Not that she actually had any real feet any more, of course. Or a real material body, for that matter. One day, she'd woken up to realize that her body hadn't been really made of what is usually called matter for a good long while, and the fact that she actually realized that made her terribly melancholy, for that was one of the major signs of The End.
The Time of Cosmos was coming, no ifs, buts or maybes.
And there was no way to stop or postpone it. Not any more.
But that wasn't the point, really. Not at this point in time.
Neo-Queen Serenity watched---or rather perceived---the current state of the current Enemy she and her people had been fighting, and slowly and gently began to swear. In thirty-six languages or so.
IT was gone, true. For the foreseeable future.
But a virtual typhoon of little bits and pieces of---of Nastiness, for lack of a better word---were now right in the process of being showered all over this section of the Multiverse though that rip in space-time, even as she watched.
Oh, ho, ho, ho. Weren't Some Beings going to be in trouble...
Including herself. Most certainly including herself.
Who the hell needed any extra Nastiness in their lives, anyway?
So many things to do. Bring back her Senshi for the umpteenth time, for one. And her husband and daughter, of course. Check up on the rest of her people.
So many things to be done. But this had to be done first.
She was most definitely not the sort to leave hazardous waste just lying about. Not if she could help it.
The power of the Silver Crystal had been dangerously depleted, but she herself still had some extra power---not all that much, but some. Enough to do what had to be done. She hoped.
So. What options did she have, and which was she going to use? Keep It Simple, Stupid. Mars' voice sounded in her mind, and she wryly sighed. The KISS principle was always a good thing to keep in mind.
So, alright. Couple together a Standard midlevel Cleansing Spell-Program with a Standard midlevel Healing Spell-Program, and tie them together in a bundle with a Nastiness chaser component added? Check for compatibility...OK, that was working. Was there anything else she had to add?
Oh. Right. She had to set it to affect nearby areas, not just people who were actively...influenced. The first thing the Nastiness would do was look for minds and spirits with cracks and holes and weak places in them, and burrow right in, after all. Damaged minds quite often had Nasty Stuff in them already, and trying figure out where what Nastiness had come from where really was an exercise in futility. Better just to try to clean everything up in the neighborhood, really.
OK---Had she missed anything? The Neo-Queen rechecked the Spell Module for the last time. Now all she had to do was set up a copying spell, enough to chase all those uncountable pieces of Nastiness swirling into the Rip.
Not that she really thought that she could get them all. Or even make enough copies.
But even if it was not Perfect---It would have to be enough.
And of the countless Spell Modules latched into the Void Between Dimensions---One falls.
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