"What are you doing, Ami?" Minako asked curiously as the blue-haired girl genius inspected a slimy substance splattered over the pavement.
"I'm scanning this weird stuff," Ami explained, showing that her Mercury scanner worked even if she didn't turn into Sailor Mercury.
Minako frowned. "Looks like the remains of a normal egg to me..." she muttered.
"Not entirely..." Ami said. "It looks like a normal egg... a duck's egg, I might point out... but it has some very unusual properties that lead me to believe that it might be the byproduct from one of the animal daimons..."
Minako scratched her head. "Um... byproduct?"
"Um... I mean a daimon laid it, Minako!"
"Ah!" Now the red-bowed blonde understood. "So, what's so unusual about the egg?"
"It looks, smells and tastes just like a normal duck's egg," Ami realized. "Only that it is much larger... Also, if a human being were to consume such an egg, it's unusual components would change the behavior pattern of the affected human..."
Minako was confused. "Um... in a language I understand, please?"
Ami sighed. "Whenever a human would eat the egg - raw or cooked - he would start acting just like a duck."
"No way!"
Ami nodded. "Yes, and while I'm pretty sure that this change of behavior will wear off after a short while, we should make sure that the daimon doesn't lay too many eggs any innocent pedestrian could pick up and take home."
Minako gulped. "Well, then we should find her, fast..."
----
While the two Senshi in human disguises were beginning their search, a humanoid figure whose body was being covered by white feathers, watched them from above.
"Shampoo no like this," she muttered. "No wanna go back in cage... being free is so much better."
Then she hiccuped. "Oh no, is starting again... Ooooh, every time Shampoo is getting upset..."
She squatted down on the edge of the roof and grimaced.
And with a loud "QUAAAAACK!", her newest egg fell down from the roof...
----
Leon was still searching for the three persons he believed to be the culprits of various crimes...
"They won't get away with this when I finally arrest them," he grumbled. "Burglary, assault, kidnapping, and mockery of a police officer..."
But before he could say anything else, something hard and slimy hit his head.
"Ow!" he groaned and felt his head. "What... what the heck was that?"
He grimaced as he felt the slimy remains of the giant duck egg that was spread over his head.
"Yuck!" he said in disgust. "Did some pigeon drop its egg or what?"
He looked up, but could not see anything.
He then looked at his right index finger, which was still coated with the slimy stuff. He stared at it for a while, shrugged and put the finger in his mouth...
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"What are you still doing here?" Chief Todo bellowed at police officer Nene Romanova. "Why aren't you with your new partner? You were supposed to help him catch the burglars."
Nene fumed. How was she gonna make her chief clear that while she liked working with Leon, she very much preferred working in her office, as their department's communication and computer expert?
"The two of you would have a much easier time searching for the culprits together, you know?" Todo continued his tirade. "And now Leon has to do everything by himself, all alone, like a lone wolf..."
"QUACK!!"
Todo and Nene both blinked. What was that?
At that moment, Leon came bursting into the office, waving his arms around as if they were wings, and quacking just like a duck.
"A lone wolf, huh...?" Nene muttered and raised an eyebrow.
Todo growled and walked around his desk. "What the heck do you think you're doing, officer? First, you try to involve me in your kinky games, and now you're behaving like some crazy fowl during duck hunting season!"
Leon tried desperately to explain, but everything that came out of his mouth was: "Quack! Quaaack!"
Todo had seen enough. "Dammit, stop this! Or at least do something useful and lay an egg!"
While Nene could only giggle at that, Leon wished the earth would open up and swallow him...
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