Gold Digger the Insertion files chapter 20

Soldiers and Sailor Senshi

By Agent Reptile

This is fanfiction. All properties used are their respective creators. I am not getting money for this work. I hope you will like and review, please and thank you.

Two glorious weeks of relaxation is what Britanny and I got after our trip to Ireland. Between the excessive trips around the planet, the facing off against time traveling pooches, and facing supervillains all in the span of about 72 hours, we were just too tired to do much more for a bit. Wrapped up things in New York, gave Razor a new exoframe around his legs and just sit back and relax till the diplomatic meeting right?

Well that is what I and Britanny wanted and what I had hoped for as we crashed on the bed after finally getting back to Atlanta. I was exhausted and was suffering some serious jetlag. I just collapsed on Britanny's bed and found myself surrounded by all the various cloths that Britanny "needed" to buy….I just said to heck with it and was probably laying on top of some sort of dress or something. Honestly the jetlag had hit as soon as we landed and all I could think of was

Understand viewer that Britanny's room is absolutely huge and her bed to match her height. It was filled with drawers and drawers of her cloths, luxurious sheets, and a few unmentionables tucked away

"But all my new cloths…" Britanny was about to start crying. "they're all over the place and look like they all exploded from their boxes." My beloved started to cry a bit.

"Sorry babe I…" I was just too tired and at least I wasn't wearing by boots in the house.

"If I was going to have my cloths all over the place then I wanted you to show myself off for you." Britanny pouted while dropping her top a bit and pressing her biceps to her chest making her rather pronounced bust look even bigger as she gave me a clear line of sight to her impressive cleavage.

"Babe you spoil me." I smile as I looked into those huge green eyes withing a sea of blue green.

"Well you do me so right…." She said as she slowly teased me as Britanny finally got to show off her amazing body before me. I tried to get up and reach for her, but she waved her finger for a moment and then pressed her finger to my nose and playfully pushed me back to the bed. I went flying back and bounced a bit on the bed as Britanny smirked and waved her finger at me.

"No no babe, I've been wanting to do this for a while now and right now I want to show you something special…" Britanny turned around and slide off her jacket while teasing me with her tail. "And since a certain fiancé of mine put in all the effort in so much, I'm going to make sure that he knows how much I appreciate all of that hard work…"

Britanny then shook her hips from side to side and started to play some sort of catchy jazzy uptempo beat music I didn't recognize. Britanny then began to sing as she kept shifting her weight back and forth on her muscular legs, gave me a great view of her toned butt and her ripped shoulders and back. Yes my waifu fiancée was showing me an impressive strip dance in her room. Now this entire event could be thrown out as wish fulfillment fantasy nonsense completely out of character for her, incredulous for the events that were going on in the rest of the world with one Lich King do deal with, a peace treaty to sign, etc. if not for the fact that Britanny was known for doing things exactly like this in the 90s comics and it only got less fanservice style after she was married. Heck Britanny literally flashed a group of Kryn in one comic accidentally when Gina messed with a modified light gate generator Brianna was working on.

This though was different in some way that some indulgent erotic fiction of some egotistic writer, or at least I hoped it was.

Britanny Diggers was always a bit of a show-off of her body when it came to her body-building, and this led to the view of some that she was just vain or shallow. In reality Britanny put a ton of work into all that she could about herself. Her weightlifting, aerobic exercises, martial arts, fashion tastes, ect were far more than just the actions of some shallow-minded Barbie doll stereotype, but the result of hours of dedication and willpower to overcome her limits in her way. And now I was in a front row seat to her showing off her amazing form before me. Her fur was this shinning truly golden sea dotted with spots that flashed by as her body moved with unparalleled graces and speed. She matched the temp of the music beat for beat and was raising her voice up to the heavens as if in perfectly timed utterances of her whole being were her very being was set free.

Britanny's dance was a twisting of her arching back, far more flexible than any human could be, her thrusting legs, her tail sliding in nearly as mortally possible the perfect position to hold herself in poses no human woman could balance such a frame in. At over 300 lbs you would think Britanny would move with all the dexterity of a tow-truck, but no she was muscle, curve, and womanly werecheetah and the hours upon hours of diligent hard work had resulted in not only speed and power, but a flexibility and artistry I couldn't have dreamed of. Changing with the tempo of the song again, my beloved pumped her arms in quick repeated beats as she bounced off the ground and did a series of mid-air backflips landing on the tips of her toes before stretching out her hand pointing towards me and cupping her lips in a swooning motion as I could see her outstretched carefully manicured nails extending as if a direct line from her gorgeous face to her lips all the way pointing towards me as she held her tail like a microphone in her other right hand as she so deliberately had slid her tail between the mounds of her cleavage and pressed it to her left breast emphasizing her heart. Releasing her tail she cupped her hands in front of her chest before dropping down and sliding her palms up her body, letting her chest bounce slightly and then releasing her hands in front of her face that she had timed to eye level with me and sent me an air kiss. She then brought her hands behind her head and ran her fingers through her pony tail while lifting her head up and back effortlessly sliding into a hand-stand with her body held up solely by one hand.

She now had one foot in her free and her free leg was stretched out showing her rock-solid arms, back, butt, and legs as she held fast for a few beats. While many would wonder as to how I could see such details, her build was so tightly packed that her fur showed off every single line and sinew as if formed from living liquid gold or the pure white of the freshly laid new upon the Rocky Mountains. Britanny matched the rhythm again and brought her free leg around as she pivoted on free hand and swung her foot very close to my face as she guided my view from her adorable toes, to her foot, calf, thigh, and her tight crotch and then so meticulously released her held foot and righted essentially cartwheeling into her standing position. I had lost all notice of the music, only feeling the beat as Britanny had moved so in perfect unison with it. And as the song seemed to end, Britanny and once more gotten to eye level and ended the song looking at me with one eye closed winking at me as she blew me another kiss.

"Well muffin, how do you think about my first impromptu dance for you?"

I smiled and started clapping ecstatically blowing her kisses. "Britanny how exactly did you become such a perfect example of amazing and womanhood?"

"Awe now you're going to get me to blush…but muffin I have to ask, would you be willing to help me organize all these boxes, as a thank you for the show?" Britanny made her eyes as big as she could in her pleading and then Britanny moved her top to just about pop her rather impressive bust out.

"You mischievous and cunning troublemaker…." I smiled at her.

"Hey you love to get into trouble muffin so willing to help?" Britanny asked as she almost slid on top of me. "And after we get all this put away you can get into trouble again…"

I wrapped my hand behind her head and reached up kissing my beloved on the lips, teasing her rather sharp teeth with my tongue. We danced a bit in our mouths as we started to try and see who could suck the air out the other's lungs the fastest. With Britanny's larger lungs in hybrid form she probably would win.

"You keep this up and I'll be adding to that pile around the room rather than picking it up." Britanny smiled as she effortlessly kept me pinned to the bed. "So how does it feel to be pinned by your powerful lover, completely at my mercy and knowing that the woman you love has you at her mercy?" Britanny joked as she started to tease me a bit squeezing me a bit with her hips.

"Completely fine as I happen to know that your heart is just as big and that you are too sweet to do me any harm." I smiled back as I ran my fingers across her massive leg muscles and tickled her fur.

Britanny just smirked as she shacked her head from side to side and pressed her hands into my shoulders. My beloved then started to chuckle. "Muffin how on earth is it that you can be so infuriating in your complete sweetness? Just…" Britanny laughed a bit as she pressed her head to mind completely encapsulating our faces in a private room. "Here I am doing a strip-tease and trying to indulge in some dominance and you just..." She smiled as we kissed again.

"Keep seeing you as the loveliest woman inside and out that I trust completely?" I answer trying to put a smile on her face.

"Muffin…." Britanny smiled at me, flashing her fangs for a moment. "You and I are going to be making some serious personal time…" We started kissing again when there was a knock on the door.

"Hey Brit is Alex in there with you? We need to talk." Gina yelled through the door. Britanny groaned as she got up and grumbled as she got to the door.

"What do you want sis?" Britanny growled as she looked down at her sister. "I'm busy with muffin organizing all our stuff away."

"Wait you organize?" Gina started to chuckle. "Does my sister finally have a sense of responsibility?" The shorter of the two Diggers started to laugh.

"Tell me what you want or the door gets slammed in your face." Britanny said as I saw her bend down to look Gina right in the eyes.

"Okay look this is really important." Gina said lifting up her hand in a sign the teasing was over. "Alex we got a message from the energy minister from Japan and they want to build an arc reactor immediately."

"Okay so what's the problem? Isn't that a good thing?" I replied getting up off the bed and trying to navigate the scattered cloths around me.

"They want you to build a functional module for their Tokyo Azabu Jūban Ward, as in immediately make a functional unit which we can have for them to deal with their extended outage issue." Gina explained.

"So what does that have to do with muffin? Just build the thing, plug it in, and get on with our lives." Britanny flippantly said as she checked to make sure that her top wasn't too revealing as she let her sister was welcomed into the room. My love started to pick up her new purchases as Gina checked where she was stepping.

"Uh let me help babe." I said getting up to help Brit.

"No no you and Gina need to talk business." Britanny sighed. "Just get it over as quickly as possible." My love felt a bit dejected, but she was right. I was going to make it up to her in a very big way.

"Okay so we could make one for the whole Tokyo area in what 24-30 hours?" I said focused on Gina. "I turn into Tony Stark, we make the reactor the size of a pool table, and badda bing badda boom we get the contract."

"That's not the issue Alex. They want Tony Stark himself to make the unit and build the infrastructure in person for the unit. They want it to be completely secured. They won't admit why, but I talked with Dad about this and supposedly the once a month or once a week attack on people by monsters only to be defeated by those Sailor Scout girls we've talked about has increased to nearly once a day."

"Okay so time to do the usual superhero thing as well…easy peasy lemon squeezy right Gina?" I asked smirking.

"Not when the usual energy draining yoma are backed up my massive armies of undead it isn't. Doesn't that sound a bit familiar Alex?" Gina said in her absolute serious face just about shoving photos in my face.

"Are those…animated skeletons?" I asked taking the paper.

"Wait what now? That doesn't sound…Japanesey to me." Britanny said as she looked over my shoulder at the images before her.

"Well there are giant skeleton monsters in Japanese mythology, but who does this really sound like?" Gina as wrapping her arms under her bust and death glaring at us.

"Grandpa Diggers?" I asked.

"Yep, good old Lynch King himself." Gina confirmed. "So any idea why he would be attacked half-way around the world rather than directly here in Georgia?"

I thought for a moment. "He released Brendan the Betrayer earlier, obviously wants the peace talks to die, and I'm guessing that he wants to put his undead consciousness into another body if memory serves me right."

"Can he do that?" Britanny asked. "I mean possess a living host?"

"He tried with Gina in the comics, mainly as his power was almost spent conquering the undead realm…." I answered.

"And you didn't think to warn me?" Gina just about yelled.

"Sorry I had a lot on my mind thank you." I retorted back. "I don't know everything okay, just…look I'm sorry but between Brendan, the peace talks, the engagement, and….I'm sorry I'm distracted okay." I said in my defense.

Gina to her credit, acquiesced. "I can, understand that." She nodded. "But we got a call while you were in Ireland and they just faxed us an update. We need that module ready in two days or they will stop negotiations immediately. And if Japan won't try us then that means the EPA won't be as open to building one stateside." The genius Diggers said.

I relaxed a bit. "Okay…well we don't have a choice then. We need to get to Japan ASAP, build the unit, find out what the mess is, and hopefully be back in plenty of time for the peace accords."

"An excellent idea young man." I heard a familiar older man's voice say as the smell of tobacco filled the room. "Though with the very tangible danger of my father now clear, this isn't going to be another mere adventure into a foreign land. This requires my and my wife's personal interest as well."

"Oh Mom's joining us too?" Britanny smiled.

"She has, but Tanya will be staying behind as she agreed that it would be too easy for her to be mistaken for a non-human threat to an already very on edge populous." Dr. Diggers smiled. "Séance though has agreed to join us along with Genn since they both would better pass off as normal human visitors."

"I guess that means more time in human form." Britanny sighed a bit, having actually gotten her clothing folded and packed for the trip.

I just walked up and hugged her. "I don't care what form you are in love. You are beautiful to me no matter what okay?" Britanny smiled and in one fluid motion and picked my up and was just about squeezing the wind out of me in a huge hug.

"Oh you.." She just kissed me on the lips.

"So how exactly are we going to get to Japan into what is the magical equivalent of a war-zone?" I asked as Britanny proceeded to stack several bags of luggage for the trip. Honestly far more than she would ever likely use, but it then occurred to me that she was getting cloths for her human and hybrid sizes on top of having to have replacements for everything knowing how easy it was for her to find her cloths just ripped to shreds.

"Funny you should ask that…." Gina chuckled.

I half expected to fly via jet or commercial travel. Maybe even use the Blackbird again. But nope we were flying inside one of the least inconspicuous transports ever built: the UD-4 Cheyenne dropship.

"Why are we in this flying metal box?" Mesha asked as the dropship rocked as we were flying across the Pacific Ocean. See reader, the Cheyenne drop ship is essentially a brick of a vessel with a central-line cockpit with the pilot seated below and in front of the navigator and weapons system officer. The body of the craft was slightly curved around the upper edge where the ram jet intake and the scram jet intake manifolds line the sides flanking the cockpit. The front half of the craft is a wide bodied blocky shape with a slight narrow gap leading to the second blocky section which was the hyperjet system and booster rockets, and at the end was wide spread horizontal fins and smaller vertical fins.

Contained within this huge and seemingly non-aerodynamic craft was an APC where myself and most everyone else was buckeled into. Was it as smooth a ride as the Blackbird? Nope not even close. Tark, Mesha, and Theo were very uncomfortable being bounced about a bit and the copious amount of metal was making Dr. Diggers very unhappy.

"Why would anyone travel like this?" Theo asked.

"It's a dropship Theo." I answered. "Comfort is secondary to survivability from orbital fast drop." I pointed out as the aircraft shook a bit.

"Remind me again muffin, why are we taking this bumpy, enclosed, unfortible, brick rather than say FIRST CLASS?!" Britanny groaned as she held on tight to the restraining bar. Being in human form was the only way she was going to fit inside the APC, and being bumped about was not how she wanted to travel.

"Sorry babe." I said as I patted her. "Brianna wanted to try out her new toys and we can use the extra firepower."

"Hey how is everyone back there?" Gina said as she called from the front of the command section of the ground vehicle.

"About ready to punch a hole in this thing Gina. What do you think?" Britanny growled as she started to squeeze the restraining bar.

"Okay miss sassy pants." Gina smiled. "We should be landing soon. I don't know why you are so upset."

"Gina my dear, you have a comfortable chair to sit in while we only have the equivalent of those rollercoaster bars and none of the benefit of being able to see where we are going." Julia pointed out in as polite a tone she could while her Amazonian fury was being restrained.

"Oh sure understand." Gina chuckled. "Hey everyone want to listen to some music while we arrive?" The super genius of the group.

While I had hoped that Gina would have turned on the radio, she instead started to sing while playing a tape cassette.

"ARG Muffin what was this thing called again?" Britanny asked me as she covered her ears and shivered as Gina's horrible singing kept running shivers down our spines.

"The Express Elevator to hell?" I answered.

"Yeah, where is the express part of that statement?" My beloved werekitty lady just about yelled at the top of her lungs.

The touchdown went somewhat smooth as we could feel the landing skids hit the ground and the loading ramp for the APC drop. The jolt from the acceleration of the APC was minor, but I could almost feel the wheels peeling off as Gina was essentially driving a tank like a sport's car.

"Okay people we are here. Just let me secure the cargo and we can get to the hotel." Gina smiled as she unbuckled and started walking back into the passenger compartment.

"Sorry the what?" Britanny just about growled at her sister.

Gina just ignored Britanny as the inventor moved past everyone else and pressed a wall panel in the APC. Even with the 80s-esk style of armored vehicle, it was a bit weird to see a rather modern touch screen built into the vehicle.

"Excellent. Everything is running smooth and green." Gina smiled as she tripped a switch and pulled out a glowing disk that looked like a LED covered drink coaster. Yep protected within the armor plating of the transport was a small Arc Reactor unit powerful enough to power not only the vehicle, but several city blocks.

"You're not just going to remove it and carry that around in your purse are you?" Britanny asked. "What if it breaks?" My love huffed as she looked over the glowing device.

"Of course I wouldn't just carry it in my purse." Gina smirked. "I'm going to carry it in this." Gina said as she lifted up something about the size of a shoebox, but taller than wide. The engineer of the team deftly uncoupled the top of the container and slid the reactor into the housing of the transport unit. Gina then placed the top back onto the container and we could hear the soft woosh of air as the housing vacuumed sealed and Gina reset the unit housing so that it was armored covered again. At that moment the inside of the unit was flooded with white light.

"Perfect; worked like a charm." Gina smiled as she walked out of the APC.

"Wait how did the lights turn on after the reactor was pulled?" I asked, trying to understand what Gina was doing.

"You didn't build this one hun?" Britanny asked as we all got out and stretched our legs.

"I didn't build any of this my love. I just gave Gina the designs and blueprints and she has been making her own hybrid designs on her own." It was then as I finally got a look at the APC we had been in. While focused on loading luggage and getting ready for the trip, I hadn't had time to look at the thing and thought that it was just like the APC unit used by the Colonial Marines. Now in the light of the mid-day Japanese sun I saw that instead of a blocky dull grey flat thing with wheels and frame way too close to the ground to clear anything more than an asphalt road, Gina had installed hydraulic wheel assemblies with independent suspension that unfolded from the undercarriage and the front of the vehicle was a broad open transparent cavity where the driver had complete visual acuity for miles instead of the pill-box slit window of the older APC. The guns had been moved from the turret system to two mini-gun assemblages flanking the cockpit with the twin rail-gun turret in the back that could swing up into the armed position was now replaced with a cannon with a single turret but with the same expanded flanks for protection.

"Gina what am I looking at here?" I asked as I was in awe of her latest hybrid product.

"Oh this? Well the original APC was powerful, but the wheels were so low that it wouldn't be able to transverse any off-road capabilities. So I took the best parts of the APC and combined it with the far more agile and fast MAKO tank. So we have the laminated composite armor with a ceramic external layer on the outside with vibranium and adamantium composite core, but the shielding system and mass effect modulator abilities of the MAKO of Commander Shepard. The trade-off was that the inside is very compact with a lot of space occupied by the batteries, weapons, and generators. Still this baby can easily hit 80 miles an hour off road when the wheels are deployed while have an almost 100% survivability from any potential hazards we may encounter." Gina beamed with pride.

"Okay so how exactly were you able to convince the authorities to allow use to have all this firepower in Japan?" Britanny asked. "Store it in weapons space is fine, but you have a tank and a aircraft probably loaded with more firepower than an aircraft carrier and we landed in an airport in the middle of one of the least armed and densely populated countries on Earth. How did you do this?" My love asked as she held her arms up in shock.

"Actually that would be a bit of my doing my dear, or rather a friend of mine insisted we be more armed than usual as the Lich King and the threat to the approaching peace agreements weren't to be taken lightly. Speaking of which, Gina there is a package I would very much like for you to retrieve for me." Theo smiled while lighting his pipe. "Brianna said she put it in the vehicle wrapped in red packaging."

Even Gina didn't know what this was all about, but she did find said package with little difficulty and handed it to her father. "Uh this what you want Dad?"

"Oh splendid." Theo smiled brighter than I had seen him before as he picked up the wrapped box and lovingly handed it to Julia. "My love, I know today was supposed to be rather special for us, and we had to change our plans, but I couldn't think of a better time to wish you a Happy Anniversary."

Julia was in tears of joy and she hugged her husband tight, almost breaking his back. "Oh you remembered. I thought that you wouldn't."

"Oh perish the thought. I just wanted to have the perfect time for you to see a small amount of my appreciation for you, and I couldn't think of a better time than now because I think you may get a chance to put it to use very very soon."

"Oh what could this be?" Britanny smiled with all the giddiness of a schoolgirl as she tried to sneak a peak at what her father had handed her mother.

Julia sliced off the wrapping with a small knife she had on her side and carefully opened the box to reveal a rather ornate scabbarded sword. "Ah how thoughtful my love." Julia said as she kissed her husband in gratitude. "But it looks almost too good to use in a fight. Just so beautiful…and did you have this specially engraved?"

"Indeed. I wanted to have all the special dates in it from our first meeting, to our wedding, Gina's birth, Britanny's adoption, Brianna's arrival on the scabbard and some smaller ones on the hilt." Theo explained. "I thought you may get a lot of use out of it soon as we may be fighting for our lives and those very things that make us family."

"Oh this is so precious, but I would be so afraid that it may break in combat." Julia replied.

"No worries about that Mom. Just give it a try and you'll see that won't be an issue." Brianna said over the loudspeaker.

Julia swiftly pulled the blade from the sheath and gave it a feel. "It feels perfectly balanced, but has very little weight, even for a rapier." Julia expertly let the blade dance in her hand as she twisted it, did a few basic sword stances, and then was about to return it to the scabbard. "A very excellent weapon, but I don't see why I should risk damaging such a treasure." Julia pointed out.

"My dear, just try to slice though something. Whatever scape you see will be fine." Theo smiled.

Julia shrugged her shoulders before walking over to an abandoned bit of fencing and proceeded to test the blade against the steel. With almost zero effort the blade went completely through the steel. Julia blinked, then ran the blade along a bit of exposed rebarb. It sliced right through with zero effort on her part.

"This blade….it cuts through anything." Julia said in joy.

"Well it should." Brianna said, finally getting out of the dropship. "I made that out of adamantium afterall."

"Adamantium?" Julia said holding the blade up and looking to find that the edge wasn't mared in the slightest.

"Yep. That sword is essentially indestructible and can slice through any known substance…outside of vibranium or adamantium….so you like?" Brianna smiled as Julia carefully slid the sword into it's scabbard and grabbed Brianna in a bit mamma bear hug and lifted her daughter off the ground. "I love it." Julia set Brianna down and ran over the Theo, nearly tackling him as she poured her appreciation onto her husband.

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but how are we supposed to just leave advanced weapons systems and tech out in the open without someone thinking we are invading?" I asked as I took a look around and tried to familiarize myself with the new land I found myself in. It was bright, hot, and muggy with a thick air that felt like it wanted to smother me in an approaching wave of moisture. So very much like a summer's day in Alabama or Georgia. But this was supposed to be one of the most densely populated parts of the free world and yet we were out in the middle of an open airstrip that was miles and miles from any sort of massive industrialization or cityscape. I admitted this was perfect as the less people looking the better, but surely someone would have noticed us soon.

"Oh don't worry about that pal." Gina smiled as Brian finally walked out of the drop-ship, and nearly puked right there on the landing site. "See we aren't actually in Japan right now, in fact we're actually parked on a defunct covert US Pacific Operations base that Agency Zero uses after the highly trained special missions forces group the base was originally meant for was mothballed a few years ago. Gina smiled as she watched the ground before us open up and a team of US soldiers in a mix of BDUs, dress A's and then a few of them were in more outlandish garments that looked less formal but more familiar.

"Dr. Gina Diggers?" The head brass said as he walked forward. "My name is General Abernathy and I welcome you to G.I. Joe Pacific Operations."

G.I. Joe …America's highly trained special missions force. Its purpose was to defend human freedom against COBRA: a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world….I was meeting with he first non-Antarctic Press organization and rather than the Sailor Scouts it was the very American team of G.I. Joe …what on earth…then it hit me like a brick to the face. Fred Perry had alluded to several universes within Gold Digger and Snakehead was supposedly a COBRA operative in the same way that TMNT made the allusion that the same radioactive slime that gave Daredevil his powers was the mutagen that created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

"A pleasure General. I take it that you wish to take a look at the gear?" Gina smiled as she walked up and put on her best sale's woman face.

"Yes, we also have more pressing concerns that we need to discuss in private." The entire landing area began to sink below the surface and a large dome covered over all of us including the Dropship and APC. It was now my time to be impressed. "Things are getting…dicey here sad to say. But as all the activity is on sovereign Japanese soil and we don't deal with magical threats that much; just human ones."

"You don't think magic is real general?" Theo asked with a smirk.

"Sir my men and I have dealt with snake-people, Lovecraftian horrors, alien lifeforms, bizarre technologies, and I have been briefed on you and your family's unique history by our friend M." The General replied. "So we are very well aware about your skills, and the fact some of your company are werecats. Speaking of which, if you wish to make yourself more comfortable Britanny feel free to do so."

I was still in awe of the subteranian base. Monitors everywhere with men and women keeping in constant radio communication. The large screen over the main computer area was a flattened map of the earth with various places marked with red cobra emblems, USA flags, and other symbols ranging from X's to weird glyphic symbols that I couldn't make out.

I was in awe that this base looked like it was right out of the cartoon. What else were they hiding in this reality?

"Werecats, of all the stupid baloney I have heard." Said one rather obnoxious sounding sailor with a beard and white Navy uniform.

Britanny smiled as instantly she shifted from her 5' adorable human form to her towering 7' tall ripped hybrid form. Her frame was just as impressive as my love started to flex a bit and show off her fantastic frame.

"You were saying Shipwreck." I heard on of the other men whisper to him. The man to his credit kept his mouth shut.

"General are you sure that this is a good idea?" A tall dark haired man in a military beret with a bandoler, black shirt, and combat fatigues asked. "This is a highly classified area and we are just inviting people in without clearance?"

"Flint Dr. Theodore Diggers has said clearance and we are inviting them here in part because they are going to help provide us with a clear advantage against Cobra. Just because the war has gone underground, doesn't mean that it is any more important to keep our edge." Abernathy explained.

"Regardless, we also hear that you are going to brief the Japanese ministry of energy on a new power source that you have developed and the US Secretary of State has formally asked us to act as body guards and observes during the demonstration." The general continued.

"So we all load up in your SUVs, give our demonstration and you get to try out your new toys?" I asked. "Sounds like a fun day for all." I tried to smile as best I could, didn't think it went as well as I hoped.

"General, while I appreciate your concern…you are aware the true danger we are facing right now with my father, his ability to summon legions of the undead, and the regular occurring yoma incidences Japan has over the last couple of years." Theo asked in a very serious tone. "No offense to you or your men, but are you truly aware of the strength and power someone like Brendan the betrayer is?"

The general looked Theo up and down as he nodded. "I'm sure that we have all seen the movies growing up, but officially we are only here to bodyguard you and report on the success of your demonstration."

"And unofficially general, if I may asks?" Julia respectfully addressed the man.

"Unofficially, there is no denighing the legitimate threat that these various monsters pose to humanity."

"Monsters?" Britanny growled.

"By their actions Ms. Diggers not because you get furry." The general said raising his hand. "We have seen the citizens drained of energy on a monthly and now seemingly daily basis and we are incapable in offering assistance as G.I Joe no longer officially exists and even if we did we are an official branch of the United States Government."

"Which means that your hands are tied as the attacks are all on Japanese soil, involve only Japanese citizens usually, and the government of Japan won't officially anknowledge there is a problem as there is always a group of colorfully dressed young ladies who show up, deal with the situation, and everything gets swept under the rug. Am I correct in this assessment?" I asked respectfully.

"Right on the money young man." The general smiled at me. "But as you are US citizens and we do have the authority to act as body guards for the sake of national security and if we are able to make contact with this team of Sailor Scouts…then maybe we could find a way to permanently stop these attacks."

That was the whole reason for the go ahead in Japan then. Yes the arc reactor would be a far safer and more efficient alternative to nuclear power, but somehow someone knew that the reactor would attract yoma like moths to a flame. Still this was a just cause so for the meantime we would go with it.

"Uh pardon me a second ma'am. I really hate to bother you but is there any way for you to turn back?" A mustashed man with aviator shades asked Britanny.

"Why, do I intimidate you or something?" my love said as she flexed her muscles a bit before the joe. She gave a somewhat toothy smile to the, but made no threats to him. Most of female Joes laughed at this.

"Shoot ma'am I mean no offense, just you won't fit in the limo." He retorted, causing Britanny to chuckle and acquis.

"General, before we go I am curious about one thing." I started. "Why is it you want our technology?" I asked politely. "Now I'm a Constitution loving American and happy to ensure that America keeps an edge against those who threaten peace and freedom, but you are being extremely generous and I am thankful, but also curious."

"You doubt my sincerity young man?" The general asked, a bit terse but polite.

"Not at all. I am merely curious as the G.I. Joe I know of had access to vast funds and technologies. The best in the world to stop Cobra…but you are putting a lot on the line and all you are getting is a demonstration of an aircraft and a tank? Please level with me here General; what is it that you are trying to get?"

I was polite in my questioning and attempted to not offend our host.

"Honestly young man…what I am hoping is that we have access to an edge that is at least two or three steps ahead of whatever it is that Cobra is planning." The General said. "They have gone dark, far darker than they ever have before, but they aren't out of the game yet."

General Abernathy said looking at the screen. "Cobra has money, technology, and somehow keeps getting their fangs into every possible advancement be it communication, weapons, biological engineering, heck they even cloned an island of dinosaurs not too long ago…"

"A rather impressive feat…." Gina said, and all eyes turned to her. "OH woo not like I'm agreeing with them or anything just…that's quite the pickle to be in."

"And that is why I was hoping that perhaps you and Gold Digger industries would be interested in another business venture. Completely under the table and we won't be on the same mass manufacturing that we had before since the bean counters can't secure us nearly the funds now that the Iron Curtain has collapsed and Cobra Commander went silent after taking over Alkatraz Island and being defeated afterwards."

I smiled "The Comstock Load Submarine incident?" I asked. It was the last story arch I could remember of G. back in 1993, and I guess that was about the time that we were in right now.

"How on earth did you know about that?" a rather fit brunette woman with a spear asked. Obviously that was Lady Jay, Flint's wife. She was eyeing Julia with interest as Julia eyed her. Hopefully this wasn't going to be the start of some bad blood between them…but knowing Julia probably more a excuse to try her combat skills against a worthy opponent. Thankfully Abernathy broke up the tension.

"IF M is to have us believe, this man is from a completely different universe where we are apparently comic book characters." Abernathy said as he looked down at a file in his hands and then placed it sealed on the table near him. This didn't do much to change anyone's minds on us so I added my two cents on the matter.

"Well General I'm happy to do my patriotic duty, so what do you need? I can provide you with fully functioning X-Wings, Colonial Marine Dropships, pulse rifles, shotguns, advanced body armor, worldwide wireless communication instantly able to transfer 100 MB/s…what do you need?"

"Why not a phased plasma rifle with a 40 watt gage." A tall blonde man with short hair chuckled. I smiled, turned on my heels and headed right to Dropship.

"Hey listen it was only a joke." The man said, thinking he had offended me. I just kept smiling as I took a rifle off of the secured weapon's handle and a box from the secured floor panel.

"Look it was just a joke." He said scratching his head. "I got it off of a movie."

I didn't say a word as I presented the rifle. "One Techcom phased plasma rifle with 40 watt gage as requested. I smiled as I turned the weapon on. "Capable of searing through the endoskeleton of an terminator model included the 800 series. Now you probably only have to deal with BATs so this may very well be overkill." I offered the weapon to the man. It looked like any standard rifle, but the top glowed as the reaction chamber material indicated it was ready to fire. The actual energized particles were held in the front magazine while the energizer was a super efficient lithium battery held just below the shoulder stock.

"Care to try it out Duke?" I smiled at him.

The man lifted up the weapon and got a feel for it. "Doesn't weigh much more than a regular M-16." He noted.

"So what exactly is a 'phased' whatamakallit anyway?" A Marine with bare chest and the USMC symbol tattooe proudly showing off said scratching his head. "Looks no different than our laser rifles."

"I'm glad you asked that…"

"Call me Gun-Ho pal." He smiled back.

"Gun-Ho." I nodded. "Every one of you knows how a semi-auto, three-round-burst, and fully automatic weapon are different. The gas blow back chambering either one round, three, or the whole magazine or the release of the trigger. Plasma weapons don't operate like bullet weapons and instead release a stream of highly energized particles that melt though a target. The term phased means that the particle stream charges as the trigger is pulled and fires out in a series of charged bolts similar in appearance to a fully automatic weapon. As there are no rounds thought the firing chamber is in reality a magnetic housing that channels the charging particles and releases them when they have reached a sufficient density as determined by the wattage."

"Does it have recoil?" Duke asked, carefully feeling out the weapon.

"While it doesn't have the force going back into your shoulder from a blowback of a bullet, the magnetic housing will vibrate from the release of the energy stream as it launching the particles at the target and charges again." I pointed out. "So you have to compensate differently."

"Any drop off?" Duke asked as he lifted the rifle up and looked down the scope. A simple 2X magnification setting, but could zoom in more.

"For the projectile stream? No, but like a bullet it does have a limit to the effect range of the weapon as plasma streams will dissipate in a gaseous environment. However the weapon is more than capable of taking down a human, BAT, or even a terminator at over 100 yards depending on where it hits and the range setting. Beyond that, I suggest the use of a Kobracon Assault Cannon."

"What did you say?" Gun-Ho peaked up at the name.

"Not the same Cobra." I pointed out. "It's a .50 cal sniper rifle with recoil absorption that fires armor-piercing explosive rounds as an antimaterial/antivehicle weapon. I know that Cobra has an affinity for snake iconography and naming conventions so I can respect your…apprehension, but it has just about as much to do with taking over the world as a Shelby AC 427 or GT 500."

"So general, are you perhaps satisfied with my future son-in-law's wares?" Theo smiled.

"Very much so…And I think we can level with you a bit more. Our war with Cobra has spanned the world, and every time we think we've won they find a way to rise up and strike again. We know about their attachments to M.A.R.S. industries for their weapon research and manufacturing, and Extensive Enterprise's still provides hundreds of millions of dollars a year and right now G.I. Joe as an operative force is being called into question as the post Cold War tax payers need a break. And as Cobra seems to be hiding we are, as I said, somewhat mothballed."

"But you don't think they are gone?" Julia said, cold and serious.

"Not the least possible ma'am." Abernathy answered. "And while we may not know exactly what they are up to, a virtually limitless power source may be too tempting a target for them, and we know the Yoma will be coming out of the woodwork."

"Well Gina, it's your name on the company product. What do you think?" I asked her.

"No I get it, and having a resource Cobra doesn't have it's fangs in would probably save a lot of lives. But you are aware I'm an archeologist right? Research, publications, and having a sort of diplomatic peaceful representation around the world may not go over too well if I'm connected to a state military. Even if it's solely defensive."

"Well the answer is obvious sis. Leave the weapons and such to me." Brianna smiled. "We could even have a shell company as it were so the Joes can keep stocked, and still keep and edge against world terror, while we explore the world and test out my inventions."

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I can't believe I'm the one to point this out, but who is going to pay for all of these gifts? You said it yourself you are getting mothballed." Britanny said while everyone looked at her. "What just because I do spend a lot doesn't mean I don't know I should be careful with money. The whole reason we are trying to give Japan and then our country the reactor do-hicky was because muffin wants to pay off my credit car bill."

"Wait, you were going to build an energy company, to pay off your girlfriend's credit card bill? How much debt we talking here?" Shipwreck asked.

"None of your concern." I said back. This was getting too personal for everyone's taste.

"But it is the concern of a whole lot of people that you do get the green light here so the EPA will green light this stateside." Abernathy said. "Which is why…we are offering a somewhat generous grant to help get and keep your reactor running. You won't have to pay back in money as stock holders, but if you are willing to pay in supplies and technology, equipment and such then whatever minimal funds we will get will cover everything else to keep my Joes able to fight off Cobra and maybe help keep an eye on things beyond human terrorists." The general said.

"That's a fine line between helping and the potential of a corruption charge. No Joes will sit on any boards of the company, and this will be completely off the books?" I asked.

"Same way the F.B.I. keeps their superteam off the books. I have the okay from the Secretary of Defense right here." The general said looking over the paperwork.

"Okay let me look this over." I said as I took the paperwork and shifted into a familiar and classic series of superheroes. Superman to read though all the legalize, Batman I went over it to make sure that there was no way of discovery of my family being a target for Cobra…PeeWee was enough of a pain much less Mindbender. And Captain America and Iron Man just to be on the safe side.

"Well muffin how does it look?" Britanny said as she towered over me and looked over my shoulder.

"Okay, as strange as it is. Yes it is above board. Though I would like to add that if non-lethal developments are added to our developments then we can have an above-board branding on our equipment…just to be clear we aren't going to have anything close to the Bradly Fighting vehicle fiasco on our hands right?" I smiled. "Nothing that has my name will be only for show."

"Okay now I like this guy." Leatherneck smiled.

"But what about the whole unstable molecular uniforms we are making for M? We got the manufacturing for all this." Britanny asked.

"Excuse me fluffy, but I can build them whatever they need in Atlanta." Gina smirked.

"Well General. I say you have yourself a deal. This won't interfere with other military contract companies will it?" I asked as Abernathy and I shook on the deal.

"G.I Joe only. Most of the other big names won't deal with us now that we no longer have the lucrative business deals." I was told.

"Okay good.." I agreed. "Brianna you set up your meeting for a weapon's demonstration didn't you?"

"Indeedy do I did." She smiled, knowing where this was going. The lycanthropoid was all a tizzy with excitement.

"Have fun then I suppose demonstrating our equipment to our new friends and please try to not burn the base down." I smiled joking to her.

We separated at this point as Brianna remained with Theo and Julia as she got to show off all of her wonderful inventions. As for the rest of use we found that we were turning all sorts of heads…of course Britanny being a 7' tall werecat as well as an extremely beautiful woman turned a lot of heads.

"Boy howdy you really are tall drink of water." The same cowboy in shades whistled as he took a look at Britanny.

"Is something wrong, partner?" Britanny said with a rather interesting attempt at a southern meets western accent.

"Shoot ma'am no disrespect." He said being friendly. "Just like I asked before, how on earth are you going to fit into this vehicle and not bump your head or have enough leg room?"

I just chuckled at this Britanny blinked a moment before going back to her human form and smirking at the man.

"Better?"

At that point he laughed. "Right this way ma'am. Name's Wild Bill and I'll be your driver. My friends are called Beachhead and Cover Girl. They will be providing security to the location and during the time there till we get to the hotel."

Beach Head was about as standoffish as Batman and Wolverine as I expected, and he kept his green ski mask on even with his more formal business suit on. The lady was more comfortable in her bodyguard role and greeted us warmly.

"Gina do you know exactly where we are going?" I asked her as we filled into the black and non-descript vehicle. Something told me that there was a lot more to the limo that I expected.

"I was told we would be taken to the minister building in the Azabu-Juban in Minato Ward." Gina replied.

"Change of plans I'm afraid…for some reason they decided to set up the demonstration at the recently repaired…Juban high school?" Cover Girl said as she looked over the message in her hand. "Supposedly they say it is the most secured building standing after the recent Yoma attack."

Britanny squished her face as she got a whiff of something.

"What you got a problem with something lady?" Beach Head huffed a bit.

"Oh don't mind my sister, she's a little…." Gina said trying to tease Britanny.

"Gina are you looking for noogies, because that is how you get noogies." Britanny said tapped Gina on the top of the head. "Sorry about that. Don't worry about anything Mr. Beach Head."

"Mr? Lady I work for a living." Beach Head looked at her sternly.

"Don't worry too much about him. We usually play more…active roles rather than work as bodyguards." Cover Girl, being again more polite than Beach Head.

"Something you want to tell us?" Britanny asked, somewhat more defensive in her human form.

"Nothing." Beach Head answered. "So what's your deal kid?" Beach Head said as he looked at one very unsettled Brian Savemore, who hadn't said a thing since we left Atlanta that morning.

"Pardon?" Brian said as he tried to maintain his composure.

"You go to the same hair stylist as her or something?" Beach Head asked. "Got that same spotted dye job on you."

"It is not a dye job. I am the royal bodyguard to the princess Britanny." At that point Brian was shut up again as he keeled back from his unsettled stomach. Flying through bad weather didn't agree with him.

"Princess?" Cover Girl asked somewhat excited.

"Great royalty now. Just what we need." Beach Head grumbled.

"Don't make a big deal of this. I grew up in Georgia, I spend my time fishing, working out, doing martial arts, and adventuring the world. I didn't know I was a princess till I found what remained of my people in Africa and I only use it to tell Brian here to lighten up. I really don't want to make your jobs any more difficult than they are already." Britanny said as we drove on. It was kind of weird how the environment changed so fast as we went from a covert military base's secure underground garage to the big city's busy streets to a rather open suburban living area. And the high school didn't look too different from any other high school with classrooms on multiple levels, a gym area, and an open track. Strangely enough there were no people.

"Is school out for the year or something?" I asked as I looked around.

"Uh Alex." Gina said pointing to me.

"Oh right, dress up time." I said assuming the form of one Tony "Iron Man" Stark. Now one may argue that showing up decked out in red and gold armor would turn a few heads coming out of a limo with a spotted haired pair of people with elf-like features, two obvious military people, and a cowboy, but keep in mind that this is an anime Japan in the 90s…..and the armor was that nanite armor which camouflaged itself as a business suite.

"Great he's like Zartan." Beach Head groaned as he pulled off his green ski mask.

"Hey at least the ones with the weird powers are on our side now." Cover Girl said as she covered her glock in her jacked.

"Hey if it helps, I'll buy everyone a round as a thank you when we are done." I said smiling in the best Tony Stark way possible.

Now reader why would I need to be in the form of Tony Stark to demonstrate how the arc reactor worked. Well Gina put Tony Stark as the lead designer on the paperwork. Well at least they have someone who knows the reactor system coming and going demonstrate it.

"Gentlemen." The energy minister said as he stood up and bowed. "We are glad that you agreed to join us here today."

"A pleasure." I smiled as we approached a small table.

"You do have to agree that your claims as to power output are rather….unbelievable." On of the suited men said as he looked over some papers on his desk. I guessed it was Gina's report.

"Well gentleman, would you like to see the reactor in question?" I asked, as Tony's confidence started to flow.

"And how would you demonstrate a theoretical concept?" One of the men looking at us said.

"Actually Mr. Stark agreed to do more than merely discuss theoreticals. You have the reactor on hand?" The energy minister asked.

"And actual reactor with these output numbers? Sir the only way this would work is cold fusion." The man said. "Are you saying Mr. Stark that you cracked the cold fusion puzzle?" The man was a scientist, maybe an engineer or physicist. I smiled.

"Gina, would you be so kind?" The other genius smiled as she placed the container on the table and lifted the seals with an audible swoosh as air rushed in. Inside was a cylinder about the size of a short beer and the diameter of a standard drink coaster. The top was glowing with a white-blue glow as the reaction continued.

"Gentlemen, the arc reactor. This unit as it is now can provide enough power to sustain your city virtually indefinitely." Gina smiled as presented the reactor for everyone to see. This caused people to chuckle a bit. The minister didn't.

"I assume that you didn't set up this meeting just as a prank?" The government official said in some level of controlled anger.

"I assure you this is no prank." I said as the minister looked me right in the eyes. "Care to have a demonstration?"

"Very well." He nodded as Gina plugged the reactor into the power system. "We have set up this test where the school will be cut off from the city's power supply. Do you agree to show this device works as promised."

"Go ahead." Gina smiled, knowing this was going to work so well all the men there would be dumbstruck. The lights went dim for a moment as all power was cut to the building. Then I switched the arc adaptor on letting the reactor power the school. Instantly the lights, equipment, everything powered back on without a single problem.

"Very nice. Shall we continue the shut-down test?" the Minister said as those at the table tried to contain their awe.

"Feel free." I said. The minister picked up the phone he had before him and said something in Japanese into the device. Minute after minute he was repeating something as the men at the table continued to act in awe. Gina was smiling as bit as she did when seeing Dreadwing's treasure.

At the end of several minutes the man on the table was blinking as he continued in Japanese. He then put the phone down in shock. The men at the table were watching him intently as the government official was in such a state of disbelief that he fell back into his chair.

"Minister?" One of them finally asked in English.

"It works." He murmured.

"Sir how far did the test go?" The very one who pointed out the whole "cold fusion" connection to the arc reactor.

"All of it." The minister said a bit in shock.

"All of it?"

"All of Tokyo is being powered by that thing on the table…" This caused everyone to back up a moment in shock.

"The entire city is powered by that one small reactor? Is it radioactive?"

"Feel free to test it." I smiled seeing them bring out a series of instruments. Giger counters, thermometers, etc.

"You have a fully functional cold fusion style reactor able to power a city and being the size of a can of beans?" The scientist said in awe.

"Now, imagine what would happen if a fully sized reactor would be built? Say the size of a modern coal or nuclear reactor? You could power more than just Tokyo with clean and efficient energy and keep the reactor far from civilization allowing for more people to have room to live?" I was going to mention the fact that Yoma attacks would probably be drawn away from major city centers and people if there was an energy source far from populated areas, but that was one would have probably be ignored as urban myth by these people.

The minister looked at his subordinates and nodded. "Very well we shall….."

It started as a sudden breaking of glass as some…chick I was guessing…in a business suite, military uniform thing showed up and started chuckling.

"As if today couldn't get any weirder." Beach Head groaned as he went for his sidearm.

"Oh what do we have here?" The very androgynous individual said as they were holding some sort of glowing rock in their hands.

"What on earth is going on here?" Gina said scratching her head.

"Well I'm sure that's not Kryptonite." I said wondering what this person wanted.

"Oh foreigners, how quaint." The individual said. "And what do we have here? A brand new power source that would be perfect for my queen Beryl." And then started the whole cliché villain chuckling.

"Yeah that's my power source so if you want to discuss buying our services you'll have to submit an application." I smirk at her.

"How dare you assume that we would pay for something we could steal for free." Then came the laughter as they threw that glowing rock thing and hit the energy ministers in this sickening green aura smoke thing that caused them to choke and begin to change into monstrous versions of themselves.

Britanny wasn't even waiting to be told what to do as she and Brian transformed into her hybrid form, grabbed Gina and Cover Girl while Brian grabbed Beach Head and the two werecheetahs ran out of the blast zone while my armor wrapped around my body and I launched into the air.

"Okay I don't know who you are, but attacking people I want to work with is a very good way to get on my badside, so as I don't want to cause collateral damage to a school, why don't you undo what you just did and scram?" I said looking over this…guy…gal…okay Sailor Moon had some interesting characters and my scanners weren't getting much with all the "magic" this individual was giving off.

"Oh this is new. But I am Zoisite, general of Queen Beryl and I won't be stopped by some tin plated hero want to be." Even the voice was indetermininate. Well at this point I was beyond done at this point.

"Zoisite huh? A calcium aluminium hydroxy sorosilicate mineral? You know who I am?" I smirked under the helmat.

"What some gold knight?" I was laughed at.

"I…AM. IRON MAN." I yelled my thrusters roared and I slammed my fist right into this Zoisite character's face. The magic field prevented me from vaporizing their head with that punch, but I could feel the jaw slide from the impact and sent them flying several yards into the grass of the track field leaving a hole in the ground similar to a rather famous coyote.

"Huh kind of a glass jaw kid. Maybe you should change your name." I smile while hovering over the ground. I zoomed in the focus a bit and saw the uniformed being stumbling to get to their feet.

"You have really done it you know…" I could hear the recovering chump said. "You have really done it you tin-platted…" showing surprising intelligence for what was a generic girl's anime disposable villain, I was attacked by a bolt of pure dark energy that lanced at me like a long-range force bolt. Kind of impressive honestly. I just slammed my fists together as to activate the passive buff of requiring less power to use my abilities and started to close the gap between us. Wasn't sure if badguys had something like a limited energy pool, but the more readings I got meant the more information I could get on this freak.

"You know I was impressed when you started taking shots at me before finishing your insult, but you need to work on your aiming." I smile as I closed in and fired a repulser blast at a slightly higher setting than human. Didn't want to kill the target after all.

"What the?" The same dark energy was now being used as a shield around my foe as my repulsers pushed them back a good twenty yards. I increased the output to see if I could carefully crack the shield, but impressively it seemed to hold pretty darn good.

"Okay kid, you've got some tricks on you. But I can hold my own against a guy with ten mystic rings of power. So why don't you just surrender peacefully before anyone gets hurt?" I said as the plasma stream kept flowing at the foe on my targeting reticle.

"Of all the insane and idiotic….you know I was just going to steal that power thing and let you go, but right now I am pissed. So have it your way." Using the last bit of power that was in this…guy…dude's? Let's go with dude as that can be gender neutral. Dude's remaining power, he did the equivalent of a mystic flash bang and rammed another one of those noxious mystic rock things into the ground while my targeting system was overloaded visually.

"Okay what did you just do, and am I going to have to vaporize you for doing it?" I asked as I looked around and saw that the dude was now gone. "Well that's the pits."

"Alex get your metal plated ass over her right now." Gina screamed over the radio. "I have no idea what you are doing this moment but we are not facing the Army of Darkness V in here as every cheap skeleton monster is ripping the floor up!"

"Oh shit." I raced back to the gym with my long range scanner trying to lock onto any enemy I could to fire as soon as I was in range. Gina wasn't kidding about the skeletons as a horde of hundreds of them were coming up out of the ground and she, Brian, Britanny, Cover Girl, and Beach Head were now fighting for their lives.

"What kind of grade B horror shit did we walk into?" The Ranger said as a .45 ACP round from his service pistol blew about the skull of one of the skeletons. "Wild Bill we need back up and air support pronto!"

"Oh doggy what in tarnation is going on here?" I saw Wild Bill ask as he shot upon another skeleton with a Remington 12 gauge.

"Ask fly boy up there. Some freak in a uniform floated in and everything went to hell afterwards." Beach Head shot back as Gina's blaster ripped through about five of the things on the Ranger's flank.

"Hey got another one of those things? I'm running low one ammo."

"Stupid punch-me monsters." Britanny said as she sweep kicked about a dozen of the things, popped up, kneed on to dust, smashed another one in the head, elbowed another, and then preformed a flawless crescent kick through the rest.

"Are these actual walking dead?" Cover Girl asked as she changed magazines in her glock.

"Close to them." Britanny said, kicking and punching as fast as her werecheetah speed could go. "Grandpa Diggers can animate them through some arcane means, but they go down like flies. The big problem is that there are so many they wear you down." My love said running thought a bunch of the boneheads trying to cause them to break up in her vortex trailing behind her, and it was working till all the bones started to trip her up. She started to slide across the floor and braced herself so that she could use her body like a battering ram. It worked, till the skeletons started to grab her through the floor and choke her to unconsciousness. Not on my watch.

The HUD clicked with AOE zones marked out for maximum coverage with minimum fall-out potential. In an instant I was like a puppet as the repulsers in my palm were guided by the autofiring system and low-level plasma discharges lanced through the air and struck the round causing many of the rattly bonebrains to become unstable enough that when I dropped like a lead weight.

BOOM

They feel into many pieces on the floor.

"Is everyone okay?" I asked as I helped Britanny to her feet. Her neck had slightly scratches in it from the grip that nearly blacked her out.

"Fine, but we aren't done."

"Uh what in tarnation happened here?" Wild Bill said loading the shotgun in his hands. "Looks like someone set off a landmine in a gravesite."

"Not that far from it." Gina said as she looked around. The demonized government guys were missing from the room, and that was bad.

"Okay we need to grab that thing and book it now." Beach Head said catching a couple of mags Wild Bill handed to him and Cover Girl. "We are low on ammo, support, and we have a national security issue to report."

"We can't leave." Gina said firmly.

"Okay look I understand that what we saw was weird, but it isn't safe here. We need to get you and that reactor thing out of her and…."

"WE….CAN'T….LEAVE." Gina growled.

"Well why not?" Cover Girl asked.

"You see this glowing reactor? This thing that we built to help make world energy safer and easier for everyone, the reason for the test?" Gina said as she took off her glasses and cleaned them.

"So what about it?" Wild Bill asked.

"Did you hear what the Energy minister said before we were interrupted?" Gina asked in a rather condescending and abrasive tone. "How the entire city is now running off of that reactor?" Gina was even more adamant in her voice.

"Wait…you mean that you remove that thing and the whole city goes dark?" Cover Girl said in awe.

"And with no one to tell the power structure to reactivate their side of the feed….well you think about how many people's lives are going to have a bad day…." Gina said as she reenergized her blaster.

"Okay we need to find those guys and undo whatever it was that happened to them." I said. "On top of that we need to secure the…."

As if we weren't having enough problems already, we heard the sound of a rather out of breath young female start yammering something in Japanese….okay yes we were in Japan but yammering fit as what was said was completely incomprehensible to most of us. And as for who and what was making this noise, as if out of nowhere there were five miniskirt wearing high school girls in various colored outfits standing in front of the open door.

"What are they saying Gina?" Britanny asked as she looked at her braniac sister.

"I don't know…you'll be punished….something about schools…." Gina said scratching her head.

"Am I on drugs? Did that bitch Baroness slip something into my coffee?" Beach Head groaned as he put his pistol in his holster and went towards the limo to probably get more guns and ammo.

As if not used to being ignored, the obvious leader of the group started yelling at the top of her voice as the others didn't know what to do.

"Okay hold on. Run a translation on what she just said please." I asked my computer in the armor. The translation was, and of course it was,

"Halt evil doers how dare you ruin the newly rebuilt school gym just as the festival dance was going to be held tomorrow. In the name of the Moon you will be punished."

Britanny, having as much patience as Beach Head at this moment, picked up Gina by her shirt, walked over towards the group of high school girls, who now were in defensive stances, pointed towards her sister and said.

"Talk to her. I don't speak Japanese." My loving lady's comment had no malice in her voice, just unbridled frustration and a "I am so done with this shit" tone.

"Wait, why are you here if you don't speak Japanese?" The second blonde of the group said scratching her head.

It was at this point the blue haired one with the visor started to scan us with that computer in her hand and blinked a few times.

"Dr. Gina Diggers? What brings you here?" She said in perfect English.

"Oh good someone recognizes my brilliance." Gina stuck her tongue out at Britanny, who dropped her sister on the ground.

"Look, if this is a cosplay then I suggest you head home, as this isn't a safe place to be for anyone much less kids." I pointed out, though I pretty much knew exactly who they were.

"Kids, who are you calling kids you robot?" The not-leader blonde…obviously Sailor Venus said.

"That's not a robot." The brainy one replied. "It looks like there is a man inside there…it's a advanced battle armor more powerful than a tank."

"Look we got off on the wrong foot here, but kids shouldn't be where demons, walking dead, and freaking magic wizards are trying to take over the world. Now we have some real problems here and…" Beach Head said as he prepped an M4 Carbine and was decked out in his more normal outfit. "Are you listening? I said you need to go home."

Ami, or as you all know by now Sailor Mercury, walked up to the demonstration table and looked at the arc reactor in awe.

"It's…it can't be real….Dr. Diggers is that a cold fusion reactor?" She asked as her visor lit up like a roman candle.

"Yep one I, and my brilliant assistant here.." She pointed towards me. "built. We call it an arc reactor and right now it is running this entire city's power grid. And if we don't find the minister, who that pony tailed weirdo cursed, we can't remove it because all of Tokyo made have a cascade blackout."

Sailor Mercury's eyes went wide as she ran back to her friend and rattled off everything that we said and how, at least as politely she could explain, we were in Charlie Foxtrot of a situation.

"Are you sure you aren't a yoma?" Mina, aka Sailor Venus asked scratching her head at the far taller Britanny. "I mean…you are furry and all."

Britanny pinched the bridge of her nose. "Okay look, I'm a werecheetah. I am supposed to be fuzzy, I am not going to hurt you, and I'm here because my fiancé was trying to help your country with it's energy problem and things went sideways. What's your name anyway kid?"

"Kid, hey I'm 16 okay. Around here I am somewhat of an adult thank you." Sailor Venus said tapping her foot.

"Okay look, I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes but we really can't stand around at yammer." Britanny said politely. "Muffin do you know what is going on."

"I do, for all the good it does us." I said. "Meet Sailors Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. The main 5 members of Sailor Moon."

"Wait wait, these are those Sailor Scouts everyone is talking about?" Wilde Bill said in confusion. "I thought they would be…well older with all the stuff people have be making of them around here."

"Uh please don't talk about that. We don't get a dime from it and some of it is really…freaky." Sailor Mercury pleaded.

"Great so the local super team is a bunch of teenagers, we have an army of skeletons to deal with, and we can't even talk with over half of them." Beach Head said. "And in even better news, looks like we aren't getting any backup because somehow we just upset a hornet's nest." The Ranger said as he pointed to the sky. It was turning dark purple and non-to-friendly.

"And we're not done here yet either." Wild Bill said as another skeleton crew started through the doorway. The loud bang of the Remington knocked a few of them away.

Sailor Mercury then scrampled on her computer as she typed with all the fury of a database designer told the presentation was moved ahead 2 weeks.

"Quick can your suit run this algorithm?" She asked me. "Please?" I could hear the absolutely seriousness in her voice as I picked up the device in her hands, scanned it, and ran whatever it was she wanted me to test. It wasn't just an algorim but a magic spell and as I did so the slow translation of the inner conversation of the Sailor Team was turned into English…just like the proximity of a Green Lantern ring that autotranslates.

"And I'm telling you that this doesn't make any sense." Sailor Mars yelled at Moon.

"Wait you're talking English right now?" Cover Girl asked in shock.

"Of course I'm not speaking English….did you just ask that to me in Japanese?" Rey blinked in confusion.

"It's an auto translate field. So long as you are near me or him we can all understand eachother. And we don't have time to fight. Zoicite has cursed the Energy Minister and his cabinet into Yoma and at this moment all of the city's power is coming from the reactor on the table. We have to find them and heal them or not only may we have a black-out that cascades across the country, but the curse that is summoning all these skeletons won't stop."

"Wait so they aren't badguys?" Sailor Jupiter asked.

"No, look no time to explain. Please you have to trust me on this." Sailor Mercury pleaded.

They all looked at each other and nodded. "Okay Ami we trust you. So…uh guys with guns were exactly did the they Yoma run off to?" Jupiter asked as she stepped forward.

"No way am I letting teenagers face off against these nightmares. We are already low on shells and bullets and facing a crisis." Cover Girl exclaimed.

"We kind of do this all the time lady." Sailor Jupiter pointed out. "On a weekly basis if not daily."

"And who else would you have defend a school but a student." Sailor Moon asked.

"In the wake of Columbine I…" Beach Head was about to retort, but cut himself off. "Look we aren't helping anything by talking. You want to go after that demon mess then I won't stop you, but you aren't going alone." He relented.

"Okay we split up. Since you Sailor Scouts all can heal people from possession, we need at least one of you paired off with one of us." Gina said thinking things through.

"Actually only I or your friend here can act as translators, so we need a team of one of us together." Sailor Mercury pointed out.

"Great it's that worm, fox, chicken puzzle all over again." Britanny groaned.

"Gina you stay here with Beach head and Cover Girl to protect the arc reactor." I said. "We will need to split the rest of our team up so that neither the skeletons or the Yoma get control of the situation." I said pointing to Gina.

"Sailor Venus you stay and if the yoma come for the reactor you can speak English fluently." Mercury pointed out.

"Brian you join whatever team Mercury is on. They can use the extra muscle and speed." Britanny said to her appointed bodyguard. He didn't argue the matter.

"So how we going to do this for the rest of us?" Sailor Moon asked.

"I'll go with the knight guy with Mars." Sailor Jupiter said.

"So Venus is it, how likely is it that these yoma are still around the building?" Cover Girl asked as the Joes formed a defensive barrier around the reactor.

"Honestly? They don't run off too far and often wait to ambush us in dark halls and corners. They aren't too bright but blinding fast and vicious." Sailor Venus said as she went full superhero serious mode.

"So uh, Brian is it…you don't bite people to turn them into other werecats right?" Sailor Moon asked as she looked upon the rather tall and powerful werecat male.

"No, that is considered a great taboo. And real werecats are always born from a mother werecat." He explained.

"Okay so…no one is the least bit confused as to how we wound up shooting skeleton demons in a high school in Japan with some school girl superheroes and werecats that are on our side?" Wild Bill asked.

We all split up at this point. While having myself with Britanny may have been favoritism, there was no way Brian would have agreed to leave her side if I wasn't right there defending her.

"So I didn't catch your name earlier." Sailor Jupiter said as we searched the school from basement to top. "My name is Sailor Jupiter and this is my associate Sailor Mars."

"You really want to get too close to them so early Lita?" Mars asked. "For all we know they could be working with Zoicite."

"Oh trust me I'm no fan of that….excuse me but is Zoicite a man or a woman?" I asked.

"You know we aren't quite sure ourselves…it's kind of confusing." Sailor Jupiter answered.

"Okay answer for an answer then. We told you what we know, to tell us what you know." Sailor Mars said. "I would like to know your names before going further."

"Call me Britanny, or Cheetah to my friends." My love said as she scoped out one of the rooms only to find some left over skeletons to crush. "And in his current state you can call my gold plated muffin Iron Man."

"Iron Man?" Jupiter asked. "And what about your gun toting friends back there? They mercenaries or something?"

"No they work for Uncle Sam. They were assigned to be our bodyguards while we tried to demonstrate a working arc reactor to help offset your county's energy problem…didn't work as we had hoped." I pointed out.

"Look sorry about that. Believe me it has gotten bad lately." Sailor Mars sighed. "We've been run ragged lately as it used to be a once a month issue with these guys…" She facepalmed as she realized what she said and everyone looked at me.

"I wasn't going to say a thing. Trust me."

"But then it became once a week as the Dark Kingdom keeps attacking people and power sources and we barely have time to keep our lives together, much less be superheroes." She relented. "I owe you both an apology for what I said earlier, we were given our powers, have no training, very little down time anymore, and somehow the latest attacks are more…coordinated and someone with a lot of power is giving the Dark Kingdom a huge advantage."

"Sounds like your grandpa is pulling some strings here." I said to Britanny.

"He's….well in life he was a good man but he was killed and cursed into becoming the most powerful Lich ever created." Britanny explained. "Looks like we have only added to your problems while trying to help."

"Hey not like you did this." Sailor Jupiter said as I took out another room of skeleton drones with microrockets. "So you guys are Americans I guess…."

"Yep so…hold up getting that weird energy field reading again." I said pulling out my armaments. "Looks like dumb and ugly is ready for round two."

As if on cue the weirdo from earlier popped into existence and started to laugh manically.

"Oh joy looks like you sailor brats have made some friends. I wouldn't get too attached to them as I owe your metal menial some payback." Oh joy another round of stupid.

"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!"

"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" both Sailor Scout elemental attacks were flashy, but highly accurate. I had thought that saying the attack would cause it to be easily avoided but with the advanced scanning of Iron Man I found that the magic actually distorted time slightly allowing for the incantation to work. Very similar to how saying SHAZAM was delayed but always hit home for Billy Batson.

Sadly Zoicite's shields held from those attacks, but left the dude perfectly stuck for this.

"Nice set-up, now try mine." I said as I shot out micro-missiles, lasers, and plasma streams when the Dark Kingdom general tried to move after dropping shields to teleport. The baddy wasn't quite fast enough.

FABOOM! Again the guy was sent flying backwards in a bloody heap.

"Did you just unleash explosives in a school?" Mars yelled.

"Against foes able to take it, not much choice." I replied.

"Look I get what you are saying, but it's not just the collateral structural damage. Schools here are heated by natural gas. If those rupture…"

"Big explosion, black out, people die." I said. "Got it changing tactics."

Britanny has having enough of not getting her turn and leapt over our heads, rolled on her hands, recovered, raced at her foe, and laid one sweet haymaker right into Zoycite's ribcage. While the general probably now had at least a few broken ribs, Britanny grabbed the target at the wrist, twisted, and pinned the minion to the ground pressing one foot into the back of her target.

"Okay enough games, I want answers. One were are the government guys you turned, two how do you turn them back, and three what did Grandpa Diggers promise you?" My love said as she pressed hard into the spine of her foe. "And don't try to break my hold, I can bend steel like you do a paperclip."

"Is she doing martial arts lessons?" Jupiter asked.

"Lita?" Sailor Mars yelled.

"What? Call it professional curtesy." Sailor Jupiter shrugged.

"I am Zoicite, Dark General of Queen Beryl. I will not be defeated by a furball and their robotic boytoy."

"Yeah okay look I'm going to level with you. This Dark Kingdom you think is so great, yeah I've faced worse. First mission in this world my love and I took down a millennia old evil dragon, then we stopped a giant society ending robot, and before that I face the likes of Hydra and Thanos. But as far as you go, you aren't that powerful."

"How dare you. With the magic the Lich King has given us we will be like gods to you." Insert again cliché evil ranting #268.

"Tell that to Loki if you see him, see what he has to say about facing the Avengers." I sighed.

"Am I going to have to press harder, because I really really don't like hurting people." Britanny said squeezing a bit harder.

"Okay okay you want to know where those humans got off to…fine let me show you.." Zoicite's eyes flared a bit as magic electrical arcs raced out from that shield thing and sent Britanny shocked back a it.

"Brit you okay?" I asked as the general teleported away.

"Yeah fine. Nothing worse that a case of static." She said waving it off. Her skin smoked for only a second and she was back to normal.

And then the laughing rang out again.

"As promised, here are the men you were so concerned about." As if from the shadows themselves, five misshapen demonic versions of the men we had been looking form materialized before us.

"Oh kitty litter." Britanny groaned as she braced for another fight.

"That sums it up." I said. "So as we are in a close-quarters environment any chance one shot will do the job?" I asked the Sailor Scouts with us.

"Uh with how corrupted hey look…probably not." Sailor Mars said. "MARS FIRE SNIPER!" Rei yelled as a brilliant red arrow shot out from her finger an hit one of the Yoma dead center in the chest sending them back. I thought it would have turned the man back, but it only shifted him partially back then he took upon the same demonic expression as before.

"That's not good." Britanny said.

"Iron Man, it is Iron Man Right?" I heard Mercury saying over the radio.

"Yeah I'm here…kind of in the middle of a situation."

"How bad is it?"

"Well we found all the Yoma, Zoicite booked it, and they don't turn back after one hit. Got any suggestions before we trying punching the evil out of them?" I asked as our group were in a Mexican standoff.

"We are on our way, can you link your visor with mine? I'll try to figure this out."

"You heard the lady." I said to the computer in my armor. "One linked scanning network uploading." I fired off a few low level repulser blasts to keep the Yoma back. We could have blasted them to bits or broken bones, but these were possessed people and that wouldn't work either.

"Okay I have some good news. We can heal them as the corruption isn't that bad." Sailor Mercury said back.

"I am sense a 'but' in that statement." I replied.

"The spell is creating a positive feedback loop. To overwhelm the feedback you need to have all five of us attack simultaneously at them so that the infection doesn't retreat to the others. We will head to your location immediately."

"So what's the plan?" Sailor Jupiter said as she punched on of the things in the face.

"You're asking them?" Sailor Mars said.

"Not like we have a lot of options right now." Sailor Jupiter said back.

"Okay they can appear in darkness and I'm guessing Zoicite hates my guts so they aren't likely to leave, but we need to keep them here." I said. "These guys usually have a weakness or two?"

"The can only disappear in shadow. So maybe keep it light enough and they can't run off?" Sailor Mar's shrugged.

"Plus light weakens them so that they are slower…but it's not bright enough here. They hate sunlight but…" Sailor Jupiter answered again.

"Got an idea muffin?" Brit said as she slapped back another one of the demonic things.

"Have a plan? Yes. But will it work? Got to try….you have any rope on you?" I ask her.

"Rope why would you….no I don't but I think I have an alternative." Britanny ran off to a closet. "Whatever you do muffin I suggest doing it now."

I cupped my hands and had the repulse blasts form an extremely bright light above my heads.

"Jupiter, Mars, cover your eyes!" I said as I flashed the light several times as if reenacting the last part of Fantasia where the chiming of bells and the light of the Lord sent the demons back into the shadows. Not quite as religious in this one, but as I keep flashing the pulse, Britanny ran by us and started to wrap the Yoma in coil after coil of insulated electrical cord.

"Oh good all tied up." Wild Bill smiled as he was the first to arrive. His shotgun was smoking from all the use it was given.

"Quick everyone hit them all at once. That should send them back to normal.

"SILVER MOON CRYSTAL POWER KISS"

"MARS FLAME SNIPER"

"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION"

"VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK"

"MERCURY AQUA RAPSIDY"

The timeline was wrong, the attacks were wrong, and something was completely nuts in this, but all five hit home and the men were returned to normal in a flash of light.

"Well that was…interesting." Sailor Moon said. "Any of you see Zoicite leave?"

"That jerk left after these two trounced 'm…so all in all I think this one is all said and done…uh thanks for all the help." Sailor Jupiter said as she smiled at Britanny.

"Wild Bill you there, what's the situation?" General Abernathy cried out over the radio.

"Honestly sir you aren't going to believe this. See we…"

"If this involves skeleton armies, demonic transformations, and weirdly dressed girls with magic powers believe me I am aware." The general said over the small radio.

"Sir we have the government guys here. Soon as we can get them to power everything up we can remove the reactor and get to safety." Wild Bill said happy things seemed over.

"Negative on that Wild Bill. You unplug that reactor at all and the whole city will be in chaos. Whatever happened at the school is nothing to what is happening all over the city. I need you three to secure the reactor till we can set up a forward operations area because a whole lot of ugly just got unleashed and the only thing keeping the police, fire services, and the rest running is that little glowing can near you. You are to set up a secure zone and wait till we arrive."

At that point Sailor Mercury got a call on her Supercomputer.

"Ami this is Darien, is Serina there with you?" As our computers were linked I got the audio as well.

"Hold up as second pal you are on conference call. Give me a second to pull you up on the holographic." I said as I activated the portible holographic imager in the suit.

"Darien?" Sailor Moon asked.

"Yeah you seeing this? The whole city just got invaded by a bunch of skeleton warriors and right now Rene and I are busy keeping things under control here. It's like a warzone just erupted." Well at least Tuxboy was being useful for once.

"Look we can't leave here. We need you to meet us at the high school gym. We will explain everything here but you have to get here as quickly as you can." Sailor Mercury said as the young man on the other end nodded and disconnected the call.

"Muffin?" Britanny asked looking at me. I had enough of Iron Man right now, but the fight wasn't over.

"Look it's not your fault. We knew Grandpa was up to something and this is going to get bad." Gina said as I became myself once more.

"All this, because I tried to make the world a little better. Help those in need." I took a moment and breathed deeply. I walked down the stairs, out the door and looked to see the ominous winds were just starting to pick up and spread.

"What is happening?" Sailor Mercury asked as I could see the omens of the undead relm's presence appear.

"Looks like all hell just broke loose." Cover Girl said looking on.

"They want the arc reactor…that's got to be it." Gina said.

"The Dark Kingdom wants the arc reactor, the Lich King wants a new body, and the leader of the wererats wants to stop a peace accord." I said aloud.

"Wild Bill we have orders to secure that thing and wait for further updates. Got any ideas anyone?" Beach Head asked.

"I have one." I said looking deep into the recesses of my character database. I wasn't sure if it was there, the data should be but their wasn't a complete character to turn into. Just a model used to fit a character archetype. But it had to be there. And after a moment or two I found exactly what I needed. The one type of character who could turn a high school in the middle of repair after repair into a virtually impenetrable fortress in a matter of minutes.

"Sgt. I remember a question that I heard years ago about the Army…who will defend this house." I smiled.

"Yeah so?" Beach Head smirked under his mask.

"I have an answer to that challenge. I shall fortify this position against the forces of CHOAS!" I yelled growing over 8' in height and proudly adorned with golden yellow armor, a Darth Vader like helmet, an Iron Halo, and a thunder hammer. Upon my shoulder the proud heraldry of a raised fist was my only insignia. The Dark Kingdom and the undead realm had just asked for a "fisting".

To be continued.

Notes: Thank you for your patience as this was a long and convoluted kind of chapter where I have tried to bridge two very different universes in a way that fits into the Gold Digger universe the same way Fred Perry does.