Old priest Hino shuddered as he looked up from the sacred fire. For a moment, it seemed to him as if something was wrong... that he should be worried about his beloved temple's safety.
He looked outside, at the small statue that was standing next to the entrance. It was an ornate figurine, showing a dog-like creature with a fierce visage, but nevertheless a noble appearance.
"Lord Shisa..." the old priest murmured. "Continue to protect this place and your servants..."
He then sighed and stood up from the ground. He winced when his old bones were creaking. "I'm not as old as I used to be..." he murmured. "If something happens to the temple, I wouldn't know what to do with my life... so I guess I should try to find someone who could help me with my work. Someone young..." He smiled to himself. "A young heir, yes, I like the sound of that... a young man... my granddaughter would also like that, I'm sure..."
He suddenly stopped and gave himself a light slap in the face. "What am I talking about?" he muttered. "I don't have a granddaughter..."
Setsuna shook her head as she continued to look through the Gates of Time. She could see that there were faint traces of memory in the heads of the Senshi's former relatives, even though they were born as kaiju in this new timeline.
"This has to stop!" she told herself. "Ami and Makoto might still be humans, but who knows for how long? Hotaru had been born a human in this new screwed-up world as well, and see what became of her... at this rate, there won't be any human Senshi left. And I don't even know what happened to Haruka and Michiru yet..."
But when she searched for the Senshis of Neptune and Uranus, she let out a strangled squeak when she found out where her spirit had ended up in.
"ANOTHER resident of Monster Island? Oh, that's it... I will go down there and fix things, right now!"
She would at least have to make sure that Hotaru wouldn't be turned into Destroyah. Normally, she hated it if she had to intervene into the flow of time this directly, but she saw no other way. She would have to go back to the point before Prof. Tomoe tried out the Oxygen Destroyer on her.
So she took her Garnet Rod and stepped through the Gates of Time...
But something went wrong. Call it an intervention of fate, call it a misfunction of the Gates of Time... for some reason, it didn't send Setsuna back in time, but instead transported her to another place, to the Pacific Ocean... to some cliffs that were close to the island of Japan, to be exact.
Shortly before Setsuna's arrival, however, there was another creature that had appeared on that cliff.
It was dark, creepy and disgusting. The slimy creature reached over the edge of the cliff and pulled the rest of its body upwards.
The last thing that Hedorah's primitive mind remembered was incredible pain, when Godzilla had blasted its body into pieces. Afterwards, everyone had believed the sludge monster to be dead, destroyed... but it actually survived. Using its regenerative abilities, it had managed to pull together some of its body's remains to form a much smaller, but still humanoid body that resembled its final form in appearance.
Still, because it had lost just too much of its body mass, its intelligence was even further reduced... and its IQ had never been very high to begin with. So while the pathetic remains of Hedorah knew that it had to survive, it couldn't even remember that it had fought against Godzilla. All it knew was that it had to find some additional bio-mass it could add to its body...
It was distracted from its sluggish thoughts when in a flash of light, a fuku-clad woman appeared nearby. Hedorah couldn't tell that this creature was a human, or that humans normally weren't supposed to be able to appear out of thin air like that. It only knew that there was compatible bio-mass nearby, and that it could use this to expand its body. So it slowly crawled behind a rock, preparing to pounce...
Sailor Pluto looked around in confusion. "What... what happened? This isn't the lab of Professor Tomoe... did the Gates of Time malfunction? Impossible! This wasn't supposed to happen..."
She saw the movement in the corner of her eyes, but barely had time to react. When the dark, humanoid blob of ooze leapt at her, she could only raise her staff... but the goopy form of Hedorah melted right through her staff and covered Setsuna's firm and supple body with a thick layer of slime.
"Ewww, yuck, that's disgusting!" the guardian of time said as she flailed around, trying to get the smog monster's slime off her body. "Get off, you monster!"
But even if Hedorah understood the human language, it wouldn't have listened to her. He could feel the warmth of her body and knew that he had to assimilate her bio mass to his body, where it would dissolve and adding more slime to his own mass.
Setsuna tried shooting a Dead Scream, but the powerful grip of the kaiju pulled the Garnet Rod out of her hands. She tried to scream, but then the slime covered her mouth and slowly began to crawl upwards. Finally, the heavy weight of the slimy monster became to much, and the Senshi of Time collapsed under all the sludge and slime. Hedorah continued to crawl over her, until all of her body was covered with it.
For a while, they were just laying there. No sound was heard. From outside, they were just looking like a twitching pile of goo, with nothing remotely human about it.
Finally, the oozy mass began to stir. The pile of slime slowly stretched itself, forming an arm, then a leg, and in the end, it pulled itself up into a humanoid form.
A shapely, female, humanoid form... a form that resembled Setsuna Meioh.
Neither Pluto nor Hedorah could have anticipated this, but the Sailor Magic within Setsuna's body had caused an unusual reaction, merging their bodies without actually destroying Setsuna in the process. It was now Hedorah's feeble little mind that was absorbed in her own, but it was Hedorah's slime that made up 97% of her body mass. She was still able to assume a form that resembled her old, human body, but she could change shape easily as an amoeba.
The only thing on her body that was not made of the grayish sludge were her red, glowing eyes and a likewise red-glowing stone on her forehead... right where her tiara used to be.
Hedorah-Pluto tried to stand up, but the first few times, her slimy legs always collapsed under the weight of her body, since she wasn't used to control her formless body. In the end, she managed to gather enough willpower to at least pull herself into a sitting position.
Looking down at her gray, slimy form, Setsuna wasn't able to bring out any coherent word for some time.
When her mouth finally opened, the first thing she said was: "Well, f*ck!!"
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