Sailor Pluto smiled grimly, then, watching the brewing storm. Well, that was then, and this was now.
Though it was a bit jarring to realize that any version of herself could get... quite so many details wrong, or just simply mixed up. As well as simply miss a great many important things - well, at least they were important to her present self's way of thinking, that is...
Like that weird 'false memory' of Moon 'blabbing' the details about 'a Princess who was going to rule the World some day.'. No such thing had happened, of course, as all Sailor Moon had known at that point in time was that she had to look for a Princess, and that was it. And Pluto was sure of this, too - she'd scanned back in time and checked, just in case. Yep, no blabbing about anybody ruling the world here - all Moon had said was that she had to look for a Princess, and that was it.
Though it was possible that that version of herself had been scanning a 'close but slightly different' timeline when she thought she saw that, of course...
Pluto sighed, then. Well OK, that was possible, but as for how she could have missed the existence of Queen Metallia in this timeline -
Well, that had been pretty easy, she supposed. Pluto smiled then, grimly.
Eenie, meenie, moonie, mo, who remembers the Dark Kingdom now?
Very, very few Beings of any kind, that's who...
Though she suspected 'Lightwings' might have, just a little bit. It would explain at least part of his - cold hostility - to the Senshi in general.
And what was that weirdly poetic drabble about the 'cast out' 'negative energies' of the old Silver Millenium of somehow turning into the Invaders, anyhow? Pluto sighed, then. To think that any version of her could be so - superstitious. It wasn't like 'Negative Energy' was even quasi-alive, in and by itself - that was why any 'Chaos Being' had a 'core' at the center that definitely wasn't made of 'Negative energy', after all.
Note to self : If she ever was so far gone that she began to mix up lots of food lying around and garbage attracting wild animals and bugs to garbage somehow turning into wild animals and bugs themselves...
Ahh, well. She knew what to look for if her mind began slipping now, that was for sure.
For better or for worse.
The Invader known as Wiseman slept, cowl drawn close.
And dreamed of a glittering City of Crystal...
It had seemed open, it had seemed weak, it had seemed rich beyond their wildest dreams.
And the Queen with the balls on her head...
Shiny, shiny, shiny Energy Crystal, enough to gorge and welp and...
And then she looked at him, and smiled coldly.
(Oh, oh, I'm frightened, mighty Invaders! I'm weak and frightened and my defenders are worth nothing under your great strategy...)
She looks at him raising the Crystal tantalizingly. (Oh, oh, Invaders, wouldn't you come attack me now? I'm soo weak, you know! Here, look at the shiny...Don't you want the shiny? Here, look, I'm soo weak... "
She puts a soft hand to her breast, and draws a finger right down her collarbone, drawing...
Blood.
Bloodscent in the air, blood in the -
(I'm even bleeedingg...)
That smile, that smile -
(Come, come, come get the shiny-)
And they had gone rushing in, to the slaughter, like weakling food -
Wiseman awoke with a scream in his throat.
- Bitch, Bitch, Bitch -
And Saotome Ranma dreamed of red long hair, and the voice of a Invader woman.
(Lightwings, Lightwings, we'll be the death of each other yet - )
Be - ry...
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