SailorStar9: After getting the prologue out, this is Chapter 1 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Pairings: Mainly Tieria/Sasha, Allelujah/Marie, Lockon Jr./Anew, Billy/Sumeragi, Patrick/Kati

Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.

Chapter 1: Catchphrase

About a week later after Sasha's group had settled down in Crystal Tokyo...

"So, who was the one who said 'The word 'love' isn't in my dictionary'?" Idony Linsey, the silvery blonde who was the current incarnation of Sailor Venus, teased.

"Shut up." Sasha blushed.

"Embarrassing gossip on my dear sister?" Allelujah slid in on a nearby chair. "This, I got to hear."

Idony grinned wildly and began her recollection.

Flashback

"Page 42?" Makoto flipped to the above-mentioned page.

"These are the results of the National Practice Exams." Ami stated.

"First place: Mercury, 100% in all five subjects?." Makoto gawked.

"Mercury..." Chibi-Usa mused. "That is you, right, Ami?"

"That's right." Ami adjusted her glasses. "You take the exams under a pen name of your choice. The problem is this person." she pointed to the pen-name listed above her.

"Mercurius?" Minako blinked.

"That's Latin for Mercury." Artemis supplied.

"Lately, that person has been getting a perfect score alongside me." Ami declared. "I wonder if this is a challenge against me. Maybe a new enemy."

"It's so like you to overreact over such minor things, huh, baby sister?" Allelujah ribbed.

"That's what we said." Idony chuckled.

"We tied for first place again!" Ami exclaimed, the study table in Rei's room was piled high with textbooks. "This person is not just anybody to be placed first every time."

"And what does that make you?" Rei deathpanned.

"And I can guess where this is going..." Allelujah sweatdropped. "You went overboard in your studying, didn't you?" he cast a rebuking look at his sister.

"I expected nothing less from Sasha's older brother. You understand your sister so well." Idony nodded. "For that's exactly what she did."

"I can't move." a feverish Ami was sick in bed the next day. "Mercurius, were you the one who is doing this to me?"

"You suffering is a sign that your selfish desires have taken over." Bonnûn, who had piggybacked on Ami the previous night, taunted. "Now, it's the time to finish the job. The start of all desire: Love Letter Attack!" she produced a pile of love letters and flung them at her target. "There is nothing like a first love to confused the heart."

"I can't move..." Ami winced. "No!" she shrieked with a love letter was slapped on her forehead. "These reactions I'm getting... are love letters!"

"That's not all." Bonnûn giggled.

"All the English equations are leaving my head!" Ami exclaimed as Bonnûn extracted the information out of her brain.

"You'll lose consciousness and finally give in to me, Bonnûn." said guardian spirit chuckled.

"Who are you?" Ami tugged the love letter off her forehead and glared at her opponent. "You're Mercurius!"

"No, I'm not." Bonnûn protested.

"How cowardly." Ami got to her feet. "My headache, sleeping in seminar class, it's all your fault! I won't give up! Mercury Crystal Power, Make Up! Exam class + seminar class + square root of stress (sabotage/rival) = Mercurius = enemy = defeat!"

"I'll never be able to understand your thought process, dear sister." Allelujah's sweatdrop grew bigger.

"Going so far to be number one." Super Sailor Mercury presented herself. "I can't forgive you! Sailor of Love and Intellect, Sailor Mercury! Stick your head in cold water and repent! Now I'm going to put an end to this never-ending battle for first place! I'll show you Mercury's winning equation. Mercury Aqua Mirage!" she took out the genius loci with her most powerful attack.

"Did you girls ever find out who 'Mercurius' was?" Allelujah thought to ask. "But why that pen-name, though?"

"Apparently, according to Usagi at that time, his real name was Suri Kurume." Idony explained.

"Which is 'Mercurius' spelled backwards." Allelujah realized.

SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just love plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.