A*0-1 shuddered. This was wrong. All wrong.
And Tanza - how dare Tanzanium taunt her?
A*0-1 crashed to a stop in mid-thought, then. What? This was Kina. Kina, who'd betrayed her along with the rest of her 'friends', yes -
Kina, now 'Uranus'. Yes.
"And what about the original Sailor Uranus, Kina? What did you do with her? Or him? Or them, maybe?"
She sure as hell hadn't been 'Uranus' to begin with, after all. Even if A*0-1 wasn't quite sure what she had been. Or even whether she'd known the answer to that, once upon a time...
Uranus, though, simply waved her hand.
"Oh, that. Well, nothing, if you must know. It's not like it's a Lifebearing planet, you know, and with the Sailor Wars and all - it hadn't had a active Senshi in quite a while, as far as we could tell."
A*0-1 ground her teeth.
"And what about the potential Senshi Starseeds Linked to this planet, then? - There would have been more then one, even with such a lifeless planet in the boondocks such as this one, correct?"
Uranus simply sighed at that.
"Yes, there were at least a half a dozen Starseeds which happened to have at least a latent Link to the planet Uranus. Most of them are still Linked, and most of them are still there as far as I know, drifting around the Solar System or being various life-forms in general, like, y'know? Some of them have gotten into the habit of reincarnating as Thinking Beings regularly, and are even beginning to reach the "Senshi's helper" stage, the last time I checked, actually..."
A*0-1 stared, then.
"You - "
"What? Aren't I afraid of being supplanted by the 'real' Sailor Uranus? - Not really, Overkill dearest. This Star System and I - get along fairly well. All things considered."
Uranus smirked, coldly.
A*0-1 bit her lip. 'Uranus' just left potential rival Starseeds alone?
"OK now, I'm using the Pluto Terminal to get nearer to Uranus - "
Pluto murmured, her Key glowing faintly. The sub-space bubble was illuminated with a red light.
Neptune had her eyes closed, lips moving slightly, why Saturn squeezed Ryouga's hand tightly when his eyes met his.
"Alright, here goes - "
"So you 'took over' a planet without any active Senshi. Good for you."
A*0-1 hissed. Nothing made sense.
"Oh yes it was. It was so - unsettling to be without one, y'know! Not that you'd know that part, I suppose..."
Uranus's eyes were cold, cold, cold, now. Ferociously cold.
"You've never felt your Link crash and burn as your planet died, after all - "
A*0-1 almost jumped back till she remembered that she couldn't really do that. Not in space. Had to move the force-field bubble, right.
"Black-hole's don't crash and burn that easily, do they now? They don't usually bear life either on the other hand, but -"
Uranus gave her an utterly insane grin, then.
"I can remember up to the third time, you know. Or maybe the forth? Feeling my planet die. Eh, Ha'shel?"
A*0-1 reeled again - Nononodon'trememberthatnow - and hissed, feeling the power raising. This was insane. It was Kina. It was Kina linked to a planet out on the boondocks which didn't even have a viable eco-system.
Where the hell was all this power coming from?
"Well here goes then, A*0-1-"
And then the battle, such as it was, began in earnest.
Power, power and more power which built up, crashed, and built up again -
"Alright, there they are - " Saturn muttered.
"Well, that much is obvious." Ryouga muttered. "The idiots."
Neptune bit her lip, concentrating.
"Alright, it's stabilized for the moment - the space-time around the place they're actually fighting is, I mean. How's the TempGate?"
"Alright for the moment." Pluto murmured.
"OK, let's see if we can see or hear more..."
"..."Ha ha ha ha, have you been slacking off, 'Nike'? Didn't think that was your style... I mean, you always used to at least pretend to train or practice or whatever, at least when you were 'Nike' that is. Most of the other you's I remember didn't even bother to do that, but - "
They could hear Uranus's taunting quite clearly.
"And I didn't think 'Teamwork' was yours, Kina! Why, you used to be this independent type!"
And that was A*0-1.
"What, jealous, 'Nike'? They're just trying to make sure the TempGate doesn't go down, you know- It's nice to have Teammates one can depend on, don't you think?"
A*0-1's answer to that was just a hiss of rage.
"And you haven't seen nothin' yet - why, they haven't even even started to feed me extra energy, yet!"
Oh, boy...
"Was that a cue, or was that not a cue?" Neptune muttered.
"That was just taunting at the moment, I think - but we should get ready to move anyway, in my opinion." Pluto murmured.
Saturn sighed. "Uranus has - issues about this. Doesn't she."
"Oh, if she's the reincarnation of who I think she is, yes she does." Ryouga mumbled.
"They both do, actually. Have lots of issues, I mean. With each other, and with - other stuff."
"I wish she could have regained those particular memories either sooner or a lot later then she did, then - "
Pluto sighed, again.
"The timing is... Won-der-ful."
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