SOMETHING had altered the past. Something catastrophic. The really unsettling thing was that it had apparently been her, well another version of herself.
Tampering with the past to that extent was forbidden, dangerous as all get out, and quite likely to erase the person doing it through the very alteration.
Fortunately, time was something she had. So she'd gathered clues, gotten involved, and tried to work out a suitable Plan A. Also a Plan B and Plan C, but it was Plan A that had been her main concern until a nice spring day when two dimensional wanderers had popped in from outside. Which had her come up with Plan E (the less said about Plan D the better).
Usagi had been enslaved as Setsuna had foreseen, followed by the other Inner Senshi. Their own preconceptions and knowledge of the slave role had been used as a foothold. Now they were with the one person on the planet in the right position who would only use them if they asked really nice.
It was a start. The problem was that she wasn't omniscient. Records from this time weren't available in the future but she knew bits and pieces. The Big Brawl was very very important - as it was the first time that Ranma and his father ran into the more organized Evil Kingdom thing. Sailor Moon had run into such, as had the Inners, but they'd mainly gone up against Jedite and a few lower level yoma.
Ah, as expected, Akane Tendo was now trying to hit Ranma Saotome. Using her enhanced strength and speed, she was still missing the boy who was her target while Akira sat back and watched.
And there went Akane's precision as she lost her temper. Hopefully some of Ranma's tendency to goad his opponents could be actively suppressed in the future. Otherwise that job offer would be a bit difficult to arrange.
Setsuna checked her watch and frowned slightly. Amusing as all this was, she had schedules to keep if she wanted to keep the resources and authority she had here and now. Since those little perks were able to add to her chance of pulling this off, it was necessary to put up with the inconveniences that came with them.
Kuno was delusional. If his brain were a computer, it would be flashing up [File Not Found] and [Cannot Connect To Reality] signs every so often during normal operations.
Kuno was also capable of getting a clue when it was beaten into his head or he stumbled sufficiently hard over it. Unless that piece of reality was directly against one of those delusions it could make it through without problem. If it DID fly in the face of a delusion, it had to be pretty direct to have any chance of being understood.
Tatewaki Kuno stumbled over the debris of the floor, reached down to grab the offending garbage, and realized he was holding a human skull. That still had bits of skin and hair.
As he stared at the grisly object in his hand, he couldn't help but notice that the back of the skull had been opened up. As he was realizing this, he also noted that the skull had been gnawed on.
At first, Tatewaki Kuno, age seventeen, rising star of the Kendo world, heir to his family fortune - was not quite able to put the various pieces together.
When he did, he signalled this to the world by squealing like a six year old girl and throwing the offending object against a wall.
There was a time for calm rational discourse, for meetings of the minds, for negotiation and diplomacy.
On the other hand, Tatewaki Kuno realized quite correctly that this was not one of those times. No, this was one of the times to pursue a course of action sometimes referred to as "getting the hell out of Dodge."
Finally, one of the old bars gave way to his savage yanking, and Tatewaki Kuno had a makeshift bokken in his hands.
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