Okay, I've edited this for the last time. Sorry ladies and gents, but I don't have Microsoft Word, so all my editing and formating comes out odd.
The Twins of Mercury
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Proluge: Project Synthetic
Queen Minerva II of Mercury, otherwise known as Ami, sat back in her chair, briefly massaging her wrists as tired, ocean blue eyes stared at the blinking cursor on the computer screen infront of her. Her mini data computer sat beside the keyboard, input-output cables linking it to the bigger computer. All the information she'd collected on enemies and other Senshi lay within that small computer with the blue casing, her Mercury sigil enscribed on the front in gold. Upon the larger computer screen, the data was visible, years of research and collecting, and she finally had all she needed to complete her mission.
Well, perhaps not everything just yet, she reasoned with herself as she looked sideways to a large blue crystal cluster just to her left. "Contact Queen Peresphone II of Saturn." The crystal cluster glowed a light purple, and then the face of Ami's childhood friend appeared within the rocky structure. "Ami-chan! Konnichi wa!" Hotaru greeted, her dark amethyst eyes lighting up. Ami had to smile warmly the Senshi she had fought alongside countless times. For reasons unknown to the public, she had always felt more at home with the Outer Senshi, than with the Inner.
"Konnichi wa, Hotaru-chan, did you find a soul for me yet?" Ami asked, her voice forever soft, yet it carried a vibration that rolled around inside you as if she was loud. "Hai, hai, I have one. It's on the next merchantile ship over to Mercury, I'm having it delivered." Hotaru winked to her as she spoke, and then curiousity bubbled up on her face, "Oy, what do you need it for anyways?" A silence drifted in, and Hotaru watched a transformation come over her dear friend's face.
The shy, demure eyes of the Mercury Queen became cold and secretive, her mouth drawn in a firm, straight line. "I'm afraid I can't tell you yet, you will find out with everyone else, Peresphone-sama, at the Court meeting next month." Hotaru nodded, her own features drawing tightly, "Hai, Minerva-sama, until then... Sayoonara."
The crystal's purple glow dimmed as Hotaru's image faded away, leaving one very alone Ami staring at a computer screen. She tilted her head back, eyes resting on the high domed ceiling as she whispered to herself, "Hotaru-chan... gomen nasai, but no one can know yet." Upon the screen, numbers and DNA structures sat waiting for her attention, and their completion.
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Ami ran a greased stained hand over her cheek, leaving a smudge of the black grease behind while she stared in contentment at the life pod before her. She had just finished getting the bugs out of the system, and was eager to try it out. One arm hung loosely by her side, her hand gripping a wrench. Sometimes, it was good to have some sort of new project, it made her feel young again. Like she was back on Terra, helping to fix that car, or working on a new chemistry formula. Back when she was still Mizuno Ami, and not Queen Minerva II of Mercury.
That was one thing, after one hundred years of ruling, she was still getting used to. The fact that the name Minerva was a title reserved for the ruling Queen of Mercury. Each planet had reserved titles, and it disgusted her to no end that she was considered a carbon copy of her Okaasan, the original Queen Minerva. Usagi had long ago married, the Senshi had seen to that, and become Queen of the Moon. Her title, and Wufei, her husband's title? Serenity II, and Orimus II. Didn't it seem the least bit degrading to have a number after your name? Ami wondered to herself quietly.
There was Hotaru, who was Peresphone II now, and her husband Hades II. Her own aunt, Athena, had married Aries, who was Rei's, or Athena II's, Otousan. The generations went on like that, each daughter or son taking on the parent with matching gender's name, and adding 1 to the number following it, with their spouse taking the opposing name. Minako had never married, like Ami, and so there was no need to scrounge up her Otousan's lost name, though Ami secretly thought it was Apollo or Cupid. Minako, herself, finally could say she was the Goddes of Love, seeing as her title was Queen Aphrodite II of Venus. Makoto was Queen Hera II of Jupiter, with no husband either. Infact, no one but Usagi had been able to get married out of the Inner Senshi.
Usagi was also a mother of two, the first one being the earlier troublemaker, Calamity, now know as Cality, and her second daughter being Serenity III, or Chibi-usa. It was an interesting circle, but thinking of children, Ami looked to the crate Hotaru had had delivered to her. Within that crate was a soul Hotaru had snagged from the rings surrounding her planet, the rings being made up of souls who had yet to be reborn. The note on the box, Ami had already read. The basic gist of it was that soul had been freshly gotten, and it had been so pure and white, that Hotaru knew it was perfect for Ami's needs.
She'd need a second one soon, but not until this worked, she had to know Project: Synthetic wouldn't be a failure before proceding with Project: Synthoid. Kicking a crowbar up into her hands, she started on the crate, peeling away the nails and being careful not to harm anything inside. Once those nails were out, she lifted up the wooden top and marveled down at the glowing container infront of her. "That ... liquid? ... must be the soul. Selene, it's beautiful." Ami whispered, grasping the metal container with both hands, she found it startlingly cool to the touch.
Carrying it to the life pod, which was, in truth, an artificial womb, she inserted the container head first into a hole, and slid the metal panel over it, sealing it in. Within the blue tinted glass surrounding the womb, she could see small bubbles of air in the thick liquid that would become a life support. Right now, one couldn't even see the genetically created fertilized egg, yet she knew it was there. A button was pushed hesitantly, and the lights of the life pod lit up, while a soft whirring sound started. It took her a moment, and then Ami looked down at the dials and switches infront of her, seeking out one particular one.
The dial was found, and twisted to the 'right' place, her grin of victory spreading. Above the dial were the words; Growth Speed, and the dial's arrow was now pointing to One Week. Ami placed her hand on the glass, fingers splayed as she watched Project: Synthetic begin to grow rapidly within the womb, the egg now very apparent. A small glance down told her she was seeing the baby at two months, and with a bit of disappointment, she noticed that the life didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl yet.
Oh drat, she'd have to wait and find out. Though, with only nine days left till that Council meeting, the one she planned to announce the baby at, she hoped to Selene it was a girl...
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Collective gasps spread through the Meeting Hall as Queen Minerva II of the 1st Planet, Mercury, of the Galaxy Tryna entered. Her pixie bob blue hair had small water pearls placed throughout it, her crown of hardened mercury and blue diamond striking with the gown she'd chosen. A bodice with pearls and sapphires sewn against the fabric, the skirt long and trailing behind her made of the deepest ocean blue colored silk. Her arms were bare and cradling what everyone was gasping about.
Two children with blue-black hair lay content, cradled in her protective grasp, as she walked along to the middle of the room where the tables all faced. Queen Serenity II rose from her chair, staring in amazement at the children, and finally the silence was shattered by one heavenly soft coo from the darker skinned of the two children. "Are they yours, Ami-chan?" Serenity II, no, Usagi asked, and Ami was immediately reminded of why these two babies were in existence.
"They are not mine. They are the first two synthetic Senshi."
Bursts of outrage spread from her once friends, perhaps allies, and even more likely, her new enemies. Words such as 'monstrousity', 'danger', and phrases like, "How could she?" "Why did she?" came about, swirling around the Mercurian Queen and upsetting the two infants into tears. Usagi became Serenity II again, gripping Orimus II's hand tightly, "Minerva-sama, why did you create these creatures, for what reason?" Ami stared right at her Queen, who was once her confidant, her best friend, and her Princess, back when the idea had first taken seed.
"You asked me to." She replied simply, watching shock register on the angelic face, followed by cries of accusation from the other Senshi/Queens and Knights/Kings. "Koneko would never ask you to create a monster!" Queen Uranus II shouted at her above the ruckus, and in response, Ami just smiled grimly and nodded, as if to say, 'Yes! Yes! She did!' "Quiet! Quiet!" King Orimus II shouted, lifting his hands for attention. When all was settled, Ami could feel the daggers of their eyes on her, the deadly silence carrying a weight that she had to fight to keep on her shoulders.
"When, if she ever did, did my wife ask you to do such a thing?" The King demanded of her, and Ami found herself amazed to see her once best friend seething with anger beside him, so much anger that she could not bring herself to speak. "When we were younger, I believe we were 17. She asked me to create a Senshi to fight, so that none of us would have to." Ami explained slowly, and realization dawned on four other faces. Yes, all the Inner Senshi should remember that moment, it was after one of their worst fights against youma.
Sailor Moon had turned to Sailor Mercury, and asked her to just make a Senshi to save the trouble, so she could sleep in, and be normal. They were so tired of fighting back then. It wasn't worth it, it had seemed.
"I was kidding..." Serenity II whispered, staring down at the ground in mild shock while Orimus II continued, frowning deeply, "Why did you take so long? It's been 2,000 years." Ami smiled coyly, canting her head, "I just completed collecting data last month, it also took two weeks for the last of the required materials to reach me, and one last week for the children to be born." Peresphone II looked away guiltily, she had supplied the soul that was the last of the required materials, this, she figured out. Athena II got to her feet in an angry fit of emotion, saying in a deadly low tone of voice, "Destroy them, we do not need war-machines in this time of peace."
"You would kill children?" Pluto II asked angrily, her husband placing a staying hand on her shoulder, wringing a quiet, "Sorry." Then her voice lifted again, "Why? They aren't machines, they're living breathing infants!" Cronus II sighed in defeat, shaking his head at his wife's words, and then agreeing, "From what I can see, those infants are newborns, less than.. would you say, a week, Minerva?" Ami nodded slowly, her arms growing heavy with the weight of the children, trembling with rage and fear.
Serenity II took one last look around her court as the room exploded into arguements again, and then she pointed a finger at Ami and the twin babies, her voice shattering the voices, stunning everyone into silence. "Get rid of them."
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Aura: Waahhhh! The babies are gonna die?!
Celeste: Now that's cruel.
Talin: Do your people truly kill children simply because of a parent's or creator's mistake?
Tenji: *Glowers.* Just wait till the next chapter, it gets better!! Until then, I dun own anything
besides the characters not owned by animes. Meaning: ?
Aura: *Jumps up and down.* I KNOW!!
Celeste: I know! I know! Pick me!
Talin: *Raises hand.*
Tenji: What's it mean, Talin?
Talin: *Smarty pants like.* It means you own only the new characters, hence, the made up ones.
Tenji: Rightio! *Throws candy to Talin.* Good Elven Muse!!
Aura: I knew that. *Sniffs, wants candy!*
Celeste: I thought the answer was... duck?
Tenji: ... .....
Talin: That means, ignore them and review.
The Twins of Mercury
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Proluge: Project Synthetic
Queen Minerva II of Mercury, otherwise known as Ami, sat back in her chair, briefly massaging her wrists as tired, ocean blue eyes stared at the blinking cursor on the computer screen infront of her. Her mini data computer sat beside the keyboard, input-output cables linking it to the bigger computer. All the information she'd collected on enemies and other Senshi lay within that small computer with the blue casing, her Mercury sigil enscribed on the front in gold. Upon the larger computer screen, the data was visible, years of research and collecting, and she finally had all she needed to complete her mission.
Well, perhaps not everything just yet, she reasoned with herself as she looked sideways to a large blue crystal cluster just to her left. "Contact Queen Peresphone II of Saturn." The crystal cluster glowed a light purple, and then the face of Ami's childhood friend appeared within the rocky structure. "Ami-chan! Konnichi wa!" Hotaru greeted, her dark amethyst eyes lighting up. Ami had to smile warmly the Senshi she had fought alongside countless times. For reasons unknown to the public, she had always felt more at home with the Outer Senshi, than with the Inner.
"Konnichi wa, Hotaru-chan, did you find a soul for me yet?" Ami asked, her voice forever soft, yet it carried a vibration that rolled around inside you as if she was loud. "Hai, hai, I have one. It's on the next merchantile ship over to Mercury, I'm having it delivered." Hotaru winked to her as she spoke, and then curiousity bubbled up on her face, "Oy, what do you need it for anyways?" A silence drifted in, and Hotaru watched a transformation come over her dear friend's face.
The shy, demure eyes of the Mercury Queen became cold and secretive, her mouth drawn in a firm, straight line. "I'm afraid I can't tell you yet, you will find out with everyone else, Peresphone-sama, at the Court meeting next month." Hotaru nodded, her own features drawing tightly, "Hai, Minerva-sama, until then... Sayoonara."
The crystal's purple glow dimmed as Hotaru's image faded away, leaving one very alone Ami staring at a computer screen. She tilted her head back, eyes resting on the high domed ceiling as she whispered to herself, "Hotaru-chan... gomen nasai, but no one can know yet." Upon the screen, numbers and DNA structures sat waiting for her attention, and their completion.
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Ami ran a greased stained hand over her cheek, leaving a smudge of the black grease behind while she stared in contentment at the life pod before her. She had just finished getting the bugs out of the system, and was eager to try it out. One arm hung loosely by her side, her hand gripping a wrench. Sometimes, it was good to have some sort of new project, it made her feel young again. Like she was back on Terra, helping to fix that car, or working on a new chemistry formula. Back when she was still Mizuno Ami, and not Queen Minerva II of Mercury.
That was one thing, after one hundred years of ruling, she was still getting used to. The fact that the name Minerva was a title reserved for the ruling Queen of Mercury. Each planet had reserved titles, and it disgusted her to no end that she was considered a carbon copy of her Okaasan, the original Queen Minerva. Usagi had long ago married, the Senshi had seen to that, and become Queen of the Moon. Her title, and Wufei, her husband's title? Serenity II, and Orimus II. Didn't it seem the least bit degrading to have a number after your name? Ami wondered to herself quietly.
There was Hotaru, who was Peresphone II now, and her husband Hades II. Her own aunt, Athena, had married Aries, who was Rei's, or Athena II's, Otousan. The generations went on like that, each daughter or son taking on the parent with matching gender's name, and adding 1 to the number following it, with their spouse taking the opposing name. Minako had never married, like Ami, and so there was no need to scrounge up her Otousan's lost name, though Ami secretly thought it was Apollo or Cupid. Minako, herself, finally could say she was the Goddes of Love, seeing as her title was Queen Aphrodite II of Venus. Makoto was Queen Hera II of Jupiter, with no husband either. Infact, no one but Usagi had been able to get married out of the Inner Senshi.
Usagi was also a mother of two, the first one being the earlier troublemaker, Calamity, now know as Cality, and her second daughter being Serenity III, or Chibi-usa. It was an interesting circle, but thinking of children, Ami looked to the crate Hotaru had had delivered to her. Within that crate was a soul Hotaru had snagged from the rings surrounding her planet, the rings being made up of souls who had yet to be reborn. The note on the box, Ami had already read. The basic gist of it was that soul had been freshly gotten, and it had been so pure and white, that Hotaru knew it was perfect for Ami's needs.
She'd need a second one soon, but not until this worked, she had to know Project: Synthetic wouldn't be a failure before proceding with Project: Synthoid. Kicking a crowbar up into her hands, she started on the crate, peeling away the nails and being careful not to harm anything inside. Once those nails were out, she lifted up the wooden top and marveled down at the glowing container infront of her. "That ... liquid? ... must be the soul. Selene, it's beautiful." Ami whispered, grasping the metal container with both hands, she found it startlingly cool to the touch.
Carrying it to the life pod, which was, in truth, an artificial womb, she inserted the container head first into a hole, and slid the metal panel over it, sealing it in. Within the blue tinted glass surrounding the womb, she could see small bubbles of air in the thick liquid that would become a life support. Right now, one couldn't even see the genetically created fertilized egg, yet she knew it was there. A button was pushed hesitantly, and the lights of the life pod lit up, while a soft whirring sound started. It took her a moment, and then Ami looked down at the dials and switches infront of her, seeking out one particular one.
The dial was found, and twisted to the 'right' place, her grin of victory spreading. Above the dial were the words; Growth Speed, and the dial's arrow was now pointing to One Week. Ami placed her hand on the glass, fingers splayed as she watched Project: Synthetic begin to grow rapidly within the womb, the egg now very apparent. A small glance down told her she was seeing the baby at two months, and with a bit of disappointment, she noticed that the life didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl yet.
Oh drat, she'd have to wait and find out. Though, with only nine days left till that Council meeting, the one she planned to announce the baby at, she hoped to Selene it was a girl...
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Collective gasps spread through the Meeting Hall as Queen Minerva II of the 1st Planet, Mercury, of the Galaxy Tryna entered. Her pixie bob blue hair had small water pearls placed throughout it, her crown of hardened mercury and blue diamond striking with the gown she'd chosen. A bodice with pearls and sapphires sewn against the fabric, the skirt long and trailing behind her made of the deepest ocean blue colored silk. Her arms were bare and cradling what everyone was gasping about.
Two children with blue-black hair lay content, cradled in her protective grasp, as she walked along to the middle of the room where the tables all faced. Queen Serenity II rose from her chair, staring in amazement at the children, and finally the silence was shattered by one heavenly soft coo from the darker skinned of the two children. "Are they yours, Ami-chan?" Serenity II, no, Usagi asked, and Ami was immediately reminded of why these two babies were in existence.
"They are not mine. They are the first two synthetic Senshi."
Bursts of outrage spread from her once friends, perhaps allies, and even more likely, her new enemies. Words such as 'monstrousity', 'danger', and phrases like, "How could she?" "Why did she?" came about, swirling around the Mercurian Queen and upsetting the two infants into tears. Usagi became Serenity II again, gripping Orimus II's hand tightly, "Minerva-sama, why did you create these creatures, for what reason?" Ami stared right at her Queen, who was once her confidant, her best friend, and her Princess, back when the idea had first taken seed.
"You asked me to." She replied simply, watching shock register on the angelic face, followed by cries of accusation from the other Senshi/Queens and Knights/Kings. "Koneko would never ask you to create a monster!" Queen Uranus II shouted at her above the ruckus, and in response, Ami just smiled grimly and nodded, as if to say, 'Yes! Yes! She did!' "Quiet! Quiet!" King Orimus II shouted, lifting his hands for attention. When all was settled, Ami could feel the daggers of their eyes on her, the deadly silence carrying a weight that she had to fight to keep on her shoulders.
"When, if she ever did, did my wife ask you to do such a thing?" The King demanded of her, and Ami found herself amazed to see her once best friend seething with anger beside him, so much anger that she could not bring herself to speak. "When we were younger, I believe we were 17. She asked me to create a Senshi to fight, so that none of us would have to." Ami explained slowly, and realization dawned on four other faces. Yes, all the Inner Senshi should remember that moment, it was after one of their worst fights against youma.
Sailor Moon had turned to Sailor Mercury, and asked her to just make a Senshi to save the trouble, so she could sleep in, and be normal. They were so tired of fighting back then. It wasn't worth it, it had seemed.
"I was kidding..." Serenity II whispered, staring down at the ground in mild shock while Orimus II continued, frowning deeply, "Why did you take so long? It's been 2,000 years." Ami smiled coyly, canting her head, "I just completed collecting data last month, it also took two weeks for the last of the required materials to reach me, and one last week for the children to be born." Peresphone II looked away guiltily, she had supplied the soul that was the last of the required materials, this, she figured out. Athena II got to her feet in an angry fit of emotion, saying in a deadly low tone of voice, "Destroy them, we do not need war-machines in this time of peace."
"You would kill children?" Pluto II asked angrily, her husband placing a staying hand on her shoulder, wringing a quiet, "Sorry." Then her voice lifted again, "Why? They aren't machines, they're living breathing infants!" Cronus II sighed in defeat, shaking his head at his wife's words, and then agreeing, "From what I can see, those infants are newborns, less than.. would you say, a week, Minerva?" Ami nodded slowly, her arms growing heavy with the weight of the children, trembling with rage and fear.
Serenity II took one last look around her court as the room exploded into arguements again, and then she pointed a finger at Ami and the twin babies, her voice shattering the voices, stunning everyone into silence. "Get rid of them."
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Aura: Waahhhh! The babies are gonna die?!
Celeste: Now that's cruel.
Talin: Do your people truly kill children simply because of a parent's or creator's mistake?
Tenji: *Glowers.* Just wait till the next chapter, it gets better!! Until then, I dun own anything
besides the characters not owned by animes. Meaning: ?
Aura: *Jumps up and down.* I KNOW!!
Celeste: I know! I know! Pick me!
Talin: *Raises hand.*
Tenji: What's it mean, Talin?
Talin: *Smarty pants like.* It means you own only the new characters, hence, the made up ones.
Tenji: Rightio! *Throws candy to Talin.* Good Elven Muse!!
Aura: I knew that. *Sniffs, wants candy!*
Celeste: I thought the answer was... duck?
Tenji: ... .....
Talin: That means, ignore them and review.