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, her wooden expression giving way to a big, massive, shit-eating grin.
"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.
And it simplified things considerably that neither of them seemed to be freaking out about this new development. Well, Neptune was, up to a point, she supposed, but at least it was a quiet freaking out, and Uranus was more then making up for her silence by her sheer maniacal glee.
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 seemingly a bit dazed.
"...Ahhh. Yes. I think."
"Alright, then..."
The three Sailor Senshi ran from the room at a quick pace, which would have been utterly blinding to normal human eyes, normally.
It was a strangely cool and cloudy day, for early summer.
And in the cool breeze coming from a half-opened window...
Prof. Tomoe quietly opened his eyes, and looked up at the ceiling.
Sailor Sagittarius A*0-1 danced, danced, and danced again, each energy blow pulverizing the Lobster things and more often then not, anything nearby as well. Which meant that she was having a really hard time attacking the Lobster things with full bags, since those were full of human beings as far as she knew, and she sure as hell didn't want to pulverize her classmates or any other unlucky passerby. Damn. Maybe it would actually be easier to fight de-transformed?
But the magic factor was something she couldn't ignore. Not to mention that she was trying to find what was behind all this, if possible.
Not that that part of her tentative plan was working at all well, at the moment.
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 she saw one of the lobsters dragging a bag along bump right into a pack of slightly older girls.
Who didn't 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.
Could they at least try to get out of the Lobster monsters way?
Please?
Tsukino Usagi stopped. And stared.
"Oh! ...Lobster Youmas?"
Not that she thought they were really Dark Kingdom type Youmas, but still...
Gigantic Lobsters, with chaotic energy practically dripping off them. With bags. Very big bags. Which moved and wriggled...
"I don't know if they're youmas, but they are trying to kidnap people in that bag they're dragging, Usagi-chan!"
Rei snapped.
"Oh, right. OK, transform, everybody!"
Usagi cried, raising her broach. Not that she really needed it any more, not to transform, anyway, but it was the spirit of the thing.
"...Should we interfere?
Neptune murmured, her voice resonating eerily within the "subspace bubble" they were all generating.
"...Against those? I don't think so..."
Uranus snickered. Saturn and Pluto both sighed. They didn't think so, either.
"Oh, right. OK, transform, everybody!"
...Oh, wait. So those girls were the local Senshi?
Not that "everybody" seemed to need permission, actually, but it was the spirit of the thing, A*0-1 supposed.
The girls transformed with the usual twinkle and twirl, and handily began to deal with the Lobsters. Well, good.
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.
A*0-1 sighed.
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...
Not that they were really fighting like newbies, though. A*0-1 watched with interest as the other Senshi fought in a semi-circle around the Senshi calling herself Moon.
"Moon... Healing..."
Oh, come on, it was a basic purifying and healing attack? Why all the buildup of energy for something like that?
"Escalation!"
And the Light hit dead center, right in the middle of the pack of Lobsters.
And grew. And grew. And grew.
A*0-1 just stood there, her mouth hanging open.
And kept on standing there, for a very long time...
"...Yo. ...Yo, close your mouth before flys get in."
It was only the shock of a familiar voice right near her that made her came to her senses. "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?"
Ryouga sighed, pensively.
"Oh, it did. Which is sort of good, since all the Lobster-things are gone for now at least, as far as I can tell, and 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."
Ryouga smiled crookedly, standing on air, right next to her.
That aura. That aura...
" - Sia?"
A*0-1 whispered.
The wind was cold. So cold...
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