[Episode 210238] [Episode 210238]Moon stepped forward to comfort Venus, but Jupiter had already beaten her to it, kneeling by her side.
“There, there. It’s ok,” Jupiter murmured, cradling Venus to her breast and stroking her hair.
“But... but... alone... never have anyone... cold... eternity... plethora of Mau... crazy cat lady of Crystal Tokyo,” the distraught Senshi of Love sobbed.
“Hey, as long as I’m alive you will NEVER be alone. Thirty days, remember?”
“But I thought you...” Venus trailed off, a touch of hope and a handful of need filling her watery eyes.
“I was just playing hard to get,” Jupiter lied. She liked boys, but she loved her friends and if it took becoming a lesbian to keep Minako from being alone, as Makoto herself had been for most her life, then she’d take lessons from Haruka!
Haruka blinked and looked over at Michiru. “Why did you just smack me in the back of the head?”
“I have no idea, I just had this uncontrollable urge.”
*smack*
“Why did you just smack my ass?” Michiru asked, not slowing her pace as they walked through the mall.
Haruka was about to repeat Michiru’s earlier comment back to her, when she developed an evil grin.
The arm around Michiru’s waist pulled her through a door marked ‘Employees Only’ and into one of the empty service corridors, where she was quickly pressed up against the wall by Haruka. “Because you’re a naughty girl, who deserves a spanking.”
Never let it be said that Haruka Tendo wasn’t ready, willing, and able, (not to mention planning and eager) to turn any situation into a chance to have a little fun!
“Really?” Venus questioned tearfully.
“Yeah, I just didn’t want you thinking I was easy or that I was just with you because of desperation. You mean far too much to me for that,” Jupiter finished resolutely.
Venus hugged Jupiter tightly. She wasn’t quite sure about the rest of what she’d said, but that last bit had a ring of truth to it.
Usagi sniffed at the touching scene. ‘Am I really being greedy by not sharing my Mamo-chan?’
Even Rei looked a little teary eyed.
Ami felt a touch of satisfaction at her hypothesis being proven right, and quite a bit of happiness that the two had found each other.
Meanwhile, both Mamoru and Ranma adjusted their capes a bit, as thoughts of a rather more earthy persuasion ran through their heads, Mamoru because the scene reminded him of a dream he’d had, involving girls with hair both light and dark and Ranma, because he was still confused about what they were talking about and had taken the opportunity to reach back and adjust Saturn a little higher of his back and in doing so discovered that her Senshi wear was missing something.
Hotaru felt a bit warmer and colder at the moment. Warmer, because Ranma had, had his hands on her bare butt, even though she was sure in was an accident on his part and colder, because she had just realized that her transformation had kept her wearing the g-string she had been wearing with her civilian outfit, rather than the normal leotard under her skirt and it was a bit drafty.
Venus collected herself, wiping her eyes with her free hand, her other hand still being held firmly by Jupiter. “Thanks. Sorry to break down in the middle of battle like that.”
“A wounded heart is no light matter. After all, a wound to the heart is far more deadly than the most toxic of poisons and were you to fall, it would spread to all those who care for you and then none of us would survive,” Tuxedo Mask finished, reminding her that all of them cared for her.
Ranma stared in awe at the tuxedo clad hero. ‘How the hell does he say all that junk with a straight face and keep it from sounding hokey? He’s like the anti-Kuno!’
Tatewaki Kuno sneezed. “Sorry about that, there appears to be some dust in the air.”
The director looked up from his copy of the script. “Don’t worry about it, just start again from the top.”
Kuno straightened his tie and cleared his throat before reciting his lines, “Foul sorcerer, thy villainy ends here and now! For far too long has thy kind been free to prey upon the weak and innocent of this world. As a champion of right, I shall see thee dead!”
“Excellent work, Mr.Kuno. I swear you were born to say these lines. It looks like we have a new lead for, Thor the Thunderer. Once we get the part of Sif, goddess of battle cast, we can begin production.”
Mercury cleared her throat, catching everyone’s attention. “The throne statue in the center of the maze is the storage module and the sundial next to it is the control module. If the control module breaks it will either deactivate the trap or cause a massive energy surge. I’d advise not hitting it. The storage module however can be safely broken. Without anything to hold the energy it’ll disperse rapidly, but harmlessly.”
“How do we get to the center of the maze?” Moon asked, happy that the solution to their problem was an easy one and allowed them to use one of their greatest skills, making things go boom.
Everyone looked at the maze and the ten foot wide trail of destruction that they had already blown to the center.
“Never mind.” Moon blushed and rubbed the back of her head. “So we just stroll in?”
“It’s a trap,” Mercury announced, scanning the remains of the hedge maze with her computer. ”There are dozens of dark constructs still active, just out of our line of sight, waiting for someone to enter. We have two choices; One, we advance slowly, blowing up anything that gets in our way and hope we have enough energy to force our way to the center or Two, we distract the remaining statues and send our fastest runner in to shatter the throne,” Mercury said, her preference for the second option obvious to everyone.
Ranma swung Hotaru around and set her down next to Moon. Cracking his neck he began to loosen up a bit and stretch his muscles, his intention to be the one going in readily apparent.
“Are you sure you’re fast enough?” Saturn asked nervously.
Ranma nodded and got ready to sprint as soon as they gave the signal.
Everyone got into position and began their windup. At Saturn’s nod, Ranma moved.
“Are you sure we have time for this?” Michiru panted as Haruka did her level best to remove the musician’s capacity for rational thought.
Haruka’s head popped out from beneath Michiru’s skirt. “Mars said there was at least an hour until everything was going to happen and that was just ten minutes ago.”
Michiru moaned loudly as Haruka went back to work. “Thank the gods! *pant* As long as they’re just waiting *pant* for everyone to arrive *pant* we have time. It’s not like *pant* they’re going to jump the gun...”
The two outers froze for a moment and yelled out in chorus, “Shit!”
Unfortunately, Haruka hadn’t moved from her previous position before yelling, so there was a slight delay as the Senshi of Neptune regained her ability to do anything other than grin.
He was a blur, his cape snapping sharply and his bell jangling energetically as he raced to his target. The statues were far too slow to catch him, as they leapt out and instead caught the trail of destruction in his wake, as various elemental based magical attacks rained down behind him.
Ranma’s right hand began to glow as he gathered chi to increase the strength of his blow beyond his normal rock crushing strike.
The four remaining cherubs, in the center of the maze, surrounding the throne and sundial, slowly turned and cocked their bows as he ran.
Ranma’s feet left the ground as he leapt the last ten feet, rising the same distance above the throne, his right fist painfully bright to look at.
The cherubs fired their arrows.
Ranma’s fist came down like a flaming meteor, just as the arrows slammed into the sundial.
The sundial shattered and a new sun was born in the center of the park, as all the life energy that was stolen over the last couple of years was released in an instant.
The senshi were blown back by the shockwave, rolling like tumbleweeds to the entrance of the park.
“OW!! Is everyone ok?” Moon, infinitely more practiced at falling then the others, was the first to recover and get back on her feet.
Turning her back on the blinding glow from the center of the park, Moon braced herself against the energy that was still trying to push them away and took a quick count of her friends. “Where’s Saturn?”
Mercury rolled over onto her stomach with a groan and shaded her face with her laptop, scanning the ongoing pressure wave. “She’s still in there! She’s advancing towards the throne!”
Saturn leaned on her glaive, fighting for every inch against the storm of power that had been let loose. Her Silence Wall had become warped and twisted by the storm’s fury, leaving a teardrop shaped shield in front of her, but she struggled onward, her carefully horded energy eroding at a frightening rate. ‘Ranma..’
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