Hello to all my dear, dear readers!!! I'm back again with this chapter, The
Plan, and it's actually less than 3,000 words, so long as you don't include
the author's notes! ;
Thank you so, SO, SOOOO much for reviewing! I can't tell you how much it means, and how happy it makes me!!! And I am up to 66 already! I am soooo psyched. But anyway, before I scare you.I am so sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out! Well, actually, not as long as last chapter, but I have still not been holding steady to my vows in chapter 2. Once a week.I think I bit off a little more than I can chew. I feel bad.but I think I'm abandoning those deadlines for me. My schedule is so fickle sometimes, especially with mad geometry teachers and even wackier history teachers. I mean, I gave my teacher the nickname of Curly Blond Afro Dude, he's so wack! And let me tell you does it ever look misplaced!!!!! It's really quite funny when you first see him!!
Also.I am so sorry if these chapters are riddled with grammar and spelling errors. I am too damn lazy to go back and revise, and I feel bad. Just looking at a random paragraph from chapter two, I noticed some heinous spelling errors that made me myself want to cringe. I, as much as anyone else, do not like badly written stories, so I am so sorry if it's painful or hard to read. It would be nice if you would just skip over the mistakes for now, and if it is a mangled word, replace it with what you know it should be. Thanks so much again. I suppose I'll eventually revise it.put my conscious to rest.
Well..okay.here's the chapter.. Oh, and I don't own Sailor Moon! That's right, I don't own SM! Surprise, surprise.
Getting With the Times
By Silver Indigo Sky
Rating: PG/PG-13
Chapter 4- The Plan
Mizuno Ami, Hino Rei, Kino Makoto, Aino Minako, Chiba Mamoru, Chibi-usa, Diana, Luna, Artemis, and the welcomed guest Meiou Setsuna all sat around together in a cozy circle on the bare wood floor of the Cherry Hill Temple, the usual meeting place for any and all sailor-related problems. And birthday parties too.
Setsuna sat on the ground with her legs kneeled looking very amused at the whole situation. "Out of the many, many years I have had my job as guardian of the time gate, I have never, ever seen anything like this happen," she said. Her red eyes glinted with amusement. She turned to Chibi-usa. "Explain to me again how you actually managed to send Usagi-chan into the vast time portal, without keeping physical contact with her to create an even flow of power between you two."
Chibi-usa looked glumly at the floor. "I told you, I don't know," she mumbled quietly. "It just happened. I never meant it to happen like that, but it did. I meant to go to the past, just me, to lose Usagi, because she had been chasing me and stuff, you know? We were playing a game, kind of. So I took out my time key like I usually did when I wanted to access the portal, began releasing its power, and I don't know what happened next. I was having a good time, laughing, and all of a sudden it got really bright and it like exploded! And it scared me! I got flown into the past, I know it. I mean, there were these forests, and...and...these ugly looking green things that towered up to the sky! They made these scary sounds! They were so icky! And monstrous! I was so scared that without even realizing it, I ran for like a hundred miles!" Ami giggled silently at that last comment. Not in a rude way, but hearing little kids say such ludicrous things always made her giggle to herself.. Chibi-usa continued unknowingly. "And then I held out my time key and with all the energy I could muster sent me right back here! It was hard, actually, and when I went back it was sorta just as bright as it was coming here, without the whole explosion thing." Chibi-usa took in a huge breath after her fiery explanation. "But I still don't know what those scary huge things were! Not youma in a different time period, right?" With that, everyone in the group exchanged worried glances with each other. The last thing they wanted was to have a whole new enemy to deal with.
Minako laughed nervously, wanting to face having no boyfriend for the next five years rather than battling with new creatons. Especially if they were from a different time period! But hadn't Usagi triumphed over chaos not too long ago? "Geeze...isn't that improbable though? Maybe it was...like...I don't know...a dinosaur?" Minako mused.
"YES!" Ami shrieked, suddenly very excited. "A dinosaur! It must be! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Chibi-usa, tell me what it was like! CHIBI-USA, OH oh OH oh OH oh O-oomph!" Rei had firmly placed her hand over Ami's mouth.
"Ami, shut it," she bluntly stated. "We have no interest in dinosaurs, if that is what Chibi-usa saw. We should be concentrated on how Chibi-usa managed to fling herself into Jurassic Park, and where Usagi is. I just hope she isn't buzzard food by now." Rei's face held a ghastly gloom over it, but Ami didn't seem to notice, for she slapped Rei's hand away and continued right on.
"But this could be a major breakthrough in science! Just picture it for a second: finally some unquestionable, solid information on the extinct species! We could be known world-over in science! We could uncover so much information on the history of earth!" Ami began jumping up and down in her frenzied state. The others sweatdropped.
"Umm...Ami?" Minako began hesitantly. Ami looked up. "What if we don't really want to be famous in science?"
"Not want to be famous in science?! Are you insane?!" Minako gave Ami a sheepish look.
"I want to be a famous chef," Makoto cut in. Her brown eyes were glassy, and her fists were balled under her chin. She sighed contentedly.
"Yeah, well I want to be a priestess someday, but you don't see me obsessing about it!" Rei retorted sharply, her anger rising.
"Actually, Rei, you do. Like, for instance, yesterday, when you were explaining to all of us about your charms for luck. You kept on telling us how they worked and other boring stuff like that, and you always kept on coming back to the point of only you knowing it, 'cause it's special knowledge strictly for priestesses," Minako pointed out. Rei was seething, and her temper quickly got the better of her.
"Well at least I'm not some slut, always walking around in some skimpy little outfit flirting with the boys. You, on the other hand, are a horrid, horrible seductress. Oh, you know you are! You know it!" the violet-eyed girl hissed dangerously, while stealthily closing up the distance between her and Minako, giving her an icy look. Minako wasn't about to give up, though. She would not tolerate being called such things.
She jumped to her feet in a swift move, shooting Rei an equally threatening look. However, hers quickly transformed into a smirk. "Oh, Rei, Rei, Rei....," she sighed. "If only you knew the kind of things I saw you doing with Yuuichirou!" Minako then turned away from Rei and sauntered over to her backpack, drawing out of it a small white envelope. She slyly opened it up and gave the contents a quick glance over. She turned back around to face Rei and the others, looking all very inquisitive. All except for Chibi- usa, anyway, who was too busy fuming silently at Setsuna's feeble attempts to catch one of her thick pink ponytails to take her away into the next room.
"Look, Chibi-usa," Setsuna calmly rationalized. "You shouldn't be here. This is inappropriate!" Chibi-usa just dodged another one of Setsuna's lunges, taking a few seconds afterwards to gloat over her cunning ways, during which Setsuna made grabbed the little girl's collar successfully, dragging her out into another part of the temple, completely unnoticed by the others in the room.
Minako began to forcefully wave the white envelope high, all the while ambling on over to Rei. When the blond girl got close enough to her, she shoved the envelope in her baffled face.
"You see this," Minako began in an ominous whisper. "This is a whole entire stack of pictures, all of you and Yuuichirou doing the.achem...dirty.... So if you don't mind...." Rei looked up into Minako's sinister face with a horrified, disbelieving expression pasted on.
"You...no...you...how could you?" she stuttered. The other girls in the room were all crowded around them waiting to see what would happen. Or, rather, waiting to get a hand on those pictures in the envelope. Minako giggled a bit, beginning to wave the envelope a bit again. Rei gained her composure, though, and quickly snatched the envelope out of Minako's hand, gloating at her triumph. That wicked blond wouldn't ruin her pride and reputation this time. But the odd thing was, Minako was still giggling, laughing in fact. Rei could only give the girl a questioning glance, grasping onto the envelope protectively that could easily break her dignity. Setsuna came back into the room to catch the last part of it.
"Oh, Kami-sama," she breathed. Even so, she decided not to intervene. These confrontations were usually quite amusing, actually, and she needed her humor for the day.
Minako fell onto the floor in a fit of hysteria. Rei quizzically looked from Minako to the envelope, and back to Minako again, who began to speak.
"Those.those.," she laughed a little bit more, in a pained position on the floor, doubled over and clutching her stomach. She took a deep breath and began again. "Those...are...," she giggled a bit, "they're just...," she followed with a chuckle, "pictures of...," and she ended whatever thought she could manage to get out in hysterical laughter.
Rei looked down on the now crumpled envelope in her hand. With one last look at Minako, she began to open it hesitantly, not quite sure she wanted to see its contents, whether of her or not. The minute her deep purple eye's focused in on the photos that were contained in the envelope, her stricken expression was positively priceless. In a second, her expression became an even better one of pure fury. You could almost see the flames shooting out of her eyes and ears.
"LUNA AND ARTEMIS!" she roared. "THEY'RE GODDAMNED PICTURES OF LUNA AND ARTEMIS!" Rei shook out the pictures from the packet so that they all fell to the floor. "ALL OF THEM, LUNA AND ARTEMIS!" she screeched, pointing to the piles and piles of pictures of the two lovey-dovey cats. She shot a dangerous glance at Minako. "ARE YOU SICK OR SOMETHING?" Minako was floundering on the ground in uncontrollable waves of laughter; Rei was pounding on the ground, kicking at the pictures, in uncontrollable waves of pure rage. Ami, Lita, and Setsuna had crowded around the piles of pictures now flung around the room, in grave disappointment, trying to communicate to either one of the two inattentive girls. One could say that the place was in utter chaos, and it would still be an understatement. Luna and Artemis had managed to escape outside from an open window realizing that they did not want to die at the hand of a flying pillow, or mirror, or whatever other object Rei might get her hands on.
In fact, the only one who wasn't caught up in the whole incident was good old Mamo-chan, the always composed one he is. But one could say he was just a little bit ticked off by the whole thing, and by the way the girls got so easily distracted. Here he was; his girlfriend, his one and only love, and the future queen of earth, gone! Nobody had any inkling as to how she was doing, where she was, or even what time period she was in! He didn't want his future wife's life to get endangered by dinosaurs! He hardly saw how pictures of Yuuichirou...or Luna and Artemis...or whatever the hell they were to his wonderful blond angel! They didn't--at all! So even if the girls were going to waste precious time over such insignificant things, he was not going to! And with that in mind, he jumped up from his place on the floor where he had remained the whole time, and walked over to the door of the temple. He had opened it when he turned back around to the oblivious girls, and over his shoulder shouted, "Fine, maybe you don't want to help Usako out. Maybe you don't want to straighten this situation out. Hell, maybe you even wanted to instigate it! I don't know! But what I do know is that all of you are being absolutely immature. For such a dangerous predicament, you sure aren't taking it to heart. This could mean the future of the earth as we know it! By the way you are so unable to keep your thoughts in track, one would think you were goldfish! Even if you're not helping--don't want to help--I know I will help Usako. I'll save her alone, if I have to! I'll die for her even!" And with that, Mamoru stormed out of the room. Each and every one of the girls were startled, and very shaken up by his unnerving and powerful words.
"Oh no...what have we done!" Ami brooded. Rei, Minako, and Lita, on the other hand, reacted quickly, running right out of the door in an attempt to catch up with him, screaming "Mamoru-san!" all the way.
"What has just happened? I have a very bad feeling about this." Ami said gloomily to the only other occupant left, Setsuna." Setsuna gave her a slight smile.
"Don't worry," she replied. "I have a plan. One I think will work very, very well."
Ami looked up at her. "Really?"
"Yeah. I was forming it earlier. Working it all out. It's pretty simple and I believe it will work perfectly. I guess I should have told you guys sooner, but I got caught up in how this whole thing happened to begin with." Ami just stared blankly at her, waiting for an explanation. "And, you know, I have some great news!" Setsuna said, with a proud smile on her face."
"What's that? You already know where Usagi-chan is?"
"Well, no, but good all the same. It's about Chibi-usa. Her power's growing. I'm very pleased of her!"
"What do you mean?" Ami asked.
"The whole thing, I know how it happened; how Usagi got sent back in time with Chibi-usa, and how Chibi-usa went back so far. It's that her power is growing; she's getting stronger. She is developing, maturing, becoming the lady she always dreamed of being! It all makes sense! Her huge power bursts are crystal clear right now. As she gets extremely happy or sad, her strong emotions feed her growing, needy powers, making her incomprehensibly strong!"
"Wow," Ami said simply. Then she smiled. "That's great! She's finally growing up!" Setsuna nodded.
"Yes, I suppose all that training taught her well! I'm so proud! I'm sure her mom's so proud at how strong she is becoming." Her eyes became glazed over, looking out the window into the vast distance of the blue sky. "I suppose she won't want us calling her "Small Lady" for much longer...." Setsuna stood there for a while, still and quiet.
Ami tapped her on the shoulder after a bit, awakening her from her deep thoughts. "So...," Ami began, "what's the plan to get Usagi-chan back anyway?"
"Ooh! Of course!" Setsuna declared. "Anyway, what I was planning was to take Rei-chan, Minako-chan, and Mamoru-san back with me into the time portal. I'm really sorry, Ami-chan, that I can't take you, but I hope you won't mind. See I figured taking all five of you would be too much, so I had to leave you and Makoto-chan here. That way I only need enough power to take three people through the gates of time with me."
Ami nodded in understanding, but still had a question. "Why those three?"
"Well...Mamoru-san naturally because he is the one whose soul mate is Usagi- chan. He could use his love and his connection to her to find her no matter where he is. Through the expansive love he holds for her alone, he could detect her. Then I'm taking Minako-chan because she is the Sailor of Love. If Mamoru-san can't readily find her, then Minako-chan can use her powers to find where Usagi's love energy is coming from and connect it Mamoru's and pull them together from there. Do you follow?" Ami nodded. "So Minako- chan would be used sort of as a back-up, or to help guide Mamoru to Usagi. And then as for Rei-chan.well it never hurts to have a priestess with an uncanny ability of knowing what people are thinking, where their hearts are going, and also being able to read signs from things like eyes and palms and etc." Ami laughed.
"No, I guess it doesn't."
"Yes. And then I would take those three into the vast time portal with me, let them use their powers in what ever way they wish to locate where Usagi- chan would be, and then I would lead the way and set them in that point in time, and let them get her back through whatever way possible, and that, I'll tell you, should be easy."
"Yes," Ami agreed. "That plan is good indeed. Simple, yet brilliant. Completely feasible. No quirks I can tell whatsoever."
"No, actually, there is one quirk in it; one major flaw," Setsuna disagreed.
"What? Where?"
"Well, Rei-chan and Minako-chan, of course! After today, I might have to hog-tie them down to get them to cooperate together!"
"I see your point!" Ami laughed. "But don't worry. Knowing how Mamoru-san is feeling right now, I think they better cooperate, just so that they could live another day without the fear of Mamoru tearing them limb from limb." They both chuckled.
Sure, Makoto, Rei, Minako, and Mamoru were probably out there brawling due to the tense situation as they lightly laughed After all, their minds were still in a dark pit with no hope of ever seeing Usagi again-the leader and mediator of the group, who could probably be termed as a type of glue for the group. But Ami and Setsuna saw light in the situation: they had a plan. However, as they were to be proved, scheming and doing are two totally different things.
This chapter is actually pretty weird, all things considered. But hey, I had to throw in some sort of quirk in how the girls are going to work together when retrieving poor lost Usagi. But I do feel bad for not picking up with the cliffhanger from the previous chapter. I am sooo sorry!!!!!!!!!! Please don't kill me! I promise I'll pick up with it in chapter 5! And just think, a whole chapter with nothing but Usagi and Usagi and Mamoru and major hilarious confusion! This will be good.. So I will see you around for the next one. In the meantime, please review! Please! The more reviews, the more motivated I am, and the sooner the next chapter will be out!
Silver Indigo Sky
Thank you so, SO, SOOOO much for reviewing! I can't tell you how much it means, and how happy it makes me!!! And I am up to 66 already! I am soooo psyched. But anyway, before I scare you.I am so sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out! Well, actually, not as long as last chapter, but I have still not been holding steady to my vows in chapter 2. Once a week.I think I bit off a little more than I can chew. I feel bad.but I think I'm abandoning those deadlines for me. My schedule is so fickle sometimes, especially with mad geometry teachers and even wackier history teachers. I mean, I gave my teacher the nickname of Curly Blond Afro Dude, he's so wack! And let me tell you does it ever look misplaced!!!!! It's really quite funny when you first see him!!
Also.I am so sorry if these chapters are riddled with grammar and spelling errors. I am too damn lazy to go back and revise, and I feel bad. Just looking at a random paragraph from chapter two, I noticed some heinous spelling errors that made me myself want to cringe. I, as much as anyone else, do not like badly written stories, so I am so sorry if it's painful or hard to read. It would be nice if you would just skip over the mistakes for now, and if it is a mangled word, replace it with what you know it should be. Thanks so much again. I suppose I'll eventually revise it.put my conscious to rest.
Well..okay.here's the chapter.. Oh, and I don't own Sailor Moon! That's right, I don't own SM! Surprise, surprise.
Getting With the Times
By Silver Indigo Sky
Rating: PG/PG-13
Chapter 4- The Plan
Mizuno Ami, Hino Rei, Kino Makoto, Aino Minako, Chiba Mamoru, Chibi-usa, Diana, Luna, Artemis, and the welcomed guest Meiou Setsuna all sat around together in a cozy circle on the bare wood floor of the Cherry Hill Temple, the usual meeting place for any and all sailor-related problems. And birthday parties too.
Setsuna sat on the ground with her legs kneeled looking very amused at the whole situation. "Out of the many, many years I have had my job as guardian of the time gate, I have never, ever seen anything like this happen," she said. Her red eyes glinted with amusement. She turned to Chibi-usa. "Explain to me again how you actually managed to send Usagi-chan into the vast time portal, without keeping physical contact with her to create an even flow of power between you two."
Chibi-usa looked glumly at the floor. "I told you, I don't know," she mumbled quietly. "It just happened. I never meant it to happen like that, but it did. I meant to go to the past, just me, to lose Usagi, because she had been chasing me and stuff, you know? We were playing a game, kind of. So I took out my time key like I usually did when I wanted to access the portal, began releasing its power, and I don't know what happened next. I was having a good time, laughing, and all of a sudden it got really bright and it like exploded! And it scared me! I got flown into the past, I know it. I mean, there were these forests, and...and...these ugly looking green things that towered up to the sky! They made these scary sounds! They were so icky! And monstrous! I was so scared that without even realizing it, I ran for like a hundred miles!" Ami giggled silently at that last comment. Not in a rude way, but hearing little kids say such ludicrous things always made her giggle to herself.. Chibi-usa continued unknowingly. "And then I held out my time key and with all the energy I could muster sent me right back here! It was hard, actually, and when I went back it was sorta just as bright as it was coming here, without the whole explosion thing." Chibi-usa took in a huge breath after her fiery explanation. "But I still don't know what those scary huge things were! Not youma in a different time period, right?" With that, everyone in the group exchanged worried glances with each other. The last thing they wanted was to have a whole new enemy to deal with.
Minako laughed nervously, wanting to face having no boyfriend for the next five years rather than battling with new creatons. Especially if they were from a different time period! But hadn't Usagi triumphed over chaos not too long ago? "Geeze...isn't that improbable though? Maybe it was...like...I don't know...a dinosaur?" Minako mused.
"YES!" Ami shrieked, suddenly very excited. "A dinosaur! It must be! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Chibi-usa, tell me what it was like! CHIBI-USA, OH oh OH oh OH oh O-oomph!" Rei had firmly placed her hand over Ami's mouth.
"Ami, shut it," she bluntly stated. "We have no interest in dinosaurs, if that is what Chibi-usa saw. We should be concentrated on how Chibi-usa managed to fling herself into Jurassic Park, and where Usagi is. I just hope she isn't buzzard food by now." Rei's face held a ghastly gloom over it, but Ami didn't seem to notice, for she slapped Rei's hand away and continued right on.
"But this could be a major breakthrough in science! Just picture it for a second: finally some unquestionable, solid information on the extinct species! We could be known world-over in science! We could uncover so much information on the history of earth!" Ami began jumping up and down in her frenzied state. The others sweatdropped.
"Umm...Ami?" Minako began hesitantly. Ami looked up. "What if we don't really want to be famous in science?"
"Not want to be famous in science?! Are you insane?!" Minako gave Ami a sheepish look.
"I want to be a famous chef," Makoto cut in. Her brown eyes were glassy, and her fists were balled under her chin. She sighed contentedly.
"Yeah, well I want to be a priestess someday, but you don't see me obsessing about it!" Rei retorted sharply, her anger rising.
"Actually, Rei, you do. Like, for instance, yesterday, when you were explaining to all of us about your charms for luck. You kept on telling us how they worked and other boring stuff like that, and you always kept on coming back to the point of only you knowing it, 'cause it's special knowledge strictly for priestesses," Minako pointed out. Rei was seething, and her temper quickly got the better of her.
"Well at least I'm not some slut, always walking around in some skimpy little outfit flirting with the boys. You, on the other hand, are a horrid, horrible seductress. Oh, you know you are! You know it!" the violet-eyed girl hissed dangerously, while stealthily closing up the distance between her and Minako, giving her an icy look. Minako wasn't about to give up, though. She would not tolerate being called such things.
She jumped to her feet in a swift move, shooting Rei an equally threatening look. However, hers quickly transformed into a smirk. "Oh, Rei, Rei, Rei....," she sighed. "If only you knew the kind of things I saw you doing with Yuuichirou!" Minako then turned away from Rei and sauntered over to her backpack, drawing out of it a small white envelope. She slyly opened it up and gave the contents a quick glance over. She turned back around to face Rei and the others, looking all very inquisitive. All except for Chibi- usa, anyway, who was too busy fuming silently at Setsuna's feeble attempts to catch one of her thick pink ponytails to take her away into the next room.
"Look, Chibi-usa," Setsuna calmly rationalized. "You shouldn't be here. This is inappropriate!" Chibi-usa just dodged another one of Setsuna's lunges, taking a few seconds afterwards to gloat over her cunning ways, during which Setsuna made grabbed the little girl's collar successfully, dragging her out into another part of the temple, completely unnoticed by the others in the room.
Minako began to forcefully wave the white envelope high, all the while ambling on over to Rei. When the blond girl got close enough to her, she shoved the envelope in her baffled face.
"You see this," Minako began in an ominous whisper. "This is a whole entire stack of pictures, all of you and Yuuichirou doing the.achem...dirty.... So if you don't mind...." Rei looked up into Minako's sinister face with a horrified, disbelieving expression pasted on.
"You...no...you...how could you?" she stuttered. The other girls in the room were all crowded around them waiting to see what would happen. Or, rather, waiting to get a hand on those pictures in the envelope. Minako giggled a bit, beginning to wave the envelope a bit again. Rei gained her composure, though, and quickly snatched the envelope out of Minako's hand, gloating at her triumph. That wicked blond wouldn't ruin her pride and reputation this time. But the odd thing was, Minako was still giggling, laughing in fact. Rei could only give the girl a questioning glance, grasping onto the envelope protectively that could easily break her dignity. Setsuna came back into the room to catch the last part of it.
"Oh, Kami-sama," she breathed. Even so, she decided not to intervene. These confrontations were usually quite amusing, actually, and she needed her humor for the day.
Minako fell onto the floor in a fit of hysteria. Rei quizzically looked from Minako to the envelope, and back to Minako again, who began to speak.
"Those.those.," she laughed a little bit more, in a pained position on the floor, doubled over and clutching her stomach. She took a deep breath and began again. "Those...are...," she giggled a bit, "they're just...," she followed with a chuckle, "pictures of...," and she ended whatever thought she could manage to get out in hysterical laughter.
Rei looked down on the now crumpled envelope in her hand. With one last look at Minako, she began to open it hesitantly, not quite sure she wanted to see its contents, whether of her or not. The minute her deep purple eye's focused in on the photos that were contained in the envelope, her stricken expression was positively priceless. In a second, her expression became an even better one of pure fury. You could almost see the flames shooting out of her eyes and ears.
"LUNA AND ARTEMIS!" she roared. "THEY'RE GODDAMNED PICTURES OF LUNA AND ARTEMIS!" Rei shook out the pictures from the packet so that they all fell to the floor. "ALL OF THEM, LUNA AND ARTEMIS!" she screeched, pointing to the piles and piles of pictures of the two lovey-dovey cats. She shot a dangerous glance at Minako. "ARE YOU SICK OR SOMETHING?" Minako was floundering on the ground in uncontrollable waves of laughter; Rei was pounding on the ground, kicking at the pictures, in uncontrollable waves of pure rage. Ami, Lita, and Setsuna had crowded around the piles of pictures now flung around the room, in grave disappointment, trying to communicate to either one of the two inattentive girls. One could say that the place was in utter chaos, and it would still be an understatement. Luna and Artemis had managed to escape outside from an open window realizing that they did not want to die at the hand of a flying pillow, or mirror, or whatever other object Rei might get her hands on.
In fact, the only one who wasn't caught up in the whole incident was good old Mamo-chan, the always composed one he is. But one could say he was just a little bit ticked off by the whole thing, and by the way the girls got so easily distracted. Here he was; his girlfriend, his one and only love, and the future queen of earth, gone! Nobody had any inkling as to how she was doing, where she was, or even what time period she was in! He didn't want his future wife's life to get endangered by dinosaurs! He hardly saw how pictures of Yuuichirou...or Luna and Artemis...or whatever the hell they were to his wonderful blond angel! They didn't--at all! So even if the girls were going to waste precious time over such insignificant things, he was not going to! And with that in mind, he jumped up from his place on the floor where he had remained the whole time, and walked over to the door of the temple. He had opened it when he turned back around to the oblivious girls, and over his shoulder shouted, "Fine, maybe you don't want to help Usako out. Maybe you don't want to straighten this situation out. Hell, maybe you even wanted to instigate it! I don't know! But what I do know is that all of you are being absolutely immature. For such a dangerous predicament, you sure aren't taking it to heart. This could mean the future of the earth as we know it! By the way you are so unable to keep your thoughts in track, one would think you were goldfish! Even if you're not helping--don't want to help--I know I will help Usako. I'll save her alone, if I have to! I'll die for her even!" And with that, Mamoru stormed out of the room. Each and every one of the girls were startled, and very shaken up by his unnerving and powerful words.
"Oh no...what have we done!" Ami brooded. Rei, Minako, and Lita, on the other hand, reacted quickly, running right out of the door in an attempt to catch up with him, screaming "Mamoru-san!" all the way.
"What has just happened? I have a very bad feeling about this." Ami said gloomily to the only other occupant left, Setsuna." Setsuna gave her a slight smile.
"Don't worry," she replied. "I have a plan. One I think will work very, very well."
Ami looked up at her. "Really?"
"Yeah. I was forming it earlier. Working it all out. It's pretty simple and I believe it will work perfectly. I guess I should have told you guys sooner, but I got caught up in how this whole thing happened to begin with." Ami just stared blankly at her, waiting for an explanation. "And, you know, I have some great news!" Setsuna said, with a proud smile on her face."
"What's that? You already know where Usagi-chan is?"
"Well, no, but good all the same. It's about Chibi-usa. Her power's growing. I'm very pleased of her!"
"What do you mean?" Ami asked.
"The whole thing, I know how it happened; how Usagi got sent back in time with Chibi-usa, and how Chibi-usa went back so far. It's that her power is growing; she's getting stronger. She is developing, maturing, becoming the lady she always dreamed of being! It all makes sense! Her huge power bursts are crystal clear right now. As she gets extremely happy or sad, her strong emotions feed her growing, needy powers, making her incomprehensibly strong!"
"Wow," Ami said simply. Then she smiled. "That's great! She's finally growing up!" Setsuna nodded.
"Yes, I suppose all that training taught her well! I'm so proud! I'm sure her mom's so proud at how strong she is becoming." Her eyes became glazed over, looking out the window into the vast distance of the blue sky. "I suppose she won't want us calling her "Small Lady" for much longer...." Setsuna stood there for a while, still and quiet.
Ami tapped her on the shoulder after a bit, awakening her from her deep thoughts. "So...," Ami began, "what's the plan to get Usagi-chan back anyway?"
"Ooh! Of course!" Setsuna declared. "Anyway, what I was planning was to take Rei-chan, Minako-chan, and Mamoru-san back with me into the time portal. I'm really sorry, Ami-chan, that I can't take you, but I hope you won't mind. See I figured taking all five of you would be too much, so I had to leave you and Makoto-chan here. That way I only need enough power to take three people through the gates of time with me."
Ami nodded in understanding, but still had a question. "Why those three?"
"Well...Mamoru-san naturally because he is the one whose soul mate is Usagi- chan. He could use his love and his connection to her to find her no matter where he is. Through the expansive love he holds for her alone, he could detect her. Then I'm taking Minako-chan because she is the Sailor of Love. If Mamoru-san can't readily find her, then Minako-chan can use her powers to find where Usagi's love energy is coming from and connect it Mamoru's and pull them together from there. Do you follow?" Ami nodded. "So Minako- chan would be used sort of as a back-up, or to help guide Mamoru to Usagi. And then as for Rei-chan.well it never hurts to have a priestess with an uncanny ability of knowing what people are thinking, where their hearts are going, and also being able to read signs from things like eyes and palms and etc." Ami laughed.
"No, I guess it doesn't."
"Yes. And then I would take those three into the vast time portal with me, let them use their powers in what ever way they wish to locate where Usagi- chan would be, and then I would lead the way and set them in that point in time, and let them get her back through whatever way possible, and that, I'll tell you, should be easy."
"Yes," Ami agreed. "That plan is good indeed. Simple, yet brilliant. Completely feasible. No quirks I can tell whatsoever."
"No, actually, there is one quirk in it; one major flaw," Setsuna disagreed.
"What? Where?"
"Well, Rei-chan and Minako-chan, of course! After today, I might have to hog-tie them down to get them to cooperate together!"
"I see your point!" Ami laughed. "But don't worry. Knowing how Mamoru-san is feeling right now, I think they better cooperate, just so that they could live another day without the fear of Mamoru tearing them limb from limb." They both chuckled.
Sure, Makoto, Rei, Minako, and Mamoru were probably out there brawling due to the tense situation as they lightly laughed After all, their minds were still in a dark pit with no hope of ever seeing Usagi again-the leader and mediator of the group, who could probably be termed as a type of glue for the group. But Ami and Setsuna saw light in the situation: they had a plan. However, as they were to be proved, scheming and doing are two totally different things.
This chapter is actually pretty weird, all things considered. But hey, I had to throw in some sort of quirk in how the girls are going to work together when retrieving poor lost Usagi. But I do feel bad for not picking up with the cliffhanger from the previous chapter. I am sooo sorry!!!!!!!!!! Please don't kill me! I promise I'll pick up with it in chapter 5! And just think, a whole chapter with nothing but Usagi and Usagi and Mamoru and major hilarious confusion! This will be good.. So I will see you around for the next one. In the meantime, please review! Please! The more reviews, the more motivated I am, and the sooner the next chapter will be out!
Silver Indigo Sky