Doctor Goldfoot had taken a shortcut, finding the individuals who he had felt epitomized the look he was after. Then he drugged them, put them into the machine, and played organ music while they processed.
When the machine was done his machines had formed a template, modified slightly with the work of an artist and an appreciation for beauty.
Then he produced the initial units, one after the other, decanting them from those templates.
The Bikini Machine Mk III, as she had noted earlier, was partly magic. Partly technology. Partly out of phase with the rest of the universe. Setsuna gasped as she looked into the heart of the machine and traced that section, discovering that it went to...
The Galaxy Cauldron.
Each and every one of the units patterned off the Senshi, and a few that were not, WERE Senshi. Minor Senshi for the most part to be sure. Senshi nonetheless.
Doctor Goldfoot had absolutely no idea about this.
Setsuna's sick fascination turned frantic. If that were so, then the original Star Seeds - the identities of the Senshi he'd loaded into the machine. Where...
Setsuna turned around, went to the side of the Time Gates and beat her head against it several times. Scratch the 'killed' part, as their essences had ended up in familiar forms for all that their original bodies had undergone such total dissection.
Ranma being at the center of the Paradox Storm had become tangled with the Senshi. Of course. She just hadn't wanted to consider that.
The originals didn't know they were the original girls. They certainly didn't know, Doctor Goldfoot didn't know, nobody knew - except her now. All Doctor Goldfoot knew was that the units had some slight defects but that had made giving them away in that contest all the better.
Sailor Pluto twitched. If Galaxia showed up... heck if Nehelenia showed up... the Senshi were helpless. Well, maybe not completely - that whole Star Seed harvesting attack might be ineffective since there was a firewall and virus defense in place. Though if she got them their henshin wands, they'd become Sailor Senshi but then... wait a minute. HOW MANY?
Sailor Pluto lost the horror for a brief moment as she considered what would happen if a menace showed up and had to face THOUSANDS of Sailor Senshi defending the planet. Then she shook her head and got back to the problem. While amusing, how the heck was she...
She looked in on a campsite in China, and knew a moment of true horror.
"Good one," said Ranma, ducking a staff blow. "Almost."
"Then I'll have to try harder," said Setsuna, spinning the staff so quickly it made a humming noise in the air.
"Well, it's not like ya can get me anyway," said Ranma.
"Your mother left implicit instructions on what to do with you if I managed to defeat you, and I intend to carry those instructions out," said Setsuna before leaping into the air over him.
"Ha," said Ranma before he realized something was wrong. "Hey, wasn't Minako supposed to be helping you with-"
"Venus Lovely Lasso!"
"Huh," said Ranma as a chain wrapped around him. "HEY!"
"Mako-chan, use the gag!"
"WHAT?! HEY I DON'T THMMMF NFFF NMMM NMMM!"
"At last we have him right where we want him," evilly chortled Minako.
"Now that we have him, whatever will we do with him?" innocently asked Makoto. Mostly innocent. Well, in comparison to her compatriots.
Setsuna evilly chortled, and managed it much better than Minako. "Whatever we want."
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" laughed all three gynoids.
How had Minako produced a Senshi attack or transformed without her henshin wand? Why did the Setsuna have instructions from Ranma's mother? Why was Ami studying a book on accupressure points? What was Makoto doing?!
Setsuna watched from the Time Gates in horror as:
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