Ranma 1/2 is the creation of Rumiko Takahashi and Sailor Moon is the creation of Naoko Takeuchi. This fan-fiction isn't intended for commercial use but is rather a tribute to Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon.

This is a continuation of Saotome Ranma, Wiseman Book 1 which should be read first as otherwise little will make sense.

Chapter 4 – The Earth Kingdom

"You have any idea what you have done?" fumed the Nabiki native to this reality

"Prevented several potentially empty headed idiots that happen to be leaders of certain countries from doing something beyond teaching neko kan levels of baka," said Beryl. "None of the Moon Clarktech we have access to has seen a maintenance man in some 12,000 years so it may claim that the fleet of 500 some ships out there are near on par with our technology but better to err on the side of caution."

"I think she is referring to the fact that both the media and the military will be coming here. We weren't exactly subtle on where our broadcast came from," commented their Nabiki.

"Subtlety takes time and thanks to what is already on our plate time is not something we have in abundance."

"Which is ironic as the main reason we are cut off from the Phoenix Republic was to give our world more time while we cleaned up this world's mess," grumbled Wiseman. "Nearly a million youma and we can't utilize any of them in the likelihood this fleet is hostile."

"Oh my," said Kasumi, "Why is it likely they are hostile?"

Wiseman put his head down his hand rubbing his eyelids as he sighed. "Traveling through space takes a lot of resources. You don't travel outside your own solar system unless you are planning conquest and/or colonization and this doesn't look like a colonization fleet."

"Even if they weren't actively hostile they would still be dangerous," said Thoth. "The likelihood that any two planets would independently evolve compatible biospheres is effectively nil. Unless they are total idiots they had to have sent a probe to this system to evaluate how viable the planets in their goldilocks zone was to their form of terraforming. Though they seemed to have fallen into the same baka trap the Moon Kingdom did with regards to expansion."

"Now I don't understand," commented Wiseman.

"A planet of any reasonable size generates a gravity well. It takes a lot of energy to get out of that well. If you are smart you avoid doing back down another well and instead build space stations that orbit the planet reducing the energy needed to get out of the gravity well. The planet is little more then a mining resource and something for your space station to orbit."

"There is one huge flaw with that," commented Wiseman gesturing with his thumb to the stargate. "But then again you have to have something like the Time Space Door or the Phoenix Republic to make the thing work."

"Speaking of making things work, looks like things went well with regards to Usagi," said Beryl.

~*~Tsukino residence~*~

Ikuko and Kenji looked at Usagi and Eclipse clearly troubled. "So what happens now?" asked Ikuko. "I lost my daughter and I didn't even know about it thanks to that…" "Time Space Door," finished Eclipse. "There is one other thing you must know," said Eclipse frowning. "Odds are this Usagi won't be able to go home to her timeline."

"Why not?" asked Usagi.

"Because the Time Space Door is in total lockdown mode. Right now the only way we could get them up and running again is a hard reset. That would wipe everything in the memory banks...including the information regarding what timeline it pulled you and your friends from."

"But...what about my parents in that timeline?"

Eclipse looked Usagi in the eyes the pain and sorrow clear in her features. "From their prospective you and your friends never came home. After a while they will assume you either ran away...or are dead."

Usagi hung her head and starting crying. It was wasn't her usual wail but heartfelt sobs. "What happens to me?"

"We take you in," stated Kenji. "From what you have said it was only the advice of this...moon cat that separates our world from yours. You...our Usagi stopped being the outgoing joy filled though somewhat irresponsible child and became a solemn introvert that took things way too seriously. You are the child we lost before...she died."

Eclipse stood. "Well now I know you won't throw her out on the street I'll take my leave."

"But you are no more native to this world then she is," said Ikuko.

"My parents didn't react well to my activities as Sailor Moon or getting Jusenkyo water dumped on my head. I lost it and after reading them the riot act I ran away...right into a youma. I think that is when I started to develop the Eclipse persona – how I thought the Head of a youma clan would behave. The other scouts followed my lead and we all started taking our Responsibilities in protecting our world really seriously...even if it separated us from our respective families. That is why my friends and I were living in our world's Tendo Dojo rather then our respective homes. In retrospect that was a big mistake."

"Damn right it was a mistake, young lady," said Kenji. "I'm seeing a little too much of what our Usagi became in you."

Eclipse chuckled, "I'm seeing that I over compensated...we all did." Eclipse pulled out the Ginzuishou. "But we saw a future where I kept that overly optimistic attitude and accidentally emotionally lobotomized everyone I didn't exile off the planet with this blasted thing. In fact one of our current problems is from one of those futures – the Black Moon Clan."

"All this talk of time travel is making my head hurt," commented Kenji.

"You deal with as regularly as we did and you get use to it."

"Speaking of dealing with things," began Ikuko. "There is the issue of Sailor Moon."

"I wished for a normal life after defeating Beryl...and it didn't last."

"There is a reason for that," said Eclipse lifting the Ginzuishou. "The Time Space Door isn't the only AI the Moon Kingdom made. That is another reason I am very leery regarding using this thing; I don't know how complex its AI even is."

Usagi paled. "You mean the Ginzuishou thinks?"

"Yes, but how complex those thoughts are...have no idea. It could be on the level of a small child...or on the same level as the Time Space Door."

"Speaking of complex thoughts," began Luna. "What about your Beryl? From what you have said she is home."

"If she was in her old mindset I would be worried but she has changed. She realized that trying to reclaim or even remake a Kingdom dead for some 12,000 years is nonsensical at best...and deranged at worst. That said she has likely told the whole world about the fleet of 500 some ships heading our way."

"Five hundred?" gulped Usagi.

"If the remaining Moon Clarktech is to be believed they aren't that much more advanced then this Earth. Beryl is the only one with anything even resembling interstellar diplomacy and so has likely taken on the role of speaking for Earth. Unless these aliens are Genma levels of dumb they have found out about both the Moon and Earth Kingdoms. Beryl may give the impression that she is Queen of the Earth Kingdom to these aliens but she knows the Earth Kingdom is as dead as the Moon Kingdom."

"Uh, who or what is Genma?" asked Luna.

"Saotome Ranma's, aka Wiseman, father, the Epimetheus of Martial Arts. He grabbed a book with the Neko-ken it and followed step by step rather then reading it through first. Step one dig a pit. Step two fill it with starving cats. Step three, tie up trainee in fish products. Step four, throw the trainee who can't be more then 10 years old into said pit. Step five, repeat until trainee learns technique. You will know that by them temporarily going insane and thinking they are a cat and you are their new scratching post. Step six, finished reading and find out only a total moronic idiot would train anyone in this technique."

Four pairs of eyes just stared at Eclipse. "That is insane!" screeched Luna finally.

"No that is Genma being Genma...dumber then advertised. The Ranma here still goes cat. Our Ranma, Wiseman, becomes one of his previously lives. Everyone hopes when it happens it is the original Sailor Pluto rather then the Princess Morganite persona. The idea of Wiseman's power and skills being in the hands of an 8 year old who was assassinated some 12,000 years ago in a power play is terrifying to say the least."

"Assassinated?" asked Usaki a cold feeling beginning in the pit of her stomach.

"Yes. Princess Serenity and Princess Beryl both theorized it was Palace politics. You see all the royal line of Earth have youma blood in their veins. Princess Morganite had full youma powers and was good friends with Princess Serenity. In fact, the three of them were playing together on Earth when Princess Morganite was killed."

"I remember now," whispered Usagi. "I suggested it was my own mother, Queen Serenity, or one of her court behind the killing while Beryl felt it was someone in her court." Usagi scowled. "Now I know why my Beryl was so obsessed with killing me and my friends. We were looking for the Princess...so she thought I was Queen Serenity and took my old theory to heart. She was trying to protect the reincarnation of her best friend." Usagi closed her eyes. "If I had only known."

"The scary thing is in this reality Beryl would have been right as the Usagi here was the reincarnation of Queen Serenity. That is why Luna 'knew' she was the 'princess'...the Queen is dead, long live the Queen."

"If she was my mother...then the scouts who were part of this world…"

"Were likely their parents."

"Does...does your Beryl know?"

"I'm not sure. Not that it matters. Though I can tell you Beryl considers Princess Serenity family and can react...badly to anything that she considers a mortal threat to her family."

"How...badly?" asked Kenji.

"As in you will wish you were dead badly. A droid tried to drain me and Beryl totally lost it. I never saw such...sadistic cruelty in my life and I know if you or I are in true mortal danger I will see it again."

Usagi gulped. "If they can't accepted me?" she asked gesturing to Ikuko and Kenji.

"She told you about Hard Thought, right? One to five minutes of that depending on how angry she was and if either of us couldn't calm her down."

"Just...what is this Hard Thought?" asked Ikuko clearly fearing the answer.

"It was the Earth Kingdom's punishment for high crimes."

"She said it effectively encased you in an amber like substance able to see and hear but unable to move, breathe...or die," said Usagi shivering.

"If you want a first hand account ask our Jadeite sometime. It was only due to his being in the utter boredom of the Dark Kingdom for 12,000 years that allowed him to keep his sanity. Even though he'd been in the thing for months. From accounts everyone else was reduced to a babbling fawning possibly insane retch within minutes."

"Kama-sama in heaven," whispered Kenji who then scowled. "You are staying here. There is no way I am letting you or her anywhere near that...person."

Eclipse laughed. "I have been around her for months. Heck, she is part of my clan. But things in our world have been so hectic that I haven't really been home since becoming Eclipse and I really need to reconnect with my family and you are close enough. So I will accept your offer."

~*~Tsukino residence, next morning~*~

"Come on, Usagi you are going to be late...again."

Usagi groaned. "What time is it?"

"Seven thirty."

"Luna…" she began.

"Eclipse."

That woke Usagi up. "I thought you were me."

"I am and you need an education."

"What about you?"

"Well I am coming along too."

"Ugh. The teacher is going to think...your going as a youma aren't you?"

"Have to. But I have some hot water so once I show off my ability I can be a 'normal' human. Hopefully I'm not a cold water magnet any more."

Several minutes later at the breakfast table. "Well this is a welcome change, Usagi isn't going to running off to school like a crazy person." commented Kenji. "Speaking of crazy people, the paper shows Beryl made the announcement you said she would, Eclipse." Kenji frowned. "She isn't going to show up at your school is she?"

"Unless the set up she likely made to detect threats shows one at either Juuban Municipal Junior High School or Furinkan High School there has no reason for her to show up at either."

"Did you say Furinkan High School?" asked Ikuko paling.

"Yes. Purple Wiseman found a way to teach people things in minutes that would normally take months or years to learn. While Furinkan High School did have the advantage of being use to the crazy and unusually to the point it was normal I am looking forward at being away from that nuthouse for a while."

"Then the stories regarding it are true," commented Kenji.

"If you mean the stories of martial artists effectively trashing the place every other week, a principal with a Hawaii and hair cut fetish and what looks like a palm tree growing out of his head, and a teacher who changes ages by draining people of their ki then yes. It's all true."

"You said Wiseman allowed you to learn things in minutes that normally take months or years to learn," said Usagi with hope in her eyes.

"I know what you are thinking and no. It was a way for us to be able to be in grades higher then would be possible otherwise. Also it was Purple Wiseman from a particular 30th century that provided that knowledge and it was what his time and place considered important. The best our Wiseman can do is put martial arts styles in your head. Our knowledge has serious gaps. I can give you the exact chemical structure of the four amino acids that DNA is made of but in areas like history I am only slightly better then you are. You and I are going to have to learn things the hard way."

"Blast it," grumbled Usagi who then frowned. "I noticed you didn't correct our father about Beryl being a crazy person."

Eclipse sighed. "Usagi, just because Beryl isn't in a 'I want to reclaim my Kingdom' or 'Sailor Moon is the reincarnation of Queen Serenity and so must freaking die' mode anymore doesn't mean she isn't a little nuts. Think about it. She and her four generals lived for over 12,000 years in a place of perpetual dark twilight watching as generation after generation of her subjects were born, lived, and died of old age. She may not be a danger to us but that doesn't mean she is all there in the head. You heard her, she is so desperate to please the reincarnation of her elder twin sister and gain the respect of the youma she once ruled over that she is willing to go through training that would be considered brutal torture by the Geneva Convention. Remember what she said about Mistress Saturn? Well she wasn't kidding about breaking things. Wiseman took a little look into our most likely future and found out that Mistress Saturn was going to be healing a broken leg, a broken arm, and several broken ribs on a daily basis minimum-Beryl's."

"That is what you meant about 'getting into masochism' isn't it?"

"Pretty much. Beryl hasn't stopped being obsessive. She just changed what she is obsessive about."

"You said Wiseman took a little look into your most likely future..." began Ikuko.

Eclipse raised a hand to cut off the question. "That ability is tied to the Time Space Door which in this reality is in total lockdown. Here he is blind to the future just like most people are. Though even without that ability he has a good idea what kind of situation Beryl has set off."

~*~Tendo Dojo, several hours later~*~

"I knew that the media could go crazy but I wasn't expecting this," commented Wiseman as he looked at the area outside the dojo. "Is there any media outlet that didn't show up?"

"I'm more worried about the military," said their Nabiki. "Blast, I really wish I had access to Chapter 13 here."

"Chapter 13? Isn't that some form of American bankruptcy thing?" asked the native Nabiki.

Their Nabiki chuckled. "Ok perhaps we should have named it after something other then the last chapter in Sun Tzu's Art of War. From now we'll call it STC13. In a nutshell it is the Phoenix Republic's equivalent of the CIA or MI6. Running it is a lot more rewarding then our old money making methods."

"You run a spy agency?!"

The other Nabiki grinned and then frowned. "Not that it does me any blasted good here. Can't even try to recreate it." She then shrugged. "But I knew that coming here. I'm here mainly to keep your money making ways from blowing up in everyone's face. Though I found out the hard way last night you can still cause problems even if it doesn't involve making money."

"You mean me figuring that things are not quite the way Wiseman painted them."

"We have to paint things in the best light possible given what we knew so you lot didn't wind up killing innocent people. Thankfully if the Time Space Door has created a simulacron of Sailor Pluto odds are it is in a coma leaving us with Uranus and Neptune to deal with."

"And what is a simulacron?"

"An artificial construct in the form of a human being. It may appear to have human emotions but there is nothing truly human there."

"Have that right," commented Beryl. "Well let's get this three ring circus started."

~*~An hour later on the Race's Flagship~*~

Atvar sighed. The broadcast had been more local but had provided vital information regarding Queen Beryl. It appeared that the totally insane Queen Serenity had, out of spite, imprisoned Queen Beryl in an extra dimensional prison Beryl and her followers called the Dark Kingdom slaughtering nearly all of her own subjects to do it. More over she had made Queen Beryl and her top generals immune to growing old so they could watch generation after generation of their people, the youma be born, grow up, grow old, and then die of old age. From her statements it was clear the Kingdom she had ruled was long dead but that wasn't stopping her from representing Tosev 3.

"Fleetlord Atvar," Pshing said trembling. "We finally figured out where the star Queen Beyrl called Tau Ceti is. It's Home's sun!"

Atvar paled as much as one of the Race could. He hoped by the Emperor that Queen Beryl was wrong because if she wasn't… "Send a message to Home. I don't know why that thing left us alone but if it finds Tosev 3 too difficult it might decide to return and feast on what it considers easier prey!"

"At once Fleetlord Atvar."

Atvar turned his eyes to the view screen a still image of Beryl's face looking back at him. It took a lot of fuel to get up to 60 percent the speed of light at the start of the trip and an equal amount to then slow down near the destination. Given the primitives they had seen were viewed as an easy conquest in the name of efficiency the colonization fleet had already left Home by the time his fleet had arrived. Also the conquest was going to be so easy the colonization fleet was seen not to need to receive messages. Atvar hoped something could be salvaged from what had turned into a full fledged disaster.

~*~Tendo Dojo~*~

"I've been thinking," said the Genma from the other world.

Ranma and Wiseman both groaned.

"Ok, I guess I deserved that but right now we have three pairs with the same name. We have to have some way keep them straight. Perhaps the name followed by a number."

"With you being Genma-1? Pops the only one you have is regarding being lazy and stupid," said Wiseman.

"Perhaps, but unlike my counterpart I didn't forget the techniques I sealed."

"You still know the Yama-Sen Ken and Umi-Sen Ken?" the other Genma asked.

"That is only the two styles. What of the Ki-Katana-Wu?"

"What's the Ki-Katana-Wu?"

"Pops, he may have not even invented the Ki-Katana-Wu," commented Wiseman.

"Point taken," said Genma-1. "Think of it as a ki swipe composed of pure vacuum. A very poor man's close combat Death Reborn Revolution,"

Hotura-2 promptly paled.

"Cuts through the strongest door metal or wood like it isn't even there." Genma-1 then frowned. "I sealed it when I realized what it could do to a person. I may have become a thief and con-man but I would not become a murderer. But the droids and possibly this other Wiseman aren't alive to begin with so it can be on the table."

"We've been building a style around lesser versions of Death Reborn Revolution," said Mistress Saturn, "We could incorporate into the Wu Sen Ken style we have been working on."

"I'm giving the styles and the technique to Wiseman as part of his school the Sun Tzu Ryu."

"WHAT?!" yelled Genma-2. "Why would you give something that valuable away?!"

"Because I want someone who has a better sense regarding what is dangerous then we did to be the one to teach them!" yelled Genma-1. "I unknowing created a technique that is similar to one that at full power can destroy a freaking planet. I know what we were and I don't trust you not to do something on the level of greedy stupid moron any farther then I could physical throw Soun's house."

Wiseman frowned. "Could be put better but I understand. Pops could we talk somewhere more private?"

"Sure, Wiseman."

Wiseman and Genma-1 walked to where Akane-2's shrine was. "Something wrong?"

"Plenty. You may not realize it but you are acting like a good hunk of the Gray Moon Clan - self abasement bordering on hatred. I may not have much in the way of social graces but even I know that is 'off'."

Genma-1 sighed. "Remember when I ticked off Eclipse enough that she tried to hit him me with a Moon Healing Escalation? I dodged the main attack but there was a practically invisible aura around the thing. Perhaps being part of your clan changed how it worked but I saw some of my possible futures."

Wiseman paled. "How many?"

"Enough to realize if I wanted to not be thrown out of the Saotome clan or have a serious case of dead I was going to have to become better both in martial arts and as a person."

"Still it feels 'off' Pops."

"And this world doesn't?"

Wiseman nodded. "What I like to know is why the Time Space Door kept this world so close in terms of history to ours."

"Can't ask it as it is in shutdown mode. Though ours isn't, Ranma."

"Ranma, not boy or Wiseman. Ranma-1 does have a nice ring to it. Certainly will get my counterpart to learn something actually useful." Ranma-1 smiled. "But our world is slowed down to the point where next to no time passes there. Our Time Space Door can't do anything as there is no time to do anything."

"Been thinking about that. Who says the blasted thing is in sync with normal time? Who needs a suspended animation chamber if it can effect the time around it?"

"And if it can slow down time around...oh kuso."

~*~Grey Moon Clan's Timeline, outside normal spacetime~*~

'Blast, I knew somebody would figure that out but Genma? How the freaking blazes did that happen?' thought the Time Space Door. 'Can't scan that world's future thanks to the upgraded version of me being in shutdown mode. Can't create an interface to actively participate in that reality. Don't really want to communicate with my Guardian; she's leery enough as is. Hopefully…'

Chronos Aeon appeared frowning. "That should not have worked."

'Well it was unintuitive as all get out but in retrospect it should have been obvious,' said the text on the Gate.

"To do what you do required you to be totally outside time as we understand it." Chronos Aeon then frowned.

'Oh, I know what you are thinking. Why didn't your Ranma remember this? Well, I was run through my paces for nearly 1,000 years before I got her as a Guardian and they didn't tell her all of my functions.'

"Of course they didn't. I should have known. Being awake here with no one but you to talk to would have caused my mother to become unhinged. It also explains why time seemed to fly by even when I was bored out of my skull." Chronos Aeon scowled "You were making time here pass slower."

'Not just here but also in Sailor Saturn's "special room".'

"Why the hell didn't you tell me?!"

'Because you'd get angry and I needed you focused.'

"Right. Pull the other one it plays jingle bells." Chronos Aeon sighed. "Ok, what can you tell us about our visitors."

'They call themselves The Race and have conquered two other planets over the course of 14,000 years.'

"Only two planets in 14,000 years? Wow, that is slow. I take it expansion isn't their thing."

'That is putting it mildly. This battlefleet took them 800 years to organize and they were expecting to conquer the planet in days. What they have learned about the Earth and Moon Kingdoms has scared them but it is nothing compared to Pharaoh 90. Seems Tau Ceti is their home star.'

"I imagine they are in panic mode right now. Anything about this other Pharaoh 90?"

'None. It seems to be, as they say, "what it says on the tin". Oh, the colony ship will be showing up in 20 years given their records.'

"Great. Another problem to deal with but we are not staying around for 20 freaking years to fix it. By the way are we going to have to deal with these people in our world?"

'There is a fifty percent chance of them visiting us before we visit them in the timelines I can scan. Of course, my scan is limited to the Sol system and where we set up stargates. Oh and your assumption that their world was made to resemble your own is correct. Must say my counterpart is good, the energy signature its just above background when it did meddle. I couldn't see it until you were in that reality. Good thing my counterpart is offline; it is far more devious then the most scheming of Doom Phantoms.'

"Well that is something. Give me details on this Race's fleet. I want them thinking we are far more advanced then we are."

'While I am doing that do you want me to also alter the time dilation so you are in sync with the Phoenix Republic?'

Chronos Aeon snickered. "They didn't have to be in sync with our reality any more then you are. Telling us this would have solved a lot of problems."

'I needed a better "lay of the land" as it were. But doing that will cut them off from the stargate network here and what is going through yours isn't going to be enough.'

"So we are going to be back to the ki draining days of the Dark Kingdom. Beryl is going to love that. Will make proving Beryl's story easier."

~*~Later that day at the Tsukino residence~*~

"I have got to stay human longer," said Eclipse as she grabbed a biscuit. "I'd nearly forgot how good food tasted."

"They don't know how to cook at the Tendo's?" asked Ikuko.

Eclipse laughed. "Kasumi knows how to cook and then some. The problem is youma have a whole different set of taste buds. Food like this tastes bland while the Phoenix Republic's food and water has a very distinctive pleasant taste."

Ikuko frowned as she heard the doorbell ring. "Now who could that be?"

"If the ki I am felling means anything," Eclipse then sighed. "It's Beryl."

Kenji paled. "What's she doing here?"

"Likely to tell me something that couldn't wait."

Ikuko nervously got up and opened the door. She soon returned with Beryl right behind her.

"Usagi, Eclipse, I need some advice."

"Isn't that what Wiseman is for?" asked Kenji nervously.

"Normally yes but in this case…" Beryl sighed "This is going to take a while to explain."

Several minutes later. "No wonder you came seeking my advice," said Eclipse.

"Not just yours but Usagi's as well. The idea has merits but there is a large downside to the benefits."

"For the Phoenix Republic to be in sync with this world it will be limited to the energy going through one stargate. But I need to stay on this side of it which means the youma are going to have to feed on life ki here."

"You have got to be kidding, Beryl," said Luna. "Sounds like you want to restart your world conquering project."

"No, I don't but I can't guarantee the government of the Phoenix Republic won't pick up where that shadow copy of mine left off. Wiseman doesn't realize it but he gave the Phoenix Republic a bad case of Manifest Destiny with a side order of something akin to White Man's Burden. They are hopped up on the idea of becoming grander then the Moon Kingdom and are seeing what they can do with the resources they have to realize that dream. And now after 12,000 years they have access to their real home."

"But that access will end when you return home. Won't it?" asked Ikuko.

"That was the plan but like so many other things we didn't quite think it through. By setting up the Stargate here we created a permanent door to our network. The gate is designed to take a point blank full strength Death Reborn Revolution. Heck, you could chuck the thing into a supernova and it wouldn't even scratch it."

"Great, to make sure this world isn't destroyed may have just given access to a group of potential world conquers," groaned Eclipse.

"We stopped that in our world. Why not this one?" asked Usagi.

Beryl sighed. "That was because I was an impatient military moron. More over they aren't going to hide what they are doing."

"What? That makes no sense," commented Luna.

"Actually it does," said Eclipse. "Wiseman introduced the idea that energy can be changed from one form to another. Heck, the youma of my world just figured out how to drain the energy of fat cells. They are getting ki energy out of America like crazy just with the pilot program. When it goes fully national they'll have more ki then they know what to do with."

"Yep. 'Why take weeks or months to loose that unwanted fat when Fat Drain can take it away in minutes.' Out in the open and above board as they say." Beryl shook her head given a short humorless laugh. "We got more energy out of the pilot program then Jadeite did with all of his covert missons."

"Forget Crystal Tokyo's version of Huxley's Brave New World. Welcome to Phoenix Republic's version which will keep all those emotions people so prize," commented Eclipse. "I say we go for it. With us here we can keep an eye on them and curtail any excesses."

"What do you say, Usagi?"

"As your advisor I say we reject this insanity," growled Lina.

Usagi closed her eyes and sighed. "They are going to get involved in this world regardless of what we do. All keeping things as they are now will do is delay their arrival. As Eclipse said we can keep an eye on them." Usagi opened her eyes. "Besides I believe in giving second chances."

"Princess, that is recklessly naive," scolded Luna.

"Would you rather she become like me or what she was in this world?" chastised Eclipse. "Luna, your concerns boarders on McCarthyism levels of paranoia. Heck, in my world you suspected Ami as a possible threat." Eclipse sighed. "That said there aren't problems. Youma have totally distain for power that comes with little to no sacrifice. You will need to prove yourselves to them, just as we did."

~*~RSW~*~

Author note: Per Turtledove it took the colonization fleet 20 years to cover the 12 light years between Tau Ceti and Sol. This works out to 60 percent the speed of light.