Just forewarning Standard disclaimer. Sailor Moon is not mine, the idea and the show belong to people much richer than I. Please don't sue!
Dimmer however is mine.. of course if someone wants to use him or any of his transformations for ANY reason "thbbt" go ahead. You have my complete and total permission. I only request you tell me, mainly cause I'd like to read it… Hell, I don't care if you don't tell me, it's not like I could find you anyway.
Warning: mild language, also this is my first fic. Maybe some lime sometime in the far future, but I seriously doubt it. Violent scenes, no worse than most action movies, but they actually sound worse when described…
Mina was dressed in a black leather mini skirt and a top that was leaving very little to the imagination to what lie underneath. Her hair was tied into a pony tail and was tied again in several places as it trailed down her back. Every eye had turned to her as Chad had parked into the alley. One guy had the balls enough to actually start hitting on her, no others decided to try their luck after Chad had broken the guy's wirst.
Instead they laughed at their failed comrade as he screamed on the concrete. No one was stupid enough to mess with him. The Yuuichirou family was not one to cross. Not that anyone would try anyway. Chad's alter ego had been making a bit of a name for himself out on the street to the worst of those out there. Known assassins that had crossed his family, or those who would dare sell their merchandise to kids were disappearing quickly.
For awhile he'd lived on the streets. It was when he'd found out about his family business. It was also when he had first been invited into the temple. He no doubt had a crush on Rei at the first sight of her, but he never had the guts enough to do anything about it. He wasn't a fool either. He was pretty sure he lost what little chance he had. He seen many times the look Rei often sketched on her face at the mere mention of Dimmer's name, it was often one of worry, or one of thoughtfulness.
Chad also knew Dimmer. He knew he could tell Rei had feelings towards him. He never seemed to miss anything. He had the chance Chad always dreamed of, but he never took it. Chad knew Dimmer had similar feelings towards Rei. What he couldn't figure out why he wouldn't express them. He never seemed to have that problem before his memory returned. Something had changed about him, it didn't seem like much now, but there was hurt there, where there wasn't any before. Each smile he made was put on, it wasn't a full complete one, like the ones before, it was only on the surface, and usually fleeting. Almost to tell them that he remembered how, and not to worry. It didn't help.
"Yuuichirou!"
"Huh? Wha?" Chad snapped out of his thoughts.
"Pay attention man, here's the stuff."
"Thanks. Did ya get the communicators?"
"It's all there. Even the gadgets."
"Cool. Keep the peace man."
"Sure thing, What are you doing with all these things anyway?" The guy chuckled.
"For a friend…" Chad walked back to the bike. "Ready to go out the cabin?"
Mina simply nodded. Despite having done such things before, she was still nervous, and shy.
He whispered into her ear as he went to get on the bike. "Hang on tight, these guys are mostly impressed by fancy exits."
Mina's only response was wrapping her arms underneath his, and clutching tightly as Chad put the helmet on.
Chad tried desperately not to think too much about it, as he squealed the tires, skidded out onto the road in heavy traffic, and kicked the bike into high gear, taking the next turn out of view of the now cheering and shouting guys in the alley. It wasn't until he was out of their view he started to slow down, fitting into the traffic flow around them.
"Was that really necessary!" He heard Mina yell out.
"Hey I have a rep to keep up. Though having a hooker hanging on to me, may not be helping it.
"I'm not a hooker!"
"That's what you say, but not your clothing, and guess which one those guys in the alley are going to listen to."
Mina shrugged and leaned in a little closer to his back to get out of the wind. Right now she didn't care too much, her chosen attire didn't help keep the wind out very well. Did he just shiver?
"How far to your cabin?"
"Another half an hour."
"I'm going to freeze!"
"Shoulda thought of that before. One minute and we'll pull over in the next garage station. Did ya bring any other clothes to change inta?"
"No, I didn't think too."
After they pulled over.
"Well, ain't much I can do for your legs, but here wear my jacket over your top. It should help a bit."
"But what about you?"
"It wasn't me having a fit on the bike. Just put it on and lets go. I would like to get some sleep today."
She put on his large leather jacket. It weighed heavily on her when she realized he had twice as many weights in there, as he normally had them wear. She was reminded of how easily he wore it too, as if it was just your normal coat, but she could already feel the warmth from the coat seep in, the weights only added to it. She undid her hair to her usual style than sat once again behind him holding him as tightly as before.
"Gotta keep focus, gotta keep focus," Chad's mind chanted as he tried not to feel his body, and concentrate on the road as he drove. Several times, his mind had to steer away from the arms wrapped around his chest, and even more he had to steer it away from her chest pressed hard against his back. He imagined their postioning on the bike, "I am so glad she isn't driving…"
"This is … nice…" Mina snuggled up to him a bit more "Huh?" Now I'm sure he just shivered. "Are you cold?! You're shivering!" She called out to him a little worried.
"No! No, I'm fine!" Chad squeaked out, his body turning a tint of blue without him realizing it, as she pressed in closer, obviously trying to keep him warm.
"I don't know how I'm goin' to survive this," He wimpered to himself as they took off down the highway.
It didn't feel like it was that long before Mina and Chad made it to the cabin, and Chad took off the helmet, and turned to face her.
"Well, this is it. Mina?"
She was now just staring at Chad straight in the face, and he was getting a little nervous.
"Chad!" She seemed to shake out of her stupor, and quickly took the heavy coat off of herself before frantically putting it on him.
"Huh?"
"Come on!" She pushed him to the door, "Hurry and open the door! We have to get you in there!"
"What's with this rush Mina?" He cautiously pulled out his keys and flipped through them. Hmmm… I must be better than I thought at that not feelin' stuff, I still can't seem to feel my hands… He opened the door and was promptly pushed into one of the bedrooms by Mina.
"Hey! I thought you wanted to see the guns and stu…" Chad let the sentence go as he looked at the mirror in the bed room. His face and lips had a light bluish tint to them, and he suddenly realized the true reason he couldn't feel anything was his entire body had gone numb. He plopped down on the bed still staring at the mirror in shock, while Mina quickly made him lie down and put the large amount of covers over him. She than ran to the other bedroom to get the blankets off that bed too.
"Damn it! I just met this guy a week ago and he's done nothing but help and tutor me, and what do I do? Make him catch hypothermia because I wouldn't butt out of bussiness that wasn't mine!"
She remembered how he was always there to catch her and her new friends before they fell to the ground. How he near killed himself just trying to save her from that fall she had while fighting Rei. His embaressed looking away whenever a situation occurred where he was caught staring at the three of them. It made Serena and Amy a little nervous at times, but she didn't mind so much. It must be hard on him having to train three girls not to far from your own age, that were known as some of the most stunning around. Besides he seemed like he was starting to get used to of it now anyways. How he helped all of them heal from their own injuries that had occurred from under his training.
She liked him because he seemed normal.
Not like her other Sensei. Dimmer never paid the slightest attention to ANY of them that way. She heard Lita and Serena talking about Rei and him being together, but she knew it wasn't true. Dimmer was keeping his distance from everything, she saw the look of cold detachment from time to time as he watched the girls take on the large boulder, that was now moved to the outside, and hooked up to a pulley system using an old sturdy tree.
Chad said she would never want to see his transformation, there was the concern of a friend in those eyes as he said it. He cared deeply for Dimmer, she could tell, and Dimmer "seemed" to care back, but other than the smile and smirk Dimmer always seemed to wear, she could never seem to see any other reaction from him.
Mina had been keeping Chad warm by completely wrapping him in blankets, and she went out to put the kettle on. She searched the cupboards and managed to find a hot lemon drink.
"Perfect" She thought to herself.
After she finished making the drink, she came into to see Chad sleeping peacefully. She quickly woke him up.
"Chad? You're going to have to stay awake for awhile okay? Don't let your self fall asleep. Please drink this okay? Do you feel this?" She squeezed his arm, and Chad groggily shook his head before taking a sip from the scalding lemon tea. Trying to stop himself from shivering so violently, so it wouldn't spill.
"You've lost feeling in your arm, is it like that all over?"
"Mmm" Chad nodded trying once more to get near the contents of his cup. This time though he found it much easier, Mina noticed.
He had stopped shivering
"Chad?"
He looked up.
"Yeah?" He was really starting to feel much more warm.
Mina put her hand on his forehead, he was burning up. She knew that his shivering stopping wasn't a good sign, she had taken a course before and it explained the different stages of hypothermia and how to recognise the symptoms.
"Stay still, and no matter how hot you get, do NOT take off these blankets alright?"
"Uh okay, but I think I'm getting' better" He laughed, "See? Stopped shivering."
"Put your arm back under the covers. You must keep warm, please? Trust me?"
"Well, okay, if you say so… but really I.."
"I say so! Don't move! Alright?"
She left the room before he could reply. Hot water bags, chocolate to keep his energy up, warm towels to keep the head warm, she raided his house for anything that would keep him warm. She came back in the room to catch Chad dosing off.
"Chad! Wake up! Please?"
Chad's only response was kicking a few of the uncomfortable blankets off in his sleep.
"Chad…" Mina gave her sensei a sad glance before a look of determination crossed over her features. If he continued to kick off the blankets, he may very well die that night. She picked up the blankets and rewrapped them around him. Than she wrapped the hot water bag in the towels and put it to his forehead. She than got under some of the blankets herself. She had taken all the blankets form the other bedroom, so she'd freeze that night if she didn't. She also didn't want Chad to throw of the blankets that were on him, so she thought that maybe this way she could keep the blankets around him, get some sleep herself, and keep them both a little warmer. Her mind told her all the logic behind this, but it didn't stop her from hesitating before lying down. She also ignored the fact that her mind that told her she was a little too happy with this situation. After all right now all she should be thinking about Chad not herself right?
"Right," She answered her own thoughts as she cuddled up to her sleeping teacher. She couldn't stop from falling asleep with a small smile despite the danger to Chad's life.
"I think I can understand why Mina skipped out on us now…" Amy wore a very red shade on her cheeks as she walked away from the theatre with Rei, Lita, Dimmer, and Serena.
"I didn't think they'd actually show that…" Serena giggled. She hadn't stopped giggling since the first sex scene.
"Well what did you expect? Rainbows and lollipops?"
"Dimmer's right Serena, they don't make it restricted because two people kiss."
"Right, right." Serena waved off Lita's comment, "Hey did you see the awesome tricks she was doing?"
"Serena you can do better. Those effects were so outdated anyway. Tell the the truth I was seriously disappointed. I was expecting something at least a little bit 21st century…"
"Actually Dimmer, technically speaking were not in the 21st century yet."
"Uuh… Yes we are… Aren't we?"
"… Dimmer? What year is this?"
"2002… isn't it?"
"What?! Are you crazy? It's 1996!" Rei shouted backing up a step.
Dimmer looked down at himself. "… 1996? Yeah 16 sounds about right." He sighed, "I always was a shrimp."
"Awww poor Dimmer." Lita mused as she messed up his hair.
"Hey! Cut it out!" He swatted her hand away. "You may be taller now, but my regular height is Sundown's and he towers over you. (in case you're wondering Dimmer only got about about two inches on Amy)
"Yeah but your so much more cute this way!" Serena was already running.
"I AM NOT CUTE!! OH YOU ARE SO GONNA DIIIIEEEE!!!" Dimmer was hot on her trail.
"Well looks like we won't be seeing them for awhile." Lita watched them turn the corner.
"No kidding, Do you think she'll ever learn Amy?"
Amy just laughed, "Somehow I doubt it Rei. But it's you whose going to have to calm him down when you get home."
"How the heck am I supposed to do that! He'll probably go pound on that rock, until his hands are bloody, and than throw up on account of them."
"Is he really that bad with blood?" Lita asked, with a smirk
"It was what was keeping him unconcious the whole time at the hospital."Amy shook her head.
"Oh trust me girls. It's that bad." Rei sighed irritabily.
"Well you better go meet him at the dojo before he gets the chance Rei. Lita and I will look around for Serena."
"Right see you later!" Rei waved good bye as she started to jog ahead of them.
"What do you think he's going to do to her?" Lita asked laughing a little nervously and waving at Rei.
"Serena meant it as a joke. He'll respond in kind, only in about ten fold as bad. He'll probably know we'll be looking for them too."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that for Serena this does not bode well," Amy sighed.
"No Dimmer! I was joking! Really! Please! Anything but that!" Serena was backed up against a fence, when the streetlight above her flickered out.
Serena felt the hands reach out to grab her, and she screamed. Her voice echoed throught the silence of the night streets.
"NOT THE HAIR!!!"
"Dimmer you can't leave me like this!"
One look at the diabolically evil Dimmer smirking at her told her she was wrong.
"I'm wearing a skirt! What if some hentai comes around and looks up?!"
"I'm sure the others will find you first… at least I hope so…" Dimmer shrugged.
"Dimmer please? I'm your friend right? You can't do this to meeee!"
"No friend of mine calls me "cute" without rectification. We can be friends again after they get you down." Something caught his attention down around the corner of the street.
"Diiiimmeeeeeerrr!!!"
"Later," Dimmer walked away, and the streetlight flickered back on just in time for Amy and Lita to come around the corner and see Serena flailing her arms and pleading to someone who had obviously already left. She was being suspended from the ground by her often mentioned meatball like hair style that was currently knotted around a flickering streetlight.
Amy was dumbfounded, and Lita was wishing she had a camera,.
"Somebody get me down from heeeeeeeeeeeere!!!" Serena continued to flail. Amy tried to comfort her as Lita started to scale the pole.
Dimmer hung up his coat and was still grumbling about a certain "c- word". He walked to the entrance of the dojo only to see Rei blocking his way.
"Dammit!"
"Watch your mouth in the temple! And if you think your going to train until you're bleeding and make me clean up the mess again, you better have another thought coming!"
"Ummm… sorry?" Dimmer backed up quickly putting his hands in front of him as if they could somehow protect him from whatever scolding he was about to receive.
"Sorry? Sorry! Do you think that fixes things?! You better either get over this blood problem, or your masochism attitude! They don't work together!"
"Who asked ya? What the heck are you doing here? I thought you'd be out trying to find Serena after what I done to her…" He stopped and covered his mouth. He did not mean to say that. He winced waiting the oncoming storm of fury. He slowly opened his eyes after a few moments after the shouting seemed to stop. Had the storm some how passed by?
"JUST WHAT DID YOU DO TO SERENA?!"
"Nope still there," he smiled as he took off down the hall at his usual break neck speeds.
"Oh no you don't!" Rei shouted chasing after him.
Dimmer laughed as he jumped unto the roof of the temple and kept the pace up. How had this happened? They were just in the middle of a fight. Dimmer could usually count the few times he actually truly smiled throughout the day. Now was one of those times, and it seemed like it was happening more and more lately. He smiled as he ducked under Rei's punch, and flipped out of the way of the oncoming combo strikes. This was fun. He could actually see why Ranma did it...
"What's a matter Rei? Havin' a bit o' trouble?"
"You jerk! If I found out you hurt Serena!" She managed to grab hold of his arm, lifted it up and kicked into his kidneys.
"Oof!" He laughed out. "Hey don't be so rough."
"Are you making fun of me?! You are so dead!" Rei couldn't help but smile. She had no idea how Dimmer actually managed to turn this into a game, but that's exactly what he had done. He hadn't done anything like this since he had regained his memory.
"Better not let it go to waste than."
"Let what go to waste? Did I miss something again?" Dimmer stopped and gave her a puzzled glance.
"You certainly did! Hiya!"
Dimmer caught Rei's foot in the face and fell off the roof.
"Ow!" He now had a splitting headache, but the smile on her face had made it quickly dissapate. Especially knowing it was him that brought it about. He started to wonder as Rei helped him back onto his feet. He wondered for the first time if he could actually truly be happy. He looked up to the three quarter moon. Two weeks would past before the new moon. He smiled as Rei got him to lean on her as she walked him inside the temple. He wondered if he could try. He stopped her as he turned around, "Rei… I know I've been a little distant lately. I've been thinking for some time about this."
"What are you saying Dimmer?"
"I… How exactly do I say this? I have been punishing myself for a long time Rei. I hurt a friend in my world. It's my fault what happened had happened, but I think it's time to forgive and forget."
"Dimmer…"
"Rei, I wanna change back to who I was. I'm not exactly sure how to do that, but I'm gonna give it a shot."
"Dimmer…just… just tell me what to do… I'll help in any way I can."
"Just be happy Rei. That's it. That's all I need, that's all I want. I want my friends to be happy"
"Funny," Rei smiled softly, "That's all we want from you too."
"Sounds like a deal than. I swear by the new moon, I will be happy!" He called out into the night. His voice echoed on the night's breeze.
"You sound like you're insane" Rei laughed quietly.
"I am insane. Come on lets go inside and get some cheesy poofs."
"Sure."
The darkness started to recede and daylight broke. Once again it's rays flooded the streets of Tokyo. Warmly it greeted the earth. The Hino Temple was glowing with the sun. It's rays flowed pass the temple and through the streets into window after window. It passed over the blonde young girl. Just a second ago she was grumbling about never getting her hair out of knots, but the gloominess that surrounded her early morning rising and her tangled hair was chased away by the sun's light.
It moved on through the kitchen of a young pony tailed brunette singing cheerfully. Up for far longer than the sun, the smell of bacon flew on the breeze from her stove. The light passed over a sleeping Amy slumped over on her desk and keyboard.
The sun moved on to continue it's journey through the city and along the country roads. There, dirt roads and blades of grass glistened with morning dew. The sun treasured this place. There was not many places left on this island that shone with the earth's natural beauty. Instead it was often replaced by what the planet's rulers desired, but there was beauty in them as well. The sun looked on from all perspectives, it was the silver light behind the clouds after all. It smiled gently with its light as it reached into the bedroom and woke up the sleeping pair there. The reaction was not so gentle though…
"AAAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!" Chad literally jumped out of the bed and backed up into the corner of the room.
Mina was abruptly awaken as her bedmate screamed in surprise.
"Really…" She yawned and stretched, "I know I'm not a morning person, but I expected a more positive reaction than that…"
"Well… I don't exactly wake up to this sort of thing often."
"Oh I understand." Mina smiled, "Do you remember anything about last night?"
"Uuh… umm… no… we didn't… didn't we?"
"Huh? NO! Don't be dumb! You nearly froze to death! Imagine giving me your coat, and you ended up freezing. Besides we had blankets between us."
"Oh jeez, ya scared the hell outta me… Was I really that bad off?"
"Would I be here if you weren't? I only met you a week ago. Come on, what kind of girl do you think I am?"
"The kind that sleeps with strange guys in prostitute's clothes."
"Haha, smart ass."
"Heh. Well don't worry about it. There's some clothes in my mother's closet over there, you should be able to find something. Tell ya what. Since you saved me, I'll cook ya breakfast, deal?"
"Mm hmm. Sounds good. Now get out so I can get changed."
"Okay. I'll call ya when it's ready. My stash of stuff is out in the shed, we can go out to the range to try some of it out if ya like. They need a bit of testing anyway."
"Sure just get out!"
Chad caught the pillow with his face, took the hint, and scurried out the door on all fours. Mina watched him go and giggled at his antics. He was really cute sometimes.
"Don't forget to call Serena and the others to let them know where we are okay?"
"No prob!"
"Okay girls. Chad said that he and Mina wouldn't be able to make it in tonight on account of him near freezing to death last night, so I'm going to teach both classes today."
Serena and Amy groaned.
"Dimmer? You can't be going as hard on them as you do on us are you?" Darien was a little concerned, there was no way they could handle what Dimmer had been throwing at them lately. He was actually fighting them now. The power he had as a mere human, Darien never thought any one could possess. Yet here Dimmer was, he fought them together, now too powerful for them to take on at once when not transformed. After he was done with them, they all agreed that they preferred going against the boulder.
"No Darien. In fact we're going their way today, we all need a little speed training. Gotta remember to keep our feet moving too, eh?"
"Does this mean I'm not going to feel like I want up against a freight train this morning?"
Dimmer smiled, "Okay, okay. I get it. I was going a little hard on you guys. I decided to do a little resting period because you guys are going for some on the job experience today."
They all blinked. "Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Weeell… we'll have to cut things off a little early today." Dimmer turned his back towards the girls to help the suspense.
"I got the call this morning!" Dimmer suddenly turned around in a flash and gave everyone the peace sign. "Get ready, were meeting the Prime Minister at noon!"
"You're kidding!"
"How?"
"Who wouldn't want to meet the famous Sailor Scouts? Remember! We can all agree on this that the first rule to being a super hero is flashy entrance. That's exactly what we'll be working on today. Now the question is which one you will be using. I always liked the silhouette in the sun myself, and noon would be a great time for it…"
"I can't believe we're going to meet the Prime Minister!"
"Oh wow! This so totally cool." Serena and Lita were jumping up and down holding hands.
"And just how did you manage this Dimmer?"
"Seems that the authorities reeeally liked the idea. They wanna give John and Pidge the authority and paperwork over the whole deal. They looked kinda like Lita and Serena do now. I'm gonna be the manager, since I'm not about to transform or anything anymore. But hey! That's later. Now for some deep training!" Dimmer ran over to tap Serena on her nose. "You're "it!"
"Huh?" Serena looked at Dimmer for a moment, before a huge grin settled on her face, "Not for loo~oong!"
And so began the biggest game of tag anyone of that neighborhood would ever remember. Tales of teenagers jumping over rooftops would be called in to police headquarters only to be laughed at, an all time high was reached by optometrists, as many people had decided they needed to get their eyes checked. For the teenagers appeared as nothing but blurs to many of those around them. Dimmer almost thought himself mistaken but he could swear that Darien was really enjoying all this.
"So Darien… enjoying being chased by Serena?"
"Huh?"
"Tag!" Serena called out happily as she managed to finally tap Darien who she'd been mainly after since she had gotten tagged.
"Hey!" Darien laughed as he turned around to chase after the rest.
The Prime Minister looked at his watch impatiently. They had agreed to meet in the town hall. The only person to show so far was a young teenage boy with gold colored hair clasps wrapped around two braided bangs. He was dressed in denim. The officers assured him things would be alright. The boy had asked them to go out onto the roof, and that's where they waited now. The boy was looking at his watch, and muttering something about teaching the importance punctuality to a certain blonde.
Than it had happened, a large shadow suddenly covered the entirety of the roof. Something silhouetted against the sun. He lifted his hand to his forehead trying to block out the sun and still make out the shapes. The first one came into view, light blazing off of her orangish yellow trimmed mini skirt and blouse.
The next one came seemed to fall out of the sun, a green trimmed outfit this time, than another and another, they seemed like drops of the sun's rays. A red trimmed one, and blue trimmed. Than a shadowy figure dropped in behind them all wrapped in a cape and top hat. A white mask hid his eyes. All of them had taken up stances, before the obvious leader fell down in the middle, her blue and white uniform seemed to out shine them all as she came down taking up a stance herself.
"I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Justice, and these are the Sailor Scouts, my most trusted friends."
"I am Sailor Mercury!"
"Sailor Mars!"
"Sailor Jupiter!"
"Sailor Venus!"
"My name…" said the man in black, "is Tuxedo Mask."
The Prime Minister couldn't help but be impressed and applauded the entrance. Though his hearing picked up the word "finally" come from the direction of the young man.
"In case you haven't figured it out. I'm pretty much the go between, I'll be the one that Sergeant Pidge and John come to get the scouts. My name is Dimmer."
"Very well young man, it's pleasant to meet you. I've been looking forward to this."
"Not as much as the girls I assure you." Dimmer smiled.
"It's pleasant to meet you girls. Sailor Moon wasn't it?" He put out his hand
"Yes. Oh wow. I can't believe I'm actually meeting the Prime Minister!!" Sailor Moon squeaked out.
"It's a great honor Sir." Sailor Mercury greeted him as he walked over to shake her hand."
"This is so awesome." Sailor Mars took his hand.
"Like, this is totally amazing…" Sailor Jupiter was stupefied.
"I'm very honored too Sir." Sailor Venus smiled shyly.
"You honor us greatly Mister Prime Minister." Tuxedo Mask smiled.
"Now, now. You all give me too much respect. You're the heroes. I'm just a political figure, It's you girls that save the city. I'm just glad you've given us a way to help you."
"That's no problem really. We were looking for a better way to help you too. Maybe we can prevent a couple crimes in progress."
"That sounds great, but remember that this relationship is mutual. If you need our help in any way. We'll assist you in whatever we can."
"Hey it's a deal than, but just to let you know, there are two others like them another in black, and one who carries human weaponry, in bright yellow and white with yellow sunglasses."
"Really? Bright white, yellow sunglasses? Isn't that the same description of the terrorist in the hotel?"
"Ummm… yeah… well…" Dimmer laughed nervously, "Well we could say a little bit for his tactfulness."
"Very well, I think I understand. Gentlemen?" He looked towards the two officers, "I trust you will handle things from here?"
"Yes Prime Minister." John and Pidge answered at once.
"Your codename will be Moon Shadow. Dimmer here is a special communicator. Use it to contact us. There will be a building downtown. We'll give you a drive there. Sailor Scouts? I'm very pleased to finally meet you."
"If you'd like to go down too, we'd be able to get another car."
"Uuh… no Dimmer can handle the political stuff. We really got to be going. We have school besides all this you know."
"Oh, well thank you Sailor Moon." Dimmer smirked, "Leave all the work to me. Alright you two. Let's get going. I wanna get this stuff over with."
"Okay Dimmer. See you later… scouts…" John turned to look at them, but they had already vanished. "I have a feeling I'm going to have to get used to that working with them and everything…"
Sailor Moon says:
"Hi again! Sailor Moon here to remind you that being sick can be down right aw…"
Reality:
Suddenly the T.V. turns off, and the scene is that of a major office building, where Jamie was now shaking his head. He knew what this was all about. Sex had been referred to on Sailor Moon. This was not going to go well for anyone.
"Sir! We have to do something! Now."
"What do you expect me to do about it?" Jamie looked to his ignorant subordinate editor.
"This episode was aired on T.V. in mid after noon when the kids were just arriving home from school! Every little kid was allowed to see it! When we previewed it, we said it couldn't be put on air as it was. It got prime time when it should have had none! What am I supposed to tell the courts?"
"They tried. We had no choice. The time slot wasn't even supposed to play Sailor Moon, it came on anyway."
"What?!"
"Something strange is going on. They say that it could have been a saboteur here at our studios, someone who was too big of a fan to let it not be aired. But I don't think it's that simple. That… realistic…" Jamie said it to himself as he turned to face his high office window.
"What are you saying?" The editor put a queer look on her face as she tried to think about all this.
"I have just received a call five minutes before you came in. They tried to cut those scenes out of that episode. Tried to not show it at all. It's obvious it still managed to make it to the air uncut. The computers used to edit its contest continually crash whenever that file is opened. I think… I think I'm going crazy."
She was dumbstruck. She knew Jamie was about to say something else, but changed it last second. She'd been working as chief editor, and had many arguments with him about what could go on air and what couldn't. She knew when he was keeping something from her. But this time she wasn't sure if she really wanted to know what was going on in his mind about all this. "Sir… Than what do we do?"
"Tell the courts that Jessie. Tell the courts exactly what I've told you. If they can figure out what to do about it, fine. We'll do whatever they say. Let's see if we can't cut as many losses from this as we can. Everything was going fine until now…"
Jessie nodded and left Jamie to his thoughts.
"What I think is we have little choice but to watch it play through. It almost makes me want to believe in magic…"
Endnotes:
*Does victory dance*
Hello people! Another chapter in the books. This fic is really turning into one now isn't it? Hope you like it long! Cause I just finished doing up the out line for this monster, and we're talking 41 to 42 chapters of fate twisting, humor and angst! Sure I only got up until chapter 27 written up, but now I have an idea to work on for every chapter. I'm hoping that will solve any future writer's blocks that might fall in my way.
Any way, for the new guys that made it this far. Did you enjoy it? What did you think? Tell me in a review!
If you want I can give ya a few sneak peeks at unedited chapters ahead…
For the upcoming chapter, there's even a hidden song fic written for it using run DMC's version of ghostbusters. You won't get it unless you ask for it specifically though, because it's my very first song fic and I'm rather paranoid about it.
Meh. Time to go back to work. Bleh, college, if it were anything but animation…
