Steve T.
15th December 2003, 01:00 PM
AN: Something that came to me the other day. Don't know what to do with
it beyond this, to be honest.
-----
It has been said that if an evil is defeated, it leaves a hole that
must be plugged.
Woe to those who go forth to battle evil.
For they may become that plug.
****
Luna bit into the rat savagely. It had done nothing to offend her, but
she had to take out her frustration on something.
Six years previous, Luna had taken a thirteen year old girl named Usagi
Tsukino and revealed to her what destiny had planned.
Luna's claws scratched the stone under her feet as snarled to herself.
Though she had made mistakes at first, Usagi had indeed proven herself
worthy of the duty laid upon her. Within a year, she had gathered the
rest of the Inner Senshi to her, found the Ginzinhozou crystal, and
done battle with Beryl herself, defeating the evil queen and destroying
her.
But Usagi was only thirteen . . . and to kill at any age is a terrible
thing.
To commit genocide, to destroy an entire race, even if that race was
the Youma, is a crime beyond forgiving.
Guilt is a slave driver on a road paved with good intentions.
Luna looked out over what had once been Tokyo from the roof of the
skyscraper whose roof she now stood on.
In less then ten years, Tokyo had become a devastated ruin, and rising
over all of it was the palace where the Sailor Senshi dwelt, wallowing
in barbaric debauchery and occasionally governing the world they had
ruthlessly conquered to better protect it.
"So that's dinner?" A man's voice asked.
Luna looked over her shoulder. A man stood there. His uniform was
grayish blue with red trim. It had been patched in places and his blond
hair hung to his shoulders. His arm supported a woman who had been
beautiful once. Now, Setsuna was a lush, a drunk. Her clothes were even
worse then the man's, made mostly of filthy rags and dirt. Her eyes
were the vacant, uncaring stare of one who had sought escape in drink
and other chemicals.
"Yes, Jadeite," Luna said. "Dinner."
Jadeite set Setsuna down and picked up the rat. His hands glowed with
blue fire and moments later, the rat had been cleaned and cooked.
"Not bad," Luna said, driven by good manners to compliment the meal.
"It's all I can do," Jadeite said bitterly as he began to coax Setsuna
to eat something.
Luna nodded and turned to study the palace once more.
All the Senshi were tied to the Gizinhouzou, even Pluto, who was not a
true Senshi. Which had saved her soul.
Unlike the others, who had been unable, or unwilling to resist
following their queen into darkness, Pluto had not answered the call.
Sailors Uranus and Neptune had stripped Pluto of her garnet orb staff,
and by extension, her most significant powers. In doing so, Sailor
Pluto had died, her dream of a reborn moon kingdom dead with her and
now, there was only Setsuna.
Jadeite was a former General of Beryl who had been imprisioned inside
his own body for his failure to kill the Senshi. When Beryl died,
Jadeite had been freed, only to find himself in an even worse hell then
before.
He had tried to exact revenge, but had failed and done so miserably.
Somehow, Mercury, clever, clever Mercury, had managed to strip Jadeite
of most of his powers and then didn't even bother killing him, but
rather turned him out into the city.
He had joined Luna and Setsuna, and between the three of them, they
somehow managed to survive on the forgotten rooftops and high places of
Tokyo.
Perhaps the worst part was that there was no alternative. Luna, Jadeite
and Setsuna, even if they pooled their powers didn't have enough to
even make an assault on one of the bunkers scattered throughout the
city.
Not to mention the fact that there was no resistance. Mercury could
detect so much as a flashlight being turned on, and unpowered weapons
were no good against the Senshi's powers or the legions of troops they
had assembled out of the dark side of society.
And yet, Luna knew that there was an answer, buried in her memories of
the Moon Kingdom. Something about a resort unlike any other.
But try as she might, she could not retrieve it.
"So this is the wise and brave Luna," said a woman's voice mockingly.
Luna spun, aware of Jadite rising to his feet as well.
Standing nearby was a young woman, perhaps sixteen or seventeen. She
had cotton candy pink hair and wore what seemed to be combination of
armor and clothes. In one hand, she . . .
Luna's heart caught in her chest.
In one hand she carried Setsuna's staff, and in the other, the Moon
scepter, the Ginzinhozou glittering in the light of the setting sun.
"Who are you?" Jadeite demanded.
The girl's lips twisted into a cruel, cruel, smile.
****
"Usagi."
Usagi sat straight, knocking away the man who up until that point, had
been trying very hard to make her happy and not suceeding very well.
"Highness?" he asked, trembling.
"Over here, twit," the voice snapped.
Usagi looked. Seated in a chair was a woman in her mid-twenties. She
wore a black dress with a blue cloak and her white-blonde hair was in
odangos. "Who the hell are you?" Usagi demanded.
"Serenity," the woman replied. "I'm you, the future you."
Usagi crossed her arms and stared at Serenity. "I doubt that."
"Nerima," Serenity said levelly. "Jinnai Misata. Nineteen-Ninety."
Usagi obliterated the man she had knocked off the bed and looked at
Serenity. "Fine. You're the future me. What of it?"
"We have a problem. Our daughter is loose in your time and --"
"Daughter?" Usagi inturrupted in stunned disbelif. "I . . . pregnancy?"
Serentiy nodded. "With Mamoru of all people," she said. "It seemed like
a good idea at the time. I caught him with one of the maids a few weeks
later. He likes them young, you know, and I still can't bring myself to
kill him, the annoying bastard."
"Pregnancy?" Usagi said, still shocked.
"Yeah, it horrifies me too," Serenity said. "I told you, it seemed like
a good idea at the time. The point is, the resulting sprog has gone
back and time and taken the Garnet Orb staff and Moon scepter staff
with her . . . it . . . whatever."
"And this is my problem, how?" Usagi asked.
"I can't believe I was this thick," Serentiy said, rolling her eyes.
"The point is, Usagi, that if she can find help, *any* kind of help,
she could kill you."
"Me? Why me?"
"Revenge of course. It's my own damn fault. I shouldn't have had her
girl-toy killed. Who'd have thought she actually cared about Hotaru?"
"Hotaru?"
"Sailor Saturn. She hasn't awoken yet. Besides, it's Mistress Nine you
want."
"Who?"
"You'll find out. I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise."
"Gee, thanks."
"Anyways, we have a common goal, twit. If she kills you, I'm dead too.
So have Mercury find that crotch dropping and then kill her before she
becomes a nuisance."
With that, Serenity vanished.
"Hag," Usagi muttered and reached for her robe.
****
"An intriguing offer," Jadeite mused, when the girl, who'd said her
name was Chibi-Usa, had finished. "But unfortnutly, there's no help we
can give you. Even if Setsuna was herself, which she's not, and if I
had my full powers, which I don't, and with those items in your hands,
which you admit you're not completly sure of how to use, there's not
enough power to take on all seven Senshi and Mamoru, plus the soldiers.
"Are you telling me that there's nothing you can do?" Usa demanded. "I
thought you were warriors."
"We are. But even warriors need something to work with. Armor, weapons,
an edge. We can't take on Tokyo with out some sort of tech-"
"That's it!" Luna shouted. "I remember! I remember!"
"What do you mean?" Jadeite asked. "Then he frowned. "Wait . . . that
was destroyed. I supervised it myself."
"Not all of it," Luna said. "Three pods were later found and hidden
away on the off chance they might be needed. You and the others had
defected by then. The Queen told me before she sent Artimes and I into
the future."
"A backup plan?" Jadeite asked. Luna nodded. "Figures."
"What are you talking about?" Usa demanded.
"A long time ago, in the latter half of the Silver Millenium," Luna
began. "The Moon was attacked by an alien ship, an envoy from an alien
race. It kidnapped people and turned them into armored creatures known
as Tekkamen. The Tekkamen were without fear, mercy, compassion or
empathy, and totally loyal to their masters."
"The war devastated Jupiter's moons," Jadeite said, and destroyed a
planet, turning it into an asteroid belt."
"The Sailor Senshi were created soon after," Luna said. "As a force
powerful enough to meet the Tekkamen if they returned, or any other foe
for that matter, on an eqaul footing."
"An hoot wood you damn ta th't 'ife?" Setsuna asked." The former
Guardian Of Time swayed as she stood. "A curse, th't is."
"Maybe," Jadeite said. "Maybe not."
Everyone looked at him.
"Everything happens for a reason," Jadeite said. "And Queen Serenity of
the Moon Kingdom was no fool."
****
They met in an abandoned house in the Shinjuku district.
A scientist, a shopkeeper, and a soldier.
At one point, Usagi had called each one friend.
"Naru Okasa, Gurio, Umino , and Motoki Furahata," Luna said. "You all
knew Usagi. You all called her friend. You are here tonight to take up
a destiny that should not be taken up, should never even be mentioned,
but we have no choice."
The three people looked at each other nervously. None of them could
explain why they had followed the strange feeling that had led them to
this place. Nor could they explain the strange looking pods, or that
Usagi's pet cat was talking to them. But it seemed right, somehow.
"Why the hell would we want to give up our humanity?" Motoki demanded.
"That's even worse enslavement then what's out there?"
"Is it?" Luna asked. "The world is slowly burning. Usagi and the others
will destroy it, if not by war, then through their own inattention.
Africa is completely uninhabitable by this point. How long before Japan
meets the same fate? Can you truly sit by and let the world, let
humanity die?"
"Excuse me," Umino said. "If I could examine the process? There might
be another way."
Luna stared at him for a moment. Umuino had been the top brain at
school before Ami had transffered in. It was possible he could do it.
She nodded.
****
Several Hours Later . . .
"It is possible to become Tekkamen without sacrificing our humanity,"
Umino said. "But there is a price. The conversion process takes eight
days. If the process is inturrupted on day six, we will retain the
powers of Tekkamen, with only a ten percent loss."
"I hear a however," Motoki said.
"However," Umino said, pushing his glasses up. "We can only be Tekkamen
for thirty minutes at a time. After that, what there is of the
conditioning kicks in, and we will become monsters."
"I know its a lot to ask," Luna said. "But please believe me when I say
we would not be doing this if we had any other choice."
The three went into a huddle while Luna, Jadeite and Usa exchanged
glances.
"We're in." Naru asked when their conversation is done. "Tell us what
to do."
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is the creation of Nako Takeuchi, Tekkaman is
copyrighted by Tatsunoko Productions & Sotsu Agency. No Money is being
made from this and no such intent should be inffered.
-Steve "Komodo" T.
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it beyond this, to be honest.
-----
It has been said that if an evil is defeated, it leaves a hole that
must be plugged.
Woe to those who go forth to battle evil.
For they may become that plug.
****
Luna bit into the rat savagely. It had done nothing to offend her, but
she had to take out her frustration on something.
Six years previous, Luna had taken a thirteen year old girl named Usagi
Tsukino and revealed to her what destiny had planned.
Luna's claws scratched the stone under her feet as snarled to herself.
Though she had made mistakes at first, Usagi had indeed proven herself
worthy of the duty laid upon her. Within a year, she had gathered the
rest of the Inner Senshi to her, found the Ginzinhozou crystal, and
done battle with Beryl herself, defeating the evil queen and destroying
her.
But Usagi was only thirteen . . . and to kill at any age is a terrible
thing.
To commit genocide, to destroy an entire race, even if that race was
the Youma, is a crime beyond forgiving.
Guilt is a slave driver on a road paved with good intentions.
Luna looked out over what had once been Tokyo from the roof of the
skyscraper whose roof she now stood on.
In less then ten years, Tokyo had become a devastated ruin, and rising
over all of it was the palace where the Sailor Senshi dwelt, wallowing
in barbaric debauchery and occasionally governing the world they had
ruthlessly conquered to better protect it.
"So that's dinner?" A man's voice asked.
Luna looked over her shoulder. A man stood there. His uniform was
grayish blue with red trim. It had been patched in places and his blond
hair hung to his shoulders. His arm supported a woman who had been
beautiful once. Now, Setsuna was a lush, a drunk. Her clothes were even
worse then the man's, made mostly of filthy rags and dirt. Her eyes
were the vacant, uncaring stare of one who had sought escape in drink
and other chemicals.
"Yes, Jadeite," Luna said. "Dinner."
Jadeite set Setsuna down and picked up the rat. His hands glowed with
blue fire and moments later, the rat had been cleaned and cooked.
"Not bad," Luna said, driven by good manners to compliment the meal.
"It's all I can do," Jadeite said bitterly as he began to coax Setsuna
to eat something.
Luna nodded and turned to study the palace once more.
All the Senshi were tied to the Gizinhouzou, even Pluto, who was not a
true Senshi. Which had saved her soul.
Unlike the others, who had been unable, or unwilling to resist
following their queen into darkness, Pluto had not answered the call.
Sailors Uranus and Neptune had stripped Pluto of her garnet orb staff,
and by extension, her most significant powers. In doing so, Sailor
Pluto had died, her dream of a reborn moon kingdom dead with her and
now, there was only Setsuna.
Jadeite was a former General of Beryl who had been imprisioned inside
his own body for his failure to kill the Senshi. When Beryl died,
Jadeite had been freed, only to find himself in an even worse hell then
before.
He had tried to exact revenge, but had failed and done so miserably.
Somehow, Mercury, clever, clever Mercury, had managed to strip Jadeite
of most of his powers and then didn't even bother killing him, but
rather turned him out into the city.
He had joined Luna and Setsuna, and between the three of them, they
somehow managed to survive on the forgotten rooftops and high places of
Tokyo.
Perhaps the worst part was that there was no alternative. Luna, Jadeite
and Setsuna, even if they pooled their powers didn't have enough to
even make an assault on one of the bunkers scattered throughout the
city.
Not to mention the fact that there was no resistance. Mercury could
detect so much as a flashlight being turned on, and unpowered weapons
were no good against the Senshi's powers or the legions of troops they
had assembled out of the dark side of society.
And yet, Luna knew that there was an answer, buried in her memories of
the Moon Kingdom. Something about a resort unlike any other.
But try as she might, she could not retrieve it.
"So this is the wise and brave Luna," said a woman's voice mockingly.
Luna spun, aware of Jadite rising to his feet as well.
Standing nearby was a young woman, perhaps sixteen or seventeen. She
had cotton candy pink hair and wore what seemed to be combination of
armor and clothes. In one hand, she . . .
Luna's heart caught in her chest.
In one hand she carried Setsuna's staff, and in the other, the Moon
scepter, the Ginzinhozou glittering in the light of the setting sun.
"Who are you?" Jadeite demanded.
The girl's lips twisted into a cruel, cruel, smile.
****
"Usagi."
Usagi sat straight, knocking away the man who up until that point, had
been trying very hard to make her happy and not suceeding very well.
"Highness?" he asked, trembling.
"Over here, twit," the voice snapped.
Usagi looked. Seated in a chair was a woman in her mid-twenties. She
wore a black dress with a blue cloak and her white-blonde hair was in
odangos. "Who the hell are you?" Usagi demanded.
"Serenity," the woman replied. "I'm you, the future you."
Usagi crossed her arms and stared at Serenity. "I doubt that."
"Nerima," Serenity said levelly. "Jinnai Misata. Nineteen-Ninety."
Usagi obliterated the man she had knocked off the bed and looked at
Serenity. "Fine. You're the future me. What of it?"
"We have a problem. Our daughter is loose in your time and --"
"Daughter?" Usagi inturrupted in stunned disbelif. "I . . . pregnancy?"
Serentiy nodded. "With Mamoru of all people," she said. "It seemed like
a good idea at the time. I caught him with one of the maids a few weeks
later. He likes them young, you know, and I still can't bring myself to
kill him, the annoying bastard."
"Pregnancy?" Usagi said, still shocked.
"Yeah, it horrifies me too," Serenity said. "I told you, it seemed like
a good idea at the time. The point is, the resulting sprog has gone
back and time and taken the Garnet Orb staff and Moon scepter staff
with her . . . it . . . whatever."
"And this is my problem, how?" Usagi asked.
"I can't believe I was this thick," Serentiy said, rolling her eyes.
"The point is, Usagi, that if she can find help, *any* kind of help,
she could kill you."
"Me? Why me?"
"Revenge of course. It's my own damn fault. I shouldn't have had her
girl-toy killed. Who'd have thought she actually cared about Hotaru?"
"Hotaru?"
"Sailor Saturn. She hasn't awoken yet. Besides, it's Mistress Nine you
want."
"Who?"
"You'll find out. I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise."
"Gee, thanks."
"Anyways, we have a common goal, twit. If she kills you, I'm dead too.
So have Mercury find that crotch dropping and then kill her before she
becomes a nuisance."
With that, Serenity vanished.
"Hag," Usagi muttered and reached for her robe.
****
"An intriguing offer," Jadeite mused, when the girl, who'd said her
name was Chibi-Usa, had finished. "But unfortnutly, there's no help we
can give you. Even if Setsuna was herself, which she's not, and if I
had my full powers, which I don't, and with those items in your hands,
which you admit you're not completly sure of how to use, there's not
enough power to take on all seven Senshi and Mamoru, plus the soldiers.
"Are you telling me that there's nothing you can do?" Usa demanded. "I
thought you were warriors."
"We are. But even warriors need something to work with. Armor, weapons,
an edge. We can't take on Tokyo with out some sort of tech-"
"That's it!" Luna shouted. "I remember! I remember!"
"What do you mean?" Jadeite asked. "Then he frowned. "Wait . . . that
was destroyed. I supervised it myself."
"Not all of it," Luna said. "Three pods were later found and hidden
away on the off chance they might be needed. You and the others had
defected by then. The Queen told me before she sent Artimes and I into
the future."
"A backup plan?" Jadeite asked. Luna nodded. "Figures."
"What are you talking about?" Usa demanded.
"A long time ago, in the latter half of the Silver Millenium," Luna
began. "The Moon was attacked by an alien ship, an envoy from an alien
race. It kidnapped people and turned them into armored creatures known
as Tekkamen. The Tekkamen were without fear, mercy, compassion or
empathy, and totally loyal to their masters."
"The war devastated Jupiter's moons," Jadeite said, and destroyed a
planet, turning it into an asteroid belt."
"The Sailor Senshi were created soon after," Luna said. "As a force
powerful enough to meet the Tekkamen if they returned, or any other foe
for that matter, on an eqaul footing."
"An hoot wood you damn ta th't 'ife?" Setsuna asked." The former
Guardian Of Time swayed as she stood. "A curse, th't is."
"Maybe," Jadeite said. "Maybe not."
Everyone looked at him.
"Everything happens for a reason," Jadeite said. "And Queen Serenity of
the Moon Kingdom was no fool."
****
They met in an abandoned house in the Shinjuku district.
A scientist, a shopkeeper, and a soldier.
At one point, Usagi had called each one friend.
"Naru Okasa, Gurio, Umino , and Motoki Furahata," Luna said. "You all
knew Usagi. You all called her friend. You are here tonight to take up
a destiny that should not be taken up, should never even be mentioned,
but we have no choice."
The three people looked at each other nervously. None of them could
explain why they had followed the strange feeling that had led them to
this place. Nor could they explain the strange looking pods, or that
Usagi's pet cat was talking to them. But it seemed right, somehow.
"Why the hell would we want to give up our humanity?" Motoki demanded.
"That's even worse enslavement then what's out there?"
"Is it?" Luna asked. "The world is slowly burning. Usagi and the others
will destroy it, if not by war, then through their own inattention.
Africa is completely uninhabitable by this point. How long before Japan
meets the same fate? Can you truly sit by and let the world, let
humanity die?"
"Excuse me," Umino said. "If I could examine the process? There might
be another way."
Luna stared at him for a moment. Umuino had been the top brain at
school before Ami had transffered in. It was possible he could do it.
She nodded.
****
Several Hours Later . . .
"It is possible to become Tekkamen without sacrificing our humanity,"
Umino said. "But there is a price. The conversion process takes eight
days. If the process is inturrupted on day six, we will retain the
powers of Tekkamen, with only a ten percent loss."
"I hear a however," Motoki said.
"However," Umino said, pushing his glasses up. "We can only be Tekkamen
for thirty minutes at a time. After that, what there is of the
conditioning kicks in, and we will become monsters."
"I know its a lot to ask," Luna said. "But please believe me when I say
we would not be doing this if we had any other choice."
The three went into a huddle while Luna, Jadeite and Usa exchanged
glances.
"We're in." Naru asked when their conversation is done. "Tell us what
to do."
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is the creation of Nako Takeuchi, Tekkaman is
copyrighted by Tatsunoko Productions & Sotsu Agency. No Money is being
made from this and no such intent should be inffered.
-Steve "Komodo" T.
http://livejournal.com/users/pandoras_closet
http://aberdawnknights.keenspace.com
http://www.fanfiction.net/~pandorascloset
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