And Fade Out Chapter 01: Set Up
Book 01 of Angelus Aequus
By Moon Faery & Super Saiyan Alexin
Rating: R
Series: DBZ/GW/R½/TM!/CCS/SM/CB/Fake/FB/ST/GTO
Genre: Epic/Humor
Pairings: @.@ Don't Ask; Just Read. (This part: insert name herexMinako; MamoruxUsagi; HarukaxMichiru)
Spoilers: Plenty.
Warnings: Yaoi; Yuri; Het; AU; OOT; IT; OOC; OC; Shounen Ai; Shoujo Ai; Normal Ai; Lemon; Violence; Humor; Pervy-ness; Blood & Other Bodily Fluids; Under Age insert felony here; Mad Dragons AHOY!; Language
Archived: Moon Faery's Garden & The Kiss of Death
Disclaimer: A statement created solely to save one's ass from becoming lawn for the proverbial legal mower. We do not own SHIT! All materials are used without the permission of their various owners. However, this story line, original characters and plot are OURS. (Holds fic close.) Grrrr....
NOTE: The full, unedited version of the Arc as well as various notes on the story and characters can be found at either of the above websites. This version was edited for adult content so as to make it suitable for FF.N. Ugh. I wouldn't have done it, but it's really the only place available to both the authors where the story can recieve decent feedback.
So far, there have been no changes.
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"Will someone explain why we're here?" Ami asked plaintively, perching demurely on the monkey bars with her Mercury computer in her lap on her neatly pleated skirt. She knew that she should care that anyone who walked under her could see her panties, but she couldn't bring herself to. The only person who might be actively interested in them at the moment was Minako, and she was still trying to work her way though the employees of Nihon Nation Bank for a second time. Overhead the moon hovered somewhere between full and dark, half-obscured by heavy clouds that promised rain in the near future. The playground was quiet; not even the cicadas were chirping. The Senshi to a one were exhausted. They hadn't battled Galaxia more than a week ago, and sitting in the middle of a cold part at midnight wasn't helping matters.
Usagi shifted around uncomfortably, taking care to stay inside a little white-chalk box that had been drawn on the cement. She war wearing a thin set of pajama bottoms and a tank top with sneakers - clothing not very well suited for the chill Juuban night. "If I knew, I'd tell you Ami."
Minako and Makoto were sitting back to back in the sandbox, also wearing their nightclothes; Minako's being much skimpier than a person could usually get away with in public. She wasn't worried; most of the country had already seen more of her than the doctor did the day she was born. Makoto looked comfortable in her sweat suit.
"I'm going to kill Setsuna if this is all for nothing," Makoto swore, kicking a vaguely time-shaped pile of sand.
"Give her some credit," Minako said absently, watching the play of the moonlight on the grass. "She's never steered us wrong before."
"Not on accident, anyway," Rei snorted, watching the sky. She wished Phobos and Deimos were there, but she wasn't cruel enough to ask them to fly at night.
Underneath a dying cherry tree, Haruka yawned and hugged Michiru close. "Just trust her. Who knows why she does what she does?"
"She's right." Michiru was more than happy to lean back against her lover and share her warmth. Beside her, Hotaru let out a soft snore.
"What's that?"
Everyone looked at Rei, who was still staring upwards. "What's what?" Mamoru asked, craning his neck to follow Rei's line of vision. The other's heads snapped up when something let out a muffled boom.
"Does anyone else hear that?" Haruka asked, rubbing her ear.
"I think we all heard it," Makoto answered dryly, rubbing her own. "You can't miss thunder that loud."
"No," Sailor Uranus insisted, standing up carefully so as to not upset Michiru. "It's almost like a... a whistling noise. Like..." She let out a long, low falling whistle as an example.
Ami typed something out on her palmtop. "Now that you mention it, my computer is registering an unusual amount of electromagnetic energy."
Usagi's blue eyes rolled. She wasn't even bothering to look up. "It's probably just thunder or something," she insisted. "It's not like something's just going to fall out of the sky aAAAH!"
Something small, red and adorable dropped out of the sky, landing squarely on Usagi in the middle of her rant.
Thud
"Chibi?" The toddler pushed herself to her feet, poking Usagi on the forehead worriedly. "Chibi?"
The future queen of Crystal Tokyo groaned and blinked her swirling eyes. "What hit me?"
"A three year-old," Rei said matter of factly, picking the tiny redhead up and cuddling her.
"Oh, I thou- WHAT?! What the hell is she doing here?!" Usagi sat up, eyes blazing. "She's not supposed to-"
Thud
Usagi was slammed into by something larger, pink and screaming like a banshee. Chibi Usa cursed like a sailor as she climbed to her feet. "I'm going to kill that damned, mechaphile dragon if it's the last thing I do!"
"Usagi?" Mamoru ignored his future daughter in favor of slapping his girlfriend lightly on both cheeks. She didn't even twitch. "I think she was knocked out."
"Chibi Usa, what are you doing here?" Minako asked, studying the girl. "I thought you were back home."
"I don't know!" the pink one whined. "I was sleeping and then some giant dragon-thing appears in the sky and says something about payback for the pizza, and then I was here!"
Chibi Chibi nodded at the end of Chibi Usa's speech, agreeing with her entirely. "Chibi!" She drew and X in the air and then lifted her little blue skirt and pointed at her panties.
"I don't think I want to know what she just said," Haruka said wryly, rubbing the bridge of her nose. "I think it's safe to say that this was the reason we were all out here."
Just as the last word left her lips, a deep blue beam of moonlight shined through the clouds and struck Rei, who stiffened like a corpse and lifted a few feet of the ground. Her hair flew back as if a wind hit it, glowing blue-black in the eerie light.
"Why us?" Ami asked rhetorically, not even looking at her computer screen as she typed out the command for it to record everything that happened.
As suddenly as it happened, the light disappeared and the Priestess tumbled to the ground. "Gods that was weird."
"What was it?" Makoto asked curiously. "Another enemy?"
"Monkeys," the dark-haired Priestess answered sourly. "Giant monkeys... They were destroying Tokyo and..." She blushed. "Defiling the tower. I'm not sure, but I remember one of them being... One of us." She didn't bother looking at Minako. If one of them was going to turn into a giant ape and have sex in public, everyone knew who it would be.
Rei did her best to drive the disgusting thought out of her head. "There's more. We were chasing a great evil with..." Her brow wrinkled in thought. "A bag of some type. It held something infinitely precious and very embarassing."
Ami had turned a flaming red when Rei talked about the Tower. She just didn't want to think about it, or she might accidentally picture it, and she liked this dress too much to throw up on it. "Was there anything else?"
"No, just a vague sense of 'soon'."
"So giant monkeys are going to appear out of nowhere and screw on Tokyo Tower?" Minako summarized, fighting back giggles. "This is going to be fun!"
"You have a very sick sense of fun," Chibi Usa accused her.
No one argued.
***
Flames spewed out of the open Gate of Time. Setsuna stood calmly in the midst of them, not even taking the time to get burned. Her plan with the Senshi had gone off without a hitch, drastically changing the odds on the over-all events about to occur. She wished she could have made some money off of it, but Destiny wouldn't let her manipulate anything having to do with the betting windows, the dirty rotten being.
The flames continued to pour out of the Gate. She hadn't bothered to do this the last time, but since then the electronic feed had gone down and the Trio hadn't managed to get it fixed yet. It was time to do things the old fashioned way.
Raising the megaphone to her lips, she began to speak carefully, hoping that the denizens of Hell could make out her all-important message. "Place your final bets on the second event now. The windows will be closing in five minutes. I repeat, please place your bets..."
