While ships flitted over the ocean, Sailor Mercury was looking for a pattern that might have indicated Okeanos was present when she realized what she was reading. "...Pluto-san? What do you remember of Okeanos' powers?"
"Water magic," answered the Senshi of Time. "Body composed itself of water. Okeanos embodied the power, the moods, and the might of the sea... He fathered the Oceanids, probably by using the attack he did on Uranus and Neptune."
Mercury glanced over to where the Emperor was laying his hand on the glass of one aquarium, causing the mermaid to do the same from the other side while grinning that childish grin she now had. "Hmmm. Good with children, possibly."
Pluto tried to remember but it had been an extremely long time ago. "They were looking for an ultimate water magic control. Okeanos Project."
"He controls water by merging with it, doesn't he?" said Mercury in a voice that indicated she was going from bemused to panic.
"Yes, I believe so..." Pluto's voice began trailing off and she looked out across the Mediterranean. "He's spread himself out?"
"I'd estimate he covers roughly five square nautical miles and is continuing to spread," indicated Mercury. "He's a bit too big for me to freeze."
"Freeze? No. I wouldn't think so. Due to his form, conventional weapons won't be effective, so I am unsure what we could use to even get him to notice," confessed Pluto. Their attacks weren't normally that area-effective.
"Well, if we attacked him, he would probably notice," said Pluto. "Maybe if Sailor Moon used the ginzuishou at full power?"
"Preferably, we'd have to find a way that was NOT confrontational," said Pluto. "If Sailor Moon used the full power of the ginzuishou - she'd be left without that power if one of the other Titans threaten."
The mermaid and the nymph liked the pretty girls in the bright colors and the boys in the dull colors and they liked funny hair boy and girl with stick especially.
Mermaid wondered about what she could do to play with funny hair boy when she remembered the harp.
It seemed natural to pluck a string and produce a sound, and one led to another, and then some more.
Mermaid found something else she liked. She liked making noises on the harp. It seemed to get easier as she went too.
Mongo had a long history of intrigue. Usually one of the Emperors would hear about it and the instigators of said intrigue died nasty and thoroughly messy deaths.
General Mille looked over the results of her henchwoman's work. "This will do it?"
"We think so, ma'am."
"Not good enough," indicated General Mille.
"How would we test it?" Ensign Sleek asked. "It's designed to affect 'magical girls' by using their transformation and the very forces that would protect or restore them to mold them into proper seraglio members. We don't have any magical girls to test it on."
"This is not my problem," argued back Mille. "I'm the General in charge of Human Resources for the Palace staff. The Emperor wants a seraglio to double as guards. If one of these girls actually becomes a wife - the seraglio's days are numbered and I'm likely out of a job. So do you know whose problem it is if this gadget doesn't work?"
"Yours?" tried Ensign Sleek.
General Mille shook her head once. "Wrong answer. Because, Sleek, the moment that happens you and the other five women on your squad will end up leading the followup expeditionary force to Tartarus. I think that the problem with the last four expeditions was that they had too much in the way of weapons and armor, thereby constituting a threat. So your group should go with loincloths and armed with salad forks just to indicate that you are not a credible threat. For the glory of Mongo, of course."
"Tartarus?!" Ensign Sleek sat down, missing the chair. "Didn't the last mission involve twenty Marines backed up by combat robots? Didn't they come back..."
"We had to use DNA analysis to determine that what had been heaped into the transport was actually the expeditionary force, yes," said General Mille. "Don't worry. I'm sure your squad will last twice as long as the last group. You might actually make it all the way down the ramp!"
"Erk!" Ensign Sleek said, proclaiming her own thought of what it would be like to end up on a world where kuei held sway. At least that's what they'd taken to calling the unseen natives. "I'll get right on the testing, General Mille! You can count on me!"
"I was hoping so," said the General.
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