The explosions had finally stopped. The dying was over. For the moment at least.
"They will return," said the Queen.
"Yes, they will," said Sailor Pluto softly.
"We could not defend against them," said the Queen. "It is now just you and I."
"I will stand with you to the end, my Queen," said Sailor Pluto.
Queen Usagi turned to her remaining Senshi and the look she gave the Sentinel Of Time caused Pluto to take a step backwards.
"My Queen?" asked Sailor Pluto.
"Don't be so anxious to die," said the Queen. "They EAT magic. When they come - they will consume the Time Gates, ourselves, and the remainder of Crystal Tokyo. Everything here was erected through magic."
"I will give my life to protect you, my Queen," said Pluto.
"No, you will not," said Queen Usagi. "These are animal-like. Like sharks or wolves or some other beast which hunts in packs. They would swarm over us, only retreating as they have now because their bellies are full. We stood against them with our full magical might, and we might as well have rung a dinner bell."
"That is so," said Sailor Pluto.
"Change the past, Puu," said Queen Usagi.
"My Queen?!" said an alarmed Pluto. "But my orders -"
"Am I Queen?" asked Queen Usagi, arching one eyebrow as she addressed her lone Senshi.
"Y-yes, My Queen," said Pluto.
"Then you will do this," said Queen Usagi. "My final order to you is to make sure that we have more options than to rely on a single weapon. Peace is all well and good, desired even, but one must have the strength to enforce that peace. During my reign and my mother's reign, we fought off many menaces but only learned to use the one set of tools available to us. That being the ginzuishou and the Senshi magical attacks. Since that was basically pelting the enemy with food, we need others."
"Others?" asked Pluto.
"Besides, can you really say that Crystal Tokyo was a paradise?" asked Queen Usagi. "I haven't had chocolate since the last time I went into the past, Puu. When was the last time we shared a good cup of tea? Don't think I don't know why you used to visit the past as much as you did."
Pluto looked away from her Queen, acknowledging the hit silently.
"Oh, and Hotaru wasn't happy as my girlfriend, you know she found guys more attractive than girls," said the former Chibi-Usa. "You know that martial artist guy a couple of the Senshi were drooling over when they found that picture? Get him into the picture. Fix him up with someone. Bring some guys into the picture if you can. Use your own discretion. I love my Senshi and my friends, but not everyone was as comfortable with 'just us girls' as Haruka-san was."
"Urk," said Pluto, contemplating this.
"They're coming," said Queen Usagi, looking off into the distance. "Go now, Pluto. I leave the details to your discretion but we must not rely on a single tactic or defense if we are to defeat this enemy."
Pluto could sense them herself - a growing emptiness in her awareness that had a single direction.
She almost waited too long.
_____Tokyo, Japan, 1990 AD_______
Ranma Saotome tugged at the bottom of her skirt and frowned. "I really really really hate this uniform."
Setsuna smirked from her hidden vantage point. Things were working along just fine. A deal with Genma and a little manipulation, and she had the newly Jusenkyo-cursed Ranma working as a maid here. Ostensibly to help protect from some ninja and gain a scroll detailing some forgotten martial arts special technique.
Likewise she'd manipulated certain angles in the past, and as a result the two other maids were-
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