Makoto nodded. “I’ve heard of it. It’s less of a martial art and more of a self-defense skill. It places a lot of emphasis on survival, and is generally not meant for show.”

“I see. I do have to wonder, Usagi-chan, why the interest in crowd fighting? You’re the sort who likes to make an example in one-on-one,” Sensei pointed out.

“Crowd fighting is a weakness of mine. Akane Tendo can clear a crowd of a hundred guys in seconds; I want to be able to take on at least a handful at once.”

Makoto let out an amused sound. “I think the best way you can avoid that kind of aggro is to change your attitude.”

“Eh?” Usagi placed her hands on her hips. “Are you saying that I’m the problem?”

“If you have to fight, then fight, but always prefer a peaceful solution.” Makoto’s tone hardened a little bit. “You can’t win them all.”

Usagi gave Makoto a different look with that. “You speak of experience.”

“Afraid so…” Makoto then stepped onto the mat. Seeing this, Usagi got ready to fight.

“Is it a sad story?” Usagi asked.

“A frustrating one, maybe if you can land a hit I’ll tell you.” With that, Makoto bowed.

Returning the bow, Usagi grinned. “I always enjoy hearing a good st-”

Thirty seconds later, Usagi was a crumpled heap by the wall that Makoto had thrown her into. Raising a trembling hand, Usagi gave a thumb’s up to both her and Sensei. “Keine Sorge, ich bin in Ordnung. Ja mein Generalfeldmarschall, Ich informiere die Panzerregiment Die Alliierte Bewegungen. Heil Hitler.”

Her arm fell limp, and Makoto turned to Sensei. “Did you understand that?”

Sensei shook her head. “I am no good with German. Like this one time, my friend and I were going out and she was bragging about her English skills when this foreigner…”

“Shouldn’t we get her help?” Makoto gently interrupted.

“Her mother said this happens all the time,” Sensei replied.


Usagi left The Running Dragon, her head wrapped in a bandage and looking like she’d seen better days. Even with a new fighting style at her disposal, Makoto manhandled her pretty effectively. She could counter every attack she tried, and even took her down in the middle of a takedown. Sensei was right about her, that skill belied her rank.

“I wonder why? Maybe it has something to do with her frustrating story…” Usagi mused aloud. As she rounded a corner, she came face to face with Ami, book bag in hand. “Oh, hello Ami-chan how’s it going?”

Ami looked at Usagi, surprised by her sudden appearance. “Tsukino?”

“Usagi’s fine, we’re classmates after all.” Usagi looked at her bag. “Didn’t school end like hours ago? Where are you headed?”

“Cram School, the entrance exams for Mugen Academy aren’t for another few months so I have to get ready for them in advance.”

Usagi nodded. “I can hear that. So how did you fail the entrance test anyhow?”

Ami gave a quiet start. “Who told you that? I got ejected from the test.”

“Exposition-san, but yeah why’d you get ejected?”

In the few days Ami had gone to her new school, Usagi had shown no hesitation to be sociable with her. It was something Ami wasn’t exactly used to but Usagi was unconditionally friendly at least. It made it easy for her to respond to her, even for all her readily apparent eccentricity. “Well, it was all over an eraser.”

“An eraser?” Usagi repeated, not unlike one of the more solid species of snake.

Ami nodded. “The boy next to me had lost his, so in a lapse of good judgment I loaned him mine. The proctor saw me and ejected me from the exam.”

From that day forward, Ami vowed to hate that boy forever, she neglected to add. “So here I am a student here at Azabu-Juuban.”

Usagi shrugged her shoulders. “This school’s fine. Haruna’s an amazing teacher and Mugen Academy is full of nothing but wannabe mad scientists, gothic lolis, high school lesbians, and sometimes a mixture of all of that. The uniforms are also pretty heinous.”

“It’s not that bad. Sure the uniforms leave a lot to be desired, but…”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s the Toudai of primary through high school education. Just because it’s a public school doesn’t mean you should be so dismissive… it makes you come off as kind of a snob.”

Ami recoiled slightly. “I meant no such offense!”

“I know, but sometimes people want to perceive the wrong things because of their own insecurities, but I’m not so quick to judge.”

Ami smiled to her. “Of course you’re not, nevermind that you just generalized my educational aspirations.”

“Wait, what?” Usagi waved her hand. “Oh, I guess I did, didn’t I?”

Letting out a small laugh, Ami reached into her bag and pulled out her phone to check the time. “I’m going to be late to my class if I stick around any longer, but it was nice talking to you.” She looked from her phone to Usagi. “Would you like my phone number?”

Usagi smiled. “Sure! Just tap it on over to my phone!”

She held up her own phone, and Ami tapped her phone to hers–exchanging contact information. “That’s one of the newer touch screen models, where’d you get it from?”

“I robbed a pervert who was using his phone to take upskirt shots of me and my friend,” Usagi replied.

Ami’s answer was surprisingly nonchalant. “Good job.”

Usagi watched Ami as she waved and went on her way. How strange, this girl adapted pretty well to her flagrant promiscuity and delinquent ways. Kind of like Naru, she realized.

A smile came to Usagi’s lips. “She’s interesting.”

“Yes, I’m actually impressed that you haven’t terrified her,” Luna said as she emerged from around the corner.

Usagi looked down at Luna. “I don’t know, she seems like the type who’s seen it all before. I wonder what to make if it.”

Bending down, she picked Luna up and allowed her to clamber to her shoulder and perch there. “Who knows, maybe she knows someone like me.”

Luna’s ears folded back. “The remote possibility that there could be two of you out there terrifies me to the center of my being.”

Usagi scratched under Luna’s chin. “Shut up.”


In an empty classroom at the Crystal Seminar cram school, the youma Garoben spun a flash drive on the end of her finger as she sat perched on the end of her desk. It had been a few weeks since Murid put her to work on this plan and she was finally putting in good returns, having met both Morga and Flau’s energy quotas before beginning work on her own.

However, over the last few days she hadn’t been able to report any of that news because Jadeite had been missing since shortly after the disaster involving Derella. She, like his other remaining youma, was worried for him, especially since now she had a problem.

“Perhaps Beryl just got sick of his failures and iced him,” the disguised youma lamented.

That would do her no good, but it was ultimately mooted when Jadeite appeared in the room.

“Jadeite you’re-”

She stood up and stared when she saw the state Jadeite was in. He looked as though he had been tortured–with dark rings under his eyes and bruises and bite marks on face and neck respectively. He moved stiffly to a desk to rest his hands and prop himself up. Bringing one hand up to his face, he ran his fingers through his hair and took a deep breath.

“Zoisite.” He turned his head slightly towards her. “Don’t say another God damned word about it.”

Garoben nodded. “Right, I wanted to report to you that I’ve made Morga and Flau’s quotas. You’re not in that hole anymore.”

Jadeite paused, and then looked at her. “You did what?”

“Murid made these.” She held up a flash drive. “They collect energy from students working this cram school. I’ve been doing it since we lost Flau. But yes, I’ve been making huge gains on it but I have a problem.”

“What is it?” Jadeite asked, feeling agitated that he went through that torment with Derella when his own youma were pulling their weight spectacularly.

Garoben tossed him the flash drive, and he caught it. “Huh?”

“One of my students isn’t affected by the thing, I’ve talked to Murid about it and she says that it’s impossible, she made them to suck the excess energy they burn studying,” Garoben explained.

Jadeite examined the flash drive, and narrowed his before he tossed the flash drive back. “Do you still want a shot at Sailor Moon?”

Garoben’s eyes widened, and then she smiled big as she caught it. “You bet your sweet ass, I do.”

“All right then, here’s what I want you to do.” Jadeite stood upright. “Set the flash drives to drain these kids into the red, and make a fuss out of it. If I know Sailor Moon, she’ll come running at the first sign of something being up, if she already doesn’t have her suspicions.”

“I see. Then what happens?”

“Sailor Moon shows up, and then you get your shot.”

Garoben’s smile became predatory. “Oh yes…”

Jadeite nodded, before adding. “Keep in mind, however, that I have enlisted some help from Housenka, Grape, and Suzuran to keep the odds firmly in your favor. Work with them, and they’ll make it easy.”

That surprised Garoben, and she let out a whistle. “Disciples of the DD Girls… Zoisite made you pay up the ass to use them, didn’t he?”

She regretted saying that with the intense glare Jadeite leveled at her. “Right, don’t talk about it, sorry.”

Jadeite softened his glare, and prepared to leave. “Be careful.”

“You don’t need to tell me, but there won’t be trouble. Moon bitch is going down.”

Now smirking, Jadeite began to fade away. “Do what you do best, Garoben.”


Opening the door to the Game Center Crown, Usagi was already counting her money as she headed over to a machine to convert it into tokens. Luna was still on her shoulder, which caught the attention of Motoki from where he stood behind the counter.

Like Naru, he was well used to having Usagi and her antics, and he shared in her unconditional love for all things Kamen Raider. To Usagi, Motoki was both like a big brother and her supplier of all things Kamen Raider.

“Hey Usagi-chan, is that cat yours?” he called over, catching her attention. She looked to Luna, who put on a pleased expression, before turning to him.

“You know her?” she asked.

Motoki nodded. “Yes, lately she’s been hanging around here looking for a free meal. I don’t mind her at all; she’s a very friendly kitty.”

Usagi reached up and scratched Luna’s chin with a finger. “So this is where she disappears off to, the freeloading harlot.”

Luna bit her finger. “Ow.”

Motoki couldn’t help a laugh as Luna leaped from her shoulder and bounded over to his counter to hop onto. He began to pet her. “So what’s it going to be? I stocked the crane and capsule games today, and got a couple of new cabinets in, including Kamen Raider vs. Kamen Raider Next Extreme Gaiden Plus.”

Usagi rolled her eyes. “Another add-on game, when are they going to just make a sequel?”

“Why would they? Besides, you’re still going to play it,” Motoki pointed out.

Indeed, she was already getting her tokens ready. “Oh God, I am.”

As she headed over to the cabinet, she stopped and pulled a grimace when she saw Mamoru playing Vs. Next Extreme Gaiden Plus. “Ugh… you have some disinfectant, Motoki? I’m going to need it after that guy is done playing.”

His eyes not leaving his thrashing of some enemy mooks, Mamoru raised his head up. “Haven’t seen you around lately dango-head, I thought you’d finally gotten thrown into juvie.”

Usagi bristled at the man. “I’m sure you were looking for me too, ass.”

“I was genuinely curious; it’s hard for someone as loud and obnoxious as you to just disappear,” Mamoru fired back as he began to deliver a spectacular beating on the final boss.

Usagi turned to Motoki. “Can you throw him out, please? I hate him and I want him to die.”

Motoki raised his hands in apology. “No can do, I’m afraid Mamoru is a bro.”

Usagi looked absolutely betrayed, while Mamoru pulled a smirk. “He’s a bro?! You’re friends with this bald pervert?!”

“I’m not bald,” Mamoru interjected.

“Have been since we were kids, and he’s also the biggest investor in the Crowns. So… yeah…” Motoki went on.

“Investor? You mean to tell me that this pervert has money?!” She turned towards Mamoru, who was halfway to creaming the boss.

Motoki put on a bit of a smug look. “You know it; neither my store nor my parents’ café would exist if it weren’t for him.”

Suddenly, Usagi found herself torn. Game Center Crown and the Fruits Parlor Crown were her favorite places, but they existed thanks to the one person in the world she wanted to see spontaneously combust into flames that burned away only his clothes… well, except for his boxers–or maybe they were briefs?

Oh man, she hoped so, an ass that fine needed some tighty-whities wrapped taut around it… no, not white. Black, yes, black briefs clad around that perfect ass–son of a bitch!

Damn it Usagi, stop being distracted by his sexy!

Usagi huffed. “Is that the case? Well don’t think for a minute that you being Motoki’s friend and benefactor changes things, you’re still an asshole and I hate you.”

Mamoru had just finished utterly ruining the Final Boss’s shit and was entering his name. “Well I still think you’re a psychotic delinquent and I enjoy getting a rise out of you.”

“I bet it gets you off, you pig-disgusting freak!” Usagi railed before she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to look towards the hand, and was immediately given a kiss on the lips by a cute boy in her school’s uniform.

Motoki stared in surprise, and even Mamoru was taken aback by the audacious move.

Breaking the kiss, the red-haired boy nuzzled Usagi’s face before whispering low. “Usagi-chan, are you letting that mean old bald guy get you worked up?”

Usagi, her face cutely flushed, immediately realized it and whispered back. “Naru…?”

“I’m just testing out the limits of the Disguise Pen,” Naru replied and he kissed her again unashamedly.

He then pulled Usagi into a possessive hug and gave Mamoru a mock glare and smile. “I don’t care how hot and rich you are. You can’t have her, she’s mine.”

“Oh thank God, you actually have a boyfriend,” Mamoru said as he dumped in a few more tokens. “Here I thought you fed into my teasing like some bad tsundere.”

“Tsundere?! Oh screw off you trust-fund baby otaku! I would never be attracted to a loser like you!”

Naru then whispered in her ear. “You’re a bad liar.”

When Usagi tried to protest that, he pinched her backside and she let out a squeak. “H-hey…!”

Motoki scratched the back of his head and then looked over to Mamoru, who just shook his head. Luna ignored it and curled up on the counter.

Pulling away, Usagi took Naru’s hand and led her towards a door at the back of the arcade. “Motoki, I’m going to do some karaoke, okay?”

“Have fun then, Usagi,” Motoki said as he waved after the two. When the door shut behind them, he let out a sigh and looked to Mamoru. “He’s kind of grabby for a kid his age, you know?”

“Please, I remember someone hitting his first homerun on his twelfth birthday,” Mamoru teased, prompting Motoki to blush. “Speaking of, Reika’s coming back to Tokyo soon isn’t she?”

Motoki put on a pleased smile. “Yes, could you take care of the Crown for me that weekend? We don’t want any interruptions.”

Mamoru made a face as he lost to the first boss on his run and went to slip in more tokens. “Sure, why not.”


“You know, I think the Disguise Pen is having an effect on you,” Usagi said as she laid on the couch in the soundproof and spacious private karaoke lounge. Her head was in Naru’s lap, the other girl’s disguise dispelled as she stroked one of her long tails, smiling down on her.

“I don’t know what it is, Usagi-chan,” Naru replied as she moved from stroking her hair to caressing her face. “I think I’m in love with you.”

Usagi smiled and lightly bit down on Naru’s thumb. “Or maybe you just like to make me scream.”

Naru laughed. “The disguise pen really has turned me into a pervert then.”

“Or it just freed the pervert within.” Usagi squeaked when Naru pinched her cheek. “You know I’m right~”

Laughing again, Naru began to toy with the bandages around her head. “The training isn’t going so well, is it?”

“It’s going fine. It’s just that I can’t beat Kino. She’s like some sort of superhuman.”

“Oh, you got beaten by that girl again?” Naru mused over it. “Hey, what if she’s a Sailor Senshi? That would be awesome, wouldn’t it? She’s already freaky-strong; imagine what being a Senshi would add to that.”

She snapped her fingers. “Oh! What if she’s Sailor Mercury?”

Immediately a vivid picture of Makoto all dolled up in a sexy sailor fuku just like hers came to Usagi’s mind. “That would be so awesome. She would look perfect. Except that Makoto’s not the new Sailor Senshi.”

Naru blinked. “She isn’t?”

At that moment, Naru felt a buzzing in the pocket of her skirt, and pulled out her cell phone. Usagi looked at it. “Is it your mom?”

“No, she has a ring you know that. I have it set for alerts regarding police, fire, or medical emergencies and it just caught one.” She read the alert. “Report: Unresponsive students at Crystal Seminar Cram School. Multiple ambulances are required.”

Usagi stood up. “Come on, Crystal Seminar is where Ami is!”

Naru jumped to her feet and readied the disguise pen. “You got it!”

The scene in front of the Cram School site was pure chaos. There were no less than a dozen ambulances, with more on the way as medical personnel either helped students out or carried them out on stretchers. The police were performing crowd control to keep everyone a safe distance from the building as a precaution.

As Usagi and Naru arrived, they immediately spotted Ami among the ambulances, and both slipped past the barricade.

“Ami-chan!” Usagi called out, grabbing her attention. “Are you all right?”

“Usagi… Osaka-san…” Ami looked over towards the school. “I’m fine, you don’t have to worry. Everyone else just collapsed at their desks from exhaustion.”

A flag went up in Usagi’s head, Naru’s too as the latter passed a concerned look to the former. Usagi nodded. “Tell me, Ami… have you or your classmates been fatigued lately?”

Ami shook her head. “I haven’t, but I guess some of the other students have been complaining of being tired lately–but not like this.”

Up went another flag, and Usagi began to scan the crowds for anything suspicious. Almost immediately, she caught sight of who appeared to be the seminar’s distraught teacher, speaking with a police officer.

Ami began to wonder. “Why do you ask, do you know what might be going on?”

Usagi looked back to Ami. “I’m just curious. Stuff like this has happened before.”

“Happened before…?” Ami then remembered the big fuss over the brooches, and her eyes widened. “Do you think they had their energy taken by those bad guys?”

Naru looked back and forth between Ami and Usagi, wondering if Usagi was about to go as far as reveal her identity to the girl. Turned out she had no cause for concern as Usagi shrugged her shoulders. “Maybe it is. Ami… is that teacher new?”

“Yes, why do you ask?” Ami asked.

Something was off, and Usagi could feel it. They’re not this stupid, especially after their last disaster. This was bait to lure her in.

Seeing the awesome focus that came over Usagi after she answered, Ami tilted her head. “Why, Usagi?”

Usagi looked back to Ami and smiled. “Don’t worry about it, okay Ami-chan? Just be careful at your next class.”

Ami blinked. “Next class, I don’t think they’re going to have another after this…”

“Oh, they will.” Usagi patted Ami on the shoulder, before she abruptly turned and walked away. “Naru-chan, let’s get out of here.”

Naru turned to follow Usagi, confused with her directness, before looking back to Ami. “Ah, see you at school!”

Ami stared after the two girls, and was about to call after them when she heard her mother frantically call for her. Outside the crowd, Naru caught up with Usagi as she walked briskly away from the commotion.

“Usagi, don’t you think you gave a little too much away back there?” Naru asked.

“It’s fine. The Dark Kingdom is trying to lure me into a trap.”

Naru looked back at the crowd. “They are?”

“You bet.” Usagi smiled to Naru. “I’m going to give them exactly what they want, but I have a plan.”

Usagi having a plan sent a thrill of excitement through Naru as she gave her a smile. “What is it?”

“Keep an eye on the Crystal Seminar. If it opens another class anytime soon, which it should in the next few days, I’m going to bust it up and I’ll need both you and Luna.”

And so, two days later, Luna walked up to the front of the Crystal Seminar joined by a woman dressed as a teacher…


The strange encounter after the incident at the Crystal Seminar weighed heavily on Ami after that. Usagi asked those oddly specific questions and just walked away, leaving her wondering why. What bugged her even more was that despite what happened, it was glossed over fairly quickly, and more classes were rescheduled for only two days later–just as Usagi had predicted. When she asked the manager of the cram sessions, she found that it was the teacher in charge, the new one, who had insisted on going back to it.

After all, the students who had all fallen ill had mysteriously recovered–just like the victims of the brooches.

Usagi knew something, and Ami was almost certain that she was connected to Sailor Moon, but for the life of her Ami couldn’t determine that connection. It felt like the answer was right there, but it was just out of her reach to the point of absurdity, like two plus two equaling East Los Angeles. The mental block that weighed on her head frustrated her, driving her to her other passion outside the pursuit of knowledge, art.

Lately my muse has been on fire. She’d been hitting on said muse ever since she was ejected from the exams in fact. Even now, as she sat at her computer in the cram course, her focus was on drawing a doodle of a redheaded pigtailed girl she encountered a few weeks ago.

She stopped and stared at the picture, the girl was in a sailor fuku like Sailor Moon’s. Almost immediately she soured and crumpled the paper into a ball. “That’s just stupid.”

“Is there a problem? You seem a little distracted, Ami-chan,” the teacher asked in a saccharine voice. Ami frowned a little bit, recalling Usagi’s interest in the woman.

She shook her head. “No, I am fine.”

“Are you sure? Something appears to be on your mind.”

Ami looked up at the brown-haired woman’s face and hid her discomfort at the nonchalant cheeriness she possessed. Usagi’s suspicion had infected her well, and certain things about the woman had come to Ami’s attention. She seemed artificial, like she was poorly acting a ruse.

“Not really, just done with my work.”

Garoben smiled. “Would you like a little more work? Every little bit of studying helps, doesn’t it?”

Ami looked down at her sketchpad, and then at the computer. “I guess a little more work wouldn’t hurt.”

The door slammed open, and in entered a teacher, a beautiful black-haired woman with a hime-cut stormed in. “Who is in charge of this class?”

Garoben looked up from Ami to the woman, surprised by the unexpected intrusion. “I am, and who exactly would you be?”

The woman didn’t waste any time. “I think you know who I am, youma. But I’ll fill you in case you don’t…”

Garoben’s eyes widened behind her glasses as the other teacher reached up to grasp the inside of the jacket she wore. She was not in shock; however, she was completely overjoyed as she bared her fangs at the woman posturing in front of her.

Ami stared at the woman, and then over at her teacher, and she immediately grew worried as the woman’s fake expression became monstrous. She was a youma, which meant…!

She looked back to the woman, ready to fling off her cloak. “Once, I was a…”

She immediately trailed off and ducked down with a shriek of terror as Garoben suddenly extended her arm. As it shot towards her, it immediately transformed into an axe that slammed through the wall, showering her with plaster.

“You were saying?” she asked as she wrapped her hand around Ami’s neck and gripped it. “You really ought to not make a silly speech when you’re facing an enemy, it’ll get you killed!”

Drawing back to her hand as she took on her tall, hideous form, Garoben gestured to the other students in the classroom, whom until this point Ami hadn’t even noticed were strangely quiet.

“Take good care of her.”

On her order, like puppets on the end of slack strings, the students rose up and began to shuffle towards where the interrupted interloper was getting back up.

“By all means, transform and let’s get this over with Sailor Moon. But I’m sure you won’t mind having to slaughter your way through these innocent people to get to me, will you?” Garoben taunted before she looked down at the struggling girl in her grip. “As for you, why not join them?!”

“Let me go!” Ami protested before her face was shoved up against her computer monitor. Immediately, the monitor began to flash as the contents of the flash drive worked their dark program.

Garoben chuckled. “You’re still resisting, that’s cute. However, I’ve improved this Energy Collector, so stop resisting and give up all that delicious energy you’ve been storing up! Give it, bitch!”

She looked over towards the still disguised Sailor Moon, who the slowly advancing mob now had completely cornered. However, despite the pinch she was in, she appeared calm… amused even.

Immediately, Garoben realized that something wasn’t right, that realization was cemented when the computer suddenly and angrily beeped. She looked down and found that not only was Ami still conscious, but the computer was failing to drain any of her energy.

“This thing could drain energy from Kunzite!”

She held up Ami, and found a curious symbol glowing on her forehead. “What the Hell is this?”

“Looks like she was right, Luna.” “Sailor Moon” said when she saw the symbol on Ami’s forehead.

Garoben snarled. “Who was right?!”

At that very instant, the window to the classroom shattered violently. Garoben didn’t even have time to turn her head before Sailor Moon’s kick plowed into the side of it. The youma went sailing into the wall and through it to the hallway outside with a violent crash as Sailor Moon landed on the top of a desk, above the surprised Ami.

“S-Sailor Moon…” she gasped in surprise as Garoben got back up, injured by the force of the kick but still very much intact.

“You bitch… if you’re Sailor Moon, then who are…?” She took her eye off Sailor Moon to look towards the other woman, and regretted it as Sailor Moon lunged for her and slammed a punch into her stomach, lifting the much larger youma off her feet.

Flipping onto her hands, Sailor Moon sprang upward to slam both feet into Garoben’s face, sending her flipping backward to crash face first into the opposing wall of the hallway.

Landing on her feet, Sailor Moon dusted off her knees and stepped back from Garoben before looking over to Naru, who had played her part as the bait perfectly. “Get out of here, I’ll be fine.”

“I kind of can’t!” Naru replied as she struggled against the grabby hands of the students. At least, however they weren’t trying to beat her to death.

“Um… Sailor Moon, I think they misinterpreted her command.”

Sailor Moon smiled, and shrugged her shoulders. “Well, at least they won’t kill you.”

Naru squeaked as one of the students ripped open the blouse she wore. “Oh… oh boy…”

Garoben’s laugh pulled Sailor Moon’s attention back to her, and she readied for combat. “So youma, where’s your trap? I was expecting one.”

As she spoke, the youma Grape materialized in the air behind her outside the very window she had entered dynamically from. As Garoben smiled towards the window, Sailor Moon instinctively turned back, but it was too late, as the vines from the blonde youma wrapped tightly around her body before she was yanked through the window and swung through the air before being slammed into the side of another building across the street.

“Sailor Moon!” Naru cried out before a female student dragged her deeper into the human pile.

Bound tightly in the vines, Sailor Moon looked up at her attacker as her sisters Housenka and Suzuran appeared at her sides. She struggled against her bonds and they began to break.

Seeing this, the other two youma wasted no time, with the green colored Housenka unleashing a sonic blast as the multi-colored Suzuran fired off a barrage of bomblets, the former’s sonic waves accelerating them into their target as both hit, creating a large and destructive blast that shattered the windows of every adjacent building.

Ami shook in disbelief as she fell against her desk. “Oh God… S-Sailor Moon…”

She looked from her feet to Garoben, as the Youma rose to her feet. “And while that is taken care of… I guess I’ll have a little fun with you, human.”

Ami stepped back from Garoben, growing terrified as the youma raised her axe hand. Luna however intervened, slashing Garoben’s face as she leaped past, landing on the ceiling she bounded onto the top of a computer. In her mouth, she carried a blue transformation pen.

“Ami Mizuno, hold this up and call out ‘Mercury Power, Make Up’, quickly!” Luna ordered after she threw it to her.

Ami looked at the clearly talking cat, the strange magic wand she held, and the monster in front of her gripping her face in pain. In an instant, it all fell into place, and the normally quiet and reserved girl felt an exhilaration like no other fill her body. Holding the pen upward, she twirled it and called out.

“Mercury Power, Make Up!”

In an instant her clothes vanished, replaced by a swirling blue light that quickly wrapped about her entire body, covering her hands, feet, and torso before flashing to reveal her sailor fuku and its corresponding jewelry. A rush of cold air spread from her like ripples on a pond, revealing the Guardian Sailor Senshi, Sailor Mercury.

Staring down at her new form, Ami took a few deep breaths as she tried to take in what she was experiencing. “I… I am a Sailor Senshi…”

She looked up at Garoben, who was staring at her with two parts disbelief and three parts horror.

“No, not another freaking one…!” she moaned in dread.

Nevertheless, she readied her axe arm, and rushed Sailor Mercury. “I can’t let you live for a second longer, DIE!”

She swung the axe, and chopped through Sailor Mercury, neatly beheading her.

Garoben grinned as she watched Sailor Mercury’s body fall from beneath her head, and that grin disappeared as both parts of the newly formed Senshi began to disappear, breaking off into particles of light before they completely vanished.

As Garoben stared, Sailor Mercury materialized, intact, in the same fashion directly behind her, her leg raised for the kick she swung into her with all her might.

Garoben took the kick, and plowed through the rows of desks and computers before she crashed through the wall of the school and went hurtling outside. Setting her feet on the ground, Sailor Mercury crouched only slightly before she vanished into thin air.

As Garoben fell towards the ground, Sailor Mercury fell upon her and grabbed her face before smashing her head first into the street, the ensuing explosion turning over nearby parked cars and sending onlookers running for their lives.

From where they hovered, Suzuran looked down at the explosion. “What the hell was that?”

Grape could feel it in her vines as she stared into the smoke. “She’s still alive! She just broke out-!”

Like a missile, Sailor Moon smashed forehead first into Grape, the shockwave from the impact blasting all three masked youma away in different directions. As Grape went flying, Sailor Moon grabbed the vines trailing behind her before she swung her around into Suzuran, the two youma going through a billboard an instant later.

Housenka recovered in midair, wide-eyed as she watched her sisters go through the billboard. “What the Hell is that girl?”

She looked down at Sailor Moon, who had landed on the street, and unleashed a sonic blast on the girl. The street exploded, but Sailor Moon was already coming at her with her arm extended.

As Housenka was caught by the lariat, Sailor Moon spun around, before throwing the Youma through the roof of another building, which she went through every floor before reaching the ground floor, missing every person inside as the dust from the impacts poured through its windows and doors.

Falling through the air, Sailor Moon landed on a street lamp, and flicked her hair before looking towards the wrecked billboard. As she was greeted by the sight of onrushing vines fired by Grape, she plucked her tiara from her head.

“Moon Tiara Action!”

Like a saw, the tiara slashed through the vines, and nearly took off Grape’s arm had she not detached the vines at her fingers and leaped clear of the weapon. As the tiara came around for a second go, it was struck by a barrage of bomblets from Suzuran, sending the weapon flipping away and back to Sailor Moon’s hand.

Realizing she was in a bad position to take further attacks from these three, Sailor Moon leaped back to the rooftops, and began hopping from roof to roof.

Housenka flew up after her, firing another sonic blast in an attempt to bracket her, creating a pair of trenches on either side of the roof around her.

As the smoke rose from that rooftop, Sailor Mercury stepped out of the crater she left the disintegrating body of Garoben in and stared at the battle going on above. Luna landed next to her, a little overwhelmed by the property damage but trying not to focus on it.

“Talking cat, do I have any attacks?” Sailor Mercury asked.

“My name is Luna and yes, you do! Just think about it and it should come to you!” Luna responded before more explosions sounded from the rooftop. “Hurry!”


Atop the roof, Sailor Moon grimaced as Grape’s vines wrapped tightly around her arms, legs, and torso tightly. Grinning as she held Sailor Moon in place, she channeled a great deal of energy down her vines, the pulse hitting her and sending shockwaves out from her feet that cracked the roof. Combining their attacks again, Housenka and Suzuran completely shattered the rooftop with the ensuing explosions as they hit home with terrible force.

When the dust settled, Sailor Moon was trembling, wisps of smoke rising from her body as she stared with a defiant smile of her own at her attackers.

Grape smirked, though it was unseen behind her mask. “You ready to give up and die?”

“They sent three of you just for me, I’m flattered. Still, I’m going to turn you all into dust!” Sailor Moon responded.

It was at that moment that Sailor Mercury leaped over the roof, soaring above the heads of Sailor Moon and her opponents. Crossing her hands in front of her, she targeted the battlefield.

“Mercury Sabão Spray!” The sphere of light that collected before her crossed hands shot forth, expanding into a barrage of rapidly spreading bubbles that encased the rooftop.

“What is this?” Grape asked in surprise before the fearsome cold of the mist struck her. All three youma sisters, chilled, began shivering violently.

“It’s s-so cold…!” Housenka cried.

Suzuran looked over. “Quickly, use your Sonic Waves to blow it away before…”

It was too late, and Sailor Moon’s foot found a nice home right in Suzuran’s throat. Kicking off her face, she vanished into the mist before Sailor Mercury performed her own kick, slamming it across Housenka’s eyes and driving her into the ground. Stepping back, Grape could only watch as her sisters fell to the ground.

“Where the Hell did this other Senshi come from?!” she sputtered before she bumped into a caped figure standing behind her.

Slowly she turned around. “Huh?”

“Forgive me but I forgot my guitar today.”

In a flash of steel Grape fell, a nasty gash sliced into her chest. The Sabão Spray cleared as Tuxedo Kamen sheathed the blade hidden inside his cane with a soft click. He then looked to Sailor Moon. “Good day, Sailor Moon, it seems you’ve gained an ally.”

Sailor Mercury was star-struck. “It’s really you, Tuxedo Kamen!”

“Hey sexy, you’re classy as always,” Sailor Moon purred as Tuxedo Kamen tipped his hat to the two Senshi.

“And you ever as lovely and energetic,” he replied, causing Sailor Moon to squeal giddily. He turned his attention to the downed youma. “I believe now would be the proper time to strike-”

All three were suddenly wrapped in swirling cherry blossom petals, before they vanished. Zoisite’s grating laughter filled the air, and the Sailor Senshi and their black clad ally looked up to find the General floating in his swirling petals.


“Maybe I was a little hard on Jadeite; you little skanks are quite formidable.”

Sailor Mercury blinked. “Did… did he just call us skanks?”

“Who the Hell are you?” Sailor Moon asked as she folded her arms.

“Ohohoho… I’m an enemy, that’s all you need to know. You’ve gained another ally, but don’t get cocky. After all Jadeite is a bit of a pussy compared to the rest of us,” Zoisite taunted as his cherry blossom petals appeared around him. “Ta, bitches.”

He vanished into thin air, leaving the Sailor Senshi, Tuxedo Kamen, and a ruined street behind. Despite the destruction wrought, no one was injured in the insanity of the battle, just crowds of people stared in disbelief at the material losses. Surveying the destruction, Tuxedo Kamen let out an amused chuckle.

“I think you girls need a Dividing Driver or something if you’re going to keep this up,” he said as he headed to the roof edge.

Sailor Moon snapped her fingers. “Now that would be awesome!”

Sailor Mercury turned to Sailor Moon. “What about your friend? We should go check on her.”

“Oh crap, I almost forgot about her! Thanks Tuxedo…” He was gone. “… Figures. Let’s go!”

The two leaped across the street and back into the wrecked classroom of the Crystal Seminar. Inwardly, both hoped for the best and prepared for the worst but were greeted with… exactly what Sailor Moon had expected to find.

Sailor Mercury stopped and stared in total disbelief at what had become of Naru and the other students. “Oh, dear God!”

“Wow… that is… wow.” Sailor Moon said before she called out to the center of the crowd. “Na-chi you okay in there?”

“Why is this happening?” Sailor Mercury asked.

“I think this could be summed up as par for the course,” Luna replied before Naru waved from the center of the crowd. “You okay?”

Naru finally managed to call out. “Oh I’m fine, Sailor Moon, I’m really fine… this is awesome…”

Naru’s mouth became full again, and Sailor Moon turned to Sailor Mercury. “She’ll be fine. We’d better go.”

“But…!” Sailor Mercury stopped, stared, and tilted her head when she got a better view of what they were doing to Naru. Suddenly, all reservations vanished from her mind. “… I need my sketch pad now.”

Sailor Moon followed Mercury’s line of sight and gaped. “Wow.”

“You guys, we gotta go!” Luna interrupted.

“All right, fine we’re leaving! Come on, Mercury.” Sailor Moon took Sailor Mercury by the arm and dragged her for the hole blasted in the wall, as she desperately tried to commit the sight before her to memory.


An hour, a transformation, and a much needed shower later, a wobbly-kneed Naru entered Usagi’s bedroom to find her and Ami waiting. Aside from the weak legs and the smile locked onto her face, she seemed otherwise fine. Waving to both girls, she walked over to Usagi’s bed and fell facedown into it with a relaxed sigh. Luna looked down at the girl before turning to the Senshi.

“I can’t help but think of how doomed we’d be if the Dark Kingdom used sex-themed youma.”

“Pfft, like a youma could get us to screw around with them.” Usagi looked towards Naru, showing concern. “Naru-chan, are you okay?”

“I’m great! A little sore but… yeah… hehe… I’m great…”

Ami was blushing brightly as she quietly drew in her sketch pad. Luna looked to Usagi. “You could’ve gotten her out of there.”

“I didn’t want to leave~” Naru replied drunkenly.

“Again, how doomed we’d be.”

Naru rolled onto her back. “I am a complete and total pervert. I enjoyed that way too much.”

Ami spoke up sheepishly from behind her sketch pad. “C-can I call you senpai?”

Naru seemed to purr at the request. If she’d not been so worn out, she’d probably be trying to get Ami to call her a lot more than that. “Sure.”

Usagi raised her hand to call order. “All right ladies, we know for sure that our enemies are numerous. After today, we’re going to have to be less reactionary and more proactive. We need to find more Sailor Senshi.”

Naru looked to Usagi after propping herself up. “Well, if there’s a planet theme then there’s nine Senshi in total right?”

“Eight.” Ami corrected, and received the mother of all hostile looks from Luna.

“Nine,” Luna spoke bluntly, and said no more on the subject, the fearful looks both Usagi and Naru had told the girl that it was a point not to be argued over.

Ami acquiesced without a fight. “R-right… Nine Senshi…”

“We already know that Sailor V is a Senshi–the planet theme makes her Sailor Venus by default. That leaves Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.”

“Ha, ‘Your Anus’.”

Naru received a similar look from Luna that Ami had, and likewise shrank.

“So how do we find them?” Ami asked.

“The same way I figured out Ami was a Senshi.” Usagi replied.

“Yes, about that. How’d you figure that I was a Sailor Senshi?” Ami asked.

Luna nodded. “I would like to know too. Even I had thought that Mercury was that Kino girl.”

Usagi smiled broadly. “It’s quite simple. Ami was a new girl who stood out, with noticeably unique personality traits and characterization. How could she have not been a Sailor Senshi?”

The sound glass shattering filled the air, with all of the girls and Luna jumping from the sound. Ikuko’s voice then sounded from downstairs. “Oh poo, I broke a casserole dish!”

With everyone sighing in relief, Luna glared at Usagi. “Do that again, and I will hurt you.”

“Sorry.” Usagi brightened up. “Still, it’s something to go on. We need to find a girl who ‘stands out.’ When we do, we’ll certainly find our next Sailor Senshi.”


Crows, dozens of crows cawed and fluttered about the street where the battle between Sailor Senshi and Youma took place. The countless birds disturbed the emergency personnel and clean up crews still on the scene; after all… according to some myths the birds were associated with death and misfortune.

However, they dare not try to drive the animals away, because that act was a misfortune onto itself.

“Evil forces are definitely at work here,” the miko sent from Hikawa Shrine, with long hair black as the birds overhead, said to Superintendent General Natsuna Sakurada, who had personally come down to survey the damage incurred from the battle. “The spirits themselves have been banished, but their taint remains.”

The miko gestured to the gathered students, still under the effect of the late Garoben’s brainwashing. While harmless, they were still little more than mindless zombies.

Natsuna looked to the miko. “Can you help them?”

“Of course!” The miko produced a series of ofuda tags, and threw them to the foreheads of the students with rapid and supernatural precision before holding up a final tag. “Evil spirits begone!”

The tag held in her fingers went rigid, and those on the students flashed brilliantly before wisps of pale light surged from them to dissipate harmlessly into the sky. In response, the cacophony of the crows grew as though they were in applause. Staring nervously up at the murder for a moment, Natsuna looked at the now recovering students and then to the miko. “You do impressive work, Miko-san.”

Lowering the burnt tag, Rei Hino bowed to the Superintendent General. “Thank you, Sakurada-san. Now… for this service to the city, may we discuss a donation to the shrine?”

“Of course, of course…, Natsuna replied, suffering a sinking feeling that if she tried to decline those crows would become a lot less friendly.


Ami: Ah…this is my first day doing something like this, so please wish me luck, okay? No matter what you do, never talk during an exam. Even if there’s a chance getting ejected from the test will allow you to meet wonderful people who can become lifelong friends.

Usagi: I’m sensing issues…

Ami: S-Sailor Mercury says, ah… heh?

 

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

An excellent introduction to the Senshi of Ice. Keep up the good work.

 

[DrTempo]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Bravo, Ero-Sennin! As good as I hoped it would be..Even more!

 

[FlinFlon]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Finally, Ami appears! And about time too. Ooh teleportation...shiny. Me like! And you did make good on your intent to give Ami a grudge against poor Ryo. I really want to see that subplot play out. :snigger:

Though I must add that I wholeheartedly approve of Naru's increased importance in your story over her canon share. But hey, Ami is why I read Sailor Moon. :wub:

Ooh and spooky Rei to look forward to. Though I wonder how Usagi will take it when Makoto proves to be a Senshi after all. The antagonism (with a hint of attraction) between Usagi and Mamoru is well done. Poor Luna as only sane one is entertaining as usual.

And, of course, a very satisfactory level of perversion in the finest Black Dog tradition. :lol:


Damn, I like this story so much, I'll even forgive you for Interview's lack of Ranma/Nabiki. ^_^

 

[Prince Charon]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Interesting, that it is. I wonder if Ami will be joining Naru and Usagi's relationship, as well as being their friend.

 

[Flamewolf]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

1: male naru and male ami will dp usagi

2: then they'll switch sides.

3: switch so different girl gets dp'd

4: repeat step 2

5: ???

6: profit

 

[tahu1809]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Finally, Ami appears! And about time too. Ooh teleportation...shiny. Me like! And you did make good on your intent to give Ami a grudge against poor Ryo. I really want to see that subplot play out. :snigger:

Though I must add that I wholeheartedly approve of Naru's increased importance in your story over her canon share. But hey, Ami is why I read Sailor Moon. :wub:

Ooh and spooky Rei to look forward to. Though I wonder how Usagi will take it when Makoto proves to be a Senshi after all. The antagonism (with a hint of attraction) between Usagi and Mamoru is well done. Poor Luna as only sane one is entertaining as usual.

And, of course, a very satisfactory level of perversion in the finest Black Dog tradition. :lol:


Damn, I like this story so much, I'll even forgive you for Interview's lack of Ranma/Nabiki. ^_^

But their not busty enough for Black Dog!

Still grate story man.

 

[The Ero-Sennin]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Disclaimer: How far can I go before I run out of shock material? Let’s find out!


Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon
Of Senshi and Apples

Or how a phone brought a city to its knees…

[7.]


Ami, as Usagi learned, was of considerable wealth as she discovered when she came by the other girl’s house for a mandatory study session ordered by Haruna the moment she found that Usagi was on friendly terms with the new student. Sure, she lived in an apartment like the majority of urban Japanese, but her apartment took up two floors that normally held eight apartments apiece. Oh, and it was the top two floors of a thirty-story high rise and the rent was measured in a number of zeroes that bordered on the obscene. The blue-haired anime chick was loaded.

“What does your mother do again?” Usagi asked as she walked around the spacious living room of the apartment.

“She’s a doctor,” Ami closed the door behind them as she answered.

Usagi whistled. “Is she Tony Stark’s personal physician? There are some High Profile CEOs who couldn’t afford something this swanky.”

Smiling gently and suppressing the urge to boast about her mother’s abilities as a doctor, Ami gestured for Usagi to follow. “I know she was good enough to get a job that always has her away. We communicate by text message and tweet more often than anything.”

Usagi’s smile dimmed a little at that. Nice as it was to be able to provide for your daughter, being there for her was just as important. On the other hand, her mother was always around, so she couldn’t understand what that was like. “So, when you and your Mom are together it must be fun. What about your Dad, is he around?”

Ami stopped smiling, and it told Usagi it was time to change the subject. “So! Where’s your bedroom?”

“Come this way.” A relieved Ami turned and headed for the swanky spiral staircase in the corner of the living room. Usagi was right behind her.

“The lower floor is my mother’s area and the upstairs is mine.”

“God, you’re so rich it hurts. How about helping a sister out?”

Ami laughed softly as they exited the stairs and entered Ami’s domain. When she reached the top of the steps and looked around, Usagi could only stare in amazement at Ami’s true passion. “You… you’re an otaku!”

The stairs had come up into Ami’s bedroom proper, which was filled from floor to ceiling with ergonomically stored, meticulously cleaned, and extensively cared for collection of all things anime and manga. Side by side were shelves of figurines, dolls, models, DVDs, video games, and visual novels. Posters of anime old, new, popular, and obscure were mounted on the walls and ceiling, from which spaceship and robot models were suspended. In one corner was her bed, which had sheets with cute male characters on them, and at the desk next to it was Ami’s desk, where a sleek and sophisticated computer sat with a drawing tablet and a small stack of books.

“Danny Choo ain’t got shit on you.”

Ami laughed again. “Oh no, Danny’s got much more stuff than I do.”

“Wait, you know him?” Usagi then noticed a picture on one of the shelves. It was of Ami cosplaying as a Zeon soldier from Mobile Suit Gundam, smiling next to a Star Wars Storm Trooper. “Wow. So, is this all you do in your spare time, study and cosplay?”

Usagi picked up another picture, of Ami modeling after a famous blue-haired anime chick. “You’re a convincing Rei.”

“Thanks.” Ami sat down and produced her study materials from her bag. “And yes, my mother wanted me to pick up a hobby and well… here I am.”

It was an incredibly lonely hobby, and that issue continued to put Usagi off as she walked back over towards the bed to sit on it. She stopped when she noticed the stack of books on the desk. Picking it up, she examined the cover, which featured a pair of cute girls cuddling on the cover. Noticing the “R18” label on the cover, Usagi smirked a little bit and began to read through. “So, you even collect the dirty stuff, too?”

Ami looked up from organizing her notes and saw what Usagi was reading. “Uh, Usagi I don’t think you should read that…”

Usagi was still in the midst of browsing. “Why? What is so bad…?” She browsed ahead to later in the book and dropped it like it was hot, “HOLY SHIT!”

She looked at Ami. “The fuck is wrong with you? Do you seriously like guro?”

Ami hesitated. “Ah… No.”

“Then why do you have it?” Usagi asked.

“I drew it.” Ami gestured to the books. “I’m an artist.”

Well, that explained her constant scribbles and doodles… and her desire for a drawing pad back when Naru was getting in touch with the deepest recesses of her perverted mind. “Oh… so you just draw it…”

“Yes, I get paid quite a bit for doing the really disgusting stuff. It doesn’t appeal to me at all really, except that it’s a good chance for me to study anatomy.” And ways to destroy it, going by the level of detail involved.

Usagi calmed down. “I see…”

“I have less extreme stuff if you want to look at it later, but right now we should study. Haruna-sensei was pretty ardent about your grades.” Ami scooted over on the bed so Usagi could join her. Taking a seat, Usagi was smiling again as she opened her book.

“You know what, Ami? I think we’re going to be great friends.”

Ami flushed a bit before she teased. “You’re just saying that because I’m rich, smart, and you can study off me.”

She then learned that when Usagi hit back, she hit back hard. “Well, that and because I think you’re really cute.”

Usagi happily went about studying, as steam practically rose from Ami’s head from the intensity of her blush.


The session went surprisingly well, with Usagi’s problem being pretty much her lack of proper application. By the end of their study group, Ami was confident that progress was being made and hopefully she could get Usagi’s average up to a point where Haruna wouldn’t attempt to strangle her every test.

“So why don’t you apply yourself?” Ami asked as they rode the elevator down to the apartment lobby.

“I’m happy with where I am academically. I can pass my tests if I try, I don’t really see the need to overachieve. It’ll lead to stress. And if I’m going to be saving the world, I can’t be expected to commit to higher education. What if Sailor Moon’s missing while I’m taking an important test? What if an important test is missed while Sailor Moon is fighting evil? It’d be pretty moot don’t you think?”

She had a point, but Ami wasn’t convinced. “Well, I guess there’s that. But what about me, should I give up my academic pursuits because of Sailor Mercury?”

Usagi shook her head. “No because learning is your passion. Don’t let being a warrior interfere with your life… let me shoulder that burden.”

“You shouldn’t martyr yourself like that.”

“Being Sailor Moon is something I want to do, and I’m ready to do it before anything else.” Usagi put an arm around Ami and hugged her. “I’m going to tell you like I’ll tell every other Senshi when they join: be a little selfish. Pursue any dream you may have, because this? Being Sailor Moon, a warrior for justice, is mine.”

Ami smiled at that, and hugged Usagi back. “What if I told you that being you was mine?”

She didn’t expect Usagi to give her a peck on the lips. “I’d be flattered, and I am.”

The elevator doors opened as Usagi pulled away. Smiling back to Ami she crossed the threshold. “I’ll see you at school tomorrow, okay?”

Fighting off her flush, Ami quickly nodded. “Y-yes, don’t forget your notes Usagi!”

“Sure, sure…” Usagi waved and walked out of the door, leaving Ami to lean against the elevator interior as the doors closed. She brought her hands to her cheeks, which were still warm.

“I can see why Naru-chan is so attracted to her…” the bluenette whispered.


As Usagi strolled outside, she heard a beeping from her pocket and pulled out her ill-gotten cell phone, which was complaining about a firmware update. “It’s updating? Well fine I guess.”

The phone began updating; the progress bar sliding across the smooth touch-screen, and the second it completed, the screen went dead. Usagi stared at the phone. “What?”

She pressed the power button, and there was only a flicker before it went dead. “Are you kidding me…?”

She tried restarting it again, nothing. “No.”

She removed the battery pack and then slipped it back in before starting it again. It flickered and died once more. “No…”

In a fit of desperation, she removed the phone’s SD Card, ran to an outlet inside the lobby and tried to restart it while plugged into the charger. Nothing at all happened. Usagi stared down at her phone, and tears welled up in her eyes.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Usagi came home and flopped onto her bed, looking absolutely morose, something that Luna had never seen in the girl before. Sitting up on the bed, she stared down at Usagi with all the wonder in the world, before leaning down to sniff her face. Usagi brushed her away and buried her face into the mattress. Undeterred, Luna climbed up onto her back and began to knead at the back of her head.

“What’s the matter Usagi?”

“My phone died.” Usagi’s answer was muffled by the blanket.

Luna’s ears folded back. “Oh, you mean the one you stole from that man you put in the hospital?”

“I was justified,” Usagi argued before she sat up and held up the device. “It was brand new, too. I just got all my music and my contacts on it and it just bricks.”

She then dropped the phone grabbed the sides of her head. “Ugh, and all my notes for the next test were crammed into it! This sucks!”

Luna sniffed the phone and rested her paw on the screen. It was quite dead, even her magical computer wizardry couldn’t seem to revive it. “It would appear that a bad firmware update killed it. There’s nothing that can be done, the registry is all kinds of dead.”

“God damn you Symbian!” Usagi cried to the heavens. “Well, there’s only one thing to do.”

“Assault another pervert and steal his cell phone?” Luna asked.

“No… I’m going to take the money I’ve saved up and buy a new cell phone first thing after school tomorrow, duh.” Usagi laid back down and held up her phone turned paperweight. “And hope that I can get my data recovered from this thing and transferred over.”

That sensibility would’ve been considered out of character to Luna, if the money Usagi was referring to hadn’t been stolen from the aforementioned pervert or copped from a turned over armored car.

As it turned out, the firmware update that killed Usagi’s phone was making headlines the next morning. One in three cell phones in Japan were experiencing a similar bricking as the result of a shoddy firmware update, leaving the phones little more than fashionable paperweights. Suddenly millions of people were without what amounted to their link to the larger world, and the outcry was immense. For the youma Ramua, it could not have gone better.

“Stage one is complete,” she said as she watched the news from the back of her shop in Harajuku, “It’s now time to open up shop.”


The next day, Usagi was joined by Naru and Ami in Shibuya as they walked through Harajuku, an area in the city named after the station it surrounded. Usagi was somberly dressed, carrying a small white box with a black ribbon on it, the resting place of her cell phone. She was in mourning over the loss and she was not alone, many people were similarly dressed and carrying either their dead phones or black bordered pictures of their phones.

“How awful, so many people affected by the bad firmware update… though it is a bit melodramatic don’t you think? I mean, you doing it I get, but everyone else?”

Usagi scoffed at Luna’s complaint. “Well our phones are an extension of us, our means of being connected.”

“Yes, I understand that. But most people aren’t deranged like you are,” Luna retorted.

“She has a point,” Ami added.

“In my defense and the defense of others, this is harmless, non-perverted, and admittedly a little fun.”

Luna immediately hushed up, partly because she was not going to argue with Usagi’s logic there, and partly because Makoto appeared. Like the girls, she was in search of a phone vendor, and she immediately caught the group’s attention. Usagi called her over. “Hey! Mako-chan, what are you doing here?”

When Makoto looked over, both Ami and Naru gave a start at how tall Makoto was, while Usagi bounded to her. “Oh hey Usagi, did the update kill your phone too?” When Usagi held up her phone’s box in confirmation, Makoto sighed. “I had mine for almost three months; surely it was good for another three or four.”

Usagi smiled. “Well, we can at least send them off together. Come on, I want you to meet my friends. This is Ami and this is Naru.”

Ami just stared up at Makoto, feeling so small in comparison, in more ways than one.

Naru let out a laugh. “It’s nice to finally meet the only person in Japan who can beat Usagi-chan.”

Makoto humbly brushed off the complement. “Come on, I’m sure there are others, like everyone in Nerima for one.”

Naru giggled, and Usagi actually felt that one sting a little. Makoto didn’t hesitate to go forth. “It’s nice to finally meet Usagi’s friends, though I was expecting something a little more…”

“… Yanki?” Naru asked.

Makoto nodded.

“I guess you’d expect that if you’ve only met her,” Naru said with a smile.

“So tall…” Ami whispered, still in awe of Makoto’s height and poise.

Makoto looked down at her. “Huh?”

“W-will you model for me?”

Makoto, taken aback, stared at the blue-head. “M-model?”

Usagi cleared the air quickly. “We’ll discuss later. Come on ladies, I know where they sell these phones, maybe we can get a discount off a replacement.”

So the group now four plus one cat carried on and they soon found a large crowd in front of the cell phone shop that was the largest in Shibuya. To their surprise, however, the crowd was not gathered to get in there. Following where the line went, Ami was first to see where it led.

“They’re all going to… the Apple Store?”

Usagi whistled. “Those are popular, too.”

Makoto, not quite as savvy electronic-wise as her peers, looked over at the posters all over the Apple Store, which had been set up on what had once been a clock store. “That plan would explain it.”

“That’s easily half the usual price, no wonder they’re flocking here,” Ami said as they found themselves in the rapidly moving crowd. Usagi took note of the offered plan.

“I’m no economist, but isn’t that selling at a huge loss?” Usagi asked.

Ami nodded. “It is. It must be a promotion to take advantage of the bad firmware release.”

“Those Americans sure jump onto an opportunity quick,” Naru said, the convenience of the deal playing with her suspicions as they were with Usagi’s.

It couldn’t be, could it? Just exactly what were they getting at, if it was them?

Usagi hummed. “Let’s go check it out. Just to get a look, if they offer a good plan then I’ll go for it.”

Inside the Apple Store, the mind-controlled servants of Ramua were hard at work pitching the corrupted phones and doing a fantastic job of it. Customers were only present for at the most a minute before they left with a shiny new iPhone. The fact that the phones were cheap and imbued with an infusion of dark energy was most certainly a deal-maker in that regard.

The instant Usagi and Naru entered the store, Luna felt that something was off, but she couldn’t place her nose on it. Usagi had not taken two steps in when Ramua herself shoved one of the trendy little devices in her face. “Welcome customer-san, has your cell phone been afflicted by the tragic firmware update?”

Usagi held up the box containing her dead phone. “Yes.”

Ramua promptly took the box and tossed it into an industrial power shredder set up behind the counter. “Kiss that piece of trash goodbye and buy an iPhone. Be an individual on the cutting edge of technology and functionality! Need anything? This phone has an app for it!”

“My phone…” Usagi mewled over the loud whirring and grinding of her phone being torn to pieces.

“You remembered to remove the SD card, right?” Ami asked.

Usagi held it up.

“Good, that would have sucked.”

“Ah, an SD Card, I see? Sadly the iPhone 4G is not compatible with SD Cards but does come with a reader to allow easy transfer of data!”

“iPhone Genesic 3G…” Makoto snickered, an image of a courageous hipster robot coming to mind.

Usagi stared at the phone and then hummed. “I don’t know, I only came here out of curiosity. I still have my plan with DoCo, so I’m not sure if I want to commit to a new phone and new plan…”

“Nonsense, nonsense, with this phone, you can switch to your old plan at no additional cost. But if you want to save money, be my guest and grab yourself an iPhone!” Ramua continued to push.

Makoto stepped up. “Well I’m sold. My income’s tight.”

Ramua turned to her, almost leaving Usagi in the cold as she handed the phone to Makoto. “Go right over to the counter and you’ll be on your way!”

Turning her attention back to the others as Makoto went off, she attacked Naru and Ami. “Would you ladies like some new phones?”

“Mine is fine, but thank you,” Ami said as she held up her own phone.

Naru nodded. “Ours run Linux, we didn’t get a bad update.”

Damn Linux and damn these whores, Ramua had no patience for window-shoppers. “Well if you’re not going to buy, kindly get out. For the next ten minutes! All phones are fifty percent off the listed price!”

In a scene reminiscent of the Osa-P store, the crowd crush that followed literally squeezed Usagi, Naru, and Ami out of the Apple Store and onto the side of the street. As they watched mob mentality descend on the crowd, Naru and Ami looked down to their leader for guidance. Adopting a cross-legged position on the ground, Usagi huffed. “It’s a weird coincidence, so let’s keep an eye on things for now, all right ladies?”

“Sure,” Ami said as they waited for Makoto to escape the crowd.

With some of her martial arts prowess she managed to. A dozen people had to go to the hospital, though.


“Phase Two went better than I had hoped,” Ramua reported to a resplendently recovered Jadeite as they chilled in the back of the Apple Store later that day. “I sold out of the first batch within the morning and blew through the second and third by dinner. I think in a few days, we’ll meet the new posted quotas and exceed them. Of course by then, Sailor Moon will catch on. I’ll be waiting for her with Phase Three.”

Jadeite gave Ramua a pointed look. “Thetis and Murid expressed a great deal of confidence that you can pull it off. However…”

Ramua cut him off. “Yes… even with Housenka, Suzuran, and Grape we were still crushed. There’s another Sailor girl too. Don’t worry though, I have no intention of failing.”

“And if you do?” Jadeite asked.

“Then I won’t die!” Ramua resolutely replied.

Jadeite smirked, prompting Ramua to blush.

“At any rate, I should start preparing for when Sailor Moon comes knocking. She’ll catch on to this one pretty quick.”

Jadeite nodded. “In the meantime, I’ll be meeting with Nephrite. He’s been reviewing the last few incidents and has ideas.”

Ramua brightened at that. “Oh! I look forward to seeing what you put together.”

Rising from his seat in the back office, Jadeite began to teleport out. “I can’t stress this enough. Be careful, Ramua.”

Ramua’s smile remained. “I won’t go the way of Garoben, trust me.”


In Japan, the cell phone was a coveted thing. For some, it made life easier, and for others it was their life period. A fixation on one’s phone was not an uncommon occurrence, but there were times where use of a cell phone was considered taboo even in a country where it was as common to own one as a television. In just three days since the Apple Store’s big boom, car accidents shot up nearly eighty percent as determined by the data Ami had begun collecting at Usagi’s request.

“Distraction is the primary cause. Nearly all of the accidents involved the responsible party not paying attention to his or her surroundings,” Ami said as the girls stood around Usagi’s desk before the start of class.

Usagi folded her arms and sat back in her seat. “Did any of the reports you glean mention the cause of the distraction?”

Ami was manipulating the touch screen of a white and blue phone she had received from Luna shortly after their visit to the Apple Store. It was a relic of the Moon Kingdom, a palm sized supercomputer whose abilities were pretty much magical. Giving it to Ami, Luna assured herself, was the most logical and responsible option she could take. Usagi seemed to agree, given that she gave no fuss about the computer when Ami received it.

“Roughly eighty percent of the police reports reference the driver being distracted by their phone. Emails sent to the Superintendent General have already made the correlation between the accidents and the type of phone used.” Ami reported.

“Were they caused by iPhones?” Naru asked, amazed at Ami’s casual hacking of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.

“Yes, the Government is already in the process of filing complaints to Apple,” Ami replied.

Usagi huffed. “I freaking knew it.”

Ami put away her phone. “Yes, you did. So now what happens?”

“After the last time, they know to expect us. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve got something especially nasty planned. Naru-chan, you’re going to sit this one out.”

Naru smiled and then whispered. “I’m still a little sore from last time, so I’m fine with that.”

The door opened, heralding Haruna’s arrival. Of course, she had her eyes glued to an iPhone as she sat down. The class representative quickly sent everyone to their seats, but within about ten minutes everyone was up and around again, and another school day was quickly wasted by Haruna’s fixation on “Doing her stocks.”

“You know, even if we didn’t have Ami to do all this probing for us, we could’ve figured something was up via Haruna,” Usagi observed.

Naru nodded. “Yeah, she’s like a meter for weirdness.”


Standing in front of a Light Gun game at Game Center Crown a day later, Shingo rapidly blasted the heads off various monsters as they lumbered towards him, the game was no ordinary shooting game, it was a simulation designed to closely mimic the look and feel of an actual gunfight (albeit against horrific aliens) with the gun even hitting him with servo-driven recoil with every pull of the trigger. Over his shoulder, Mamoru watched with approval. “You know what, Shingo? I think the time spent down at the range is paying off.”

“I hope so. When are we going back to doing all that cool stuff, anyway? I miss the skydiving and rock-climbing,” Shingo said.

“Well, how are your grades?” Mamoru asked.

Shingo blasted the limbs off a monster before taking off its head. “I’m at the top of my grade level.”

Mamoru smirked. “We’ll go sky-diving this weekend, then.”

“Awesome.”

“Hello!” Mamoru and Shingo looked over towards the door, where a gorgeous, healthily tanned auburn-haired woman around the former’s age appeared. “Guess who is back from Africa?”

“Reika, you’re back!” Mamoru said cheerfully as he left Shingo to shoot up monsters and walked over to her. He had just reached her when she threw her arms around him and gave him a near bone-crushing hug that took him off his feet. “Oof! R-Reika…”

“Mamo-chan, oh goodness I’ve missed you so much!” Reika Nishimura declared before she set the taller man down before she looked him over. “You’ve still managed to grow a few inches since I’ve been gone.”

Mamoru smiled. “And you’ve gotten a tan and gotten a little stronger.”

“Aid work in Africa is a lot of hard work, but it’s so rewarding. Plus, I learned how to fire RPGs and heavy machine guns.”

Shingo glanced over towards the conversation. What kind of aid work was she doing?

Reiko then remembered something and reached into her bag. “Mamoru, I got something for you. I brought a ton more souvenirs but they’re back at Motoki’s.”

She pulled out of her bag a necklace made of lion’s teeth and put it around Mamoru’s neck. “Authentic lion’s teeth, I got it from one that tried to kill me, but I got it first.”

Mamoru looked at the necklace. “You killed a lion?”

“It was self-defense, but apparently if you kill a lion with your bare hands it’s a big deal. So I guess I’m part of the tribe over there now. I have the whole pelt back at Motoki’s.”

Shingo was now staring. Was Motoki’s girlfriend some sort of action hero? No wonder Mamoru spoke so highly of her. Reika then looked around, moving Mamoru from side to side to look past him. “Speaking of the devil, where is Motoki? He didn’t come get me at the airport and he wasn’t home.”

Mamoru paused. “He didn’t?”

Reika shook her head, “I didn’t even get a reply from him when I sent him a text that I was at the airport. His sister had to come and get me.”

That was strange; Motoki had been looking forward to Reika’s return forever now. Mamoru looked towards the back of the Game Center Crown. “That’s weird; he got a new phone and everything. Hang on.”

Walking to the office of the Game Center Crown, Mamoru opened the door and looked inside. He froze when he found Motoki sitting at his desk, playing with his newly acquired iPhone. “Motoki, are you all right?”

“I’m fine, I’m just checking my stocks,” Motoki said in a monotone that was definitely not fine. “

What stocks? “Motoki, you don’t have a portfolio… though I have been on you about creating one. Anyway, Reika’s here. Why didn’t you get her text?”

“I was busy,” Motoki responded, and Mamoru immediately knew something was wrong. Motoki not excited to find his girlfriend outside the office and hotter than ever? It tripped every “Bro Flag” that Mamoru had set up, and all indications pointed to the same conclusion. Evil was afoot in Tokyo.

“Motoki!” Reaching inside his jacket, he pulled out a rose and threw it into the phone, knocking it out of Motoki’s hand and pinning it to the wall. Almost immediately a black pulse erupted from the phone as it died, and Motoki blinked and shook his head before looking at the phone and the rose embedded in it.

“What the…?” He looked from the rose to Mamoru. “…Mamoru, what just happened?”

“I think we found the cause for all the incidents going on in Tokyo over the last few days, Motoki. You got that phone from Harajuku, didn’t you?” Mamoru asked as he produced another rose.

Motoki stood up. “Yes, the Apple Store there. So it was a front for the Dark Kingdom after all!”

Mamoru turned around. “Keep me connected, I have a feeling Sailor Moon is on her way to bust these guys too.”

“Oh boy…” Motoki said as Mamoru ran out of the office and straight for the doors of the Game Center Crown, leaving Reika and Shingo to stare after him.

Rushing out the door, held the rose out and sent it flipping into the air, where it transformed into a top hat. Catching it in midair, Tuxedo Kamen rolled the hat along his fingers and rested atop his head as he landed atop a street pole. He looked down below him at the street below and smirked. He didn’t normally transform in broad daylight, but a crisis was a crisis.

“Okay, let’s go…” Leaping from the light pole, he shot off towards Shinjuku his cape flapping through the wind behind him.


Much nearer the Apple Store, Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury landed atop a train that would take them straight to the Harajuku station. A blue visor across her eyes, Mercury was hard at work doing some important info gathering. “It’s the middle of the workday, so the crowds are at their minimum. However, there are still people around the store and in the general vicinity that need to get clear.”

Sailor Moon nodded. “Can you somehow evacuate them? I have a feeling that this is going to get messy.”

Sailor Mercury looked to Sailor Moon. “You’re going to do something terrible, aren’t you?”

“Can you do it?” she pressed.

Sailor Mercury pulled a small smile and began to hit some keys. Soon, emergency sirens began to blare from the vicinity of Harajuku Station. Sailor Moon smiled. “Sweetie, you go and introduce yourself, I’m going to bring the heavy artillery.”

Rising up from her kneel, Sailor Mercury calculated her trajectory to her target, and then nodded to Sailor Moon. “Don’t take too long, I might just beat the youma up before you even get there.”

A message indicating to “Jump Now!” flashed inside her visor and Ami crouched before she leaped through the air and towards the store, her takeoff creating a dent in the roof of the train.

At the Apple Store, Ramua heard the sirens and smirked. There was no Earthquake, and no message associating the sirens with a test, which meant that a disaster was coming straight for her front step. Looking around the room, she snapped her fingers and the people in the store were suddenly teleported away, Jadeite did say no body count. It wouldn’t do to make the Senshi really angry, after all. Besides… using human shields wasn’t her style, they were never an indication of power.

“Door’s open, Sailor Senshi… come right on in,” Ramua said, before the entire front wall of the Apple Store was blasted in by the impact of Sailor Mercury smashing through it. The dust that filled the store was joined by a chilling mist, Mercury’s Sabão Spray.

“Forgive me, youma, for not having any of Sailor Moon’s flair. I am the Soldier of the Planet Mercury, and I will be taking your life,” Sailor Mercury introduced herself as she walked out of the mist.

Ramua licked her lips, and then pushed herself from the counter she had been leaning back against. With a wave of her hand, she revealed her pale-skinned but hardly monstrous youma form, and brought the back of it to her chin to laugh at Mercury. “Really now, care to back up that threat?”

The second Sailor Mercury disappeared she jumped up and over her, as the Senshi’s punch crashed through the counter, destroying it and the expensive electronics it contained. Flipping over and twisting around, Ramua teleported before she landed and then appeared behind the counter as Mercury pulled her fist from the wrecked case.

“Fast…” Ami muttered before she suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Ramua to slice through her with a kick. To her amazement, Ramua dodged the blow and landed atop another case. “Strange…”

Ramua folded her arms and then smiled. “Sailor Mercury, before we destroy all the merchandise, could I interest you in an iPhone? I’m sure a Sailor Senshi could find a use for them. After all, I can.”

Several iPhones appeared in the air around Ramua as she spoke. Sailor Mercury quickly began to analyze them and came to a quick conclusion: Sailor Moon was right to search out heavy artillery. She immediately prepared to fight as Ramua grinned.

“For example, have a pesky Sailor Senshi you want dead? Guess what? There’s an app for that.” The faces of the phones began to glow red, before they fired a barrage of beams that instantly converged on Sailor Mercury and ripped through her. As with Garoben before, Sailor Mercury faded away in a shower of lights as she reformed above Ramua in mid flip to drive an axe kick down upon her head.

The impact blew out any window and door still intact after Mercury’s initial arrival just as Tuxedo Kamen landed on a nearby rooftop. “Looks like I’m late to the party again.”

Sliding backward across the floor, Sailor Mercury used her high speed movement to evade another barrage of the lasers as they tore up the ground where she had stood. Leapfrogging over a counter between her and Ramua, she swung around into a kick that Ramua evaded despite her approach being literally unseen, she landed on a wall–her hands and feet punching dents into it on impact.

Something is off… I should be hitting her… She thought as she stared at Ramua and her phones, surrounding her like a swarm of bees around a hive. She can’t be that fast, can she?!

Suddenly a barrage of beams was striking her, pounding her into the wall. The force of the blast was enough to put her through it and onto her back in the office on the other side. What in the Hell just happened?

That attack… it happened instantly, I didn’t even get a fair warning… Ami tried to get up, but suddenly the phones were in position around her, their glowing screens aimed for her vitals. The time it would’ve taken for them to get into position, even with teleportation, she should’ve seen them move, unless…

She can stop time! Behind the phones, Ramua licked her lips.

“Goodbye,” She said to Sailor Mercury as the yellow gem choker around the pale youma’s neck began to glow. Before she could stop time to attack, Tuxedo Kamen’s rose slashed across her face, stopping her cold. “AHH!”

She looked back to Tuxedo Kamen, as Sailor Mercury knocked the phones away and jumped to her feet.

“Tuxedo Kamen!” Both exclaimed.

“No guitar?” Ramua asked as the yellow gem glowed again.

“Be careful, Tuxedo Kamen! This youma, it can stop ti-!” Sailor Mercury’s cry was cut short as Ramua ceased the movement of time. With a wave of her hand she ordered her phones into position around the Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen.

Ramua raised her hand. “… Activating shit storm in three, two, o–now!”

The beams from the phones lashed into both Sailor Mercury and Tuxedo Kamen, sending the latter smashing into a wall and putting the former into the ground. Letting out a laugh, Ramua ran her fingers repeatedly through her hair, messing it up.

Sailor Mercury lay on her back, smoke rising from her body, and brought a hand to her face. “-me.”

Getting up, Tuxedo Kamen reached up and dusted off his shoulders. Aside from said dust, there was not a scratch on him. “Well… that was annoying.”

Ramua stopped, and then looked between both her opponents. “Wait, you’re not hurt…?”

Sailor Mercury got back up again, looking more agitated than anything, especially seeing that the attacks Ramua unleashed didn’t affect Tuxedo Kamen anymore than they did her. “Why would I be? It’s going to take a lot more than some useless hunks of plastic and rare metals to hurt me.”

Ramua snarled a bit and held up a phone. “Need to put a smug little punk in her place? Don’t worry; we have an app for that-!”

A derelict subway car crashed through the roof of the Apple Store, smashing into Ramua and crushing her under its weight while causing the store itself to partially collapse. Sailor Mercury could only stare, as the dust settled slowly from the impact. Though she couldn’t see him through it, she most certainly heard Tuxedo Kamen’s laugh.

“It’s nice of you to join us, Sailor Moon,” he said as she dropped through the hole made by the train and landed next to Sailor Mercury, who just shook her head.

“You threw a fucking train.”

“I wanted to be thorough.”

The sound of metal being punched through caught everyone’s attention, and everyone turned to find Ramua slowly wrenching the wall of the vertically standing train car open. Stepping out, she glared at the two Senshi, as her phones appeared around her, and then more of them. Her lips turned into a grin, as more and more of the phones joined her.

“Excellent… now that you’re both here I can go all out!” she declared as she held up the phone, the red glow from its face turning blue, as did the other phones.


Leaving the Harajuku station, Makoto was tinkering with her iPhone as she walked down the street towards the Apple Store. For some reason it hadn’t been working right for her–it’d flash a few times and then just give off a blank screen with nothing going on, and then it’d shut off. It was growing troublesome that she paid for this thing but she was still using payphones to call her probation officer.

“I hope I can get my money back…” Makoto said before she looked up and noticed people running for their lives, some screaming, while others jogged backwards, taking pictures with their working cameras and phones. “What the…?”

She then looked down the street, and saw the Apple Store. “…Is that a subway train car sticking out of the roof?”

She then saw Sailor Moon run out of the building, followed by a blue Sailor Moon, Makoto guessed or something, and that Tuxedo Kamen guy. Wait. They were running?

A sound, not unlike the mechanical morphing and twisting noises from the live action Transformers movies filled the air, before something massive smashed its way through the front of the store. Makoto dropped her phone.

“What.”

Standing at about thirty or so feet tall, was a mass of iPhones linked together through messes of wirings, screens, and other internal bits to form a giant robot. Looking from left to right through its alien face made up of many flat screens and a graphic denoting a very angry smiley, the mechanical monstrosity roared before the unhappy face was replaced with Ramua’s.

“I didn’t want to do this, but it looks like I have no choice now do I?” She asked from where she was seated within the monstrosity. “I promise to give you a Hell of a fight before I kill you with this iRobot!”

“Oh my God, we get it, it’s a bunch of Apple junk!” Sailor Moon yelled as she threw her tiara.

Raising its hand, the screens along the robot’s arm lit up, and the Tiara stopped in mid-air, before it was shot back at Sailor Moon, who caught it in hand. “Mercury, you said it could mess with time, right?”

“Yes, it can-!” Time stopped, and then resumed for Sailor Moon and Mercury to be smashed into the ground by the robot’s fists.

Stopping time again, Ramua went to town, viciously punching both Senshi into the ground where they lay, driving both deeper and deeper into the street with every blow. “I’m doing it… I’m actually doing it. I’m beating the shit out of Sailor Moon and her little friend!”

Raising her hands as she resumed time, she stopped it for the shockwaves created by her multiple hits to drive them even deeper into their holes before she opened the robot’s hands and pointed numerous glowing emitters down at them. Sailor Moon and Mercury, still conscious, looked up at Ramua, before she stopped time again and began firing blast after blast down at them.

“This is for Morga, and Flau, and Garoben!” Ramua roared with every blast. “This is for Thetis too! And all of the pain and suffering you’ve put Jadeite through you whores!”

Time resumed again, and Ramua stepped the robot back from the melted street that both Senshi were now buried under. The asphalt that she had melted around the Senshi was red hot; there was no way anyone could survive that.

“At last, it’s finally over…” she said as she turned away from the melted street and found Tuxedo Kamen lying further up the street, staring in disbelief. “And now that they’re all gone…?”

Raising the robot’s arms, she directed all of the dark energy powering the machine to its weapons. “I’ll send you to join them in a second!”

The instant she fired her weapons, time stopped. Ramua, who could perceive the frozen time, gave a surprised start. Why can’t I move? Why can’t I-?

“You have violated taboo enough today. No more will be tolerated,” a haunting voice echoed.

Ramua looked around again. “Who the Hell are you-?”

“Dead Scream.”

A violet light enveloped the robot and incinerated it before it exploded violently, the explosion knocking Makoto down and blowing Tuxedo Kamen’s hat off. As time resumed, the hat flipped through the air, righted itself, and came to a perfect landing back on his head as he looked at the smoke filling the street. In front of the cloud, he immediately saw a long-haired Sailor Senshi holding a staff at her side.

“That’s Pluto,” he realized as she looked back at him.

In an instant she was gone, and Tuxedo Kamen shot to his feet. “Three… there are three now. Or has she always been here?”

Movement in the smoke alerted him, and Ramua slowly got back up, smoke rising from her singed body. Somehow, she had just managed to survive the explosion, and looked at Tuxedo Kamen. What the Hell was that just then, who had attacked her?

“Damn, there’s no way I can tell Jadeite about this…” She looked at the molten street, and smiled. “Oh well… at least they’re dead.”

The melted street then began to bubble, like something was beginning to stir from it. Ramua stared at it, and then stepped back as the bubbling began to resemble a volcano ready to blow. No…it began to look like something was coming up.

“No…no…no, no, no, NO, NO!” She screamed as Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury slowly emerged from the magma-like asphalt, completely unharmed, standing straight, and their arms crossed over their chests. Even Tuxedo Kamen had to do a double take at what he was seeing.

Makoto, lying on the ground to avoid being caught up in anything else, gaped as well. “A-amazing…”

Ramua fell on her ass, trembling in complete terror at the two Senshi. “MOTHERFUCKER! NO! NO! NO! NO! BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!”

Sailor Mercury smiled as she looked to Sailor Moon, who just let out a snicker. “You done goofed.”

Completely overwhelmed with terror, Ramua could only let out a whimper and soiled herself before she vanished into thin air. No more, she was not dealing with anymore of this!

As she vanished, Sailor Moon dropped her hands to her side and turned to Tuxedo Kamen, who had regained his composure. “Hey sexy, sorry it took us. We were deciding on an appropriate entrance and just decided on Diebuster.”

Tuxedo Kamen smiled, and walked over to the Senshi. “You two… I don’t think I can really put into words how glad I am to see you’re okay.”

Sailor Moon smiled, and stepped closer to Tuxedo Kamen. “Then show me with a hug?”

She hadn’t quite expected him to take her up on that, but there she was, lifted off her feet and into Tuxedo Kamen’s strong embrace. “Ah?”

Sailor Moon genuinely blushed, as Tuxedo Kamen squeezed her. “You stay unstoppable, Sailor Moon.”

He set her down and then produced from his jacket a rose, which he handed to Sailor Moon. Smiling, he then leaped up onto a rooftop, and then away from the scene, leaving her and Sailor Mercury again in the middle of a war zone. Turning to Sailor Mercury, Sailor Moon grinned.

“So is solved the case of the energy stealing phones!” Sailor Moon declared over the roaring sirens.

Sailor Mercury nodded. “That’s nice and all, but who defeated the youma’s robot, Tuxedo Kamen?”

“We can find that out later.” Sailor Moon heard sirens. “We’d better go.”

Taking to the rooftops as Tuxedo Kamen had, Sailor Moon and Mercury rushed off for Minato. Standing up, Makoto just shook her head, before she too turned and left before the sirens got closer. Those guys, those Sailor Senshi, she had to change her opinion of them.

“… You really do know what you’re doing. I underestimated you.” She whispered to herself.


Gathered in Usagi’s room, both Senshi, Luna, and Naru were now seriously studying the fallout of the most recent battle. The scope of their fights was growing, and they needed to rectify the situation before it got really out of hand.

“Outside of that time power, that youma was really weak. But what if they have more like that?” It was Naru who presented the question, and Usagi gained a stormy expression as she mulled it over.

Luna hummed. “We need to work on strategy, and be ready for whatever tricks the Dark Kingdom may unleash.

Usagi nodded. “Good. We also need to determine who the other Senshi are.”

Luna then raised her tail. “Yes, I’m still on the lookout, and I think I have a potential lead. Give me a few days and I’ll zero in on her.”

“That’s great!” Naru exclaimed.

“In the meantime, we should try to make contact with the allies that we have. The more damage we do, the more pressure we put on the enemy, and that means the more force they’ll bring against us. We cannot have that, so we need every helping hand.”

Usagi nodded, and then folded her arms. “So then, now that this is out of the way… can we try shopping for a phone again, please?”

Luna then slid over a supercomputer similar to Ami’s. “Oh for the love of… here, take this.”

“Wait, you have more of these?!” Usagi gasped, feeling betrayed.

“Of course I do,” Luna said as she summoned one for Naru as well.

Usagi had forgotten all about her indignation as she checked out the features. “Ooh, can I go online?”

Luna looked to Ami, who began hitting keys even as Usagi accessed the internet. “Yes, it can do anything a normal computer can, but…”

“Hey! What the Hell is this ‘Family Settings’ crap?” Usagi cried out indignantly as she was immediately blocked out of the first porn site she tried to access.

“Ami is the Administrator and in charge of the settings on all the computers,” Luna said smugly.

“That’s bullshit!” Usagi announced, as Ami and Naru broke into laughter.


Ami: Driving while using a cell phone is dangerous, whether it’s talking or texting.

Usagi: Your attention is important, so if you have places to go, get your important calls done before you leave or after you arrive. It will save lives, including yours!

Naru: If you must use your phone, invest in a hands-free set, but never get too careless!

Usagi: Pay attention to the world around you, for in the blink of an eye, you can lose everything. This is what Kamen Raider has taught me!

Usagi/Naru/Ami: Sailor Moon Says, TEE-HEE!

 

[DrTempo]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Nice! Though..No Za Warudo gag. Then again, Interview did that one....

 

[zeebee1]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

So now we know that if Moon starts losing Pluto will save her. If we didn't know that moon was going to win that would have stolen the tension.

 

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The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

So now we know that if Moon starts losing Pluto will save her. If we didn't know that moon was going to win that would have stolen the tension.

Setsuna interfered because this monster used Time Travel. Time Travel, Setsuna`s domain.

She`s not a regular yet.

 

[Souffle]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Where has this fic been all my life? It has everything i've always wanted. Awesome everywhere, Naru orgies, and iRobots.

Who needs the rest of fanfiction after this?

 

[lask]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

So now we know that if Moon starts losing Pluto will save her. If we didn't know that moon was going to win that would have stolen the tension.

If you keep breaking the Taboo right in frout of her, eventually Setsuna's patience will ware thin. Right, Homura?

 

[Souffle]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

So now we know that if Moon starts losing Pluto will save her. If we didn't know that moon was going to win that would have stolen the tension.

If you keep breaking the Taboo right in frout of her, eventually Setsuna's patience will ware thin. Right, Homura?

Homerun-chan's arsenal >>>>> mahou shoujo armor

 

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I just read through all of this... I don't know what to say.

 

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I just read through all of this... I don't know what to say.

Congratulations?

 

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The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Just read through this too. I am in awe of how badass you made freagin SAILOR MOON. It's like impossible, and you did. And through in gender-bending pervert girls while your at it, cause you can. Now if only I can find that "proceed" motivational picture with the cat in it.

 

[lask]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

 

[Mordart]

The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

Thanks lask.

 

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BDSM: Keeping the White Devil Down since 2010.


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Disclaimer: How far can I go before I run out of shock material? Let’s find out!

Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon
Miss Murder

It’s not an AFI reference.

[8.]


Rei Hino was, by the description of others, a dark, weird girl who had kept to herself since the death of her mother when she was little. Her mother’s death, her Father’s minimal presence in her life, and the fact that she was a Miko at the Hikawa Shrine where she also lived played a huge role in her social isolation. She was a girl with next to no friends, save of course the countless crows that called the Shrine their home.

The Hikawa Shrine atop Sendai Hill hadn’t always been known for its crow population until around the time of Rei’s birth, when two of them had taken up residence in a tree by the main Shrine. By the time Rei turned three, that number had swelled to the hundreds, and they were irremovable by the time she was five, resisting all efforts to drive them off. Rei of course, didn’t mind their presence at all, and as she grew older they became her sounding board, something to talk to and confide in when there was no one else.

“I don’t hate my Grandpa; it’s just that I’m worried about him! He’s getting on in years and he might be going senile. Then there’s the cape he wears, and the fact that he pervs all over the girls that visit the shrine and he doesn’t do anything about the guys who try to perv all over me.” Rei lamented, depressed, to her crows as she swept up along the steps of the Shrine.

A group of nearly two dozen crows was gathered around her, with a little one even sitting atop her head as she continued venting. “It’s not that I don’t like you guys, I really do, but sometimes I want to be able to confide in things with Grandpa but he’s not all there, you know?”

She stopped to wipe some sweat from her brow. It was really warm today. Noticing this, some of the crows began cawing among each other, Rei paid it no mind. “Of course you wouldn’t know… you’re just birds, you don’t even understand what I’m saying.”

She wiped the sweat off her forehead again. “It’s not like I could, I don’t know, ask you to get me a juice and you’d do it.”

Their caws grew enthusiastic and loud, before several of them took to the air, rising above the treetops and racing off. Staring up after them, the crow atop her head following her gaze, Rei stared in confusion before she resumed her sweeping. Only moments later there was a rustling of feathers as they returned, with one holding a packet of juice in its beak.

Rei’s eyes were wide as she stared at the bird and its unopened bounty. When it hopped up and tried to shove the juice packet into her hands, she jumped back. Seeing this approach fail, it stopped and set it down in front of her. She looked from the juice box to the crow, and then back again, before reaching down for it and picking it up.

“Is… is this for me?” She asked.

The crows all stared at her. She looked at the juice again. Where did they get it from? Did they steal it from someone? Wait, did they actually listen to her? She then looked back to them. “Open your wings, if you got this for me.”

The crows all opened their wings and cawed assent, even the little one atop her head. Rei looked down at the birds, and then at her juice packet–it was even her favorite flavor. Tearing off the top, she took a sip of it, before addressing the birds.

“Can you bring me a bag of chips, too? A big one, so I can share.” She requested.

They obeyed without question.


One year later, and Usagi, Ami, and Naru were on the case. A rash of mass disappearances was gripping Minato in fear. Entire busloads of young women were vanishing into the night, with no trace, no motive, and no word from the kidnappers. While the discussion in Japan was accusing everything from Otaku to North Koreans, Team Sailor Moon was focused on the only culprit that could pull it off.

“A week and two days ago at 18:12, the bus leaving the Five Slopes at Sendai Hill vanished shortly after taking on passengers leaving the shrine.” Ami was reviewing the incidents as they disembarked from a bus. “Six days ago, at 18:43, a bus vanished, again with a full load of passengers.”

The two rounded a corner, and continued walking towards their destination, the location of the first disappearance, the vicinity of the Hikawa Shrine. “Three days ago, a bus leaving the five slopes, again with a full load, vanishes after rounding the corner at 18:05.”

“Every three days, a full bus load of people mysteriously vanishes, all in the vicinity of the Five Slopes, and with no explanation,” Usagi grumbled.

“All of them loaded with young women between the ages of thirteen and forty-five,” Naru added to the review.

“The police don’t want to cause a panic, so they’ve only allowed the news to report one missing bus with no information about the passengers or where it was going.” Had it not been for any of the girls keeping an ear to the ground for weird activity, they probably would not have found out about the unmentioned disappearances or their pattern.

“It can only be the Dark Kingdom, but there may be more to it than this. It doesn’t feel like their modus operandi,” Luna said

“It could be a new enemy…” Naru trailed off, as they came upon a most puzzling scene. A car with foreign plates was being vandalized severely by a murder of crows, a fairly organized murder. “Huh.”

They were scratching their claws all over the body of the car, struggling to bend and twist its antenna, and some where even trying to peck through the sunroof of the luxury sedan. The three girls and their animal companion just stared, as several crows came along and dropped rocks onto the sunroof from a considerable height, shattering the glass and allowing several birds to get in and do unspeakable things to the car’s interior.

“Well, that’s definitely new to me,” Usagi said.

“I hope that upholstery’s been treated,” Ami added.

Luna looked between both girls. “You are going to stop them, right?”

“My car!” a foreign diplomat yelled in his native tongue. “What the Hell?!”

“Now I’m not,” Usagi said when she saw the birds seemed to be more interested in demolishing the car than harming its owner. “Act of God, obviously, and he doesn’t seem to be in danger.”

“How strange, your car is being vandalized by a group of crows in broad daylight for no reason,” said Rei Hino as she walked onto the scene, fully decked out in the traditional attire of a Shrine Maiden.

When the man turned to her, she bowed. “I am a wandering Miko, you needn’t worry sir. I will get to the bottom of this.”

“I don’t believe in that crap, just help me get these birds away from my-!” He was silenced when Rei held her hand to his face and glared at the birds. Usagi, surprised by the appearance of the Miko and impressed by her good looks, watched as Rei produced an ofuda tag and held it to her forehead. After a moment of concentration, she lowered the talisman.

“Sir, did you commit a crime recently?” She asked the man.

“O-of course not, what are you implying?” The diplomat asked.

Rei looked towards the crows. “Evil forces are not at work, but a god is furious. Did you steal a donation left at a shrine?”

The diplomat paled at Rei’s accusation, and then he looked at the car and the crows. The birds were now staring pointedly at him. He looked back to Rei, who folded her arms. “Whatever you did you had better correct it, this is only the beginning of the god’s wrath.”

Together, the crows began cawing angrily, and sure enough the man reached into his pocket, pulled out a handful of cash, and shoved it into Rei’s hand before running for his life. Almost immediately, the crows took flight and circled around. Rei smiled in satisfaction. “That’ll teach you to steal from the donation box.”

She held out her arm for one to land upon it. “You guys performed excellently. Now get home before someone sees… you…”

She saw Usagi, Ami, and Naru staring at her with Luna perched on Naru’s shoulder. An awkward silence immediately fell, with Rei’s face turning a bright red throughout its duration, before Usagi finally opened her mouth. “Ah-”

“I was not talking to the crows just now,” Rei immediately denied.

Ami spoke, “We didn’t think…”

“I’m not crazy, just so you know!” Rei quickly overrode her.

Naru attempted to get a word in edgewise. “No we just thought that-”

“I have to go, bye!” Rei turned and fled, the crows scattered with her, flying off in different directions as the strange girl ran for the Hikawa Shrine. In minutes the street was empty save the girls, their cat, the wrecked car, and some feathers.

“What an odd bird,” Usagi noted, and she was immediately smacked on the ass by Naru. “Ow!”

“That was terrible.” Naru gave her a squeeze next, causing her to squeak.

Ami checked her computer. “Rei Hino, resident Miko of the Sendai Hill Hikawa Shrine. She’s our age and goes to the St. Bacchus School for Girls.”

“Wow, big money.” Usagi looked to Ami after slapping Naru’s hand off her bottom. “Why didn’t you go there, bourgeois?”

“Because I didn’t want to go to a Catholic School, you know what those places do to girls. I’ve heard the song.” Ami replied.

“The Chili Peppers, right?” Usagi asked.

Luna was impressed. “I think she meant Zappa, but I am impressed you even know of that one.”

Usagi turned her attention to the Shrine. “Well, the Hikawa Shrine is now a little more interesting. Let’s get going, ladies.”


Reaching the top of the Shrine’s steps, Rei rested her hands on her knees and doubled over to catch her breath. How embarrassing, to be caught talking to the crows by total strangers. It was bad enough that the girls at school talked about her behind her back, and people who saw her amongst the crows at the shrine found her creepy, but to out and out make an idiot of herself in public?! She was going to die from embarrassment!

A crow landed on her shoulder, Deimos, one of the two earliest crows of the murder to appear at the Hikawa Shrine along with her sister Phobos. Reaching up and patting the bird on the head, Rei sighed. “You still did great.”

She reached into her haori and pulled out a piece of cooked bacon to offer the crow, who accepted it graciously. “Now don’t go showing off to the others, or I’ll get mobbed again.”

“Man, I’m not going to get used to that.”

Rei jumped again when Yuuichirou Kumada, an apprentice of her Grandfather spoke from where he had been sweeping near the Shrine’s steps.

“Ah! What is it with everyone sneaking up on me today?!” Rei exasperatedly cried out as Deimos took her prize and flew off. Yuuichirou let out a laugh as the flushed girl stormed off towards the shrine’s main building. When Rei reached the shrine, she found her Grandfather once again flirting with a trio of girls from another school.

“How lovely you girls are! Are any of you interested in being part-time shrine maidens?” He asked rather bluntly as he slid up to them.

One of the girls stared down at the little old man and immediately recoiled in fear. “Oh my God, it’s that disgusting old lecher I heard about!”

Another girl gasped, as Rei’s Grandpa was struck by the accusation. “You mean the legendary underwear thief?! We gotta get out of here!”

“We have our charms, run!” the third shrieked before they all fled.

Rei’s Grandpa was horrified. “What? No! I’m not that old guy! He’s been dead for years, girls! Wait!” The girls were already running for the stairs. Clenching his fist, the old man cursed to the heavens. “Damn you Happosai, because of you, we old timers can’t have nice things!”

Rei’s fist came down on the old man’s noggin. “What do you mean by nice things?! Grandpa, you can’t go around trying to get up girls’ skirts!”

“I can and I will, damn it Aho-chan! I’m an old man, let me have my fun!” Her Grandpa roared back.

“Of course you can, but can you be a little more dignified about it?” Rei stopped and looked down towards the stairs the girls had fled. She could sense it again, the evil presence that had been hanging over the temple for the last few days. Only this time there was something mixed in, a lecherous, lustful intent that seemed to assault her senses.

The old man saw Rei’s apprehension. “Aho-chan, what is it?”

“There it is again, the evil presence that’s been weighing on me, and it’s brought friends!” Quickly, Rei produced an ofuda tag. “You’re not getting away this time! Evil spirits begone!”

She hurled the ofuda tag, which sailed like a dart despite being a slip of paper, narrowly missing Yuuichirou as he jumped back in surprise from its path. At that very moment, Usagi, Naru, and Ami had reached the top of the steps, and the tag struck Usagi square between the eyes. Rei stared.

“The girl from earlier…?” She asked.

Usagi blinked and stared at the tag as it began to make a sizzling sound. “Uh, what the Hell is this?”

The sizzling grew, before it became a very loud pop as the tag ignited like a bolt of lightning.

“Motherfucker…” Usagi’s slurred voice trailed off into a gurgle as she fell backward. Ami and Naru quickly leaped to catch their leader before she fell down the stairs.

Rei stared; she could no longer sense the evil presence. “Wow I… guess I got it.”

Yuuichirou whistled. “You got her all right.”

Rei’s Grandfather peered down at the three girls from the top of the steps. “Well, better get her inside and rested.”

“Yes, thank you,” Ami replied as she and Naru helped the dazed Usagi along. As they brought her inside, Rei, watched and grew concerned. The evil presence had vanished after she hit her, this was highly suspicious.


Usagi regained consciousness under a thick blanket on a comfortable futon in Rei’s room. At either side of her, Naru and Ami sat, while Rei was off to the side with her arms folded and a small frown on her face. As her vision focused on the ceiling she heard the door open, and a man’s voice call out.

“Hey, I brought some water and towels,” Yuuichirou called to Rei.

Rei nodded. “Thank you, leave them here.” She looked back to Usagi, and saw that she was waking up. “Are you all right?”

“What happened to me?” She was still feeling discombobulated.

“I struck you with an Evil-Dispelling Charm. Normally it doesn’t affect people like that, so what exactly are you?” Rei asked.

Usagi hummed. “So I was hit by a purification charm, dispelling all evil intent and spirits from me?”

“Yes,” Rei responded.

Usagi immediately reached from under the blankets and up both Ami and Naru’s skirts to and panties to grope their backsides. Naru moaned appreciatively, while Ami squeaked and reflexively hit Usagi with a book. “Usagi!”

“Worth it,” Usagi mumbled from under the book.

Rei flushed. “Could you not do that in my room, you pervert!”

“I’m sorry; I just wanted to make sure my lust for cute girls wasn’t just the influence of an evil spirit.”

“L-lust for cute girls…?” Rei asked as Usagi removed her hand from under Ami’s skirt. Naru seemed content to keep Usagi’s hand under hers. “Please stop fondling your g-girlfriend in my bedroom!”

It was bad enough she had to put up with the melodramatic girls-love atmosphere at school. Not that she thought it was a bad thing, Rei thought it was very pretty and even romantic at times, it was just very distracting. Usagi relented at Rei’s request and sat up.

“Sorry, lately Naru-chan can’t help herself.” Usagi mock lamented, frankly she liked Naru having hands like an octopus. Naru giggled, as Usagi looked to Rei. “So, why did you hurl a tag at me like that?”

Rei closed her eyes and sighed. “Lately, there has been suspicious activity around the Shrine. Just as you were coming up the hill, I felt an evil presence and I tried to tag it, but I hit you.” She opened them and gazed pointedly at Usagi. “But after I hit you, the presence was gone.”

Usagi was struck by the insinuation. “Time out, I’m not evil!”

Naru nodded. “Usagi may be wild and flippant, but she’s definitely not a bad person.”

“A pervert yes, but we all have our quirks, and Usagi’s harmless,” Ami likewise testified.

Rei relaxed somewhat, and then let her arms to her sides. “I’m sorry; it’s just that with all the strange things going on, I’ve been on edge.”

Usagi puffed her cheeks out. “No harm, no foul, don’t you worry about it. But what do you mean by strange occurrences?”

Rei quickly turned her head aside. “Lately, an evil presence has been hanging over the Hikawa Shrine. It comes and goes, but it’s been growing stronger with every appearance. I know it must sound strange to you…”

Usagi, Ami, Naru, and Luna all traded affirming looks. The source of the evil was coming from the Shrine, or at least they hoped. Ami returned to Rei and then asked. “Do you think the evil presence might have something to do with the crows?”

“No! The crows have nothing to do with the evil presence!” Rei vehemently said, surprising all three of the girls and their cat. “How dare you implicate innocent crows like that?! No matter how smart they are, they’d never steal buses or kidnap people! They wouldn’t know what to do with them!”

Silence fell on the room, as Rei realized what she had said and turned bright red in embarrassment. She then raised her hands, waving them nervously. “I mean, there’s no way the crows had anything to do with it, they’re just dumb birds right?”

She coughed. “I just know they’re not the cause of the trouble here.”

But something was, and with a little luck, zeroing in on it would uncover the face of what was behind it. Usagi smiled to Rei. “Ne Miko-chan, what makes you so sure of it?”

Rei pouted. “Because I’m the priestess of this shrine and my spiritual power is off the charts! As you witnessed for yourself, if I may note.”

Folding her arms, she laughed boisterously and once again, Usagi and her cabal traded affirming looks. The moment was interrupted by the door opening and a woman storming in. “Who is the head priest here?!”

Rei looked over. “What is it?”

“My daughter has been missing for days!” the woman yelled at her. “They say that the Head Priest may have something to do with it, and he has a reputation for preying on young women! Out with it, where is the old man!”

Rei immediately got up. “How dare you?! My Grandfather has run this Shrine for decades and has not caused a single problem! Sure he flirts with girls, but he’s harmless!”

“I’m sure he is, in the eyes of his Granddaughter!” the woman retorted.

“What is that supposed to mean?!” Rei demanded. Usagi, Ami, Naru, and Luna looked from her to the woman.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he has you in on it, whatever you’re doing to these women! You’ve probably been feeding them to your filthy crows!”

Rei promptly punched the woman in the face, sending her back against the door frame. Usagi and Naru were immediately on their feet, as Rei pointed at the shocked woman. “You don’t come into my home and say those kinds of things about my Grandfather and my crows! I am sorry your daughter is missing, but coming here and yelling baseless accusations at me or my Grandfather isn’t going to bring her back!”

The woman stared at Rei, who clenched her hand back into a fist. “Now unless you have more nonsense to spew, get out of my house you crazy woman!”

Getting up, wide-eyed, the woman quickly retreated, swearing that she would call the police. Rei lowered her fist and sighed. “That wasn’t even the first.”

“So, Miko-chan, they’re your crows?” Usagi asked as Ami stood up, holding Luna in her arms.

Rei flushed and turned to face them. “Did I say they were my crows? No! I meant, you know, the Shrine’s crows… I don’t own them that’d be silly! Owning wild birds, what will people think of next?”

The girls looked again amongst each other, and smiled. Naru then spoke up. “But earlier, you were…”

“Oh! You’re on you’re feet that’s great you should be going now!” Rei got behind all three girls and quickly ushered them out of her room. “The door is down the hall, thank you for visiting and please come again! Oh, and I’m not crazy!”

She slammed her bedroom door shut, leaving the three in the hallway. Acquiescing, Usagi and the others left. Ami looked to Luna, who nodded, and then to Usagi. “Is she-?”

“Oh man, she totally is,” Usagi said before letting out an amused laugh.

Naru giggled. “I’m glad, she’s just so cute! I wanted to give her a hug.”

“Just a hug…?” Usagi asked. When Ami looked to Naru, she blushed when their non-Senshi ally smiled lustfully and licked her lips.

Back in her room, Rei sighed and sat down on her bed. What an exasperating day, first the police showing up, then those weird girls, and now people actually coming around pointing fingers. This was the worst.

As she lay back onto the bed, she noticed a hint of gold peeking from under her pillow, and she reached over to pull it out. “What’s this?”

It was a red pen with a gold cap, at its very end it had the symbol of the planet Mars. “Did they leave this here?”


Leaving the Shrine’s steps, Ami let Luna hop to Naru’s shoulder and looked over to Usagi. “If she really is Mars, then why didn’t we just confront her ourselves? I think we’d save a lot of time if we invited her to join us.”

“The odds are just as good that she isn’t Sailor Mars. Leaving the pen with her is the safest bet,” Usagi responded.

Luna agreed. “If she isn’t, and I have my doubts that she is, then it won’t work for her and I can easily summon it back to me.”

Usagi let out a laugh. “Come on, she’s too weird to not be a Senshi!”

There was the sound of something shattering, and everyone looked to the source–a flower pot that had fallen off the balcony of a building across the street. Luna glared at Usagi. “What did I tell you?”

“… That you’d hurt me?” Usagi replied.

Luna prepared to pounce straight for Usagi’s face, when Ami gasped. “You guys, what time is it?”

Phones were out, and all three checked the time, it was 18:00 on the dot. Usagi’s eyes went wide. “Oh, shit! We have to get to the bus stop!”

Usagi broke into a run, charging up the hill towards the bus stop, where she saw an ominous sight: A single bus and a line of passengers, all women, orderly boarding it. Quickly, Usagi scanned her surroundings, and finding it clear, raised her hand mid-sprint.

“Moon Prism Power, Make Up!”

In a flash, she was Sailor Moon, but the bus was already moving. “Damn!”

Sailor Moon leaped for the bus as it rounded the corner, but fell short. As she landed in a skid, she stopped in time to see it flying through the air and into a void in the sky. As soon as the bus passed through it, Sailor Mercury landed with her and stopped.

“What the…?” Sailor Mercury asked as the black hole vanished. “A portal, straight into another dimension, that’s why the buses have disappeared into thin air!”

Sailor Moon clenched a fist. “We’re not letting this go on any longer.”

Sailor Moon screwed up once, but she would not do it again.

Within the warped space, Kigaan tilted up her hat and looked back towards the busload of helpless, unconscious young women, and then out at the several others that occupied the pocket dimension. Sitting back in her seat, she let out a smug huff.

“Good thing Zoisite doesn’t know about this,” she joked.

Murid appeared. “Don’t go jinxing it now, Kigaan, there’d be little we could do to stop him if he did find out. Did you see Sailor Moon?”

“No, and I doubt she or Mercury are a part of this batch. One more run should bring them in, though.”.

Murid nodded. “Then everything is going according to plan.”

Producing her apple, Murid set it down on a seat, and then looked to Kigaan. “Go get ready.”

Kigaan nodded, and both youma vanished. The left behind apple began to glow, and draw in the energy of the bus’s victims.


Police cars were gathered in front of the Bus Depot, with dozens officers searching every bus as they came in. Hiding in the shadows on a nearby rooftop, Tuxedo Kamen watched the scene with great interest. The media was being blacked out over the disappearance but it had not escaped Motoki’s ears.

“Electronic Surveillance of the stop in question shut off precisely between 17:45 and 19:15,” Motoki said over a radio in Tuxedo Kamen’s ear as he obtained this information, “There weren’t even any buses scheduled to stop there just in case. There were even notices posted on TV and online.”

“After this, they’re going to keep anyone from going near that bus stop by force.” Tuxedo Kamen said.

“Indeed, they’ve already ordered all of their current drivers on paid leave while they investigate. What I don’t get, is how do the victims all seem to randomly show up at that stop like clockwork? What could be drawing them there?” Motoki was at his computer in the office of the Game Center Crown. Behind him, Reika was balancing various throwing knives at another desk.

Tuxedo Kamen turned away from the bus station, there was nothing for him there. Jumping, he opened his cape and began to soar above the rooftops. It didn’t take him very long to land atop the arch of the Hikawa Shrine, the shadows of the trees concealing his presence.

“You think the Dark Kingdom’s operating out of the Hikawa Shrine?” Motoki asked. Tuxedo Kamen scanned his surroundings. The trees were full of crows, all were asleep. “Yo TK, are you there?”

Tuxedo Kamen jumped from the arch to land atop the Shrine itself. “Yes. There are just a lot of crows around here. It just creeps me out, that’s all.”

He fell quiet when he heard the doors to the Shrine open, and out emerged Rei and Yuuichirou, the former looking extremely pensive. “I’m worried they’ll start suspecting something really is going on down here. Punching that woman earlier didn’t really help.”

“No but that crazy woman had no right just barging in, you know?”

Rei sighed. “She talked about the crows, I just lost it.”

Yuuichirou nodded. “Still it’s not a good idea to get so up about the crows, or attract attention don’t you think? The police have been here like twice, and soon it could start attracting worse.”

“I guess.” Last thing Rei wanted was someone trying to take revenge by damaging the Shrine, or worse, hurting the crows. “I’ll do my best to keep quiet.”

Yuuichirou patted Rei on the back, making her blush. “Good. You should go to bed; you got school tomorrow, don’t you?”

“Yes, of course.” Bowing to Yuuichirou, Rei turned and walked for her house, while Yuuichirou went down the steps of the shrine towards his lodging. Soon as they were gone, Tuxedo Kamen emerged from hiding and looked towards the house Rei went into.

“So, it brought you here, too.” Tuxedo Kamen quickly drew a rose and threw it behind him with flourish. It was quickly caught between the gloved fingers of a young woman dressed in a black cape and hood, with what appeared to be ninja attire underneath. Tuxedo Kamen quickly drew another, but she held up her hands.

Getting a good look at her, Tuxedo Kamen grimaced. “A Spoiler costume, really?”

“Better than a tuxedo, top hat, and domino, you look more like a thief than a vigilante,” the woman replied in a deep voice.

“And you’re straight out of DC.” Still, being able to just catch his rose like that, she wasn’t just some amateur. Tuxedo Kamen narrowed his eyes, he recognized her now. “A new costume, but you’re Mifune.”

“Call me whatever’s convenient,” Mifune said as she looked down at the shrine.

Tuxedo Kamen nodded and returned his attention to the shrine below. “It’s here. Whatever is the source of the disappearances is.”

“What makes you say that?” Mifune asked.

Tuxedo Kamen smirked. “A hunch.”

“No detective work? If you’re trying to be Batman, you’re not very good.” Tuxedo Kamen then turned his attention to the shack where the Shrine’s shop was located and jumped over to it. “Hey, wait up!”

Mifune leaped after him, but could not keep up with his glide to the roof of the shop and landed on the ground. Looking back, Tuxedo Kamen watched with and impressed hum as Mifune jumped again, joining him on the roof. She was strong, to be able to do that without injury.

“A good detective always has an idea of what he’s looking for, and a hunch is a start.” Tuxedo Kamen explained as he scanned the area. Finding it clear he jumped down. “The Shrine’s popularity has seen an upsurge recently, just before the disappearances.”

Mifune nodded and followed. “Yes, so is there a connection then?”

“Yes. The shrine’s recent popularity is because of a specific thing.” Tuxedo Kamen reached into his pocket and pulled out an odd key which he inserted into the shop door’s lock. A turn of the key unlocked the door.

“It’s been selling special charms to young women, supposedly able to grant them good luck in life and love.” Tuxedo Kamen walked in and peered around the darkness. His domino mask immediately intensified the light for him, allowing him to see perfectly. Mifune was a step behind him and alert to any danger.

Spying the charms, Mamoru held one up, and immediately frowned. He could feel it through the glove, dark energy imbued these charms. Nodding, he slipped it inside his suit jacket. Behind him, Mifune folded her arms and asked. “So what does that have to do with the disappearances?”

“The police have not released this information to the media. But all of the victims who’ve disappeared are women.”

Mifune stared at Tuxedo Kamen, her face and its shocked expression hidden by her hood and the black mask. “All of them, on both buses?”

Tuxedo Kamen nodded. “Yes. The buses that have disappeared are only the two that have been reported. Two other buses have vanished.”

Mifune gasped. “What the Hell is going on? There’s just no way that two hundred people just…”

Stopping, Mifune surprised Tuxedo Kamen with her realization. “This is the work of a youma, a monster… like in Harajuku and the Cinderella Caravan!”

Tuxedo Kamen walked past her for the door. “So you’ve been following her, too?”

“Sailor Moon, yes.” Mifune grabbed one of the charms, and hid it on her as she followed him out. “Have you seen the trail of destruction she’s left fighting these things? It’s some kind of miracle that no one’s been hurt yet!”

Mifune shook her head. “She threw a fucking train through a building!”

“I know. I was there.” Tuxedo Kamen couldn’t help a small smile. Mifune regained her composure, and let out a huff.

“She’s good at fighting those things, I’ll give her that. But she’s way too reckless.” Mifune said to him.

Tuxedo Kamen kept smiling. “She’d never let anyone get hurt though, no matter how destructive she gets.”

Mifune let out another huff. “You know the tuxedo is bad enough, but you’re really making it hard for me to take you seriously, with your fan-girl attitude.”

Tuxedo Kamen suddenly grabbed Mifune and leaped straight up and into the trees around the shrine. Some forty feet off the ground, a startled Mifune stared at Tuxedo Kamen in disbelief, before she saw what had caused him to move so swiftly.

“I thought I heard something.” Rei said, before she looked up towards the trees where Tuxedo Kamen and Mifune had vanished. Seeing nothing, she turned and walked over to the shop; its doors had been closed and locked again.

“The Miko…? Mifune stopped when Tuxedo Kamen raised his hand. The Miko checked the shop, and then walked around to its front. Another person appeared, walking around the corner from the far side of the shack.

“Jadeite…” Tuxedo Kamen whispered.

Rei smiled, “Was there any trouble?”

“No,” Jadeite said. “You’ve been doing well for yourself with the charms. Soon we should have enough energy for the next phase.”

Rei laughed. “That idiot Yuuichirou doesn’t even know the difference.”

“It wasn’t just mine; Nephrite was the one who helped me formulate it. Pretty soon, the Sailor Senshi will figure out what’s up. So one more run ought to be enough, how many charms did you sell today?”

“Business is down because of the disappearances and the buses being rerouted. I was only able to get eighty or so out,” Rei replied.

Jadeite nodded. “Sell what you can; Kigaan, Murid, and Ramua will have extra buses ready. We’re going to close up shop after this and move on to the next plan.”

“Yes Jadeite,” Rei bowed to Jadeite, and in an instant he was gone. She let out a small laugh and began walking towards her house. As she stepped inside, Tuxedo Kamen nodded to Mifune.

“Jadeite, he’s the guy who’s summoning the youma, the man from the radio station, and at Cinderella Caravan.” Mifune asked.

“Yes.” This greatly troubled Tuxedo Kamen. “The youma’s been working here all along, handing out charms and the evil energy that runs through them compels their victims to report to the bus stop to be abducted.”

He brought his hand up to his earpiece. “Did you get all of that?”

“Yes.” Motoki radioed back. “So in three days, a lot more people are going to vanish.”

“I have an idea.” Tuxedo Kamen turned to Mifune. “I’m going to need your help.”

Mifune pulled out the charm she had swiped. “You need to know when to move, I presume?”

Tuxedo Kamen nodded.


Usagi was sleeping over at Naru’s house tonight. Partly because she was in the mood to get past her failure to catch the bus earlier, and partly because her parents and Shingo were wary of having Naru sleep over. No one got any sleep when Naru Osaka visited nowadays. Naru was more than eager to please, and Usagi was feeling much better when her communicator flickered to life, and a hologram image of Ami in pajamas appeared over the night stand.

“Usagi! I think I’ve made a breakthrough and-” Ami saw what her friends were doing and her eyes bugged out.

Usagi smiled to Ami as Naru–transformed to a cute boy by the disguise pen–waved. Blushing brightly, Ami buried her face in her palm. “You two…”

“Focus, Ami-chan. You’re the one who called us. What is it?”

“I was looking for information on the victims of the disappearances, and it led me to one of them. Here, both of you look at this!” Ami pressed a button off-camera, and the hologram switched to CCTV footage a woman shopping for groceries. “This is one of the victims, at exactly 17:45 on the day she vanished, this happened.”

Usagi and Naru watched as the woman suddenly dropped her groceries, turned and walked straight out of the store. Usagi spoke. “She just walked out…”

Ami appeared again, nodding. “After I found this, I’ve been looking all over for more possible sightings of the victims, and I found a lot. All of them dropped whatever they were doing, and headed for the Five Slopes at exactly 17:45.”

“It gets better. On the day of the disappearances, nearly all video surveillance equipment in a two hundred meter radius of the bus stop began to malfunction at exactly 17:45, which is why there is no video of the disappearances, just eye-witness accounts!”

Naru snapped his fingers. “Oh! That must be why the disappearances occurred at different times! Wherever the victims were, it took different times for them to get to the stop for the bus to pick them up!”

“Exactly, this means that next time we can intercept the buses!” Ami crossed her arms and smiled. “I really like this detective stuff, Usagi-chan! It’s really challenging.”

Usagi nodded. “Well, we have a problem this time, don’t we? The police have likely figured out the pattern too, and they’re going to try to intervene on their own.”

“That is what they’re going to do.” Ami said. “The Tokyo Metro police are going to enact a sting operation on the suspected Mass Kidnappers. All the buses in Minato are going to be driven by undercover officers, and at exactly 17:45, they will stop and track down any bus that is still moving with drones borrowed from the Self-Defense Force.”

Usagi nodded. “We’ll definitely have to succeed this time.”

Naru pumped his fist. “I’m ready to do all that I can!”

“We should work on a plan right away, Usagi-chan.” Ami suggested.

Usagi looked to Naru, and then Ami. “I’ve already got one. But we’ll discuss it tomorrow, okay?”

Ami went to cut the connection, when Usagi called over. “Ne Ami-chan don’t be too hasty.”

“Huh?” Ami blushed when Naru embraced Usagi. “What are you two…?”

“You draw sexy comics, don’t you? Would you like some inspiration?” Usagi asked suggestively.

Ami stared at the two, incredulous, but then softened as her blush grew. Bringing up her hand to cough, she spoke in a very small voice. “I’ll go get my sketchpad.”

Usagi giggled, and Naru whispered in her ear as Ami left the shot. “Ami-chan’s a closet pervert, huh?”

“No, she’s just a regular pervert like us,” Usagi whispered back.

Naru developed a sinister, naughty smile. “… Like us, eh?”


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The Third Day…

The buzz of a motorcycle interrupted the peace of the neighborhood of Azabu-Juuban, as a high powered sports bike tore up the street after leaving a red light. Weaving through traffic as it went; the bike hit an intersection and smartly swept around the corner, its rider leaning with the turn. Passing narrowly through a yellow light down a busy thoroughfare the motorcycle slowed down and came to a stop light, right next to a bus picking up passengers.

Pulling her sleeve back, the female rider checked her watch, it was 17:35. “The suspense is killing me, you guys.”

Atop Tokyo Tower, Sailor Moon looked through a pair of binoculars at one of the Self Defense Force Drones already in the air surveying the bus route. “Biker-chan, take it easy, just ten more minutes and we move.”

The light turned green and Naru, disguised as a Pro Motorcycle Racer, took off.

Sailor Mercury was roof-hopping, keeping a close eye on large concentrations of people moving about Roppongi. Luna was with her. “The Police are everywhere. This could go really bad. Dial it back a bit, Biker-chan.”

“I know the motorcycle laws, I’ll be fine,” Naru said as she brought the bike to a stop waited at another light.

They weren’t the only ones on the road. It was not unusual to spot expensive cars on the streets of Minato, but the Lamborghini Murciélago that was out on the prowl was turning heads at every stoplight. Sitting in the passenger seat of the expensive car, Motoki was staring at a GPS tracker, while Reika was at the wheel, having misgivings about the plan.

“If I had my say, we’d be using something less conspicuous,” she said to Motoki.

“We’re driving it because it is conspicuous,” Motoki said, “If the police pull us over for anything, we’d just be on a joyride in one of Mamoru’s cars.”

Motoki checked the time. “17:40, show time starts soon.”

He quickly called Tuxedo Kamen, who was waiting with Mifune in a hiding spot near the Hikawa Shrine. “You guys ready?”

“Yes, we’re all ready here,” Tuxedo Kamen replied, “Don’t call back until 17:45, out.”

“Roger.” Motoki hung up the phone.

Tuxedo Kamen looked at his own watch, and then over to Mifune, who watched the police as they patrolled the Five Slopes stop. “So, what happened?”

“What do you mean?” Mifune asked.

“Why did you suddenly stop?” Tuxedo Kamen clarified, “You were doing an amazing job cracking down on the Yakuza; you turned the entire underworld upside down but then you vanished. Why?”

Mifune shook her head. “It couldn’t be helped. Things happened, and I had to stop. I only put together this new outfit because of the mass kidnappings, but I’m retiring again soon as it’s over.”

Tuxedo Kamen nodded. “So… what happened?”

“A bitch with half her face burnt off played me for a sucker, and found out my identity. She forced me to retire, on pain of being exposed.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. You know, I wanted to make you part of my team but you vanished before I could track you down. I’m honored to be working alongside you for this.”

If Tuxedo Kamen could see her face, he’d see Mifune smiling. She looked to her watch. “Strange, it’s 17:45.”

Tuxedo Kamen froze. “What?”

Mifune quickly pulled out the charm, and to their surprise they found it was glowing. “This is too weird.”

Tuxedo Kamen looked towards the Shrine, and then checked his phone. It wasn’t working all of a sudden, that’s why Motoki hadn’t called! “Something’s going on, let’s go!”

Mifune nodded, and both leaped into action.


At the Hikawa Shrine, Rei was sweeping the steps of the now desolate Shrine. There were hardly any visitors today, with the rumor mill driving nearly everyone away over the last three days. Yuuichirou came up the stairs, looking a little forlorn, and she noticed him.

“Sup Rei, are you doing all right?” he asked her.

Rei shook her head, and kept sweeping. A single crow, the small bird from before, swooped down and landed on her head. “I’m used to the Shrine being full of people, and my Grandfather being out and causing trouble this time a day. Not that I condone it, or anything.”

She looked up at the crow on her head. “You’re the only guys who’re sticking around.”

“Hey, don’t forget about me!” Yuuichirou said indignantly. He reached up and ran scratched his scalp through his wild hair. “I mean, I may not be much, but I believe in you and your Grandpa. There’s no way all this mess is your fault.”

Rei blushed at his encouragement and then looked up at the Shrine. “Thank you, Yuu-kun. Actually, I’ve wanted to do a fire reading, just to be sure that the evil isn’t here. Would you like to help me with it?”

Yuuichirou blinked. “Wow, you want my help?”

Rei nodded. “If you want to, I’m only asking because you know, Grandpa’s usually too tired around this time of day and I trust you and stuff.” She then quickly waved, her face growing redder. “Don’t get the wrong idea, now! I mean… yeah…”

Laughing, Yuuichirou patted Rei on the shoulder, making her jump and her blush brighten. “I’ll help you, just tell me what I have to do, okay?”

At that Rei sagged in relief, and smiled. “Thank you. Now what we have to do first is…”

The evil presence suddenly appeared, and it was headed straight for them at a high rate of speed. Surprised, Rei quickly shoved Yuuichirou back and drew several ofuda. “Get back! It’s here, the evil presence!”

She hurled them towards the trees. “Evil spirits begone!”

The charms were neatly sliced apart in mid-flight, and Rei barely avoided the projectile that did it, a single red rose. “What the…?”

She looked up into the trees, and her eyes widened when she found Tuxedo Kamen and Mifune staring down at her.


Through her binoculars, Sailor Moon scanned the crowds below Tokyo Tower, looking for anything unusual. Putting her foot down after pulling over, Naru raised her visor and scanned a crowd of people. Meanwhile, Sailor Mercury was multi-tasking between observing the crowds of Roppongi and spying on Police channels as they began the bus stoppage. At exactly 17:45, a woman carrying shopping bags suddenly dropped them, and Sailor Mercury quickly zeroed in.

“Guys, we have one,” she said as the woman walked away from her bags, her eyes glazed. She was walking for a nearby bus stop.

Luna could sense it. “Yes! There is the presence of evil coming from her!”

Jumping onto her shoulder, Luna held on tight as Sailor Mercury took off in pursuit.

“I’m on my way,” Naru said before she a bus suddenly passed her, “Scratch that, I just spotted a bus in motion!”

Revving up her bike, Naru pulled a burnout as she turned around and shot after the bus.

At Tokyo Tower, Usagi spotted several women converge from different directions, and begin walking towards a fairly isolated bus stop several blocks away. “Guys, I’ve done you one better.”

She looked ahead, and saw more women gathering at the stop. “I found its stop!”

Setting the binoculars down, she crouched and jumped into a ballistic arc for the bus stop.


“Tuxedo Kamen, but why is he here?” There was no doubt about it to Rei’s senses; the evil presence was coming off him. She looked to Mifune, who was cracking her knuckles. The evil presence was coming from them both. “Who is that…?”

Yuuichirou got up. “Tuxedo Kamen in broad daylight, I don’t know who the chick is, though.”

She let out a cry and jumped back as Mifune leaped from the branches and dove for her to deliver a punch. It missed, but the blow shattered the step that she had been standing on.

Behind her, Tuxedo Kamen called out. “Wait! Don’t be too hasty!”

“What are you doing?” Rei cried out as she scrambled back from Mifune. Quickly, Yuuichirou got in her way.

“Run for it!” he called to her as Mifune quickly advanced, “You’re going to have to go through me to get to her, buddy!”

Mifune shoved him aside with little effort and ran up after her. Further up the stairs, Rei saw this and ran faster, the little crow clinging to her head. “Help me! Help me! Weird people in costumes are chasing me! Help! Everybody! Help me!”

Tuxedo Kamen joined Mifune and as they reached the top of the stairs, mere paces behind Rei, they began to hear it, the caws of hundreds, upon hundreds of very angry crows. Their black bodies and spread wings blocked out the sun overhead.


“Reika, the Police Scanner!” Motoki said quickly as Reika rounded the same corner for the fourth time in their patrol. “They said an unknown bus is rolling!”

“About time, where is it?” Reika asked. She was worried that Tuxedo Kamen hadn’t called them or answered his phone.

“It’s heading up the street at the next light up ahead. Make a left.” Soon as Motoki said that, a bus barreled past, pursued by Naru on her Motorcycle, and then a police cruiser in pursuit. “… Follow them.”

“All right, time to cut loose.” Triggering the super car’s launch control system, Reika revved the Lamborghini up and then shot from the light, rounding the corner and catching up with the high speed chase very fast.

Naru spied the Lamborghini behind her and looked ahead to the speeding bus in front. “Sailor Moon, I got the bus, and a car pursuing it!”

Still in mid-fall, Sailor Moon spied the bus in question. “I see it! Fall back to a safe spot!”

Naru nodded and then turned right, diving into a narrow alley and losing the cop. Seeing the motorcyclist ditch, the police car sped up and pursued the rogue bus. Behind them, Motoki caught a glimpse of the motorcyclist.

“Hey! Who was the chick on the bike?” Motoki said in the instant they passed.

“Focus, Motoki!” Reika said as she saw the bus making a turn. Beyond it, they saw flashing lights coming up the road, police zeroing in on the rogue transport. “It’s too hot. We have to break.”

Slowing down, Reika also turned, down a street parallel to the bus.


Followed by Phobos and Deimos, Rei closed and locked the doors leading to the fiercely burning Sacred Fire. Dark forces were running rampant, and they were targeting her! She had no time, she needed to find the source of the evil and sever it before it was too late! Falling to her knees in front of the fire as Rei began praying.

“What is the source of this darkness? Show me what has brought evil to this place!” Rei heard the barricaded doors shake from a heavy impact. “Show me!”

The doors shattered as the fire obeyed her, and Tuxedo Kamen and Mifune quickly entered after having successfully struggled their way through the murder. Tuxedo Kamen spotted her first as she turned to face them in fright, with Mifune quickly lunging for her on sight.

“There’s no escaping now!” Mifune declared, before Tuxedo Kamen stopped her. “What?”

Rei quickly rose and turned to face the two, a look of disbelief on her face. “It can’t be.”

Mifune looked to Tuxedo Kamen, who then produced a rose. “What, what’s going on?”

Tuxedo Kamen was staring at Rei’s white haori, where he could see a transformation pen sticking from it with the symbol of Mars at the end. She’s not a youma…

In their moment of hesitation, Rei struck, quickly drawing several ofuda. “Don’t take a step closer! Evil Spirits begone!”

Mifune quickly jumped clear to avoid them, only to see all three tags sail narrowly between them and reach their intended target. Tuxedo Kamen and Mifune both looked back, and saw Yuuichirou standing in the smashed doorway, holding one of the rigid ofuda between his fingers as the others burned away at his feet.

Rei gasped, as Phobos and Deimos began cawing angrily at him. “Yuu-kun… you… you’re the source of the evil here!”

“He is?” Mifune asked, before Yuuichirou burned away the last ofuda and rested his hand against his face. Letting out a laugh, he pushed his messy bangs up above his eyes, revealing not the brown Rei was used to seeing, but an icy blue.

“I’m afraid the secret’s out… and after all the trouble I’d gone through to throw you off,” he said, before he ripped away the disguise, revealing none other than Jadeite.

“No matter, I’ve already got what I wanted out of it.”

“What are you talking about?” Mifune demanded.

Tuxedo Kamen realized it immediately. “They knew we were spying on them, so they put on an act to set up the Miko as the youma.”

Tuxedo Kamen quickly went for his cane as Mifune assumed a fighting stance. He looked to her. “Protect the girl! This guy is out of your league!”

Mifune looked from Jadeite to Rei, and then stood back. As she did, Tuxedo Kamen attacked Jadeite head on with the cane, thrusting it for his chest and striking his raised palm.

Staring back at the well-dressed crusader, Jadeite spoke. “I was hoping that in your zeal you’d kill the Miko, believing she was the youma. But killing you all myself is fine too!”

“We’ll see about that,” Tuxedo Kamen replied and he attacked much faster, this time forcing Jadeite to defend with a barrier. The force of the blow pushed Jadeite into the wall opposite of the doorway leading to the Sacred Fire.

“Huh… you’re strong…” he growled in surprise.

As they struggled, Mifune looked back at the terrified Rei. “Wait, who was the girl from the other night?!”

Rei looked to her, before she noticed water seeping up between the wooden planks on the floor. Tuxedo Kamen noticed the water too, but it was too late before a massive geyser of Thetis’s water completely demolished the room, and part of the Shrine itself.


Sailor Mercury, with Luna on her shoulder, landed atop a tower overlooking the bus stop where the group of women was waiting. “There!”

“Get there, quickly!” Luna said before Sailor Moon crashed down onto the street below, right in front of the oncoming bus. Behind her, Naru narrowly avoided several police cars and skidded to a halt as she watched the drama unfold. Reika and Motoki pulled up a little further up the street, and immediately stopped when they saw Sailor Moon.

“Oh God, this isn’t good,” Motoki said when he saw Sailor Moon.

Reika looked at the spiraling situation, the police, the bystanders, the street lined with buildings. “This is no place for her to throw down here.”

Facing the bus as Sailor Mercury and Luna joined her, Sailor Moon narrowed her eyes at the driver of the bus. “Ready, Mercury?”

“Yes!” Sailor Mercury replied as the bus sped up. “Let’s catch us a bus!”

Behind the wheel, Kigaan grinned and slammed the pedal to the floor, ignoring the police cars attempting to block her off and barreling straight for the Sailor Senshi. “All aboard, bitches!”

The bus crashed into Sailor Moon, who carved two trenches into the street with her boots as she stopped it with both hands. Its tires squealing in vain, the bus struggled against the titanic strength of the Sailor Senshi, who looked up and grinned at the driver.

“Yo, youma, the best you can think is to run me over with a bus?” she asked Kigaan as Ami prepared to attack.

Kigaan was still smiling herself. “I think I can do much better.”

At that moment, the ground disappeared from beneath her and Sailor Mercury. To their shock, and those of the onlookers, the same black hole that the buses had disappeared into before swallowed the Senshi, their cat, and the entire bus itself. Climbing off her motorcycle, Naru stared in disbelief.

“Impossible!” she cried out as the black hole then vanished, leaving only the gouges made by Sailor Moon’s boots.

“W-where’d they go?” Motoki asked Reika, who shook her head.


Lying outside of the Shrine after having been washed out by the deluge, Mifune slowly got up and shook her head. She quickly spotted Rei lying on the ground next to Tuxedo Kamen, and then turned to find Jadeite floating just above the ground, joined by Thetis, whose Rei disguise melted away as she laughed.

Shaking her head, Mifune rose to her feet and faced the two. The water had ripped her hood off and tore away part of her mask, revealing her eyes and forehead.

“Who on Earth is that?” Thetis asked of Mifune.

“She’s ineffectual, just a human in a costume. Ship her off to Kigaan and the others,” Jadeite ordered.

Mifune snorted. “I’ll show you ineffectual!”

She charged both and then suddenly felt weightless as Thetis obeyed Jadeite’s command and opened a black hole that began to suck her in. “Wait, what the Hell?!”

Mifune’s scream as she was drawn into the black hole awoke Rei. She looked over to Jadeite and Thetis, and her eyes widened in fear. “They’re y-youma…”

Thetis looked at Rei. “Shall I ship her off too?”

“No, I’ll deal with them. Go assist Kigaan,” Jadeite said.

Thetis nodded, and vanished into thin air. Turning his attention to Rei and Tuxedo Kamen, he approached them “Your ability to sense evil and your meddling in general is too dangerous.”

He raised his hand, and a ball of energy formed in it, before Deimos and Phobos suddenly attacked him. “Damn it!”

Then suddenly, crows were everywhere, cawing, pecking, and clawing at Jadeite in an effort to protect Rei. Seeing this, Rei quickly pushed herself up.

“No! Don’t attack, he’s dangerous!” she cried out.

The crows didn’t listen, and continued their attack, surrounding Jadeite as more birds joined in.

Rei was on her feet. This could only end badly. “You have to stop! Get away from him!”

“Get off me you filthy vermin!” Jadeite roared, and suddenly the crows were sent flying in every direction, blasted away by a burst of energy. Horrified, Rei could only watch as the birds fell to the ground around her.

As the birds fell away or fled in fear, Jadeite lowered his arms and grimaced. “Filthy rat-birds…”

He then turned to face Rei. “You should be thankful I was so merciful to them. These vermin got off easy compared to what I’m going to do to you. You’re far too dangerous to live.”

Jadeite paused, and his eyes widened when he saw something glowing brightly on Rei’s forehead. He stared at it. “What… is that…?”

The glow faded just enough for Jadeite to make out the symbol of Mars, and he froze in terror. “No.”


The pocket dimension that Sailor Moon and Mercury fell into was a strange one, a dark blue void lit by strange green crystals that floated throughout it. The other buses were also present plus two more, all floating peacefully through the darkness like suspended balloons. Both Senshi landed safely on one of the crystals, and looked around the pocket dimension.

“Oh look, the worst place they could’ve possibly taken us,” Sailor Moon said to Sailor Mercury and Luna.

“To us or them?” Ami asked before she looked up. “Bus!”

Kigaan’s bus smashed into the crystal they had been perched upon, smashing it to pieces and blowing the bus apart. Falling through the void, Sailor Moon and Mercury landed on what felt like solid ground, as Kigaan landed in front of them. Quickly abandoning her disguise, the youma laughed before pointing to the two.

“I’ve been waiting to see you two! After hearing all the shit you’ve pulled, my blood’s been boiling for a fight!” Kigaan declared.

Sailor Moon let out a brief laugh. “Funny, the last time we met a youma eager for a fight, she pissed herself and ran away!”

“Fuck you, Sailor Moon! You’re not getting out of this one alive!” Ramua suddenly called out from atop one of the full buses.

“Indeed,” Thetis said as she and Murid appeared on the other buses.

Sailor Moon folded her arms. “This is your plan? Fight us no holds barred and try to overwhelm us with numbers?”

“Not so!” Thetis replied smugly, “You see, your only opponent is Kigaan here. We’re just here to watch the beat down, because frankly you’re too strong for us!”

Sailor Moon raised an eyebrow. “Oh? I’m flattered, thank you. Since I’m going to be killing you all soon, how about telling me what your big grand scheme was?”

It was Thetis’s turn to laugh. “Cute. If you must know, the plan was never about collecting energy at all. This was all an elaborate trap to lure you in for this fight.”

“You went through all of that to lure me to a fight? Why not just issue me a challenge? I would’ve accepted.”

“There’s no doubt that you would. But you see, we had to achieve a few objectives to make this all come together, and the abductions were one of them, just not the key one. You see our other objective was to separate you from Tuxedo Kamen, who was having trouble with Jadeite last I saw.”

Sailor Moon’s smirk disappeared and she immediately got serious. There was no guarantee she was telling the truth, but there was no proof she was lying, either. Sailor Mercury and Luna also tensed.

Thetis nodded. “I struck a chord, didn’t I? The key objective was to bring you here, for Kigaan to fight to her heart’s content. She’s actually fairly weak for a youma on her own, even weaker than Morga, but she is a magnificently skilled hand to hand combatant.”

“That doesn’t help you,” Sailor Moon pointed out.

“Ah, that doesn’t but this does. Meet Murid.”

Thetis gestured to Murid, who held up her apple. “She’s best at illusions, but she’s skilled transferring and absorbing very large amounts of energy. Like the combined energies of three hundred people that she’s giving to Kigaan right now.”

Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury stared as a ray of energy shot from Murid and into Kigaan. The emaciated, jaundiced youma suddenly began to change: her almost skeletal arms began to swell with muscles, her skin grew livelier, turning from a greenish brown to a gleaming bronze, and her ghoulish face became youthful and vibrant, beautiful.

Her long red hair waving behind her, Kigaan let out a laugh and flicked a few strands from her face. Her voice, once scratchy, was now smooth and sinister. “Ha… Sailor Senshi, are you ready for a real fight?”

Sailor Moon’s kick was already homing in on the side of her head, while one from Sailor Mercury was closing in on her side.

A large explosion soon followed, and the other three youma cheered as Sailor Moon went into one of the crystals while Sailor Mercury tumbled along the ground before coming to a stop next to Luna.

“Mercury, are you all right?” Luna asked as Sailor Mercury got up.

Sailor Mercury looked back at Kigaan, who gestured for her to come, and nodded. “Yes.”

Disappearing, Sailor Mercury came to a sudden stop in front of where Kigaan had just stood; the blow she slammed into the youma had sent her flying. A mile away, a crystal split in half, and another behind it exploded from the force of Kigaan hitting it. Sailor Mercury disappeared again, her rapid approach barely visible before she delivered another hit that completely destroyed the crystal.

“Oh!” Thetis held a hand up to where her mouth would be, and then laughed as the smoke cleared to reveal Kigaan blocking the axe kick that Mercury had slammed down on her.

Sailor Mercury kicked off Kigaan’s arm, but was caught in midair with a punch to the gut. Sailor Mercury barely had a chance to cough from the hit before Kigaan struck her with a one-two combo before following it up with an uppercut that launched her high into the air.

As Sailor Mercury went flying, Sailor Moon came down on Kigaan, swinging a swift kick down on the youma that was quickly evaded. Undeterred, she pressed her attack, springing after the super-charged youma and striking with kicks that were quickly dodged or parried, and punches that were blocked or evaded with simple movements of the head.

Luna grew tense as she watched Sailor Moon barely keep up with Kigaan. “This isn’t good… Sailor Moon’s not skilled enough for this opponent.”

Sailor Mercury landed on another crystal. Shaking the cobwebs out of her head, she stared in shock when Kigaan blocked one of Usagi’s strikes and then elbowed her in the face. When Sailor Moon’s head snapped back from the strike, Kigaan grabbed her by her twin tails, and began to swing her around like a throwing hammer.

“You’re fast and strong, but you completely lack finesse!” Kigaan yelled as she threw Sailor Moon, sending her hurtling towards Thetis.

Laughing, Thetis summoned a blast of water that smashed Sailor Moon into the ground far below.

As Kigaan dusted off her hands, she saw Sailor Moon’s tiara lying on the ground, and stepped back in surprise. Laid out on her back where she fell, Sailor Moon grinned.

“… Action!”

The Tiara suddenly shot off the ground, homing in on Kigaan’s neck like a flying guillotine. Kigaan leaned back, the tiara barely clearing her face before it whipped around to come for the return pass. Narrowly, Kigaan evaded the weapon, and it came around once again, homing in on her at Sailor Moon’s will.

“Mercury Sabão Spray!” Sailor Mercury’s bubbles quickly descended on the battlefield, obscuring Kigaan’s view. The tiara cut into the mist, and by the time Kigaan turned to face it, it was much too late. The blade sliced her head clean off.

Sailor Moon stood up as the mist cleared, and shook her head as the youma turned to dust. “How’s that for finesse, bitch?”

“Sailor Moon, look behind you!” Luna yelled.

Sailor Moon just started to look back, when Kigaan’s fist plowed into her jaw, sending her tumbling across the barren ground of the pocket dimension until she struck another crystal with explosive force.

Sailor Mercury stared in disbelief. “But the tiara it…!”

She then looked up at the buses, and then immediately towards Murid. Thetis had said that she was an expert at illusions! “She created the illusion of the tiara hitting Kigaan to buy her an opening…”

These youma were a lot more dangerous now that they were organized. “Luna! We’re at a disadvantage here!”

“You think?!” Luna snapped back before Kigaan came down on Sailor Mercury, punching her through the floating crystal she had been standing upon and sending her crashing into the ground.

“Hey!” Kigaan yelled to Murid and Thetis. “Knock it off with the assisting!”

“We’re sorry Kigaan~!” All three of her comrades sang back.

Sailor Mercury sprang back up to her feet, and gritted her teeth. She was getting banged up, but so far she’d yet to be badly injured. She looked over to Sailor Moon, who was sitting up and expressing her frustration at her inability to hit this particular youma.

She looked over to Mercury. “If we could hit this bitch, we’d win!”

“We need to attack two on one, then. Together we should be able to do it,” Sailor Mercury replied as Kigaan attacked again.

Sailor Moon immediately performed a spin-kick that Kigaan blocked. Before the youma could retaliate however, Mercury hooked her arms under her shoulders and held her in place. “Free hits!”

“What the-!” A crippling blow to the stomach cut Kigaan off, followed by another and another as Sailor Moon began delivering full power hooks into Kigaan’s body. Mercury could feel each blow through Kigaan’s back and travel through her own body.

Jumping back for room, Sailor Moon leaped, and drove a flying kick square into Kigaan’s chest and sending her through Mercury, who exploded into a shower of light. Landing, Sailor Moon kicked off with all her might, dashing underneath the airborne youma and coming to a stop under one of the crystals as Mercury reappeared under it ready to spring off.

Their gazes meeting in an instant, both Senshi threw themselves at each other with a flying kick.

“DOUBLE!” Sailor Mercury yelled.

“RAIDER!” Sailor Moon shouted after.

“KICK!” They both screamed as their kicks met Kigaan at the exact same moment, twisting and warping the powerful youma and sending her spinning as they passed.

Sailor Mercury landed, with Sailor Moon landing next to her a moment later. Kigaan hit the ground in a twisted heap, as both prepared to attack again. Kigaan laughed. “Well, you hit me. But it’s not quite hard enough.”

Bones cracking and popping as they reset themselves, Kigaan got up and thrust her chest out in defiance. “We can do this all day if you like! I’ve got energy to burn!”

Sailor Mercury looked to Sailor Moon, and then back to their opponent. “We need a plan; we’re not doing enough damage. I’m not sure how long we can fight a battle of attrition.”

Sailor Moon nodded. “Okay, time to finish this before… huh?”

Kigaan pointed her right hand at the two Senshi. Sailor Moon’s eyes went wide. “Oh fuck.”

Luna watched, in fright, as Kigaan fired a massive energy blast at both Senshi that raced across the pocket dimension and off into infinity.


Back outside, Jadeite took a frightened step back from Rei, as the furious miko began walking towards him. Tears were pouring down her face, and her hair was rising upward just slightly, as the symbol of Mars burned on her forehead. Just seeing the injured crows and hearing their cries of pain only made her angrier.

“You… you played with my heart… you pretended to be my friend…” Rei said angrily. “But worse, you hurt my crows, my best friends! I won’t forgive you for this!”

Jadeite quickly summoned a blade to his hand and lunged for Rei. “I can’t let you live!”

Rei’s eyes widened as she watched the blade plunge for her heart. Tuxedo Kamen, however, struck at the last instant and blocked the sword with his cane.


Thetis, watching Kigaan’s beam fade, let out a laugh when she saw there was nothing left of the Senshi after the powerful blast. Ramua let out a whistle, while Murid called out a “Bravo” to their champion. Kigaan herself, however, was not in a victorious mood. Someone had intervened at the last moment, tackling both Senshi out of the way.

“You made a big mistake interfering, stranger,” she said to Mifune, as she lay atop both Moon and Mercury.

“Wow, nice save.” Sailor Moon said to the costumed vigilante.

Mifune stood. “I can’t watch this anymore, you two are attacking all wrong. Stop with that flashy shit and just get in close!”

Luna’s tail rose when she looked at Mifune. “Hold on…”

Kigaan was suddenly behind Mifune, her arm already a blur as she prepared to strike her down. Mifune then strong-armed the blow, the force of the strike blowing her cape back. Unaffected by the strike, Mifune let out a yell and drove a palm thrust into Kigaan’s stomach, launching her like a rocket away from her and the Senshi.

Ramua couldn’t believe it. “Who the hell is that chick?!”

Thetis had a bad feeling about this. “I don’t know…”

“Holy shit…” Sailor Moon said as she got up. When Mifune turned to face her, her amazement turned into a big grin. “Holy shit!”

Sailor Mercury stared as well. “N-No way…”

Luna ran up to the girls, and then stopped. “I don’t believe it!”

Mifune stared at all three. Wait, did that cat just talk? “What? What is it? Is there something on my face?”

All three nodded, as the Symbol of Jupiter shone brightly on Mifune’s forehead.


“Listen to me, Miko!” Tuxedo Kamen ordered as he held Jadeite back with his cane, blocking another wild and powerful sword strike, “That gold pen you have!”

In the Pocket Dimension, Luna jumped and flipped, a sparkling light appearing in her trail and transforming to a green transformation pen that quickly went to Mifune’s hand. Catching it, Mifune stared at it in surprise. “What is it?”

“Hurry, hold it into the air…” Luna and Tuxedo Kamen instructed.

“… And call out Mars Power, Make Up!” Tuxedo Kamen said as he blocked another strike from Jadeite.

“… And call out Jupiter Power, Make Up!” Luna instructed as Kigaan rose to her feet again, coughing from the hit.

Mifune and Rei both looked at their pens, and their respective opponents, and did not hesitate for an instant. Their pens went into the air.

“Mars Power, Make Up!”

“Jupiter Power, Make Up!”

Jadeite froze in fear, as an intense heat washed over him. In the Dimensional Pocket, Thetis, Ramua, and Murid recoiled in horror as lightning struck from the sky and wrapped around Mifune, vaporizing her costume. Rings of Electricity surrounded her entire body, like the rings of the atom symbol, before they flashed away, revealing in all her glory, the tall, busty, and bushy pony-tailed Sailor Jupiter.

An immense blaze erupted from Rei’s pen, burning away her hakama and haori in an instant and leaving numerous rings of fire that surrounded her from her head to her toes. In a burst of light they were gone, leaving the positively gorgeous Sailor Mars, looking like the wrath of the God of War himself as she stared at a petrified Jadeite.


“A-another one…?” Ramua squeaked. “No… not another one! Where do they keep coming from?! It’s not fucking fair!”

Staring down Sailor Jupiter, Kigaan looked up at Thetis for guidance. Thetis quickly nodded. “Get her before she can come into her powers! Go!”

Sailor Jupiter stared down at her gloved hands, and then at Sailor Moon and Mercury, before she closed her hands into fists. She smiled as electricity crackled across her body. “As I was saying…”

Kigaan had gotten in close, and was swinging a kick for Jupiter’s back. Sailor Jupiter ducked, and raised her leg, catching Kigaan’s leg and knocking it away, As Kigaan gave a start at the move, Sailor Jupiter’s other leg came up and smashed her across the face with a crescent kick. It hurt, harder than any hit Sailor Moon had delivered.

“What… the… fuck…?” Kigaan looked to see Sailor Jupiter coming and quickly leaned back, expecting her punch to miss her face by inches. It plowed into her mouth head on. Sailor Jupiter was then upon her, catching her with precision punches and kicks that caught her before she could evade or outright smashed through her attempts at defending.

Punches, chops, palm-thrusts, and finger jabs struck across Kigaan’s body, each blow unleashing a burst of electricity through the youma’s body, stunning her while just adding to the damage. Finally, Sailor Jupiter grabbed Kigaan’s head and kneed her hard in the face. An antenna rose from the Senshi of Jupiter’s tiara.

“Don’t waste your time with flashy moves! Just hit vitals as hard as you can, and as fast as you can and never stop!” Sailor Jupiter instructed as she threw Kigaan high into the air. “Only when they’re weak do you finish them off with something flashy!”

Lightning erupted from the antenna, shooting into the void above Kigaan and causing the other youma to shield their eyes. Raising a finger to the sky, Sailor Jupiter let out a booming yell.

“BREAK!”

Ramua, Murid, and Thetis could only watch helplessly, as a massive beam of electrical energy came down from the heavens, completely incinerating Kigaan instantly.

Lowering her hand and blowing the smoke from her finger, Sailor Jupiter nodded. “And that’s the lesson for today.”

“Let’s… let’s get out of here,” Thetis said in shock as bolts of electricity crackled in the air around them.


Jadeite was quickly knocked back by Tuxedo Kamen once more. That man was stronger than his ridiculous look let on. But worse, Sailor Mars was now awake. He needed to get out of here, quickly, but before he could try, several ofuda stuck to his body, freezing him in place.

“I can’t… move…!” His energy had been neutralized.

“Youma, I will not forgive you for what you’ve done!” a tearful Rei yelled out as she put her hands together, pinky, ring, and middle fingers interlaced while the index and thumb were pointed out.

“Mars… Fire… SOUL!”

Jadeite’s eyes widened as the wall of fire Rei unleashed raced to and consumed him. The ofuda tags across his body also ignited, unleashing a purifying flame that became hotter than anything he could imagine. His clothes were incinerated in seconds, and then his skin began to follow. Consumed by the fire, Jadeite let out a piercing, horrified scream.

Tuxedo Kamen, hearing Jadeite’s scream, froze. “… J-Jadeite…”

Then, in an instant the fire burned away, leaving nothing but the remains of the white-hot burning ofuda. Panting, Sailor Mars stared at the scorched, glassy concrete where he once stood, and then quickly turned to look around for the crows. “Oh no, you guys…!”

She then stopped, when she saw all of her crows gathered around her, seemingly unhurt and staring up at her curiously. “Huh? You’re all… okay?”

The crows began to caw, flapping their wings and hopping up and down. Tuxedo Kamen looked from the birds to Sailor Mars, and folded his arms. “Maybe they knew you were Sailor Mars, and faked it to make you angry enough to awaken your power?”

Sailor Mars quickly held her arms out for Phobos and Deimos, who landed on her left hand and right shoulder respectively. “Wait, how did you know I was… wait, I’m Sailor Mars? As in, Sailor Moon Sailor Mars, I’m a Sailor Senshi?!”

“What else would you be in that cute fuku?” Tuxedo Kamen asked.

Sailor Mars looked down, especially at the really short skirt she was now wearing, and let out a squeak of embarrassment as she tried to tug it down lower. Tuxedo Kamen tried not to smile at her cute reaction. “I saw your transformation pen. Whoever gave it to you must’ve figured it out too.”

Sailor Mars immediately remembered that feral delinquent girl, Usagi. “No way…”

A ray of light appeared in the sky over the Five Slopes stop, and Tuxedo Kamen did smile. He had a feeling he knew what it was. “Well, come on, let’s go meet them.”


The police and press on the scene at the Five Slopes could only stare in wonder. Emerging from a black hole, one bus after another emerged, their passengers all in good health despite their ordeal. Sailor Jupiter was behind the wheel of the lead bus, towing the others behind it. On the roof of the lead bus, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, and Luna greeted the crowd.

“Look, there are three of them now, a green one!” a spectator called out as Naru, sans disguise, emerged from the crowd to see the victorious arrival.

“A green one?” Naru asked before she caught sight of Jupiter as she stepped off the parked bus. “Oh wow.”

Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury hopped off the roof of the bus, and joined Sailor Jupiter, who smiled nervously to them.

Sailor Moon patted Jupiter on the shoulder. “You did great out there, stranger! We’re definitely going to need someone like you in the future.”

“Uh… thanks…” Sailor Jupiter replied as she caught sight of cameras. “… No one can recognize us, can they? I feel exposed.”

She tugged at her ridiculously short skirt in a vain attempt to make it go lower. “… Really exposed.”

Sailor Mercury reassured her. “It’s fine. Unless you reveal your identity or get caught transforming, no one will be able to make the connection between you and your civilian appearance.”

Sailor Jupiter looked down at the skirt. “Is it because no one would think my civilian form would be caught dead fighting crime in a miniskirt that doesn’t completely cover my ass?”

“Yeah, it’s pretty much that,” Sailor Moon said.

Sailor Mercury shook her head. “It’s actually very powerful magic. Your identity is safe, so enjoy your moment in the spotlight.”

At Mercury’s assuring smile, Jupiter smiled herself and waved to the crowd of people. “We’re not going to stick around for autographs are we?” She turned back and found that both Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury were gone, having leaped up to a nearby roof. “Hey, wait for me!”

On the sidelines, Naru wiped the line of drool from her mouth as she watched Jupiter go. “Just. Wow.”


On the roof, Usagi stopped and then smiled when she found Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Mars waiting for them. “So, you guys made it out okay too. That’s good to know.”

Sailor Mars looked at the group and flushed adorably, in Sailor Moon’s opinion. “Um, hello… I’m Sailor Mars, but you probably knew that before I even did.”

“Certainly did, you were a dead give away,” Sailor Moon said.

Something probably broke, but no one could hear over the cacophony on the street below.

“Now that we’re all together, we can form a stronger front against the enemy.”

“I agree, but I think I killed that Jadeite guy,” Mars revealed.

Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury stared at her in surprise. “Wait, you did what?”

“She burned him alive where he stood,” Tuxedo Kamen said, “I was there, it was pretty bitchin’.”

“Wait… you incinerated one of the Generals?” Luna asked.

“Well, he attacked my crows! I mean, sure they were faking it and stuff to make me unload on him, but he was asking for it so I torched his ass!”

Sailor Moon stared at Mars, who flushed deeper under her scrutiny. “Oh my God… you are just adorable.”

“Huh?” And then Mars was grabbed in a hug, Sailor Moon nuzzling the side of her head affectionately as she squeezed her. “Eek! Personal space! Personal space!”

“Ah, you’re so warm and cuddly!” Sailor Moon cooed as Mercury and Jupiter watched with exasperation. Tuxedo Kamen quietly noted that it was quite… hot.

“Focus, Sailor Moon! If Jadeite is dead, that means another General is going to take his place!” Luna advised.

Sailor Jupiter hummed. “Let’s just hope they don’t decide to just wipe out the entire city to get us.”

“I agree,” Sailor Mercury said.

“Nah, that’d waste far too much of their energy. I think I’ve got these guys pegged, at least for the moment,” Sailor Moon assured them as Mars kept struggling to get free, “After all, the only energy they were willing to expend on us so far was energy taken from the people they kidnapped for this fiasco.”

Sailor Mars finally just sighed and just let Sailor Moon continue to cuddle her. It was actually kind of nice, she admitted to herself.

“Well I guess we can discuss this more later. But we really should vacate the area,” Luna suggested.

“Right.” Sailor Moon turned to Tuxedo Kamen. “Care to hook up with us later, sexy?”

He was gone, to no one’s surprise. Usagi let out a laugh then said. “Holy shit, he really is Batman.”

Jupiter, looking among the other Senshi, frowned, and then turned away from the group. The other three noticed this, and Sailor Mercury called after her. “Sailor Jupiter, what’s wrong?”

“Uh… it’s nothing. I just have to get going.”

“Right, meet us at the Hikawa Shrine tomorrow afternoon, but in your civilian attire next time, we’ll all be there. Knock on the door of the house and we’ll let you in”

“Wait, why my house?” Mars asked.

“Because your place is the most accessible, is the least conspicuous, and your bed was really comfy.” Sailor Moon replied, and Mars’ face bloomed into blush again.

This once again got her affectionately nuzzled. “Ah! You’re so cute when you’re blushing like that!”

Jupiter grew visibly uneasy, but smiled and nodded. “Uh, sure… I’ll meet you all there.”

Walking to the edge of the roof, Jupiter gave a final look back to her fellow Senshi, before she leaped off into the growing shadows of the city.

As she left, Luna looked over to Sailor Moon with her own uneasiness about her. “She’s not going to be there tomorrow, is she?”

Mars and Mercury looked over to Sailor Moon, who shook her head.

“No. She isn’t.”


Rei: Ah… hello I'm Rei, the new Sailor Senshi…

Makoto: And I'm Makoto, but you already know me.

Rei: Um… I'm so nervous…

Makoto: Sheesh, Look, despite the dangers involved with youma and the occasional hijacking, Public Transportation is actually one of the safest, efficient, and environmentally friendliest forms of transportation out there. More people riding buses, trains, and other forms of mass transit means fewer cars on the road, and fewer accidents and harmful emissions.

Rei: Oh, absolutely. It's not just us who need clean air, think of all the crows!

Usagi: Yes, so give your car a rest and ride the bus. Who knows, it could become an adventure! Travel with care wherever you may go, that is what Kamen Raider has taught me!

Everyone: Sailor Moon Says!

Usagi: Tee Hee!

 

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�No. She isn�t.�

Seems she's not really into the lesbianism of the others. It's a sad end to this chapter. Still, it's otherwise great. I'm assuming that she won't be back until her canon intro, keeping the story 'on the rails' as it were.

 

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The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

What a prude.

 

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The Ero-Sennin wrote a Sailor Moon Fanfic!

What a prude.

Yeah, and if you had to team up with a dude who liked to rub up against your junk, I'm sure you'd be totally cool with that.

 

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