TOTAL RECOIL: Chapter THREE!!!!!: Wet Tigers are not pleasent...
A long time ago, in a Galaxius not very, very far away...
ATC: What the...? Isn't it supposed to be "A long time ago, in a galaxy
far, far away..."?
JSW: *over the viewscreen* The author decided to be funny. He also
loves to put is in rapid dialogue at the beginning.
ATC: Hmmm... Oh well. We are about to exit time-space!
With that, the Galaxius and the Jupiter II appeared in normal
space. The earth hovered a few hundred miles from the two ships
however something was quite different about from the atmosphere
surrounding Earth.
"SIR!" Galaxius's tactical officer exclaimed, "Sensors reporting
a mass quantity of ancient satellites orbiting Earth!"
Sure enough, JSWs sensors were uncovering the same results the
Galaxius's did. JSW looked at his display and frowned with curiosity.
Funny how displays can frown, isn't it? Especially if they have no
emotions whatsoever, you know?
"ATC, that's funny. Our time jumps are not random, but instead,
we are being shot into the future every time we time jump. Now, by the
looks of it, I'd say we are in... WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW!?!"
ATC, coughing up a kawaii black smoke-ball from his mouth,
stated, "Well, I don't know when we are at, but we need a new
Chronometer."
"What was that one made from?" JSW asked, batting away an
annoying sweatdrop that appeared out of nowhere.
"Well, it was a gas-powered generator hooked up to a 600 HP
engine..." ATC said, kicking the contraption with his foot. The
chronometer, in return, coughed some oil that splattered all over ATC
and his bridge, but, miraculously, his crew didn't get phased by the
explosion.
"Well, that was quite a race, don't you think?" JSW asked the
grumbling ATC.
"I don't see how traveling through time qualifies as racing."
ATC said, frowning at the huge mess everywhere.
Well, it just so happened that JSW had a Recovery spell in his
subspace pocket. He retrieved one and used it on ATC's ship. In a
flash, everything was restored to normal, except for the Chronometer,
which was in ruins from the recent Chronohop.
"Good thinking, JSW," Clawz said, hopping from the ceiling, "I
knew Pyro would try to mess things up. After he put that
nitroglycerin in the gas chamber instead of normal gasoline, I knew I
had to get away.
"Naw, I just happen to like cats," JSW said. Clawz suddenly leapt
from the floor and slashed at JSWs face. Fortunately for JSW, the
claws didn't contact his face, but when he looked up, ATC was sprawled
on the floor with claw marks on his face.
"X_x" ATC blinked and recovered. "How the hell did his claw swipe
strike me with over 800 yards of vacuum between us?"
The grinning JSW exclaimed, "What's wrong, ATC? Get smitten when
you least expected it?"
"What'd you do?" the unimpressed ATC asked.
"Nothing!" JSW innocently answers.
(Author's note: *pushes JSWs Smite button*)
ATC got up and brushed himself off when a Serious Star Laser
struck him, sending him flying across the bridge.
(Author's note: Um, that was not supposed to happen. At least, not
like that...)
ATC recovered from that undeserving smite and looked at the
Authors. "Why did you smite me like that? I didn't do anything, JSW
did."
(Author's note: Sorry!! Someone must've screwed with our ... *looks at
JSW, who is looking at his display terminal innocently* Smite buttons...)
Both Authors and ATC looked at JSW, who was now typing on his
datapad. "What?" JSW nonchalantly asked, looking at them with an
innocent look.
"If the buttons are switched, then press my dusty smite button
and smite him," ATC suggested to the Authors
(Authors' note: Hmmm... That could work. *Presses ATC's smite button*)
Suddenly, a Gundam Colony falls on ATC as JSW falls over
laughing.
(Authors' note: All right, JSW, just what exactly did you do?)
JSW: I basically fixed it to where I don't get smited!
Well, to get the plot rolling, though, I know what you're saying:
What plot?!" ATC recovered from his recent smite, no thanks to JSW, and asked
his tactical officer, "When are we?"
"We are in circa 20th Century, sir. Probably a little after the Senshi
revived to fight off Metallia. Exactly when I'm not sure. I'm doing more
scans," the officer replied, still typing at his control console.
"Good. JSW, prepare the Jupiter Mirage for departure," ATC commanded,
heading for the docking bay, "Meet me at Docking Bay 3."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!! Why are we using MY Jupiter Mirage?" JSW
demanded, giving the Admiral a glare.
"One," ATC said, "is that your personal fighter is much better than any of
my mechas to pull off any covert operations."
JSW replied, "Well, you got me there. That's the way I designed the
thing."
"And two," ATC continued, "is if anything happens, it'll be YOUR ship, not
mine, that gets totaled."
JSW nodded for a bit, wondering why a sweatdrop was hovering above his
head. Then he realized what ATC said about anything happening to HIS Jupiter
Mirage. "WAIT ONE DAMN MINUTE!!" JSW practically yelled, leaping out of his
command chair.
"There is no way in hell my Jupiter Mirage will get totaled down on Earth
on some crazy mission THAT YOU GOT US INTO, BY THE WAY!" JSW complained. He
basically went on and on saying how his stuff always gets wiped away in a blink
of an eye.
"JSW," ATC said.
"And then BOOM!"
"JSW," ATC said again.
"Then, it's gone!!"
JSW," ATC calmly, but annoyed, said.
"And did I mention I hate BOOM!?"
"JSW, SHUT UP!!" The Admiral exploded. Quite literally, too, since there
seemed to be splatters of ATC insides all over the Galaxius' bridge. ATC, in a
quick recovery, including, surprisingly enough, his trench coat, stood before a
grinning Pyromaniac. Next thing we notice is Pyro orbiting Pluto, and I don't
mean the Senshi Pluto, either.
"I... hate... boom..." a frightened JSW stammered, getting out of hiding
from
behind his command chair.
"I don't like getting blown up to pieces, too," ATC coughed. "Anyway,
nothing will happen to the Jupiter Mirage."
"And how do you know this," a skeptic JSW asked.
Looking over a display to fix a trivial thing, ATC responded, "Because
you'll have the thing cloaked while we're there."
Sighing, JSW agreed to it. Within a few minutes, Pyro, Clawz, ATC, and
JSW were in the cockpit of the Jupiter Mirage, taking off to Earth. With the
fighter cloaked, JSW piloted the machine down through the atmosphere, releasing
a few blank torpedoes to represent a meteor exploding entering Earth's
atmosphere to fool the 21st Century technology. With a soft thud, the Jupiter
Mirage made contact on Earth.
"CRASH!!!!"
ATC: That was soft?
JSW: @_@ The Authors are tormenting us again.
ATC stepped out of the smoking craft, stuck his hands in his pockets, and
scanned the terrain.
JSW tumbled his way out a second later.
"Well, it looks like we're just outside Tokyo." ATC said.
JSW looked at ATC skeptically. "And you know this HOW?"
ATC continued staring strait ahead until JSW finally looked forward, right at a
freeway no more than sixty feet away. And right there was a sign that
translated into... "Tokyo, 4 Kilometers."
"How'd you read that?" JSW asked.
ATC slowly turned his head to look at JSW. "These sunglasses do more than make
me look cool. Oh, hide your Gunblade in a pan dimension, Weapons on civilians
are forbidden in Tokyo."
JSW shook his head and they left the Jupiter Mirage cloaked where it sat on
their way to Tokyo...
...One hole in the plot later and they were walking down the streets in the
shopping sector of the Jyuban district. ATC led the way with his ever useful
potential menace and deadpan scowl. (Kind of like a relaxed scowl) People
stepped out of their way as they passed, not wanting to find out what could
happen if they got in the way of the leader.
"So where are we going anyway?" JSW asked. As if to answer his question
ATC walked through the opening doors of the Crown Game Center. "Oh..."
ATC & company filed their way to a booth in the back and sat down.
Moments later none other than Motoki walked up to see if they wanted anything.
ATC beat everyone to the punch.
"Coffee, cold, preferably a batch from yesterday, black, no sugar, in a
to go cup... that is all."
Motoki blinked and left to fulfill the peculiar order.
"You're actually gonna drink that stuff?" JSW asked, aghast.
"Of course not, I hate coffee." ATC replied. "I just figured we needed
something that could sober Bob up if we needed his help." ATC motioned at Bob,
who was staring off into space like he was meditating. JSW stared at Bob.
"Is that what Bob is like when he's drunk?"
"Yep. In that state he can't even formulate a coherent thought even near
resembling speech. I got him drunk before we left."
"Is he CAPABLE of coherent thoughts?!" JSW asked.
"Certainly, albeit rather strange ones... but that's Bob for ya." ATC
replied.
Motoki returned with the coffee... denied making them pay as the strange
order could not be legally charged, and then he left them to their own devices...
what am I saying?!!?!? It's not safe leaving them to their own devices... all
of Tokyo could be in danger! Not that I care...
ATC: Oh man... I hope no governments are reading this.
JSW: What do you mean? I'd love to see the Japanese Secret service or whatever
dark society make that Author... "disappear."
ATC: Baka, you're talking within Author earshot again.
JSW: They don't scare me...
Without warning, a piece of ceiling tile smashed down on JSWs head,
reminding him that, even though the smite buttons are down for repairs... he
never bothered to disable the random painful events system.
JSW: [Itai...] X_x Damn, I knew they'd find a way to get me.
What do you mean? We did nothing... a piece of ceiling tile just happened
to land on you.
JSW: I'm sure...
ATC: SHHHH!!! We're in public, we don't need the Author's omnivoice.
ATC has a point, so back with the story...
ATC stared around the cafe/arcade center with a calm, if not rather bored,
look. JSW, too bored with sitting to take anymore, wandered into the arcade
section and started up on the UFO doll catcher machine... Very quickly he set
his sights on a small Gecko in a plastic container, he'd love to put it next to
his answering machine.
"Hi Usagi!"
ATC whipped his head around, his sunglasses flashed in the light as he
stared at five girls entering the Crown center. He quickly took a mental
inventory, Usagi, Makoto, Ami, Minako, Rei. After they all exchanged greetings
with Motoki, they moved to a back corner booth and ordered some food. It was
served quickly and Usagi whoofed it down as was par for the course. Not
bothering to stay stuck in the bunker, it's subsequent sandy nature tending to
bog one down, ATC glanced around, JSW had a container in one of his pockets and
was now in to a Sailor-V game. ATC made a mental note for JSW's Christmas
present, but he knew some modifications he'd have to make to replace Sailor-V
with Sailor Jupiter... Should be simple sprite and attack animation switches...
ATC finally returned to the course to find the weather getting dank. JSW was
furiously hammering at the controls, but that wasn't what caught ATC's
attention, more like the crowd of people including Usagi and Minako staring over
his shoulder.
"WHOA! Ami-chan! He's past your high score."
The interruption proved fatal for Sailor-V as four monsters got the jump.
"AAARRRGH!!!" JSW grouched as the 'GAME OVER' screen taunted his futile
attempts to win. He stormed back over to ATC as the crowd dispersed.
"That's the first time someone's even come close to your score in quite
awhile Ami." Minako stated as she walked past ATC and JSW towards the girls.
"And to boot, he beat it."
JSW was simply fuming that he got beat and had yet to notice the source of
the voices around him. ATC shot a glance out of the corner of his eye, Luna was
watching them with a perplexed look, obviously she sensed them. Luckily his
sunglasses hid the glance. ATC picked up Clawz and lifted him close to his face
mimicking an affectionate petting.
"Clawz." ATC barely whispered. "We need a diversion before Luna rats us
out."
"What kind?"
"Irresistible diversion."
"You know I hate those."
"How many people have attack cats?"
"I'm going..."
"There ya go." ATC said loudly setting Clawz on the floor... who
immediately bounded around the room in an indirect pattern that led him to the
Senshi, Luna shifted her attention to the two dark clothed people to see another
cat obtaining affection from the Senshi. Intelligent or not, cats will be cats,
and Luna got jealous very quickly. ATC made his move.
"JSW, we gotta move now." ATC thunked JSW on the head to emphasize his
point.
"Why so soon?" JSW asked lifting his downcast head off the table.
"We're in a hotzone, and we can't hide from Luna for very long."
"Hotzone? Why is Luna here?"
"Take a guess." ATC replied.
"The Sailor Senshi are he-" ATC quickly smacked his hand onto JSW's mouth.
"Not heroes baka, just legends spread around here." ATC said loudly,
enough to convince people, including the Senshi, and for the moment Luna, that
they were having an argument that was heating up. ATC raised an eyebrow and JSW
quickly raised his in response.
"I'm telling you, there's been plenty of sightings not to count it out."
JSW said, getting into the part quickly.
"I'll bet you they're nothing but rumors and someone's idea of a joke."
ATC said, getting up and leading towards the main door. All attention had
shifted to them.
"There's tangible sightings from people all over town! Including some
people caught in the monster attacks." JSW countered as they exited the door,
Clawz, ever quick, right behind.
The doors shut behind them and ATC broke from the slow ramble he was in to
a quick walk out of sight of the arcade. JSW hurried to keep up.
"HOLY SHIT that was close." JSW said when they were clear.
"It's good you didn't ultima the game system when you lost, we'd be up to
our armpits in senshi." ATC said. "By the way, what'd you get in the crane game?"
JSW grinned and fished the Gecko container out of his pocket, ATC went
totally deadpan.
"It's a gecko." ATC said matter-of-factly.
JSW shook his head and opened the jar... and yelped when the supposed
stuffed animal snapped at him with quite useless jaws.
"About time I got out of that confinement." It said landing on the ground.
ATC quirked an eyebrow.
"We meet again Mr. Bond." ATC said.
"You too eh?" The Gecko said. "Someone's always making fun of my voice."
"You BIT ME!" JSW growled, and he whipped out his Gunblade about to reduce
this lizard to a very small suitcase. A glint of gold steel and ATC's sword
was at JSW's throat.
"Who are you and why are you here?" ATC said. "We don't get talking geckos
out of the blue."
"The Authors sent me." The gecko said, eyeing the deadly blades revealed by
ATC and JSW. "Name's Gecko, Rex T. Gecko. Anime Mascot."
"I've got a Mascot." ATC said.
"I'm not for you, I'm for your restraint deprived friend here..." JSW
snatched up Rex as he finished the statement.
"Cool! I get my own mascot!" JSW said grinning his head off.
"What reason?" ATC asked.
"He needs someone to balance out the intelligence of his side of the fic."
Rex said.
"HAI! I need-WHA?!" JSW shouted.
ATC cocked his head to the side. "Are you sure that's possible?"
"I graduated from the Harvard University for Anime Mascots with a PHD in
In Anistrophysics and plot engineering." If that doesn't do it, nothing will."
Rex finished.
JSW pouted at the two. "You guys are mean."
"And here I thought you were used to it." ATC said.
JSW simply sulked.
ATC looked around, they'd spent a long time hanging about the alley they
were in. "We'd better go." He stated.
"I think not." A voice said.
Suddenly, what appeared to be a purple boomerang came hurtling at them at
high speed, ATC deflected it deftly and made his own remark.
"The villain finally decides to make a showing. You suck at sneaking up on
people Kunzite, you've been there for the past two minutes."
Said villain in question teleported from his balcony vantage point down to
street level where ATC was standing.
"Quite observant." He said. "But I'm a busy general. I'll make this
simple, work for the Dark Kingdom, or I'll just kill you now."
"No thanks I'm already at the Rank of Fleet Admiral." ATC said. "I don't
feel like getting busted back to petty minion. Plus I outrank you."
"And I'm already a captain of a cool ship." JSW said. "So just attack
us... if you're not scared." JSW just couldn't resist the taunt.
"You DARE to mock the Dark Kingdom?" Kunzite glared at JSW, and reformed
his boomerang like objects. Behind him a girl on a bike passed the alley on a
bicycle ringing a little bell. ATC drew his sword into en-guard position
causing it to glint with the afternoon sunlight. Kunzite became very pail and
stared forward at them letting his weapons fizzle out.
"Don't tell me your scared already!" JSW said. "We haven't even warmed up
yet!"
Kunzite simply grew more pail if that was possible. ATC felt something
on his shoulder, decided Kunzite wouldn't attack yet, and turned around... then
looked up... wiping his shoulder off as he did so...
"I guess this would scare even a villain." ATC said.
Kunzite finally remembered something and teleported away.
"HA!!! WE WIN YOU COWARD!" JSW shouted at the empty air. ATC tapped him
on the shoulder. Still laughing, he turned around to ATC, and froze.
"You know," ATC said. "We have a rather interesting dilemma on our
hands."
An earsplitting roar shook the city of Tokyo.
At this point we can have an authorial interlude: Not that I care, but not all
things are what they seem, keep that in mind.
ATC: I have a great distaste for surprises.
JSW: I HATE SURPRISES!!! AND I HATE ROARS!!! AND BOOM!!! I HATE BOOM!!!
ATC: Baka...
Back to the fic!
"You think the rest of Tokyo heard that?" ATC asked.
"Unless they sleep like Usagi in the mornings... Yes." JSW replied.
"Right then." ATC said. "I suppose the 'T' in Rex T. Gecko stood for
Tyrannosaur."
"Wh-What makes you think that?" JSW said as he slowly backed away from
the Ten tons or more of flesh devouring reptile.
"It's still wearing his Cufflinks on its wrist." ATC said. "Had he been
eaten, the lizard wouldn't be wearing them on the wrist, but on the teeth. Not
to mention the Authors wouldn't get rid of an original character so quickly and
quietly."
"So what do we do now?" JSW asked?
"Make for the park." ATC said. "Most fights happen there."
ATC and JSW bolted... the T-Rex spotted them and was on their heels as
they raced for the park.
JSW brushed the T-Rex off his heels as he and ATC zoomed past several
running citizens. JSW screamed like a girl as he turned SD and shot past the
running ATC as ATC wondered how on Earth JSW can shoot past him without a gun.
Suddenly, Rex chomped on JSWs head, swallowing him. But, luckily for JSW, ATC
received the pain of being eaten. Naturally, ATC freaked because feeling being
eaten and not being eaten are two different feelings.
ATC: O.O;;; You know, that's a funny feeling...
JSW: *muffled by Rex's mouth* Mff'd mfay!! Mt mfincks imf mere!!
DUB-TITLES: Eeww!! It stinks in here!
JSW: o.O;;; Mfat's mot mhat M-y said!
SUB-TITLES: That's not what I said!
A bicycle rolled by, ringing its tiny bell bringing Rex back to his gecko
form once more. JSW fell from the sky and landed on top of ATC as Rex looked at the two.
"Well, that ruckus sure got the attention of the Sailor Senshi, don'tcha
think?" ATC asked as he tried to get up. Unfortunately, JSW was still on top
of ATC.
"Yeah, I'd say. Especially since I just got eaten!!!" JSW said as he got
more comfortable on top of ATC.
Rex looked at JSW and ATC confusingly again and asked, "What just
happened? I remember a ding and then I'm suddenly in the park."
An irate JSW replied, "You ate me, that's what. Why the hell do I have to
have a mascot who eats me for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and on some occasions,
desert?"
ATC answered, "I may know why..."
JSW: *looking down at ATC* I'm on top for once! ^.^
ATC: We need to get outta the park... This is starting to be an awkward place
to
be... And I DON'T mean JSW sitting on top of me, too!
JSW: o.O;;; Nani? What's wrong with me sitting on top of you? I think it's
kinda cute! ^.^
ATC: *nasty eyebrow twitch*
Getting out of rapid dialogue mode...
JSW: Finally. I'm getting dizzy!
Suddenly, JSW is smitten by a grand piano for no apparent reason!
ATC: x.X;;; Did you forget something??
Sorry... forgot ^.^
AHEM!! BACK TO THE FIC!!! ATC unceremoniously tossed JSW off of him as he got
up. Naturally, JSW landed on his mind. But because of this damn technical
difficulties, (WHICH I AM TRYING TO FIX, BY THE WAY! I swear... I don't know
how this Avatar did it, but he did it good!) JSW didn't feel the pain. JSW looked
at ATC and asked, "Why aren't you hurt by it? It's a smite!"
ATC, ignoring the pain, answered "I've had far worse than just getting a
bump on my head."
JSW promptly facevaulted as tears started to swell up in his eyes.
"*sniffle* That was supposed to hurt you...
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AA......"
Several pages later, JSW -finally- took a deep breath as a comet landed on
JSW before he had a chance to start crying again.
"I have a very high pain tolerance level, so it doesn't bother me anymore...
Although having a comet land on top of
you is no fun either."
A charred li'l JSW got up from the smite as he dusted the ash from his
clothing. "I just had this trenchcoat dry-cleaned, anyway! What do you
propose happened to Rex?" JSW asked a sizzling ATC.
After one side of ATC was done, he flipped to get his other side fully
cooked. He answered, "I think that whenever Rex hears a bell, he turns
Tyrannosaurus Rex on us." At this point ATC was well done and ready to be
served. Although I like to have my ATCs medium-well, thank you very much!
JSW thought this over and put two and two together. Which, in his mind,
came to ... 6,876,258.9852?!? How the hell he came to that, I don't know!
JSW: Well, if you take into account the rotation of the earth, the number of
people on the planet, the fact that this fic is already taking over ten pages to
complete anyway, it comes to 5,745,975.665... Ano... That's not what came up
with
earlier...
BACK TO THE FIC! He thought over Rex his mascot and suddenly went SD.
"KYA!! AND HE'S MY MASCOT?!" The irate SD JSW complained.
"And, whenever Rex turns T-Rex, he goes after you, JSW," ATC finished,
ignoring JSWs rambling.
"I think I need a new mascot," JSW said, looking around for a new mascot.
Clawz just happened to be the closest thing to a Mascot JSW could find, despite
the fact that millions of other mascots were running lose. "How about a cat?"
JSW asked. Of course, he was ignored.
Well, considering that Rex was the only mascot within our budget...
JSW: Wait a second... I thought we got rid of all the people we owed money to?
ATC: One cannot really get rid of the IRS...
JSW: IRS?! The hell do we owe the IRS for? We're in Japan!
ATC: This fic is made in the United States spawned over 2 States. The IRS are
simply trying to get their money's worth.
JSW: How much do we owe the IRS?
Jupiter Star Warrior: About six million bucks.
Admiral Tigerclaw: Nope. More.
Jupiter Star Warrior: More? When I did it, it was six million!
Admiral Tigerclaw: You forgot to add in the other characters' earnings.
Jupiter Star Warrior: Oh, yes I see. How much?
Suddenly, the entire number owed to the IRS flies through the fic,
smacking JSW on the head. "Ano... That's a lot of zeroes..." JSW said.
ATC simply looked at JSW.
"Well, did you get everything fixed yet, Author Jupiter Star Warrior?" ATC
asked. Answer to that is no. I just got it to where ATC doesn't feel the
smites. Now I'll need to fix it where JSW gets the full smite, pain and all.
Admiral Tigerclaw: Well, we did have an unlimited budget, but after irradiating
the lunar real estate, the government fined us.
ATC: So, we blame it all on Pyro...
JSW: And take it out of his paycheck.
ATC: I think he gets Pyromaniac's Insurance.
[PLUG] Pyromaniac's Insurance! Whenever you feel like blowing shit up, just call
us and we'll insure you! Actual damage loss is not covered. [/PLUG]
JSW: Just how much is that pyromaniac gets, anyway?
"Speaking of Pyro," ATC asked, getting them out of rapid dialogue mode,
"didn't we leave him to watch the shuttle?"
JSWs face turned ghost-white as a small rumble shook the earth. JSW
naturally freaked.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Eyeing the distant smoke cloud that mushroomed to the sky, ATC proclaimed,
"Aaaaaaaaand we're trapped here."
"Hold it right there!" a voice commanded, bringing ATC about-face.
Speaking of trapped...
"We've delayed too long. Crap," ATC said, looking up. Meanwhile, JSW was
still ranting... As usual.
JSW: I'M GOING TO KILL THAT PYRO-MANIAC WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON HIM! HE OWES ME
SIX BILLION DOLLARS FOR THAT SHIP!
ATC: JSW...
JSW: HOW DARE HE DESTROY MY SHIP!
ATC: JS douuuuble-uuuuu......!
JSW: MINE!!
ATC: We have more problems than your ship, JSW.
JSW: HE'S GOING TO PAY FOR THAT! *turning to ATC* WHAT?!
Finally getting out of rapid dialogue, ATC pointed to where he was looking.
JSW looked in that general direction and raised an eyebrow. "Shit. Not
again. It's the Senshi!"
The Senshi just glared at the duo. "I'm having a REAL bad day here," JSW
said to the Senshi. "So, could we just go on our merrily way?"
Sailor Moon was the first to speak... Naturally. I don't know what it is
about these damn speeches of hers, but dammit! They get longer and more tedious with
every episode!
"I am Sailor Moon," she started. Meanwhile, JSW was busy offering ATC a cup of
tea.
"Tea?" JSW asked.
"Oh, yes please," ATC accepted, taking the cup of tea offered to him. He
gulped it down, spit the contents out, then tossed the cup over his shoulder.
"Too much lemon," he explained. JSW gave ATC another cup of tea.
"Here, try this," JSW said. ATC accepted and tossed the cup again after
tasting it.
"And on behalf of the moon, WE WILL PUNISH YOU!" The Senshi finished.
JSWs eyes suddenly turned into saucers.
"Time to go," JSW stated, tossing the saucers to the side.
"Too much... SALT?!" ATC asked, unaware that the Senshi were now ready to
attack.
"NOW!" JSW said as the Sailor Senshi primed their primary weapons.
"Right, then," ATC responded, slowly getting up and bolted with a, well, a
Bolt spell! Which caused a bolt of lightning to burst from the sky and make a
deafening "CRRRACK-BOOOOOM!!!!!"
Meanwhile... Wait a minute! Didn't I just went over this?! Why does
while have to be so damned mean anyway? I swear... We need a new word like
"nicewhile".
ATC: -_-;;; I wonder if the Authors can stay on the plot for more than five
seconds...
Jupiter Star Warrior: ??? There is a plot?? Where??
JSW: ON WITH THE FIC, PLEASE!!!
Anyway, JSW was already running toward his ship, hoping to salvage what
was left of it and kill Pyro. He turned SD and ran as fast as his SD legs could
carry him. Which was fast. Meanwhile, "Cleanin' Up the Town" played on ATCs
biological stereo, shaking the earth with a clean beat.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" JSW screamed. "I DUN WANNA BE MOONDUST!!!"
"JSW, this way!" ATC yelled at JSW.
Jupiter Star Warrior: Since when does ATC use Final Fantasy 7 spells?
"Huh?" JSW asked, running into a tree. Getting up, JSW complained,
"Iiiitaiii... That was a smite, wasn't it?
Jupiter Star Warrior: No. It was there. I just forgot to tell you.
JSW got up and looked for ATC. The song ended as JSW looked around.
"ATC, where are you?"
ATC answered quite annoyed, "I'm right here, baka!"
"Right," JSW said, going towards ATCs voice. Surprisingly, JSW made it
with no problems. Well, if you count tripping and falling problems, fine. Rex
was with ATC as they sweatdropped at JSWs foolishness.
"It's about time you get here, JSW," Rex said, leaping on JSWs head and
perching. "I was worried when my bed would arrive."
"Bed?!" JSW asked, batting away a sweatdrop. "Don't tell me you're using
my head as a bed..."
Rex looked down at JSW and smiled. "Where else would I sleep? Besides,
your hair is nice and soft..."
"That's because I wash it everyday. You are ruining my hair, you know..."
JSW complained. ATC tapped JSW on the shoulder. "Can we please get this plot
going?"
JSW, Jupiter Star Warrior, Admiral Tigerclaw, and REX: There's a plot?
ATC just sweatdropped and looked around him. He noticed that the Senshi
were not following them. "Alright, we need to get the plot rolling," ATC said.
Before he was interrupted... again... ATC said "Let's get going."
"Where?" JSW asked, looking confused. He would have scratched his head,
but there was a certain mascot on his head, instead, he scratched Rex's back.
JSW was rewarded with a very painful bite on his finger. ATC was already
several yards in front of JSW, so ATC didn't hear JSW scream in pain until JSW
caught up to ATC.
ATC looked around when he heard JSWs scream. "I guess the authors finally
fixed your Smite button, JSW?" ATC asked.
In pain, JSW whimpered a reply: "It's...not...a...smite!!"
Finally, Rex let go of JSWs finger. It was twisted in weird ways that
would leave the Authors bankrupt if we tried to explain it.
JSW: Don't tell me we're that poor.
ATC: A four-year-old did Pyro's explosion. Of course we're that poor!
JSW: o.O;;; M-masaka!!
Anyway, JSW fixed his finger to the right normality of what a finger is
supposed to look like. Again, he was falling behind of ATCs stride. He quickly
caught up to ATC. "So, where are we going?" JSW asked.
The Senshi had disappeared, apparently they managed to lose them for the time being.
"Well, since we're here, we might as well do some sight-seeing. It's been
awhile since I've been to Tokyo and you've never been here before. I figure
you'd like to see it...
JSWs eyes were swelling with tears. He immediately leapt into ATCs arms.
"You love me! You really love me!!"
ATC: -_-;;; Baka! *unceremoniously drops JSW onto the ground, stepping over
JSW as he continued his walk*
JSW got up and caught up with ATC... again. At this point, this Author, in
the middle of fixing the Smite Buttons and trying to keep this story going,
wondered if JSW will ever stay in stride with ATC. But, of course, JSW is an
idiot and we'll get him smitten sometime soon. Don't worry, folks. I'm working
on it diligently and quickly. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may have
caused anyone.
JSW: The Author is swaying... Again.
I FINALLY GOT JSWS SMITE BUTTON FIXED!!! YEAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA!!
JSW: Oh, shit!!
Suddenly, without warning, a grand piano fell on top of JSWs head for no
apparent reason except to SMITE JSW!! Needless to say, this hurt JSWs pride... A
lot!
From underneath the grand piano, JSW cried out in pain, frustration, and
whatnot, but since ATC was already a few yards away, ATC didn't notice JSWs pain
and suffering. Not that he cared. ATC was just glad that Jupiter Star Warrior
got the damn smite techniques fixed. And they were already half-way through the
fic.
Needless to say, JSW started to complain. "Wha...? How...? When...?" was all
JSW could come up with, considering his pea-sized brain.
Jupiter Star Warrior: Duh! You think I'm dumb? Of course I'm going to find a
way to smite you!
JSW: ^.^ Yes!
JSW got smitten... again... This time, by a kitchen range. Well, anyway, to
get the plot rolling... Although a plot is questionable at this time, JSW and ATC
turned a corner and were in familiar territory. JSW, of course, didn't notice
this as he never notices plot holes or anything like that. He just assumes it's
part of the way it is, though more study is needed before we can say how JSW
thinks.
"Interesting," ATC said, looking around. "I wonder how we got here?"
JSW was still walking when ATC stopped, so he bumped into ATC. A muffled
voice rose to ATCs ears. "You know," the muffled voice of JSW stated, it's not
easy being an avatar."
"Will you get off of me?" the annoyed ATC asked, stepping a couple of feet
ahead. At least he got JSW to stop walking.
Finally, JSW took a look around his surroundings. He noticed something
peculiar about this place... Something familiar...
"We're at the Hikawa Shrine," ATC stated.
"How do you know?" JSW asked. "Is it your 'knowledge' of Anime in
general, or is it a Kickass thing?"
"Because the sign said so," ATC answered, pointing at a sign that said
"Hikawa Shrine" in Kanji, the sign cast a nice evening shadow right down on the two.
"Oh..." JSW said, "Your sunglasses again." And followed ATC up the huge flight
of steps leading to the shrine.
"So what's so noticeable about the Hikawa shrine?" JSW said as he caught up with ATC.
"Are they known for good food or something?"
"It's owned by the Hinos." ATC said. "I thought you knew that."
"Oh." JSW replied.
"AHHHHH, I see we're more well known than I thought." The voice reminded
JSW frighteningly of someone who swallowed one too many rusty nails. He looked
around for the source, and he didn't see anyone. Of course, being upwards of six
feet tall, JSW was hardly noticing the small man standing right in front of him.
JSW looked at ATC, who was looking down at something.
"DOWN HERE!"
"Huh?" JSW mumbled, looking down.
Grandpa Hino himself looked back up at him, and waved.
"Hi there!"
JSW looked back up to ATC, then back down at the man who barely came up to
his waist, then back at ATC.
"I thought they were just exaggerating how short he was on TV." JSW said,
and got a sharp poke in the stomach by Grandpa for his remark.
"Who you calling SHORT!?"
"Whoa there." ATC soothed. "JSW here has a bit of a point. You are rather
vertically challenged, though I'm sure there's a good reason."
Grandpa Hino stopped prodding JSW with a broom and turned to ATC.
"Yeah, I guess your right, COFFEE, don't ever start drinking the stuff."
"Can't stand it myself." ATC replied.
"So." Grandpa Hino switched gears so fast it almost blew out the Fic's
transmission. "Are you two here to help with the up keeping of the shrine?"
"GRANDPA!"
"Ah rats."
ATC rotated on his heal to see Rei walking up to the group. JSW kept a
poker face on.
"Just what kind of work are you trying to make these two- ...gentlemen do?"
Rei's voice almost gave away her recognition of ATC and JSW. ATC quickly played
like he was none the wiser to who she was.
"Oh it's nothing, he just asked us if we were here to help clean the shrine.
We weren't planning on it, just heard this was a nice place to visit, but
since this is such a nice guy, we both agreed we'd love to help."
"We did?" JSW asked.
"Why of course we did." ATC said, handing JSW a broom.
Then he glared hard. "Get sweeping."
Grandpa Hino smiled at the two as they walked over to some leaves and
started sweeping.
"Such nice men to help out around here."
Rei watched the two with a look of confusion on her face.
Those two, were talking about the Senshi back in the Arcade, and then they
found those same two in the park with a huge monster that just disappeared,
and then the one with the sunglasses hurled a lightning bolt right out of
nowhere and they both got away. Now they were right here.
So far it didn't look like they recognized her, which was good.
She turned and started sweeping again but watched the two out of the corner
of her eye. The tall one with the scar was sweeping haphazardly all
the dust right into the path the one with sunglasses had finished
sweeping, who suddenly reached into his coat and pulled a hammer?
...out and whammed his taller friend on the head.
"Itai!"
Rei barely concealed her surprise. But she couldn't transform,
not here.
"What'd you do that for?" JSW whined rubbing his head.
"Because you can't sweep worth CRAP." ATC frowned. "Look at this,
your sweeping all that dust right back at me."
JSW seemed to go into total confusion...
A-Tigerclaw: Impossible, he's always in total confusion.
JSW: b-bbb---b--b-but...
A-JSW: Shutup, or we'll smite you right in front of Sailor Mars there.
JSW: H-Hai.
"What about Mars over there." JSW mumbled. "You saw, she recognized us."
ATC whapped JSW with his broom. "Yes, but she doesn't realize
that we know who she is. She can't transform if she thinks we don't know.
She thinks she'll reveal her secret." ATC switched hands and rapidly
swept up a small section into a pile. "We can't fight and run
ALL day, with the Jupiter Mirage trashed, we have to find a place to stay.
And we seem to have lost Pyro, Bob, and Rex... Where could they be?
Where indeed...
Back in the Crown Arcade we find Bob in the kitchen with hot
mitts and his sword chopping vegetables.
Motoki walked in with a list in his hand.
"Okay, we need six number twos, five number sevens, two number
ones, and twelve number tens. Got all that?"
"HAI!!!!!!!" Bob shouted, and started chopping vegetables again.
Motoki walked back out, or would have had Makoto not
been standing there.
"New chef?" She asked.
"He was just sitting at the table, then suddenly went
into the kitchen and started cooking, when I tried to stop him,
he pulled out that gigantic sword from NOWHERE and started chopping vegetables."
"CHOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!!" And Bob slammed his blade onto
the cutting-board, and through it, and through the counter,
and into the floor, and through the floor into the foundation.
"Oops, remember not to say that with him in earshot." Motoki said.
"Other than massive damage to the counter, he's increased the speed
of our orders ten fold. He cooks as good as you too."
"Really?" Makoto asked. She looked over Motoki's shoulder and
sweatdropped as Bob suddenly shot across the kitchen in mid chop, pulled
something out of an oven, shot over to make a few drinks,
and shot back to catch his sword on mid bounce.
"I see why..."
Back at the shrine...
"You never said he could cook." JSW said.
ATC blinked. "I never knew he could cook." ATC looked at the
pile of leaves and spoke much louder. "This is too slow."
Then stuck out his hand and nuked the pile with a weak plasma blast.
It created a small boom which caused JSW to jump back several feet.
"I HATE BOOM!"
Rei had totally stopped sweeping by now. 'Doesn't he care
about staying hidden?' she thought. She started backing towards the shrine.
"JSW, cast us a good whirlwind spell, maybe we can
clean this place up all the faster."
Now Rei knew the name of the big guy. Who was the bossy guy?
"Are you sure ATC?"
'What kind of name was ATC?' Rei stopped slinking away,
her curiosity getting the best of her.
ATC turned around and looked straight at Rei. "You might
want to get back, whirlwind is rather windy, no pun intended."
Rei nodded her head and scooted away from the two, a
moment later JSW cast whirlwind... nothing happened.
"DAMN!" JSW swore. "I still don't quite know that one."
"BAKA!" ATC admonished. "I told you to work on that one."
Rei reached for her henshin stick, maybe she could transform
while they weren't paying attention.
"HEY GUYS!"
Rei jumped about a foot in the air.
"Yo, Pyro!" ATC said. "How'd you manage to nuke the Jupiter Mirage?"
"Oh!" Pyro remembered. and walked past Rei, who was pale from
someone actually sneaking up like that. "There was a bird sitting on it,
I figured it was going to make a mess all over JSW's nice finish...
so I chucked a GBU at it."
ATC raised an eyebrow and leaned in on the broom he was holding.
"A laser guided, one thousand pound, smart bomb? A bit overkill for
a bird don't you think?"
"I'LL KILL HIM!!!!" JSW shouted and charged Pryo, preparing
to use a limit break. Pyro ran the other way and a chase
across the shrine ensued.
"Oy vey..." ATC grumbled. He looked over at Rei.
"And I have to put up with these guys ALL THE TIME."
"I'm sure." Rei sweatdropped. Suddenly them being a Dark Kingdom
plot was looking allot less likely. "What's a GBU?" "Guided Bomb Unit."
ATC replied walking over. "Generally, it's used on the United States Air
Force's F-117 Stealth Fighter as a weapon for taking out buildings.
Don't ask me how Pyro managed to 'chuck' one at a bird. They tend to
weigh more than your average person should be able to lift."
"NOW I'M PISSED!!!!" JSW shouted as he ran by chasing Pyro again,
Pyro dropped a small land mine on the ground which blew JSW across the shrine.
"That had to hurt." ATC said.
"I HATE BOOM!!!" Came JSW's reply shout. And he
quickly reengaged pursuit of Pyro.
"Maybe if I hit him with a BOLT spell..." ATC muttered next
to Rei, who recognized the spell name. "NAAAAAH." His thoughts
were suddenly interrupted however as his highly advanced
sunglasses beeped upon detecting an energy surge not too far away.
He turned to look.
"Something's up." He said, a scream of someone being attacked
punctuated his statement. JSW and Pyro halted and also looked
in the direction of the scream.
"What was that?!" JSW asked.
ATC squinted, though no one could see. "Youma attack,
class three youma, 2200 yards, two senshi have transformed and are
enrout, one is transforming, and one is opening a hailing frequency
to the Mars communicator."
As if on cue, the communicator in Rei's robe pocket started
quietly beeping. ATC ignored it.
"One dark kingdom general is floating up above the attack zone,
no doubt building up energy for a surprise attack."
"ATC, how are you knowing this?" JSW asked.
"Like I've been saying." ATC said. "My sunglasses aren't any
normal sunglasses. Come on, I don't want to miss this." ATC took off
with boosted speed towards the fight and leapt right up to the top of a building.
"HEY!!!!" JSW shouted. "Wait for me man!"
Rei watched JSW followed by Pyro, bound after ATC in a
futile attempt to keep up with him. Only the repetitive beeping
of her communicator managed to snap her out of it and remind her
she needed to transform.
"You know!" JSW panted, finally catching up with ATC.
"We're going to need a way to make the initial distraction so
the youma will stop pestering its latest victim."
"You state the obvious once again JSW." ATC replied as he leapt
the gap between rooftops. "The Author downloaded FF8's The Extreme
after hearing it from your Author. Needless to say he liked it.
So when we get there my Disorder will start 'The Extreme.'"
"Why that?" JSW asked as they leapt another gap. "Your average
youma wouldn't be an extreme battle."
"Because the Authors said so, and frankly, I'm not in the mood
to argue with the Authors." ATC replied. "We're here."
JSW stopped, nearly catapulting himself off the building into open
air had ATC not caught the sleeve of his coat.
"We'll let the Senshi go first. Then we'll take em' by storm."
"What? We're already here, we can smash that youma like an afterthought."
"Just follow my lead, the Authors will be content if you do."
"Fine..."
JSW sighed and followed ATC's gaze over to where a youma was
holding its victim by the throat, simply grinning a sinister youma grin.
JSW's gaze traveled up, to where Kunzite was hidden in the
shadows holding a pink sphere of energy ready to bomb the Senshi.
"HOLD IT!"
"Right on cue." ATC mumbled. They both watched Sailor Moon
and the senshi go into speech mode and finish with the usual flourish.
And then the battle began.
Mercury lead off with a nasty thick fog to shroud the attackers.
This lasted until Mars and Jupiter fired a dual attack in which the
heat dissipated the fog. Mars wasn't quite all into the battle, she
could feel ATC and JSW watching. She had already seen the two use
their abilities doing menial tasks, this battle should be easy for
them if they showed up... but who's side were they on? Luckily she
was concentrating on the powers she was feeling, because suddenly,
she felt another presence as Sailor Moon wound up for her wand attack.
"Sailor Moon, LOOK OUT!"
Just in time, as Kunzite hurled an explosive sphere that would
have surely roasted the poor leader. Luckily, her patented Sailor Moon Luck,
caused her to klutz out and not get hit, but now she was down, and easy prey.
"HAHAHAHA!!!!" Kunzite snarled. "I'll just KILL you and
take what is rightfully Beryl's!" He raised his hand to deliver
the blast that would finish her for sure.
JSW: Dramatic... ne?
Music... soft music. A harp? Everyone froze as the soft
music flooded over the battlefield.
JSW watched ATC start walking forward with a most menacing
look, and when ATC wanted to look ever so menacing... he was menacing.
ATC reached the end of the building as the music started in with
soft piano. JSW was quick to note how ATC was going to do this, he
got ready, he knew EXACTLY when the fight would start.
"Beware Dark Kingdom." ATC said, somehow enhancing his voice
to echo across the area in a most unsettling way, even for Kunzite.
"For your carelessness and overconfidence will ultimately destroy
you in the end." As ATC let that settle in, JSW noticed the city
backdrop, which had by some way become night time by the time they
got to the battlefield, fade into a shadow.
Mars finally located ATC, for she could sense him now like a
solar flare on Pluto. Everyone looked up. Even JSW looked back at
ATC, and nearly fell over. ATC was now shrouded by his lightning blue
aura of energy and he could see a harsh glow come from behind the sunglasses.
"You again?! And Just how do you think you're gonna do that?"
Kunzite asked, cocky as ever. "You're just like the Sailor Senshi,
naive to when you are far outclassed!"
"Assume what you wish... BEHOLD!" ATC said this with extra
echo, JSW was about to smile and charge when-
"GONG!" Right on time with a Tubular Bell came a flash of light,
and the Bass began. Everything was dark. When everyone regained
their bearings, they were no longer in Tokyo so it seemed, but now
on a well lit flat rock field shrouded in shadow. ATC and JSW stood
on one end, with the Senshi behind them, Kunzite and his youma opposite
at about twenty yards.
A-ATC: This is a TURN BASED BATTLE, YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO ATTACK WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR TURN!
"What the hell!?" Kunzite shouted.
YOUMA'S TURN...
The youma powered up, and hurled a large lightning storm at
the party. The senshi screamed in pain as it hit.
Senshi group: 36 HP damage: Jupiter Immune, no damage.
ATC: 0 HP damage.
JSW: 0 HP damage.
KUNZITE'S TURN...
"I HAVE YOU NOW! I'LL SHOW YOU MY POWER!!!!" Kunzite
shouted, and hurled a plasma bomb at ATC.
ATC: 0 HP damage.
"WHAT?!?!?"
JSW'S TURN...
JSW leapt forward, having played this game a million
times, and executed a massive slash attack, pulling the trigger
on his Gunblade, causing each impact to flash, doubling the damage
dealt to the youma he selected as target.
YOUMA: 4000 damage.
By now Kunzite was stunned.
SAILOR SENSHI GROUP'S TURN...
Each Senshi fired off an attack that did about eight or
nine damage each to the youma. Then Sailor Moon came up and
used her wand to return the youma to normal, it faded from
the field.
YOUMA: ELIMINATED.
TIGERCLAW'S TURN...
ATC pulled out his sword, and erupted in a blue flame,
then shot forward and used a standard slash on Kunzite, the
blade left a blue trail glow behind it and the impact sound effect
sounded like an explosion, which generated a brief white flash.
KUNZITE: 40,000 HP damage.
"Argh! Kunzite roared. I'll get you next time!"
KUNZITE'S TURN...
And with that, Kunzite vanished.
KUNZITE: Escaped. BATTLE OVER.
The music ground to a halt and the FF7 victory fanfare
blasted across the empty battlefield. JSW twirled his Gunblade
and smirked while ATC put his Katana away and crossed his arms
to smile confidently. The Sailor Senshi all cheered their victory
over the Dark Kingdom, and the battlefield faded back to regular old Tokyo.
"NOW!" JSW interrupted. "Just WHERE did our authors get
the money needed to do some of those EXPENSIVE effects we needed
for that scene???? Hmmmm??????"
ATC frowned and brought out his mallet to 'WHAM' JSW
on the head. "Baka, the Author's got community service grant
money for our cleaning up the shrine, enough to get us a good self
gratuitous battle, all expenses paid."
JSW rubbed his head and looked at the occupied Senshi, then
over at Sailor Jupiter.
"Such a hottie!"
He turned around to find the spot ATC was located at empty,
he quickly looked about and saw something clearing a rooftop.
"Not again." And he took off after ATC.
The Senshi finished congratulating each other on such a well
fought battle when Sailor Mars felt the background power of ATC
and JSW recede and suddenly fade from her sense. She snapped around
and saw that ATC and JSW had vanished.
"Hey guys! They're gone!" She shouted back at the rest.
"MAN! That's twice they've gotten away so fast!" Jupiter growled.
"I really wanted to know what they were about and all. They just pop
up out of no where and cause trouble like that, and then they show up
to fight the youma and just lay waste to it like nobodies business.
Who's side are they on?"
"They are strange." Mars said. "They were at the shrine when the
attack came, and they were using their powers like they didn't care WHO
saw them. Then the smaller one just looked up in the direction of the
attack, moments before I sensed it. I think it might be a set up or some sort."
"You're just like Luna Rei." Moon retorted. "You always think
the next person with any form of ability's from the Dark Kingdom."
"I'd rather be sure than DEAD Usagi!" Rei fumed. "Think you can
track them Mercury?"
"I've already located them." Mercury replied. "Although they've
suppressed their energy, they have unique signatures, which are easily
located. Right now they're heading for the park, again. Seems they
have slowed down a bit though, speed matches a walk. Think we should
go after them, but lets not be transformed, we can watch them without getting spotted."
"Good idea." Moon said. "Then at least we won't have to hear Rei
go on about how they're enemies, you'll see Rei."
They all dropped their transformations and headed for the park,
while overhead they sky was now covered in clouds that threatened rain.
"Beep."
"Ah..." ATC said.
"What?" JSW replied. "What are you 'ah' ing about?"
"We're being tracked." ATC said. "I just got a scan ping from
the mercury computer. Oh well, wait... I just lost them."
"Lost them?" JSW asked. "HOW?"
"I can't determine them from normal humans unless they are transformed,
so now I've got a couple million normal humans masking five Sailor Senshi.
Since they're close together, they're not communicating, so I can't do a
signal rout trace on them." ATC walked over to a park bench and sat down to rest.
"I am getting a burst ping from the mercury computer, but it's to
quick to trace, so it's my bet that they are tracking us quietly."
JSW sat next to ATC on the bench, and looked at the fountain lit by some lights.
"What a sucky day, first we land rough, then we get chased by
a T-Rex that I get for a mascot-"
"You get chased, and then eaten."
"Whatever, then the Sailor Senshi chase us about until we
finally lose them, and THEN we wander right into smite range of
Sailor Mars and end up doing shrine work, THEN we have to go fight
a youma... It can't get worse than this!"
ATC looked at JSW.
"Now you know that in every show or scene where they say that,
it always gets worse."
And it started pouring.
"You had to remind the Authors didn't you." JSW said. ATC's reply
was to create and energy field above himself which blocked the rain,
with a thought he moved it out to cover JSW.
"I suppose we can't stay in the park all night." ATC spoke. "The
moment I fall asleep this field will collapse and we'll be drenched."
"Yeah, you're right." JSW replied. "We should find a place to stay."
ATC and JSW got up and ATC lead the way towards the road, then
stopped. JSW almost walked into his back again, but was paying more
attention so he didn't.
"What now?"
"SHHH."
JSW and ATC listened over the droning noise of rain and could
hear voices heading their way. ATC pulled JSW back into a looming dark shadow.
"-soaked, we should just give up, we'll never find them in this."
"It was your Idea to do this Usagi-chan." Rei's voice replied.
"Maybe if you weren't so suspicious of everyone under the sun."
Usagi retorted. "Maybe we wouldn't be wandering around like this."
"Can it you two." Ami said. "I'm miserable enough in this rain
without you arguing. Had I known it was going to rain, I would have
brought an few umbrellas."
Still chattering, the five girls walked right under the energy
field ATC had created to block the rain.
"Hey, it stopped." Minako said.
"Ne, Minako chan." Jupiter said. "We've walked under something."
And she looked up. "Or have we?"
The rest of the senshi looked up and saw rain splattering off a
soft glow and dripping away to the side.
"This is really weird you guys." Usagi said. None of them
noticed the two dark figures detach from the shadows and walk up
behind them. Rei got a chill down her spine, followed by everyone else.
They all turned around slowly, expecting some evil youma
ready to ambush them. What they found was JSW looming over them,
a distant look as he stared at Makoto, and ATC smiling with his arms crossed.
"You know." ATC said. "The weather is not cooperative for
outside activities. Which leads me to believe that you got caught
in the rain. Not enough that it had to be so humid earlier."
He turned to Rei. "We meet again miss Hino."
"Um..." Rei began, confused. The rest of the Senshi
continued to play cautious.
"What's wrong with him?" Makoto finally spoke up. ATC
looked over at JSW, who was zoned out staring at Makoto.
"Him?" he said, and brought out his mallet. "He's a few
fighters short of a squadron, most likely because they got shot
down somewhere along the way." And then ATC 'WHAMED!' JSW with his mallet.
"Wake up JSW, now is not the time to lock up like an old computer."
"Itai... what?" JSW, snapped out of his trance,
looked at ATC. "Huh? Right."
"ANYWHO..." ATC returned his gaze to the Senshi. "You want some
cover at least to a bus stop?" He pointed up at his energy field.
"Having a standard energy field has its uses."
'Rei was right.' Usagi thought. 'These guys act as if it
doesn't matter if everyone knew they could do what they do.'
"Just how do you do that anyway?" Ami asked, her curiosity
getting the better of her.
"The same way I do this..." ATC turned to JSW,
who was once again out of it staring at Makoto. "Oblivion."
Hearing the spell, JSW snapped out of it just in time. "Ah crap."
"KABOOOM!!!!"
All five girls jumped in surprise as JSW was blown across the street.
"I, HATE BOOM." Came JSW's voice as a single finger
stood up out of the crater he made on impact.
"That doesn't really hurt him." ATC said. "He's been
hit with it so many times that it's more of a slap to the
wrist than any real pain." JSW, burnt and soaked,
walked back over to the group.
"What did you do that for?" He asked.
"For a while." ATC replied. "We'll talk later."
He turned back to the girls again. "Well? The bus stop
should be around the corner."
The girls looked at the torrential downpour coming down,
then up at the energy field ATC was controlling. Usagi was
quickest to agree. Enemy or not, they obviously weren't in the
mood for doing anything evil, why mess with a good thing?
So she decided to make good on this ATC's offer.
"Sure, thanks, we were getting soaked." Both ATC
and JSW caught the sharp looks the rest gave her.
JSW: *Taking one of said Sharp Looks through the hand...*
ARGH!!! THAT'S FREAKIN' SHARP!!!!
ATC: Baka Baka...
JSW: Well... IT IS!!!! AND IT HURT!!!!
"A lot."
ATC: You should know better than to catch sharp objects head
on, it works better from the side.
JSW: AND HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT???!
ATC: *Rubbing temples.* Common sense? Ugh... it's getting
to late in the chapter to argue like this... back to the fic!
JSW turned his back to the fic... and Author-JSW glared angrily.
JSW: O.o;;; What?! I'm doing as I'm told...
A-JSW: Get back in the fic. Before we drop the Luxor Hotel on you.
JSW: o.o;; YES SIR!
Makoto blinked at what just transpired, as they started
following ATC who was now walking at a relaxed pace.
"What was all that about?" ATC turned and they could tell
in the dim light that one eyebrow was lower showing that
he was squinting one eye and raising the eyebrow of the other.
"You're better off being clueless, it's a long insane
story, and half the stuff I say might result in painful objects
unwarrantingly crashing down upon our hapless heads." Makoto
took a step back and gave the two a weird look. At this point
the Senshi were past suspecting them of being evil, and just trying
to understand what crazy thing was going on that allowed
them to roam loose.
"He's wrong you know." JSW grouched as he stepped forward.
"It's usually MY head that has things dropping onto it."
"Ooooooo...kaayyyy...." Makoto replied, no longer
knowing what to say in reply. Nervous and impatient, Rei cut in.
"Weren't you going to escort us to the Bus stop dry?"
JSW looked around and spoke up.
"Actually, we're already here."
"What?"
"I started walking." ATC said. "You followed to stay dry.
Simple enough, you just didn't pay attention."
"Aren't the Author's grand?" JSW smiled.
"Authors?" Rei asked. "Like, for a book?" JSW grinned
that crazy 'I'm about to do something a bit rash' grin and
pulled out a stack of paper bound together with old gum. ATC's
calm demeanor broke all at once and he shoved the girls onboard
a Bus that conveniently pulled up at just that moment.
"For Kami's sake, LEAVE! His fics are LEATHAL at nine-hundred yards!"
The five girls, having yet to see him display ANY major emotion
up until now, took his word for it and quickly entered the bus.
It pulled away moments later.
"Now what'd you do that for?" JSW asked. "I'll have
you know my fics bring good money to the fic!"
ATC turned around and glared like death itself at JSW.
"The last time you read one out loud to a random person,
he had a heart attack."
"I'm sure he was sleeping!" JSW defended.
"The man had gone into cardiac arrest and had to be
defibrillated." ATC returned. "And after a medical check
he was confirmed to be in good health."
JSW stuck out his tongue. "The MSTers pay good money
for my work." ATC's eyebrow twitched.
"I don't believe getting paid by trained professionals
to insult and make fun of your work counts as a kind of
compliment." ATC growled.
A-ATC: We need to stop them.
A-JSW: Any ideas?
A-ATC: Well, your creation suggested reading his
monstrosity to someone not prepared to handle it,
I'd say that's basis for a decent SMITE.
A-JSW: Indeed, you're making sense.
Out of seemingly nowhere, JSW was smothered in the impact
of an acoustic grand piano falling from the sky. After the
subsequent smash, which included a nice B flat, JSW moaned
in pain and pulled himself out from under it.
A-ATC: Get on with the fic you two. We're running a little
long in this chapter, so I want it finished soon.
Turning on his heal, ATC started walking away into
the rainy nightfall. JSW joined him a moment later.
After getting home, Usagi related the day's events to
Luna starting from the outburst in the Arcade when Luna was there.
It included ATC and JSW's fast escape from the park, what happened
at Rei's shrine, the youma attack and subsequent youma slaughter
from ATC and JSW again, without injury, and finally, the rainy park incident.
Luna's brow, assuming she had one, furrowed on contemplation.
"I knew I felt a strange energy in the Arcade, strongly
from the smaller guy, this... ATC. So they just appear from nowhere,
have the power to easily beat a dark kingdom general, and are
friendly but slightly confusing to be around?" Luna stood up and
paced the small room. "I don't like it one bit, if they're
enemies, and are as strong as they seem, they could have easily
killed you five." She then leapt on the bed and sat down on
Usagi's pillow. "But then you say they were around you guys
when you weren't transformed, were friendly, AND used their
abilities like it wouldn't really matter..." Luna's tail started
twitching violently in agitation, a common habit among
even normal cats, the tail flailed about like a soft furry whip.
Usagi went about her bedtime routine quickly slipping into
her bunny pajamas.
"We'll figure it out Luna... but now I need to sleep."
"I suppose you're right." Luna yawned cattishly. "I
would have at least liked to know more about these new people
though. Good or bad."
Usagi was just about to slip under the covers when she
remembered something.
"Hey Luna, I found something after that fight..."
"Really?" The cat perked up a bit hearing this news.
Usagi walked over to her dresser, and picked up something she had paid no attention to.
"I found this on the ground after that ATC guy attacked
Kunzite with his sword. It looks like some kind of little organizer or something."
Luna examined the small piece of material, it was for
the most part a flat rectangle with a screen on it and some controls.
"Only one way to find out." she said, and pressed a button.
The screen blinked to life and brought up a small display.
Luna studied it for a second and then pressed another button.
The screen blinked, and displayed some strange wedge
shaped object, then some statistics came up describing it.
The description was no less than immense, a mile long object
with massive equipment. Luna, had no idea that she had
just come across the schematics check of the GALAXIUS itself.
"What is it Luna?"
Luna, having a bit of technical background, studied it.
"It's a spaceship."
"A spaceship?"
"Wait no, not just a spaceship." Luna looked up,
wide eyed. "It's a battleship."
"A BATTLESHIP?"
A-JSW: Is there an echo in here?
A-ATC: SSSHHH!!!! Don't disturb the non avatars.
"I'm sure of it." Luna returned. "This schematic
shows the placement of this ship's weapons. According to the
sum of its weapons firepower, It can destroy a solar system in one shot."
Usagi looked at Luna stunned. "That thing can destroy
the solar system in one shot? I'm scared!"
Luna looked again and accessed the proper schematic.
"Looks like the weapon used is a last resort weapon,
I think we're safe." Usagi visibly relaxed.
Luna scanned through the data held and found something interesting.
"Oh my, according to this, this is an operations status
report on the ship's overall efficiency as of this date here, where this operation was performed."
"Meaning?" Usagi quipped.
"This is dated this morning... It already exists."
Usagi once again looked on the design in horror, they
both missed all the rest of the info on the ship, they were
too concerned with the weapons.
The door to Mamouru's apartment suddenly blew in.
In filed ATC and JSW, JSW was the first to speak.
"So, with Mamouru captured, we can use this place
as a place to stay for this season?" ATC refitted the
door quickly and sat down on the couch.
"Yes, I'm glad I remembered it. After explaining we were
friends looking for him, the apartment manager left us alone."
He sat on the couch next to JSW. "Pyro, Bob, Clawz, and Rex
should be here soon."
JSW gave ATC a skeptical look. "How do you know that?"
ATC pulled a stack of bound papers from his pocket.
"I read the script ahead of time."
A-JSW: Can he do that?
A-ATC: We never said he couldn't.
A-JSW: You have a point.
As if on cue, there was a knock.
"JSW, get that." ATC said. JSW got up and walked to
answer the door, when it was hit with the force of a small
truck and came flying in at him.
JSW: o.o!!! WHAAA!-
"CRUNCH!!!"
Bob stood where the door used to be, grinning his head
off with his fist extended from his version of 'knocking', The
rest of the group were standing next to him sweatdropping profusely.
"A little too much knock when you knocked Bob." ATC said.
"You just dropped the door on JSW."
Bob leaned down and lifted the door off JSW, and proceeded
to hurl it out the balcony window, where it soared several stories
to the ground. JSW stared at Bob's action.
"I'm not paying for that."
ATC shook his head and sat scooted over on the couch. "We're
gonna need another door. Bob?"
"HAI ADMIRAL-SAMA!!!!!!!!" Bob shouted, rattling the ceiling
fan of the people a floor below them. He then exited the apartment.
Moments later there was a loud crash, some screaming, and Bob returned
with a new door and fitted it where he smashed the old one.
"I'm not going to ask." JSW said. ATC concurred. "Me neither."
ATC sat back and put his hand to his chin as he started
thinking in overdrive.
"We need to figure out how to get back to our ships, they're
out of short range com and transporter range."
JSW started emptying his pockets in his coat.
"Well, we could wait it out until they send in a search team,
or construct a booster for our com system based on taking over
the Tokyo Tower." ATC frowned.
"The Tokyo Tower is just about the center of the anime universe,
we take it over, and we'll have the Senshi all over us trying to kill us."
JSW frowned and nodded in agreement, and continued emptying
his pockets. A PADD, picture of Makoto, the tube REX came in, why'd
he still have that? ...a soda can, the call signaler for the
Jupiter Mirage, the call signaler for the other Jupiter Mirage,
another picture of Makoto-wait a sec, back up.
"WE'RE SAVED!!!" JSW shouted, nearly as loud as Bob could shout.
"I totally forgot I have TWO Jupiter Mirages, just in case
something like this happened."
"Bravo for finally remembering." ATC sarcastically replied.
"It only took you... what? Six hours to remember?"
"Well, YOU don't have any little transport vessels, not
last time I checked." JSW replied.
"I don't need them, I can shadow walk, remember?" ATC smiled.
"What? We could have skipped the whole transport down here
had you simply told us you can do that."
"You never asked."
"Why should I ask??!! I didn't know about it."
"Yes you do, I used it in chapter two to escape the youma
army while you simply panicked." JSW facevaulted.
"Fine, fine." JSW said recovering, and then called the ship.
Twenty minutes later, they left with all on board the
Jupiter Mirage from the roof of the apartment complex on a course
for their ships. Just after exiting the earth's atmosphere,
ATC remembered a report he was going to go over and stuck his
hand in his pocket... he didn't find the PADD he was looking for.
"Hey JSW, have you seen my PADD anywhere?" He asked.
"I saw it fall out of your pocket during the fight." JSW
replied as he flew, didn't you pick it up?
"No." ATC said. "I never noticed it was missing until now."
The implications of the damage the data on that PADD could
do hit them both at the same time, full force.
"AAAAHHHH CRAP!!!!!!!"
Pluto returned to her apartment, they were too close
to the other Senshi all day, she'd have to wait until she could
get at them, alone. She saw them return to their ship VIA the
little cloaked shuttle, tomorrow was another day. And tomorrow
would be sunny. She quickly changed into her nighty and went
to bed. One needs to be well rested to catch these two.
END CHAPTER THREE...
ATC: Phew! Longest one yet, but done with decent speed.
JSW: Man, I thought my jumbling of the smite controls
would have saved my ass.
A-ATC: SO HE ADMITS IT!
A-JSW: I THOUGHT SO!!!!
JSW: o.o;;; Help!
*JSW is smashed by an asteroid, shortly before Bruce Willis,
and several psychos come and blow it up.*
JSW: X_x Itai...
DISCLAIMER: We don't own the Senshi, and even if these
disclaimers are useless against the copyright restrictions,
we're not worth your effort suing, even if you want to
prove a point. So don't bother, you'd just lose money
on the trial, since we can't afford dittily anyway.
A long time ago, in a Galaxius not very, very far away...
ATC: What the...? Isn't it supposed to be "A long time ago, in a galaxy
far, far away..."?
JSW: *over the viewscreen* The author decided to be funny. He also
loves to put is in rapid dialogue at the beginning.
ATC: Hmmm... Oh well. We are about to exit time-space!
With that, the Galaxius and the Jupiter II appeared in normal
space. The earth hovered a few hundred miles from the two ships
however something was quite different about from the atmosphere
surrounding Earth.
"SIR!" Galaxius's tactical officer exclaimed, "Sensors reporting
a mass quantity of ancient satellites orbiting Earth!"
Sure enough, JSWs sensors were uncovering the same results the
Galaxius's did. JSW looked at his display and frowned with curiosity.
Funny how displays can frown, isn't it? Especially if they have no
emotions whatsoever, you know?
"ATC, that's funny. Our time jumps are not random, but instead,
we are being shot into the future every time we time jump. Now, by the
looks of it, I'd say we are in... WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW!?!"
ATC, coughing up a kawaii black smoke-ball from his mouth,
stated, "Well, I don't know when we are at, but we need a new
Chronometer."
"What was that one made from?" JSW asked, batting away an
annoying sweatdrop that appeared out of nowhere.
"Well, it was a gas-powered generator hooked up to a 600 HP
engine..." ATC said, kicking the contraption with his foot. The
chronometer, in return, coughed some oil that splattered all over ATC
and his bridge, but, miraculously, his crew didn't get phased by the
explosion.
"Well, that was quite a race, don't you think?" JSW asked the
grumbling ATC.
"I don't see how traveling through time qualifies as racing."
ATC said, frowning at the huge mess everywhere.
Well, it just so happened that JSW had a Recovery spell in his
subspace pocket. He retrieved one and used it on ATC's ship. In a
flash, everything was restored to normal, except for the Chronometer,
which was in ruins from the recent Chronohop.
"Good thinking, JSW," Clawz said, hopping from the ceiling, "I
knew Pyro would try to mess things up. After he put that
nitroglycerin in the gas chamber instead of normal gasoline, I knew I
had to get away.
"Naw, I just happen to like cats," JSW said. Clawz suddenly leapt
from the floor and slashed at JSWs face. Fortunately for JSW, the
claws didn't contact his face, but when he looked up, ATC was sprawled
on the floor with claw marks on his face.
"X_x" ATC blinked and recovered. "How the hell did his claw swipe
strike me with over 800 yards of vacuum between us?"
The grinning JSW exclaimed, "What's wrong, ATC? Get smitten when
you least expected it?"
"What'd you do?" the unimpressed ATC asked.
"Nothing!" JSW innocently answers.
(Author's note: *pushes JSWs Smite button*)
ATC got up and brushed himself off when a Serious Star Laser
struck him, sending him flying across the bridge.
(Author's note: Um, that was not supposed to happen. At least, not
like that...)
ATC recovered from that undeserving smite and looked at the
Authors. "Why did you smite me like that? I didn't do anything, JSW
did."
(Author's note: Sorry!! Someone must've screwed with our ... *looks at
JSW, who is looking at his display terminal innocently* Smite buttons...)
Both Authors and ATC looked at JSW, who was now typing on his
datapad. "What?" JSW nonchalantly asked, looking at them with an
innocent look.
"If the buttons are switched, then press my dusty smite button
and smite him," ATC suggested to the Authors
(Authors' note: Hmmm... That could work. *Presses ATC's smite button*)
Suddenly, a Gundam Colony falls on ATC as JSW falls over
laughing.
(Authors' note: All right, JSW, just what exactly did you do?)
JSW: I basically fixed it to where I don't get smited!
Well, to get the plot rolling, though, I know what you're saying:
What plot?!" ATC recovered from his recent smite, no thanks to JSW, and asked
his tactical officer, "When are we?"
"We are in circa 20th Century, sir. Probably a little after the Senshi
revived to fight off Metallia. Exactly when I'm not sure. I'm doing more
scans," the officer replied, still typing at his control console.
"Good. JSW, prepare the Jupiter Mirage for departure," ATC commanded,
heading for the docking bay, "Meet me at Docking Bay 3."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!! Why are we using MY Jupiter Mirage?" JSW
demanded, giving the Admiral a glare.
"One," ATC said, "is that your personal fighter is much better than any of
my mechas to pull off any covert operations."
JSW replied, "Well, you got me there. That's the way I designed the
thing."
"And two," ATC continued, "is if anything happens, it'll be YOUR ship, not
mine, that gets totaled."
JSW nodded for a bit, wondering why a sweatdrop was hovering above his
head. Then he realized what ATC said about anything happening to HIS Jupiter
Mirage. "WAIT ONE DAMN MINUTE!!" JSW practically yelled, leaping out of his
command chair.
"There is no way in hell my Jupiter Mirage will get totaled down on Earth
on some crazy mission THAT YOU GOT US INTO, BY THE WAY!" JSW complained. He
basically went on and on saying how his stuff always gets wiped away in a blink
of an eye.
"JSW," ATC said.
"And then BOOM!"
"JSW," ATC said again.
"Then, it's gone!!"
JSW," ATC calmly, but annoyed, said.
"And did I mention I hate BOOM!?"
"JSW, SHUT UP!!" The Admiral exploded. Quite literally, too, since there
seemed to be splatters of ATC insides all over the Galaxius' bridge. ATC, in a
quick recovery, including, surprisingly enough, his trench coat, stood before a
grinning Pyromaniac. Next thing we notice is Pyro orbiting Pluto, and I don't
mean the Senshi Pluto, either.
"I... hate... boom..." a frightened JSW stammered, getting out of hiding
from
behind his command chair.
"I don't like getting blown up to pieces, too," ATC coughed. "Anyway,
nothing will happen to the Jupiter Mirage."
"And how do you know this," a skeptic JSW asked.
Looking over a display to fix a trivial thing, ATC responded, "Because
you'll have the thing cloaked while we're there."
Sighing, JSW agreed to it. Within a few minutes, Pyro, Clawz, ATC, and
JSW were in the cockpit of the Jupiter Mirage, taking off to Earth. With the
fighter cloaked, JSW piloted the machine down through the atmosphere, releasing
a few blank torpedoes to represent a meteor exploding entering Earth's
atmosphere to fool the 21st Century technology. With a soft thud, the Jupiter
Mirage made contact on Earth.
"CRASH!!!!"
ATC: That was soft?
JSW: @_@ The Authors are tormenting us again.
ATC stepped out of the smoking craft, stuck his hands in his pockets, and
scanned the terrain.
JSW tumbled his way out a second later.
"Well, it looks like we're just outside Tokyo." ATC said.
JSW looked at ATC skeptically. "And you know this HOW?"
ATC continued staring strait ahead until JSW finally looked forward, right at a
freeway no more than sixty feet away. And right there was a sign that
translated into... "Tokyo, 4 Kilometers."
"How'd you read that?" JSW asked.
ATC slowly turned his head to look at JSW. "These sunglasses do more than make
me look cool. Oh, hide your Gunblade in a pan dimension, Weapons on civilians
are forbidden in Tokyo."
JSW shook his head and they left the Jupiter Mirage cloaked where it sat on
their way to Tokyo...
...One hole in the plot later and they were walking down the streets in the
shopping sector of the Jyuban district. ATC led the way with his ever useful
potential menace and deadpan scowl. (Kind of like a relaxed scowl) People
stepped out of their way as they passed, not wanting to find out what could
happen if they got in the way of the leader.
"So where are we going anyway?" JSW asked. As if to answer his question
ATC walked through the opening doors of the Crown Game Center. "Oh..."
ATC & company filed their way to a booth in the back and sat down.
Moments later none other than Motoki walked up to see if they wanted anything.
ATC beat everyone to the punch.
"Coffee, cold, preferably a batch from yesterday, black, no sugar, in a
to go cup... that is all."
Motoki blinked and left to fulfill the peculiar order.
"You're actually gonna drink that stuff?" JSW asked, aghast.
"Of course not, I hate coffee." ATC replied. "I just figured we needed
something that could sober Bob up if we needed his help." ATC motioned at Bob,
who was staring off into space like he was meditating. JSW stared at Bob.
"Is that what Bob is like when he's drunk?"
"Yep. In that state he can't even formulate a coherent thought even near
resembling speech. I got him drunk before we left."
"Is he CAPABLE of coherent thoughts?!" JSW asked.
"Certainly, albeit rather strange ones... but that's Bob for ya." ATC
replied.
Motoki returned with the coffee... denied making them pay as the strange
order could not be legally charged, and then he left them to their own devices...
what am I saying?!!?!? It's not safe leaving them to their own devices... all
of Tokyo could be in danger! Not that I care...
ATC: Oh man... I hope no governments are reading this.
JSW: What do you mean? I'd love to see the Japanese Secret service or whatever
dark society make that Author... "disappear."
ATC: Baka, you're talking within Author earshot again.
JSW: They don't scare me...
Without warning, a piece of ceiling tile smashed down on JSWs head,
reminding him that, even though the smite buttons are down for repairs... he
never bothered to disable the random painful events system.
JSW: [Itai...] X_x Damn, I knew they'd find a way to get me.
What do you mean? We did nothing... a piece of ceiling tile just happened
to land on you.
JSW: I'm sure...
ATC: SHHHH!!! We're in public, we don't need the Author's omnivoice.
ATC has a point, so back with the story...
ATC stared around the cafe/arcade center with a calm, if not rather bored,
look. JSW, too bored with sitting to take anymore, wandered into the arcade
section and started up on the UFO doll catcher machine... Very quickly he set
his sights on a small Gecko in a plastic container, he'd love to put it next to
his answering machine.
"Hi Usagi!"
ATC whipped his head around, his sunglasses flashed in the light as he
stared at five girls entering the Crown center. He quickly took a mental
inventory, Usagi, Makoto, Ami, Minako, Rei. After they all exchanged greetings
with Motoki, they moved to a back corner booth and ordered some food. It was
served quickly and Usagi whoofed it down as was par for the course. Not
bothering to stay stuck in the bunker, it's subsequent sandy nature tending to
bog one down, ATC glanced around, JSW had a container in one of his pockets and
was now in to a Sailor-V game. ATC made a mental note for JSW's Christmas
present, but he knew some modifications he'd have to make to replace Sailor-V
with Sailor Jupiter... Should be simple sprite and attack animation switches...
ATC finally returned to the course to find the weather getting dank. JSW was
furiously hammering at the controls, but that wasn't what caught ATC's
attention, more like the crowd of people including Usagi and Minako staring over
his shoulder.
"WHOA! Ami-chan! He's past your high score."
The interruption proved fatal for Sailor-V as four monsters got the jump.
"AAARRRGH!!!" JSW grouched as the 'GAME OVER' screen taunted his futile
attempts to win. He stormed back over to ATC as the crowd dispersed.
"That's the first time someone's even come close to your score in quite
awhile Ami." Minako stated as she walked past ATC and JSW towards the girls.
"And to boot, he beat it."
JSW was simply fuming that he got beat and had yet to notice the source of
the voices around him. ATC shot a glance out of the corner of his eye, Luna was
watching them with a perplexed look, obviously she sensed them. Luckily his
sunglasses hid the glance. ATC picked up Clawz and lifted him close to his face
mimicking an affectionate petting.
"Clawz." ATC barely whispered. "We need a diversion before Luna rats us
out."
"What kind?"
"Irresistible diversion."
"You know I hate those."
"How many people have attack cats?"
"I'm going..."
"There ya go." ATC said loudly setting Clawz on the floor... who
immediately bounded around the room in an indirect pattern that led him to the
Senshi, Luna shifted her attention to the two dark clothed people to see another
cat obtaining affection from the Senshi. Intelligent or not, cats will be cats,
and Luna got jealous very quickly. ATC made his move.
"JSW, we gotta move now." ATC thunked JSW on the head to emphasize his
point.
"Why so soon?" JSW asked lifting his downcast head off the table.
"We're in a hotzone, and we can't hide from Luna for very long."
"Hotzone? Why is Luna here?"
"Take a guess." ATC replied.
"The Sailor Senshi are he-" ATC quickly smacked his hand onto JSW's mouth.
"Not heroes baka, just legends spread around here." ATC said loudly,
enough to convince people, including the Senshi, and for the moment Luna, that
they were having an argument that was heating up. ATC raised an eyebrow and JSW
quickly raised his in response.
"I'm telling you, there's been plenty of sightings not to count it out."
JSW said, getting into the part quickly.
"I'll bet you they're nothing but rumors and someone's idea of a joke."
ATC said, getting up and leading towards the main door. All attention had
shifted to them.
"There's tangible sightings from people all over town! Including some
people caught in the monster attacks." JSW countered as they exited the door,
Clawz, ever quick, right behind.
The doors shut behind them and ATC broke from the slow ramble he was in to
a quick walk out of sight of the arcade. JSW hurried to keep up.
"HOLY SHIT that was close." JSW said when they were clear.
"It's good you didn't ultima the game system when you lost, we'd be up to
our armpits in senshi." ATC said. "By the way, what'd you get in the crane game?"
JSW grinned and fished the Gecko container out of his pocket, ATC went
totally deadpan.
"It's a gecko." ATC said matter-of-factly.
JSW shook his head and opened the jar... and yelped when the supposed
stuffed animal snapped at him with quite useless jaws.
"About time I got out of that confinement." It said landing on the ground.
ATC quirked an eyebrow.
"We meet again Mr. Bond." ATC said.
"You too eh?" The Gecko said. "Someone's always making fun of my voice."
"You BIT ME!" JSW growled, and he whipped out his Gunblade about to reduce
this lizard to a very small suitcase. A glint of gold steel and ATC's sword
was at JSW's throat.
"Who are you and why are you here?" ATC said. "We don't get talking geckos
out of the blue."
"The Authors sent me." The gecko said, eyeing the deadly blades revealed by
ATC and JSW. "Name's Gecko, Rex T. Gecko. Anime Mascot."
"I've got a Mascot." ATC said.
"I'm not for you, I'm for your restraint deprived friend here..." JSW
snatched up Rex as he finished the statement.
"Cool! I get my own mascot!" JSW said grinning his head off.
"What reason?" ATC asked.
"He needs someone to balance out the intelligence of his side of the fic."
Rex said.
"HAI! I need-WHA?!" JSW shouted.
ATC cocked his head to the side. "Are you sure that's possible?"
"I graduated from the Harvard University for Anime Mascots with a PHD in
In Anistrophysics and plot engineering." If that doesn't do it, nothing will."
Rex finished.
JSW pouted at the two. "You guys are mean."
"And here I thought you were used to it." ATC said.
JSW simply sulked.
ATC looked around, they'd spent a long time hanging about the alley they
were in. "We'd better go." He stated.
"I think not." A voice said.
Suddenly, what appeared to be a purple boomerang came hurtling at them at
high speed, ATC deflected it deftly and made his own remark.
"The villain finally decides to make a showing. You suck at sneaking up on
people Kunzite, you've been there for the past two minutes."
Said villain in question teleported from his balcony vantage point down to
street level where ATC was standing.
"Quite observant." He said. "But I'm a busy general. I'll make this
simple, work for the Dark Kingdom, or I'll just kill you now."
"No thanks I'm already at the Rank of Fleet Admiral." ATC said. "I don't
feel like getting busted back to petty minion. Plus I outrank you."
"And I'm already a captain of a cool ship." JSW said. "So just attack
us... if you're not scared." JSW just couldn't resist the taunt.
"You DARE to mock the Dark Kingdom?" Kunzite glared at JSW, and reformed
his boomerang like objects. Behind him a girl on a bike passed the alley on a
bicycle ringing a little bell. ATC drew his sword into en-guard position
causing it to glint with the afternoon sunlight. Kunzite became very pail and
stared forward at them letting his weapons fizzle out.
"Don't tell me your scared already!" JSW said. "We haven't even warmed up
yet!"
Kunzite simply grew more pail if that was possible. ATC felt something
on his shoulder, decided Kunzite wouldn't attack yet, and turned around... then
looked up... wiping his shoulder off as he did so...
"I guess this would scare even a villain." ATC said.
Kunzite finally remembered something and teleported away.
"HA!!! WE WIN YOU COWARD!" JSW shouted at the empty air. ATC tapped him
on the shoulder. Still laughing, he turned around to ATC, and froze.
"You know," ATC said. "We have a rather interesting dilemma on our
hands."
An earsplitting roar shook the city of Tokyo.
At this point we can have an authorial interlude: Not that I care, but not all
things are what they seem, keep that in mind.
ATC: I have a great distaste for surprises.
JSW: I HATE SURPRISES!!! AND I HATE ROARS!!! AND BOOM!!! I HATE BOOM!!!
ATC: Baka...
Back to the fic!
"You think the rest of Tokyo heard that?" ATC asked.
"Unless they sleep like Usagi in the mornings... Yes." JSW replied.
"Right then." ATC said. "I suppose the 'T' in Rex T. Gecko stood for
Tyrannosaur."
"Wh-What makes you think that?" JSW said as he slowly backed away from
the Ten tons or more of flesh devouring reptile.
"It's still wearing his Cufflinks on its wrist." ATC said. "Had he been
eaten, the lizard wouldn't be wearing them on the wrist, but on the teeth. Not
to mention the Authors wouldn't get rid of an original character so quickly and
quietly."
"So what do we do now?" JSW asked?
"Make for the park." ATC said. "Most fights happen there."
ATC and JSW bolted... the T-Rex spotted them and was on their heels as
they raced for the park.
JSW brushed the T-Rex off his heels as he and ATC zoomed past several
running citizens. JSW screamed like a girl as he turned SD and shot past the
running ATC as ATC wondered how on Earth JSW can shoot past him without a gun.
Suddenly, Rex chomped on JSWs head, swallowing him. But, luckily for JSW, ATC
received the pain of being eaten. Naturally, ATC freaked because feeling being
eaten and not being eaten are two different feelings.
ATC: O.O;;; You know, that's a funny feeling...
JSW: *muffled by Rex's mouth* Mff'd mfay!! Mt mfincks imf mere!!
DUB-TITLES: Eeww!! It stinks in here!
JSW: o.O;;; Mfat's mot mhat M-y said!
SUB-TITLES: That's not what I said!
A bicycle rolled by, ringing its tiny bell bringing Rex back to his gecko
form once more. JSW fell from the sky and landed on top of ATC as Rex looked at the two.
"Well, that ruckus sure got the attention of the Sailor Senshi, don'tcha
think?" ATC asked as he tried to get up. Unfortunately, JSW was still on top
of ATC.
"Yeah, I'd say. Especially since I just got eaten!!!" JSW said as he got
more comfortable on top of ATC.
Rex looked at JSW and ATC confusingly again and asked, "What just
happened? I remember a ding and then I'm suddenly in the park."
An irate JSW replied, "You ate me, that's what. Why the hell do I have to
have a mascot who eats me for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and on some occasions,
desert?"
ATC answered, "I may know why..."
JSW: *looking down at ATC* I'm on top for once! ^.^
ATC: We need to get outta the park... This is starting to be an awkward place
to
be... And I DON'T mean JSW sitting on top of me, too!
JSW: o.O;;; Nani? What's wrong with me sitting on top of you? I think it's
kinda cute! ^.^
ATC: *nasty eyebrow twitch*
Getting out of rapid dialogue mode...
JSW: Finally. I'm getting dizzy!
Suddenly, JSW is smitten by a grand piano for no apparent reason!
ATC: x.X;;; Did you forget something??
Sorry... forgot ^.^
AHEM!! BACK TO THE FIC!!! ATC unceremoniously tossed JSW off of him as he got
up. Naturally, JSW landed on his mind. But because of this damn technical
difficulties, (WHICH I AM TRYING TO FIX, BY THE WAY! I swear... I don't know
how this Avatar did it, but he did it good!) JSW didn't feel the pain. JSW looked
at ATC and asked, "Why aren't you hurt by it? It's a smite!"
ATC, ignoring the pain, answered "I've had far worse than just getting a
bump on my head."
JSW promptly facevaulted as tears started to swell up in his eyes.
"*sniffle* That was supposed to hurt you...
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AA......"
Several pages later, JSW -finally- took a deep breath as a comet landed on
JSW before he had a chance to start crying again.
"I have a very high pain tolerance level, so it doesn't bother me anymore...
Although having a comet land on top of
you is no fun either."
A charred li'l JSW got up from the smite as he dusted the ash from his
clothing. "I just had this trenchcoat dry-cleaned, anyway! What do you
propose happened to Rex?" JSW asked a sizzling ATC.
After one side of ATC was done, he flipped to get his other side fully
cooked. He answered, "I think that whenever Rex hears a bell, he turns
Tyrannosaurus Rex on us." At this point ATC was well done and ready to be
served. Although I like to have my ATCs medium-well, thank you very much!
JSW thought this over and put two and two together. Which, in his mind,
came to ... 6,876,258.9852?!? How the hell he came to that, I don't know!
JSW: Well, if you take into account the rotation of the earth, the number of
people on the planet, the fact that this fic is already taking over ten pages to
complete anyway, it comes to 5,745,975.665... Ano... That's not what came up
with
earlier...
BACK TO THE FIC! He thought over Rex his mascot and suddenly went SD.
"KYA!! AND HE'S MY MASCOT?!" The irate SD JSW complained.
"And, whenever Rex turns T-Rex, he goes after you, JSW," ATC finished,
ignoring JSWs rambling.
"I think I need a new mascot," JSW said, looking around for a new mascot.
Clawz just happened to be the closest thing to a Mascot JSW could find, despite
the fact that millions of other mascots were running lose. "How about a cat?"
JSW asked. Of course, he was ignored.
Well, considering that Rex was the only mascot within our budget...
JSW: Wait a second... I thought we got rid of all the people we owed money to?
ATC: One cannot really get rid of the IRS...
JSW: IRS?! The hell do we owe the IRS for? We're in Japan!
ATC: This fic is made in the United States spawned over 2 States. The IRS are
simply trying to get their money's worth.
JSW: How much do we owe the IRS?
Jupiter Star Warrior: About six million bucks.
Admiral Tigerclaw: Nope. More.
Jupiter Star Warrior: More? When I did it, it was six million!
Admiral Tigerclaw: You forgot to add in the other characters' earnings.
Jupiter Star Warrior: Oh, yes I see. How much?
Suddenly, the entire number owed to the IRS flies through the fic,
smacking JSW on the head. "Ano... That's a lot of zeroes..." JSW said.
ATC simply looked at JSW.
"Well, did you get everything fixed yet, Author Jupiter Star Warrior?" ATC
asked. Answer to that is no. I just got it to where ATC doesn't feel the
smites. Now I'll need to fix it where JSW gets the full smite, pain and all.
Admiral Tigerclaw: Well, we did have an unlimited budget, but after irradiating
the lunar real estate, the government fined us.
ATC: So, we blame it all on Pyro...
JSW: And take it out of his paycheck.
ATC: I think he gets Pyromaniac's Insurance.
[PLUG] Pyromaniac's Insurance! Whenever you feel like blowing shit up, just call
us and we'll insure you! Actual damage loss is not covered. [/PLUG]
JSW: Just how much is that pyromaniac gets, anyway?
"Speaking of Pyro," ATC asked, getting them out of rapid dialogue mode,
"didn't we leave him to watch the shuttle?"
JSWs face turned ghost-white as a small rumble shook the earth. JSW
naturally freaked.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Eyeing the distant smoke cloud that mushroomed to the sky, ATC proclaimed,
"Aaaaaaaaand we're trapped here."
"Hold it right there!" a voice commanded, bringing ATC about-face.
Speaking of trapped...
"We've delayed too long. Crap," ATC said, looking up. Meanwhile, JSW was
still ranting... As usual.
JSW: I'M GOING TO KILL THAT PYRO-MANIAC WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON HIM! HE OWES ME
SIX BILLION DOLLARS FOR THAT SHIP!
ATC: JSW...
JSW: HOW DARE HE DESTROY MY SHIP!
ATC: JS douuuuble-uuuuu......!
JSW: MINE!!
ATC: We have more problems than your ship, JSW.
JSW: HE'S GOING TO PAY FOR THAT! *turning to ATC* WHAT?!
Finally getting out of rapid dialogue, ATC pointed to where he was looking.
JSW looked in that general direction and raised an eyebrow. "Shit. Not
again. It's the Senshi!"
The Senshi just glared at the duo. "I'm having a REAL bad day here," JSW
said to the Senshi. "So, could we just go on our merrily way?"
Sailor Moon was the first to speak... Naturally. I don't know what it is
about these damn speeches of hers, but dammit! They get longer and more tedious with
every episode!
"I am Sailor Moon," she started. Meanwhile, JSW was busy offering ATC a cup of
tea.
"Tea?" JSW asked.
"Oh, yes please," ATC accepted, taking the cup of tea offered to him. He
gulped it down, spit the contents out, then tossed the cup over his shoulder.
"Too much lemon," he explained. JSW gave ATC another cup of tea.
"Here, try this," JSW said. ATC accepted and tossed the cup again after
tasting it.
"And on behalf of the moon, WE WILL PUNISH YOU!" The Senshi finished.
JSWs eyes suddenly turned into saucers.
"Time to go," JSW stated, tossing the saucers to the side.
"Too much... SALT?!" ATC asked, unaware that the Senshi were now ready to
attack.
"NOW!" JSW said as the Sailor Senshi primed their primary weapons.
"Right, then," ATC responded, slowly getting up and bolted with a, well, a
Bolt spell! Which caused a bolt of lightning to burst from the sky and make a
deafening "CRRRACK-BOOOOOM!!!!!"
Meanwhile... Wait a minute! Didn't I just went over this?! Why does
while have to be so damned mean anyway? I swear... We need a new word like
"nicewhile".
ATC: -_-;;; I wonder if the Authors can stay on the plot for more than five
seconds...
Jupiter Star Warrior: ??? There is a plot?? Where??
JSW: ON WITH THE FIC, PLEASE!!!
Anyway, JSW was already running toward his ship, hoping to salvage what
was left of it and kill Pyro. He turned SD and ran as fast as his SD legs could
carry him. Which was fast. Meanwhile, "Cleanin' Up the Town" played on ATCs
biological stereo, shaking the earth with a clean beat.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" JSW screamed. "I DUN WANNA BE MOONDUST!!!"
"JSW, this way!" ATC yelled at JSW.
Jupiter Star Warrior: Since when does ATC use Final Fantasy 7 spells?
"Huh?" JSW asked, running into a tree. Getting up, JSW complained,
"Iiiitaiii... That was a smite, wasn't it?
Jupiter Star Warrior: No. It was there. I just forgot to tell you.
JSW got up and looked for ATC. The song ended as JSW looked around.
"ATC, where are you?"
ATC answered quite annoyed, "I'm right here, baka!"
"Right," JSW said, going towards ATCs voice. Surprisingly, JSW made it
with no problems. Well, if you count tripping and falling problems, fine. Rex
was with ATC as they sweatdropped at JSWs foolishness.
"It's about time you get here, JSW," Rex said, leaping on JSWs head and
perching. "I was worried when my bed would arrive."
"Bed?!" JSW asked, batting away a sweatdrop. "Don't tell me you're using
my head as a bed..."
Rex looked down at JSW and smiled. "Where else would I sleep? Besides,
your hair is nice and soft..."
"That's because I wash it everyday. You are ruining my hair, you know..."
JSW complained. ATC tapped JSW on the shoulder. "Can we please get this plot
going?"
JSW, Jupiter Star Warrior, Admiral Tigerclaw, and REX: There's a plot?
ATC just sweatdropped and looked around him. He noticed that the Senshi
were not following them. "Alright, we need to get the plot rolling," ATC said.
Before he was interrupted... again... ATC said "Let's get going."
"Where?" JSW asked, looking confused. He would have scratched his head,
but there was a certain mascot on his head, instead, he scratched Rex's back.
JSW was rewarded with a very painful bite on his finger. ATC was already
several yards in front of JSW, so ATC didn't hear JSW scream in pain until JSW
caught up to ATC.
ATC looked around when he heard JSWs scream. "I guess the authors finally
fixed your Smite button, JSW?" ATC asked.
In pain, JSW whimpered a reply: "It's...not...a...smite!!"
Finally, Rex let go of JSWs finger. It was twisted in weird ways that
would leave the Authors bankrupt if we tried to explain it.
JSW: Don't tell me we're that poor.
ATC: A four-year-old did Pyro's explosion. Of course we're that poor!
JSW: o.O;;; M-masaka!!
Anyway, JSW fixed his finger to the right normality of what a finger is
supposed to look like. Again, he was falling behind of ATCs stride. He quickly
caught up to ATC. "So, where are we going?" JSW asked.
The Senshi had disappeared, apparently they managed to lose them for the time being.
"Well, since we're here, we might as well do some sight-seeing. It's been
awhile since I've been to Tokyo and you've never been here before. I figure
you'd like to see it...
JSWs eyes were swelling with tears. He immediately leapt into ATCs arms.
"You love me! You really love me!!"
ATC: -_-;;; Baka! *unceremoniously drops JSW onto the ground, stepping over
JSW as he continued his walk*
JSW got up and caught up with ATC... again. At this point, this Author, in
the middle of fixing the Smite Buttons and trying to keep this story going,
wondered if JSW will ever stay in stride with ATC. But, of course, JSW is an
idiot and we'll get him smitten sometime soon. Don't worry, folks. I'm working
on it diligently and quickly. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may have
caused anyone.
JSW: The Author is swaying... Again.
I FINALLY GOT JSWS SMITE BUTTON FIXED!!! YEAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA!!
JSW: Oh, shit!!
Suddenly, without warning, a grand piano fell on top of JSWs head for no
apparent reason except to SMITE JSW!! Needless to say, this hurt JSWs pride... A
lot!
From underneath the grand piano, JSW cried out in pain, frustration, and
whatnot, but since ATC was already a few yards away, ATC didn't notice JSWs pain
and suffering. Not that he cared. ATC was just glad that Jupiter Star Warrior
got the damn smite techniques fixed. And they were already half-way through the
fic.
Needless to say, JSW started to complain. "Wha...? How...? When...?" was all
JSW could come up with, considering his pea-sized brain.
Jupiter Star Warrior: Duh! You think I'm dumb? Of course I'm going to find a
way to smite you!
JSW: ^.^ Yes!
JSW got smitten... again... This time, by a kitchen range. Well, anyway, to
get the plot rolling... Although a plot is questionable at this time, JSW and ATC
turned a corner and were in familiar territory. JSW, of course, didn't notice
this as he never notices plot holes or anything like that. He just assumes it's
part of the way it is, though more study is needed before we can say how JSW
thinks.
"Interesting," ATC said, looking around. "I wonder how we got here?"
JSW was still walking when ATC stopped, so he bumped into ATC. A muffled
voice rose to ATCs ears. "You know," the muffled voice of JSW stated, it's not
easy being an avatar."
"Will you get off of me?" the annoyed ATC asked, stepping a couple of feet
ahead. At least he got JSW to stop walking.
Finally, JSW took a look around his surroundings. He noticed something
peculiar about this place... Something familiar...
"We're at the Hikawa Shrine," ATC stated.
"How do you know?" JSW asked. "Is it your 'knowledge' of Anime in
general, or is it a Kickass thing?"
"Because the sign said so," ATC answered, pointing at a sign that said
"Hikawa Shrine" in Kanji, the sign cast a nice evening shadow right down on the two.
"Oh..." JSW said, "Your sunglasses again." And followed ATC up the huge flight
of steps leading to the shrine.
"So what's so noticeable about the Hikawa shrine?" JSW said as he caught up with ATC.
"Are they known for good food or something?"
"It's owned by the Hinos." ATC said. "I thought you knew that."
"Oh." JSW replied.
"AHHHHH, I see we're more well known than I thought." The voice reminded
JSW frighteningly of someone who swallowed one too many rusty nails. He looked
around for the source, and he didn't see anyone. Of course, being upwards of six
feet tall, JSW was hardly noticing the small man standing right in front of him.
JSW looked at ATC, who was looking down at something.
"DOWN HERE!"
"Huh?" JSW mumbled, looking down.
Grandpa Hino himself looked back up at him, and waved.
"Hi there!"
JSW looked back up to ATC, then back down at the man who barely came up to
his waist, then back at ATC.
"I thought they were just exaggerating how short he was on TV." JSW said,
and got a sharp poke in the stomach by Grandpa for his remark.
"Who you calling SHORT!?"
"Whoa there." ATC soothed. "JSW here has a bit of a point. You are rather
vertically challenged, though I'm sure there's a good reason."
Grandpa Hino stopped prodding JSW with a broom and turned to ATC.
"Yeah, I guess your right, COFFEE, don't ever start drinking the stuff."
"Can't stand it myself." ATC replied.
"So." Grandpa Hino switched gears so fast it almost blew out the Fic's
transmission. "Are you two here to help with the up keeping of the shrine?"
"GRANDPA!"
"Ah rats."
ATC rotated on his heal to see Rei walking up to the group. JSW kept a
poker face on.
"Just what kind of work are you trying to make these two- ...gentlemen do?"
Rei's voice almost gave away her recognition of ATC and JSW. ATC quickly played
like he was none the wiser to who she was.
"Oh it's nothing, he just asked us if we were here to help clean the shrine.
We weren't planning on it, just heard this was a nice place to visit, but
since this is such a nice guy, we both agreed we'd love to help."
"We did?" JSW asked.
"Why of course we did." ATC said, handing JSW a broom.
Then he glared hard. "Get sweeping."
Grandpa Hino smiled at the two as they walked over to some leaves and
started sweeping.
"Such nice men to help out around here."
Rei watched the two with a look of confusion on her face.
Those two, were talking about the Senshi back in the Arcade, and then they
found those same two in the park with a huge monster that just disappeared,
and then the one with the sunglasses hurled a lightning bolt right out of
nowhere and they both got away. Now they were right here.
So far it didn't look like they recognized her, which was good.
She turned and started sweeping again but watched the two out of the corner
of her eye. The tall one with the scar was sweeping haphazardly all
the dust right into the path the one with sunglasses had finished
sweeping, who suddenly reached into his coat and pulled a hammer?
...out and whammed his taller friend on the head.
"Itai!"
Rei barely concealed her surprise. But she couldn't transform,
not here.
"What'd you do that for?" JSW whined rubbing his head.
"Because you can't sweep worth CRAP." ATC frowned. "Look at this,
your sweeping all that dust right back at me."
JSW seemed to go into total confusion...
A-Tigerclaw: Impossible, he's always in total confusion.
JSW: b-bbb---b--b-but...
A-JSW: Shutup, or we'll smite you right in front of Sailor Mars there.
JSW: H-Hai.
"What about Mars over there." JSW mumbled. "You saw, she recognized us."
ATC whapped JSW with his broom. "Yes, but she doesn't realize
that we know who she is. She can't transform if she thinks we don't know.
She thinks she'll reveal her secret." ATC switched hands and rapidly
swept up a small section into a pile. "We can't fight and run
ALL day, with the Jupiter Mirage trashed, we have to find a place to stay.
And we seem to have lost Pyro, Bob, and Rex... Where could they be?
Where indeed...
Back in the Crown Arcade we find Bob in the kitchen with hot
mitts and his sword chopping vegetables.
Motoki walked in with a list in his hand.
"Okay, we need six number twos, five number sevens, two number
ones, and twelve number tens. Got all that?"
"HAI!!!!!!!" Bob shouted, and started chopping vegetables again.
Motoki walked back out, or would have had Makoto not
been standing there.
"New chef?" She asked.
"He was just sitting at the table, then suddenly went
into the kitchen and started cooking, when I tried to stop him,
he pulled out that gigantic sword from NOWHERE and started chopping vegetables."
"CHOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!!" And Bob slammed his blade onto
the cutting-board, and through it, and through the counter,
and into the floor, and through the floor into the foundation.
"Oops, remember not to say that with him in earshot." Motoki said.
"Other than massive damage to the counter, he's increased the speed
of our orders ten fold. He cooks as good as you too."
"Really?" Makoto asked. She looked over Motoki's shoulder and
sweatdropped as Bob suddenly shot across the kitchen in mid chop, pulled
something out of an oven, shot over to make a few drinks,
and shot back to catch his sword on mid bounce.
"I see why..."
Back at the shrine...
"You never said he could cook." JSW said.
ATC blinked. "I never knew he could cook." ATC looked at the
pile of leaves and spoke much louder. "This is too slow."
Then stuck out his hand and nuked the pile with a weak plasma blast.
It created a small boom which caused JSW to jump back several feet.
"I HATE BOOM!"
Rei had totally stopped sweeping by now. 'Doesn't he care
about staying hidden?' she thought. She started backing towards the shrine.
"JSW, cast us a good whirlwind spell, maybe we can
clean this place up all the faster."
Now Rei knew the name of the big guy. Who was the bossy guy?
"Are you sure ATC?"
'What kind of name was ATC?' Rei stopped slinking away,
her curiosity getting the best of her.
ATC turned around and looked straight at Rei. "You might
want to get back, whirlwind is rather windy, no pun intended."
Rei nodded her head and scooted away from the two, a
moment later JSW cast whirlwind... nothing happened.
"DAMN!" JSW swore. "I still don't quite know that one."
"BAKA!" ATC admonished. "I told you to work on that one."
Rei reached for her henshin stick, maybe she could transform
while they weren't paying attention.
"HEY GUYS!"
Rei jumped about a foot in the air.
"Yo, Pyro!" ATC said. "How'd you manage to nuke the Jupiter Mirage?"
"Oh!" Pyro remembered. and walked past Rei, who was pale from
someone actually sneaking up like that. "There was a bird sitting on it,
I figured it was going to make a mess all over JSW's nice finish...
so I chucked a GBU at it."
ATC raised an eyebrow and leaned in on the broom he was holding.
"A laser guided, one thousand pound, smart bomb? A bit overkill for
a bird don't you think?"
"I'LL KILL HIM!!!!" JSW shouted and charged Pryo, preparing
to use a limit break. Pyro ran the other way and a chase
across the shrine ensued.
"Oy vey..." ATC grumbled. He looked over at Rei.
"And I have to put up with these guys ALL THE TIME."
"I'm sure." Rei sweatdropped. Suddenly them being a Dark Kingdom
plot was looking allot less likely. "What's a GBU?" "Guided Bomb Unit."
ATC replied walking over. "Generally, it's used on the United States Air
Force's F-117 Stealth Fighter as a weapon for taking out buildings.
Don't ask me how Pyro managed to 'chuck' one at a bird. They tend to
weigh more than your average person should be able to lift."
"NOW I'M PISSED!!!!" JSW shouted as he ran by chasing Pyro again,
Pyro dropped a small land mine on the ground which blew JSW across the shrine.
"That had to hurt." ATC said.
"I HATE BOOM!!!" Came JSW's reply shout. And he
quickly reengaged pursuit of Pyro.
"Maybe if I hit him with a BOLT spell..." ATC muttered next
to Rei, who recognized the spell name. "NAAAAAH." His thoughts
were suddenly interrupted however as his highly advanced
sunglasses beeped upon detecting an energy surge not too far away.
He turned to look.
"Something's up." He said, a scream of someone being attacked
punctuated his statement. JSW and Pyro halted and also looked
in the direction of the scream.
"What was that?!" JSW asked.
ATC squinted, though no one could see. "Youma attack,
class three youma, 2200 yards, two senshi have transformed and are
enrout, one is transforming, and one is opening a hailing frequency
to the Mars communicator."
As if on cue, the communicator in Rei's robe pocket started
quietly beeping. ATC ignored it.
"One dark kingdom general is floating up above the attack zone,
no doubt building up energy for a surprise attack."
"ATC, how are you knowing this?" JSW asked.
"Like I've been saying." ATC said. "My sunglasses aren't any
normal sunglasses. Come on, I don't want to miss this." ATC took off
with boosted speed towards the fight and leapt right up to the top of a building.
"HEY!!!!" JSW shouted. "Wait for me man!"
Rei watched JSW followed by Pyro, bound after ATC in a
futile attempt to keep up with him. Only the repetitive beeping
of her communicator managed to snap her out of it and remind her
she needed to transform.
"You know!" JSW panted, finally catching up with ATC.
"We're going to need a way to make the initial distraction so
the youma will stop pestering its latest victim."
"You state the obvious once again JSW." ATC replied as he leapt
the gap between rooftops. "The Author downloaded FF8's The Extreme
after hearing it from your Author. Needless to say he liked it.
So when we get there my Disorder will start 'The Extreme.'"
"Why that?" JSW asked as they leapt another gap. "Your average
youma wouldn't be an extreme battle."
"Because the Authors said so, and frankly, I'm not in the mood
to argue with the Authors." ATC replied. "We're here."
JSW stopped, nearly catapulting himself off the building into open
air had ATC not caught the sleeve of his coat.
"We'll let the Senshi go first. Then we'll take em' by storm."
"What? We're already here, we can smash that youma like an afterthought."
"Just follow my lead, the Authors will be content if you do."
"Fine..."
JSW sighed and followed ATC's gaze over to where a youma was
holding its victim by the throat, simply grinning a sinister youma grin.
JSW's gaze traveled up, to where Kunzite was hidden in the
shadows holding a pink sphere of energy ready to bomb the Senshi.
"HOLD IT!"
"Right on cue." ATC mumbled. They both watched Sailor Moon
and the senshi go into speech mode and finish with the usual flourish.
And then the battle began.
Mercury lead off with a nasty thick fog to shroud the attackers.
This lasted until Mars and Jupiter fired a dual attack in which the
heat dissipated the fog. Mars wasn't quite all into the battle, she
could feel ATC and JSW watching. She had already seen the two use
their abilities doing menial tasks, this battle should be easy for
them if they showed up... but who's side were they on? Luckily she
was concentrating on the powers she was feeling, because suddenly,
she felt another presence as Sailor Moon wound up for her wand attack.
"Sailor Moon, LOOK OUT!"
Just in time, as Kunzite hurled an explosive sphere that would
have surely roasted the poor leader. Luckily, her patented Sailor Moon Luck,
caused her to klutz out and not get hit, but now she was down, and easy prey.
"HAHAHAHA!!!!" Kunzite snarled. "I'll just KILL you and
take what is rightfully Beryl's!" He raised his hand to deliver
the blast that would finish her for sure.
JSW: Dramatic... ne?
Music... soft music. A harp? Everyone froze as the soft
music flooded over the battlefield.
JSW watched ATC start walking forward with a most menacing
look, and when ATC wanted to look ever so menacing... he was menacing.
ATC reached the end of the building as the music started in with
soft piano. JSW was quick to note how ATC was going to do this, he
got ready, he knew EXACTLY when the fight would start.
"Beware Dark Kingdom." ATC said, somehow enhancing his voice
to echo across the area in a most unsettling way, even for Kunzite.
"For your carelessness and overconfidence will ultimately destroy
you in the end." As ATC let that settle in, JSW noticed the city
backdrop, which had by some way become night time by the time they
got to the battlefield, fade into a shadow.
Mars finally located ATC, for she could sense him now like a
solar flare on Pluto. Everyone looked up. Even JSW looked back at
ATC, and nearly fell over. ATC was now shrouded by his lightning blue
aura of energy and he could see a harsh glow come from behind the sunglasses.
"You again?! And Just how do you think you're gonna do that?"
Kunzite asked, cocky as ever. "You're just like the Sailor Senshi,
naive to when you are far outclassed!"
"Assume what you wish... BEHOLD!" ATC said this with extra
echo, JSW was about to smile and charge when-
"GONG!" Right on time with a Tubular Bell came a flash of light,
and the Bass began. Everything was dark. When everyone regained
their bearings, they were no longer in Tokyo so it seemed, but now
on a well lit flat rock field shrouded in shadow. ATC and JSW stood
on one end, with the Senshi behind them, Kunzite and his youma opposite
at about twenty yards.
A-ATC: This is a TURN BASED BATTLE, YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO ATTACK WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR TURN!
"What the hell!?" Kunzite shouted.
YOUMA'S TURN...
The youma powered up, and hurled a large lightning storm at
the party. The senshi screamed in pain as it hit.
Senshi group: 36 HP damage: Jupiter Immune, no damage.
ATC: 0 HP damage.
JSW: 0 HP damage.
KUNZITE'S TURN...
"I HAVE YOU NOW! I'LL SHOW YOU MY POWER!!!!" Kunzite
shouted, and hurled a plasma bomb at ATC.
ATC: 0 HP damage.
"WHAT?!?!?"
JSW'S TURN...
JSW leapt forward, having played this game a million
times, and executed a massive slash attack, pulling the trigger
on his Gunblade, causing each impact to flash, doubling the damage
dealt to the youma he selected as target.
YOUMA: 4000 damage.
By now Kunzite was stunned.
SAILOR SENSHI GROUP'S TURN...
Each Senshi fired off an attack that did about eight or
nine damage each to the youma. Then Sailor Moon came up and
used her wand to return the youma to normal, it faded from
the field.
YOUMA: ELIMINATED.
TIGERCLAW'S TURN...
ATC pulled out his sword, and erupted in a blue flame,
then shot forward and used a standard slash on Kunzite, the
blade left a blue trail glow behind it and the impact sound effect
sounded like an explosion, which generated a brief white flash.
KUNZITE: 40,000 HP damage.
"Argh! Kunzite roared. I'll get you next time!"
KUNZITE'S TURN...
And with that, Kunzite vanished.
KUNZITE: Escaped. BATTLE OVER.
The music ground to a halt and the FF7 victory fanfare
blasted across the empty battlefield. JSW twirled his Gunblade
and smirked while ATC put his Katana away and crossed his arms
to smile confidently. The Sailor Senshi all cheered their victory
over the Dark Kingdom, and the battlefield faded back to regular old Tokyo.
"NOW!" JSW interrupted. "Just WHERE did our authors get
the money needed to do some of those EXPENSIVE effects we needed
for that scene???? Hmmmm??????"
ATC frowned and brought out his mallet to 'WHAM' JSW
on the head. "Baka, the Author's got community service grant
money for our cleaning up the shrine, enough to get us a good self
gratuitous battle, all expenses paid."
JSW rubbed his head and looked at the occupied Senshi, then
over at Sailor Jupiter.
"Such a hottie!"
He turned around to find the spot ATC was located at empty,
he quickly looked about and saw something clearing a rooftop.
"Not again." And he took off after ATC.
The Senshi finished congratulating each other on such a well
fought battle when Sailor Mars felt the background power of ATC
and JSW recede and suddenly fade from her sense. She snapped around
and saw that ATC and JSW had vanished.
"Hey guys! They're gone!" She shouted back at the rest.
"MAN! That's twice they've gotten away so fast!" Jupiter growled.
"I really wanted to know what they were about and all. They just pop
up out of no where and cause trouble like that, and then they show up
to fight the youma and just lay waste to it like nobodies business.
Who's side are they on?"
"They are strange." Mars said. "They were at the shrine when the
attack came, and they were using their powers like they didn't care WHO
saw them. Then the smaller one just looked up in the direction of the
attack, moments before I sensed it. I think it might be a set up or some sort."
"You're just like Luna Rei." Moon retorted. "You always think
the next person with any form of ability's from the Dark Kingdom."
"I'd rather be sure than DEAD Usagi!" Rei fumed. "Think you can
track them Mercury?"
"I've already located them." Mercury replied. "Although they've
suppressed their energy, they have unique signatures, which are easily
located. Right now they're heading for the park, again. Seems they
have slowed down a bit though, speed matches a walk. Think we should
go after them, but lets not be transformed, we can watch them without getting spotted."
"Good idea." Moon said. "Then at least we won't have to hear Rei
go on about how they're enemies, you'll see Rei."
They all dropped their transformations and headed for the park,
while overhead they sky was now covered in clouds that threatened rain.
"Beep."
"Ah..." ATC said.
"What?" JSW replied. "What are you 'ah' ing about?"
"We're being tracked." ATC said. "I just got a scan ping from
the mercury computer. Oh well, wait... I just lost them."
"Lost them?" JSW asked. "HOW?"
"I can't determine them from normal humans unless they are transformed,
so now I've got a couple million normal humans masking five Sailor Senshi.
Since they're close together, they're not communicating, so I can't do a
signal rout trace on them." ATC walked over to a park bench and sat down to rest.
"I am getting a burst ping from the mercury computer, but it's to
quick to trace, so it's my bet that they are tracking us quietly."
JSW sat next to ATC on the bench, and looked at the fountain lit by some lights.
"What a sucky day, first we land rough, then we get chased by
a T-Rex that I get for a mascot-"
"You get chased, and then eaten."
"Whatever, then the Sailor Senshi chase us about until we
finally lose them, and THEN we wander right into smite range of
Sailor Mars and end up doing shrine work, THEN we have to go fight
a youma... It can't get worse than this!"
ATC looked at JSW.
"Now you know that in every show or scene where they say that,
it always gets worse."
And it started pouring.
"You had to remind the Authors didn't you." JSW said. ATC's reply
was to create and energy field above himself which blocked the rain,
with a thought he moved it out to cover JSW.
"I suppose we can't stay in the park all night." ATC spoke. "The
moment I fall asleep this field will collapse and we'll be drenched."
"Yeah, you're right." JSW replied. "We should find a place to stay."
ATC and JSW got up and ATC lead the way towards the road, then
stopped. JSW almost walked into his back again, but was paying more
attention so he didn't.
"What now?"
"SHHH."
JSW and ATC listened over the droning noise of rain and could
hear voices heading their way. ATC pulled JSW back into a looming dark shadow.
"-soaked, we should just give up, we'll never find them in this."
"It was your Idea to do this Usagi-chan." Rei's voice replied.
"Maybe if you weren't so suspicious of everyone under the sun."
Usagi retorted. "Maybe we wouldn't be wandering around like this."
"Can it you two." Ami said. "I'm miserable enough in this rain
without you arguing. Had I known it was going to rain, I would have
brought an few umbrellas."
Still chattering, the five girls walked right under the energy
field ATC had created to block the rain.
"Hey, it stopped." Minako said.
"Ne, Minako chan." Jupiter said. "We've walked under something."
And she looked up. "Or have we?"
The rest of the senshi looked up and saw rain splattering off a
soft glow and dripping away to the side.
"This is really weird you guys." Usagi said. None of them
noticed the two dark figures detach from the shadows and walk up
behind them. Rei got a chill down her spine, followed by everyone else.
They all turned around slowly, expecting some evil youma
ready to ambush them. What they found was JSW looming over them,
a distant look as he stared at Makoto, and ATC smiling with his arms crossed.
"You know." ATC said. "The weather is not cooperative for
outside activities. Which leads me to believe that you got caught
in the rain. Not enough that it had to be so humid earlier."
He turned to Rei. "We meet again miss Hino."
"Um..." Rei began, confused. The rest of the Senshi
continued to play cautious.
"What's wrong with him?" Makoto finally spoke up. ATC
looked over at JSW, who was zoned out staring at Makoto.
"Him?" he said, and brought out his mallet. "He's a few
fighters short of a squadron, most likely because they got shot
down somewhere along the way." And then ATC 'WHAMED!' JSW with his mallet.
"Wake up JSW, now is not the time to lock up like an old computer."
"Itai... what?" JSW, snapped out of his trance,
looked at ATC. "Huh? Right."
"ANYWHO..." ATC returned his gaze to the Senshi. "You want some
cover at least to a bus stop?" He pointed up at his energy field.
"Having a standard energy field has its uses."
'Rei was right.' Usagi thought. 'These guys act as if it
doesn't matter if everyone knew they could do what they do.'
"Just how do you do that anyway?" Ami asked, her curiosity
getting the better of her.
"The same way I do this..." ATC turned to JSW,
who was once again out of it staring at Makoto. "Oblivion."
Hearing the spell, JSW snapped out of it just in time. "Ah crap."
"KABOOOM!!!!"
All five girls jumped in surprise as JSW was blown across the street.
"I, HATE BOOM." Came JSW's voice as a single finger
stood up out of the crater he made on impact.
"That doesn't really hurt him." ATC said. "He's been
hit with it so many times that it's more of a slap to the
wrist than any real pain." JSW, burnt and soaked,
walked back over to the group.
"What did you do that for?" He asked.
"For a while." ATC replied. "We'll talk later."
He turned back to the girls again. "Well? The bus stop
should be around the corner."
The girls looked at the torrential downpour coming down,
then up at the energy field ATC was controlling. Usagi was
quickest to agree. Enemy or not, they obviously weren't in the
mood for doing anything evil, why mess with a good thing?
So she decided to make good on this ATC's offer.
"Sure, thanks, we were getting soaked." Both ATC
and JSW caught the sharp looks the rest gave her.
JSW: *Taking one of said Sharp Looks through the hand...*
ARGH!!! THAT'S FREAKIN' SHARP!!!!
ATC: Baka Baka...
JSW: Well... IT IS!!!! AND IT HURT!!!!
"A lot."
ATC: You should know better than to catch sharp objects head
on, it works better from the side.
JSW: AND HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT???!
ATC: *Rubbing temples.* Common sense? Ugh... it's getting
to late in the chapter to argue like this... back to the fic!
JSW turned his back to the fic... and Author-JSW glared angrily.
JSW: O.o;;; What?! I'm doing as I'm told...
A-JSW: Get back in the fic. Before we drop the Luxor Hotel on you.
JSW: o.o;; YES SIR!
Makoto blinked at what just transpired, as they started
following ATC who was now walking at a relaxed pace.
"What was all that about?" ATC turned and they could tell
in the dim light that one eyebrow was lower showing that
he was squinting one eye and raising the eyebrow of the other.
"You're better off being clueless, it's a long insane
story, and half the stuff I say might result in painful objects
unwarrantingly crashing down upon our hapless heads." Makoto
took a step back and gave the two a weird look. At this point
the Senshi were past suspecting them of being evil, and just trying
to understand what crazy thing was going on that allowed
them to roam loose.
"He's wrong you know." JSW grouched as he stepped forward.
"It's usually MY head that has things dropping onto it."
"Ooooooo...kaayyyy...." Makoto replied, no longer
knowing what to say in reply. Nervous and impatient, Rei cut in.
"Weren't you going to escort us to the Bus stop dry?"
JSW looked around and spoke up.
"Actually, we're already here."
"What?"
"I started walking." ATC said. "You followed to stay dry.
Simple enough, you just didn't pay attention."
"Aren't the Author's grand?" JSW smiled.
"Authors?" Rei asked. "Like, for a book?" JSW grinned
that crazy 'I'm about to do something a bit rash' grin and
pulled out a stack of paper bound together with old gum. ATC's
calm demeanor broke all at once and he shoved the girls onboard
a Bus that conveniently pulled up at just that moment.
"For Kami's sake, LEAVE! His fics are LEATHAL at nine-hundred yards!"
The five girls, having yet to see him display ANY major emotion
up until now, took his word for it and quickly entered the bus.
It pulled away moments later.
"Now what'd you do that for?" JSW asked. "I'll have
you know my fics bring good money to the fic!"
ATC turned around and glared like death itself at JSW.
"The last time you read one out loud to a random person,
he had a heart attack."
"I'm sure he was sleeping!" JSW defended.
"The man had gone into cardiac arrest and had to be
defibrillated." ATC returned. "And after a medical check
he was confirmed to be in good health."
JSW stuck out his tongue. "The MSTers pay good money
for my work." ATC's eyebrow twitched.
"I don't believe getting paid by trained professionals
to insult and make fun of your work counts as a kind of
compliment." ATC growled.
A-ATC: We need to stop them.
A-JSW: Any ideas?
A-ATC: Well, your creation suggested reading his
monstrosity to someone not prepared to handle it,
I'd say that's basis for a decent SMITE.
A-JSW: Indeed, you're making sense.
Out of seemingly nowhere, JSW was smothered in the impact
of an acoustic grand piano falling from the sky. After the
subsequent smash, which included a nice B flat, JSW moaned
in pain and pulled himself out from under it.
A-ATC: Get on with the fic you two. We're running a little
long in this chapter, so I want it finished soon.
Turning on his heal, ATC started walking away into
the rainy nightfall. JSW joined him a moment later.
After getting home, Usagi related the day's events to
Luna starting from the outburst in the Arcade when Luna was there.
It included ATC and JSW's fast escape from the park, what happened
at Rei's shrine, the youma attack and subsequent youma slaughter
from ATC and JSW again, without injury, and finally, the rainy park incident.
Luna's brow, assuming she had one, furrowed on contemplation.
"I knew I felt a strange energy in the Arcade, strongly
from the smaller guy, this... ATC. So they just appear from nowhere,
have the power to easily beat a dark kingdom general, and are
friendly but slightly confusing to be around?" Luna stood up and
paced the small room. "I don't like it one bit, if they're
enemies, and are as strong as they seem, they could have easily
killed you five." She then leapt on the bed and sat down on
Usagi's pillow. "But then you say they were around you guys
when you weren't transformed, were friendly, AND used their
abilities like it wouldn't really matter..." Luna's tail started
twitching violently in agitation, a common habit among
even normal cats, the tail flailed about like a soft furry whip.
Usagi went about her bedtime routine quickly slipping into
her bunny pajamas.
"We'll figure it out Luna... but now I need to sleep."
"I suppose you're right." Luna yawned cattishly. "I
would have at least liked to know more about these new people
though. Good or bad."
Usagi was just about to slip under the covers when she
remembered something.
"Hey Luna, I found something after that fight..."
"Really?" The cat perked up a bit hearing this news.
Usagi walked over to her dresser, and picked up something she had paid no attention to.
"I found this on the ground after that ATC guy attacked
Kunzite with his sword. It looks like some kind of little organizer or something."
Luna examined the small piece of material, it was for
the most part a flat rectangle with a screen on it and some controls.
"Only one way to find out." she said, and pressed a button.
The screen blinked to life and brought up a small display.
Luna studied it for a second and then pressed another button.
The screen blinked, and displayed some strange wedge
shaped object, then some statistics came up describing it.
The description was no less than immense, a mile long object
with massive equipment. Luna, had no idea that she had
just come across the schematics check of the GALAXIUS itself.
"What is it Luna?"
Luna, having a bit of technical background, studied it.
"It's a spaceship."
"A spaceship?"
"Wait no, not just a spaceship." Luna looked up,
wide eyed. "It's a battleship."
"A BATTLESHIP?"
A-JSW: Is there an echo in here?
A-ATC: SSSHHH!!!! Don't disturb the non avatars.
"I'm sure of it." Luna returned. "This schematic
shows the placement of this ship's weapons. According to the
sum of its weapons firepower, It can destroy a solar system in one shot."
Usagi looked at Luna stunned. "That thing can destroy
the solar system in one shot? I'm scared!"
Luna looked again and accessed the proper schematic.
"Looks like the weapon used is a last resort weapon,
I think we're safe." Usagi visibly relaxed.
Luna scanned through the data held and found something interesting.
"Oh my, according to this, this is an operations status
report on the ship's overall efficiency as of this date here, where this operation was performed."
"Meaning?" Usagi quipped.
"This is dated this morning... It already exists."
Usagi once again looked on the design in horror, they
both missed all the rest of the info on the ship, they were
too concerned with the weapons.
The door to Mamouru's apartment suddenly blew in.
In filed ATC and JSW, JSW was the first to speak.
"So, with Mamouru captured, we can use this place
as a place to stay for this season?" ATC refitted the
door quickly and sat down on the couch.
"Yes, I'm glad I remembered it. After explaining we were
friends looking for him, the apartment manager left us alone."
He sat on the couch next to JSW. "Pyro, Bob, Clawz, and Rex
should be here soon."
JSW gave ATC a skeptical look. "How do you know that?"
ATC pulled a stack of bound papers from his pocket.
"I read the script ahead of time."
A-JSW: Can he do that?
A-ATC: We never said he couldn't.
A-JSW: You have a point.
As if on cue, there was a knock.
"JSW, get that." ATC said. JSW got up and walked to
answer the door, when it was hit with the force of a small
truck and came flying in at him.
JSW: o.o!!! WHAAA!-
"CRUNCH!!!"
Bob stood where the door used to be, grinning his head
off with his fist extended from his version of 'knocking', The
rest of the group were standing next to him sweatdropping profusely.
"A little too much knock when you knocked Bob." ATC said.
"You just dropped the door on JSW."
Bob leaned down and lifted the door off JSW, and proceeded
to hurl it out the balcony window, where it soared several stories
to the ground. JSW stared at Bob's action.
"I'm not paying for that."
ATC shook his head and sat scooted over on the couch. "We're
gonna need another door. Bob?"
"HAI ADMIRAL-SAMA!!!!!!!!" Bob shouted, rattling the ceiling
fan of the people a floor below them. He then exited the apartment.
Moments later there was a loud crash, some screaming, and Bob returned
with a new door and fitted it where he smashed the old one.
"I'm not going to ask." JSW said. ATC concurred. "Me neither."
ATC sat back and put his hand to his chin as he started
thinking in overdrive.
"We need to figure out how to get back to our ships, they're
out of short range com and transporter range."
JSW started emptying his pockets in his coat.
"Well, we could wait it out until they send in a search team,
or construct a booster for our com system based on taking over
the Tokyo Tower." ATC frowned.
"The Tokyo Tower is just about the center of the anime universe,
we take it over, and we'll have the Senshi all over us trying to kill us."
JSW frowned and nodded in agreement, and continued emptying
his pockets. A PADD, picture of Makoto, the tube REX came in, why'd
he still have that? ...a soda can, the call signaler for the
Jupiter Mirage, the call signaler for the other Jupiter Mirage,
another picture of Makoto-wait a sec, back up.
"WE'RE SAVED!!!" JSW shouted, nearly as loud as Bob could shout.
"I totally forgot I have TWO Jupiter Mirages, just in case
something like this happened."
"Bravo for finally remembering." ATC sarcastically replied.
"It only took you... what? Six hours to remember?"
"Well, YOU don't have any little transport vessels, not
last time I checked." JSW replied.
"I don't need them, I can shadow walk, remember?" ATC smiled.
"What? We could have skipped the whole transport down here
had you simply told us you can do that."
"You never asked."
"Why should I ask??!! I didn't know about it."
"Yes you do, I used it in chapter two to escape the youma
army while you simply panicked." JSW facevaulted.
"Fine, fine." JSW said recovering, and then called the ship.
Twenty minutes later, they left with all on board the
Jupiter Mirage from the roof of the apartment complex on a course
for their ships. Just after exiting the earth's atmosphere,
ATC remembered a report he was going to go over and stuck his
hand in his pocket... he didn't find the PADD he was looking for.
"Hey JSW, have you seen my PADD anywhere?" He asked.
"I saw it fall out of your pocket during the fight." JSW
replied as he flew, didn't you pick it up?
"No." ATC said. "I never noticed it was missing until now."
The implications of the damage the data on that PADD could
do hit them both at the same time, full force.
"AAAAHHHH CRAP!!!!!!!"
Pluto returned to her apartment, they were too close
to the other Senshi all day, she'd have to wait until she could
get at them, alone. She saw them return to their ship VIA the
little cloaked shuttle, tomorrow was another day. And tomorrow
would be sunny. She quickly changed into her nighty and went
to bed. One needs to be well rested to catch these two.
END CHAPTER THREE...
ATC: Phew! Longest one yet, but done with decent speed.
JSW: Man, I thought my jumbling of the smite controls
would have saved my ass.
A-ATC: SO HE ADMITS IT!
A-JSW: I THOUGHT SO!!!!
JSW: o.o;;; Help!
*JSW is smashed by an asteroid, shortly before Bruce Willis,
and several psychos come and blow it up.*
JSW: X_x Itai...
DISCLAIMER: We don't own the Senshi, and even if these
disclaimers are useless against the copyright restrictions,
we're not worth your effort suing, even if you want to
prove a point. So don't bother, you'd just lose money
on the trial, since we can't afford dittily anyway.
