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Moon Cats, Fearful Symmetry
"Damn it! Where is he?" Captain Ichiro Hibuki yelled, throwing his cell phone out the window of the squad car he was riding in, his frustration having taken hold. The sound of plastic shattering on the concrete made the driver wince as he pulled away from the red light.
Hiroshi Shimaka sighed. "Artemis is where ever he thinks he needs to be. You know him, we both know him. He's insanely in love with Luna and this pushed him over the top."
"Hiroshi, you have as much reason to hate the Gaki as Artemis does, but you're still acting like a professional."
"And he's not. I know." Shimaka shook his head. "He wasn't a professional when you hired him boss. He's very good at what he has done for us, but he's NOT a cop."
"I know…" Hibuki slumped back in the seat. "On to more important matters. Are our teams in place?"
"Yeah, and lucky for us the Gaki has a blind spot in his plans. I can't believe he didn't notice a homeless family held up in the warehouse across the street!"
"Excuse me? I'm more amazed at his little bit of Alliteration."
"Yeah, painting up his trucks with marking for an 'Artemis Moon Moving' was just beautiful."
Hibuki nodded. "Cat boy's going to LOVE that when he recovers from the beating I'm going to give him. Are our teams in place?"
"All nine trucks that have been found by the street cops, and I dispatched our teams out while you were trying to track down our missing cat and taking care of our 'lunar intern'. We're coming up on the closest one now."
"With an hour to go till the deadline. Good. I just can't help but feel like we're being set up somehow."
"I think your being paranoid boss. How could he be setting us up? He has no idea we're coming! And look, there's the truck."
Hibuki looked over, the truck being three blocks away from where the disguised police van had been positioned, not three blocks from the Nerima Ward Hospital.
It came into view just in time for a huge metallic form to rip its way out of the large cargo box towed behind the cab.
"Paranoia, eh." Hibuki muttered as the ten foot tall mecha began to march towards the hospital.
"What do you MEAN the Self Defense force is spread to thin? We're getting anialated here!" Sgt. Maya Shin yelled into her radio, before firing two more impotent shots at the vaguely humanoid monster. Even having gone in expecting something like mecha or robots, no one on KAPPA had expected THIS. "We're outside of a damn elementary school!"
She'd already lost half of her men, including the one charged with caring the one LAW they'd borrowed from the JSDF just in case the robots were better then anticipated. It had damaged one of the monster's arms, but not enough to cripple it.
"Reika, I want you to get the van out of here!" She yelled, turning to look at the van where he'd left the mafia princess. She froze in horror when she saw the girl not only out of the van, but in the playground of the school, closer to the mecha then she herself was, next to the big Godzilla shaped jungle gym. "REIKA, GET OUT OF THEIR!" She yelled, her horror growing as the mecha seemed to take notice of the girl and turn towards her, rearing back with one pile driver arm as if to smash the girl.
That's when she stepped back from the chalk drawing she'd been making, and Godzilla rose up and roared… before digging it's now razor sharp teeth into the giant robot's shoulder. Reika ran away from the dueling behemoths and to the dumbstruck police sergeant. "There, I told you I could be helpful!"
"Yeah…" The female officer muttered as the fake radioactive dinosaur ripped off the previously damaged arm of the mecha. "But, um… is setting ANY Godzilla loose in Tokyo a good idea?"
"Well…. This is Juban. Who'd notice?"
Shin Sarado laughed like a maniac as he ripped the vault door off, and tossed it aside. "Okay guys, get in there and get that Yen. I'll keep the cops busy till it's time to leave!" the terrorist turned bank robber yelled over his war machines speakers, turning to walk back out into the street, shoulders knocking more of the buildings roof into the lobby of the bank. Sure the Gaki wanted maximum destruction, but a bit of good, mercenary looting is not really AGAINST the orders, now was it?
"MOON TIARA ACTION!" The voice, high pitched and not as loud as his own speakers, still managed to carry an authority and anger. It also preceded a hit that felt like artillery to the side of his mech, setting off alarms across his board. A fireball and massive electrical discharge followed the glowing disc into his robot, shredding its armor and destroying its power plant, toppling the terror weapon like a marionette with cut strings.
Shin popped the hatch and climbed out, to find a pair of high red boots waiting for him. Following them up he found the girl he'd shot on Gaki's orders looking down at him with an emotion none of the teenage super hero's enemies had ever really seen before.
Undisguised rage.
"Mars, Jupiter, go get his friends in the bank. I have a little catching up to do here." She said semi-sweetly, terrifying the terrorist who realized the disk that had damaged his robot was still glowing in her hand. He tried to pull his pistol, but she lashed out and cut it in half with the disk. "Now, now, that didn't work the first time." Sailor Moon chided…then she blinked realizing his position, and where his eyes could easily look.
"You… You're looking up my skirt! You Pervert!"
The explosion caused the rest of the bank to collapse, and a certain red suited sailor for love and justice to scream "DAMN IT MEATBALL HEAD!"
Artemis paid the cab driver, and then climbed out of the Taxi. The Radio was full of the attacks, and the reported response by both KAPPA and the Sailor Senshi and even in his current mood he had to chuckle at the reports of Shimaka and Hibuki taking one out on their own through the destructive expedient of ramming it into the oxygen storage tanks behind the hospital it was attacking, and the resulting explosion. A costly but effective plan, and far better then the machine actually getting to the hospital proper.
Artemis shook off his amusement, and embraced his rage once again, turning away from the taxi as it drove away, and turning towards the large dark shape that was so familiar from several months of nightmares.
It'd taken him a bit of time and research, but he'd discovered that the Tokyo Technical institute had bought everything a month after the fight, and a maritime engineering class had actually RAISED the hulk. The first time he hadn't even noticed the ships name.
For the second time Artemis stepped onto the gangplank leading to the deck of the decommissioned freighter "Venturer", shifting to his Neko-jin form and growling as the Gaki's voice came over speakers hidden somewhere.
"I'm so glad you could make it Artemis. I'm right where you left me!"
AN: I know, I know, I need to up date more rapidly. I suck. Well, here's a chapter for you folks! I Swear I'm going to try to do better. Course I've said that before. Blame Genma Saotome!
Oh, and as for you folks who thought Nerima meant a Ranma Crossover, Nerima actually IS a ward of Tokyo from what I've been able to find out. That's not to say super powered martial artists are or isn't running around there, but they didn't show up for that robot.