There was always a protaganist. An unwell-wisher. The opposite number. An enemy. Sometimes the identity changed from one year to the next. Sometimes the opponent was more friendly, sometimes less, sometimes outright villainous.
Amaterasu was reclaiming a temple, setting things up, and had filed for a leave-of-absence at work. While doing some divine telecommuting and such, she was looking forward to some downtime with a hunky fiancee - and possibly more if it all worked out.
It was made more problematic by the forces gathered currently. Sailor Moon and her Senshi were there. So were Thor, Apollo, Athena, and a large number of minor and major deities. Had Beryl attacked with her Generals in tow she would have lasted about as long as a bowl of rice against Genma Saotome. After he'd been without food for three days.
Of course, Amaterasu knew that there had been a pretty good chance of the Senshi crossing her path eventually. Now she could settle into a sort of vacation. Take it easy. She also knew her opposite side and that they would eventually make an appearance. They had a deep philosophical antagonism with even possibilities involving 'happily ever after.'
Since she knew that sooner or later someone would come by and destroy her peace and quiet, she wanted to make sure the reception for such individuals was in place.
"Finished the entropy reduction field," said Hephaestus, before chugging back a goblet of something that looked cold from the way ice coated the exterior. "Ah. That always hits the spot."
Amaterasu might be a goddess, and yes - she was quite sure that she was quite capable of fighting major demonic entities. That didn't mean she wanted to see them tracking mud in the house. "What about..."
Hephaestus wiped his mouth with one swipe of his sleeve. "Take a look."
"SWEEEEEE -" SNAP! CRACKLE POP! "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!"
"Whoa," said Ranma, seeing Happosai stop in midair and light up like he had thousands of volts grounding themselves through him.
"It's rated for up to an Arch Rank," said Hephaestus with a wave. "Once automatically engaged it will last fifteen minutes. Just remember to reset the system afterwards."
"Moon Princess Halation!"
Everyone stared at where Sailor Moon had just targetted the little youma with this giant pink crystalline heart.
The smouldering lump dropping to the pavement raised one hand briefly up. "too sweet..."
"Hmmmm, must need a tune up," said Sailor Moon, shaking her Cutey Moon Rod.
"Interesting, I wonder what effect that will have on him," speculated Amaterasu.
"Oh, he'll be back up and running in an hour at least," said Ranma, hefting the little pervert up. "I've seen him get hit with worse."
"Oh?" One of the goddesses smirked as she approached. "In that case, I have a suggestion."
Nabiki stared as Kasumi waved bye-bye to the nice man. The nice DEAD man.
"Saotome!"
"Growfl!"
"We'll defend my home from this vagrant!"
"Who's in the process of leaving," Nabiki pointed out to the two apparently recovered martial artists.
"Oh, running away is he? Guess he knows what's good for him!" declared Soun.
"How badly did you hit your head, Daddy?" sweetly inquired Nabiki.
"Thank you for tea, it was lovely," said the martial artist, smiling and making a courteous bow towards the elder of the two girls present.
The man glanced at the panda and the middle aged man and let out a deep breath. "They are letting anyone call themselves martial arts masters nowadays. Nobody will respect the Art at this rate."
"We sure showed him," said Soun as the Chinese fellow walked slowly away from them.
"Growfle," agreed Genma.
"I must have been adopted or something," said Nabiki, heading upstairs.
"Now we can concentrate on getting that Wayward Son of yours back to marry my Nabiki," said Soun.
The panda nodded and began working out a plan.
Sailor Pluto sat in the shade of a tree, trying not to think about nice pristine pure Crystal Tokyo.
"So, Mercury-chan, if we use this frequency we can not only use our Sailor Communicators to speak to each other but we can call Sango and Kodachi and our new friends?!" Sailor Moon asked, practically jumping up and down.
"Yes, I just need to finish working out the details with Hephaestus-sama after he finishes putting up the wards around the shrine," said Sailor Mercury.
Sailor Pluto grumbled under her breath. In HER day nobody needed backup. The Sailor Senshi could handle menaces just fine, thank you very much.
"Planetary defense cannon?" asked Norihito. "I saw that 'Meteor' film from America. Do we have anything like that?"
"Energy expenditure is the problem," confessed Tyr. "Maybe something that interfaced with that girl's crystal?"
"Artemis, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Yeah, Luna, but where are we going to get five gallons of chocolate dip?"
WHAP!
Sailor Pluto stuck her head up. The mooncats. THEY could help her convince Usagi to break off this course!
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