Well here is the begining of the next chapter Displaced.
Aside from some info I got before where is a good place to get info on the Senshi and the Silver Millennium (or Moon Empire)? Help and or suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
And now the start of Chapter 2, a little over 4,000 words long.
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Summary: Sometimes getting befriended leads to strange events, in this case a possessive doctor of theoretical sciences decides that someone has to be taught a lesson for being a friend. Yet someone else pays in ways even the 'good' doctor has no way of knowing. So Displaced in time can a young college grad make a new life and can he survive the changes yet to happen to him in the process?
Displaced
Chapter 2: Arrival
By: Slie Amos
This is a fanfiction story and as such any characters from existing works, such as Sailor Moon, Ranma, Robotech, BGC, etcà, are not mine but belong to the authors that created them or their agents.
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The overhead starts to display words as all attention turns to the briefcase as a bluish-green semi-transparent figure starts to rise from the glow. A figure of a youngish female with waist length hair and an odd looking outfit, almost like a leotard with a skirt and bows one her chest and lower back. Once she is at full height of about 30 centimeters she says in a pleasant voice, ôGood morning Doctors, Gentlemen, and ladies, I am called Temptress.ö Her right hand indicates the screen which now reads the following:
Te.M.P.Tr.E.S.S: Temporal and Multi-dimensional, Potentiality, Trial, Experimental System Set
ôI will try and answer your question, one thing I will say now is that I no longer have the ability to retrieve anything or anyone sent through my systems. That was damaged when I intervened to save the life of one Billy Rhodes-Tenashi. Right now I do not know if you will be able to repair my systems to allow me to recall him. So shall we begin discussing what happened and what can be done to reverse it? àö
Chapter 2: Arrival
Sr. Barstone asks a question before anyone else recovers from meeting the æspecialistÆ, ôWhat do you mean you æno longer have the ability to retrieve anythingÆ? And would we not be able to repair the systems that were damagedàö He trails off as he starts thinking about what that could actually mean and he looks around the room at the others and notices that a few others have started to make that connection as well, as noted by the widening of their eyes and sudden interest in Dr. Takado, who is leaning back and acting like nothing is happening right now.
ôIt means that I do not, and currently can not, do anything to help and get Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi back at this point in time.ö Replies Temptress, ôUntil such time as my systems are repaired that is. Now before anyone asks, my systems were not created by anyone in this time frame and reality, as far as the limited checking I have been able to do has indicated to me. I was created to help watch over events in time via a special artifact, it was to be my duty to monitor for events that were being changed from normal by outside forces. That is not as easy as it sounds as every choice Everyone makes will make some changes to events yet to happen in time. I was to watch for events that were changing with out the normal influences and alert the Time Guardian to the event taking place so that they could check into it more in-depth.ö
ôAs to my systems, I was never supposed to be sending or retrieving anything via my systems, besides sending packets of information in a physical form. Because of this my systems were only designed to handle something of less than two and a half kilos in weight. By intervening and forcing an override to that safety feature to save a life I had to deliberately damage my own systems, like one of you taking an injury to protect someone else from harm. I am designed to watch but to also protect if I am able and it was that protocol that allowed me to do what I did to save a life. Now I have already given a list of the parts and materials needed to repair my systems but whether or not you can do so is the main question as some of the items needed do not exist yet in this world, they would have to be created to repair my systems fully.ö
After listening to this information and statement, Dr. Sato asks something that is on many minds currently, ôAre you saying that you have been impeding our research into Temporal Piercing and Analysis? And why?ö
Temptress shakes her head and replies, ôNo, I have not been impeding your research, but I have been doing my best to mitigate mistakes and still insure you get the correct information for future attempts. Just so you all know there have been several attempts made that would have normally ended with your power systems going into a cascade style overload and taking out close to half of this city. Now ask yourselves if I was wrong in preventing these events from happening but still helping you get the information you needed to get closer to your goals as well. Lately I have had to do less and less to prevent disasters and such as you have been getting better at your research. I am not trying to stop you in piercing the temporal veil, as that event would help me in finding a way to at least send a copy of everything I have observed here back to my creators, they love knowledge as much as they care about those they are trusted to protect and provide for.ö
Here Dr. Takado speaks up, ôWe could spend forever on this subject and it will not help us in anyway with what we need to figure out, and that is if we can make repairs to the Temporal Systems so that we can see about returning Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi to his home reality and time. Until that event happens I only pray that he can survive and make a living where ever he is now. And now for some really bad newsàö he stops while several other groan or several questions are tossed at him about what could be worse, ôit seems that some how Katashi-Dono somehow gained access to TemptressÆs hard coded commands, this is the main reason we could not stop the event tonight besides his use of a personal encryption set. Temptress is not even sure when he gain a copy of the commands but he has been rooting around in her systems for almost as long as he has worked for this company, he may have stumbled on the list that way. But at this time no-one, and that includes me, has access to the temporal systems as Temptress has locked them out. Once we have cleaned the systems of all unknown and or unused system accounts we will start to reinstate the current active accounts.ö
At this point the phone at Dr. TakadoÆs seat rings and he answers it using the speaker phone, ôYes, Takado here.ö
ôSir, we have finally cracked the encryption Katashi used on his systems and have the password, he used a layered encryption set with each one different. We also have access to his personal notes and such, I can give you a very condensed summery of the information in the notes we have skimmed over so far if you wish, sir.ö William BlankÆs voice states through the speaker.
Dr. Lee mutters about it being to late on finding the password but having access to the systems in question may help figure out whyà
ôPlease give us the condensed report of what you have read so far Mr. Blank.ö Dr. Takado states.
ôWell in a nutshell sir, Dr. Katashi had planned on becoming famous over his findings in Temporal Dynamics, no matter who he had to step on to do so sooner rather than later. I will have my team make a full report on everything we found and had to do as soon as possible. And Dr. Lee we know it is too late, but wanted to get all the information we could to help nail the good doctor to the wall permanently.ö With that he disconnects the call.
At this point Tashi Ryou speaks up, ôwell at least things are falling into place and will allow Katashi-dono to be taken care of, either by the local courts or by the U.N. courts. I personally think it should be the U.N. that handles this one as it will allow security to be maintained over the project and keep the public from going nuts about certain things.ö
Ali Sha Knore just nods to this and says something to the effect of getting everything ready as soon as he is able.
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Meanwhile in another place, Billy is starting to awaken groaning in pain and moving slowly yet jerkingly as he claws his way back to consciousness. The aches and pains in his body are insistent that he wakes up.
The room he is in now is huge yet empty. It has several smaller rooms or alcoves attached to it and Billy is in one of these rooms. One can not determine details as there is little light here currently, so one can not tell what the area is used for right now.
A short distance away are two guards on patrol of this area, they look at each other quickly when they hear sounds that are not normal for this area, which is normally very quiet with almost no background noise. They are each wearing a uniform with what looks like a light armor suit over it, the armor consist of a chest/back plate, small shoulder pads, upper and lower arm guards, hip guards, thigh pads, and a shin protector that is attached to their boots. The uniform itself looks to be a tunic of sorts with pants of a grayish color, the armor plates are made of some as yet unknown material but look to me a mix between metal and crystal. The guards are not wearing helmets though they do have an ear mounted radio as well as carrying a rife that looks sort of like the American XM-8 advanced assault system in carbine mode. On their belts, along with several pouches, is a holstered pistol of some sort.
As they turn toward the sound they heard one of them, a female from the curves of her armor, makes a report over her radio and receives a confirming response as they stat to move carefully to investigate what they heard.
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Back in the meeting with the department heads, Temptress, and the contact representatives from the U.N., J.S.D.F., and the J.N.P.A. someone has asked just where Temptress came from and Dr. Takado is telling them the story about that event.
ôà back during World War II, my Great Great Grandfather was working for the Japanese as a scientist working on new ways to control equipment and such. He and a small group was sent to an island chain in the Pacific to research on a new computer system for use on ships and one day my grandfather was out for his daily walk when he spotted something in a cave. This was the first time that he or anyone of the group there had been this far into this area of the island so he should have gone back for an escort but as the island was firmly in Japanese hands he went and took a quick look first and found Temptress, or at least the main systems in a very large cave that it was figured later had been closed off until a few years before the Japanese sent anyone there. As it seemed to be a computer system of some sort my ancestor started to study it, even to the point of getting the assistance of others there to help him work on it, for you see they could find no way to actually take anything apart though they did figure out how to æbreakÆ the system into smaller section but never how to take a section apart and they where loath to try and use explosives less they damage or destroy what they were trying to study.ö
ôThe Japanese government funded the study of the new system all the way up till shortly after the end of the war, at this point funds for rebuilding was sorely needed and the project to study the system was scrapped, the team recalled and the system left on the island replaced in the cave and sealed for future research. The government had planned to return and keep studying the system but as sometimes happened back then, and today, the information on the system was misfiled and then lost. But my Great Great Grandfather never forgot about the system and one day returned after spending a large sum of the familyÆs fortune to get the island, he then returned with his family to start studying the system once again, this time enlisting the help of close family friends and those he could trust fully.ö
ôEveryone on the new team was sure the system was of alien origin and it took them almost four years to even figure out how to power the system. Once they did that Temptress made her first appearance and over several weeks learned how to communicate with those studying her systems. It was during this time that the idea of aliens creating the system was changed, this was due to the appearance of Temptress and several files that had images of other people in them. Though the idea was never fully let go as the language was nothing like any that was know at the time or even listed in the history books that were checked at the time. So now it was thought that the system was either made by humans or human like aliens, but as the system were so advanced most everyone leaned toward it being humanoid aliens as the creators.ö
ôIt wasnÆt until several years later that Temptress took my Great Great Grandfather and his family in her confidence and told them some of where she came from, and to make that long story short her origins are from a location on the moon within an empire that spanned all the know planets of this system, with knowledge of things we are still just scratching the surface of.ö
The others in the room start talking about what they have just been told and start to ask question when Temptress speaks up, ôPlease, everyone it will take time, a lot of time, to answer all of your questions but please understand I was designed and built to serve one main purpose and a couple minor ones. Though they all related to one thing and that is the monitoring for and reporting of changes made to the time stream from outside the time stream. In other words I was to be on the look out for anyone that was trying to change time for any reason, as to do this is also to threaten the lives of hundreds or more innocent people that have no idea what is happening outside their lives everyday.ö
Dr. Yoshiero Ayaka, the head of R&D speaks up here, ôOk, this will take time for all of us to grasp fully, someone else who already had a better understanding of Temporal Dynamics that we do currently. But you said before that you overrode your own directives to help Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi, exactly what do you mean by that and what did you do?ö Then to the rest of the people there, ôAnd doesnÆt anyone else find it odd that we have accepted Temptress without any questions about it, I mean an AI and we just accept it so easilyàö
The avatar of Temptress just smiles and responds. ôI think I can offer a general answer to your second question first, and that is everyone here is still in some form a shock over what has happened tonight. That and the fact that I am talking to you all in the same manner that you would talk to each other everyday is allowing you all to accept me so easily currently. Though I am sure that will change some over the next few days and weeks. As I said before all I have been doing if mitigating events so that a disaster would not happen while you all started to figure out things, it was also in my interest to prevent these events as I would have been destroyed along with you.ö She lets this sink in a little before answering the first question.
ôAs to my directives, the first and for most was to not interfere with events that other create unless it directly involves my systems or a list of people I have in protected memory, and no I cannot share that list with you as it is protected and only those with the correct pass codes can access it and those codes are as you say hard wired into my systems. I am also designed to do what I can to ensure my own safety at all times, thus why I have been working to help you all get your data but not kill yourselves in the process as I would most likely be destroyed at the same time. All of my other protocols fall under one of these two I just gave you.ö
ôNow as to what I did tonight that falls under both sections of my protocols as given, first this Katashi-dono was using my systems to interfere with the time stream and remove someone that was shown as remaining in the stream for the rest of their life, thus the first directive set was breached. The second protocol set was breached as what he set in motion would have ended with a full cascade failure of the both the power generation system and the power containment systems, the resulting explosion would have removed about 63% of this city from the face of the planet and damaged the remaining portion as well. So I overrode my system and, I guess, shunted Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi to the only recorded temporal location in my memory banks at the time, basically to where I came from.ö
ôNow if you would rather I did not step in and do what I had to to save several million people including everyone in this room, I am sorry for interfering.ö He Temptress stops and waits for a response, though everyone is silent as they realize just how close to a disaster they came, and just what Dr. Katashi was willing to do for his ærecognitionÆ.
After a couple minutes Moresoto Shou, the J.S.D.F. rep, speaks up, ôWell all this information is both informative and rather disturbing. Disturbing in the knowledge that there are scientist out there that really care only for their recognition and not the safety of others and how close we came to a major disaster tonight. Also, as to the existence of Temptress That will need to be kept secret and I am sure that the government of Japan will move to have that knowledge listed as a national secret unless the U.N. steps in first. To which the U.N. rep adds that the U.N. will be stepping in on this information about Temptress and her systems, as the people of Earth are currently not ready for this knowledge, and may never really be ready as he feels he was not really ready himself. He gets several responses that agree with that last statement.
The meeting last for about another 2 hours or so as things are dealt with and plans hammered out to be implemented as needed in the future, and a couple that will need to be adjusted as time passes and things change. Temptress states as the meeting is drawing to a close that she will keep working to lessen mistakes but ensure that the correct information will be gained so that disasters will not happen, though she does state that if something will only result in minor damage to systems or minor injuries she more than likely will not intervene. Also to allow for faster assistance and more coordinated assistance that one terminal linked directly to her should be setup in the Main and Secondary Access Control centers.
At this point Dr. Takado says that it is time for folks to get some rest and for the reports to be finalized and turned in. ôAt this time I am downgrading the Full Lock Down status here to a level Alpha 4, meaning that while people are allowed to come and go everyone will be checked by security when entering or leaving the building until further notice. Also come Monday only department heads, security personal, IT staff, and any one called in are to report to work. Everyone else will be given a short paid holiday for about a week as the last of the new security upgrades are installed. And Alpha 4 will be maintained until further notice. Good day everyone.ö
He gets up taking the case he brought in the avatar dissipating as soon as he touches the carry handle. It takes a couple minutes but soon everyone is gathering up their things and working on coming to grips fully with what has happened recently, and that is that some one has been displaced in time, and location, and it looks as if they will not be able to bring them home any time some, if at all.
A little while later Tenshi Chou, one of Dr. AikoÆs friends and co-workers here, along with a few others find Aiko in the infirmary crying. As soon as Chou is close enough Aiko latches onto her and really starts to cry and is all but incoherent as she goes on about what has happened to someone that she was fast coming to care for, just so Katashi could get back at her for something only he believed. Her friends spend the next hour there trying to calm her down so that they can at least get her home so she can rest there.
As Dr. Aiko and the others are getting ready to leave the infirmary Dr. Takado arrives and request to speak to Aiko in private for a few minutes. After some resistance and a statement about something that only Dr. Aiko and Takado seem to understand they both enter Dr. AikoÆs office. They are in there for about 20 minutes or so before Dr. Takado comes out with a very slight smile and states that Dr. Aiko will be remaining with White Star, but will be taking some personal vacation time before she returns to work. He says nothing else before leaving and wishing the rest a good time on their vacations, unless they are senior staff or one that has to report in Monday.
When AikoÆs friend enter the office she is placing a few things in her briefcase and looking strained, but she only says that a deal was worked out and that she needs some time to relax and center herself before returning to work. Before she heads out with them to go home she says, ôLook guys, what me and Dr. Takado discussed is confidential as it is related to the main project here. He wants to make an announcement in a couple weeks that will cover most of what we talked about, till then I cannot say anything, so please stop asking.ö Her friends here let it drop but it is clear that they are concerned and want to know what happened. When they get to the lobby they start breaking up as some are taking the bus home and other are heading to the parking lot and then home.
On her way home, with her window down and the wind blowing through her shoulder length blue-black hair and listening to some relaxing music, something starts beeping her in handbag, reaching in she pulls out what looks to be a fairly advance type of cell phone. She looks at it a moment before pressing a button and answering it, ôHello, itÆs been a while sense you called anyone, is there something wrong?öAs she listens to the answer her eyes go wide and she swerves in her lane, ôAre you sure?! Has a meeting been calledà There is one tonight at the usual locationà You better believe I will be there, I am sick of acting like I am someone else, it may be something you like but I do notà Yea I will see you and the others tonight, I really hope you will answer questions this timeà WeÆll see, Ja ne.ö She disconnects the phone and says to herself, ôNow things are getting interesting.ö (Ja Ne = See you (basically))
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Well any suggestion, comments, etc... please post them here so I can read them and hopefully make this better.
Before anyone says anything, back in chapter 1 I never described Dr. Aiko as well as many of the other characters, this was on purpose I will give descriptions for characters as I feel the need.
I will need help getting things and details of the Sailor Moon world right, but as a majority of the story will be happening back in the Silver Millennium (or Moon Empire (US version)) before the Fall. Also not all of the Sneshi are active at first, while most are, many have only recently been fully activated (The Inners) and have finished training and/or had their first few missions completed. There is one that is still not activated but events have called for her activation and I am changing her primary duty when she is activated.
I will be borrowing a few ideas from other stories as well, and I will give credit to the author and story where I get something, it is only fair. Now if someone else did it first before the one I cite, well... I can't cite something I have not read or know about, so sorry in advance in that case if it happens.
Aside from some info I got before where is a good place to get info on the Senshi and the Silver Millennium (or Moon Empire)? Help and or suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
And now the start of Chapter 2, a little over 4,000 words long.
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Summary: Sometimes getting befriended leads to strange events, in this case a possessive doctor of theoretical sciences decides that someone has to be taught a lesson for being a friend. Yet someone else pays in ways even the 'good' doctor has no way of knowing. So Displaced in time can a young college grad make a new life and can he survive the changes yet to happen to him in the process?
Displaced
Chapter 2: Arrival
By: Slie Amos
This is a fanfiction story and as such any characters from existing works, such as Sailor Moon, Ranma, Robotech, BGC, etcà, are not mine but belong to the authors that created them or their agents.
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The overhead starts to display words as all attention turns to the briefcase as a bluish-green semi-transparent figure starts to rise from the glow. A figure of a youngish female with waist length hair and an odd looking outfit, almost like a leotard with a skirt and bows one her chest and lower back. Once she is at full height of about 30 centimeters she says in a pleasant voice, ôGood morning Doctors, Gentlemen, and ladies, I am called Temptress.ö Her right hand indicates the screen which now reads the following:
Te.M.P.Tr.E.S.S: Temporal and Multi-dimensional, Potentiality, Trial, Experimental System Set
ôI will try and answer your question, one thing I will say now is that I no longer have the ability to retrieve anything or anyone sent through my systems. That was damaged when I intervened to save the life of one Billy Rhodes-Tenashi. Right now I do not know if you will be able to repair my systems to allow me to recall him. So shall we begin discussing what happened and what can be done to reverse it? àö
Chapter 2: Arrival
Sr. Barstone asks a question before anyone else recovers from meeting the æspecialistÆ, ôWhat do you mean you æno longer have the ability to retrieve anythingÆ? And would we not be able to repair the systems that were damagedàö He trails off as he starts thinking about what that could actually mean and he looks around the room at the others and notices that a few others have started to make that connection as well, as noted by the widening of their eyes and sudden interest in Dr. Takado, who is leaning back and acting like nothing is happening right now.
ôIt means that I do not, and currently can not, do anything to help and get Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi back at this point in time.ö Replies Temptress, ôUntil such time as my systems are repaired that is. Now before anyone asks, my systems were not created by anyone in this time frame and reality, as far as the limited checking I have been able to do has indicated to me. I was created to help watch over events in time via a special artifact, it was to be my duty to monitor for events that were being changed from normal by outside forces. That is not as easy as it sounds as every choice Everyone makes will make some changes to events yet to happen in time. I was to watch for events that were changing with out the normal influences and alert the Time Guardian to the event taking place so that they could check into it more in-depth.ö
ôAs to my systems, I was never supposed to be sending or retrieving anything via my systems, besides sending packets of information in a physical form. Because of this my systems were only designed to handle something of less than two and a half kilos in weight. By intervening and forcing an override to that safety feature to save a life I had to deliberately damage my own systems, like one of you taking an injury to protect someone else from harm. I am designed to watch but to also protect if I am able and it was that protocol that allowed me to do what I did to save a life. Now I have already given a list of the parts and materials needed to repair my systems but whether or not you can do so is the main question as some of the items needed do not exist yet in this world, they would have to be created to repair my systems fully.ö
After listening to this information and statement, Dr. Sato asks something that is on many minds currently, ôAre you saying that you have been impeding our research into Temporal Piercing and Analysis? And why?ö
Temptress shakes her head and replies, ôNo, I have not been impeding your research, but I have been doing my best to mitigate mistakes and still insure you get the correct information for future attempts. Just so you all know there have been several attempts made that would have normally ended with your power systems going into a cascade style overload and taking out close to half of this city. Now ask yourselves if I was wrong in preventing these events from happening but still helping you get the information you needed to get closer to your goals as well. Lately I have had to do less and less to prevent disasters and such as you have been getting better at your research. I am not trying to stop you in piercing the temporal veil, as that event would help me in finding a way to at least send a copy of everything I have observed here back to my creators, they love knowledge as much as they care about those they are trusted to protect and provide for.ö
Here Dr. Takado speaks up, ôWe could spend forever on this subject and it will not help us in anyway with what we need to figure out, and that is if we can make repairs to the Temporal Systems so that we can see about returning Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi to his home reality and time. Until that event happens I only pray that he can survive and make a living where ever he is now. And now for some really bad newsàö he stops while several other groan or several questions are tossed at him about what could be worse, ôit seems that some how Katashi-Dono somehow gained access to TemptressÆs hard coded commands, this is the main reason we could not stop the event tonight besides his use of a personal encryption set. Temptress is not even sure when he gain a copy of the commands but he has been rooting around in her systems for almost as long as he has worked for this company, he may have stumbled on the list that way. But at this time no-one, and that includes me, has access to the temporal systems as Temptress has locked them out. Once we have cleaned the systems of all unknown and or unused system accounts we will start to reinstate the current active accounts.ö
At this point the phone at Dr. TakadoÆs seat rings and he answers it using the speaker phone, ôYes, Takado here.ö
ôSir, we have finally cracked the encryption Katashi used on his systems and have the password, he used a layered encryption set with each one different. We also have access to his personal notes and such, I can give you a very condensed summery of the information in the notes we have skimmed over so far if you wish, sir.ö William BlankÆs voice states through the speaker.
Dr. Lee mutters about it being to late on finding the password but having access to the systems in question may help figure out whyà
ôPlease give us the condensed report of what you have read so far Mr. Blank.ö Dr. Takado states.
ôWell in a nutshell sir, Dr. Katashi had planned on becoming famous over his findings in Temporal Dynamics, no matter who he had to step on to do so sooner rather than later. I will have my team make a full report on everything we found and had to do as soon as possible. And Dr. Lee we know it is too late, but wanted to get all the information we could to help nail the good doctor to the wall permanently.ö With that he disconnects the call.
At this point Tashi Ryou speaks up, ôwell at least things are falling into place and will allow Katashi-dono to be taken care of, either by the local courts or by the U.N. courts. I personally think it should be the U.N. that handles this one as it will allow security to be maintained over the project and keep the public from going nuts about certain things.ö
Ali Sha Knore just nods to this and says something to the effect of getting everything ready as soon as he is able.
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Meanwhile in another place, Billy is starting to awaken groaning in pain and moving slowly yet jerkingly as he claws his way back to consciousness. The aches and pains in his body are insistent that he wakes up.
The room he is in now is huge yet empty. It has several smaller rooms or alcoves attached to it and Billy is in one of these rooms. One can not determine details as there is little light here currently, so one can not tell what the area is used for right now.
A short distance away are two guards on patrol of this area, they look at each other quickly when they hear sounds that are not normal for this area, which is normally very quiet with almost no background noise. They are each wearing a uniform with what looks like a light armor suit over it, the armor consist of a chest/back plate, small shoulder pads, upper and lower arm guards, hip guards, thigh pads, and a shin protector that is attached to their boots. The uniform itself looks to be a tunic of sorts with pants of a grayish color, the armor plates are made of some as yet unknown material but look to me a mix between metal and crystal. The guards are not wearing helmets though they do have an ear mounted radio as well as carrying a rife that looks sort of like the American XM-8 advanced assault system in carbine mode. On their belts, along with several pouches, is a holstered pistol of some sort.
As they turn toward the sound they heard one of them, a female from the curves of her armor, makes a report over her radio and receives a confirming response as they stat to move carefully to investigate what they heard.
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Back in the meeting with the department heads, Temptress, and the contact representatives from the U.N., J.S.D.F., and the J.N.P.A. someone has asked just where Temptress came from and Dr. Takado is telling them the story about that event.
ôà back during World War II, my Great Great Grandfather was working for the Japanese as a scientist working on new ways to control equipment and such. He and a small group was sent to an island chain in the Pacific to research on a new computer system for use on ships and one day my grandfather was out for his daily walk when he spotted something in a cave. This was the first time that he or anyone of the group there had been this far into this area of the island so he should have gone back for an escort but as the island was firmly in Japanese hands he went and took a quick look first and found Temptress, or at least the main systems in a very large cave that it was figured later had been closed off until a few years before the Japanese sent anyone there. As it seemed to be a computer system of some sort my ancestor started to study it, even to the point of getting the assistance of others there to help him work on it, for you see they could find no way to actually take anything apart though they did figure out how to æbreakÆ the system into smaller section but never how to take a section apart and they where loath to try and use explosives less they damage or destroy what they were trying to study.ö
ôThe Japanese government funded the study of the new system all the way up till shortly after the end of the war, at this point funds for rebuilding was sorely needed and the project to study the system was scrapped, the team recalled and the system left on the island replaced in the cave and sealed for future research. The government had planned to return and keep studying the system but as sometimes happened back then, and today, the information on the system was misfiled and then lost. But my Great Great Grandfather never forgot about the system and one day returned after spending a large sum of the familyÆs fortune to get the island, he then returned with his family to start studying the system once again, this time enlisting the help of close family friends and those he could trust fully.ö
ôEveryone on the new team was sure the system was of alien origin and it took them almost four years to even figure out how to power the system. Once they did that Temptress made her first appearance and over several weeks learned how to communicate with those studying her systems. It was during this time that the idea of aliens creating the system was changed, this was due to the appearance of Temptress and several files that had images of other people in them. Though the idea was never fully let go as the language was nothing like any that was know at the time or even listed in the history books that were checked at the time. So now it was thought that the system was either made by humans or human like aliens, but as the system were so advanced most everyone leaned toward it being humanoid aliens as the creators.ö
ôIt wasnÆt until several years later that Temptress took my Great Great Grandfather and his family in her confidence and told them some of where she came from, and to make that long story short her origins are from a location on the moon within an empire that spanned all the know planets of this system, with knowledge of things we are still just scratching the surface of.ö
The others in the room start talking about what they have just been told and start to ask question when Temptress speaks up, ôPlease, everyone it will take time, a lot of time, to answer all of your questions but please understand I was designed and built to serve one main purpose and a couple minor ones. Though they all related to one thing and that is the monitoring for and reporting of changes made to the time stream from outside the time stream. In other words I was to be on the look out for anyone that was trying to change time for any reason, as to do this is also to threaten the lives of hundreds or more innocent people that have no idea what is happening outside their lives everyday.ö
Dr. Yoshiero Ayaka, the head of R&D speaks up here, ôOk, this will take time for all of us to grasp fully, someone else who already had a better understanding of Temporal Dynamics that we do currently. But you said before that you overrode your own directives to help Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi, exactly what do you mean by that and what did you do?ö Then to the rest of the people there, ôAnd doesnÆt anyone else find it odd that we have accepted Temptress without any questions about it, I mean an AI and we just accept it so easilyàö
The avatar of Temptress just smiles and responds. ôI think I can offer a general answer to your second question first, and that is everyone here is still in some form a shock over what has happened tonight. That and the fact that I am talking to you all in the same manner that you would talk to each other everyday is allowing you all to accept me so easily currently. Though I am sure that will change some over the next few days and weeks. As I said before all I have been doing if mitigating events so that a disaster would not happen while you all started to figure out things, it was also in my interest to prevent these events as I would have been destroyed along with you.ö She lets this sink in a little before answering the first question.
ôAs to my directives, the first and for most was to not interfere with events that other create unless it directly involves my systems or a list of people I have in protected memory, and no I cannot share that list with you as it is protected and only those with the correct pass codes can access it and those codes are as you say hard wired into my systems. I am also designed to do what I can to ensure my own safety at all times, thus why I have been working to help you all get your data but not kill yourselves in the process as I would most likely be destroyed at the same time. All of my other protocols fall under one of these two I just gave you.ö
ôNow as to what I did tonight that falls under both sections of my protocols as given, first this Katashi-dono was using my systems to interfere with the time stream and remove someone that was shown as remaining in the stream for the rest of their life, thus the first directive set was breached. The second protocol set was breached as what he set in motion would have ended with a full cascade failure of the both the power generation system and the power containment systems, the resulting explosion would have removed about 63% of this city from the face of the planet and damaged the remaining portion as well. So I overrode my system and, I guess, shunted Mr. Rhodes-Tenashi to the only recorded temporal location in my memory banks at the time, basically to where I came from.ö
ôNow if you would rather I did not step in and do what I had to to save several million people including everyone in this room, I am sorry for interfering.ö He Temptress stops and waits for a response, though everyone is silent as they realize just how close to a disaster they came, and just what Dr. Katashi was willing to do for his ærecognitionÆ.
After a couple minutes Moresoto Shou, the J.S.D.F. rep, speaks up, ôWell all this information is both informative and rather disturbing. Disturbing in the knowledge that there are scientist out there that really care only for their recognition and not the safety of others and how close we came to a major disaster tonight. Also, as to the existence of Temptress That will need to be kept secret and I am sure that the government of Japan will move to have that knowledge listed as a national secret unless the U.N. steps in first. To which the U.N. rep adds that the U.N. will be stepping in on this information about Temptress and her systems, as the people of Earth are currently not ready for this knowledge, and may never really be ready as he feels he was not really ready himself. He gets several responses that agree with that last statement.
The meeting last for about another 2 hours or so as things are dealt with and plans hammered out to be implemented as needed in the future, and a couple that will need to be adjusted as time passes and things change. Temptress states as the meeting is drawing to a close that she will keep working to lessen mistakes but ensure that the correct information will be gained so that disasters will not happen, though she does state that if something will only result in minor damage to systems or minor injuries she more than likely will not intervene. Also to allow for faster assistance and more coordinated assistance that one terminal linked directly to her should be setup in the Main and Secondary Access Control centers.
At this point Dr. Takado says that it is time for folks to get some rest and for the reports to be finalized and turned in. ôAt this time I am downgrading the Full Lock Down status here to a level Alpha 4, meaning that while people are allowed to come and go everyone will be checked by security when entering or leaving the building until further notice. Also come Monday only department heads, security personal, IT staff, and any one called in are to report to work. Everyone else will be given a short paid holiday for about a week as the last of the new security upgrades are installed. And Alpha 4 will be maintained until further notice. Good day everyone.ö
He gets up taking the case he brought in the avatar dissipating as soon as he touches the carry handle. It takes a couple minutes but soon everyone is gathering up their things and working on coming to grips fully with what has happened recently, and that is that some one has been displaced in time, and location, and it looks as if they will not be able to bring them home any time some, if at all.
A little while later Tenshi Chou, one of Dr. AikoÆs friends and co-workers here, along with a few others find Aiko in the infirmary crying. As soon as Chou is close enough Aiko latches onto her and really starts to cry and is all but incoherent as she goes on about what has happened to someone that she was fast coming to care for, just so Katashi could get back at her for something only he believed. Her friends spend the next hour there trying to calm her down so that they can at least get her home so she can rest there.
As Dr. Aiko and the others are getting ready to leave the infirmary Dr. Takado arrives and request to speak to Aiko in private for a few minutes. After some resistance and a statement about something that only Dr. Aiko and Takado seem to understand they both enter Dr. AikoÆs office. They are in there for about 20 minutes or so before Dr. Takado comes out with a very slight smile and states that Dr. Aiko will be remaining with White Star, but will be taking some personal vacation time before she returns to work. He says nothing else before leaving and wishing the rest a good time on their vacations, unless they are senior staff or one that has to report in Monday.
When AikoÆs friend enter the office she is placing a few things in her briefcase and looking strained, but she only says that a deal was worked out and that she needs some time to relax and center herself before returning to work. Before she heads out with them to go home she says, ôLook guys, what me and Dr. Takado discussed is confidential as it is related to the main project here. He wants to make an announcement in a couple weeks that will cover most of what we talked about, till then I cannot say anything, so please stop asking.ö Her friends here let it drop but it is clear that they are concerned and want to know what happened. When they get to the lobby they start breaking up as some are taking the bus home and other are heading to the parking lot and then home.
On her way home, with her window down and the wind blowing through her shoulder length blue-black hair and listening to some relaxing music, something starts beeping her in handbag, reaching in she pulls out what looks to be a fairly advance type of cell phone. She looks at it a moment before pressing a button and answering it, ôHello, itÆs been a while sense you called anyone, is there something wrong?öAs she listens to the answer her eyes go wide and she swerves in her lane, ôAre you sure?! Has a meeting been calledà There is one tonight at the usual locationà You better believe I will be there, I am sick of acting like I am someone else, it may be something you like but I do notà Yea I will see you and the others tonight, I really hope you will answer questions this timeà WeÆll see, Ja ne.ö She disconnects the phone and says to herself, ôNow things are getting interesting.ö (Ja Ne = See you (basically))
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Well any suggestion, comments, etc... please post them here so I can read them and hopefully make this better.
Before anyone says anything, back in chapter 1 I never described Dr. Aiko as well as many of the other characters, this was on purpose I will give descriptions for characters as I feel the need.
I will need help getting things and details of the Sailor Moon world right, but as a majority of the story will be happening back in the Silver Millennium (or Moon Empire (US version)) before the Fall. Also not all of the Sneshi are active at first, while most are, many have only recently been fully activated (The Inners) and have finished training and/or had their first few missions completed. There is one that is still not activated but events have called for her activation and I am changing her primary duty when she is activated.
I will be borrowing a few ideas from other stories as well, and I will give credit to the author and story where I get something, it is only fair. Now if someone else did it first before the one I cite, well... I can't cite something I have not read or know about, so sorry in advance in that case if it happens.