Author's Notes
This story is yet another of my takes on what a Crystal Tokyo Senshi team might be like. In this story, they are not related to the original Senshi. For those who are astrology fans, as a warning, these characters do not necessarily fit their signs, in their personalities or in their powers.
Bunny Johnson is Sailor Aries
Kristina Fritz is Sailor Taurus
Zylphia McDuff is Sailor Gemini
Jasmine Johnson is Sailor Cancer
Stormy Spumoni is Sailor Leo
Sparkle O'Brien is Sailor Virgo
Samantha Sanchez is Sailor Libra
Melissa Bouvier is Sailor Scorpio
Emily Remington is Sailor Saggitarius
Alexandra Johnson is Sailor Capricorn
Heather Gabor is Sailor Aquarius
Veronica Evans is Sailor Pisces
Chapter 1: Aries
Bunny Johnson stepped through the door of the Crystal Palace, looking around for the Sailor Senshi she had heard so much about. Because that was why she was there; to become a Sailor Senshi. She wasn't sure about the details, but she and her sisters were the chosen ones, which was eeriely appropriate since her mother, Elizabeth Johnson, and her lover, Juanita Sanchez, were Sailor Senshi nuts. It had always been their dream together to live in Crystal Tokyo and meet the Sailor Senshi, and now they had their chance. They had come all the way from St. Louis, Missouri, to live in Japan. Also living at the palace were eight exchange students from Europe-specifically, France, Hungary, Italy, Germany, and the other four were from the British Isles.
"Hi, everyone! Makoto and Haruka will take your bags and help you to your quarters here in the Palace. Bunny, I want you to come with me, I have something special for you," Rei Hino greeted them cheerfully. Bunny nodded quietly, and followed Rei into a room where four of the exchange student girls were sitting on chairs.
"Someone said we were going to be Zodiac Senshi! Why do they need Zodiac Senshi with the others around?" blurted out one of them, who had her black hair in two braids and a German accent.
"Because, Kristina, the Zodiac Senshi need to defend Crystal Tokyo against a new menace. Chibi-Usa, Diana, and the other Senshi's children, including my cute little Ayumi, have not returned from their expedition to the remains of the Moon Kingdom, nor have they contacted us for awhile. I have also had some frightening premonitions that tell me that something has gone wrong with Chibi-Usa and the others; most likely, they have fallen to evil. The Starlights are here, too, and that's because they were also victims of the current enemy," Rei explained, "As for why we cannot do the fighting, that's because we lost our powers when we had children, except for Sailor Pluto who seems to have only lost her fighting magic but still guards the Gates of Time. Luckily, the Starlights still can use their Senshi magic. They will help you Zodiac Senshi when the enemy comes." Almost as if on cue, after Rei finished speaking, a cute Beagle dog bounded into the room and jumped up on Bunny's lap.
"Hi! I'm Miharu, your guardian pet! I'm here to give you your Senshi powers, Sailor Aries!" the dog giggled with a human girl's voice. Another of the exchange student girls leaped over and picked up the puppy, squealing eagerly.
"WOW! She's so CUUUTTE! Can I be a Zodiac Senshi too? I want a puppy too!" she giggled with a French accent.
"Please, Scorpio! Stop acting so silly! Scorpio people aren't supposed to be silly!" the puppy squeaked in protest. The girl held out the puppy, staring at her confusedly with her one eye.
"But my name is Melissa. Or do you mean that's which Senshi I'm going to be?" she asked.
"Hey, what happened to you? How come you've got an eyepatch on?" Rei asked suddenly. Melissa plopped Miharu back on Bunny's lap and sat back down, pouting.
"I got this mean girl mad at me and she stabbed my eye out. It hurt and I think she was magic or something. She got scared away when she saw something on my head, though," Melissa sniffled. Hmm, a magic girl, does this have anything to do with the enemy here, Rei wondered?
"Well, in any case, the rest of you will have to wait to be Senshi until the other Zodiac dogs give you your powers. Miharu came just for Bunny. Why don't you girls go off and play somewhere safe?" Rei offered. Three of the girls left, but one stayed behind, staring at Bunny with big, frightened yellow eyes. She pointed a shaky hand at Bunny and Rei.
"Is it okay to give her Senshi powers? Are you sure she's not going to use them to be a bad gangster girl?" she whimpered, "Because that's what I heard African-Americans were like." Rei glared at the girl.
"Heather, please. You're going to have to get those silly racist ideas out of your head if you're going to stay here as a Sailor Senshi," she snapped, "And anyway, the Queen wouldn't ask Bunny and her family to come live here if she thought they were going to cause trouble." Heather pouted, but didn't leave the room.
"Can I be a Senshi too? I think it will help me become like a beautiful princess," she asserted timidly.
"Not yet. I think that's for one of the other dogs to decide, and also Haruka. You can stay with Bunny and me, though, and I'll show you how it works," Rei said, and then she put her hand on Miharu's furry head. The pink symbol of Aries appeared on the puppy's head, and a beam of light shot out of it to merge with Rei's hand, where a pink star appeared, attached to a string so that Bunny could wear it around her neck. Bunny stepped forward obediently with an unreadable expression in her pink eyes and she let Rei slip the pendant around her neck. Miharu suddenly let out a yelp of impatience and anger.
"What is wrong with you?! Sailor Aries should be more passionate than that! You should be excited to be a Sailor Senshi!" she shouted.
"I am. The history behind the Sailor Senshi is quite interesting," Bunny said calmly. Miharu barked again.
"That's not passion! Come on, I bet Rei picked the wrong person," she scoffed, glaring at the priestess, who glared back.
"What?! Bunny, show her I'm not wrong!" Rei shouted angrily. Bunny nodded and held up her hand.
"Aries Zodiac Power, Make Up!" she called. After the pink lightshow finished, she was dressed in a pink Senshi outfit similar to the ones the Senshi had at first, although her boots were tall and styled like those of the Starlights. She then looked at Rei quizzically.
"If I may ask, why are there Zodiac Senshi? I know about the others having the powers of the planets, but where do I and the others come in?" she asked. Rei shrugged.
"I don't know. I..." Rei trailed off and fell over, a hypnotised look on her face, "The servants of the planets have arrived. Weaker but together, they are needed, because the planets have fallen to evil." After this droning psychic speech, she fell into a snoring sleep. Sailor Aries nodded. So that would explain why Rei had to help Miharu give me the Aries powers, she thought, I bet in the Silver Millennium, I must have been the servant of Mars or something. Heather's eyes lit up eagerly.
"Oh, wow! Just like on TV! A mystic Oriental woman! And the magical black servant girl!" she giggled.
"Heather, for the second time, stop with the stupid stereotyping. Bunny's not a servant, she's a Sailor Senshi, like you," Rei sighed in exasperation as she suddenly popped out of her sleepy trance. Rei then looked up and noticed a familiar girl standing in the doorway-Chibi-Usa. But there was something different about her.
"Chibi-Usa? Is that you? Why do you have cat ears and a tail?" Rei asked her. Chibi-Usa glared at her.
"Call me Chibi. That is my new name, befitting my new mission, which is to rid Crystal Tokyo of the nuisances called the Zodiac Senshi," the pink-haired girl said coldly, pointing a finger at Sailor Aries.
"Look out, girls. That isn't the usual Chibi-Usa. I felt something bad had happened to her," Rei warned.
"Actually, it was quite good. Now I don't have to transform into that stupid skirt to have any powers," Chibi smirked, and to demonstrate, she shot a blast of pink energy at Sailor Aries, knocking her into Rei. Heather screamed and ran out of the room, shrieking about how princesses were supposed to be nice, not scary. Sailor Aries stood back up and fixed an equally cold stare back at Chibi.
"Aries Numerical Escalation!" she called, and she flung a 5, 3, and a 2 at Chibi, so now it was her turn to be knocked down. Chibi snickered.
"Mama would hate that, you know. She doesn't like math. Well, I can destroy you any time, but I don't really wanna fight right now. I'd rather just goof off, since I'm a kid," she shrugged before teleporting away in a flash of light. Sailor Aries turned around to see Rei just staring ahead with sadness in her eyes.
"That was nothing like Chibi-Usa. She's always been so eager to grow up and work hard," she lamented.
"Obviously she's changed, though. She must be suspectible to falling evil, since I heard about how she turned into the Black Lady once," commented Sailor Aries before she detransformed.
"Maybe, but I still won't like telling Serenity what has become of her daughter," sighed Rei.