Chapter 1: Belated Arrival
"We have now reached Ichigo Airport in Crystal Tokyo. Thank you for flying Shanghai Airlines." The announcement blared as Galaxy Chang stood up to pull her bag out of the overhead compartment. Just you wait, Galaxy, she thought grimly yet hopefully, soon you'll get to be in the company of Sailor Senshi. Then you can travel with the Queen and you won't have to do this. Galaxy hated flying in airplanes, as they were too small for her 6' 8" and plump frame. She pulled a slip of paper out of her pocket. The Tenou family, she read, and the note also said that she would share the house with two girls and a boy who were coming to Crystal Tokyo to be Sailor Senshi. She hoped the girls were pretty and feminine, and that the boy was handsome.
Haruka Tenou waited inside Ichigo Airport impatiently. She wondered why the girl from China would have to come the day after the other three, what could've taken her so long? She had been told a few things about the girl, that she was very large and that her name was Galaxy Chang, but that was about it. Suddenly she saw who it might be, towering above the crowd. The girl had long purple hair with a dark green bow and she shoved her way to Haruka eagerly.
"Sorry I couldn't make it, but I wanted to make sure my clothes were neat and that I had all the proper look and..." Haruka almost snickered at how prissy this Galaxy girl was being, she knew Galaxy might get along okay with Serena but she could almost imagine the fights that would ensue when she met the other two.
Elsewhere, Ami Mizuno, Michiru Kaiou, and Setsuna Meiou were sitting around and sipping tea. A teenage girl sat on the floor, watching a Wedding Peach DVD. Ami looked up as the girls on the screen played out their magical transformations and she fingered nervously at a bracelet that was in her pocket. There was a knock on the door and Galaxy burst in, Haruka carrying the new girl's bags for her. The girl who was watching Wedding Peach leaped up and gave Galaxy a big hug.
"Hi! Now we're all here and do you like Wedding Peach and is that a real sapphire on your necklace!" the girl gushed in a Scottish accent.
"Serena...let her get in first..." Michiru mumbled, though she was amused, Serena's behavior reminded her much of the way the Queen used to act.
"That's fine, she's just a cute, friendly girl," Galaxy said, but she gently pushed Serena off of her. Then they were startled by the sounds of a bang and a scream coming from the kitchen.
"Don't tell me I have to fight with you Senshi already!" Galaxy exclaimed.
"No, the other two here were baking a cake. I better see what was going on," Haruka said. In the kitchen, the microwave was bubbling over with a strange brown and red goop, it was spilling out onto the floor and the two rotund teens who were there also had the goop on them. Haruka thought the scene reminded her of something she had heard Usagi did once, and she was glad they didn't do it on a cooking show like Usagi.
"Interesting. So THAT'S what happens if you mix baking soda and tomatoes in the microwave," the boy was saying. The girl was snickering at him.
"What was going on here?" Haruka asked suspiciously.
"Pierre doesn't know how to cook and I thought it was funny!" blurted out the girl; she obviously sounded Australian.
"So what? I wasn't cooking, I was doing a science experiment!" the first retorted, his accent was French.
"What exactly did you do? I thought you said you were baking a cake, but some of that stuff looks like tomatoes," Haruka said.
"They are. I was doing an acids and bases mix with heat," Pierre explained.
"But not in the microwave! That's for cooking! They're gonna be all mad at you and you'll get in trouble, just like my character Green did when she..."
"Fine. But you didn't stop me." Pierre snapped, interrupting Rainbow.
"Because I thought it was funny..."
"Both of you clean this up," Haruka ordered sternly before walking out of the room. She rolled her eyes, wondering what had possessed that silly boy to mess up their kitchen in the name of science? Back in the sitting room, Ami beckoned Galaxy to come by her for a present. She pulled the bracelet out of her pocket.
"Jewelery! How beautiful!" Galaxy exclaimed. She put it on and held it up to the light. She could see a strange symbol etched around it, "But what's this thing on it? It kind of looks like the marking for Mercury."
"It IS the marking for Mercury. Though you might be called something different now, you are one of the two successors to Sailor Mercury, and the one who shares the ice magic," Ami explained.
"Sailor Mercury?" Galaxy repeated. She closed her eyes and a deep blue light seemed to form the bracelet into a new image...a sweet cold snack on a stick? Was she Sailor Popsicle? She shook her head, she wasn't a fighter. She handed the bracelet back to Ami. "I'm sorry, but if I fight monsters, then I'll ruin my looks." Ami was shocked. She stared at the bracelet, then back to Galaxy, and her eyes stayed there, staring at the Chinese girl in disbelief.
"I thought that when I first received the wand of Neptune, but it soon became much more important to make sure people are safe. Don't you want the world to remain beautiful and not scarred by evil?" Michiru reasoned with the new Senshi.
"If she doesn't want it, I'll take the Senshi bracelet!" Serena butted in.
"You can't have that one, you'll get your Senshi powers sometime," Michiru reassured her. Just then, the door was slammed open by a strange, dinosaur-like creature. Ami quickly gave Galaxy the bracelet back before hiding behind the chair. Galaxy glared at her.
"What, so I'M supposed to fight that thing!"
"Yes, I don't have the power anymore. Please, you must do it. Otherwise there's no point in you being here," Ami begged. Galaxy then remembered. If she went back, she would have ride that stupid airplane again.
"How dare you threaten me with airline travel! Popsicle Prism Power, Make Up!" The dinosaur creature stared confusedly as Galaxy turned into Sailor Popsicle, her Senshi outfit fitting nicely around her plump body. Then it cleared its head and charged at her, though not moving very fast.
"Shabon Spray!" she called, and the room was filled with a cool blue fog, "Hey, wait a minute! Don't I get a better attack here! I can't kill a monster with fog!" Sailor Popsicle complained.
"Please, Mrs. Mizuno, give me Senshi powers too! Why did you only give out one bracelet?" begged Serena.
"Because Luna and Artemis can only create one a day. And as to why we didn't have them 16 days early, we just didn't know that far in advance. Also, Luna and Artemis needed to charge up their powers again, it's been so long since they've created Senshi transformation objects for people," Ami explained as she pulled Serena out of the room to safety.
"Let me go! What about the Outer Senshi, can't they fight too?" Serena asked. Ami shook her head.
"No, we all lost our ability to be Sailor Senshi, that's why we're giving the powers to your group." In the foggy room, both Sailor Popsicle and the dinosaur were having a hard time finding each other. The dinosaur kept shooting energy beams out of its mouth but most of them were missing the Senshi and hitting holes in the walls.
"Pink Sugar Heart Attack!" A stream of sweet pink hearts shot through one of the holes, hitting the dinosaur. By then the fog had begun to clear and Sailor Popsicle could see a new Senshi in the room, one who looked like the Princess only she was dressed in a pink Senshi outfit.
"Huh! Why are you dressed like that? Princesses aren't fighters!" she exclaimed, confused.
"Not really, no. I'm just a Senshi in training, Sailor Chibi Moon. But I still came to help you since you're new," the pink girl answered.
"Well, how do we get rid of that thing?" Sailor Popsicle asked as she jumped away from another energy beam.
"What if you made your fog inside its body? That might make it explode, like an overly-inflated balloon. Here. Pink Sugar Heart Attack!" Chibi Moon's pink hearts flew inside the dinosaur's mouth, opening it.
"Shabon Spray!" Sailor Popsicle called and focused her bubble fog into the dinosaur's mouth. This made its stomach expand and it looked like it had swallowed a giant bloated ball before it exploded, leaving a residue of colorful dust. Upon observation, Ami noticed that the dust was red, green, and blue. She stored that information in her brain for later.