Prologue
Sailor Moon, Tsukino Usagi, gasps as she's kicked onto a church steeple that had to be shaped like a cross, her heart crystal shattering beyond repair. She calls upon the crystal to initiate the punishments for her traitorous senshi, grants Saturn an eternal level even though she knew her reincarnated half-sister was going to follow her into death. Even now she could feel the Saturn senshi's rage and then everything fades away.
Chap 1
Kennedy International Airport, Year 200X:
Serena and Hotaru Shinotsuki stretch as they get off the plane and head for the bathroom first. That was when they heard the screams, " Stay here, good thing our stuff is in subspace. "
" Nee-chan, I can help. " Hotaru retorts.
" I know you can but, I have the advanced cybernetic prosthetic arm that can turn into several different weapons that can fire off energy blasts. We're dealing with robots here, Hotaru. Besides, I'm the technopathic technomantic umbrakinetic umbraporter here. "
Hotaru laughs at this, " That's a mouthful, go, save people. "
Serena, with her dusty blonde hair, dives into the shadows and hums in concern. This was not looking good. That was until a blue android, calling himself MegaMan shows up riding on a robotic dog. It was when he saved the blonde android that she acted, appearing out of the shadows and using her arm to slice through the Monorail that had been thrown at the blonde. MegaMan looks startled, " Where did you come from and how did you do that? "
ProtoMan curses internally, the hime, here, now. Why the hell had he been placed inside a robot anyhow, okay, technically an android? Still, what was…Queen Mercury must have been forced to build the hime an arm but why? He knew she was organic except for her right arm his sensors indicated that much. He fires off a plasma bolt and as he expected she evades the attack and immediately goes on the offensive after somehow getting his little brother's energy back up. Well, he'd just have to train his little brother up without making Wiley suspicious, shouldn't be too hard.
Serena grins as she weaves her way across the battlefield, only MegaMan and ProtoMan would see her actual identity. She slows time when she reaches ProtoMan, " Fancy seeing you here, Mac. "
ProtoMan shakes his head at this, " I'll do what I can to train my baby brother over there and keep you safe. Anyone else with you? "
Serena smiles slyly at this, " Saturn. "
ProtoMan's eyes widen even as a faint blush can be seen, " Where? "
" Ladies, I have the prosthetic cybernetic arm. " Serena says, " Get in touch and we can have bitch fests like we did back in the old days. "
" I'll let you know, where will you be staying? "
Serena waves a hand and ProtoMan blinks, " What did you…? "
" I just gave you a hidden memory area so Wiley can't access it. Don't wait too long to contact Hotaru though, Mac. "
Time was only slowed for ProtoMan and Serena, MegaMan was currently dealing with the other Robot Masters while Roll helped out from behind the scenes. Once her chat with her old friend is done she lets time speed back up and leaps up and over an attack from ProtoMan. The teen smirks as she looks at him, " Sure you wanna get your ass kicked by a girl? I see that weapon of yours enough I might just be able to recreate it. "
ProtoMan grins and keeps firing away at her while she dodges everything he sends her way. The other Robot Masters have been dealt with by MegaMan which meant MegaMan, Roll, Met, a round 'bot with a hard hat on, and Rush were all watching the playful spar between two old friends, not that Wiley would ever know that. " She's human and she can fight level with ProtoMan? " Roll asks.
" Hey, I do have a prosthetic cybernetic weapon arm, thank you. " Serena calls out and slides under ProtoMan before kicking him hard in the back.
" Damn girl, you hit hard, for a human. "
" Technopath. "
That one word told ProtoMan all he needed to know, " Well, hell, you're gonna be a pain to deal with, aren'tcha? "
Serena grins and summons her glaive hand out. ProtoMan's eyes widen, " Please tell me that thing just slices and dices? "
" Where would the fun in that be, ProtoMan? " Serena retorts, then an arc of energy is sent out from her glaive blade.
MegaMan and the rest of his group just watch in stunned silence as Serena and ProtoMan battle it out, quipping back and forth. Wiley finally calls an end to it and Serena sighs, " Damn, that was the most fun I've had in ages. "
" You call that fun? " MegaMan asks her.
" Of course, I may be a bit of a combat junkie. " Serena says shrugging and then sends a text to her little sister letting her know it was safe to come out.
" Well, thank you for your help. "
" I'm Serena Shinotsuki. "
" MegaMan. "
" I'm Roll. "
Rush bowls her over and Serena laughs at this, " Friendly robot hound, aren't ya? "
" His name is Rush, sorry about that, he was just activated today. " MegaMan says.
" I'd advise you to keep MegaMan as separate from your civilian life as possible, it'll help you out in the long run. Oh, nothing is ever black and white. A person could steal something but, you need to ask why they stole that, could be it's the only way they can survive or feed their kids. Just remember that. " Serena says as she walks off after convincing Rush to let her up, leaving MegaMan to mull over her words. He hadn't thought of things like that, hadn't realized things were much more complicated than good and evil. She had just taught him about the shades of gray, taught him that they existed.
" Roll, did you ever think about the reasons that someone might have to steal something or just thought of all theft as evil? " MegaMan asks her as they head back home.
" No, but she had a point, which was probably why she said something, to teach us both about the shades of gray in the world. In theory we know about things like justifiable homicide but, have we every really thought about what would lead up to that other than police involved shootings? "Roll asks him.
MegaMan hums thoughtfully and resolves to find Serena again just as soon as he could. He'd like to talk to her some more and maybe she could give him some pointers in combat, she'd done much better against ProtoMan than he had. He also decided she was right, Rock would be around most of the time unless Wiley's schemes needed to be stopped. He may have volunteered for being a combat robot but, that didn't mean he had to stay in armor all the time. He could actually take the time to be a normal teen, of course, that would probably mean sneaking out which if it was to see Serena well, MegaMan, no, Rock Light had no problems with doing so. He wanted to get to know her better and find out more about her views on the shades of gray.
What he didn't realize was that there was a deeper reason for his wanting to track Serena down, one that he wouldn't understand for a while yet but, one that ProtoMan had recognized immediately. Rock was actually interested in the blonde, like ProtoMan Rock and Roll had human souls. The souls that would have become Dr. Thomas Light's children had he found his other half. Sailor Destiny had arranged for this to happen and Amaterasu was watching over the three androids with human souls. They were going to be judged to see if they were worthy of becoming human. First Rock and Roll had more learning to do, ProtoMan was well placed to keep Wiley from going to insane with his plots.
Serena sits in her bedroom just remembering her first sight of MegaMan. Damn, he was completely robotic, an android and yet…for a brief second she thought she'd felt the stirrings of a soul bond but, how could that be possible, he wasn't human? Then again she had never cared for things like that and she could just use the Silver Crystal to grant him humanity if need be. She was getting ahead of herself though. There was no guarantee that she would even see him again.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or MegaMan Classic Cartoon.
