The Marine of Pluto

By Coenraad

Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, nor do I make any money from this.

"I'M LATE!" resounded through the neighborhood as the double bun's with pigtails haired girl known as Usagi sped out of her family home and ran hand over heels to school. Being late for school today really couldn't have come at a worse time for her as today she and her Senshi would have a meeting at Rei's Shrine to talk about the pistol wielding savior that interfered in yesterdays battle and subsequently saved the Sailor of Pluto, otherwise known as Setsuna, and also distracted the Youma allowing Haruka to slip through its defenses and finish it off.

While normally they weren't worried about someone stepping in and saving them or give them a respite from the battle. The fact that this man didn't use any magic but a plain gun was odd at best, not to mention the fact that the only people that had guns in Japan were either the police or criminals.. stranger still was the fact that this man wasn't Japanese at all. he had a western look and a definitely noticeable American accent in his Japanese.

"USAGI!" came a cry from behind her. looking behind her briefly, she saw that it was Makoto, no doubt late just like herself. Slowing down a little allowed her to catch up. "We still have that meeting today right?"

"Yes." Usagi said with a nod as they ran side by side.

"Don't you think that he was just dreamy?"

Usage was torn between agreeing but the fact that this man had a gun made her shake her head. "I don't know, he might be Yakuza."

This caused the dreamy pink heart that were in the other blinds eyes to stop and her brain to take a hold of reason and throw it to the forefront. "Don't they only take other Japanese into their ranks?"

Usagi shrugged "I don't know. maybe?"

"We'll take later, I need this turn. bye Usagi!" Makoto waved as she took the turn she always used to get to school.

"Bye bye!" Usagi gave a wave as she started to run a little faster again.

Moments later she came up to her school only to see a strange large car standing in front of the school with two wheels on the side walk to make up for its width. While she thought that it was odd to park a car like that, the fact that the person who parked it was mindful of leaving a clear path through for other cars made up for it in her mind.

she was just in time to get through the front gate and have a breather. everyone was still outside chatting so she reasoned that the morning bell hadn't sounded yet.

"Usagi! Usagi! I have some news!" Her Best friend Naru exclaimed.

"Oh hello Naru-chan, whats up?"

"There was a Soldier that came here and headed into the school!" she said.

"A soldier?" Usagi wondered, a pensive look on her face.

Naru nodded. "Yes! He didn't have any weapons with him, but he was dressed in a dark green uniform with a hat and everything. That large car outside is his."

"Perhaps he is here on a secret mission to scan the schools for the true identity of the senshi!" Umino interjected causing both Naru and Usagi to look at him in a rather put off manner even though Usagi was sporting that look for different reasons that Naru was. "After all, with all the destruction and battles they have been waging here in Japan without any government backing, it wouldn't be that much of a surprise that the military has become interested." he ranted on "I know for a fact that…." pausing and looking around himself, Umino noticed that his two would be friends had already left him.

The bell had already rung, and right now Usagi had her arms crossed on the table and her head on top of them. She wasn't aware of the fact that the teacher had entered. Or at least she wasn't aware of the fact until a sudden sharp noise of something slamming down and jolting her desk woke her up. sitting up straight she noticed a large hand laying flat on the table surface. Tracing it up she saw the fabric of a dark green jacket, and looking up more caused her to freeze. 'It's Him!' She realized quickly enough.

"Name?" The man said as he held the attendance list in his right hand. His left hand lifting off from the table letting his forearm come to rest across the small of his back, fist balled.

Swallowing she muttered "T-Tsukino Usagi…" Seeing him raise his left eyebrow at her she repeated slightly louder.

Letting his arm leave the small of his back he picked a pen out of his breast pocket and write something down before his arm returned to his back again as he walked back to the school board at the front of the class.

"See? I told you!" Naru whispered as she indicated the man in uniform.

Usagi just nodded, slightly puzzled.

Mentally huffing, he walked to the front of the class room and picked up the small piece of chalk and started writing some things onto the chalk board, "Captain Jonathan "Hawk" Johnston, United States Marines" He wrote first in Romanized script. then under that he wrote everything in Japanese script, though he translated his nickname.

Placing down the Chalk he turned to face the class. "Ok… that's my name" he said indicating the board with his thumb. "Call me 'Hawk', and if you have problems with pronouncing that, feel free to use 'Taka' instead." He said as he scanned the class room. briefly looking at each student in turn.

One of the students raised their heads. "Yes?" he asked, indicating the student.

"Why is an American Soldier here?" the student asked.

"I'm stationed in Japan, and your Emperor thought it was good for public relations to have some of the American soldiers here help out some of the schools. Your principle saw fit to put me in charge of the English classes for obvious reasons." he finished answering. "Anyone else have a question? put your hand up."

just about the whole class raised their hands causing him to sign. "You" he indicated to a girl.

"Do you have a Girlfriend." she asked causing the other girls to chuckle.

"No" he simply answered. "You?" he indicated a male student.

"Have you fought in any wars?"

"Yes, I've been in Iraq." he said before gesturing to another student "You?"

"How many people have you shot?"

"More than enough." he answered, leaving out the specifics. Surprisingly nearly all the students lowered their hands. "You?" he indicated a blond girl.

Usagi opened her mouth. "Do you have a gun with you?"

"Usagi!" Naru exclaimed at the bold question.

Hawk raised his eyebrow at her. "Who in their right mind would take a gun with them to a school?" he asked.

"R-right… sorry teacher."

She saw him nod. "Ok, any other questions will have to wait for another time… let's start the lessons for today. Let's try some basic phrases and words so I can see how far along you all are."

Usagi sighed. she was becoming increasingly nervous now. She wasn't exactly sure about what a Marine was, but it was easy enough to see that he was an American soldier. 'Stupid Umino and his hunches.' she scowled. At least there wasn't the risk of getting shot in class.

During the lunch break, Hawk had taken one of his students aside. "Miss Tsukino, Do you have a good reason for falling asleep at your desk?" he asked pointedly.

Usagi hung her head, she had fallen asleep twice more and every time she was woken up by the flat of hawks hand striking the desk. she could have sworn that a slight imprint of his hand was forming on the surface of her desk. "S-sorry Teacher…" she offered.

Hawk shook his head. "I didn't ask for an apology, I asked for an explanation…" he said.

"Well you see… I was on my way home when there was disturbance at the park, then I had to take a giant detour to get home. on the way my friend Ami-chan called and I had to walk all the way to her place. then she took me to her Friend Rei-san at the shrine, from there we went to the park and then when I finally came home it was really late and I didn't get enough sleep, then the alarm clock went off to late and I had to make a mad dash to school and from that I was tired again and fell asleep…. hehehe" she looked up hopefully at Hawk to see if he would buy the story. while their normal teacher would it looked like Hawk didn't.

He shook his head "I don't know how Japanese schools deal with behavior such as that. but I as you teacher will choose your punishment."

"Ack!" Usagi exclaimed.

"I want you to write 'I will make an effort to go to bed early and not fall asleep in class' a hundred times." He said "And I want you to hand that in tomorrow morning."

"Y-yes teacher." she stammered. she'd so much prefer to have to carry the water buckets and having to stay after class then actually having to do something for the punishment.

"Go have lunch." he said as he thumbed the class room door over his shoulder. before he started walking down the hallway himself.

shaking his head to himself. he noted that while Usagi already had a spotty record with falling asleep in class and being late, he felt it was necessary to cure her of that condition. Well having to write punishment lines weren't too bad. if she somehow came late tomorrow or failed to complete her punishment assignment, he felt that something more strict would be in order. Maybe have her give him 20 push-ups? could he even get away with that in a school? then again the principle specifically asked him to toughen Usagi up a little and try to get her to kick the habit of always coming in late. after all a future couldn't be built on a lax method of conducting yourself.

Huffing he continued on to the teacher's room so he could eat lunch in peace with the other teachers.

Later that day a meeting had been called. Everyone was wearing civilian clothes for that matter except for the senshi of time and the shrine maiden. Pluto felt ill at ease with the events of yesterday, and Rei just didn't feel like wearing her civilian clothes seeing as her Grandpa and Yoichirou were away from the shrine.

"Have you found anything Ami?" the Senshi of time asked.

The blue haired shook her head. "Nothing, I checked everywhere, but without an actual name I can't really do much at this point."

"Can't you scan his face or something that would get a match, used it a few times while working with the police." Mitoko suggested.

Ami shook her head again. "I could try that but I don't have a decent mug shot of him."

The intelligent conversation was interrupted by the howling laughter of their princess as she laughed while holding one of Rei's manga's.

"Usagi!"Rei exclaimed as she snatched the manga away. "please treat this a little more seriously!"

"Waaaaaa, Rei is being mean to me!" she odango haired girl cried.

"Usagi, we really need to talk seriously about this man, Hawk," Ami enforced though in a slightly more friendly manner.

"Oh right... Well he works in my school, doing the English classes."

Everyone present, the Inners and Outers alike almost had their eyes pop out of their sockets. "WHAT!" the exclaimed in tendom.

"Yeah... He's an American soldier and his full name is Jonathan Johnston. I think he said he was a captain in the united states marine core."

A massive face vault occurred as soon as Usagi revealed all this information casually. The clueless air head and princess had figured out so easily what the smartest among them had worked so hard on to discover.

"Right..." Ami said as she typed the name into her mercury computer and tried to search for information with that name. Several windows popped up, several of which were marked as highly classified at the presidential level. Which was one thing that the mercury computer never paid any attention to, it just collected all available information and displayed it right on its little screen, the built in decryption algorithms being the best in the currently known universe. And Having read quite a few classified files before. Ami felt a little amazed at how much there were associated with Jonathan Johnston.

Waiting with rapt attention, Pluto was the first one to stand up and walk around Ami so she could look at the screen as well. "American Presidential seal?" she note dimly.

This shook Ami out of her reverie. "Ahem, yes... Seems like our friend 'hawk' has quite a secret identity." she noted off hand after which she noticed the weird looks that her fellow Senshi were giving her. "What? He did help us against that Youma."

"True..." Pluto admitted. "But just because he jumped to the rescue at the last minute does not make him a real friend."

"What else does his profile say?" Minako asked.

"Well not much, no birth certificate, no school records, no diploma's or anything of that nature. Just a few Covert training reports and after action reports. And enough of those are classified to keep a fighter jet grounded."

"What's the most recent?" Motoko asked.

Typing in her computer for a moment she swallowed. "Assassination of Osama Bin laden's son?" she said. Then revised her statement. "No, wait, his... current assignment is us..?"

"What do you mean? Does he want to kill the Senchi?" Luna spoke up.

"I'll kick his ass if he tries." Mokoto affirmed.

"No wait, you don't understand!" Ami exclaimed. "It looks like Japan and America have both become weary of our activities... It even reads here that the Emperor had ordered the JSDF to try and gain more information on us and maybe even make contact and start peaceful relations. But so many of their operatives had been caught in the cross fire that they asked the Americans for it. From what I'm reading here Hawk sent his first actual report the same day as when he helped us and asked for more powerful weaponry to be send to him. And the report he wrote is very good on detail. Though it doesn't describe much about how he jumped, and snatched up Pluto while firing his gun as he fell down with her pressed to his chest."

"That's... Strange?" Usagi wondered, looking at the Senchi of time.

Seeing Pluto shrug at the question. "While not impossible. it would take a extremely fast reflexes and reaction speed to pull it off as he did." she explained. "Not even I can manage such a feat no matter how well trained I am. so I do wonder how he pulled it off."

Ami nodded "Agreed though from what I've just read, he doesn't mention such feats of incredible agility and reflex."

"So if he has no birth or education on record, could he be a droid of some sort?" Artimis suggested.

"Or a Youma?" Luna speculated.

"I doubt it," Ami said "America and Japan's technology isn't good enough to make fully human androids although it would explain the quick reflexes. And I also doubt that they'd risk using a droid like the ones the Dark Moon family employed."

"and I didn't feel any Youma energies while I was in bodily contact with him." Pluto added.

"We could always corner him and ask." Haruka suggested. "Just give me a few minutes with him, I'll get the information."

This latter remark made her Lover and fellow Senshi glare at her. "A few minutes with him? What are you planning to do?"

Haruka sweat dropped slightly at Michiru's pointed question.. "Threaten him with my sword of course..."

The glare lifted from her Neptunian face. "Good."

Usagi was about to protest on this but Pluto cut her off. "Apart from threatening him, simply asking might work."

"What!? Pluto you can't be serious about just walking up to him and asking 'hey I know about you being sent by the Japanese and American government, are you here to kill us or befriend us?' that would be crazy?" Rei exclaimed thinking that the Senshi of time had lost her marbles.

"It's not like he could serious hurt us with that gun of his." Minako supplied. "I got shot once already. It hurts yeah but our magical armor insures that the bullet doesn't break our skin. Just make sure to protect your eyes."

Usagi shuddered at the thought. "Alright Pluto... Just be careful. If he is a friend then I'd like to keep it that way." she said regally. 'plus I don't want to fear getting shot while in class' she mentally added.

"of course." Pluto agreed but was rather suspicious of him.

After the battle she had gone to the gates of time and tried to look for clue's. It was like he didn't exist, she couldn't see his past, his future or his present. Very odd indeed and as she could recall, there had been only one person in her far away past that had the same effect associated with him, but it couldn't be him, he died in the nuclear explosion on pluto's surface that took out the final remnants of Byrille's forces after the collapse of the moon kingdom. And she felt sure that the late queen Serenity had only sent the star seeds of her royal court to be reincarnated.

A/N: Ok there is Chapter 2. I hate bumping the word count so I'll keep my notes short and to the point.

I greatly appreciate the reviews I've had. I don't have much time on my hands so I am not going to reply to reviews individually. On that note though. Those of you who reviewed the first chapter (you know who are), you have my thanks, that's the highest amount of reviews I've gotten on a single chapter of any of my stories.

And I will be continuing this story, I just don't have a time frame or schedule on when new chapters will be released. just hit the story alert button to stay tuned ;)

And yes; I know there are some spelling errors, and maybe some capitalization mistakes too. I will go back and fix them at some stage but for now my effort are more focused on writing and releasing new chapters. I do give them a quick once over before uploading them, but any fine toothed comb work will be saved for when the story is complete.

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