"Exactly. It actually was your fault in a way, but you couldn't find another path," said Setsuna.
"Let me get this straight. I'm joined up with a girl?"
"I did say that."
"You mind explaining how that happened?"
"Well, it was during an especially bad battle..."
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Ranma held the dying Sailor Neptune in his arms as he sat on the stone floor and coughed. "Man, we really are screwed, ain't we? Stupid Happosai and his demons..."
The unconscious Senshi in his arms didn't answer, not that he expected her too."
"We're dyin', ya know? Ya get separated from everybody else and I just had ta go and save ya. Only... I counldn't get that right, could I?"
Neptune just moaned from where she lay.
"I beat all of the guys between us, but I know my body good enough that I figure that I got only a little while yet. And ya are even worse off. They got ya cornered and..."
Her head rolled to lay against his chest.
"I figure that we got nothing else ta lose. We're gonna be goners either way," the pigtailed boy said, pulling out a small retangular object, "Setsuna said that this thing's supposed ta do a 'Polymerization', whatever the heck that is exactly. Somethin' about 'combinin' our life forces'. This way Haruka'll have one of us in some way. Maybe you'll be able ta forgive her for all this..."
The object in Ranma's hand began to glow.
***
Uranus ducked another blast from the monster and growled in frustration. Her husband and her lover were someplace nearby and in danger, but she couldn't get to them. This demon was keeping her and the other Senshi from looking for them. Of course, he was the reason that they had come in the first place.
Yet two parts of her heart were missing and quite possibly seriously hurt and she there was nothing she could do for them. She couldn't even beat this freak!
When she looked up, the first thing that she noticed was the demon standing over her. "Ah... I think that you'll be the first to die..."
'I'm sorry. Ranma. Michiru. Usagi. I've failed you.' Haruka closed her eyes in expectation of the blow.
"DEEP SUBMERGE!" A ball of green energy slammed into the demon and smashed him away from the the blonde racer.
Haruka's eyes snapped open and looked at the source of the attack. "Neptune?!"
The girl in question smirked. "Right here Uranus. But there'll be time for reunions later. We have a demon to stop."
"Right," replied the shorthaired blonde and the two rejoined the battle.
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"So, how'd that happen?!" asked Ranma.
"You must realize that there were three sources of magic involved there," Setsuna told him.
"'Three'?"
"Yes. The object's. Michiru's Senshi powers. And Jusenkyo."
"Jusenkyo? But that's..."
The Time Senshi smirked. Take it this way. You don't turn into a short, busty redhead anymore."
"I don't..."
"No. You turn into an attractive young woman with sea-green hair."
"Hold up a moment," interrupted Haruka while Ranma sputtered, "What do you mean 'turn into'?"
"Ah yes, you didn't know," said Setsuna whimsically, "While your husband was training with his not-too-bright father, he fell into a spring in China where the person who is dunked by the waters is cursed to turn into whatever drowned there."
"So he turns into a..."
"A 'she'. He fell into the 'Nyaniichuan'. The spring of the drowned young girl. Only now he turns into Michiru because of that object."
"What happened to her..?" asked Ranma.
"Who?"
"Michiru."
"You see, she:
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