Uranus stared at Neptune. Then at Saturn. Then at Neptune again. "Sailor Sagittarius Alpha Prime. "Sailor Overkill"? The Destroyer of Star Systems?"
There was a long, resounding silence. Neptune was doing a good imitation of a statue, while Uranus...
Saturn stared. Was her sort-of additional parent figure and teammate...
Yes, she was.
"Yes."
Uranus whispered.
"Yes, yes, yes yes yeeees! Yippiee!"
Saturn sighed as a gleeful Uranus took a unmoving wooden Neptune around the waist, and danced her across the living room. Now three out of four of her "parental units and subsitutes of same" were acting like gleeful lunatics...
Well, two out of four, anyway. Neptune was still looking pretty dazed.
Not that she could really blame them either of them for their reactions, of course. Not really.
Saturn sighed, then. Things had just gone from, well... "Titanic heading for the iceberg" to "Titanic still heading for the iceberg, but now we have pony nuke some Uni students built on a dare, so we could blow the iceberg up, if we didn't blow the entire Titanic up first that is, ha ha ha!", maybe? A weird analogy, but she couldn't think of a better one right now.
The point being, if the Titanic just hit the iceberg, there probably still would be some people who would make it on the woefully inadequate lifeboats, but if they tried to nuke the iceberg and failed... Hey. Maybe this was a better analogy then she'd thought it was at first...
She sighed again, and tried to get Uranus and Neptune's attention.
"Hey, Uranus, Neptune! Pluto says, if you want to take a peek at the The Senshi In Question in action, we'll better hurry!"
"Oh, yeah? Good. You OK, Neptune?"
Neptune nodded, still seeming to be a bit dazed.
"...Ahhh. Yes. I think."
"Alright, then..."
The three Sailor Senshi ran from the room at a quick pace. It was only when they were all out of the house that Prof. Tomoe quietly opened his eyes, and looked up at the ceiling.
It was a strangely cool and cloudy day, for early summer...
Sailor Sagittarius A*0-1 danced, danced, and danced again.
Lobster monsters and more lobster monsters. And of any sign of their controllers...
Nothing, none, nada. What the hell was this, totally automated energy-sucker and kidnapping attacks?
And that was when he saw one of the lobsters dragging a bag along bump right into a pack of slightly older girls.
Who didn't try to scream or faint, which was smart of them she thought, but didn't try to run either, which lowered her estimate of their intelligence a notch.
"Oh! ...Lobster Youmas?"
"I don't know if they're youmas, but they are trying to kidnap people in that bag they're dragging, Usagi-chan!"
"Oh, right. OK, transform, everybody!"
Not that "everybody" seemed to need permission, actually, but it was the spirit of the thing, A*0-1 supposed.
OK, so... "Local" Senshi here, and on the job. Which was good on one hand, but...
Well, she wasn't going to slink away while her classmates were in trouble, however things turned out with the "locals". On the other hand, there didn't seem to be any reason to go show herself to them on purpose either, so...
"How dare you try and abduct helpless students! In the name of the Moon..."
Oh, come on, girl, what's the use of speechifying when the monsters don't even have rudimentary intelligence? And "In the name of the moon?" Baah, she was the Senshi of that hunk of lifeless rock that orbited the Earth, wasn't she.
There was a possibility that the "locals" might not be able to handle a pack of Chaos-energy-infeasted Lobsters, now that she thought about it. If they were newbies, and didn't know what they were doing..."
A*0-1 turned back to the local Senshi... And that was the precise moment when "Sailor Moon"'s attack hit dead center.
And then...
"...Yo. ...Yo, close your mouth before flys get in. It's nothing but a basic "Purifying and Healing" attack, stupid. It's not like you've never seen those before..."
A*0-1 closed her mouth. The girls were long gone, and...
"That "Basic purifying and healing attack" just covered the entire Greater Tokyo area, didn't it now. Or was that just something I dreamed about?"
"Oh, it did. Which is sort of good, because it probably means that the girls turned into trees are alright now, too. But - That's the Senshi of the moon here? Ain't she a tad - overpowered?"
"Overpowered" wasn't the word A*0-1 would have used, frankly. It felt like the understatement of the century. Not that she could really think of a better one...
And then she blinked. And craned her neck back.
"...R-R-R-R... Ryouga?"
"Well, yeah. - Long time no see, A*0-1."
" - Sia?"
A*0-1 whispered. The words she couldn't think of saying blowing away in the wind...
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