Author's Note: this is Serena speaking to someone telepathically.
This is Li speaking to someone telepathically
This is a dream/flashback sequence
- this is sign language of some sort-
_ this is texting_
Vestal, Klaus' Place, Evening:
Dan wanders over to his pink haired child after getting Serena safely ensconced in their room. " How have you been since coming back again, Rini, and I want an actual answer. "
Rini sighs, " Trying to figure out where everything went wrong and near as I can figure things for Selena went downhill after I went back home after my first trip into the past. She will only talk to Phoebe and you in the future, well, she talks to Damon as a fellow brawler but refuses to acknowledge him as family. He's really trying to bridge the gap between him and her, but Selena is just freezing everyone out. "
" Tell me about her. "
" No, you should learn about her the same way you did last time. " Rini says.
" I guess you're right about that, but I just don't like the fact that one of my kids essentially ends up as an outsider in her own family due to reasons we can't pinpoint. You do need to work things out with your mother though, Rini. "
Rini groans at this, " I would but I don't know where to start, Dad. "
" True, you were quite the brat by your own admission. She wants to love you, Rini, she does, but you ended up treating her just like the rest of her family, Rini, which means she put you on her list of those to never trust. "
" I really tried there towards the end, Dad, I really did, but the damage had already been done. "
" You're right, it had been, but you two need to make amends before you're born. " Dan informs her.
" How, my own mother can't be in the same room as me without trying to kill me! "
" You two need to fight it out verbally, and this time no one will stop you two. " Dan says.
" How long until she gets her voice back again and I will be dealing with mom and not mama Li, right? " Rini asks him.
" Mizuno-sensei isn't sure how long it will take, but the treatments along with your mother's natural healing ability have upped the odds of her actually getting her voice back. " Dan states.
" Am I to take it that my oldest siblings are on their way, Dad? " Rini asks him.
" Who gave you the talk? "
" Mama Ikkuko actually. "
Dan's eyes widen, " Tsukino Ikkuko, whom beats her daughter with a ceramic rolling pin gave you the talk? What is wrong with this picture? "
" Mama Ikkuko always treated me well. "
Dan winces, " I think I just found another issue your mother has with you, Ikkuko actually accepted and loved you. "
Rini groans, " How the hell do I deal with that? "
" Can't help you there, midget. "
Rini groans at this, he had found his name for her. Selena had always been baby girl, Phoebe was munchkin, Dana was princess, and Tiara got Ewok, yes, her father was in fact a Star Wars fan. He just hid his fan boy tendencies for all things Star Wars really well. Dan grins at her reaction, " Did I stumble upon my name for you, midget? "
Rini levels a death glare at him, Heero Yuy level two patented Death Glare at that. Dan manages to not flinch away, " I'm going to guess you learned how to death glare from your mom's half-brother the Lunar Prince, right? "
" Yeah, Uncle Heero taught me how to death glare, doesn't work on Uncle Duo though, since he kinda is death himself. " Rini admits.
" I guess it would be hard to make a death glare effect a death god. " Dan admits.
" No kidding, " Rini says, she had put her Sketch Book away upon sensing her father's approach.
Juuban:
Molly was just sitting in the back room of the Crown Game Center when the youma proximity alarm went off. Molly's eyes widen even as she curses quite creatively, she transforms and then pulls up the location. The Scout of the Soul curses again, why was it always the park anyhow? She decides to see if she can handle the problem herself before calling Ventus Ninja in. Sailor Psyche teleports to the problem site and immediately unleashes the Soul Stinger upon the youma. The civilians takes off, knowing that they didn't want to be in the way of s scout battle.
" Who are you to interfere with my mission? "
Thankfully she had set the op room scanners to scan this youma thoroughly and scan for similar beings before she had left, it wouldn't do to be caught flatfooted. Especially with the planetary senshi currently being unreliable. Psyche smirks, " I am the senshi of the soul, Sailor Psyche. "
" Well, Soul Senshi, prepare to lose. "
Psyche curses as she is put on the defensive immediately, she pushes her right earring, " Call Ventus Ninja. "
She explains the situation even as she continues to dodge the youma's attacks, though she did throw a Soul Stinger at the youma every so often. Psyche needed time to charge up her higher level attacks, the Soul Stinger was low level and easily charged up, unlike the rest of her attacks. She needed Ventus Ninja to buy her time. When the kunai hit their mark Psyche smirks and sets to reaching deep to pull up her power and charge up one of her higher level attacks.
" Soul Scorcher! "
The youma flies backwards from this attack and Psyche curses, " Any ideas, Ventus Ninja? "
Ventus Ninja scoffs, " I've been trying everything I can think of to take this idiot youma down, Psyche. "
Psyche rolls her eyes and summons her sword, as the pair keep the youma contained the general in charge watches the fight, these two were different from the usual defenders of Juuban, that much was certain. " Solarian Burst! "
" Eos, thank Aphrodite. " Psyche says.
" Sorry I'm late, girlfriend, took Ai a while to hunt me down and awaken me. Apparently we Outsiders need to step up and deal with the trash that the planetary senshi aren't huh? " Sailor Eos says, her senshi uniform looked like a red swim suit, a two piecer that bared her midriff, she had red wings on her back, an orange sailor scarf and choker with orange Uranus style boots and orange circles at where the center of her skirt would be and holding the sailor scarf together, she wore a golden V style mask with a silver tiara holding an orange circular gem in the center, she also had red hair and wore white gloves with red forearm guards, the choker had a yellow circle in the center of it as well. ( A/N: head to doll divine. Com and look in sailorpsyche's Outsiders gallery to find a picture of Sailor Eos and of Sailor Psyche. Take the spaces out of the above web site.)
Ventus Ninja smirks under his face covering, things may just turn in their favor now with Eos here. " Where is Ai? " Psyche asks.
" She went to track down the others, we never needed as much guidance as the Planetary Senshi. Dawn Detox! "
The youma screams as this attack makes contact, Dawn Detox worked to remove all negative energy, Eos had this attack for the times they didn't have access to the purifying power of a Silver Crystal. Psyche snarls and starts to charge up her next attack, " Soul Shredding! "
The youma is finally beaten and Psyche teleports them all back to the op room and pulls up the results of her scan, " Shimatta, they've been here for a while, there are several of that type of youma here. "
Eos curses, " We need Nyx, that's all there is to it as the hime is incapable of helping us right now, correct? "
" That's correct. " Ventus Ninja admits, " We have to start taking these operations out just as soon as we can. "
" We also have to scout them out, useless planetary senshi. " Psyche mutters under her breath.
Ventus Ninja had to admit, she had a point, they would need a significant amount of help to be able to handle this kind of problem. " We need to find out if Artemis is loyal or not, and if he is then we need to use him to find the rest of the Outsiders, we need Hesper, Dike, Nike, Nemesis, and is Nyx counted among you girls now? "
" She is, the night court is loyal to the hime. " Psyche admits.
" Well, we need to find them and awaken them, fast. I don't know how the hell the planetary senshi could allow this to happen right under their noses but it looks like we'll need to clean up after their incompetence. " Ventus Ninja states.
Both of the females sigh at this, he was right, but that didn't mean they had to like it. They should not have to clean up after the planetary senshi simply because they were too immersed in trying to oust the hime and push forward their own agenda. Molly had heard of Crystal Tokyo from her best friend and she was appalled at the implications of such a Kingdom. Serena had sworn she would never allow such stupidity to come into fruition on her watch, besides Molly damn well knew she was going to marry Dan and not Endymion.
Psyche does a deeper scan of all the trouble areas and swears loudly at what she finds, " They've set up shop in the damn hospital. "
Ventus Ninja swears at this as well, " We can't fight them in a hospital, we have to draw them out somehow or take them out with one hit kills. "
" Ventus Ninja, go do some recon, we need to know what we're getting into before we go charging in. " Psyche orders.
Ventus Ninja nods and he was gone in seconds. He could understand the need for recon especially in this situation. Psyche was currently in command until Dike could be found. Something told the Soul Senshi that things were going to get worse before they got better.
Bakugan City:
Miyoko thinks over what Saeko had called her about and Saeko had sent her a picture of the girl in question, she'd have to talk to Shinjiro about this but she wanted to help the poor girl out. Dan had even called her to talk about Kona, apparently she and Dan had bonded during all of Dan's visits to the Children's Ward of one of the hospitals on Vestal. The child needed somewhere to recover from the emotional blows that wouldn't trigger memories for her. She understood why Dan had suggested what he did. Dan had a big heart and to be honest she missed having a child around and this would give her an opportunity to actually have a daughter, sure she'd been advising Serena for years but she'd always known deep down Serena would become her daughter-in-law, call it mother's intuition.
She was waiting for Shinjiro to Skype her so they could discuss this, she wanted to help Kona so badly and something told her that Dan wanted this for Kona as well. Dan hadn't mentioned anything of what he was currently doing and Saeko hadn't said anything either but a mother always knew when her child was in the midst of another life threatening fight or at least she did. Dan always shielded her from the worst of what he did and she still had no clue what he had been doing for the whole time he was fourteen, all she knew was that it had to do with Serena.
Elsewhere:
" Mistress, Sailor Psyche and Ventus Ninja stumbled across one of our operations in Juuban and worse still Eos is now active. "
The Mistress curses quite articulately at this news, why now of all times were the senshi known as the Outsiders awakening, unless it had to do with the fact that the majority of the planetary senshi were highly incompetent. That could be why they were being awakened now, due to planetary senshi failings though she had yet to hear reports of Jupiter or Saturn helping out, which meant they were most likely with their princess, along with the delectable Daniel Kuso.
" How were they alerted to the operation? "
" My guess is they energy drain was too high in that area or their scanners picked up on the youma. "
" True, they would have some method of tracking the different types of trouble within Juuban, especially seeing as how several of their enemies were after energy. " the Mistress is loath to admit to that though.
" Should we relocate our other operations or not? "
The Mistress thinks on this question, " No, we have no idea whether or not they can find our other operations yet or not, warn all operations to be very careful about where they send their youma and how much energy they drain in an area, we do not need our actions out in the open yet. "
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