Sailor Moon-American Senshi
by Eugol Dlareg
I do not own any of the main characters in this story except for Gilded Rose. They are owned by someone in Japan. However, with the exception of Serena Campbell and Amy Anderson, I do own the Americanized names of the characters, as well as many of the supporting characters and villians. To make things easy, we'll just say that anything that has appeared in the manga or anime version of Sailor Moon is owned by someone in Japan, most likely Toei or Naoko Takeuchi.
The lyrics quoted are from the song Venus, which was written by Robbie VanLeeuwin.
EPISODE 4-VENUS WAS HER NAME
A goodess on a mountain top,
was burning like a silver flame.
The summit of beauty she was,
and Venus was her name.
She's got it,
Yeah baby she's got it.
Well, I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at you desire.
Well, I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at you desire.
Wedensday, 16 April, 1986
Luna had observed the last battle without being seen by the Soldiers or Gilded Rose. She had traveled through the trees to avoid being noticed, as many of the students of Malvern High School would never think twice about seeing a cat up a tree. She was in a tree, when she noticed the one thing she least expected to see. . . a white cat with a crescent moon on its forehead. "Artemis!" she exclaimed, with more than a hint of surprise in her voice. "What are you doing here?"
"Watching your Sailor Scouts in action," he said.
"Soldiers," Luna said, more than slightly irritated by the offending name, "my Sailor Soldiers, not Sailor Scouts. You know how much I hate when you call them Sailor Scouts."
I wonder who woke up on the wrong side of the litterbox this morning, Artemis thought to himself. She can't even take a little joke.
"I've found almost all of the Soldiers," Luna said. "I only need to find Venus and Jupiter."
"Well," Artemis said, "I found Venus. In fact, I've been living with her and her family for a couple of years now. I've been waiting for the right time to tell her."
"No better time than the present," Luna said. "The Soldiers and Gilded Rose can use all the help we can get, even with our new ally Tuxedo Mask." She then added, "If she gets weirded out when you tell her, it's because she's not used to hearing cats speak."
Later that day
A 1978 Ford F-100 pulls to a stop in front of Elizabeth Minako's house. The passenger door opens, and she gets out. "Thanks for the ride, Jerry," she says to the driver, and walks to the front door. She sees a white cat standing on the front porch. "Hello Artemis," she said to the cat, as the truck drove off. "I suppose you want to come in." She found her keys in her backpack, and unlocked the door. She entered the house, and set her backpack on a chair. She went to the refrigerator and opened herself a diet soda. She then grabbed her backpack, and went upstairs to her bedroom, and tossed her backpack on the floor. She sat on her bed, and Artemis came in the room and got on the bed, and sat in Elizabeth's lap. "So what do you want, Artemis?" she asked.
"I want to tell you your destiny," Artemis answered.
Elizabeth looked at the can of soda she was drinking. "I thought this diet cola tasted a little different," she said. "I could have sworn I heard my cat talk."
"You're not imagining," Artemis said. "I did talk." He jumped in the air, and kicked his back legs, like a horse bucking. A wand topped with a small sphere with a symbol of the planet Venus in it appeared, and dropped toi the bed. "You have been chosen to fight against the Darkness," he said. "Take this wand, and whenever the Darkness attacks, hold this wand up and say 'Pretty Venus Soldier, Make-up!' and you will be transformed into Sailor Venus."
"That sounds like something from a Japanese comic book," Elizabeth said. "But then again," she said, taking the wand, "I am hearing this from a talking cat."
2 days later, 7:30 p.m., Joe's Burger Shack
Jake was standing behind the counter, counting the minutes until he got off work at 8:00, when Elizabeth Minako walked in. "What can I get for you today?" Jake asked.
"I'll have a cheeseburger, fries, and a medium iced tea," Elizabeth said.
"Lemon in your tea?" Jake asked.
"Sure," she said.
Jake wrote down her order. He then rang it up on the cash register. "That'll be $4.52," he said. Elizabeth handed him a five dollar bill, and he gave her the change, and put her order on the rack for Joe to make.
"Hey Jake," Joe, the owner said. "it's been kinda slow tonite, so how do you feel about knocking off a little early?"
"In that case," Jake said, "why not throw down another cheeseburger and an order of onion rings?"
"Sure," Joe said, as he went to making the orders.
Jake punched out, got himself a large cup and filled it with half strawberry soda, half root beer, and sat down at a table, and read the letter he had recieved that day from his pen pal from Japan. She talked about her homelife, and school, and how her life was going. As usual, she liberally illustrated her letter, and signed it in Japanese script for "Takeuchi Naoko".
A few minutes later, Jake and Elizabeth's orders were ready. Jake grabbed both trays, and set the one with fries on the table where Elizabeth was sitting. "Why don't you have a seat?" she asked.
Jake set his tray at the same table. he refilled his cup with the same half strawberry half root beer he was drinking. Why not, he thought to himself.
"Aren't you in a couple of my classes?" Elizabeth asked.
"Yeah," Jake answered. "p.e. and English."
Meanwhile, in Cyprine and Puchirol's interdimensional hideout
"We need a new plan to steal energies from these pathetic earthlings," Puchirol told her twin.
"Don't forget, we also need to take into consideration Earth's protectors," Cyprine added.
The twins thought about it for a few minutes. Finally, Puchirol had an idea. "Torakak would be perfect for our this task." Cyprine nodded in agreement.
Back at Joe's
Jake and Elizabeth were eating, when suddenly, screams could be heard from the shopping center across the street. They looked out the window to see Cyprine and Puchirol, along with a rather large, hideous creature that made Deathclaw look handsome by comparison. "Oh no," Jake whispered to himself, "The Darkness is attacking." He went outside, followed by Elizabeth. "Get inside and stay down!" he told her. He materialized his transformation rose. "Transform!" he said, throwing the rose to the ground, causing the smoke which disappeared, revealing Jake as Gilded Rose. "Not you two again!" he said to the twins. "What's the matter," he added, pointing to Torakak, "Your last monster not ugly enough?"
"Torakak, get him!" the twins said in unison.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth was watching the standoff from the relative safety of Joe's. She remembered the wand Artemis gave her a couple of days before. "Take this wand, and whenever the Darkness attacks, hold this wand up and say 'Pretty Venus Soldier, Make-up!' and you will be transformed into Sailor Venus." She took the wand out of her jacket pocket. "Pretty Venus Soldier, Make-up!" she yelled, and the next thing she knew, she was wearing the familiar Sailor Soldier costume, with an orange skirt and orange trim, and orange shoes with ankle straps. She also had a red bow in her hair. She quickly entered the fray.
"You have a new partner," said Puchirlo, to which Cyprine added "But she's not going to help you defeat us."
"But we will," Sailor Mars said.
"Because we're the Sailor Soldiers," Sailor Mercury added. "And we stand for truth, and justice, and love."
"And in the name of love," Sailor Moon added, "We shall punish you!"
"Friends of yours?" Sailor Venus asked Gilded Rose.
"Yeah," he answered.
"Good," Sailor Venus said, "Cause it looks like we won't be able to handle this alone, especially with this being my first crack out of the box."
The other Soldiers gathered around Gilded Rose and sailor Venus. "How're we going to handle this?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Same as last time," Gilded Rose said. "You Soldiers handle the Siamese twins, I'll take on tall, dark, and even uglier." He turned his staff into a light sword, and rushed at Torakak.
While Gilded Rose was fighting Torakak, the Sailor Soldiers were battling Cyprine and Puchirol. "Let me get a shot in," Sailor Venus said.
"Be our guest," Sailor Mars said.
"Venus Love-me Chain!" Venus yelled, as she threw a chain with heart-shaped links at the twins, who decided to leave the job of fighting the Sailor Soldiers to Torakak, who was proving to be a formidable foe.
The Soldiers concentrated their attack on Torakak, who fired an energy beam from his eyes that sent the Soldiers and Gilded Rose reeling. He rushed the group while they were down, but his attack was stopped by a red rose that came out of nowhere. "I thought you could use a couple of seconds to regroup," Tuxedo Mask said, from atop a building.
"Let me finish ugly here," Gilded Rose said, leaping to a point about 30 yards from the rest of the group. While he did that, Sailor Mars got down on one knee, while Gilded Rose turned his staff into a scepter with a gold rose at the top. He ran towards Sailor Mars, and leapt off her shoulders, and at the apex of his ascent, he yelled "Gold Rush!" Flying towards Torakak, he threw several gold roses at Torakak, and fired a beam of gold energy at him, causing the roses to explode, sending the monster reeling. He then turned his scepter back into a light sword, and sliced Torakak in half, and landed in a kneeling position a few feet away. He counted down. "Three, two, one, now," at which point, what was once Torakak imploded. Gilded Rose then floated over to where the Sailor Soldiers were standing, and threw down his transformation rose, reverting the five of them to their civilian identities. "Girls," Jake said, "This is Elizabeth Minako."
"Hi," Amy said, "I'm Amy Anderson, otherwise known as Sailor Mercury."
"Serena Campbell., I'm Sailor Moon."
"Rae Lincoln, they call me Sailor Mars."
"You can call me Gilded Rose," Jake said.
"I guess that means Sailor Venus makes five," Elizabeth said. "But what about our well dressed friend?"
"We're not sure," Amy said. "He just showed up out of the blue, and he's on our side."
"That's pretty much all we know about him," Jake said.
EPILOGUE
The next morning, Rae's bedroom
"Hey Rae," Elizabeth said, "Do you keep a cow on the veranda? I just heard mooing."
"Oh that's just Jake," rae said. He always moos when he's out there and the door is locked. You mind opening it?"
"Sure," she said, unlocking the door.
Jake came in. "I'm only going to stay for a minute," he said. "I just wanted to give you these," he handed each girl what appeared to be a compact. "I made these last night," he said. "They're your communicators. This way, we can always be able to get in touch with each other in emergencies."
"So where's yours?" Amy asked.
He showed the girls his watch. "I designed the communicators to look like things we'd normally use," he said, "and since I don't usually wear makeup, I made mine look like a watch. I gotta go to work, but I'll be back sometime this afternoon." He left the same way he came.
Noah's Arcade, later that day
Luna came in through an open window, and found climbed on an unused Sailor V machine. "Voice conformation, please," the machine said.
"I love tuna fish and fieldmouse pudding," Luna said.
"Voice confirmed," the machine said. . .
Next time on American Senshi
Just who is the mysterious new girl in school? And we meet the final member of the Senshi team in. . .
AND JUPITER MAKES 5
by Eugol Dlareg
I do not own any of the main characters in this story except for Gilded Rose. They are owned by someone in Japan. However, with the exception of Serena Campbell and Amy Anderson, I do own the Americanized names of the characters, as well as many of the supporting characters and villians. To make things easy, we'll just say that anything that has appeared in the manga or anime version of Sailor Moon is owned by someone in Japan, most likely Toei or Naoko Takeuchi.
The lyrics quoted are from the song Venus, which was written by Robbie VanLeeuwin.
EPISODE 4-VENUS WAS HER NAME
A goodess on a mountain top,
was burning like a silver flame.
The summit of beauty she was,
and Venus was her name.
She's got it,
Yeah baby she's got it.
Well, I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at you desire.
Well, I'm your Venus,
I'm your fire at you desire.
Wedensday, 16 April, 1986
Luna had observed the last battle without being seen by the Soldiers or Gilded Rose. She had traveled through the trees to avoid being noticed, as many of the students of Malvern High School would never think twice about seeing a cat up a tree. She was in a tree, when she noticed the one thing she least expected to see. . . a white cat with a crescent moon on its forehead. "Artemis!" she exclaimed, with more than a hint of surprise in her voice. "What are you doing here?"
"Watching your Sailor Scouts in action," he said.
"Soldiers," Luna said, more than slightly irritated by the offending name, "my Sailor Soldiers, not Sailor Scouts. You know how much I hate when you call them Sailor Scouts."
I wonder who woke up on the wrong side of the litterbox this morning, Artemis thought to himself. She can't even take a little joke.
"I've found almost all of the Soldiers," Luna said. "I only need to find Venus and Jupiter."
"Well," Artemis said, "I found Venus. In fact, I've been living with her and her family for a couple of years now. I've been waiting for the right time to tell her."
"No better time than the present," Luna said. "The Soldiers and Gilded Rose can use all the help we can get, even with our new ally Tuxedo Mask." She then added, "If she gets weirded out when you tell her, it's because she's not used to hearing cats speak."
Later that day
A 1978 Ford F-100 pulls to a stop in front of Elizabeth Minako's house. The passenger door opens, and she gets out. "Thanks for the ride, Jerry," she says to the driver, and walks to the front door. She sees a white cat standing on the front porch. "Hello Artemis," she said to the cat, as the truck drove off. "I suppose you want to come in." She found her keys in her backpack, and unlocked the door. She entered the house, and set her backpack on a chair. She went to the refrigerator and opened herself a diet soda. She then grabbed her backpack, and went upstairs to her bedroom, and tossed her backpack on the floor. She sat on her bed, and Artemis came in the room and got on the bed, and sat in Elizabeth's lap. "So what do you want, Artemis?" she asked.
"I want to tell you your destiny," Artemis answered.
Elizabeth looked at the can of soda she was drinking. "I thought this diet cola tasted a little different," she said. "I could have sworn I heard my cat talk."
"You're not imagining," Artemis said. "I did talk." He jumped in the air, and kicked his back legs, like a horse bucking. A wand topped with a small sphere with a symbol of the planet Venus in it appeared, and dropped toi the bed. "You have been chosen to fight against the Darkness," he said. "Take this wand, and whenever the Darkness attacks, hold this wand up and say 'Pretty Venus Soldier, Make-up!' and you will be transformed into Sailor Venus."
"That sounds like something from a Japanese comic book," Elizabeth said. "But then again," she said, taking the wand, "I am hearing this from a talking cat."
2 days later, 7:30 p.m., Joe's Burger Shack
Jake was standing behind the counter, counting the minutes until he got off work at 8:00, when Elizabeth Minako walked in. "What can I get for you today?" Jake asked.
"I'll have a cheeseburger, fries, and a medium iced tea," Elizabeth said.
"Lemon in your tea?" Jake asked.
"Sure," she said.
Jake wrote down her order. He then rang it up on the cash register. "That'll be $4.52," he said. Elizabeth handed him a five dollar bill, and he gave her the change, and put her order on the rack for Joe to make.
"Hey Jake," Joe, the owner said. "it's been kinda slow tonite, so how do you feel about knocking off a little early?"
"In that case," Jake said, "why not throw down another cheeseburger and an order of onion rings?"
"Sure," Joe said, as he went to making the orders.
Jake punched out, got himself a large cup and filled it with half strawberry soda, half root beer, and sat down at a table, and read the letter he had recieved that day from his pen pal from Japan. She talked about her homelife, and school, and how her life was going. As usual, she liberally illustrated her letter, and signed it in Japanese script for "Takeuchi Naoko".
A few minutes later, Jake and Elizabeth's orders were ready. Jake grabbed both trays, and set the one with fries on the table where Elizabeth was sitting. "Why don't you have a seat?" she asked.
Jake set his tray at the same table. he refilled his cup with the same half strawberry half root beer he was drinking. Why not, he thought to himself.
"Aren't you in a couple of my classes?" Elizabeth asked.
"Yeah," Jake answered. "p.e. and English."
Meanwhile, in Cyprine and Puchirol's interdimensional hideout
"We need a new plan to steal energies from these pathetic earthlings," Puchirol told her twin.
"Don't forget, we also need to take into consideration Earth's protectors," Cyprine added.
The twins thought about it for a few minutes. Finally, Puchirol had an idea. "Torakak would be perfect for our this task." Cyprine nodded in agreement.
Back at Joe's
Jake and Elizabeth were eating, when suddenly, screams could be heard from the shopping center across the street. They looked out the window to see Cyprine and Puchirol, along with a rather large, hideous creature that made Deathclaw look handsome by comparison. "Oh no," Jake whispered to himself, "The Darkness is attacking." He went outside, followed by Elizabeth. "Get inside and stay down!" he told her. He materialized his transformation rose. "Transform!" he said, throwing the rose to the ground, causing the smoke which disappeared, revealing Jake as Gilded Rose. "Not you two again!" he said to the twins. "What's the matter," he added, pointing to Torakak, "Your last monster not ugly enough?"
"Torakak, get him!" the twins said in unison.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth was watching the standoff from the relative safety of Joe's. She remembered the wand Artemis gave her a couple of days before. "Take this wand, and whenever the Darkness attacks, hold this wand up and say 'Pretty Venus Soldier, Make-up!' and you will be transformed into Sailor Venus." She took the wand out of her jacket pocket. "Pretty Venus Soldier, Make-up!" she yelled, and the next thing she knew, she was wearing the familiar Sailor Soldier costume, with an orange skirt and orange trim, and orange shoes with ankle straps. She also had a red bow in her hair. She quickly entered the fray.
"You have a new partner," said Puchirlo, to which Cyprine added "But she's not going to help you defeat us."
"But we will," Sailor Mars said.
"Because we're the Sailor Soldiers," Sailor Mercury added. "And we stand for truth, and justice, and love."
"And in the name of love," Sailor Moon added, "We shall punish you!"
"Friends of yours?" Sailor Venus asked Gilded Rose.
"Yeah," he answered.
"Good," Sailor Venus said, "Cause it looks like we won't be able to handle this alone, especially with this being my first crack out of the box."
The other Soldiers gathered around Gilded Rose and sailor Venus. "How're we going to handle this?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Same as last time," Gilded Rose said. "You Soldiers handle the Siamese twins, I'll take on tall, dark, and even uglier." He turned his staff into a light sword, and rushed at Torakak.
While Gilded Rose was fighting Torakak, the Sailor Soldiers were battling Cyprine and Puchirol. "Let me get a shot in," Sailor Venus said.
"Be our guest," Sailor Mars said.
"Venus Love-me Chain!" Venus yelled, as she threw a chain with heart-shaped links at the twins, who decided to leave the job of fighting the Sailor Soldiers to Torakak, who was proving to be a formidable foe.
The Soldiers concentrated their attack on Torakak, who fired an energy beam from his eyes that sent the Soldiers and Gilded Rose reeling. He rushed the group while they were down, but his attack was stopped by a red rose that came out of nowhere. "I thought you could use a couple of seconds to regroup," Tuxedo Mask said, from atop a building.
"Let me finish ugly here," Gilded Rose said, leaping to a point about 30 yards from the rest of the group. While he did that, Sailor Mars got down on one knee, while Gilded Rose turned his staff into a scepter with a gold rose at the top. He ran towards Sailor Mars, and leapt off her shoulders, and at the apex of his ascent, he yelled "Gold Rush!" Flying towards Torakak, he threw several gold roses at Torakak, and fired a beam of gold energy at him, causing the roses to explode, sending the monster reeling. He then turned his scepter back into a light sword, and sliced Torakak in half, and landed in a kneeling position a few feet away. He counted down. "Three, two, one, now," at which point, what was once Torakak imploded. Gilded Rose then floated over to where the Sailor Soldiers were standing, and threw down his transformation rose, reverting the five of them to their civilian identities. "Girls," Jake said, "This is Elizabeth Minako."
"Hi," Amy said, "I'm Amy Anderson, otherwise known as Sailor Mercury."
"Serena Campbell., I'm Sailor Moon."
"Rae Lincoln, they call me Sailor Mars."
"You can call me Gilded Rose," Jake said.
"I guess that means Sailor Venus makes five," Elizabeth said. "But what about our well dressed friend?"
"We're not sure," Amy said. "He just showed up out of the blue, and he's on our side."
"That's pretty much all we know about him," Jake said.
EPILOGUE
The next morning, Rae's bedroom
"Hey Rae," Elizabeth said, "Do you keep a cow on the veranda? I just heard mooing."
"Oh that's just Jake," rae said. He always moos when he's out there and the door is locked. You mind opening it?"
"Sure," she said, unlocking the door.
Jake came in. "I'm only going to stay for a minute," he said. "I just wanted to give you these," he handed each girl what appeared to be a compact. "I made these last night," he said. "They're your communicators. This way, we can always be able to get in touch with each other in emergencies."
"So where's yours?" Amy asked.
He showed the girls his watch. "I designed the communicators to look like things we'd normally use," he said, "and since I don't usually wear makeup, I made mine look like a watch. I gotta go to work, but I'll be back sometime this afternoon." He left the same way he came.
Noah's Arcade, later that day
Luna came in through an open window, and found climbed on an unused Sailor V machine. "Voice conformation, please," the machine said.
"I love tuna fish and fieldmouse pudding," Luna said.
"Voice confirmed," the machine said. . .
Next time on American Senshi
Just who is the mysterious new girl in school? And we meet the final member of the Senshi team in. . .
AND JUPITER MAKES 5