I do not own either Sailor Moon or Ranma ½. This crossover is based off of a two part crossover by HistorainoftheKais. I just had a wild idea and had to run with it. I'll probably have more of this pumped out as the summer progresses. I have an Evangelion fic that I'm working on too and I hope to get some more of that done too. Let me know what you think, and if I goofed up somewhere let me know and I'll fix it, hopefully sooner rather than later.
In the Reborn Kingdom Ch 2
Sleep that night was deep for everyone. Mental and physical exhaustion took its toll on everyone involved. Granted Setsuna stayed up late to establish transport points, as many governments and people wanted to help in some way shape or form. Japan, England, France, Germany, Canada, and America all had large scale one way transport locations enabled to send as much aid to the refugees as needed. Considering the attack was world wide news this really wasn't too surprising for most. Supplies were arriving by the truckload and then some. A supply point was set up outside London, just outside Strasbourg in France, with trucks and private donations coming in from both France and Germany. Toronto established a central collection point for the eastern part of Canada. The US Air Force was able to use an old warehouse that was sitting idol outside Dayton, OH. Atlanta, Dallas, Omaha, Winnipeg, Billings, Colorado Springs, Boise, Calgary, Portland OR, Vancouver and Stockton were all American and Canadian cities that stepped up. Ancorage AK and Honolulu HI would get theirs today, once Setsuna was functional again. Australia was also trying to help and was coordinating space in Sydney. As for Japan, well Yokohama was EXTREMELY busy as well, considering the workers there were donating their time, and their families were all pitching in. Things were arriving by train and truck.
On the Moon however Ranma and Usagi had programmed the robot plants to make enough robots to automatically unload the pallets of goods that had been arriving. Anything and everything was being sent to aid the surviving displaced population of Tokyo and the surrounding areas. So while everyone slept, the work that the scouts did, with the aid of the computer system on the Moon, everyone would be taken care of for the time being. Initial survivor lists were compiled, with more detailed work to begin as the day began.
So it was early that the robots had made a delivery of food and clothing to the Tendo family plus their "house" guests. Kasumi slept with the children, who were snuggled to either side of the oldest daughter. Their family doctor slept downstairs across from a room that housed two occupants, one their by necessity, the other by choice. Ryoga and Ryu were still crashed out back, but a note was waiting for Ryoga that happened to have a few little hearts on it. Soun Tendo and Genma Saotome were still asleep as well. Kuh Lohn ended up sleeping in a spare room as the floor was just too hard on her old bones.
In the castle everyone was sleeping the sleep of exhaustion. Mu Tse had arrived with a sleeping Minako Aino on his back. Her mother and Nodoka relieved Mu Tze of his burden, forced a quick bath on the exhausted boy, then hustled him off to bed while making sure Minako was cleaned up and changed before she was deposited in a waiting bed by a soon to be sleeping Ami. Rei ended up crashing with Hotaru after making sure they both were cleaned up as well. Poor Hotaru had nearly exhausted herself trying to heal as many people as she could, much to Nodoka's chagrin. Haruka and Michiru were crashed out in their own room, neither bothering with sleepwear or evening playtime. Yesterday had drained them and taught them a valuable lesson. Their families were also sleeping in available quarters as well.
Herb was camped out with Rei's grandfather just down the hall from a sleeping Ranma and Usagi. The rest of the surviving Musk warriors were taking up key positions where they could respond if need be, but the guard was light thankfully and most just stayed on watch for an hour at the most.
It is of no surprise however to see that the first one up in the current Tendo location was Kasumi. Exhaustion had taken its toll on her and she slept in. Her stirring woke the two youngest members of the current make up of the household and the twins were confused as to where they were. The boy spoke up first, "Where is Mommy? The monsters came and we can't find Mommy."
"I want my Mommy," cried the little girl. Sitting on the edge of the bed Kasumi gathered the children in her arms and began to gently rock them, cooing soft tones to quiet the storm of weeping from the two children.
Finally they quieted down and the boy asked, "Did the pretty lady in the sky make the monsters go away?"
"She wasn't just a lady, she was a princess!" added the little girl.
Kasumi chuckled at their antics, "Yes she made all the scary monsters go away. They can't reach us anymore."
As soon as she finished the statement there was a polite knock on the door followed by a very familiar voice to Kasumi, "I take it you and the children are awake Kasumi Tendo." It was a statement more than a question, and the humor was evident in Kuh Lohn's voice. Kasumi tossed out all of the proper manners and literally ran to the door, flung it open, and promptly hugged the Amazon Elder. "Goodness!" exclaimed the eldest current member of the household. "It is good to see you as well my dear. So how are the children?"
With that question Kasumi's eyes went wide, "My goodness! I never asked their names!" With that she released the Amazon elder from her hug and promptly went over to the children and scooped them up into her arms, the children responded with a light giggle. "So who do we have here?" asked Kasumi as she looked at the little boy.
"Shinji," answered by boy rather sheepishly. Kasumi looked to the little girl.
"My name is Rei," answered the girl.
"And how old are you?"
"We're both five years old," answered Rei.
"We're twins," added Shinji with a bit of pride in his voice. Before more could be said a pair of twin growls could be heard, from a pair of small stomachs that needed to be fed, both children blushed at this development.
Kuh Lohn of course laughed at this development "It seems we have a couple of very hungry stomachs. You go wake your father and the panda and have them check on the others. I'll see what we have for kitchen facilities and foodstuffs." With that Kasumi followed Kuh Lohn and carried the children downstairs to get them something to eat.
When they reached the sleeping fathers Kasumi set the children down and promptly woke her father. Soun was actually fairly quick to wake up and inquired how she was, and her smile was all the answer he needed. In short order Genma was awake and by a quick agreement Soun would check on Nabiki while Genma would wake the boys and the doctor.
Soun found his daughter sleeping in a bed roll she had placed in the room where they deposited the unconscious pilot. Regarding the young man for a moment he thought back to his actions. Granted some would think of this young American as an outsider, but the boy had more than proven his mettle. He would be no outsider to his family, not after nearly being killed to protect his middle daughter. "I wonder how he is doing?" spoke Soun to no one in particular.
"Patient is stable. Blood oxygen saturation is within normal range. Collapsed lung is healed and all blood has been evacuated from chest cavity. Standard hydration protocols have begun as has waste collection and disposal. Patient is currently breathing with 10% assist. Estimates are he will regain consciousness today and will be fully breathing on his own. Castle has been notified of all injuries and statuses of all patients. Recommended healing lists have been developed for Scout action. Patient requires abilities of Sailor Saturn. Timeframe for Sailor Saturn arrival unknown. Pain medication treatment recommended until then." With that the robot went silent.
That also had the effect of waking a sleeping Tendo girl, "Whaaa?" Nabiki looked around for a second. "Daddy?" Soun smiled at his daughter. "So it wasn't a bad dream." Soun just shook his head. "So how is he?"
"Well according to the robot he seems to be recovering. Whatever that young lady did yesterday seemed to do the trick."
Nabiki sighed at this. "I never got to ask his name," moped the girl.
Soun smiled at this and offered a hand up to his daughter, which she accepted. "I take it you don't know that much about the military do you?"
"Not really Daddy."
"Well all American servicemen and women wear identity tags. His are still on. If I remember correctly his family name is listed first and his given name second. Elder Cologne left them on. I think the scouts that directed us here also recorded his name as well."
Nabiki actually blushed a bit at this revelation. Business and numbers she understood, military doctrine was not a part of her intended studies at the university. Padding barefoot over to his bedside she read his tags.
Williams
Paul N
(Number Sequence) (AN. I'm not even going to put what could be there. My luck I'd hit somebody's number for real)
O NEG
ROMN CATH
Nabiki reverently set the tags back on the young man's bare chest with a winsome smile, at least now she knew his name. She reached down and gave his hand a squeeze, there was no response. A hand touched her shoulder, "Nabiki?" She looked and saw the smiling face of Dr. Tofu. "Why don't you go grab something to eat. I need to check on my patient." Nabiki acquiesced to the request and followed her father out to the dining area. As they headed out the laughs of children could be heard, Ryu Kumon was sitting with Genma watching the children romp in the backyard while breakfast was being prepared.
"Well it looks like our little urchins are up," remarked Nabiki.
"Hey I'm not an urchin, I'm a boy!" complained Shinji.
"And I'm a girl," added Rei.
"I can see that," replied Nabiki. "So what are your names?" She got them in quick succession from the children. "Well my name is Nabiki. So did you two sleep with my sister?"
"You're Sumi-nee's sister?" asked Rei.
"Can we call you Biki-nee?" asked Shinji. For once, the Ice Queen was helpless. Remembering the previous day, and how they had found the children, Nabiki quickly arrived at a decision. "Yes and yes," she answered in reply.
"Yayyyyy!" exclaimed the children, as they continued their game. Suddenly Rei ran over and grabbed Nabiki's hand and drug the girl barefoot onto the grass, "Look Biki-nee! Look!" exclaimed Rei. Rei stopped and reached up her hands to Nabiki, the older girl obliged and picked Rei up.
"Look at what Rei-chan?"
"Look waaaaay up there!" exclaimed the excited girl. Nabiki knew where they were, she just wanted to have a little fun. She followed the line of where the little girl was pointing and saw the Earth hanging in the sky.
"We're on the moon!" exclaimed Rei.
"The pretty princess brought us here to keep us safe from the bad monsters," added Shinji.
Nabiki thought she'd have a bit of fun and asked the boy a simple question, "Aren't all princesses pretty?"
"Ummmm," started the now puzzled Shinji. "I dunno," remarked the boy.
A laugh from Kuh Lohn interrupted them, "Enough playtime you three, it is time to eat." By now Tofu had finished his examination of Paul and joined the family and sat next to Kasumi to no ill effect. It is amazing what an other-world invasion can do to cure little phobias. The group sat down and enjoyed a nice breakfast and a discussion of the day's plans was made.
Soun and Kuh Lohn would begin to coordinate with the neighbors to see who was where, and who needed what. Genma wanted to check up on Ranma and Usagi to see how they were doing. Tofu would wander with Soun and Kuh Lohn and see to anyone's immediate medical needs. So Kasumi and Nabiki would remain behind with the children and watch over the sleeping pilot. What did surprise everyone however is when a robot made a sizeable delivery of clothing for everyone to change into along with some things to occupy the children.
The robot remained to aid Kasumi with the functionality of the house. Within a short span of time everyone else was off while the Tendo girls remained with the twins. Nabiki went back to her vigil at the bedside of the pilot that had saved her life. So that left Kasumi to wash the breakfast dishes while the children colored on the floor just outside the kitchen.
Nabiki took time to really look at the young man that had turned her world upside down. He was about 5' 10" tall with sandy brown hair that was close cropped. He was in excellent shape without being bulky. In some respects he had the build of a dancer. He seemed to enjoy the outdoors, however with what happened to him yesterday he seemed quite pale at the moment. She could admire his chest and abs as they were quite well defined. His face held her the most however. A face that shone with an intensity that rivaled Ranma when he was at his most intense, when she was able to witness those moments.
Now he seemed peaceful, with his face only marred by some light scratching and the ventilator that the medical robot was using to help him breathe for the time being. Paul intrigued Nabiki, she knew he had to have at least a four year degree to be a pilot, and most likely he was an engineer, there was a good chance he had a master's degree too, but at the moment that was rank speculation, and that was one thing she avoided as the Ice Queen. She knew her original goal was to find someone for his money, but after yesterday, money didn't matter as much. Right now it was her family and the two youngest additions that they had picked up. She was worried about Akane too, in spite of what she had done. Akane was still her little sister and she was probably worried sick about her family. Nabiki hoped they would be able to make contact.
Soon a patter of little feet was heard approaching, then they stopped. Nabiki looked up and saw little Rei, in fresh clothes and barefoot holding a crayon drawing. She smiled at the little girl, "Come on in Rei-chan, but be quiet, he is still sleeping."
"Why is he still sleeping? Is that the man that flew down from the sky?" asked the inquisitive little girl.
Nabiki opened her arms and Rei crawled into her lap, "Yes it is the man that flew down from the sky. He is sleeping because he got hurt really really bad yesterday." It was apparent that Rei understood at some level. "So what do you have there Rei-chan?"
"Ooo! I drew a picture of us!" exclaimed the excited little girl. It was a bit obvious who the larger figures are in the drawing. The long hair was an indication of Kasumi, she was easy to spot, and of course her father in the green gi was there too along with two smaller figures. "Let me guess, that one is me, that one is Kasumi, that one must be Shinji. That one is my daddy. Hmm I wonder who this could be?" asked Nabiki, in a slightly teasing tone.
"That's me Biki-nee!" replied the little girl sitting in her lap. With that she hopped off Nabiki's lap, "This is for you," announced the little one. "I'm going to color some more for Tendo-san, Sumi-nee, and Grandma Cologne." Rei was off like a shot leaving Nabiki a bit stunned and holding the drawing in her hand. Good memories surfaced of both her and Akane doing this very same thing for their parents when they were little, even Kasumi colored with her sisters too.
She chose then to speak some of her thoughts to the young man in the bed beside her. "Boy what a way for me to meet a man. Here we were and we were running for our lives. Then you parachuted from the sky. You never asked our names, and yet you stuck with us and the children." Nabiki composed her thoughts, "You drug me along with you, you never let go. You never let go until you pushed me away to save me from that demon. You never hesitated." By now the tears were flowing again, she wept as much for herself and as for the young man asleep in the bed. "Please wake up soon. I'd like to be able to talk to you." She snorted at herself when she realized what she had said. "You're safe with my family. Please come back to us soon. I think the children we found would like to meet you too." For the first time in her life, Nabiki Tendo stood, and kissed the pilot on the forehead. "I'd like to meet you too," she added softly. All the while the medical robot maintained a vigil with the occasional partner swap.
Soun Tendo was stunned to say the least. There were quite a few survivors, but there were many missing faces of neighbors and friends. It seemed that a great deal of the elderly population had been wiped out during the attack, and many of them were mentors and advisors to him and many others. There were quite a number of wounded that were being treated by medical staff roaming the area. What was unsurprising was the number of JSDF and US military personnel that were now on site and aiding as best they could. For some reason that no one could really fathom is that they all understood each other, perfectly. He had expected some communication difficulty but something happened as the medical personnel had arrived. He guessed it was the young lady who everyone saw yesterday had something to do with this.
A few central locations were being established for the more critical cases, and all they had to do was to keep patients stable. It was mentioned by some of the Musk warriors that one of the Sailor Scouts had an uncanny healing ability and apparently she had done quite a bit of work already, pushing herself toward exhaustion. He also learned that this young lady was related to the Jovian Paladin and apparently he was a bit cross with her when he came to recover her. Soun was heartened when he learned that this young lady was determined to do all she could and was working on as many people as her body and the other Scouts and Paladin would allow.
He was able to give a full accounting of who was in the current residence they were in, in addition to the two children. He had gotten their family name from them and someone would be by to take a picture of Rei and Shinji Ikari, along with a DNA swab to use for identification of parents.
The last bit of news nearly brought the man to his knees. It appears that the Moon Princess had evacuated all survivors of the attack to the Moon, and the Japanese and American forces dropped a nuclear weapon on Tokyo. It was a very heavy price to pay to get rid of the demons, but Soun knew deep down inside that everything was gone, there would be no home to return to.
Even with his heart as heavy as it was for his home, his family was alive. He was hoping to get in touch with his youngest, and he was hopeful that the survivors list would be quickly compiled and released. Thankfully he and Kuh Lohn were able to work with other survivors and they began to cobble together some cohesion that would enable the survivors to return to Japan or stay here on the Moon. Heck the technology that he was beginning to see, and the beauty of the place was stunning, still, it would be a family decision tonight, after he related what they saw and learned.
Still things were sobering, with a population of over 20 million, and right now they were just beginning to fully account for the survivors. He would consider everyone lucky if there were 10 million survivors, the death and carnage were still too fresh in his mind. He encountered Musk warriors who appeared to be quite pleasant to interact with, they in turn also showed respect to Kuh Lohn as well. However turning a corner he happened upon a fully established medical unit that had been set up by the US Army and the JSDF and he was quickly approached by a young female Army Specialist "Sir, can I help you? Do you have any injuries or injured loved ones that require treatment?"
That statement stopped Soun for a moment but he quickly regained composure. "No none of my family is injured, however we do have a young pilot that was gravely injured while protecting my daughter." He relayed the name of the pilot to the young lady and she entered into what appeared to be some sort of data pad.
The Specialist's eyes went wide for a moment. Then she realized what she had to do, "Sir, Ma'am, if you would follow me please." Coming to attention she executed a perfect about-face and quickly moved off with Soun and Kuh Lohn following quickly behind. They approached a smaller tent that had some communication antennas arrayed nearby and a power generator of unknown origin as well. Stopping at the threshold of the tent she called out, "Ma'am, Specialist Welch reporting."
"Enter, tell me what you have," called out a female voice. The trio entered the tent and the Specialist got a pair of speculative looks from the female officer and the senior enlisted man on the site.
"Ma'am, it appears we have a location on one of the missing pilots."
The looks on the face of the two main occupants was mixed, "That's just one out of 10 lost and listed as MIA. So how did you find him?" asked the man. So for the next 15 minutes Soun described what had happened up until they put him in a bed to recover from his wounds. Every set of eyes were wide at Soun's description of what happened. The female officer promptly reached into her desk and pulled out a case of some sort and promptly pocketed it.
"You had better go grab the JAG officer, he is so going to want to hear this." After darting out the senior enlisted came back in with a younger officer with a tape recorder in hand and a stenographer from the US military and the JSDF. Soun found himself telling the same story but providing more details at the prodding of the JAG officer.
After this was finished the JAG officer asked of Soun, "Sir, I'd like to get statements from your daughters as well." Soun nodded in agreement. "Ma'am, I'm going to have to pass this on up the chain in a hurry. His CO is going to want to know about this and I have a feeling that this is at least going to merit him the Navy Cross."
The senior officer's eyes went wide at this statement. "Well let's get going then Captain, I have a sailor to examine and you have statements to get. Sergeant Major?"
He knew without even asking, "Two transports will be ready in less than five." With that he was out the door and soon the rest were following. The Specialist was released to return to her post and soon the rest, minus Kuh Lohn were off to the Tendo quarters for an examination and to gather witness statements. Kuh Lohn was off to check on her once part-timer to see how he faired, and to see if there was any word about Xian Pu.
Soon they were loaded on to two newly deployed electric vehicle transports, Soun sat with Lt. Col. Marjorie Lagase, who was from New Orleans and a full fledged trauma surgeon. It was mostly small talk as they quickly drove to the place where he was staying with his family and soon they were pulled up and were walking in the front door. As per usual they were met by his oldest who greeted her father warmly and the others with her usual graciousness. She politely informed them to remove their boots and to try and keep things down as she just got the twins down for a nap.
Soun informed Kasumi of why they were there and she quickly acquiesced to their request for a statement. Soun showed Marjorie where Paul was resting, and unsurprisingly, Nabiki was there keeping a quiet watch, as she read a book that had been delivered while her father was out. A couple of crayon drawings newly adorned the wall by his bedside. Entering of course got Nabiki's attention and she rose to greet them, "Daddy, you're back." She gave her father a hug and a quick peck on his cheek. Soun introduced the two and departed for the living room where Kasumi was giving her statement.
"So how is he," asked Marjorie of Nabiki.
"Ok I guess, he hasn't moved much and right now the robots are still doing the breathing for him."
"Hmm, full medical status report please." Marjorie had come across a couple of these robots and the really made her and her staff's jobs so much easier when treating the critically injured. The robot complied and gave full medical status report, to include the possibility of a concussion but full body scan did not reveal that. "Numerical status for healing by Sailor Saturn and status of respiratory functions."
"Patient is currently number 15,701. Patient is stable and is breathing with a 5% assist at this time. Will transfer to full face mask oxygen after 2nd hour of full consciousness. Anticipate regaining of consciousness within 10 Earth hours."
"Do you have the ability to awaken any member of this household once he should awaken?"
"Spare unit is being dispatched to provide alert to any member of this location."
Marjorie thought for a second, and then regarded Nabiki, "Do you think you will be able to be awake when the Lieutenant regains consciousness?"
Nabiki began to scratch the back of her head while looking away sheepishly, "When I'm sleeping I can be dead to the world. Kasumi's boyfriend, Dr. Tofu Ono has been our family physician and worked to treat him. He would probably be the one to wake up."
"Excellent idea young lady." Marjorie paused and regarded the sleeping young man, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a special case. She opened the case and looked within, with an almost reverent expression.
Nabiki's curiosity was aroused, and being the most curious of the Tendo sisters she had to ask, "Ma'am, what is that?"
Being a non-combatant by choice tears began to fill her eyes as she showed Nabiki one of the simplest, yet most profound awards and soldier, sailor, airman, or marine could be awarded. No one seeks to get awarded this award, but in every conflict it is inevitable that this particular award is given. A simple purple ribbon with white edging hung in the box, hanging from at the bottom of there was a gold heart, with a very small shield flanked by something Nabiki couldn't quite identify. In the center was a gold portrait of a man and surrounding that was some type of a purple inlay. Nabiki, having studied history, had a very good suspicion of what this was.
"This is the first Purple Heart that I've ever presented." She paused for a few minutes, gathering her thoughts. "Many of us senior officers have the ability to present these to any wounded service member that is in our care. To be honest a commander never really wants to award one of these, but we all realize that we may be called on to award these when the situation dictates. He is the only one of ten pilots that we had listed as missing after, well, I don't think I should be the one to tell you that. But thank God you found him, and he found you." She paused and pinned the medal to the pillow that his head was resting on. "Why don't you go out and give your statement. I'm sure this will not be his last award."
Wordlessly Nabiki bowed to the officer, turned and quietly left the room, leaving a soldier to hold a vigil over a fallen sailor.
That's it for this chapter. Let me know what you think. I'll be sticking with the aftermath view for a bit as I want to cover a few more of everyone's favorite characters. Please let me know what you think. Till next time!
