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Minako was woken up by her alarm clock and then she proceeded to get ready for the day. Once she had finished getting dress the princess of Venus headed downstairs. When Minako got downstairs she saw her parents sitting down at the table waiting for her with breakfast sitting on the table. The youngest member of the Aino family quickly joined her parents at the table and then the family started to eat breakfast.

The revelation that Minako was Sailor Venus had had a profound effect on the Aino household. It had forced Mr. and Mrs. Aino to take a good hard look at their lives and their priorities. Much to their cringe, the elder Ainos had found out that they had become very self-absorbed. For the past few years the family had really been a trio of individuals who lived under the same roof rather then an actual family. Mr. Aino had been focused on his business career, Mrs. Aino on her social life, and Minako had been busy with her Scout business. After being forced to see how they were acting, the Ainos had come together and repaired the damage they had been doing to themselves.

Now they hadn't become some sort picture perfect ideal family. However, the Ainos had become a lot closer to each other and they really were a family now. If Minako had known that her parents would have become closer as a consequence of revealing that she was Sailor Venus she probably would have tried to reveal this to them years ago. Only Artemis knew, but Minako had been slightly jealous of Usagi and how close the princess was with her parents. The closeness that she now shared with her parents was like a dream come true.

Sure there were some things about her parent's increased attention to her that could get annoying. Her parents constantly wanting to know where she had been wherever she went out was at the top of the list of things that were annoying. Still, even those requests about where she was made Minako feel good because it showed that her parents cared about her. No matter what they might try to show on TV, having parents who are interested in your day was far preferable to parents who didn't care what their child did.

During the breakfast conversation Mr. Aino said, "Minako dear, I was reading the newspaper earlier today and I found something that might be a little worrisome. Hopefully I'm overreacting, but it might have some connection with your Scout business." Instantly Minako turned and gave her father her undivided attention. Mr. Aino continued on saying, "According the Yomiuri Shimbun there has been a suspicious drop in the number of homeless people living in the Wards. In fact, the number of homeless people is the lowest it's been in a century."

Instantly alarm bells started to go off in Minako's head as several facts connected in her mind. There was an enemy out there that they currently had no information. Happosai had been turned into some sort of half daemonic entity that had been labeled a hanyo. People all over Tokyo were mysteriously disappearing. Minako might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer and she knew it. However, even she could tell that something was stinky in Detroit. Nodding her head she said, "Thanks for telling me this dad. This is a very important piece of news that I plan to tell everyone at the meeting today."


The typical crew was sitting in the shrine listening to what Minako was telling them about the possible connection to the upcoming threat. When Minako was finished speaking an uncomfortable silence descended upon the group. Setsuna was the first person to recover and she said somberly, "This isn't good. There are over 8 million people living in the special wards alone. I don't know the exact demographics, but to see a major drop in the homeless people we have to be talking about hundreds possibly even thousands. If these people are being turned into hanyos then we'll be facing a very dangerous enemy."

Ami then decided to add her own thoughts on the situation. "What makes this all the more dangerous is the fact that we don't know how strong these hanyos could possibly be or if their power levels differ at all. There are only two things I can say about the hanyos given what I could learn from Happosai. First is that Happosai's transformation can best be described as 'experimental' like his body was used as a test bed to see what worked and what didn't. The other thing is that if the process used on Happosai was used on an ordinary person without any modifications then the person's physical abilities would improve by 400-500 and they were gain magical attacks. How strong those magical attacks would be I can't say for sure, but I suspect that the attacks could possibly be as strong as the attacks that the possessed Jadeite or Nephrite used when we confronted them."

Usagi's face hardened as she thought about what all of this could mean when they battled whoever their new enemy was. Turning to Setsuna Usagi said, "Get Neptune and Uranus back here ASAP. If they refuse to come or if they refuse to follow my orders precisely in this situation, then they're gone. I'm going to need every available soldier I can get and I will need to be able to trust that my orders will be follow. If that's too inconvenient for them then I'll declare their thrones forfeit and grant their worlds to more worthy individuals."

While all of the other Scouts winced at the thought of loosing their status as Sailor Scouts, Setsuna was the only Scout who truly understood what Usagi had just decreed. Correction, Usagi knew exactly what she was saying and what the consequences would be. The look in the princess's eye as she made the decree stated that to Setsuna. If there other members of the royal houses of Neptune and Uranus then the process would relatively harmless to Haruka and Michiru. In fact if this was the case then Haruka and Michiru still would be able to transform into their senshi forms.

However, all of the Scouts except for Makoto were the sole members of the planetary royal houses living. If Usagi divested one of them of their powers then the princess would be declaring that particular house extinct and elevating a new house to the position. Such things were almost unheard of for most of the Silver Millennium's existence though it did happen every so often during the earlier periods of the Millennium. The backlash that resulted from having the mana lines forcibly closed because of house being declared extinct was horrible for the person it was done to. According to the ancient records all the individuals who had had their houses declared extinct died rather quickly from something akin to severe radiation poisoning because of the backlash. It was said that not even a constant full powered healing spell from the Silver Crystal could save or resurrect those who died in that manner.

Forcing herself to think of less gruesome things, Setsuna hummed for a moment. She then said, "While I agree that Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune would be helpful, I am still worried. This new enemy has so far used a completely new set of tactics and we have no reason to believe that the enemy will use more familiar tactics in battle. If the enemy strikes en mass we could very well die even with the other Outers including Saturn helping us. What we need most are other options to help defend the city."

Herb's eyes light up and he said, "The General's Armory." Seeing the looks of confusing that he was receiving from everyone else in the room Herb started to clarify. "The Founders of the Musk Dynasty as you know were the remains of General Nephrite's army. My ancestor, the first King of the Musk, gathered as many of the old Earth Kingdom's weapons as he could and sealed them in various armories across the globe set so they could only be opened by Prince Nephelite's reincarnation. The largest of those armories is located in the heart of the Musk dynasty and is known as the General's Armory. It is believed that the armory was originally the main armory used by General Nephrite when he had to operate in the Far East. No one knows exactly what's in the Armory, but it is our best bet at finding something that could help us."

Setsuna immediately nodded her head and said, "He's right princess it is our best bet. The old Earth Kingdom along with the previous Terran realms that eventually formed the Kingdom had a lot of firepower. If it wasn't for the simple facts that Terrans didn't have a way of creating their own interplanetary transport system and the fact that they weren't sure if our ancestors hadn't woven any sort of 'surprises' in the biospheres of our worlds then the Terrans could have conquered the Silver Millennium if they wanted to."

Seeing the look of shock on the most of her friends faces Setsuna elaborated. "The Sailor Senshi might have been far stronger then any Terran Soldier, but they were only 9 warriors. When it came to foot soldiers the Earth Kingdom had more, theirs were better trained, and better armed then the Silver Millennium. This was partially because the Earth Kingdom believed that the best way to preserve peace was to prepare for war while the Silver Millennium set its military up as more of a peacekeeping force against occasional daemonic raids. Metallia provided Beryl with a way to get to the Silver Millennium and a way to control the Earth Kingdom Armies. During The Fall the Youma that Beryl controlled were mainly used as distractions and sabotage."

Usagi forced her surprise at Setsuna's revelation down and said, "We need to get those weapons. Even a bunch of swords charmed to be able to cut daemonic creatures would be helpful at this point. Ranma and Herb should teleport over to the Musk Lands and check out that armory. Setsuna, after you send Neptune and Uranus back our way I want you go contact the Emperor and tell him all that we know. Hopefully the armory will have some weapons that we can distribute to the JSDF and the local police. Everyone else, we'll alert our families that we might need to evacuate and then I want all of us to start combing the Palace's library. Maybe there's something there that we can use." With that said the meeting ended and everyone left to go to their posts.


Lime and Mint were standing in the courtyard of the Musk Palace bored with their guard duty. Herb's father King Tso had the two of them doing a lot of unpleasant guard duties for the past few months. Neither of them liked latrine duty and the like, but they understood that they were in deep shit with King Tso for messing up Herb's meeting with his then perspective bride. The fact that they had been promoted to palace guard duty showed that at least the King wasn't going to cleave their heads if he saw them. Still, guard duty was extremely boring and both of them were wishing that something would happen.

As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Thanks to their animal heritages Lime and Mint were alerted to the rapid buildup of magic a second before they saw a blinding flash of light. Quickly recovering from their surprise, Lime and Mint got into attack positions if whoever had caused the light was hostile. Suddenly they heard Herb's voice hollering out, "Too slow you two. Have you been letting your skills rust ever since I went away?"

Both of Herb's bodyguards blinked their eyes and then said, "Lord Herb? You've returned?" They then looked at where the bright light had been and saw Herb and Ranma standing in front of them. Herb was wearing his usual dragon hide armor while Ranma was in his Jovian Paladin uniform with his Warlord medallion showing. Lime and Mint quickly noticed the medallion and said in reverent tones, "Lord Herb is he?"

Herb nodded his head and said, "This is Ranma Saotome, the reincarnation of Prince Nephelite." To Ranma's surprise Lime and Mint immediately fell to their knees before him and then proceeded to prostrate themselves towards him. Ranma turned to Herb and silently pleaded with the dragon prince to do something about the prostrated guards. Herb shrugged his shoulders knowing that there was nothing he could do about his guards. While not all the Musk would be as expressive as Lime and Mint were towards Ranma, the emotions they were showing were pretty much standard among the Musk.

Quickly turning to face the palace doors Herb said, "Let's hurry Ranma. My father King Tso should be in the main audience chamber. After we talk to him we should head down and open the General's Armory." With that said, Herb opened the large wooden doors to the main chamber and Ranma quickly followed. For about a minute or so after the two princes left Lime and Mint continued to prostrate themselves before they realized that Ranma was gone. They then quickly returned to their guard posts.

Inside the palace, King Tso was busy listening to two of his councilors arguing over which type of rice should be grown next year as the main royal reserve crop. Personally King Tso thought the whole argument was rather pointless and wished that they'd just shut up. The only reason he hadn't tabled this conversation already was because he knew that the next item on the agenda today was even more pointless. It was times like these that make King Tso remember how his father had said that the worst job anyone could ever have was being king.

Suddenly King Tso's Chi senses went off and he turned to look at the entrance of the audience hall. The king could sense that Herb was nearby and was accompanied by a strong person. Make that a very strong person, if what he was sensing about the person was true. A few seconds latter Herb and his companion entered the audience chamber and the room became completely silent. There was an aura or a feel surrounding Herb's companion, who King Tso immediately recognized as the Jovian Paladin a.k.a. Ranma Saotome that all the Musk in the room seemed to instinctively recognize. This wasn't very surprising as their bestial heritage made them far more sensitive to spiritual phenomenon. Not even the biggest skeptics in the court could argue that Ranma was anyone other then the longed for Heir of the General.

As the guards and the other Musk in the room kneeled to show their respect, King Tso got up off his throne and approached the duo. In a respectful and reverent, yet still equal, tone King Tso said, "Greetings Warlord Ranma Saotome. It is my honor to welcome you here to the heart of the Musk Dynasty. If I may inquire, what has caused you to leave Japan? While I am grateful that you have honored us with your presence, we weren't expecting you to come here so soon. The earliest that we were expecting your arrival was the coming summer if my son managed to get you to come over for a short visit."

Remembering the hasty lessons that Herb had given him Ranma said, "The honor is mine King Tso of the Musk Dynasty and steward of the Seiryu Legion. While I am glade to visit the Musk, I wish it was under better circumstances. Recently I and my allies in Japan have uncovered evidence that a new enemy is preparing to strike. Given the projections of what we are most likely facing when this enemy decides to reveal itself, I and my allies have been looking for methods to help the Japanese people defend themselves. For that reason, I have come here in order to access the armory that your ancestor the first steward prepared."

King Tso started to frown as he heard why Ranma and his son had traveled here. Thanks to his TV the king was well aware of what was going on in Juuban and the idea of a battle being fought in a city of that size did not sit well with him. Fights between two groups of warriors were one thing, but fighting in such a place that there would be civilian casualties was distasteful to say the least. King Tso nodded his head and then said, "Follow me Warlord Saotome. I will show you where the entrance to the General's Armory is located.

The royal trio, Herb being silently told by Ranma's glance to follow, silently walked through the Musk Palace until they reached a dead end in the basement of the palace. When they got to that point King Tso tapped a brick in the wall causing the wall to slide away. After walking about 300 meters or so the trio arrived at a massive set of carved stone doors. In front of the doors was a smooth circular stone post that was about chest high. King Tso turned to Ranma and said, "This is the Armory. In order to access it you will need to put your right hand on the post, say your current incarnation's name, and then your past incarnation's name."

Ranma nodded his head and slowly approached the pillar. He then placed his hand on the pillar and said, "I am Ranma Saotome. In my last incarnation I went by the name Prince Nephelite from the royal house of Jupiter." A glowing circle appeared under Ranma's feet and then disappeared. Then the sound of a giant mechanical lock unlocking was heard. Finally the doors slowly swung open with a slight hiss. When the steam disappeared so that the trio could see inside they were greeted by rows and rows of various weapons, armor, and other useful items.


Usagi was sitting in the palace's war room at one of the computer terminals trying to find anything in the database that could be used against a potential enemy. To Usagi's great annoyance and sadness she wasn't having any luck in her search. Over all there were two major problems that she had uncovered in her search. The first snag that Usagi had encountered was that there had only been one armory on the Moon and that armory had been completely destroyed during The Fall. Supposedly there were other armories on the gas giants that might still be intact, but that led to problem number two. All the other worlds in the Solar System were currently inaccessible.

The reason why the other worlds were inaccessible to the Sailor Scouts was fairly simple. During The Fall, the interplanetary transit system had been completely trashed. In order to get the teleportation pads that were currently connecting the Sailor Scouts' homes to the Moon Palace Usagi and Ranma had had to manufacture new pads and establish the connection points. To get working teleportation pads for the other worlds they would have to go to those worlds and establish the connection points. Using the Sailor Teleport to travel to those worlds was out of the question because of two reasons. First, they didn't have any precise location to transport to. Secondly none of the Sailor Scouts was skilled enough in the Sailor Teleport to safely factor in the extra considerations of planetary rotation and orbital positioning that occurred in interplanetary teleportation. So until they could find a spaceship to transport them to the other worlds in the system whatever was on those worlds might as well not exist.

Suddenly Usagi's communicator started to ring and she quickly picked it up. The princess then flipped the lid of the communicator open and said, "Who is this?" Silently Usagi was praying that it was one of the Inners calling to say they had found a workable spaceship or it was Ranma with good news. When Usagi saw Ranma's face appear on her communicator screen she started to redouble her prayers that he had found a pile of useful weapons.

It seemed that the kami were listening to Usagi's prayers today because Ranma immediately said, "I have great news Usagi. This armory that I'm in has a large stash of very useful weapons. From what I've been able find out so far the weapons here use a mixture of environmental Chi and the internal chi of the user in order to work. For instance there are these glove-like devices that can fire off an energy blast that is as strong as my Moko Dan Ha using only a fraction of the wearer's chi that I need to use for my chi attack. There are safety features on the gloves that prevent the user from firing more blasts then the user's chi can support without going in the chi supply necessary to sustain a person's life. According to the notes for these gloves the average healthy person can use the gloves about once to twice a minute. Stronger and better trained people can fire off even more blasts per minute then that."

Usagi nodded her head and then cheerfully said, "That's wonderful news Ranma! If it's alright on your end I can send Setsuna over to delver some of those devices to the JSDF, the police, or whatever agency is supposed to be handling this situation. Sadly I and the rest of the Scouts haven't been able to turn up anything useful for the present situation we're in. The full list of the weapons that you've found can wait in person Ranma. If you don't mind though, did you find anything in that armory besides weapons?"

Ranma gave Usagi one of his confident smiles and said, "If fact we did Usagi. Besides the weapons this place has armor that can be used, the plans to build more of these weapons, and even a few machines to construct the devices like the gloves I mentioned. Obviously Herb's ancestor wanted to make sure I could restore my father's legion from the ground up if I had to."

"There's still a lot of stuff here that I need to sort through and I also need to meet with the Musk Council to decide how many warriors I'll be bringing back to Japan with me. Word of what's coming up has already spread to the average Musk citizen and many of them see fighting in this upcoming confrontation as a great honor. I swear it's almost like I'm in the middle of camp of zealots preparing for a holy war. Love you, bye for now." With that Ranma closed the connection and the screen became a regular mirror again.

After looking at her image in the mirror for a few seconds, Usagi sighed and closed her communicator. According to Herb the Musk people had been hoping for Prince Nephelite's return for over 10,000 years. When Usagi thought about that and considered the fact that the Musk Dynasty was a very militaristic society it wasn't that hard to see what was going on down there. In a sense Ranma was in the middle of a bunch of zealots preparing for a holy war. Usagi was not very concerned about the emotional charge among the Musk. She trusted that Ranma would be able to guide the Musk people in a positive progression. However, if one of the governments down there did something stupid to direct the Musk at them instead of whatever enemy was out there then Usagi was planning to stay on the Moon until that mess settled.

Returning her thoughts to present, Usagi thought about what everyone was doing. Setsuna was collecting the twits and telling the Japanese government to check their insurance policies. Ami and Minako were combing the library to see if there was anything useful there while Rei and Makoto where preparing the palace to receive refugees if it became necessary. That left Usagi with currently nothing to do. After thinking for a minute Usagi grumbled, "I guess I'll go make sure that the altar and all of its connections are properly working. Knowing my luck I'll end up having to use the blasted thing to provide living space for the refugees."


In an underground lair Mistress Kaolinite looked on with a detached look as yet another batch of worthless humans were shoved into the transformation chambers. The human scum's screams and pleases for mercy fell on deaf ears as one of the hanyos who had thrown them into the chambers grunted and started the daemonic rebirth process. These humans were completely unworthy of the honor that they had of being reborn as one of her hanyos.

As the transformation process started, Mistress Kaolinite's mind wandered back to the circumstances of her birth. When the Sailor Scouts had assaulted the Death Busters' base, the pathetic Kaolinite had been mortally wounded. However, before Kaolinite could die Mistress 9's disembodied spirit had arrived in an attempt to warn the Death Busters of that the Sailor Scouts were on to the group. Due to an explosion Kaolinite had been sent flying into Mistress 9. Thanks to a spare experimental daemon egg that Kaolinite had been carrying both Kaolinite and Mistress 9 had been fused together when the hit each other.

Unlike her 'mothers', Mistress Kaolinite did not care about bringing Pharaoh 90 to Earth. In fact, she was ecstatic that the entity was still stuck in the Tau Ceti star system because the entity's plans interfered with her own. Very shortly after her birth Mistress Kaolinite had realized that she was the first of an entirely new race; one which was supposed to be the new master of the Earth. It was only natural that the hanyos take over the world. The ancient reptiles, the dinosaurs, the mastodons, etc had all had their time as the dominate life form on this planet before man had taken over. Humanity's time was simply up.

For the first couple of days after her birth Mistress Kaolinite had busied herself with setting up a base for herself and figuring out how to increase her race. It would be too dangerous to merely rely on the natural increasing of her race from having children. Besides, she didn't want to play Eve and more to the point there hadn't been a male of her new species to breed with. So Mistress Kaolinite had proceeded to try and find a way to duplicate the circumstances of her birth using the humans as a base. Sadly her first series of experiments were complete disasters that resulted in the loss of both the hanyo and the human base.

However, about two months ago Mistress Kaolinite had found the missing element that she needed when working on the subject that referred to himself as Happosai. Using the data that had been collected from that subject, Mistress Kaolinite had been able to start creating more of her race. At first she had moved slowly collecting one or two humans a day to transform, but as her people's numbers increased she had been able to collect more and more at a single time. Now her people's numbers were reaching a critical level and the next phase of the plan could be started.

Once enough hanyos existed Mistress Kaolinite planed to exterminate humanity. Absorbing humanity into the hanyo race was out of the question. Not only did the thought of using humans a base for her race's birth sicken Mistress Kaolinite, but there were just too many humans in her mind. Eradicating almost 6 billion humans so that 100 million hanyos could have adequate living space seemed perfectly reasonable, they were after all only humans.


Author's Notes: Yomiuri Shimbun is one of the 5 major national newspapers in Japan. Also, there is a food joke in the Musk King's name.