A Sweet Vacation
By: Whaphy
Rating: G – uh…a little (what is it the ESRB *too many video games, sorry* calls it?) comic mischief.
Type – General/Humor (or at least I though it was funny…)Disclaimer – Their toys – my toy box. This is just my own twisted mind playing with stuff I didn't create. 'Nuff said.
Chapter 1: A Whole New World
Michiru's wavy green-blue hair bounced on her shoulders as she followed her tall, blonde, shorthaired friend Haruka through the hallways of their home. Knowing she would never catch Haruka at this rate, she flopped onto a nearby green sofa. Haruka, noticing Michiru had given up, frowned and sat in the small blue chair facing the sofa.
"Are you sure you still want to do that?" Michiru asked in an exasperated whine. She inclined her head toward the bottle of wine Haruka was holding. "You remember what happened last time!" she continued, referring to the last time Setsuna drank too much – a whole glass - and the galaxy went to hell. Michiru shuddered as she recalled the explosions, the 'new enemy', and the shadow planet.
"Lighten up!" Haruka laughed jovially – she'd obviously had one (or two) too many drinks – "What's the worst that could happen?"
"Well when you put it that way…" Setsuna murmured as she entered the large, open room with bright blue walls and various colored furnitures scattered amongst a field of green carpet. Michiru smiled wryly at Setsuna's statement.
"Pluto!" Haruka jumped out of her chair and promptly tumbled to the ground. "Have a drink!"
A BIG sweatdrop appeared on Michiru's brow.
Setsuna smiled, and picked up the glass of wine Haruka had poured for her as Michiru complained. She settled into the big red armchair, which was positioned adjacent of the blue chair Haruka had been sitting in before she tumbled drunkenly out. This red armchair was her favorite chair by far. She loved the feeling of the satiny fabric as she sunk deep into the luxurious cushions. She slowly sipped at her wine as she watched the antics of the drunk Haruka and the frustrated Michiru from the comfort of 'Lay-Z' the chair.
"Before you get too comfortable sitting there, you should know that Chibi-usa's visiting you in a little while…"
Setsuna flipped her long green hair, smoothed her purple skirt, and scowled, 'How?' she mentally screamed, but quickly disregarded her own question. 'Ah, thank you Michiru, just what I needed to hear…I swear if she calls me Puu one more time…'
"Puu!" Chibi-usa called out in a sugar sweet voice. Chibi skipped into the room and on an exceptionally high skip her odangos hit the wooden doorframe. Her feet went out from under her and she landed on her butt with a 'plop'. Setsuna raced over to where Chibi had hit the doorframe. "Oh my goodness! You didn't chip the wood, did you?"
Setsuna, Haruka, and even Michiru burst out laughing. "Hey! It's not funny!" Chibi screamed.
Michiru cast a sympathetic smile over to Setsuna, as she grabbed a now blacked out Haruka by her ankles and briskly dragged her out of the room, leaving Setsuna and Chibi alone…
Setsuna continued to sink further into the cushions as the two began to glare at each other for a long while, neither knowing what to say. After a short while Setsuna got a blank look on her face; a look Chibi (for whatever reason) recognized – the alcohol kicked in. Realizing this was a more-than-perfect-time, Chibi popped the fateful question while readjusting her odangos, which were now on the sides of her head, – "May I pretty-witty please with sugar on top see your Garnet Orb?"
Setsuna laughed "Oh, this silly thing?" she asked, tossing somewhat crookedly the Garnet Orb to Chibi.
An evil glint appeared in Chibi's eyes as she caught the Garnet Orb. "Puu, what does this button do?" she asked, fingering a tiny red button that magically appeared on the handle of the Garnet Orb when she caught it.
Setsuna looked startled and then incredibly confused as she realized she hadn't the slightest idea what the little red button did. Summoning her little remaining sobriety she said, "I don't really know, so don't press…"
That's all Chibi needed to hear; she pressed the tiny button and the world around them went pink…
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Meanwhile:
"You're such a meatball-head!"
Usagi frowned as her friend, Rei, turned on her heel and stormed out of the ice-cream parlor. "Hmm, maybe I overdid it," Usagi muttered, then pondered this thought for a brief moment. "NAH! How can anyone tire of hearing about my beloved Mamo-chan?"
Usagi sighed blissfully and a sweatdrop appeared on each of the remaining senshi's foreheads.
As the senshi prepared to leave the parlor, Usagi taking her malt with her, a pink, sugary whirlwind of Chibi's creation engulfed them, and their world went pink too.
The senshi floated in space, confused, startled, and scared. Stars spun around them, and an exasperated "Look what you did now!" from Setsuna could be heard every now and then; these comments were meant specifically for a pink-haired wonder. For the most part, however, it was silent. The senshi had never been in a situation like this before; all hope was nearly gone, especially without Tuxedo Kamen to bail them out. Suddenly, lurching noises sounded and the stars began to spin much faster; the yellows and whites of stars mixed together, creating one big blur of chaotic color. The senshi were tossed and jostled around in space as the stars began to throw reds and blues into the whorl of color. Abruptly, the stars stopped spinning and a violent trembling occurred. Before long, the trembling stopped and a long roar – almost a moan – sounded; then the universe did a strange thing, it burped.
One-by-one, starting with Chibi-usa, the senshi fell from the sky. After they landed, Ami was the first to come-to her senses, quickly followed by the rest of the senshi – Usagi, Minako, Makoto, Rei, Setsuna and Chibi. Little white hearts (as opposed little, yellow birdies) floated before the dazed senshi's eyes. Chibi, the last to wake, knocked Usagi's malt cup off the top of her head. Usagi had obviously let go of it as they were freefalling through the sky. The frothy chocolaty goodness was now running down the sides of her face. "Ewie! Ewie! Ewie!" she screamed.
Setsuna smacked Chibi (not very hard) with the back of her hand, "Shut up! You're giving me a headache."
"Logic dictates that we shouldn't have been able to survive that," Ami said sounding smug.
Rei was the first to respond, "Who cares? Why don't you stick your logic someplace where the sun doesn't shine?"
The other senshi gasped, but Chibi, however, didn't get it…
"Underground?"
"Nope."
"Pluto?"
"HEY!" Pluto stomped her two-inch heels onto the pavement and pouted.
"NO!"
"Seattle, Washington?"
Rei angrily said, "No! I meant her as…"
Rei was cut-off by Makoto, who glared at Rei as she finished for her, "her astronomy lab."
Now Chibi was even more confused, "but Ami doesn't have an astronomy lab…"
Minako ended that conversation by – rather awkwardly - starting her personal style of a tirade, "I don't get it! How can you guys get a main part in this fic? I never get a main role; I haven't said a word at all until now! I don't even have a characteristic that sets me apart from the rest of you!" Minako threw up her hands in exasperation and stormed off, leaving the other senshi bewildered.
"Well, that was odd," Setsuna muttered. "I think we should find out where we are before we lose any more of our group…"
"Logical suggestion," Ami said, causing the group to sigh.
While the other senshi debated where they are and after Minako had left their group, Minako decided to go for a stroll, and began humming, "If only I had known it would be so easy to get a role in this fic, I would've done it much sooner! I can see it now: Minako - actress, singer, and main character! I wonder what I'll do when I'm famous…" As she was talking to herself, Minako ran smack into a human body; she staggered backwards several steps from the force of the impact. Oblivious to her surroundings, Minako managed to run dead into none other than Tori Avalon and Julian Star!
"Um…I…am v…v…very sorry…" Minako, who was by now a brilliant shade of red, managed to choke out. She then proceeds to brush non-existent dust from the front of her white blouse, red bow, and blue skirt.
Julian smiles and Tori suppressed a smirk. "Konnichiwa! I'm Julian and this fellow here," points to Tori, "is Tori. Well, I…er, we haven't seen you around here before", Julian said, still smiling.
Minako smiled shyly, staring at the two unbelievably kawaii – in her perspective - guys she managed to run into. "Well, my being here is an interesting point…" she began to tell the story about the pink tornado, but a young girl in rollerblades and her dark-haired friend interrupted her.
Tori rolled his eyes as he glanced at the girl in the rollerblades. "Hey squirt! Whacha doing?" he asked as he ruffled her hair. The young girl in the rollerblades glared at Tori and proceeded to kick him in the left shin - an impressive feat in rollerblades. Tori grimaced and turned back to Minako, "You just met my younger sister, Sakura and her friend, Madison." Sakura and Madison smiled sweetly at Minako, and abruptly left to go about their own business.
After leaving Minako, Julian, and Tori, Sakura and Madison raced over to the park only to be greeted with the sight of their friend Li running around in circles.
"Come back here, stuffed animal!" Li Showron shouted, chasing after what appeared to be an orangish-yellow teddy bear, with white wings, and a long tail with a white tuft at the end.
"Sakura, HELP ME!" The flying teddy bear screamed.
Sakura and Madison watched for a short while as Li chased around their friend Kero.
As Madison continued to watch Kero screaming in terror, Sakura grabs her little, flying friend. Kero sticks his tongue out, resulting in a furious Li and a trembling Kero, trying to hide from Li's 'death' stare. "If looks could kill," Kero muttered, barely audible.
"Come here and say that to my face, stuffed animal," Li snarled.
"Li!" Sakura shrieks. "How could you? You…you…insensitive…"
"DOLT!" Madison finished for her.
Li looked at Sakura and they both shrugged, confused.
After Kero regained his composure, he made his way over to where Sakura, Li, and Madison stood. "Can't you see that I'm just a poor defenseless guardian beast?" he asked, with the most innocent look he could conjure up.
The three of them, upon hearing Kero's question, fell over in classic anime style.
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The senshi huddled around in a circle, arguing about their current predicament. Ami stomped on the ground and gazed at the other senshi. The thumps on the pavement emphasized the words of the point she was trying to make, "We have landed in an alternate dimension!"
"We have not!" Rei screamed.
"Have too!" Ami screamed back, glaring defiantly at the group.
"It is highly unlikely that we have landed in an alternate universe…" Setsuna states, disagreeing with Ami.
"I said dimension!"
"We need to get proof to decide on anything! But how…" Makoto trailed off. She shuffled her feet and twirled a thin strand of brown hair that slipped out of its usual ponytail.
The argument between Rei, Ami, and Setsuna soon became heated, with screaming, stomping, and sticking tongues out until the most logical suggestion comes from one of the most unlikely people…
"Hey guys! I have an idea!" Rei, Setsuna, and Chibi looked incredulously at Usagi, who had had the idea. "Maybe we should go look for some cute guys to tell us where we are," she continued.
"Brilliant!" Makoto exclaims.
The group quickly follows suite and get ready to leave. The hunt for answers (and guys) was about to begin.
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"Hello?" Tori asked, waving his hands in front of Minako. "I think she's gone into some sort of trance…" Tori continued glancing over to Julian for support.
"Hmmm…" Julian muttered, slightly under his breath.
The two 'hotties' stared at Minako, who does, indeed, appear to have gone into a trance.
While Tori and Julian tried to snap Minako out of her 'trance', - if one would call little hearts in her eyes a trance - the senshi spied on Tori and Julian from behind the cover of a thick row of pine trees.
"Bingo!" Usagi said gleefully.
"You know, this is the smartest thing you've done in a LONG time…" Chibi said to Usagi with a sweet smile plastered on her face.
Makoto and Rei just stared blankly at the guys unable to say anything, for they too, had little hearts where their eyes should be.
Setsuna and Ami, the only senshi who didn't fall for Tori and Julian's "charm", poked the rest of the senshi to their senses.
"What?" Makoto questioned, looking quickly left then right.
Ami and Setsuna sighed, which got the senshi moving. They began walking in random directions; Chibi was the first to stop. She called out to the other senshi. "Hey…um guys? How are we going to get over there?" Chibi pointed to the area where Tori and Julian stood.
"The logical suggestion would be to go around these shrubs," Ami said as she kicked the nearest pine tree.
"They're not shrubs," Makoto stated. Ami stuck her tongue out at Makoto as she turned to face Usagi.
"Yes, but it would be much faster to go through the pine trees." Setsuna said, putting special emphasis on the words pine and tree. Being the oldest senshi, and the only outer senshi, Setsuna's statement carried much more weight with the inners. All the senshi, but the disgruntled Ami, readily put her plan into action. After much complaining to the sky, for the other senshi were preparing to enter the pines, Ami realized they weren't going to listen to her. She ran over to where the other senshi were, and one-by-one the group slowly entered the unknown – trees. Setsuna prompted Chibi forward, until Chibi was leading the group through the prickly pines.
After making a couple of turns around some pine trees with no avail, Chibi realized they were completely and utterly lost. "Which way now, Puu?" Chibi asked.
Setsuna immediately hit herself on the head for her previous and present acts of stupidity. Setsuna glanced around, "I really didn't know it was possible to get lost in a few pine trees," she muttered.
"This way guys," Makoto said pointing to a break in the tree line a little to the left of Chibi's cotton candy hair.
Ami sighed, "I knew that all along."
"Sure you did," Setsuna muttered under her breath, glaring at Ami.
"Guys," Usagi suddenly screamed, "the tree bit me!"
"They're just pine needles, meatball-head!"
As Usagi continued to protest about biting trees, the rest of the senshi neared the opening. "You first," Setsuna told Chibi.
Chibi hurriedly got out of the pine tree 'forest' and quickly spotted Tori and Julian. "I found them!" she called jumping up and down while pointing at Tori and Julian.
Ami, Usagi, Rei, and Makoto tumbled out of the tress followed by Setsuna who nimbly stepped around them.
"Yea! We did it!" Rei cheered.
"We did that very good…" Usagi began.
"Well," Setsuna interjected.
"Huh?" Usagi questioned, confused.
"Very well – very good is improper," Setsuna stated as she brushed pine needles off her purple suit and out of her long, green hair.
Ami smiled, but Rei said, "I liked her better when she was more greatly affected by the alcohol"
"I'll forgive that last remark, because we should go talk to those guys," Setsuna motions her head toward Tori and Julian who were beginning to walk away, "before they get too far away."
The last comment caused quite a stir among the senshi.
"Oh my goodness! She's right!" Makoto screamed, as Tori and Julian continued to walk away with Minako in tow.
The senshi all turned and looked; they nod simultaneously. "Wait!" they screamed together. Tori and Julian stopped dead in their tracks, and turned to see the senshi running towards them.
As the senshi neared Tori and Julian, Usagi called out to Minako, "Minako, are you all right?"
"Just dandy…" Minako said, sounding more than slightly dazed.
"She's okay!" Tori yelped, dropping Minako to the ground.
Minako looked up from the pavement, first at Tori, then Julian, then the senshi, "Owie!"
Tori and Julian stared stupidly at the senshi for a few awkward minutes. "Where did you come from?" Tori finally asked. Julian simply smiled.
"And do you have any food?" Julian inquired with a wistful look on his face.
"We don't have any food, and we're from the same place as her," Rei said pointing at Minako.
"We were hoping you could tell us where we are now," Ami said with a hopeful smile.
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Kero stared at the sunshine yellow walls of Sakura's room. Seeing they were not helping him decide what to do next, he directed his attention to Sakura's large collection of various colored and shaped stuffed animals. 'How can they think I look like that?' he thought angrily. Recovering, Kero smiled as pleasantly as possible at Li. "What does this piece do again?" he asked, pointing to the knight on the chessboard.
Li rolls his eyes, "I don't suppose I should've hoped a stuffed animal could play chess," he mumbled. "The knight, moves in an "L" shape; two and one," he said.
"Like this?" Kero asked, taking Li's queen.
Grudgingly, Li nods.
"Hi guys!" Sakura called as she walked into her room. "Whacha doing?"
Kero and Li glared at her, and both motioned her to be quiet, as they were trying to concentrate on the next move.
"But Li, the game is over; Kero has you in a checkmate."
Glancing back at the chessboard Li and Kero realized she's right, which caused Kero to jump for joy. "Ha!" Kero laughed, "Now you can't call me "stuffed animal" for the rest of this story! Nya nya nya!" Kero stuck out his tongue at Li as he finished his victory dance.
"Alright, teddy bear. Fine with me," Li said.
Kero sulked in a corner as Sakura glanced out the window, "Do you guys feel that? I haven't felt a presence like that since we were collecting the Clow Cards."
Li nodded when Sakura turned to look at him. Kero continued to wallow in self-pity, moping in the corner of the room. "But it doesn't make sense…" Sakura said with consideration, "I have all the Clow Cards…"
"Well maybe it's not a Clow Card," Li said, stating the obvious.
"Expect the unexpected," Kero added, snapping out of his self-pity mode and flying over to Sakura and Li.
Sakura turned to face Li, "I guess we have a new quest."
*If you've read this far, pretty please review. If you guys are actually enjoying this, I will try to get the next chapter up shortly. If you noticed, I used the dub names for only one of the shows; if this bothers you, I apologize but it helps to keep the two separate. This is Whaphy, over and out!*