Chapter 3: Mina Finds Out about Golden Girl
MU: Ok, just to let you know, I've had this theory that, if Sailor Universe was in Sailor Moon, her previous identity Golden Girl would have been what inspired Mina/Sailor V(enus) to be a superhero.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Sailor Moon. It belongs to Naoko Takeuchi and Toei. However, The Jewel Ninja and Golden Girl are copyrighted by ME, so no taking them or using them without my permission!
12-year old Mina Aino was watching her favorite cowboy show, The Lone Ranger. She loved the non-stop action, the romance, and the gripping plotline. The episode she was watching was at a chase scene, and Mina liked pretending she was there, helping the Lone Ranger, despite her age.
"Bang, bang! Bang bang! BANG!" Mina shouted, forming her hand in the shape of a pistol and pretending to shoot the villain.
"Mina Aino, do you have to be so loud when watching television?" her mother asked from the other room.
"Yes," Mina retorted. "The Lone Ranger is about to catch the Gentleman Bandit, and I'm helping him."
Suddenly a news report broke in. "Oh man," moaned Mina, thinking that it would be about something boring like politics. But the next thing she heard astonished her.
"We just received word from Downtown Tokyo about a real live superhero," the news reporter stated. "Just a few minute ago a battle took place between a living carnivorous Gigantasaurus, an extinct creature about 10 times larger than a T-Rex, and a young girl with special powers who calls herself 'Golden Girl'. Here's the footage." The next thing on the TV showed the fight between the dinosaur and the super-girl.
Mina stared, astonished at what she was seeing. The girl managed to defeat the dinosaur, and the ninja lady who, Mina figured, was behind the giant dinosaur, somehow disappeared. Mina couldn't tell much of what happened next, since by then a crowd of people were in front of the camera by then, but when the new camera got through the girl was helping a man to his feet. Mina couldn't tell much of what the two were saying, but she did hear the girl say that the ninja was probably from another world, or possibly another universe. Now Mina got excited.
"Mom, Mom! There's a real live superhero! Come see! And she destroyed a dinosaur made by some ninja lady!" Her mom entered the room with a basket of laundry on her hip.
On the TV, the reporters were firing all sorts of questions at the super-girl, like, "Are you from here?" "How did you get such power?" "Where do you live?" and a whole bunch of such questions.
The girl remained silent, confused, then finally replied, "No comment. I have nothing to say at the moment. I'm just a little helper. See ya later!" While the reporters kept asking questions, the super-girl, using a golden spherical shield around her self like a bouncy ball, bounced onto a nearby building. She was about to run across the roof when she heard something that caught her attention.
"Wait! What do you call yourself?" the reporter standing by the camera shouted. Mina looked on in anticipation, wondering what the girl would say.
The girl stopped cold for a moment. She turned around partially and shouted down, "Just call me Golden Girl!" With that she ran across the building roof and out of sight.
Mina just gaped at the TV, not really listening to the reporters interview bystanders. "Golden Girl. Better remember that. Wow… she's amazing! Mom, did you see? Did you see what happened?"
Her mom looked just as surprised as Mina felt. "Yes, I did. But how are we to know it isn't just a joke? Or if it's just staged to get attention?"
Just then, her dad came into the family room. "Did you see on the news?" he asked.
"We sure did, Dad. Golden Girl's awesome!" Mina answered excitedly.
"She sure is, and you don't have to worry about the battle being fake. That monster destroyed several buildings, including part of the one I was in," her dad replied.
"Oh, are you alright?" her mom asked.
"I'm fine, the Gigantasaurus didn't destroy the part I was in."
"Good." Her mom sighed with relief.
"At least I recorded it so I can show Sara when she gets back. It was during The Lone Ranger, anyways," Mina replied. Sara was the foreign exchange student from England who was staying with Mina's family for the summer college semester. "I want to be a superhero just like Golden Girl."
Her parents smiled and left the room, while Mina began watching her show again, but she wasn't as into it as before. She was thinking about Golden Girl, and how awesome it would be to have superpowers. "I will be a superhero someday. I know I will."
Little did Mina know how true that statement was.
MU: For those that don't know, Mina becomes Sailor V before she becomes Sailor Venus. Just an author's note... ;)