“Is everyone settled down now? Good,” the teacher said as the students finally stopped talking. “Ranma, please sit next to Usagi over there.” The teacher pointed over towards the blonde girl with an odd hairstyle.
‘Is she an Amazon or something? Weird... I coulda sworn I saw that hairstyle somewhere before...’ Ranma thought to himself as he sat next to the cheerful looking girl.
‘Weird...’ Usagi thought to herself. ‘I feel like I meet him before... Nah, I must be imagining it.’ “Hi, I’m Usagi, it’s nice to meet you!” she said to Ranma as he sat down.
“Uhh... Nice to meet you too.”
“Why don’t you sit with me and my friends at lunch, I’d hate to see you alone on your first day.”
“Sure.”
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He did not appear to be your usual dark menace. At least not the typical villain the Senshi would face.
After all he looked to be an old man, slumped down on a high-tech chair with a giant fishbowl on his head. A respirator covered his mouth, his breathing making raspy echoing sounds through the cavern of his dark headquarters, his glass helmet filled with a strange, greenish liquid. His overweight body was covered in a black robe, a metallic life-support system fitted over his shoulders that connected to his glass helmet and respirator. He was not like Queen Beryl, or Metallia, or Galaxia. He looked like a frail old man.
He was Von Bolt, who had been finally released.
Before Beryl struck at the Moon Kingdom there was Von Bolt, lord and ruler of the desolate tenth planet, Nemesis. He led his armies in an attempt to overthrow the Moon Kingdom, and steal a soul from Serenity’s line, and use that power to conquer the galaxy.
He failed. And not to any of the Senshi, no that would have been bad enough... He lost to the forces led by the young Prince.
A fourteen-year-old prince! A spoilt brat who had not done anything to gain an army but to be born! And yet he had led an army, deflected his attacks, blunted his assaults, and seized his fortress, without the aid of one Senshi. And to the best of his knowledge it was the Prince who devised the tactics that thwarted him.
It wasn’t that the Prince beat him that truly got his goat though, oh far from it. He recognized a brilliant tactical mind when he saw one, although it still bruised his ego even so far after the fact. It was that he was given an army that got him truly mad.
He was Von Bolt! He forged this army by his own two hands, working his way up from an absolute nobody to supreme ruler of Nemesis! He had bled, sweated, and clawed his way up through the then absolute chaos of the planet, forging it into something, a force to be reckoned with, only to have the brat defeat him and his mother lock him and his forces away for so damned long.
But he had done as he always had, and clawed his way up. His body had decayed to the point he needed life support, but he continued on and now the seal was broken! But fighting the seal had taken its toll, and his body, while still powerful, had decayed. Despite his power he might only live another year, possibly less if he strained his power...
But he had a plan... He had been able to watch through the seal as the Moon Kingdom fell. And he managed to watch as the Senshi battled foe after foe, searching for their prince.
His hated foe, whose soul could restore his youth and let him use his power in full!
The old man tapped a button on his chair, his frail voice speaking out. “Jugger... Koal... hhhh... Kindle... Come to me.”
Three spires of black flame rose up before him, twisting about. The first faded, leaving in it’s place a large, rounded being with a spherical face and a camera like lens for an ‘eye’. “Jugger online. Ready to smash.”
The next sprire vanished leaving a short man in a black robe holding a stick in his sleeve-covered hands. His face bore red paint, and his fiery red hair was pulled back, sticking up slightly like the flame on a match. “Koal reporting my liege! I shall strike in your name!”
The final spire faded, leaving a tall woman with fiery red hair in a beehive, her tight dress and military style jacket hugging her curvy frame. She closed her compact, her lipstick applied to her satisfaction. “Finally... I can live the high life again. It’s been too long since the gorgeous Kindle could strut her stuff.”
“It is time... hhhh... my Bolt Guard.” Von Bolt wheezed out. “I know the Prince has been... hhhh... reborn in this new age. I... hhhh... shall have his soul, at any cost! Hhhh... Gather energy... hhhh... Resources... and seek out the Prince... hhhh... Harvest his soul and bring it... hhhh... to me...”
“Analysis programming determines Prince has been reborn as a young male,” Jugger spoke out. “Sixty-seven point eight percent chance he can be found at an arcade. Requesting permission to deploy and to seek out a likely match.”
“Hhhh... Granted Jugger... Do not fail me,” Von Bolt replied, nodding ever so slightly.
“Understood. Loading program. Preparing to smack in a downward direction.” Jugger saluted with one of his stocky arms before the black fire appeared around him, taking him away from the dark headquarters.
“What about us, Mi’lord?” Koal asked, bowing slightly. “Should we add our efforts to the search?”
“No... hhhh... I tire of this dank cavern... I wish to... hhhh... relocate our operations. Kindle... hhhh... I entrust this task to you.”
“But of course sire,” the woman spoke. “I shall find us a mansion, or even a penthouse apartment that will suit our stature... A castle would fit us best, however...”
“Only a castle could truly fit your beauty Lady Kindle,” Koal said, smiling darkly. “But we cannot afford luxury until we have our foot solidly into the territory we shall claim.”
“I suppose... As long as it’s in the city though, rural life bores me to tears.”
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