Sailor Venus and the Quest for Power-ups!

Or, The Crosstime Adventures of Minako Aino Four

Empowered!

"And all she wants to do is dance!" the sexy blond sang up on the kareoke stage, dancing along as she swung her hips in a tiny skirt and sailor fuku designed swimsuit.

"Friend of yours?" Sistah Spooky asked Empowered, the heroine pushing her hood back as she sat down beside the woman in the seemingly skin tight PVC suit.

Empowered made a helpless gesture, her mask covering about half her face. "She sort of showed up out of nowhere and helped Ninjette and I stop a couple of Super-villains. She said she was from out of town..."

"Ah," Spooky nodded.

"Hey, Spooks," Ninjette smiled grimly as she returned to the table with some beers, her long brown hair flowing down her back.

"Ninjette," Spooky smiled back wryly.

Things were still kind of... tense, between her and Ninjette. Spooky had been a kind of enemy to Empowered for awhile, due to various reasons. Not the least being Spooky's issues around blondes and highschool abuse by them. Fairly recently Empowered had pretty much won her over, but Ninjette wasn't necessarily ready to bury the hatchet.

"Ah that was fun," Sailor Venus beamed as she joined them at the table. She looked at a beer longingly but admitted, "Sorry, I'm too young to drink."

Spooky made a small gesture, light twinkling around the mage's hand. "Huh," she blinked, "you're from another dimension?"

"Hey, no intrusive sparkly stuff," Venus chided teasingly. "Yeah, I'm universe-jumping for fun, pretty much. That and power-ups."

"Power ups?" Empowered had to ask.

Venus shrugged. "Where I come from, every couple of months a meanace shows up which our powers can't fight, so we have to power ourselves up with new artifacts and such. I'm trying to skip that step, basically."

"I guess that makes sense," Ninjette conceded the point. "Don't think you'll have much luck here tho," she mused.

"Oh?" Venus asked.

Ninjette pointed at herself, "Years of training." She pointed at Spooky and said, "Made a deal with the devil."

"It was a accident! Kinda," Sistah Spooky said.

"And her's comes from her special costume," Ninjette pointed at Empowered.

"Really..." Venus mused.

"Sadly it only works for her," Ninjette added.

"Oh poo." Venus pouted.

Some hours later and after much drinking, Empowered carefully ripped a piece of her costume off then passed the sparkly black material to Venus.

"This won't damage your suit, will it?" Venus asked, concerned.

"It self-repairs, pretty much," Empowered said, "I have no idea if it'll even work for you, but...," she shrugged.

"Thank you," Venus said, noting the cloth made her fingers tingle oddly.

"If it does work it can give you enhanced strength, durability and energy blasts," Empowered noted. She hesitated a bit then leaned close to whisper something to Venus.

"Libido enhancer?" Venus repeated, blinking.

"Shhh!" Empowered shushed her. "Yeah. I THINK it's sort of a incentive to keep wearing the suit, kinda," she admitted.

"Well, thank you," Venus hugged her and Empowered hugged her back.

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Outside normal space and time, Sailor Pluto, Doctor Pluto and 'Doc' Pluto were trying to find the wayward Sailor Venus. It was proving more difficult than any of them expected.

"It's got to be the cross time contamination clouding our sensors," 'Doc' said, her silver goggles pushed up on her head and white labcoat fluttering around her.

Sailor Pluto always found 'Doc' too extravigant, especially with her time travelling sports car, but she WAS good at science. "The more stuff and skills she picks up in other universes, the garder she'll be to track," she agreed.

"Precisely," Doctor Pluto agreed, adjusting her bowtie. Bowties were cool. "I could attempt to use my TARDIS and follow her dimensional trail?" she offered.

"Too time consuming," Sailor Pluto started, but before they could continue all of them felt another time traveler arriving.

She wore mostly purple, and carried a odd looking shield on her arm. "What's going on?" puella magi Setsuna Meiou demanded, "I could even feel the disruption over in my universe."

"Fascinating...," 'Doc' murmured. "This crossover is getting more and more convoluted," she noted.

"That's the nature of crossovers," Doctor Pluto noted.

To be continued...

Notes: This chapter is a crossover with Adam Warren's Empowered comics. 'Doc' is pretty much Doc Brown from Back to the Future merged with Pluto. The 'Puella magi' is Homura-Pluto of Puella Magi Usagi Magica. Or something.