Sailor Moon Sailor Loops
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Figured since this topic hasn’t had a post in a year and a half that I may as well inject some new life into it. And since there really wasn’t any defining boundaries for a much of the Sailor Moon loops background, I saw fit to put in some of my own ideas. Rereading, it feels rushed in some parts, though, but this DID clock in at near 3,000 words.
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It wasn't often that he was "Awake", a term he had learned through eavesdropping on his sister. Throughout the many Loops that they had been awake in, she and her friends still had not clued in to the ingenious set-up he had devised in his closet, boring a small hole in the drywall and setting up a pair of tin cans in the small space between their bedrooms, before covering over the damaged drywall. It wasn't something many would expect an elementary-school boy to come up with, but then again, he had been through the grades so many times that it was a chore.
When he first came to in his very first second time around, he had been confused. What was going on? Just the day before, he had been an advisor and confidante to his sister, once upon a time a bratty girl named Tsukino Usagi, then Neo Queen Serenity, ruler of the planet along with King Endymion. The Earth was about to usher in a new era of humanity, as they were set to recolonise the Moon, with the ancient Moon Kingdom's life support systems being brought up online, and the first ship bearing robots to terraform Ceres was being sent out.
He hesitated to ask his sister at first if she knew anything about it, thinking it a possible time travel technique, perhaps orchestrated by the mysterious Sailor Pluto, then clamped shut when the opportunity arose. He had been faintly aware in his youth of many mysterious incidents occurring in inner Tokyo, something he would later learn was a result of the shadowy youma infiltrating businesses and residences, attempting to drain energy from humans for the plots of their lieges. Their attempts had been meticulously planned, however, as the Senshi drew more attention themselves when they appeared than the fatigue in the surrounding population that youma operations had hitherto caused.
The blonde boy also knew off-hand the relative dates that each of the other Senshi had in turn 'awoken', as well as the major villains they had fought, events he had learned in a few heart-to-heart talks with his older sibling during the rare downtimes in governing that they shared. So when he walked past Aino Minako on the street a full three months before she was due to arrive on the scene, and saw Mizuno Ami and Hino Rei conversing on the bus only a few days after he 'reset', and heard mention from Usagi of a new, tall girl well-versed in martial arts transferring to school over a month and a half before she had originally transferred, Shingo knew. Whatever had happened to him to bring him back in time had also happened to his sister, and the Inner Senshi.
It was selfish of him, Shingo had thought at the time, not to tell his sister that he also was from a future that no longer was. He didn't think it would make a wit of difference, except perhaps for somebody she could talk to late at night that also knew of the trials she went through, and there was a sort of perverse pleasure in being a third-party observer that knew everything that was going on.
That thought had been quickly blown away when he saw how his sister had gone on to steamroll over all the competition she had faced a lifetime ago. He remembered the lights all going out in Tokyo once, of how eternal darkness had begun to cloak the Earth later, only to be repelled, of how a pink-haired girl also named Usagi came to live with their family briefly, only to disappear, of how the area around Mugen Academy had been laid to waste, and of how Usagi's friends all slowly began to vanish, one by one, seemingly kidnapped, and how Usagi had herself become more and more razzled and stressed. He had genuinely worried for her then, she looked as if her hair was beginning to turn white.
None of that happened. The news didn't report anything about it, and the Senshi never appeared. Instead, the tin cans he had put in the wall to eavesdrop on his sister to find out if she, too had travelled back in time allowed him to listen in on the conversations she held with her friends, the fellow Senshi, over their communication devices. Of how Metaria was a 'joke' as always, boasting of how she beat Nehellenia with both hands tied behind her back, and remarking on how Hotaru, a name he vaguely recognized as the civilian name of Sailor Saturn, the only soldier more rarer than Sailor Pluto in Crystal Tokyo, was able to exorcise Mistress 9 by thought alone at the start of each 'Loop' now. Her father had been apparently possessed in the original timeline, willingly if he was to guess, but lots of experience had allowed Hotaru to enjoy the presence of a more sane version of Professor Tomoe, and even having her once-dead mother around once more.
His second life ended nearly the same as his first life had: he had grown up to become an advisor to his sister as she sat on the throne in Crystal Tokyo, as the Earth was about to launch forth permanent human residences to the Moon.
It took him a few more lives to gather the information he found most important. From what he managed to deduce from the little trinkets of dialogue his sister spouted over her communicator, for every loop he experienced, she experienced at least tenfold, if not more. It was humbling, and was something he had to expect. What was now only a few years age difference had become perhaps a thousand years age difference in the amount of lifetimes lived, and hers were far more hectic and battle-filled than his were (or at least they had been, until sheer experience allowed her to blow away all comers).
By the time of his fifth life, he observed the actions of everybody around him that he was fairly positive wasn't a Looper. His mother and father would deviate very slightly at the start of each Loop from their actions in his original lifetime, but within a couple of years, large shifts in their mannerisms and actions could be detected. The two didn't do the same action at each instant in time over and over again, because his sister always did things differently. Like the ripple of a puddle of water when a rock is thrown in it, her changing actions caused a changing reaction.
So he made a game of it. His sister must surely have observed the phenomenon by now. Usagi was incredibly perceptive of other people, but it was her empathy for emotions, not for motivations, that made her so great a figure. When it came to analysing people's actions, Shingo wasn't sure if she had evolved so much since her first life. So how much could he change the way he went about his life while his sister assumed it was all a natural consequence of her and the Senshi's new actions?
He took kendo up in that life. It was an arduous task, as he had not one but four lives of experience to become set in his ways, and even something as seemingly simple as swinging a stick required him to break away from the accustomed manner he had always carried himself. He stuck to it long enough to become a 7-dan, financially supporting himself through the early career position of a professional engineer he had taken in the previous four lifetimes. He never became a wise and respected adviser to the Throne in that life, however. The next two lives he changed back to what he had now called his ‘normal’ lives, careful imitations of the first forty-odd years he had once lived, believing his sister would become suspicious if he were to have two lives in a row that deviated significantly from what she was used to.
Kendo was also useful in that it disrupted the tedium that he had developed into. Unlike his sister and her warrior servants, Shingo was normal. The only claim to fame he had was that he was the younger brother of the girl who would become Neo Queen Serenity. Much of each new life was dedicated not to trying to become more and more powerful, but to learning the history and geography of the world. He enjoyed learning about and visiting new cultures every loop.
Thankfully, there was one constant that kept him from becoming incredibly bored. Throughout each life, he had had only a single wife, his childhood classmate, Mika Kayama. Call it sappy of him, maybe, after he had seen some of his sister’s friends cycle through many, many, many different boyfriends in only a few lives, but he wasn’t sure he could ever love another person as much as he had her, even if every loop tore away decades of memories and he was left with a fragment of the character and personality that she would grow up to be. And yet...every time he looped, as he watched Mika grow up again and again and again, he was always inspired by how a meek little girl who liked her dolls would grow up into a powerful woman, always able to handle being wed to an advisor to Neo Queen Serenity and the stresses it brought about.
But Mika existed at the start of every loop, and could be rebuilt, though with different facets of her base will expressing themselves over the years every lifetime around. The same could not be said for the children he had once fathered, five of them, the age range of fertility being greatly expanded with Usagi’s ascension and the life-extending gift she brought. Shingo had been devastated when he had his first and only child in his second life around: although he had once again had a daughter to start, Sakura of his second loop was not the same Sakura of his first life. His precious five sons and daughters were gone, vanquished forever because of those accursed Loops, and so would be Sakura.
He nursed a grudge against his sister for a long time after that. Unlike his own sons and daughters, Usagi’s sole child, Chibi-Usa, was always the same person somehow. Was the pink-haired girl herself a Looper, perhaps? Shingo didn’t know, though he knew it to be a possibility. Usagi undoubtedly had dealt with the loss of relationships with people who had regressed thirty years in age and memory overnight, but at least her one and only daughter was ‘destined’ to be born. It still hurt, to be honest. The profound loss he felt at the ‘death’ of his six children, unable even to bury them as they were lost not to death but to time, was something that would never vanish, but that same force of time had managed to make the hurt fade, and with it, the jealousy of his sister. But needless to say, he never had another child. It was always easy to swat the issue of children away when Mika brought it up – they had hundreds of possible years now to have children, not just a little over a dozen anymore.
In his seventh lifetime, he once more served the Throne, but in a different function: he had taken up poetry in his childhood days, and would become the poet laureate of Crystal Tokyo. It helped him to get over the pains he had carried with himself for eons. If Usagi saw the hidden meanings behind his words, she never mentioned it.
By the time lifetime number nine came around, Shingo decided he had had enough of his mixture of peaceful childhood and high-octane advisory, and looked to do something else: he attempted to learn magic.
Magic was a hard thing to grapple to the ground and grip onto. He was not some planetary guardian, nor did he have the crystallised form of his very soul, or descent from a noble magic family of old. Even worse, he was male, something Neo Queen Serenity had made clear to him when he expressed his desire to her shortly after once more becoming an adviser: men tended to have a far harder time wielding magic than women, a fact grounded by his being able to count on one hand the number of male magic users he knew in Crystal Tokyo.
Out of the routine two decades he would have as one of his sister's close confidante, it took Shingo the first decade just to be able to seize the incorporeal substance that was magic permeating his surroundings. It took nearly the rest of his remaining decade to even be able to harness magic to cast anything, and his last year before the loop reset was spent on trying to cast a spell approaching anything useful.
When the loop finally reset, Shingo was depressed again. He had run the gamut of his Crystal Tokyo career trying to learn magic, and while he had made concrete with the beginnings of learning it, he had barely gotten anywhere substantial afterwards. The blonde boy still insisted on playing the game he had started on seeing how long he could hide his Looping from his sister before giving up the game. To continue it, he would have to wait again until Crystal Tokyo, pretend to start learning magic all over again, do it slightly faster than he had done previously, and then get five to ten useful years of learning done. He would have liked to practice what he had learned before at the beginning of this new loop, but he had no idea if his sister, or Luna the Mau, or any of the other Senshi could somehow sense somebody else using magic. He would not take the risk.
Or at least, that's what he told himself he would do, until his sister mentioned Loop pranks on her communicator device while he was eavesdropping. His sister...was playing pranks during the Loops by using foreknowledge of past lives?
It made a perverse sense to Shingo. Usagi was looping more than he did. Surely she must have gotten bored during the countless years, much like he had by the time of his third life, and turned to short-term jokes to keep on trekking.
Well, he wasn't going to let her get the best of him. In his original lifetime, Shingo had played a lot of mild-mannered pranks on his sister. It was only fitting that he be the first to fire off a prank in an extraplanar time prank war before she hit him back hard with experience manyfold his. He hit paydirt a few loops later, when the point at which he Awoke was a good couple of days earlier than his sister.
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Usagi repressed a yawn as she moved her way towards the Osa-P. Damnit Naru, why couldn't you be Awake so I don't have to keep coming to rescue your ass at the start of every Loop?, she thought to herself.
Beside her ran the black Mau known as Luna, a sidekick who was also only Awake part of the time. Unfortunately and fortunately for Usagi, Luna wasn't Awake this Loop. Unfortunate because she wouldn't have somebody to gab with for a few days until the other Awake Senshi met with her (or for a few decades if nobody else was Awake but for her), and fortunately because that meant she could prank Luna with all her foreknowledge and background knowledge that the cat-like 'advisor' had lost in her cryostasis following the loss of the Moon Kingdom.
Idly, Usagi mused, hoping that Mamoru Chiba would be replaced by somebody else from another reality as Tuxedo Mask in this Loop (having Awoken just before Luna had showed up through her open window, she had no idea if Mamoru was around). She still loved Mamoru, marrying him and giving him a daughter in those Loops which weren't cut short that lead to Crystal Tokyo, but it was always amusing to see an alternate Tuxedo Mask, such as the single-minded Sousuke Sagara and the flighty Hikaru Agata as the Phantom Renegade.
She was still recovering from Kenpachi Zaraki, however.
With a couple of long leaps, startling the black kitty following behind her, she finally landed on the street front, standing in front of the Osa-P's front door. Kicking the door open, she started her spiel, "Halt, youma! How dare you-"
And then stopped, as the moonlight shone in through the open door. Dust littered the floor along with the unconscious bodies of many of the patrons that had been hypnotised by the fake jewelry the youma had earlier sold. That there was a great pile of dust centered in the middle of the building indicated the youma had already been defeated, but that wasn't the most surprising part.
It was the short, blonde nine-year old who was standing there, the moonlight revealing his features, leaning against a rudimentary focus staff that he held in one hand. As blue eyes met blue eyes, Shingo cracked a grin. "Yo, Usagi-nee-chan."
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It wasn't often that he was "Awake", a term he had learned through eavesdropping on his sister. Throughout the many Loops that they had been awake in, she and her friends still had not clued in to the ingenious set-up he had devised in his closet, boring a small hole in the drywall and setting up a pair of tin cans in the small space between their bedrooms, before covering over the damaged drywall. It wasn't something many would expect an elementary-school boy to come up with, but then again, he had been through the grades so many times that it was a chore.
When he first came to in his very first second time around, he had been confused. What was going on? Just the day before, he had been an advisor and confidante to his sister, once upon a time a bratty girl named Tsukino Usagi, then Neo Queen Serenity, ruler of the planet along with King Endymion. The Earth was about to usher in a new era of humanity, as they were set to recolonise the Moon, with the ancient Moon Kingdom's life support systems being brought up online, and the first ship bearing robots to terraform Ceres was being sent out.
He hesitated to ask his sister at first if she knew anything about it, thinking it a possible time travel technique, perhaps orchestrated by the mysterious Sailor Pluto, then clamped shut when the opportunity arose. He had been faintly aware in his youth of many mysterious incidents occurring in inner Tokyo, something he would later learn was a result of the shadowy youma infiltrating businesses and residences, attempting to drain energy from humans for the plots of their lieges. Their attempts had been meticulously planned, however, as the Senshi drew more attention themselves when they appeared than the fatigue in the surrounding population that youma operations had hitherto caused.
The blonde boy also knew off-hand the relative dates that each of the other Senshi had in turn 'awoken', as well as the major villains they had fought, events he had learned in a few heart-to-heart talks with his older sibling during the rare downtimes in governing that they shared. So when he walked past Aino Minako on the street a full three months before she was due to arrive on the scene, and saw Mizuno Ami and Hino Rei conversing on the bus only a few days after he 'reset', and heard mention from Usagi of a new, tall girl well-versed in martial arts transferring to school over a month and a half before she had originally transferred, Shingo knew. Whatever had happened to him to bring him back in time had also happened to his sister, and the Inner Senshi.
It was selfish of him, Shingo had thought at the time, not to tell his sister that he also was from a future that no longer was. He didn't think it would make a wit of difference, except perhaps for somebody she could talk to late at night that also knew of the trials she went through, and there was a sort of perverse pleasure in being a third-party observer that knew everything that was going on.
That thought had been quickly blown away when he saw how his sister had gone on to steamroll over all the competition she had faced a lifetime ago. He remembered the lights all going out in Tokyo once, of how eternal darkness had begun to cloak the Earth later, only to be repelled, of how a pink-haired girl also named Usagi came to live with their family briefly, only to disappear, of how the area around Mugen Academy had been laid to waste, and of how Usagi's friends all slowly began to vanish, one by one, seemingly kidnapped, and how Usagi had herself become more and more razzled and stressed. He had genuinely worried for her then, she looked as if her hair was beginning to turn white.
None of that happened. The news didn't report anything about it, and the Senshi never appeared. Instead, the tin cans he had put in the wall to eavesdrop on his sister to find out if she, too had travelled back in time allowed him to listen in on the conversations she held with her friends, the fellow Senshi, over their communication devices. Of how Metaria was a 'joke' as always, boasting of how she beat Nehellenia with both hands tied behind her back, and remarking on how Hotaru, a name he vaguely recognized as the civilian name of Sailor Saturn, the only soldier more rarer than Sailor Pluto in Crystal Tokyo, was able to exorcise Mistress 9 by thought alone at the start of each 'Loop' now. Her father had been apparently possessed in the original timeline, willingly if he was to guess, but lots of experience had allowed Hotaru to enjoy the presence of a more sane version of Professor Tomoe, and even having her once-dead mother around once more.
His second life ended nearly the same as his first life had: he had grown up to become an advisor to his sister as she sat on the throne in Crystal Tokyo, as the Earth was about to launch forth permanent human residences to the Moon.
It took him a few more lives to gather the information he found most important. From what he managed to deduce from the little trinkets of dialogue his sister spouted over her communicator, for every loop he experienced, she experienced at least tenfold, if not more. It was humbling, and was something he had to expect. What was now only a few years age difference had become perhaps a thousand years age difference in the amount of lifetimes lived, and hers were far more hectic and battle-filled than his were (or at least they had been, until sheer experience allowed her to blow away all comers).
By the time of his fifth life, he observed the actions of everybody around him that he was fairly positive wasn't a Looper. His mother and father would deviate very slightly at the start of each Loop from their actions in his original lifetime, but within a couple of years, large shifts in their mannerisms and actions could be detected. The two didn't do the same action at each instant in time over and over again, because his sister always did things differently. Like the ripple of a puddle of water when a rock is thrown in it, her changing actions caused a changing reaction.
So he made a game of it. His sister must surely have observed the phenomenon by now. Usagi was incredibly perceptive of other people, but it was her empathy for emotions, not for motivations, that made her so great a figure. When it came to analysing people's actions, Shingo wasn't sure if she had evolved so much since her first life. So how much could he change the way he went about his life while his sister assumed it was all a natural consequence of her and the Senshi's new actions?
He took kendo up in that life. It was an arduous task, as he had not one but four lives of experience to become set in his ways, and even something as seemingly simple as swinging a stick required him to break away from the accustomed manner he had always carried himself. He stuck to it long enough to become a 7-dan, financially supporting himself through the early career position of a professional engineer he had taken in the previous four lifetimes. He never became a wise and respected adviser to the Throne in that life, however. The next two lives he changed back to what he had now called his ‘normal’ lives, careful imitations of the first forty-odd years he had once lived, believing his sister would become suspicious if he were to have two lives in a row that deviated significantly from what she was used to.
Kendo was also useful in that it disrupted the tedium that he had developed into. Unlike his sister and her warrior servants, Shingo was normal. The only claim to fame he had was that he was the younger brother of the girl who would become Neo Queen Serenity. Much of each new life was dedicated not to trying to become more and more powerful, but to learning the history and geography of the world. He enjoyed learning about and visiting new cultures every loop.
Thankfully, there was one constant that kept him from becoming incredibly bored. Throughout each life, he had had only a single wife, his childhood classmate, Mika Kayama. Call it sappy of him, maybe, after he had seen some of his sister’s friends cycle through many, many, many different boyfriends in only a few lives, but he wasn’t sure he could ever love another person as much as he had her, even if every loop tore away decades of memories and he was left with a fragment of the character and personality that she would grow up to be. And yet...every time he looped, as he watched Mika grow up again and again and again, he was always inspired by how a meek little girl who liked her dolls would grow up into a powerful woman, always able to handle being wed to an advisor to Neo Queen Serenity and the stresses it brought about.
But Mika existed at the start of every loop, and could be rebuilt, though with different facets of her base will expressing themselves over the years every lifetime around. The same could not be said for the children he had once fathered, five of them, the age range of fertility being greatly expanded with Usagi’s ascension and the life-extending gift she brought. Shingo had been devastated when he had his first and only child in his second life around: although he had once again had a daughter to start, Sakura of his second loop was not the same Sakura of his first life. His precious five sons and daughters were gone, vanquished forever because of those accursed Loops, and so would be Sakura.
He nursed a grudge against his sister for a long time after that. Unlike his own sons and daughters, Usagi’s sole child, Chibi-Usa, was always the same person somehow. Was the pink-haired girl herself a Looper, perhaps? Shingo didn’t know, though he knew it to be a possibility. Usagi undoubtedly had dealt with the loss of relationships with people who had regressed thirty years in age and memory overnight, but at least her one and only daughter was ‘destined’ to be born. It still hurt, to be honest. The profound loss he felt at the ‘death’ of his six children, unable even to bury them as they were lost not to death but to time, was something that would never vanish, but that same force of time had managed to make the hurt fade, and with it, the jealousy of his sister. But needless to say, he never had another child. It was always easy to swat the issue of children away when Mika brought it up – they had hundreds of possible years now to have children, not just a little over a dozen anymore.
In his seventh lifetime, he once more served the Throne, but in a different function: he had taken up poetry in his childhood days, and would become the poet laureate of Crystal Tokyo. It helped him to get over the pains he had carried with himself for eons. If Usagi saw the hidden meanings behind his words, she never mentioned it.
By the time lifetime number nine came around, Shingo decided he had had enough of his mixture of peaceful childhood and high-octane advisory, and looked to do something else: he attempted to learn magic.
Magic was a hard thing to grapple to the ground and grip onto. He was not some planetary guardian, nor did he have the crystallised form of his very soul, or descent from a noble magic family of old. Even worse, he was male, something Neo Queen Serenity had made clear to him when he expressed his desire to her shortly after once more becoming an adviser: men tended to have a far harder time wielding magic than women, a fact grounded by his being able to count on one hand the number of male magic users he knew in Crystal Tokyo.
Out of the routine two decades he would have as one of his sister's close confidante, it took Shingo the first decade just to be able to seize the incorporeal substance that was magic permeating his surroundings. It took nearly the rest of his remaining decade to even be able to harness magic to cast anything, and his last year before the loop reset was spent on trying to cast a spell approaching anything useful.
When the loop finally reset, Shingo was depressed again. He had run the gamut of his Crystal Tokyo career trying to learn magic, and while he had made concrete with the beginnings of learning it, he had barely gotten anywhere substantial afterwards. The blonde boy still insisted on playing the game he had started on seeing how long he could hide his Looping from his sister before giving up the game. To continue it, he would have to wait again until Crystal Tokyo, pretend to start learning magic all over again, do it slightly faster than he had done previously, and then get five to ten useful years of learning done. He would have liked to practice what he had learned before at the beginning of this new loop, but he had no idea if his sister, or Luna the Mau, or any of the other Senshi could somehow sense somebody else using magic. He would not take the risk.
Or at least, that's what he told himself he would do, until his sister mentioned Loop pranks on her communicator device while he was eavesdropping. His sister...was playing pranks during the Loops by using foreknowledge of past lives?
It made a perverse sense to Shingo. Usagi was looping more than he did. Surely she must have gotten bored during the countless years, much like he had by the time of his third life, and turned to short-term jokes to keep on trekking.
Well, he wasn't going to let her get the best of him. In his original lifetime, Shingo had played a lot of mild-mannered pranks on his sister. It was only fitting that he be the first to fire off a prank in an extraplanar time prank war before she hit him back hard with experience manyfold his. He hit paydirt a few loops later, when the point at which he Awoke was a good couple of days earlier than his sister.
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Usagi repressed a yawn as she moved her way towards the Osa-P. Damnit Naru, why couldn't you be Awake so I don't have to keep coming to rescue your ass at the start of every Loop?, she thought to herself.
Beside her ran the black Mau known as Luna, a sidekick who was also only Awake part of the time. Unfortunately and fortunately for Usagi, Luna wasn't Awake this Loop. Unfortunate because she wouldn't have somebody to gab with for a few days until the other Awake Senshi met with her (or for a few decades if nobody else was Awake but for her), and fortunately because that meant she could prank Luna with all her foreknowledge and background knowledge that the cat-like 'advisor' had lost in her cryostasis following the loss of the Moon Kingdom.
Idly, Usagi mused, hoping that Mamoru Chiba would be replaced by somebody else from another reality as Tuxedo Mask in this Loop (having Awoken just before Luna had showed up through her open window, she had no idea if Mamoru was around). She still loved Mamoru, marrying him and giving him a daughter in those Loops which weren't cut short that lead to Crystal Tokyo, but it was always amusing to see an alternate Tuxedo Mask, such as the single-minded Sousuke Sagara and the flighty Hikaru Agata as the Phantom Renegade.
She was still recovering from Kenpachi Zaraki, however.
With a couple of long leaps, startling the black kitty following behind her, she finally landed on the street front, standing in front of the Osa-P's front door. Kicking the door open, she started her spiel, "Halt, youma! How dare you-"
And then stopped, as the moonlight shone in through the open door. Dust littered the floor along with the unconscious bodies of many of the patrons that had been hypnotised by the fake jewelry the youma had earlier sold. That there was a great pile of dust centered in the middle of the building indicated the youma had already been defeated, but that wasn't the most surprising part.
It was the short, blonde nine-year old who was standing there, the moonlight revealing his features, leaning against a rudimentary focus staff that he held in one hand. As blue eyes met blue eyes, Shingo cracked a grin. "Yo, Usagi-nee-chan."
And now, for some slapstick for a single punchline.
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"Wow, Setsuna, who's the girlfriend?" Makoto proclaimed at the intrusion of the Senshi of Time and Chaos, toting a tall, purple-haired girl behind her. The two had appeared at the Hikawa Shrine on one of its slower days, where the Inners were taking the Loop off after having massacred Chaos and all its minions. "Did Hotaru have an older cousin or something we didn't know about?"
The purple-haired girl paled for a second, before she began to spoke. "I'm not a girl." His voice was deep enough to dispel that notion quickly. "I get that a lot, though - the other Setsuna thinks it's funny." Looking over at his current companion, one hand over her mouth as her eyes were twitching, he growled, "So does this one."
"Urp," Minako whispered in the background to Usagi, "I think I'm going to go colour-blind. Where do all these weird hair colours come from?"
Setsuna removed her hand away, and then waved her hand at her companion, "Girls, this is Tieria Erde, another Looper. I ended up in his dimension in a Loop, and we met and hit it off." She paused, taking a quick breath, and then added, "And Makoto, if you try to say anything about him looking like your old Senpai, I'll curse you so the only men who look like your old Senpai will all be gay."
"Eep," Makoto squealed, cowering behind Ami, as she had most certainly not been thinking of saying anything like that.
Tieria grumbled beside Setsuna, "We did hit it off, until you forced me to take your family name, Setsuna Meiou."
Setsuna blushed beside him at the memories of that scene, but quickly recovered to turn around and pinch him on the cheek. "Aw, but I loved your nickname. How could I do anything other than make it even more appropriate, Vowels?"
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Now somebody else write something plz
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"Wow, Setsuna, who's the girlfriend?" Makoto proclaimed at the intrusion of the Senshi of Time and Chaos, toting a tall, purple-haired girl behind her. The two had appeared at the Hikawa Shrine on one of its slower days, where the Inners were taking the Loop off after having massacred Chaos and all its minions. "Did Hotaru have an older cousin or something we didn't know about?"
The purple-haired girl paled for a second, before she began to spoke. "I'm not a girl." His voice was deep enough to dispel that notion quickly. "I get that a lot, though - the other Setsuna thinks it's funny." Looking over at his current companion, one hand over her mouth as her eyes were twitching, he growled, "So does this one."
"Urp," Minako whispered in the background to Usagi, "I think I'm going to go colour-blind. Where do all these weird hair colours come from?"
Setsuna removed her hand away, and then waved her hand at her companion, "Girls, this is Tieria Erde, another Looper. I ended up in his dimension in a Loop, and we met and hit it off." She paused, taking a quick breath, and then added, "And Makoto, if you try to say anything about him looking like your old Senpai, I'll curse you so the only men who look like your old Senpai will all be gay."
"Eep," Makoto squealed, cowering behind Ami, as she had most certainly not been thinking of saying anything like that.
Tieria grumbled beside Setsuna, "We did hit it off, until you forced me to take your family name, Setsuna Meiou."
Setsuna blushed beside him at the memories of that scene, but quickly recovered to turn around and pinch him on the cheek. "Aw, but I loved your nickname. How could I do anything other than make it even more appropriate, Vowels?"
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Now somebody else write something plz
Nah, I don't think he's somebody who's Awake enough to have experienced a FUBAR loop quite yet. Of course, now that Usagi has realised she's just been trolled, who knows? Maybe Anchor influence would make him be Awake more often or something. I do have a couple of ideas for more hijinks from him, though.
Keep in mind though that just because somebody else has looped into the Sailor Moon galaxy doesn't make it a FUBAR loop
Keep in mind though that just because somebody else has looped into the Sailor Moon galaxy doesn't make it a FUBAR loop
Yep. He is. That doesn't mean I can't play around with him :lol:
That said, I'll probably be intensely busy the next few days, so no new loop snippets from me, here, or in Naruto or HP threads. Somebody be a good boy (or girl) and help get some traction in here. I'd love to see something funny, or some really good idea. Or more of anyone pranking Luna.
That said, I'll probably be intensely busy the next few days, so no new loop snippets from me, here, or in Naruto or HP threads. Somebody be a good boy (or girl) and help get some traction in here
. I'd love to see something funny, or some really good idea. Or more of anyone pranking Luna.And now something completely unrelated to previous snippets from me. Humour-based again. I'm sorry, I just can't really think of a new idea for more drama-based. I may do a 'Life and Times of Tsukino Shingo after the Sailor Senshi find out he's Awake' series, though
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It had started with a sad, sad realisation for Usagi.
While Mau looked like cats, felt like cats, loved fish and milk like cats, meowed like cats, and even shed hair like cats (damn you Luna!), when it came to their internal anatomy, they were most certainly not cats.
And while it meant the Mau had conveniently forgotten that convenient fact in that horrible, horrible alternate universe where all logic had gone to the trolls and Zoisite made a pretty woman, making it impossible for Diana to have been the child of Artemis and a local pussycat, it also meant that Luna was *sob* completely immune to the effects of catnip. She was still trying to exorcise the crazy parts of her personality that remained behind from that Loop.
Usagi was sad, she really was. There had gone a perfect prank opportunity.
That was, until she had mentioned the idea to an Awake Artemis when he in his human form and her had gone out and gotten totally smashed one night. He, after securing a verbal promise from her not to use the knowledge against him (and then getting it down in a pinkie swear, a brofist, and an ironclad contract the size of two books...you'd think she couldn't be trusted!), informed her that there were in fact some substances that could make the Mau go totally bonkers. Unfortunately, those same drugs were made from plants that grew only on the Mau planet, which had been blown up before Usagi typically began her campaign against Beryl and Metaria.
Great, just totally great.
And so, several Loops had passed. Artemis was smart, but he wasn't a chemist, and he didn't have the exact molecular structure memorised of Mau-nip, as Usagi had taken to mentally calling it in her head. At one point, Usagi realised she could just become a genius scientist, analyse the entire genome of the Mau (did Mau even have DNA?...she would figure that out one day, maybe), and then synthesise something that would make Luna totally trip balls...but down that path lay Sakura, and madness, and after having seen the girl in a few Fused Loops, she agreed with Naruto and Sasuke's assessment - that girl was scary.
---
Her break, oddly enough, came after listening to Keith Richards.
The man may have been high at the time. Probably. Induitably so. The man had said he had once snorted his father's ashes, so she probably shouldn't have listened to him upon telling him about her Looping powers and some of her hijinks over the year. The man said that if she could fly faster than the speed of light and if you didn't age while travelling at the speed of light, then shouldn't you like totally be able to travel back in time if you go faster than light?
Usagi had blinked, said, "Oh", and walked away, while disregarding the crazy man's idea for all of five seconds.
That lead to her idea to build, of all things, a giant slingshot. After her last crazy idea to take Chaos and drop him into a galaxy-sized blender, resulting in a FUBAR Loop, she probably should have listened to that voice in her head that said not to do such a crazy idea. She listened for about however long it was that she found herself pinching loli-Hotaru's cheeks, squealing about how cute she was, and then mentally wondering why the Soldier of Silence was so pre-disposed to growing up and becoming heavily immersed in bondage culture (especially when Chibi Usa was the one putting her in bondage...). Once loli-Hotaru had squirmed out of her grasp, the voice had shut up.
---
Unfortunately for her, the giant slingshot plan had one flaw. Where was she supposed to find a Giant Rubber Band of +16 Elasticity?
She went to D&D Cons all over the world. Everywhere she went, it was the same. "It can't be done." "Are you insane?" (Yes, she was) "That's impossible!"
Bah, she would show them. Even if she had to farm rubber sap from the entire country of Brazil and vulcanise it until she got rubber of the right quality.
---
The one loop that the planet Vulcan actually existed between Mercury and Jupiter, she went there to vulcanise her rubber sap and finally got her Giant Rubber Band of +16 Elasticity.
---
A few Loops later, with all her materials gathered, she set up her giant slingshot. There were a few troubles, like when government inspectors were fretting about her putting the base of the slingshot a few kilometres deep into the Earth (she needed an anchor, alright!). But it wasn't until she finally managed to launch herself that she suddenly thought this wasn't quite a good idea. If she managed to bork the universe again and throw everybody into a FUBAR Loop, one of the goddesses (or maybe Welsper, who always loved trolling the non-Awake Senshi when he took the place of one of the Mau) was going to be pissed. Oh well.
---
To her complete surprise, Keith Richards' idea actually had worked. It hadn't even resulted in an Eiken Loop.
Usagi had found herself several thousand years in the past from the present day. Not long enough to save the Silver Millenium (though it might be badass if she got Looped there one day and could fend off an entire army of youma...she was drooling now), but enough to go to the planet Mau before it had been vanquished by Sailor Galaxia.
Having interacted with the Starlights in her own time plenty, she was able to easily pass herself off as a Starlight who decided to visit Mau. From there, it was fairly easy to walk into the local bar and find out just what could get Mau completely plastered, get some of it, then duplicate it a hundred times over.
---
Usagi giggled as she dropped the video she had just taken into her Subspace, along with several duplicates. Oh, when Luna was Awake again, she would be mortified to see the scene before her. There was nothing quite like a black cat(like) standing on its two hind legs, dancing around the room wildly with one paw up to her chest and the other out wide, while belting out a perfect rendition of Grizabella the Glamour Cat.
---
This was originally going to be a lot shorter, then I got to writing about Usagi's crazy wacky random adventures while trying to get the mythical Mau-nip. Once my insane mind flashed upon putting Keith Richards in, I just lost it.
Call Me Maybe was just the first song that came to mind. If anybody has any suggestions to make it 10x more hilarious (or even slightly more), post it and I'll edit the above.
---
It had started with a sad, sad realisation for Usagi.
While Mau looked like cats, felt like cats, loved fish and milk like cats, meowed like cats, and even shed hair like cats (damn you Luna!), when it came to their internal anatomy, they were most certainly not cats.
And while it meant the Mau had conveniently forgotten that convenient fact in that horrible, horrible alternate universe where all logic had gone to the trolls and Zoisite made a pretty woman, making it impossible for Diana to have been the child of Artemis and a local pussycat, it also meant that Luna was *sob* completely immune to the effects of catnip. She was still trying to exorcise the crazy parts of her personality that remained behind from that Loop.
Usagi was sad, she really was. There had gone a perfect prank opportunity.
That was, until she had mentioned the idea to an Awake Artemis when he in his human form and her had gone out and gotten totally smashed one night. He, after securing a verbal promise from her not to use the knowledge against him (and then getting it down in a pinkie swear, a brofist, and an ironclad contract the size of two books...you'd think she couldn't be trusted!), informed her that there were in fact some substances that could make the Mau go totally bonkers. Unfortunately, those same drugs were made from plants that grew only on the Mau planet, which had been blown up before Usagi typically began her campaign against Beryl and Metaria.
Great, just totally great.
And so, several Loops had passed. Artemis was smart, but he wasn't a chemist, and he didn't have the exact molecular structure memorised of Mau-nip, as Usagi had taken to mentally calling it in her head. At one point, Usagi realised she could just become a genius scientist, analyse the entire genome of the Mau (did Mau even have DNA?...she would figure that out one day, maybe), and then synthesise something that would make Luna totally trip balls...but down that path lay Sakura, and madness, and after having seen the girl in a few Fused Loops, she agreed with Naruto and Sasuke's assessment - that girl was scary.
---
Her break, oddly enough, came after listening to Keith Richards.
The man may have been high at the time. Probably. Induitably so. The man had said he had once snorted his father's ashes, so she probably shouldn't have listened to him upon telling him about her Looping powers and some of her hijinks over the year. The man said that if she could fly faster than the speed of light and if you didn't age while travelling at the speed of light, then shouldn't you like totally be able to travel back in time if you go faster than light?
Usagi had blinked, said, "Oh", and walked away, while disregarding the crazy man's idea for all of five seconds.
That lead to her idea to build, of all things, a giant slingshot. After her last crazy idea to take Chaos and drop him into a galaxy-sized blender, resulting in a FUBAR Loop, she probably should have listened to that voice in her head that said not to do such a crazy idea. She listened for about however long it was that she found herself pinching loli-Hotaru's cheeks, squealing about how cute she was, and then mentally wondering why the Soldier of Silence was so pre-disposed to growing up and becoming heavily immersed in bondage culture (especially when Chibi Usa was the one putting her in bondage...). Once loli-Hotaru had squirmed out of her grasp, the voice had shut up.
---
Unfortunately for her, the giant slingshot plan had one flaw. Where was she supposed to find a Giant Rubber Band of +16 Elasticity?
She went to D&D Cons all over the world. Everywhere she went, it was the same. "It can't be done." "Are you insane?" (Yes, she was) "That's impossible!"
Bah, she would show them. Even if she had to farm rubber sap from the entire country of Brazil and vulcanise it until she got rubber of the right quality.
---
The one loop that the planet Vulcan actually existed between Mercury and Jupiter, she went there to vulcanise her rubber sap and finally got her Giant Rubber Band of +16 Elasticity.
---
A few Loops later, with all her materials gathered, she set up her giant slingshot. There were a few troubles, like when government inspectors were fretting about her putting the base of the slingshot a few kilometres deep into the Earth (she needed an anchor, alright!). But it wasn't until she finally managed to launch herself that she suddenly thought this wasn't quite a good idea. If she managed to bork the universe again and throw everybody into a FUBAR Loop, one of the goddesses (or maybe Welsper, who always loved trolling the non-Awake Senshi when he took the place of one of the Mau) was going to be pissed. Oh well.
---
To her complete surprise, Keith Richards' idea actually had worked. It hadn't even resulted in an Eiken Loop.
Usagi had found herself several thousand years in the past from the present day. Not long enough to save the Silver Millenium (though it might be badass if she got Looped there one day and could fend off an entire army of youma...she was drooling now), but enough to go to the planet Mau before it had been vanquished by Sailor Galaxia.
Having interacted with the Starlights in her own time plenty, she was able to easily pass herself off as a Starlight who decided to visit Mau. From there, it was fairly easy to walk into the local bar and find out just what could get Mau completely plastered, get some of it, then duplicate it a hundred times over.
---
Usagi giggled as she dropped the video she had just taken into her Subspace, along with several duplicates. Oh, when Luna was Awake again, she would be mortified to see the scene before her. There was nothing quite like a black cat(like) standing on its two hind legs, dancing around the room wildly with one paw up to her chest and the other out wide, while belting out a perfect rendition of Grizabella the Glamour Cat.
---
This was originally going to be a lot shorter, then I got to writing about Usagi's crazy wacky random adventures while trying to get the mythical Mau-nip. Once my insane mind flashed upon putting Keith Richards in, I just lost it.
Call Me Maybe was just the first song that came to mind. If anybody has any suggestions to make it 10x more hilarious (or even slightly more), post it and I'll edit the above.