"How does that work?" Pluto asked, sounding more curious than anything else.
"Well, you do remember that I told you that the Senshi energies are not able to be used as we would want?"
"Of course."
The native version held out a hand palm up. "There's the main problem. You see, what I would /like/ to be the case would be for the Senshi transformations to go on. Some of the people who work for me thought that if we could create true magical girls, as in the use of actual powers, it would be an amazing product to sell. Imagine, if you will, teenaged boys, young girls, and others all owning 'real' magical girls. Needless to say, I wasn't too thrilled with the idea, and when it proved to be impossible to do for the time being, I had that to lighten the blow."
"I can understand what you mean."
"I would think so. After all, their ideas about marketing were more important to them than it was to me. What I wanted was for us to have true Senshi around, even if they would only be likely to be Senshi, and nothing else."
"And so what did you do then?"
"We worked with what we had available. We might not have been able to bring in Senshi powers as they were original incarnated, but we could create something that we would hope worked just as well, and that would tap into those powers."
"If you can't go over the mountain," the Senshi of Time murmured with a little smile curving her lips, "you go around it."
"Exactly."
"I'm impressed that you could manage that sort of thing, even if you don't have the same sort of Senshi that I would know."
"Yes, it was a bit of a feat, I must admit. However, there is one thing that /is/ the same."
"What is it?"
"Fashion. Or rather, the uniforms. You see, for the 'superpowered supernatural-villain-busting gynoid soldiers', we put them in Senshi uniforms. Does ever so help with both giving them a common look, and is supposed to do wonders for public relations. At least that's what the analysts tell me. Something about the public 'not perceiving pretty girls in short skirts to be threatening'," Setsuna revealed, waving her hand about in the air before taking another delicate sip of her tea.
Pluto looked down at herself. "You dressed them in outfits like this one?"
"Yes, we did. We recognized the fact that being dressed like that doesn't give the best armor coverage, but we've worked around that. Their fukus are made of a special fabric that's actually a sort of 'memory metal' added on to things that are similar to kevlar. Basically, quite good to tell the truth. Uniforms that are tough, durable, and ever so nice to look at. Until they have to change for special duty."
"'Special duty'?"
"Other suits that we've prepared. Didn't seem to be too bad of an idea to have spare outfits ready. Of course, they're working on a way to create a 'transformation' system using nanotechnology, so that the gynoids could shift from looking innocuous to battle ready. But that hasn't worked out yet."
"I see. But what about the powers?"
"That is the central issue, isn't it?" Setsuna asked. "Basically, the powers have to be channeled through a special adapter. So, instead of Mars calling out 'Fire Soul', we get a 'fire bolt' to start off with. Sort of a fire based energy shot. More direct, and accurate, but can't be continuously used."
"But you hope that it can do the job, right?"
"Pretty much. I could hire my own private army to go after the Dark Kingdom, but it seemed better to go with this option."
Pursing her lips thoughtfully, Pluto looked at this timeline's incarnation of herself. "I do have to ask:
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