"Oh hey, Akane, lookit what someone left out..." Ranma looked up and dodged a raindrop. "Uh oh. I gotta get Ami home. No tellin' what'll happen if she gets wet!" Zooom!
"Huh, what?" Akane managed between gulps of air.
"Not bad," said Ranma, admiring the fit of the battle gi. He usually preferred the sort of Chinese clothing he normally wore, but this was nice. It fit him pretty well and seemed to stretch where he needed it. Though the way part of it had turned pink when he'd stretched...
Had the clothing just moved on its own? Molding itself to his bottom and briefly cinching up at his crotch? Nah. His imagination.
Ami's screen was pink as she realized that Makoto might not be able to move on her own, she was shifting around on the frame of Ranma and getting a good feel in. Of course, Ami's screen had turned pink when Ranma had stripped down to his boxers before putting the gi on. Apparently he'd forgotten she was watching.
"Hmmm," said Ranma. "I wonder if this gives me a powerup?"
Ami decided that watching a well toned martial artist doing stretches wasn't helping, though she was a little curious why she felt so fascinated with such things despite her lack of hormones at the moment. Best to explore her cage now while she was recharging.
Hmmm. There was a registration form that had been left blank. Ami quickly filled it in with Ranma's information as the owner and the address of this dojo that she'd seen on returning from retrieving the laptop..
A slam of the door elsewhere told her that Akane had arrived, just in time too as the rain was coming down pretty hard now.
The registration filled out, Ami passworded changes to it by using a sixteen random keystroke combination. She did the same for her hard drive's formatting commands. That way if she was "lost or stolen" but recovered, she'd end up back with someone who knew her current plight.
That done, Ami turned her attention to the blackness around her. Did this mean she didn't have any programs loaded?
The Menace that Neptune had detected had dodged their initial attack.
The figure in trenchcoat and wide hat had dodged each attack, blurring slightly just before each attack as it sped up to the point where little images of itself seemed to leave a trail in the air. Then some odd glow from within the right sleeve had stabbed out.
Jupiter had seen some sort of flash hit Mercury and then her team-mate was GONE. Vanished. The Mercury Computer had fallen (though it had looked a little different) to the pavement and the fight had gone on in earnest.
They tried catching it in a crossfire. They tried high-low combinations. Jupiter had tried engaging it in HTH while Sailor Moon had started building up an area effect attack centered on herself, hoping to catch the thing in it while the Senshi would be immune to the effects.
There had been a bright flash and then nothing. She had been alone in the darkness, feeling herself slowly fade away.
Then warmth. She'd felt flesh touching her, smoothing out the wrinkles in her surface. She'd gotten an image of herself as a deflated balloon, but this image was corrected as she felt herself being put on.
She was some sort of battle costume. She felt... well, more alive than she had been. Things began impacting on her from the sensation of being worn. She was being worn by someone quite well built. Definitely male. Definitely the sort she'd have liked to meet prior to the fight.
She wasn't alone, but she still couldn't see or hear or smell. Only feel. Ooohhh Yeah as soon as she turned back she DEFINITELY wanted to be introduced to this guy!
Settling into place, Makoto just let the information from the warm body seep in, slowly building up a picture of the guy wearing the Jupiter suit.
"Mako-chan, Ami-chan," sobbed Sailor Moon.
"I think it's still out there," said Sailor Uranus. "We lost it a few blocks back but it still might be looking for us."
"But everyone..." said Sailor Moon.
"They might have gotten away," argued Sailor Uranus. "I called for a retreat and regroup. They should be showing up here at the shrine office, it's the most logical place for us to gather."
Sailor Moon just sobbed.
"We saw Mercury and Jupiter get hit with those attacks, and there was something odd about those," said Sailor Uranus. "It might have just been some kind of teleportation effect, in which case we'll have to rescue them from that thing's lair."
Ami finished looking over her prison, having hit on the idea of sending out specific commands.
She was the Mercury computer, sort of, actually there was a Mercury Computer Emulator object she'd tripped over in the dark.
Her camera showed a wet Akane coming up the stairs and she put a greeting up on her screen.
(Posted Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:16)
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