Mizuno Ami was a genius. This was well known. What wasn't well known, is just how smart she truely was: If she had chosen to, Ami could easily have let highschool and proceded into the mid range collage courses and beyond. She had simply chosen not to, so as to have a un-controversial record for use in later life.
As a blindingly intelligent person, she was occasionally prone to one of the pitfalls of being more intelligent than 99.9999999% of the population: Intellectual Arrogance. In Ami's case, this arrogance was usually of the very most minor sort, as her basic nature was rather shy and introverted, and becomeing a wererat had not changed this at all.
Ami's failing was that when she was presented with a solution that fit scientific data as she understood it, she tended to assume that the solution must be correct. In the life of a genius doctor, this would be a minor problem that would likely dissappear in gradschool, and indeed, was allready falling by the wayside in her psyche.
Unfortunately, Ami was also a Sailor Senshi, dealing with magic and alien invasions and demons on a daily basis, and magic is rarely logical or scientific. So it was that when she came to the conclusion that the Silver Crystal was the source of all of the Sailor Senshi's powers, based on energy current readings between the Senshi and the crystal, she did so for perfectly scientific reasons that were also perfectly and totally wrong.
In fact, exactally the opposite was true: the Silver Crystal was created by and fed by the innate magics of the Sailor Senshi' star seeds, and this was the secret behind Sailor Moon's greater powerlevel. Fed by the Ginzoushou, itself fed by all Senshi, Usagi effectively gained a small fraction of the powers of all those senshi who existed - not only those who served her - which, taken as a whole, was far greater than most of them could manage individually.
In useing the crystal to change the Senshi's uniforms, Ami had caused the crystal to accept the Senshi's current state as their 'natural state', and as was it's function, to take their basic race as the natural state of what normal people should be.
One of the side effects of meddling with the Silver crystal was to give Meiou Setsuna the weretiger a monsterous headache that even a bottle of asprin couldn't stop. It had derailed time, createing a paradox that was magnified to the tune of the allready discontinous presence of Chibi-Usagi Serenity in this era, and the changes were cascadeing in ways that even she hadn't forseen.
It was in this condition that Setsuna arrived in the dojo, intent on starting to catalogueing the Damage.
But first she had to get inside the door.
"Hi Everybody!" Hotaru, however, was likely to make the first impression. Since being transformed into a Were Panther, the girl had become...perky. Hyper. This was a definite change from the rather shy, retireing Hotaru the outer senshi knew, and a slightly frightening one, at that.
Haruka could only shake her head at the chorus of startled greetings - she recognized Makoto's groan of dismay amoungst them, and then cringe at the startled oath that came from the pretty Werejaguar in the back. The Werechetah Senshi of the Sky sent a laviscious look at her lover and helped a staggaring Setsuna inside.
For her part, Sheila was becomeing...geniuinely spooked. "More of them?! If this is Raphiel's fault, he's going to eat so many Kapowies he'll be eating through a straw for a week!" Her rection was understandable, at least (and far more understated than the reaction of the various wererats), given that she had been in ground zero of the problem and was likely to be recruited to give shapechangeing lessons to all of these people.
At least the new arrivals were more or less sedate. The little Panther babbled introductions, then bounced about the room looking at people curiously, earning several odd looks from Ranma and Sheila, amoungst others. "Oooh, Mina is like Haruka-papa! Um..Um..Ami, you smell good...er..nevermind - Mamoru-san makes a handsome Werewolf, oh, and who are you? I'm Hotaru and that's Haruka-papa, she's a flirt, and Michiru-mama who takes care of us, and Setsuna-mama, she has a headache, so we should be quiet."
Kasumi could only shake her head at the darling girls antics, but was rapidly realizeing that the tendou household was lible to have far to many guests in it soon. With all of the Sailor Senshi (she reminded herself to get that nice Sailor Mercury Girl's autograph, and one from Sailor V as well), Sheila and her were rat friends, and these new girls - and Sheila's friends who were appearently comeing - Ranma's friends who must inevitablly show up - the place was going to be quite croweded.
After a moment's quiet, tigress contemplation, she sighed and said, "So many new guests..Please come in and sit down. This is obviously becoming to much of an affair to handle quickly, so I suspose I should make a brunch for us to snack on while we discuss it. I don't beleive I'm going to have enough to make breakfast for everyonem though... Hum..Nabiki? Could you please put up the camera and help me go shopping?"
Every eye in the room abruptly pinned Nabiki to the wall. Ranma growled - as did several of the Sailor Senshi (Minako was seemingly asleep again, and did not join this chorus), and the newly minted Werejaguar chuckled nervously. "Of-ofcourse, Kasumi. Just let me get my wallet and get dressed and we'll go."
Then Nabiki turned and ran. Startlingly, there were no instant bolting stampedes to follow her, and so it was that a few moments later, the two eldest Tendou's proceded out the door, just in time to miss the portal opening to allow Theodore Diggers's and partys entrance.
Theo, Seance, Julia, Britney and Gina were the lucky party, and when greeted by a unanimous wall of unkown werecreatures, they could only stop and stare, with the exception of Mr. Diggers, who rubbed his forhead, senseing an oncomeing headace and earning a sympathetic look from Setsuna. "This isn't an outbreak, Sheila. It's an eppidemic."
Sheila:
(Posted Mon, 20 Jan 2003 05:53)
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