Setsuna just stared. She really wished she could store personal items near or around the pocket reality that housed the Gate of Time. Because she really needed some aspirin right now! Hades, she was impressed with herself slightly for not needing a defibrillator. She had expected and dreamed a thousand possibilities, but this hadn't been one of them. She had steeled herself for the painfully transparent one of Usagi and Mamoru being reincarnated as Ranma and Akane or some other two random people from that chaos breeding ground some people called a district of Tokyo. Lesbian succubi, only slightly less obvious. Biological Vampires (opposed to the real deal that were allergic to the star of David or crosses) Setsuna had also braced herself for, given the strange tastes the fates clearly had. There had also been the remote possibility that their reincarnations had been off, and they had been born a couple hundred years off the mark or a decade after the rest of the Senshi. Then there were the slightly less crazy, Persocoms, Pokémon, elves and wizards, but it was positively none of these.
This decidedly derailed the threads of fate for the existence of a world running city state where Moon Healing cured people of whatever neurosis plagued them (something Usagi had avoided doing en masse in the timeline unknowingly to avoid being captured and dissected by corporate medical companies). Not to mention putting humanity into suspended animation for about a thousand years to save their lives and soul from an entity whose power was on par with that of the elder god Cthulhu's even worse cousins. She wondered if this meant Saturn would have to blow up the world after all in a couple of decades when push came to shove.
In one corner, the soul of Prince Endymion had, beyond all reason, found itself into the soul of a mutant dinosaur who, after being exposed to the radiation of a nuclear blast, had been awoken from his suspended animation and effectively brought back from the dead (what were they putting IN those Nuclear warheads?)... was this perhaps Endymion's previous incarnation brought back from the dead, preventing his reincarnation as a human? Setsuna had seen reincarnation screw people over a lot worse than this... Wait, no, she hadn't...
And in the opposite corner, we have the soul of Princess Serenity, that had wandered into the body of a giant moth who constantly was born, laid an egg, then died when the egg hatched, more than often producing twins in a life cycle not unlike that of the immortal Phoenix. The reason given for her existence was that the collective life force of the Earth had created her as a guardian against invaders of the giant monster class. Almost always accompanied by two tiny priestesses who spoke for both the giant moth herself and possibly her creator.
The giant lizard was known in other timelines for fighting humanity's enemies but only when it suited him, just as often trying to bring an end to the naked monkeys himself. The giant moth on the other hand, had shown a clear indication of only attacking when directly provoked. Of all the giant monsters that smashed through Japan, these two were the most victorious, and had clashed against each other several times. (Setsuna still thought the battles with King Kong were more epic though). And now it seemed the two were ready to go another round with plenty of property damage and innocent lives taken... Mothra and Godzilla.
Setsuna tried to imagine it, and realized she couldn't resist the demented thought of how Chibi-Usagi could possibility be born here... while that would make things more simple for Setsuna, she actually didn't enjoy the idea of condemning a soul to non-existence. (The heart of the reason why Setsuna hadn't simply given Ranma's mother protection during the wedding night with her husband.) A image of a lizard moth larva popped into Setsuna's head, and she shuddered in disgust. Maybe she could reason (something she had found almost never worked) with Mothra's two priestesses that their mistress had a much larger role to play than merely being Earth's guard dog... if the two giant beasts didn't kill each other first!
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