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Thanks to my prereader Drkjester
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Chapter 1
Another ball. 'Every week it's the same, a royal ball, a royal dinner party, a royal tea ceremony, a royal dance evening, a royal something. Its always party after party after party. The Queen wants that the planetary princesses were always on her side and the Royal Court entertained. What happens on their respective planets is of no concern of hers.' With a sigh, a young man watched as the royals danced. The young man in question had a pleasant expression on his face, and was always respectfully bowing to the guests. He did the same as all the other guards were doing, but if you looked really deep into his eyes you could see disgust and loathing towards the current proceedings, also a little sadness.
For the past year, from when he had been made a palace guard, there have been no military exercises, no training in combat or any warrior arts. The only thing they require is that you are fit and pleasing to the eye. That you have experience in combat arts had never been required, it was even discouraged. It was always said that the senshi could and would deal with all threats. They would say, "There is no need for trained soldiers. Our society is so peaceful and is founded on love that there is no need for normal people to know how to fight." The only ones that knew how to fight were the Queens personal secret troops, the Amazons, an all female Special Forces that do all the dirty work for the Queen. They are trained to see themselves as the highest and strongest beings out there and everyone else was lower then dirt.
(Amazons, so that's were they come from.)
The young guard turned his eyes to the dance floor, where the senshi danced. He regarded them and shook his head. 'Only the inner senshi are present today. Well, today is the day when it all ends.' He breathes out forcefully and directs his eyes towards the ceiling. 'Finally this charade will end. Today the bitches will finally die.' He directs his eyes towards the senshi once again, but this time he focuses on Mercury and Jupiter. 'Well not all of them are ignorant fools, and willing playthings for the Queen, who would do anything the Queen asks blindly.'
He thought back ten years to when he came to be here. He appeared in a secluded park outside Moon Castle. The first impression he got from the place was disturbing, to put it mildly. The normal everyday people walked around with an idiotic smile plastered on their faces. They were happy no matter what happened to them or in what conditions they lived. They were all like soul-less puppets. It still gave him the creeps. The people in Crystal Tokyo had at least some resemblance to normality. It took him some time to figure out what is going on. When he did, he was more certain then ever to get rid of the Silver Crystal and its wielder. To think what she did to get into power and what she did to keep it. To go so far as to put all the people who she ruled on to a happy pill. He had seen many things in his long life but this was plain disgusting.
Every year she would perform a purifying ceremony and bath all the planets in a silvery light to remove all evil. In reality she re-boosted her spell. To think Pluto said that the Neo-Queen Serenity used a compulsion spell on her people to keep them good. She was certain that the old Queen did the same to keep her people on a short leash, but she used a full-blown mind control spell. The Silver Crystal was nothing more then a mind control medium for the masses. In reality it had no special powers aside from it. It only helped her to control her people and leech power from the senshi.
But he started to wonder why the Neo-Queen had never used that particular spell. The answer came to him when he thought about the family of the Dark Moon. Why did they surrender so easily? They surrendered because they weren't on Earth. Their power base was on another planet. Earth had some sort of protection against mind control spells. It took some digging in the archives of all the planets and the answer was mind-boggling. The senshi were much older then the Silver Millennium. They were in existents before anybody had heard anything about the Silver Crystal and the Heavenly Blessed Queen. And further more each planet had a senshi including Earth. And that's why Earth was safe against the Silver Crystal. She sacrificed herself to be never reincarnated to protect her planet against it. That was the reason why Earth was safe. But the Queen did not tolerate it that a lonely planet defied her rule, so she blockaded it and said that very evil demons and youma inhabited it, and the humans there served them. During his search Ranma also collected information on how the people on every planet lived. How the planetary princesses ruled it and how did they treat their subjects?
Mercury was a surprise, people around the place did have the same vacant expression but the living conditions were passable. He learned that the planetary Princess was responsible for the living condition. She had done everything in her power to make certain, that the inhabitants of her planet had everything they needed. She had mislabeled necessary equipment and resources to make sure they ended up in the hands of her people. Of course she walked a really tight rope. The Queen demanded huge amounts recourses as taxes to live like she did in her castle. And if others suffered because of it, it was not her problem; she had bigger problems, she had an Empire to run.
After a relatively surprised and pleasing experience on Mercury, Venus was a disaster. When he went there he was glad as hell that he never accepted the cure for his second curse. A redhead woman did go unnoticed but a man would have stood out like sore thumb. 99.9 of the planets population was female. At first he thought it had to do with some sort a freak planetary condition. But soon he figured out that the planetary population had been normal until the Queen decided that Venus would be a planet dedicated purely for the feeling of love and men would only disrupt the perfect order. The planetary princess had gleefully accepted it and evicted or outright killed all the males. The only surviving males were inside her castle never to leave and only serve the princess. The women outside were living like it was beach day every day. What resources did the Queen demanded as taxes from this kind of world was obvious, but how did they maintain the population he did not want to know.
Mars was a dump and that was to put it mildly. The majority of the land mass was covered in mining shafts and factories. To go outside with out a gas mask was a death wish. The only green piece was under a dome were the planetary princess lived and no one but she, her friends and serving staff was aloud inside. The people were the same as they were on the Moon. The insane smile was plastered on their faces and there was no fire whatsoever inside their eyes. They were perfect puppets. No free will of their own what so ever.
Jupiter and Saturn were similar to each other. The people that lived there had some of their natural fire returned to them. The planetary princesses were very careful when they did something, but that something wasn't nearly enough. The taxes were huge but they managed somehow to make sure that their subjects were to live as normally as possible and the environment of the planet was pleasing, though it was also depressing. That Saturn was this way was not so surprising, the planetary princess was after all the senshi of Life and Death. For her to be like the Queen would simply be impossible. Jupiter on the other hand was a pleasant surprise. He would have never believed that a senshi of thunder would be so compassionate. Though she is one of the strongest inner senshi, it was probably why she was acting the way she did. She was probably fighting against the mind spell and regaining some of her control. She probably is remembering her duties and responsibilities.
Neptune and Uranus were identical, both planetary princesses didn't care how their people lived and had their taxes put together in one payment. If there was shortage in the tax payment they simply went out ant took what was necessary to fulfill the quota. They basically robbed the people blind to survive and didn't seem to care. Neptune and Uranus both thought that their only responsibility was to protect the Empire and nothing else.
Pluto, well on Pluto lived only a handful of temporal mages and their servants. The only thing that resembled greenery was the Planetary Castle. Ranma remembered saying to Pluto that when she arrives into the past and confronts her predecessor, all her people would survive the coming onslaught. But she only shook her head and said that her past counterpart would probably be out the entire time when the attack occurred due to mental and temporal stress.
Finally there was Earth, the only free planet in the system. What waited him there was a rude awakening. The normal people around there still had the normal fire in their eyes, but anyone who had any commanding position had the gleam of madness. It turned out that somehow Beryl was infected with the compulsion to join the Silver Millennium, but somehow it had gone wrong. Instead of joining it, she wanted to be the next holy Queen herself. To get the necessary power and recourses she had made a pact with the devil, literally. She removed the previous ruling body with force and made herself the Queen of Earth. She infected everyone else she could not remove with some sort of virus. That included also those who had even a remote chance to go against her. That virus affected the brain and turned the recipient of that virus effectively delusional. After she was done with it, she started busily building up her forces and fleets to conquer the other planets. The soldiers were infused with the genetic structure from other species to make them stronger. There were also projects to create perfect super soldiers, demons and a cannon fodder troops called the youma. The space fleet itself was impressive. But Ranma still didn't understand how Serenity couldn't see it happening under her own nose.
He came back to the present and directed his eyes to Mercury: 'She was the only one who had started to suspect something was wrong. She was the only one who noticed what I did on her planet.' He remembered the secret investigation that she made in her world. 'Well yeah she is the smartest of them. Still she did find nothing.' He smirked and thought with amusement 'I'm the best after all.' Ranma continued to watch how the royal high society continued to party and the current amusement went away.
He directed his eyes towards the big clock that decorated one of the walls. 'Five more minutes then the other planets should be bombed and ravaged by the Beryl's forces. Few minutes after that this castle should be invaded and taken.'
Ranma thought back to how he prepared for this day for the past eight years. He started to build bomb shelter on every planet. Made certain that there were people around that were not controlled by the Silver Crystal. It had taken some time before he discovered how to disrupt the effects and how to make sure that they no longer would fall under its control. The people that he freed were like lost puppies; they had the memories of their previous life but no way to implement it with their own free will. It had taken him a year in each planet to build the shelters and teach those few he freed how to act on their own. Those were eight years to remember. At first he had little success with the people, but when they understood what was done to them and how they changed. To say they where upset was an understatement, they had wanted to start a revolution immediately to overthrow the Queen and kill the planetary senshi. But when he described the current situation they conceded to wait and prepare for the inevitable onslaught from the Beryl's forces. Out of the planets Earth was the easiest. All he had to do was to contact the underground movement that was against Beryl, explain to them what is going to happen and what has to be tone to save as much people as possible.
He thought about the coming onslaught. Millions will die in seconds but millions will also survive thanks to him. 'To think I one time had massive qualms about killing and seeing it happened.' He shook his head again. 'The Neo-Queen sure healed me from those notions.' He thought back on his life, two millennium, two fucking millennium of every imaginable crap coming his way from the holy Queen, aimed to break him. He sighed and shook his head again. 'Well who am I kidding, I still have qualms about killing but I'm a warrior and a Dragon Lord. I no longer have the luxury to have notions like I did in my youth. Martial artist. Phah it is a good way to live but it sure ain't gonna work in real life.'
He directed his eyes towards the clock. 'One more minute, until the start of the end of the Silver Millennium.' He sighed hard 'So many innocents will die today, but there was no other way to do it. The people need a rude wake up call and this is the way to do it. The only way to do it.'
He sighed and shook his head again. 'I have done things that were disturbing and terrible as hell, but this is the first time my actions or lack of them will lead to such destruction and misery.' He directed his eyes towards the sealing. 'Please, some one tell me that I'm doing the right thing.' He waited a little while and looked down towards the floor. 'It is too late to have any doubts about it. Pluto and I came up with this plan and it was the only plan that could work. The only plan that can remote 30,000 years of darkness and misery. There will be fewer casualties then in the original way but it is still hard. The things I must do to get the point across that I'm the new ruler. I sure hope the people that I freed will follow me willingly. I don't want to turn into another Serenity. I sure hope that Pluto is able to prevent me from turning into one.' He looked at the senshi. 'If some of you survive I haft to make certain that the people that you governed will be pleased and approve, when I sentence and punish you.' He eyes Mercury and Jupiter. 'You are the only ones that I have some qualms about killing.' He directed his eyes towards the window. 'Saturn so are you, but you are not here today and if buy some miracle you should survive I have to sentence and punish you also. Well lets see what the coming hours will bring.'
He eyes the clock again sighs and mumbles under his breathe: "It is time."
