Note: This is actually set around chapter 122 of the series. As I'm too lazy to re-arrange the chapters, just roll with it please.
Arisugawa's Locket
WAY Out of The Locket
Sailor Pluto floated in deep space, her sailor uniform protecting her from the rough conditions. Her time-staff glowed as she assessed the wreckage.
The former Citadel of the Council of Ricks was ruined. Most of it was exploded, and a few platform habitats floated empty, gutted. There were no power readings...
"Wait. There," Pluto noted, and teleported.
The Rick she saw was nearly cut in half by rubble, dying. His high tech uniform had kept him alive, barely, but he clearly didn't have long.
"YOU," Rick groaned, "come to gloat?"
"Let's get you out of there," Pluto moved forward.
"No," Rick coughed then said weakly, "the suit's punctured. The rubble is the only thing keeping it sealed."
He had, at Pluto's estimate, minutes at best. "I'll still get you out," Pluto said firmly.
"I thought you Plutos HATED us," Rick managed.
"Not enough to want you dead," Pluto shrugged, looking over the rubble and figuring out the best way to do this.
Rick coughed again, blood spraying. "If I don't make it," he said, "it was a Morty that did this. He claimed to want to unite us all, but really used our resources to sabotage the Citadel, then punch a hole in space-time."
Pluto really wasn't THAT surprised. In her encounters with them, she had always felt the Ricks tended to underestimate the boy.
"He wanted to escape into the greater omniverse," Rick added before fainting.
Pluto teleported him and the wreckage out, then looked up at the still churning rip in the fabric of space-time. "Yet another mess to clean up," she sighed.
As she spoke other multiversal versions of Pluto also appeared around the rift, and began to 'patch' up the damage with their powers...
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"Are you alright?" Juri Arisugawa asked gently.
Setsuna had come home and pretty much collapsed. Juri had let her sleep in, and was now serving her breakfast.
"You didn't have to pamper me," Setsuna chuckled, kissing Juri lingeringly.
"I don't HAVE to, I just like it," Juri teased.
Setsuna smiled warmly, "Thanks."
"So what kept you out so late?" Juri asked gently.
"Massive rip in space-time," Setsuna sighed, "the Council of Ricks were at it again..."
"What a pain in the butt," Haruka Tenoh noted, their housemate yawning tiredly.
"Well, at least they won't do it again," Setsuna noted dryly. She sipped coffee, "They destroyed their base in the process."
"Oh dear," Michiru Kaoru noted, getting coffee for her and her wife, Haruka.
"Casualties?" Haruka frowned.
"Near total," Setsuna sighed, "what a waste."
Michiru clearly wanted to point out the Ricks had gotten what they deserved, but decided not to. She, Haruka and Setsuna tended to be a bit more pragmatic, then most.
"Why did you have to attend to it? Wouldn't it close on it's own?" Juri asked curiously as they ate breakfast.
"The rip was an attempt to break out of our multiverse into the greater omniverse," Setsuna noted. At their (mostly) blank looks she simplified it, "Basically, it was too 'wide' and 'deep' to close up on it's own."
"Ah," Michiru nodded.
"Plus leaving it might let Lovecraftian entities in," Setsuna added.
"Those are REAL?" Haruka blinked.
"Well, not as depicted in the novels, but yes," Setsuna nodded. "Normally the fabric of reality is strong enough to keep them out, but certain forces and weaken them. Like the Portal Guns the Ricks use, for instance."
"Hence why you don't like them much," Juri nodded.
"That and their tendency to poke dangerous things with a stick," Setsuna agreed.
Hotaru Tomoe entered, already dressed and smiling slightly. "I'm not going to have to go fight the entities, am I?" she wondered.
"Not today at least," Michiru smiled faintly.
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"So, wedding plans," the charming older woman noted.
Nabiki Tendo paled slightly. "Yes, we're thinking in fall," she admitted,
Miss Einstein was a attractive, older woman with deffinite 'MILF' energy. In fact if Nabiki wasn't sure she was straight, she would have thought the lady was hitting on her.
"That works. Now, first call me Alice," she ordered, "and I and Harold will be paying for the wedding."
"You don't have to...," Nina protested.
"Dear, we can afford it," Alice pointed out.
"I'm sorry to say that my father wants nothing to do with it," Nabiki admitted, "but I can cover half, at least."
"Sorry," Harold offered, his expression sad.
Nabiki just shrugged, "It is what it is."
Nina patted her hand. "We don't want anything too crazy, either," she told her parents.
"No reception, pre-wedding dinner and a event seating 200 guests?" Alice teased.
"GOD no," Nabiki shuddered. "Was that your wedding, ma'am?" she asked.
"My mother went absolutely insane," Alice agreed.
"Old witch," Harold muttered.
"DAD," Nina sighed but Alice just laughed.
"We would have been happy with a courthouse wedding, but Mother was determined to impress society," Alice added.
"Anyway, small scale," Nabiki agreed. "We've got a Shinto Temple that's agreed to hold the ceremony itself..."
"Rei Hino is a friend of Nabiki's," Nina added.
"We're going to combine the bachelor and bachelorette parties at the Locket," Nabiki noted.
"But we DO want to do a reception and dinner," Nina admitted.
Alice and Harold nodded, "We've got that, then. Guests?"
"We're still figuring out the guest lists," Nabiki nodded, "but it won't be huge."
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Alpha swept out Cafe Alpha, her 'home' in her own world.
Humanity was dying out. She had always KNOWN that, of course, but over the past decade that had sped up. The small village nearby her cafe had finally been abandoned, and as far as she knew the only good sized settlement nearby was around Yokohama.
"Quiet, huh?" her 'wife' Kokone noted, smiling at her.
"Yeah," Alpha sighed. "I may just... permanently close, soon?"
"No! The Cafe means so much to you!" Kokone said, taking her hand.
"I know, but..." she shrugged, gesturing to the empty room.
They hadn't had a 'customer' in weeks. The cafe was developing a weird, almost mythological reputation with the few humans left, but they still came out every now and then.
"I did hear from Maruko, she's thinking of moving up here," Kokone noted, referring to a fellow android in the city.
Alpha felt a faint twinge of jealousy at that. Maruko had been interested in Kokone, but nothing had come of it.
"She could move into the village nearby," Alpha admitted. She brightened, "Maybe we could encourage the remaining androids to come here."
"It's worth a try," Kokone agreed.
Alpha puffed out a relieved breath, "I didn't want to close, even if I am also working at the Locket, too."
Kokone looked amused, "You don't know if the androids will even drink your coffee, dear."
Alpha groaned, "You're so mean!"
Kokone just laughed.
To be continued...
Notes:
Re: Lovecraftian entities. It might actually be one of Sailor Saturn's jobs to kill any of them that try to break into the Sailor Moon universe. Might work that in. I also want to, at one point, do a crossover with Seanan McGuire's book Unbreakable, which is Sailor Moon mixed with Madoka and Lovecraft.
I kind of FORGOT I had set up Nina and Nabiki. So picking that up again. I can't remember if Nina's parents EVER get shown canonly in Code Geass, so just winging that.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is set in the future, where humanity is dying out due to climate change and other factors. It's actually a oddly pretty series, and just recently got a English release from Seven Seas.