The Astro Senshi
By: Andrea MacFarlane aka Serendipity/Serenity Night/Night
Chibi-Serenity@ChibiUSA.org
(c) July 2000

Konnichiwa minna-chan! Sorry this chapter was so late. Usual disclaimers apply here. I'm not going to be here during the next three weeks but you can expect Chapter 6 very soon and at least 2 new chapters upon my immediate return. This chapter is mostly based on Jason and Lynne. Sorry! I know most of you want the other new senshi in it too but you'll haveto wait until the next chapter. You'll never guess who finds the next batch of senshi!

Dedicated to: Jason Ulloa a.k.a. sailorknight (I'm dedictaing this one to him cause he's been VERY helpful and understanding about a lot of the things I'm doing to his characters. I'll probably dedicate a chapter to everyone at least twice. So don't worry everyone will get their turns.)

Chapter 5: Dousing the Flames

**The next school day**
"Lynne where have you been? I called you at least 6 times after you left the cafe. Your mom said that you hadn't come home. Tell me what's going on now Lynne." Celina demanded indignantly as Lynne stepped onto the school grounds.
Lynne's eyes widened and looked around trying to find an excuse to leave. Seeing no alternative Lynne sighed and offered Celina the best explanation she could, "I know that you won't take me saying that I don't want to talk about it so here goes. After I was totally insulted at the cafe I went back to the center and swam for a few hours. Jason found me and was just as insulting. To go on top of that he had the audacity to kiss me. When we were arguing his friends came in and he ust had to introduce them to me. Surprisingly though they were really nice. We spent the next few hours getting to know a little about each other. That's all that happened really. Nothing right?" Lynne laughed nervously as Celina stood in shock before her.
"Oh my god he kissed you! How could you not tell me! He's so cute and you take it as an insult! I'd take it as a dream come true. this is the biggest news since Vince was caught in the janitor's closet with Sarah!" Celina gushed excitedly as she pulled Lynne into the school and left many people staring after them.
"Celinnnnaaaaaa!!!! Wait!" Lynne wailed as she was dragged into a very long and exhausting day of gossip she had no way of preventing.
**Price Arcade**
"Wow Lynne you look awful. What happened?"
Lynne looked up at the person who had called out to her as she entered the arcade. "Oh hey Nicole. This has to be the worst day of my social life." Lynne said as she slugged onto a stool in front of her favourite video game. 'Bloody Roar 2' blipped the screen saying insert coin to begin play. Lynne sighed as she took out her money and inserted it into the slot. The game read one player or two and as Lynne was going to press one player someone slid up beside her dropped in the required amount and pressed 2 players.
"Who do you think you are doing that?" Lynne said as she whipped her head around to face her opponent. Immediately she regretted it and groaned inwardly.
"Well your certainly made of everything else besides sugar and spice cause you certain aren't being very nice." Jason frowned at her with a slight grin creeping into his features.
Lynne put her hands to her face. She peeked at him through her fingers to see if it hadn't been a day dream but he was still there. {Damn. Why does he have to do this to me.} she thought to herself. *Because your a sucker for punishment and you like him so admit it!* her mind screamed back at her.
Her thoughts were interupted by a hand on her shoulder.
"So Lynne when were you going to introduce me to your new boyfriend?" Nicole asked as she smiled at the man sitting next to her friend.
"He's not my boyfriend. He rudely sat down and now we're going to finish this game and then he's going to leave me alone. Right?" Lynne gritted through her teeth as she sent the last part of her sentences towards Jason.
"Hi my name's Jason. Nice to meet you. Sorry to be rude but if I don't play this game with her our money will get severely depleted." Jason said cheerily t Nicole as he turned back towards the screen to choose his player.
Lynne sighed irritably as she too turned around and picked her player. She was a very slutty lokking blonde that could turn into a slutty looking human/bat when her energy was high enough. Jason had picked a surprisingly lean character that could turn into a very ugly human/insect.
"It's not strength that counts you know. It's tactics and strategy." Jason said as he saw Lynne smirk at the character he had picked.
"I bet I can beat you 2 outta 3. Let's see how your tactics and strategies are then. Of course me being a girl and all I have the disadvantage." Lynne challanged innocently.
"Oh no that stuff doesn't work on me. Nice try though. I've talked to a couple of people in here and they say that the top score has your name on it." Jason said as *Round 1* flashed across the screen.
"Hmph! Well than your no man if you don't take the challenge. Are you a mouse or a man?" Lynne taunted as she began to power up her beast change.
"Well if your put it that way.....I'M A MAN!" Jason yelled as he plunged head first into the game using every tactic he could think of.
**6 Hours Later**
The screen blipped the game over sign and the combatants stretched as they slipped off the stools.
"Your not half bad Jason." Lynne said appreciatively, "You almost won. Too bad I had to strike you out before you turned beast or you would have definitely won. Don't you hate it when that happens." Lynne grinned devilishly.
"Well if you hadn't cheated then a baby could have beat you." Jason mocked as he raced out the door.
Lynne stood in utter shock. {Me cheat?} she thought astonishingly. A slow growl escaped her throat before she raced after Jason yelling, "Get back here you ass! I'm going to beat you until you turn black and blue!"
**Hewick Park**
Jason slowly began to tire, {Man that girl can run!} he thought as plopped, throughly exhausted onto a bench in front of the lake.
Lynne raced around the corner a break neck speed trying to catch Jason. Suddenly her entire view was based on the fact that jason was sitting on a bench, not five feet away and right in front of the lake, and that she couldn't slow down fast enough to prevent what was about to happen. She braced herself for the double impact.
Jason looked up right before Lynne crashed into him taking herself, him, and the bench he was resting on into the lake.
Lynne came up for air and she saw the bench that Jason had been sitting on slowly sinking to the bottom of the lake. But no Jason.
"Jason?! Jason where are you?!" she screamed frantically looking all over to see if he had pulled himself onto the shore. "This isn't funny! Come on! Jaso...." her died away as she saw a figure floating in the water not moving.
Panick seized her entire being as she swam as fast as she could to see if he was alright.
He wasn't moving when she flipped him over in the water. {Oh god I hope he's not dead!} she screamed inside her head as she dragged him to the shore and hoisted him on top before following.
{Mouth to mouth! You have to get air into his lungs you idiot!} her mind screamed at her as sat there trying to catch her breath.
As if by magic air seemed to fill her own lungs in an instant. She tilted Jason's head back and plugged his nose. [Please don't be dead.] she whispered as she blew air into his lungs.
Suddenly his hands shot up without her seeing and pressed her to him as he kissed her quite passionately. He slowly darted his tongue into her mouth to caress hers. Slowly Lynne began to return the kiss and cupping his face in her hands.
"Mmmmm. You taste like chocolate rose petals." he said as they both came up for air.
Lynne smiled down at him and brushed her lips against his just as reality set into her brain.
"You......TRICKED ME!" she yelled as she jumped away from him.
"Well I didn't know I was that repulsive that you would jump away from me." Jason chided as he too stood up and stepped towards her.
"Don't you dare come near me! How dare you. I thought you were on the brink of death!" Lynne yelled at him while placing her hands firmly on her hips.
"Well you didn't seem to worried about that when you were kissing me. Besides I got you back for drenching me!" Jason fired back at her.
"That was an accident. You brought it upon yourself when you called me a cheater which I am most certainly not." Lynne said cooly as she wrapped her arms around herself. She shivered from wet and cold clothes she wore.
Jason's eyes immediately filled with concern. Without asking a word he picked up her frail shivering form and began walking out of the park.
"W-wher-re a-are y-y-you t-t-taking m-m-me?" Lynne asked as she shivered uncontrollably and clutched at his soaking shirt.
"To my apartment. It's probably closer than your house anyways. I wouldn't let you die out here to freeze to death. What kind of a gentle man would I be then?" Jason explained as he somehow managed to add in humour.
Lynne nodded and then shut her eyes from exhaustion and fell asleep listening to the clicking of his feet against the hard concrete and the soft drum beat of his heart.
**Centaurus Residence**
"Where is that girl! I'm about ready to call the police!" Jacob Centaurus fumed at his wife.
"Dear she's not late. Remember that we never gave her a curfew. She always knows what to do in almost any situation so stop worrying and sit down for dinner." calmly stated to sooth her husbands worries about their daughter Lynne.
"It's the almost that worries me." he sighed as he sat down and started his semi-cold dinner.
"Hey mom! I'm back from the mall. What's for dinner?" Megan called as she entered her house.
"We've already started honey. Yours is in the oven so it should still be warm." Heather Centaurus replied to her younger daughter.
Megan soon walked in with her plate of food. "Mom why is there another plate in there?" she asked as she sat down devouring her meal upon contact with her chair.
"She hasn't come home yet. Don't worry about it. I'm sure she'll call. She always does." Mrs. Centurus said, {I hope.}.
**At Jason's Apartment**
Maneuvering the sleeping beauty in his arms he managed to open his door without dropping her or waking her up. He masterfully took his drenched shoes off using his feet and walked towards his bedroom.
When they entered his room she started to stir as he placed her onto his bed. {Sorry to have to do this to you Lynne but I don't want you dying on me anytime soon.} he thought as he closed his eyes and peeled her wet clothes from her body. Leaving her undergarments on he fished around in his closet and found a big heavy sweat shirt that would be to big for her to wear publicly but enough to keep her decent and warm.
He turned back towards the bed and shut his eyes again as he struggled a bit before getting the sweat shirt safely on her. He pulled the covers up over her and tucked her still slightly shivering form into the blankets snuggly.
He sighed as he stared down at the girl in his bed. {How does she do this to me?} He wondered to himself before running a hand through his hair and going into his bathroom to have a shower.
**20 Minutes Later**
Lynne woke to the sound of running water. {Where am I?} she thought to herself before her memory cae flooding back into her mind at top speed.
She looked down and gasped. Obviously she couldn't remember a lot! What had she done?! She couldn't remember. She needed to puke and as the water turned off and the lock on the bathroom began to open she lurched forward and dove into the bathroom. Knocking the recent occupant onto his bottom end.
Jason sat dazed on the floor as something had knocked him over and had just made some very disgusting sounds in his toilet. He placed a hand to his head and covered his eyes.
Lynne let go of substances she never knew she had ever eaten before. When her stomach subsided she wiped her mouth off with some toilet paper and flushed it, along with her internal remains down the drain and into sewage.
She turned around to apologize to Jason when she stopped and just stared at him before blushing furiously and turning around. "Uh Jason you have a small problem you might like to attend to." Lynne squeaked as her blush covered her whole face and she turned crimson red.
"Yeah I got a major headache now." he said as he continued to rub his throbbing head and massage his eyes into focus. Into focus they came alright, his towel had haphazardly come off when he was thrown back into the bathroom. He yelped in surprise and quickly covered up.
"Sorry." Lynne mumbled as she quickly ran past him into his bedroom and flung herself under his covers. Pretending to have fallen right back to sleep.
Jason entered his bedroom after her and grabbed some clothes. To try to lighten the mood went over to his bed and lifted the covers up off her head, "Don't try that stunt again. I know I'm the sexiest man alive but i can't you doing that." he grinned down at her.
Lynne's blush only deepened to that of a tomato. Jason laughed as he went back into the bathroom to change.
{Oh god MOM!} Lynne screamed in her mind before she zipped out of the bed and launched herself towards the nearest phone. In the kitchen.
**Centaurus Residence**
"Hello!" said a cheery voice at the other end of the line.
"Hi Megan. Is mom around?" Lynne said tiredly to her sister before yawning.
"Yeah just a sec.....MOM LYNNE'S ON THE PHONE!!!!!" Lynne heard her sister call to their mother.
Almost immediately the phone was picked up, "Lynne? Hi honey. Where have you been?" her mother's worried voice came over the phone.
"Sorry to scare you mom. I'm watching a movie at Celina's house with her and we kinda fell asleep. I was wondering if i could stay here for the night?" Lynne explained hopefully.
"Sure honey. Just make sure your at school on time and come straight home afterwards." Mrs. Centaurus said relieved.
"Okay thanks mom. Bye, tell dad goodnight for me. Bye!" Lynne said sweetly to her mother and then hung up after her mother's goodbye.
**At Jason's Apartment**
Jason walked into the kitchen to find Lynne just replacing the reciever.
"Who was that?" he asked as he came behind her and placed a kiss on her cheek.
Lynne shook out of her shock at the gesture, "M-my mother. I'm staying here tonight." she said as she ducked back into the bedroom with him right on her trails.
"Just when were you going to inform me of this? Do I have a choice in the matter." he asked with his arms akimbo.
Lynne slowly slithered up to him and placed a hand around his neck. She pulled his head within millimeters of her own. "No." she simple said before kissing him full force and then jumping into bed and snuggling down nto the covers.
Jason was now the one with shock in his face. He shook his head in amazement before crawling into the bed with her. At her raised eyebrow he simply replied, "If you've seen me naked then I am certainly not sleeping on the couch."
Lynne's face immediately turned crimson again at the memory and she turned around with her back to him.

Stay Tuned For Chapter 6: Surprises and Demises

Did you like it???? Did ya did ya did ya? Sorry it was late guys. The next chapter is out on Friday as promised. In the next chapter more new senshi arrive and Archimedes becomes jealous! Ohh aren't you in suspense? I am! Gotta run. Ja ne!
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