In which Luna found Nanoha first. Because bissek can't write a Sailor Moon crossover to save his life.
Take a look, for a moment, at the ultimate enemy of Sailor Moon: Chaos, a force of death and entropy that comes from outside the universe and is bent on the destruction of everything. Certain other authors may not be willing to think about anything except how to make the Nanoha characters look better at the expense of the Senshi but a moment's thought will tell anyone else that this has very different implications for the setting when a crossover creates a multitude of universes besides the one that Earth happens to be in.
Chaos at one point was a being that ravaged the rest of the multiverse and was fought by Al Hazard. There was a reason they needed all those WMDs they keep lying around and it was because they were fighting a creature that eats universes like Twinkies. They were losing anyways. As the war against Chaos and its innumerable spawn drew to an end, the leaders of Al Hazard placed their hopes in two projects: one was to design the ultimate artificial mages, the Senshi, to do battle with Chaos in the hopes of eliminating it forever. The other was an artificial universe, hand-crafted by the highest of all forms of Al Hazardian science to contain Chaos along with a neutralizing creative force, Cosmos.
Neither of these two projects were ultimately judged to be sufficient to battle Chaos alone. The Senshi would require too long to train and refine their powers to battle Chaos directly and Cosmos would not be able to defend itself against Chaos's children without defenders. The choice was made to combine these two systems, with the Senshi acting as an immune system for Cosmos and guardians against Chaos's spawn. The plan worked and Chaos was contained, but the act of activating Cosmos within close proximity to Al Hazard's home universe annihilated it, erasing the last traces of the god-kings of the multiverse.
An eon or two later, the Takamachi parents decide to settle down in Tokyo instead of Uminari City, as do the parents of Suzuka and Arisa. The three girls attend different schools but meet up together at their shared cram school along with one Mizuno Ami and become friends under similar circumstances as in canon. At age nine, a certain ferret does not fall from the sky chasing Jewel Seeds and Nanoha, still looking for a purpose in life, turns to her older siblings for answers. Kyouya's desire to use his sword to protect people resonates strongly with Nanoha and she decides to take up the family style like her siblings.
When Nanoha is 14 she happens across a certain black cat who turns her into a magical girl and asks her to help defeat the Dark Kingdom. After seeing that they're willing to hurt people to obtain their goals and don't appear to be even vaguely sorry about it, Nanoha signs on with gusto and lots of youma dusting/tiara throwing/sword swinging ensues. Even more of it happens when the cram school attack happens and not only Ami but also Suzuka and Arisa awaken as Sailors Uranus and Neptune. That particular youma has an extraordinarily bad day.
At some point in the middle of the Dark Kingdom storyline, the Jewel Seeds make their belated arrival on Earth followed by Yuuno and Fate. The Dark Kingdom gets their hands on a handful of seeds almost immediately and starts hunting for the rest in order to power up Metallia. The first one they get their hands on is detonated in the Dark Kingdom and cracks open the prison that keeps them from pouring too much power into Earth's dimension. Almost immediately the Generals become able to wield the full extent of their power, jumping up to their manga power levels from their prior anime levels. During a heated battle with a newly-empowered Jadeite, Yuuno throws Raising Heart to Nanoha and the tables are turned again.
Thus does the Dark Kingdom arc turn into a three-way war for the Jewel Seeds, a war which Fate is losing every step of the way. With the Senshi on one side and the Dark Kingdom on the other and the majority of the seeds captured between them, Fate feels Precia's displeasure with increasing frequency. As Nephrite scours the Earth for the Silver Crystal however his scrying magic reveals that Fate has some role to play in uncovering it, and Zoicite moves to make her an offer; power enough to take the Jewel Seeds from the Senshi as mother wishes, if only she'll help them with this one little thing...
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There are three goals to this fic (or at least this fic idea): to balance the Senshi against the Nanoha characters, as well as the contributions that each series makes to the main characters, to the conflict, and to the story. To tell a more engaging story that involves more than the TSAB coming in to solve someone else's problems (Chaos makes this very much the TSAB's problem). And lastly to reverse the treatment Nanoha gets so often in fanfic, which is to emphasize the sci-fi parts of her series over her magical girl roots.
I offer up this idea in the interest of sparking discussion, not only of this idea but also of Sailor Moon/Nanoha crossovers in general and how we can do a better job than White Devil of the Moon ever did.
Take a look, for a moment, at the ultimate enemy of Sailor Moon: Chaos, a force of death and entropy that comes from outside the universe and is bent on the destruction of everything. Certain other authors may not be willing to think about anything except how to make the Nanoha characters look better at the expense of the Senshi but a moment's thought will tell anyone else that this has very different implications for the setting when a crossover creates a multitude of universes besides the one that Earth happens to be in.
Chaos at one point was a being that ravaged the rest of the multiverse and was fought by Al Hazard. There was a reason they needed all those WMDs they keep lying around and it was because they were fighting a creature that eats universes like Twinkies. They were losing anyways. As the war against Chaos and its innumerable spawn drew to an end, the leaders of Al Hazard placed their hopes in two projects: one was to design the ultimate artificial mages, the Senshi, to do battle with Chaos in the hopes of eliminating it forever. The other was an artificial universe, hand-crafted by the highest of all forms of Al Hazardian science to contain Chaos along with a neutralizing creative force, Cosmos.
Neither of these two projects were ultimately judged to be sufficient to battle Chaos alone. The Senshi would require too long to train and refine their powers to battle Chaos directly and Cosmos would not be able to defend itself against Chaos's children without defenders. The choice was made to combine these two systems, with the Senshi acting as an immune system for Cosmos and guardians against Chaos's spawn. The plan worked and Chaos was contained, but the act of activating Cosmos within close proximity to Al Hazard's home universe annihilated it, erasing the last traces of the god-kings of the multiverse.
An eon or two later, the Takamachi parents decide to settle down in Tokyo instead of Uminari City, as do the parents of Suzuka and Arisa. The three girls attend different schools but meet up together at their shared cram school along with one Mizuno Ami and become friends under similar circumstances as in canon. At age nine, a certain ferret does not fall from the sky chasing Jewel Seeds and Nanoha, still looking for a purpose in life, turns to her older siblings for answers. Kyouya's desire to use his sword to protect people resonates strongly with Nanoha and she decides to take up the family style like her siblings.
When Nanoha is 14 she happens across a certain black cat who turns her into a magical girl and asks her to help defeat the Dark Kingdom. After seeing that they're willing to hurt people to obtain their goals and don't appear to be even vaguely sorry about it, Nanoha signs on with gusto and lots of youma dusting/tiara throwing/sword swinging ensues. Even more of it happens when the cram school attack happens and not only Ami but also Suzuka and Arisa awaken as Sailors Uranus and Neptune. That particular youma has an extraordinarily bad day.
At some point in the middle of the Dark Kingdom storyline, the Jewel Seeds make their belated arrival on Earth followed by Yuuno and Fate. The Dark Kingdom gets their hands on a handful of seeds almost immediately and starts hunting for the rest in order to power up Metallia. The first one they get their hands on is detonated in the Dark Kingdom and cracks open the prison that keeps them from pouring too much power into Earth's dimension. Almost immediately the Generals become able to wield the full extent of their power, jumping up to their manga power levels from their prior anime levels. During a heated battle with a newly-empowered Jadeite, Yuuno throws Raising Heart to Nanoha and the tables are turned again.
Thus does the Dark Kingdom arc turn into a three-way war for the Jewel Seeds, a war which Fate is losing every step of the way. With the Senshi on one side and the Dark Kingdom on the other and the majority of the seeds captured between them, Fate feels Precia's displeasure with increasing frequency. As Nephrite scours the Earth for the Silver Crystal however his scrying magic reveals that Fate has some role to play in uncovering it, and Zoicite moves to make her an offer; power enough to take the Jewel Seeds from the Senshi as mother wishes, if only she'll help them with this one little thing...
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There are three goals to this fic (or at least this fic idea): to balance the Senshi against the Nanoha characters, as well as the contributions that each series makes to the main characters, to the conflict, and to the story. To tell a more engaging story that involves more than the TSAB coming in to solve someone else's problems (Chaos makes this very much the TSAB's problem). And lastly to reverse the treatment Nanoha gets so often in fanfic, which is to emphasize the sci-fi parts of her series over her magical girl roots.
I offer up this idea in the interest of sparking discussion, not only of this idea but also of Sailor Moon/Nanoha crossovers in general and how we can do a better job than White Devil of the Moon ever did.