"Damn," Venus cursed. "Not only was I groped by a hormonal pre-teenager and was threatened with lawsuit in case I didn't sign their autographs, no, that blasted cow-girl got away."
"Calm down, Venus," Mercury said. "I'm trying to track her energy signature down with my Mercury Computer... We should be able to get after her in no time."
"And if we find her, what then? Does your super-genius brain have a solution for this? How are we supposed to get her back on the ground? I wouldn't like to shoot someone down who seemed so polite, even if she's a daimon, and even if I dangled down from her, several meters over the ground..."
"There! I got her!" Mercury shouted. "She's heading for the airport!"
"Well, that's where she belongs..." Minako grumbled. "Okay, I'm ready... Shall we go?"
----
Inside the control tower of the Tokyo Airport sat a tired man who wished his shift was already over, so he could go home and help his family with the Christmas preparations...
In a bored tone of voice, he watched over the maneuvering area.
"This is control tower..." he grumbled into his microphone. "A small two-seated sports aeroplane just started, on schedule."
Several minutes later...
"This is control tower. A black-and-white cow-girl just started, not scheduled."
Silence.
After several seconds, the man shook his head. "Wait a minute..."
"Control Tower..." his superior's voice came out of the speaker. "Would you be so kind a repeat that? HAVE YOU GONE NUTS, MAN?"
"I... guess I really need that vacation..." the air controller groaned and massaged his temples.
----
"Well, there she goes..." Venus sighed. "And now? You wanna fly after her, Mercury?"
The blue-haired genius Senshi looked around. Then she pointed at a small sports airplane that was standing nearby. "We'll take that one!"
"Wait a minute..." Minako stuttered. "Can you fly?"
"I took several lessons during the summer holidays," Ami smiled. "I may not be old enough, but... my uncle allowed me to use his own little plane."
Minako looked at her friend with new-found respect. "Ami, I have to say: You're full of surprises."
The pilot of the small airplane had just planned to climb in, when the two Senshi approached him.
"Stop!" Venus shouted. "Sailor Senshi! Is this baby all filled up?"
"Um... yeah, I've just filled the tank," the pilot explained. "But why..."
"We have to confiscate it for a greater good," Minako explained. "Sorry, pal... But we'll try to do our best and bring it back safely."
She grinned at her fellow Senshi. "Mercury, let's get in!"
"Now just wait a second there..." the man wanted to protest, but Minako stopped him with her palm.
"Look, do you see this fuku?"
"Well, yes, but..."
"And what does it make me?"
"Uh..." The man scratched his head and expected a catch question. "A Senshi?"
"Righto!" Venus nodded. "And that means we're the defenders of this city and have every right to confiscate whatever we need to protect loyal citizens like you from evil daimons, youmas, tentacle demons and door-to-door-salesmen. Understood?"
The man sighed. "Clearly, ma'am..."
Venus smiled. Victory! "Good! Now please, let us do our job!"
She climbed to Ami into the cockpit.
"Door-to-door-salesmen?" Ami asked and raised an eyebrow.
"You don't know how tedious they can be..." her blonde friend grumbled. "Especially on Saturday, when I just want to sleep in..."
She watched how the clever girl carefully flicked on several switches on the airplane's instrument panel... and was impressed. "So, you can bring us up to that cow, right?"
"Yes, I think so," Ami nodded. "Let's see..." She closed the cockpit and grabbed the joystick. "Yes, that should do it."
----
A little later, the small Senshi plane was soaring through the skies, hot on the tail of a certain, black-and-white spotted daimon...
"There she is!" Minako shouted and gestured upwards. "Ami, fly as close as you can!"
"I'll try..." came the nervous response. Ami had wanted to reassure Minako, so she said she had no problems... But actually, she was still a newbie, as not many girls her age were normally sitting at the controls of an airplane.
But still, this couldn't be harder than using a PC, could it?
"Oh my..." Kasumi said as she saw the airplane coming in her direction. "They came all this way just to get me down? How considerate of them..."
Just then, a stiff breeze came from her right and blew her around, until she floated directly over the small airplane.
"Oh no..." the cow-girl muttered. "Not now..."
And then, she dropped down from the sky like a rock.
The two Senshi in the airplane's cockpit yelped as suddenly, the heavy body of the daimon came crashing down on top of their flying vehicle. The unusual weight made controlling the plane very difficult, and poor Ami had a hard time preventing the plane from crashing.
"Mayday! Mayday!" Minako yelled. "Two Senshi in distress in the air!"
"Mina-chan, stop flailing around... Oh no!"
Minako gulped. "Uh-oh... 'Oh no' is never good news, especially not in an airplane..."
Ami grinned nervously... and held up her steering tool. "I just broke the joystick..."
Mercury and Venus looked at each other, then they looked out of the cockpit, as their plane suddenly tilted... and then plummeted down to the ground at an astounding velocity.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!"
CRASH! CLONK! BANG! CRAAAAASH!
After bouncing off the airport's maneuvering area multiple times, the sports machine came to a crashing stop just in front of the control tower.
While within the cockpit, Ami and Minako looked like they were ready to pass out, Kasumi unsteadily came climbing down from the top of the crashed plane.
"Oh my... Whew, lucky... I don't seem to be hurt..."
"I guess the 'Lucky Factor' strikes again..." Ami mumbled.
"I wish we had something similar..." Minako groaned. "Ow... my head..."
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