2274/An Evil Guy This Time

An Evil Guy This Time
Date of Scene:	22 January 2025
Location:	Game Crown Arcade
Synopsis:	In the aftermath of Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Sailor Moon shows up to purify Kunzite, Jadeite, Hematite, Chibiusa, Sailor Venus, the Princess of Sarek (as Sailor Mars II), and Amy (as Sailor Chalcopyrite) as they were tainted by Crimson Rubeus. Many shenanigans occur, and she learns that shockingly, it was an evil guy this time. At least they'll always have the ball pit.
Cast of Characters:	Usagi Tsukino, Jadeite, Kazuo Saitou, Amanda Faust, Mamoru Chiba, Chibiusa Tsukino, Minako Aino, Veronica Perenna
Tinyplot:	Black Moon Clan
Tinyplot2:	BMC: Rabbit Hunt

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Usagi Tsukino has posed:
It's January 22nd.

Game Center Crown is a mess, the double-glass doors having been shattered by a launched mailbox and one of the large windows having been shattered by an exiting Tuxedo Kamen. Several game cabinets have been damaged, between the shattering glass and the aforementioned mailbox, and the flooring is damaged by the attacks that struck in the meantime.

Outside, five cars - those that had been parked on the street in front of Game Center Crown and the accompanying buildings - have been crushed, cratered, and otherwise damaged, with one having been fully cut in half. A street light lays stretched across the ground, it's glass bulb having shattered in the fall.

In the alley behind the store, the two dozen or so patrons are in the midst of a barely suppressed fit of rage sparked by Dark Energy, the suppression chiefly accomplished by the energy draining effect of the DARK Energy more than anything else.

And of course, the mahou themselves are each tainted, some doubly so. Just a moment ago, in perfect example of that fact, Kunzite punched Jadeite in the face and Chibiusa received a return text from her future mother.

These are... The Days of Our Mahou.

Jadeite has posed:
It's January 22. The arcade exploded. The civilians mostly got out safely - the same cannot be said for their cars. Or the arcade games. Or the windows.

Jadeite is suffering from a bloody nose and looking like a doofus in front of his niece. (HIs future niece! Who needs to learn gun safety!) It's fortunate enough that Hematite has appeared to de-escalate things.

"So. The enemy is gone, I presume," he says, although it sounds more like *the eneby is gobe* thanks to the nosebleed. "I was trying to ask Kunzite to call our princess, but I guess asking politely is out of the question in this day and age."

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kunzite's eyes are glittering coldly - darker gray than usual, and darker still, as if they held a scattering of dark static. But Hematite has just appeared behind him, and given him and Jadeite an instruction - and therefore he bows rather than answer Jadeite aloud. And that bow is not quite so quick that Jadeite can't see a visible relief at the sound of Jadeite's heavier-than-normal American accent.

"I apologize, Usa-chan. I should've looked before hitting." This is probably not the lesson anyone wants Chibiusa to take away from this incident. "And if that is your idea of asking politely, Jadeite, we need to arrange you a few remedial etiquette lessons." ... because punching is politeness?

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Well, Venus seems to be alright. "Ugh." For some reason Venus crumpled on the floor is annoying. Sailor Chalcopyrite offers a hand to pull her up, and then is still grumpy but not sure at what. Shouldn't it be at that dark general? "UGH!" Amy repeats, stomping her foot. "He got away!" She waves a hand at where Rubeus was. "And made me shoot that building!"

    That... doesn't seem quite right, but it feels better to blame him. She wouldn't do something like carelessly shoot a building, after all!

    She looks at Hematite with surprise, "You can fly?! Why don't you normally get the power to do that?!"

    But... Kunzite and Jadeite's argument kind of riles her. Jadeite's shielded her with ice a lot, and... She stomps up to the pair. "Excuse me, you punched him and you call that politeness?!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Looming behind Kunzite for just a moment is Hematite, arms crossed, blue eyes all +_+ under the shadow of his long hair, cape billowing, hovering almost a meter off the ground.

He's briefly distracted by the top of Kunzite's head, then says, "Anyway, Chibiusa-chan, come here--" and holds out his arms. "Let's go flying before your mom gets here!"

Then he looks at the fluffy blond boy carrying Chibiusa and raises his eyebrows. "I'm sure she's on her way. And you're not the boss of him, why would you try delegating something you can do with your voice?" Hematite looks faintly irritated.

THEN Kunzite is bowing and apologizing to-- to Chibiusa presumably because of many reasons most of them contextual-- and Hematite snorts. But he doesn't comment.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa has just texted her mother, because what else is she going to do? Usagi does the purification. That's always been the case. The idea that people other than Usagi can purify things is confusing and strange to Small Lady, so it's not the first thing that comes to mind.

    Plus she can't actually recall a single time when Neo Queen Serenity wasn't willing to rush to her rescue when it was an actual emergency.

    Clutching her Luna-P smartphone in both hands, she looks up at this-universe's Mamoru and sees that he's clearly... altered a bit by the darkness. She hesitates for a moment, because she is angry and because dad is weird, but she gets over it in a hurry because flying around sounds fun.

    "Okay!" she says with a smirk, lifting up her arms for uppies.

    She glances over at Kunzite and Jadeite for a moment. Everyone feels grumpy today, but at least it's not as bad as way back when. For now. She glances between them and says, "It's fine. What the bad man did made us all feel bad, that's all. If you don't guard your feelings, you'll get tricked into fighting."

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus... Aphrodite? What else would one call Venus once she's had an unhealthy dose of dark energy? Looks up when Amy offers her hand only to slap it away with a mutter of, "I can do it myself!" And so she does, hopping to her feet and reclaiming her sword in hand with a quick dusting of her free hand over her skirt.

She really had wanted to HIT something and Rubeus' face was SO HITABLE.

But a delighted little giggle comes over her when she is treated to the vision of Kunzite punching Jadeite as she starts to follow them behind the building. Hematite looming was certainly a dramatic sight as well. Even having resumed his Dark General form however he was still a doting father to his daughter it seems.

Her gaze wasn't for HIM anyway. She'd fixed Kunzite with such a solid, unwavering gaze it might be a bit disconcerting if he were paying any attention to the blonde guardian currently sashaying her way closer with perhaps a bit too much sway to her hips to be balanced properly. Unlike Usagi though, SHE manages not to trip over her own feet! Ha ha~

"Oh, are we beating on Jadeite now? How fun!"

Veronica Perenna has posed:
The disguised Phantom Thief looks over at the state of the arcade, a frown on her face at the destruction left behind. It was a good thing that no civilian had gotten hurt by magic, but even so, what is going to cost to put this place back together? Maybe it's not a failure, but she can't call it a success either.

Even more so, because they are stuck waiting for the dark energy contaminating them to run its course, or wait for the purifiers to show up, either/or worse.

Well, they had gotten some amount of information from the red guy, so there could have been way worse results. If only those guys in the alley didn't stare at each other angrily.

"If they give in to dark energy, I will start put a barrier between them", she sighs. Besides that, she is standing on her own, and keeping herself busy with a pencil and doodles.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi Tsukino had been having a good day, enjoying a bubbly bath while her fiancé and her future daughter enjoyed a day out with her fiancé's boyfriend and also maybe his other boyfriend, who was she to judge? It was meant to be a day of relaxation - bubbly bath, skincare routine, cucumbers for her eyes (and back up cucumbers for snacking), and she'd even tossed her pajamas in the heater to be extra warm and cozy.

Everything a stressed out hero needed on a day off.

And then.

Now she is booking it across the city, feeling damp even though she actually isn't in henshin, cursing under her breath, and ranting to Wako via texts about how this never happened on her dates and this was proof that her romantic endeavors weren't cursed and that clearly she can never let Mamoru go out on dates without her ever again -

en she arrives it's to a lot more than just Hemachan who's causing trouble. Sailor Moon stares, eye twitching, tiara askew, at the horde of people in need of help. There's her long-haired fiancé with their little future daughter, there's Kunzite, Jadeite, and Amy in the middle of an argument with Venus edging it on, there's civilian's crowding together and sniping - "Oh, he is never dating without me again."

The Spiral Heart Moon Rod lands in her hand and Sailor Moon raises it high, before raising her voice to match.

"WHO WANTS THE HAPPY JUICE FIRST, AND IF YOU RUN I SWEAR I'LL BEAN YOU WITH MY TIARA!"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa looks behind her at Sailor Moon and then stage whispers to Hematite, "I think mom's mad, too."

Jadeite has posed:
"Greetings, my princess!! Just blast everyone here, please!" Jadeite says, waving now that his hands are freed up. "You see, Hematite, it's difficult to make phone calls when I am carrying your daughter with both my hands. I was trying to prioritize safely returning the two of you to your spouse. Who we care for very much. And would enjoy the happy juiece from?"

MY PRINCE! PLEASE DO NOT STEAL INFANTS! OR FLEE YOUR SPOUSE!!

As for the others - "Venus, if you make this weirder than you did when you were hitting on me, I'm going to pour soup in your lap. Amy, Kunzite was trying to calm me down since I have been filled with the power of darkness, it was rude but it's fine."

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"No-one is beating on Jadeite except for Sailor Moon," Kunzite says to Venus, backing up the person he was just at odds with. Shitennou: they're like that. He does try to catch Moon's eye, and then glance sidewise at Sailor Chalcopyrite. Puella plus dark energy equals ... he doesn't actually know if it equals exponential-curve badness over time, but there are things he would like to not see compounding the problem.

Also, if it means Moon hits him instead, she'll probably also get Venus, which would be a good start.

Minako Aino has posed:
Aphrodite bypasses Jadeite because he was not her goal. No, it's Kunzite who is! And with Jadeite moving to try to snag Hematite before he can fly off with the girl that means she's free to step up near Kunzite and try to drape over his arm with a coo of, "Aww, but it's been too long since I've seen you fight, Kunzite! Should we teach Jadeite a lesson together?"

Somehow she makes it sound like something romantic. Somehow.

Jadeite's remark of MAKING THINGS WEIRD gets her tongue stuck out toward him. ... Oh wait Sailor Moon is here!

"Sailor Mooooon don't be such a buzzkill we can all enjoy the pretty boys!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Hematite cannot help it, he's grinning by the time he's got his daughter in arms, and he starts lifting up with Chibiusa while Amy comes out-- "Dark Energy had to have some selling points for me. One of them's flying. Another is throwing cars."

And then, Sailor Moon shows up and he pauses their ascent. He calls out, "I just want to take the baby flying! Get me on a later round!"

Then he looks down kindly at Tamaki. "Fuck off, Jadeite. Go get happy juiced." He glances over at Minako and Kazuo and his jaw sets. "Make her get happy juiced first."

Then he's soaring upwards with Smol Pink, and he sings out, "Come on, you sparkling pink minibun, let us adventure briefly! Here, tell me how you want me to carry you~"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    'Sailor Chalcopyrite' scoffed as her hand is slapped away. "Hey, I was just trying to help!" Anyway, now she's outside -- where the darkness dust is -- getting increasingly annoyed at Kunzite, although at Jadeite's words she whirls on him. "He's trying to calm you down by punching you?! No dude, that's not normal and it's not acceptable! How can you not see that that's wrong?!"

    And she reaches out into the dust settling on her. If she just has enough power she can make them see! Uh, somehow! She'll have enough power to figure it out, too!

    And then Sailor Moon is on the roof. "Happy juice?! Hang on, first I have to... first I have to..." she's new to dark energy, okay!

    Amy shakes her head. "Just let me... fix everything! I gotta... fix the wall across the street, and teach these two that punching is not how you calm people down, then happy juice!"

    At the entrance to the alley, dark-hair groans from the ground and looks towards the voice. "A cosplayer...?" Blondie looks up from kicking another civilian that tried to grab her. "Meh, I could do better." She looks back to the crowd, "Now, have y'all learned your lesson, or-- argh!" She tackled by another civilian as the brawl continues.

Veronica Perenna has posed:
The fake Mars looks up from her current doodle, a golden pendant hanging from a chocker with the two hearts one above the other. She was currently in the middle of filling in the lines on the chocker.

Placing the pen inside, she closes that random notebook, and move over to Usagi, leaping over to the soldier of the moon. "I second Jadeite, but I am holding out ok all in all, so I suggest you do something to stop them before something happens."

"Today's guy probably has even more of a sob story than the others, I think so. He put a hard fight too, and then he had to leave us with this little present before being gone", she complains.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa frowns at Jadeite and Aphrodite, and then cups her hand around her mouth to yell up at Sailor Moon. "Mooom, please zap them before they start another apocalypse!"

    She says this as if ending the world is a minor faux pas, because the darkness is hitting her that way too.

    Then Hematite is going up, up and away with her and now asking how she'd like to be carried. She crosses her arms and snobbily answers, "I'm a princess, so princess carry me!"

    That said she actually isn't terribly picky.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy whirls on Aphrodite. "He PUNCHED Jadeite and you think Jadeite's the one that needs to be taught a lesson?! What is wrong with you?!" She makes a face. "Geh, you can keep the pretty boys..."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Good news? No one ran.

Bad news? Everyone needs purification, and Jadeite is calling her princess again and Minako is flirting with boys like a drunken sorority girl, and Amy is dark energy'd too?

...Amy isn't draped over Kunzite. The last time Kunzite was full of Dark Energy he devoured whole cities.

(Maybe that's not fair, given that he was also full of Metallia back then too, but, there's somethings you don't forget. And there's somethings you don't want one of your close friends trying to stick it into.

One of them is that kind of crazy.

"Right," she says, as the four of them kind of clump together - oh startle oh jump HELLO SAILOR MARS - "Hey! Oh, thank goodness, someone with some sanity in their eyes besides Jadeite. They're spreading out too much, so I'm going to get those four, or at least, Amy and Minako-chan, before they get themselves hurt -"

A golden circle is drawn.

"Moon Healing Escalation!"

And the beam strikes for Amy, Minako, and Kunzite - if Jadeite's still in the middle, he might be got too. It will burn, like peroxide in a wound, or mouthwash held in too long, but then it will pass an dleave them all feeling scrubbed clean.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
It's tempting to grab for Jadeite as Sailor Moon draws that circle, but that might prompt Sailor Chalcopyrite to draw the wrong conclusion, and if Hematite were Mamoru it would absolutely be a priority to keep her from burning energy right now. So. Instead, Kunzite extends his shield a little further to soak up as much of the dust himself as he can - keeping it away from Amy an instant longer -

also saving him from having to answer Venus out loud -

and then he gets to learn what the other Shitennou already knew: purification hurts.

Especially when you're trying to concentrate during it.

(There is for an instant a hint of a thousand very faintly deeper shadows in the shadows of his cape. And then there is for an instant a hint of a thousand faint silvery gleams, glitter dancing in the Escalation's light. And then all of them are gone, and he is letting his posture sag, glancing aside to Jadeite first and then Venus to evaluate how they're doing, and his eyes have gone to silver-gray themselves.)

Jadeite has posed:
"Usagi, I asked him nicely to not kidnap anyone and he's ignoring me and he'll just get worse if I yell at him! And he said the fuck word in front of Chibiusa! Put him on the couch!" Jadeite complains in the age old tradition of complaining ot other people in the polycule.

And as the light comes over him, he closes his eyes -

It looks like a thin layer of ice shatters over him. He says several choice words in English that would make Chibiusa shake the swear jar at him, and then ruffles his hair, hissing as he feels the happy juice burning away the darkness that was crawling around in him. "Ow," he tells Kunzite with all the dignity he can muster, and offers an arm in case Venus falls over due to application of Moon Power.

Minako Aino has posed:
Aphrodite grasps hold of Kunzite's arm and just... hugs to it. Some part of her wasn't sure she'd even GET this far, but here she is, and now she is not letting go! GLEE! Malicious glee at least until her head snaps back toward Sailor Moon and that bright light coming right at--

Poor Kunzite probably gets a shriek in his ear as that purification burns through her ridding her of the dark energy she had taken in. It burns away touching the corners of herself that control light as well. She couldn't purify but there was some recognition of it deep inside herself.

Then it's over. Venus is still clinging to Kunzite's arm, but this time it's more to keep on her feet than attempting to be flirtatous. Her head sags forward with bangs obscuring her face which was rapidly growing red in realization of her actions up until now.

Abruptly the arm is released with a mutter of, "Sorry sorry!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"How about I... reverse princess carry you!" chortles Hematite, manhandling Chibiusa gently in midair thirty feet up, a rollercoaster again but a much more dangerous one on the surface. She ends up being carried like a log so she can see down. "Or regular~" and a little more manhandling that ends in a regular princess carry and Hematite grinning down at Chibiusa's face.

He doesn't say it, because he's used to dark energy and can smother terrible impulses most of the time, but he thinks about it, and Small Lady might pick up a little of the mountain of jealousy that's building toward his future self from another dimension. He's used to dark energy. He keeps it from cycling out of control.

He enjoys this flight with his daughter, even if she's not his and he'll have to give her back.

Maybe.

"Look! Shall I take you as high as your home, and you can see how big Tokyo is here and now?" he asks, smiling.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibs is suddenly being flip-turned upside down and getting a view of the ground below. She yelps and then giggles playfully. If any other dark magic user was doing this with her, she'd be in full on panic mode and probably shooting magic beams into the sky again, but she trusts Mamoru. He wouldn't just drop her, and even if he did he'd be able to catch her well before she hit the ground.

    A rare case where going higher is actually safer.

    Smiling up at Mamoru, she says, "Higher! Higher!"

    Then after a moment she looks back down, head not quite turning far enough for her to see Sailor Moon from here. "Not... too far away though."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy summons a red gauntlet onto her hand and starts drawing dark energy into and through it, small panels opening at the back of it and venting darkness like steam as she pulls her hand back to teach Aphrodite (and maybve Kunzite) a lesson -- when purification washes over her! "AAH WAIT!" She protests, but, cut off from the dust by Kunzite's shield, she can't draw any more dark energy to resist and is swiftly purified, grunting in pain at the burning feeling, legs a bit unsteady after it's washed through her and she feels... clean? Refreshed? So that's why the Terribads sound like that when they get purified... She looks around, wide-eyed. "Oh damn, I'm sorry... I guess we... all got a little heated there..."

    And she looks at her gauntlet. "Ooh, I got a new idea for an attack! Good job, dark me! ...I, guess?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Yes, well, he's Mr. Princes Do What They Want at the best of times and since he's never -" she shakes her head, and smiles lopsidedly at Jadeite. "Look, Jade-kun, trust me when I say he can handle his dark energy a lot better than the rest of you probably do, so I will get him after I'm sure that everyone else is okay - of course there's a civilian right.

Because what else do you call the civilians recovering enough to start punching each other out?

There's a moment where she just wants to crouch on the ground and cover her head and wail that she just wanted a bath -

Instead, she calls down, "I'm going to handle the civilians, Mars-chan here has a good handle on it and Hemachan's just being Hemachan."

And she hops up onto the roof railing, walking across it until she has a better view of the civilians.

"Moon Healing Escalation!"

This one is bigger than the one for her friends - wider, to cast a large net and blast the civilians all in one burst. Silver beams of light and most importantly, silver mists of fog, float over the civilians and purify them.

They cry out, each of them - "Refresh!" - sink to the ground in a heap as the shock to their system makes them woozy.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    At the other end of the alley, blondie is tackled down, landing on the brunette's legs and prompting a startled yelp of fear -- two people landing on them could have hurt a lot if the positioning had been wrong -- and they feel

    something

    dark.

    The alley was cold, it's outside in winter, but suddenly it gets colder in the front half of the alley. Breath misting, frost forming on back windows, snow appearing in the air as a voice rings through the crowd like ice.. It feels like you can hear ice freezing and cracking, somewhere. "You need to stop."

    Some of the crowd does stop, and turn and look.

    "If you don't stop this right now, I'll..."

    They'll... they'll what? What are they even doing? How are they even doing? They've burned through the dark energy in them and the feeling it generated... confusion turns to horror. They never want to feel that again.

    The rest of the crowd are... confused, for a moment, the rage from Rubeus's dust frozen under a rapidly-thawing layer of fear from... whatever that was, someone not quite awakening to dark magic use.

    ...And then the purification washes over all of them and everyone collapses in a heap! Good end?!

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Not too far away," agrees Hematite, still smiling. "And not for too long. We both got dosed with that stuff!" They go higher, and see the neighborhood; they go higher and see more, and then more, and then there's Mitakihara over that way, the school over that way, the beach waaaaaay over there--

"Remind me to show you this upside down, under the ground," he says as he starts them falling weightlessly back down for about ten meters-- wheee!! --then slows them back down and says as they land again, back in the alley, "Hold my hand while the purification hits, okay Tinybun? I'll make sure it doesn't hurt."

He sets Chibiusa down and takes off his gloves, holding one hand out to smol dottir. It's not glowing yet, but it will be soon. Then he offers the other to Mars II.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kunzite keeps the arm held out, offered to Venus on purpose this time ... but much the same way Jadeite is doing: not a romantic gesture, but a physical offer of support. "Ow," he agrees to Jadeite. "Are you two both breathing all right?" There's no pause in his words as his eyes track away from them, over to the civilians, and narrow. Somebody over there just did something very interesting with cold, and it wasn't either of the Shitennou. There are enough bodies that he can't quite be sure which the dark energy manipulation is sourced from, and the purification will wipe away the energy traces altogether ... but he can memorize faces.

-- okay, no, one minor adjustment to that. He is definitely sure that the dark energy was not being manipulated by Motoki.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy is briefly paralyzed like the crowd, but that... stops happening, and purification is getting splashed all over the alley now.

    As the dark ice magic(?) fades away. she just feels kind of worn out, letting out a breath and leaning against the wall.

    "Thanks, Sailor Moon." she says, tiredly, and when Hematite and Chibiusa land, looks over to him. "So is that how you felt... all the time, back then...?"

Veronica Perenna has posed:
Well, some are purified already, though since they are spreading out, she probably should be doing something to keep them in place. That would help, right?

Her mind sort of dwells on the yes, but the fake Mars is also considering that trying to restrain them with barriers is just going to open her to retaliation, and well, Rubeus has already beaten her up enough. No need for more.

"I am glad too, I probably got quite lucky", she nods to Sailor Moon. She isn't sure exactly of the cause for this, but maybe worth checking out somehow after they are done with today. "Really, you couldn't be more on time", she nods before turning to look at where normal people are going at each other.

She was going to tell Moon about the infected civilians, but she has gotten a handle on them herself, so she just follows behind the blonde soldier like her shadow. Which... Well, no, that would be quite out of place right now.

When Usagi begins purifying them, anyone of them trying to flee from the purification is going to find a moonlight wall in their path.

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus reaches out to take Jadeite's offered arm as well while she rises back up to her feet properly. She hadn't fallen so much as just... Slumped heavily with knees knocking together in an attempt to keep her balance. Heels. They were great, did wonders for the calves and all, but they were on occasion a bit easy to lose ones footing with.

"I'm ... I'm okay," she assures with a quick bobbing nod as she allows her eyes to refocus on the here and now properly. "We should probably get out of here once Sailor Moon is done." There would likely be police soon. She didn't know if her detective 'friend' would be there or not to help keep things on the low down.

"... That was really upleasant. Is everyone else okay?"

Jadeite has posed:
"I'm breathing fine. It's far better than I feared it would go," Jadeite breathes, shaking off the sting of the purification. Ugh, feels weird, but he can support anyone who needs it. "Little frustrated with Mamoru but a prince will be a prince. Uuugh, Usagi will deal with him."

He knows that Mamoru can be trusted with Chibiusa, but they're all trying to not go completely off the rails,,

"It feels worse, usually," Jadeite answers Amy. "Though that may have been Metallia's influence."

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Small Lady takes a moment to appreciate the view, and gain a new understanding of how these four wards are situated within the greater city of Tokyo. It's fun, and interesting, and not the kind of view she'd normally see.

    The sudden drop gets another yelp and laugh out of her. Her tiny legs kick happily as the two of them descend. Once on the ground, she smiles up as she holds Mamoru's hand, awaiting the magical cleansing wave that will make everything better.

    "Okay!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy nods at Jadeite's clarification. "I mean... yeah, Metallia sucked, and also I didn't feel like taking over the world, so maybe it just wasn't very much?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
And then, with the civilians taken care of - Sailor Moon was just a bit too far away to feel that icy twist of darkness - Sailor Moon smiles at Mamoru, Sailor Mars II, and Chibiusa, and says, "Mamochan won't let this hurt. So just hold on."

She's getting tired, actually, pushing out all these purification lasers without a break, but she breathes out and draws the circle one more time.

"Moon Healing Escalation!"

With Mamoru holding hands, it doesn't sting - it's just the soothing, scouring sensation of a warm bath, or the refreshing bite of mint, the sweetness of love.

"...now that you're all like, totally fine, I would like to point out that none of our dates ever went this bad."

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"It wasn't very much," Kunzite confirms to Amy. "We were still capable of cooperating without being forced in one fashion or another."

He lets out a breath, and inclines his head to Venus, but amends, "Soon as Tuxedo Kamen is done." Even with purification, leaving space for the boss to decide he's healing the civilians seems like a good plan. They can leave very, very quickly if they need to.

And then he eyes Moon for a moment.

The thing he mutters under his breath is only a handful of syllables, and the only part audible even to Jadeite and Venus is '-iday.'

Jadeite has posed:
"It wasn't even a date this time," Jadeite bemoans. "If anything, it was a playdate. The most action anyone was getting was with a joystick."

He squeezes Venus's hand. "We're all ok. It's fine. And now that Chibiusa and Mamoru have gotten their happy juice, as it were, we should be able to head out. Do you think you can walk on your own, or do you want the two of us to help?"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
It doesn't hurt for Chibiusa and Veronica, but Mamoru doesn't know how to turn his own pain off (yet)-- BUT, he's not resisting at all, so it hurts less than it could... his hands are a little rigid in the hands of the two girls while that soothing, scouring bath is going on, but that's all.

And when it's over, Tuxedo Kamen-- looking considerably torn up but in the process of healing his own superficial damage-- continues healing 'Mars' for a moment. Just a moment, though, and then he leans to kiss the top of Chibiusa's head and leap up to Sailor Moon and scoop her up.

SCOOP. "My hero," he says fully unironically, and he's about to lean in to kiss her when he realizes he's being one thousand percent selfish. "Oh no, should I heal everyone?" he asks, dismayed.

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus lifts her hand to watch as Hematite, Chibi-Usa and the Copy Mars (she was pretty sure that wasn't Rei, Rei would NOT be that calm) are purified from above. When her hand is patted--PATTED of all things!--by Jadeite she turns a bit of red out of sheer embarassment.

"I can walk by myself," she assures finally releasing her hold on the pair as she straightens to her full unimpressive height of 'same height as Usagi'. "I've walked away from worse than this!"

A sidelong glance is given toward Kunzite in confusion at the muttered utterance having not caught it all.

And at the hesitance of Sailor Moon getting a kiss, Venus helpfully calls out, "KISS HER ALREADY!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy is slumping a little bit against the wall of the arcade building. And then things get more confusing. "Wait, this was a date?" She glances between Mamoru, Kunzite, and Jadeite. "Damn, you really do have bad luck..."

    She straightens up a little and gives Usagi a curious look. "Do your dates with girlfriends ever get interrupted by monster attacks?"

    She's smiling as she watches the cute couple go for a kiss, and then Hema-- no, Tuxedo Mask brings up something very important and Amy looks down at herself and tries to assess the damage from Rubeus's attack.

    She turns pain back on to check--

    And her cry of pain is interrupted because crying out in pain hurts and she's still all tense and instinctively trying not to move a muscle for a moment even after she turns it back off.

    She looks tense. "I... should not turn pain off right now..." she slowly starts to relax a little and breathe again as her brain accepts that doing so will not make her hurt right now. "That guy... hits hard..."

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    "Most people wouldn't go directly to world conquest," says Chibiusa, in response to Amy. "Most just get mean for no reason. Fighting over every little offense, whether it was meant or not."

    She gets quiet as Sailor Moon hits them with a different kind of escalation, and she feels... still grumpy, but in a different way. The sadness, fear, and anger in her heart isn't really going away; but she's a bit more able to see the light in her life.

    Then Usagi starts in on her complaints and Chibiusa can't help but giggle.

    Then dad is with mom again, which is normal, and Chibs looks around the back alleyway. "Oh... maybe if you are going to busy maybe I should head--" She thinks about that for a moment. Everything is messed up in there. "... er... maybe I should just play with Luna-P."

Veronica Perenna has posed:
It's finally Mars II's turn to be purified and finally, she looks forward to get the dark energy out of herself and- owwww, she feels the burning power of the Escalation, standing still while the magic runs its course.

She feels much better at the end of it, like she is wrapped up in a cool and soft throw, after enduring quite the annoying burns for the past 10 minutes? Half an hour? She is not quite sure how long this took. If she had started thinking about time, she likely would have started counting each second.

"Hnnng, much better", she groans, taking one of her energy bars and giving it a bite. "Do you want one too, Moon? You used up a lot of magic there", she takes out another one.

"Had fun on the flight, Chibiusa-san, Tuxedo-san?", she asks with a tone full of vitality. "Thank you too", this is the second time you are helping me with my wounds, we should start making predictions", she remarks in a joking tone.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon is scooped up and this does wonders for her mood - honestly, she's not that annoyed, so much as worried, and the reasons to be worried are mostly gone, so when he hesitates out of worry, she kisses him -

And then there's a choked off cry of pain and she mutters a curse against Tuxedo Kamen's mouth, because yep, there it goes, there's the worry.

Wriggling free, she reaches up - and up - to pat his cheek and says, "Healing first, kisses later, I guess. Duty calls."

And then goes over to Chibiusa, and, without even asking, scoops her up into her arms, holding her (a little awkwardly, because Chibiusa is five, not an infant, and Sailor Moon isn't exactly tall). "Are you feeling okay, Chibiusa-chan? And yes, Mars-chan, I would love one, that was so tiring -" but she is not putting the (not a) baby down.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"This was taking a little girl to the arcade," Kunzite answers Amy. "It might qualify as a date, but only if you squinted the right way from a very tall rooftop." The last couple of words have laughter underlying them again - tired laughter, but laughter nonetheless, affectionate rather than mocking. At least he's agreeing with Jadeite now.

And then Amy's making that sound, and he steps closer to offer her an arm to lean on, since Jadeite is talking with Venus. "Broken bones or soft tissue? Hold still for a moment, and I think we can take care of that --" He's listening for sirens. Carefully. Just in case.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa looks up to not-Mars with a smile and firm nod. "Yeah! It was lots of fun. I wasn't scared at all!"

    Soon she's up in her mom's arms and, instead of sassing her like she often does, Chibiusa just lets herself be carried. She watches the exchange between her and not-Mars with her hands folded in her lap.

    She still feels a bit insecure next to the teenage version of her mother, though. Small Lady looks away with a frown and says, "... Thanks for coming, Moon-chan."

    Then she asks, perfectly innocently, "I guess the bad people never show up during your dates, huh?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"I'd always come for you, Chibiusa-chan," is said very quietly, and then she dips her head to kiss Chibiusa on the forehead.

Then that question is asked, and she sighs, looking away, perfectly capturing the energy of one Ben Affleck with a cigarette.

"I have had three uninterrupted dates in my entire life, Chibiusa-chan. But you know what? None of them went so bad that Hemachan came back. Or that everyone went bad." A pause. "That time Hinoiri called us on Valentine's Day because Sharpsong-chan turned into a Witch doesn't count, because we actually got to finish the movie."

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus breaks into a laugh at mention of no bad guys showing up on Sailor Moon's dates. She knew better. Oh did she know. She does at least stifle her laugh with her hand and flash a grin. "It's not so bad! At least the Sailor V game is still in one peice!"

It's meant to lighten the mood a bit, even if she was secretly very glad that it was intact. For multiple reasons the least of which was certainly that she was the icon for the game. It was also how they managed to get into their secret base though, so it was VERY important. The talk of dates just earns a quiet sigh.

"Time to start date-watching again it seems."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy chuckled at Kunzite's comment about the date, but then PAIN.

    She answers honestly: "Definitely internal damage. Organs irritated and sensitive at the least. But I'm still, y'know, breathing and circulating blood, so... Nothing immediately deadly I guess? I don't know what broken bones feel like, I've never had worse than a fracture, and that was the first time I was in high school so I don't clearly rem--"

    And then she remembers the fight with Beryl, wincing and shivering at the memory of breaking her body and asking Mamoru for heals and feeling awkward because SO MANY PEOPLE HAD JUST DIED and there she was demanding attention--

    She freezes mid-sentence, looking a bit haunted as those thoughts and memories rush through her head. "...Scratch that: This is not as bad as the Beryl fight. But worse than anything except Nezha or the Witches that burned us." She settles on that for a... measurement.

    "Only three?!" Amy looks at Sailor Moon in astonishment.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa hears nothing but the love of her mother, and the soft kiss on her forehead, and it hurts a little bit because she wanted to be angry, to put up a front, to be tough and solve everything on her own. Yet she can't just shut Usagi out. It's not fair, she realizes, to only play with dad and make mom do all the hard work. Yet she can't really help how she feels.

    Though the news about the dates kinda makes her blink. Geeze... sounds like a lot of trouble.

    The talk of Witches reminds her of Usagi's warnings regarding the little white creature and his lies. The idea of someone magical turning into a monster scares and depresses her, but considering all of the horrible things she's seen before it's just another reason why this world is different. More friends, and more dangers to match them.

    Resting in Usagi's arms, Chibiusa watches the rest of the scene. "Every time I hear about Beryl I'm glad I wasn't there for it. Sounds like she was just as bad here as she was in my timeline."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"I apparently only feel like taking over the world if I'm not full of dark energy," Tuxedo Mask calls out to Amy as he leaps over, not at all thinking about Usa cursing against his mouth, and then he's next to her and reaching with bare hands again while Kunzite offers her support. Reaching to take her hand.

As the sunny warmth of Mamoru's power floods in, the prince gets a look on his face, and he bites his lip, and his future wife and daughter are being funny and then Venus--

Tuxedo Kamen turns and glares at Minako. "Is THAT why you literally never spoke to me for a whole fu-- year? You were STALKING our DATES? Ohhhh gods you are Usako's problem, not mine, Jadeite is my problem,,,"

He takes a BREATH.

He looks back at Amy, dark blue eyes bright and concerned. "You can relax. I can get the bruising now but I'm going to have to work on the fractures-- does anyone want to regroup at my place? Let me rephrase that: I'd appreciate it if we regrouped at my place, and Amy-chan and I will start that migration."

He reaches to very briefly touch Kazuo's hand, and Amy will catch the side-view splash-zone of the wild little flood of affection.

"Provided it's all right with you, of course. We should get out of here. Tamachan, can you find Motoki and tell him to start a gofundme?"

Then he looks to Usagi. "Are you counting the one where we weren't dating yet?"

The moment Amy says they're good to go, though, there is absolutely teleporting out.

Jadeite has posed:
"She gets three perfect dates for the three perfect freckles Mamoru kisses every night when he sees her," Jadeite deadpans, and he WILL dodge anything that gets thrown at him for that. "And I have only stalked your dates with permission! In a bodyguard sense!"

He is getting a B in respecting boundaries, which is good to obtain and normal to desire!

"It's very ideal you missed Beryl," he tells Chibiusa seriously as he henshins back to Tamaki. "She even made me go back in time to look at all the mistakes I made, which, as you know, is a cruel and unusual thing to do to a teenager." And he'd died, but never mind all that.

"I'll see if I can help him start the GoFundMe and get you a link?" he asks Mamoru as he blots away his bloody nose with a tissue. It's mostly dried by now, it was a light punch, it's fiiiine.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy also laughs at Tuxedo Mask talking about taking over the world.

    During the contact there is a brief mental image of Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion aspiring to rule the world, but also the lingering memory of that moment during the fight with Beryl.

    Not a pleasant memory, but at least she's too distracted to be self-conscious about it this time!

    Knowing she's being healed and doesn't have to worry about her body or how much magic she'll spend to regenerate it is a relief, and he can feel that too.

    "Thank you. Uh, migration?"

    She smiles at that splash of what it feels to feel that affection for someone, it makes her happy to know her dear friend is feeling that and that so many feel that for him in return!

    Also, she's wondering how they are going to get to his apartment. Her mind forms images of possibilities like flying there (him carrying her), then remembering he can't fly without dark energy so flying there her carrying him, wait, then she realizes that's too magically expensive, so they get there by walking and mass transit?

    And then she feels him planning to teleport and is surprised to learn he can do that without any other senshi--

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus blinks rather rapidly at the yell aimed toward her about not talking toward him, and she just.... Kind of goes red-faced again at the accusation. "What? No! I was dating Rei-chan but that didn't work out and then Beryl and then I've *been in Paris in the darn catacombs for MONTHS* making sure there were no remaining entry ways into the Dark Kingdom!"

Her arms cross over her chest with a harumph, and she glances aside pouting as she utters, "Just the girls and I used to watch you both to make sure that you'd HAVE a good date, but that isn't way I haven't been around or anything and anyway it doesn't matter right now."

All Venus can do is let out a tired sigh. Without saying anything else, she moves to leap to the rooftops so she's not the only one left on the street.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
(Amy will catch the side-view splash-zone of a wild little two-way flood of affection, in fact - but that doesn't clarify the teleportation business.)

Kunzite steps back to clear the teleportation; he can make it home the slightly longer way, and ... oh. Apparently so can Venus. He glances aside to Jadeite again, then up to the Usagis. All right. "Coming back after?" he asks, with a nod toward the space where Mamoru and Amy are not. It's not an actually worded apology, but there's a thread of that in there.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"You have to remember we don't go out on dates all the time, and also, a lot of the time we just started looking for the monster before we do the date things, so you know, I still count that, and yeah, it's more that... Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars, all used to try and hang around when Mamochan and I were going on a date, because it was so likely we'd be attacked."

She's making a face like -.- because well it had worked like, every time.

"If we all hold hands, I can lead the rest of us in a Sailor Teleport after we catch Motoki-kun," she tells everyone. "There's enough of us here to manage getting to the building across from Mamochan's."

She is not risking his roof. Sorry building that's not Mamochan's. She would risk yours.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Small Lady looks at Mamoru and, while she isn't close enough feel him thinking about teleportation, she knows him well enough to not need to. She looks up to Sailor Moon and then back to Mamoru. "I don't mind doing the teleport, but if that's too tiring..." Yes, she's thinking about the last time Mamoru had to teleport a whole bunch. "... I'm sure I can make it back fine. Especially if I'm not all by myself."

    She considers that there is a non-zero possibility this means she'll be walking home with Sailor Moon, whether home in this case means the dorm or Mamoru's apartment.

    "I don't know all of the magical options in this world, sorry."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"I can," starts Tuxedo Mask as (from Amy's perspective) he leads Amy a step forward into his apartment (and to everyone else, they step into nothing)...

"...teleport by myself, yeah. Not fast enough to use it in combat anymore. Here, have a seat--" he hands Amy onto the couch with the plastic on it, "and-- if you need anything, then when everyone else gets here we'll get them to get you it," he says, and then frets, "Lie down actually? I don't like what you having to use your core muscles is doing to the broken ribs, nevermind the deep tissue bruising..."

She can feel him remember he locked the doors, and then that obviously more than half the people coming have the keycode and can get in just fine. It's idle images in return. And once she's lying down and Mamoru sits on the floor next to the couch holding her hand, there aren't images anymore.

Now he's actively healing, and it's funny if she's paying attention to his preoccupation, she'll get mental images of textbook pages.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy steps across space and time (mainly space) with Mamoru.

    She looks around with widened eyes, "That was cool..."

    She nods at his medical concerns, and lies back, and tries to relax.

    She wonders if his telepathy works with animals. How cool would that be?

    Her thoughts drift from imagining having animal-telepathy to touch telepathy in general... it seems like knowing what others are thinking, and sharing her own thoughts, would have to have avoided so many misunderstandings growing up -- but then, it surely must have ways to go wrong as well, he did note that it made people think he was weird...

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
There's a few moments where they all get themselves together - check on the civilians (Usagi), talk to Motoki and encourage him to set up a GoFundMe (Jadeite), hold up Sailor Venus (Kunzite), and then Usagi puts Chibiusa down, so she can holds with everyone in the circle -

"This is going to take some of your energy," she tells Chibiusa, fully confident that she's going to be able to help. "So just hold on tight, okay?" -

And then, once they're all together - the energy lances around them, a rainbow of colors, and the ground cracks in a circle beneath their feet -

And then they land on the roof next door to Mamoru's building.

"Alright, let's head over, I know the code~ I mean that's not special, Tamakun and Kunkun know too but still."

A leap across the roofs and she enters the keycode, and they're coming down to the apartment from the roof.

"Amy-chan, you feeling better yet?"

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kunzite detours to one side, down the hall, into the Goth Room ... but returns almost immediately thereafter. Only a glance at the monitors. Then there is much more serious business to get up to.

Of course it's in the kitchen.

He emerges shortly thereafter with tray number one, which involves a pitcher of water, cups, and a lot of bottled sodas. Tray number two, which follows, is literally just piled with packaged snacks, which are fenced around with not-packaged cookies, because the Lady of the Kitchen is amazing.

... his doing this in full becaped uniform may possibly be hilarious.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa is let down by her mother and stays there long enough to help with the teleport. Luna-P turns back into a hairpin and rests in her pink hair to make things easier to track. She's got to keep both hands free to complete the circle, after all.

    There is a familiar energy there when Sailor Moon calls for it. Probably unsurprising, considering who Chibiusa is. Coming right from her heart, or somewhere close.

    Back at the apartment, Chibiusa is following in after Usagi, and when she gets to Mamoru she asks, "Should we get out the sheets again?"

Jadeite has posed:
"Finally, I'm not the only butler in the house," Tamaki jokes as he takes a cookie and some water from Kunzite's miralce tray. "Thanks for getting this all set up."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"I don't think so, sweetheart," Mamoru says a little absently, still holding Amy's hand, "but ask Kazuo, I think he could use a hand hosting, he lacks effervescence."

But Amy can feel his distraction and his fatigue by this point, and he says to her, "I can't get your broken ribs yet, and I'll have to do them one at a time. Right now they're in place and can withstand breathing and very carefully sitting up, but ... broken ribs. So please be cautious until I can get to them."

He looks up and if Chibiusa's still there, he holds out his arms like -- hug? (?).

Minako Aino has posed:
Even though she wasn't feeling in tip-top shape by any means, Sailor Venus dutifully clasps hands with the others to add her own energy into the teleport. Warm, bright light which often fueled a good number of her attacks now being leant to focus on the teleport.

Once it's done, and they're lead into the main area of the apartment however, she's quite glad to make a beeline for one of the chairs which she promptly sags down into with a quietly tired groan. "Did anyone get the name of that truck?"

Oh but there's snacks, and drinks, and she sits up again to reach for a soda and a cookie with the sudden NEED to have sugar.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"I just brought out the effervescence," Kunzite-Kazuo comments aloud. "What I'm lacking is the caffeine, but it's brewing."

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    "I'm not sure what a pre-apocalyptic goth band has to do with anything but I'm pretty sure Kunzite has enough of it," says Chibiusa. When a hug is offered, she goes in for it, and when contact is made Mamoru can tell she actually does know what effervescence actually means and was trying to make a joke.

    She reaches out to take a couple of cookies from Kunzite's plate, and offers one to Mamoru.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    The thoughts of medical textbook pages recall thoughts of reading, curious about how the body works, on Hayaipedia -- and WebDoctor, in a past life, when worried about symptoms being something serious. (It was right, once, when he got appendicitis, and there's a memory there of that whole ordeal, getting taken to the hospital and everything), and of asking his doctor, whenever something was wrong, the hows and whys of what was wrong and how it worked, just wanting to understand, just being curious...

    Bits and pieces of that add up to a more-than-average understanding of the workings of the body, after a few decades of life.

    Is she feeling better yet? Amy smiles, and it does feel nice to hear Usagi's concern, but she answers honestly: "I still have pain turned off while Mamoru's working."

    Although, once he explains her status to her... and she stares wide-eyed, what he's doing is kind of incredible -- she nods, and also dares to turn pain back on so she'll know if she's doing anything disruptive.

    Wincing and with a hiss of pain, she carefully sits up, an then lies down on the unbroken side rather then her back. Comfier this way. "Hey... good to see everybody," she smiles, as if they hadn't just seen eachother a moment ago.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"...honestly probably for the best," Usagi agrees, and she is Usagi - she's dropped her henshin, since she won't be the one helping with this one, and she's giving Chibiusa a contemplative look, having felt that wonderfully familiar energy.

"So, can anyone tell me what happened? I mean, I'm guessing one of those crazy ladies showed up again, but?"

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"You mock my paint," Kunzite tells Chibiusa - hopefully someone around here has shown her Princess Bride by now, even if subtitled - and goes to hide in the kitchen from whatever Tamaki tries to throw at him. He didn't see Rubeus, and there is coffee to get...

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru, who also drops his henshin, looks wide-eyed at Chibiusa for a second, having no idea what she's talking about, and then she hugs him and he squeezes her for a moment, and then he starts laughing. "Raven Ebony Dementia D'arque, right?" He kisses the side of Chibiusa's head, then gravely accepts the cookie, and looks up at Kunzite-- and smiles.

And oh no, he has cookie in his mouth and can't answer!

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa looks up at alt-mom and says, "You know that guy the cat girl was swooning over? The one who's they were calling 'Master Rubeus' or 'Crimson Rubeus'? Their boss, I think? It was that guy. He showed up at the Crown trying to pick a fight with the Sailor Senshi."

    To Kunzite, she cranes her neck back to look up and says, "Life is paint. Anyone who says different is selling something."

    Then she gives her dad a confused blink and says, "Um... close! I guess American music isn't that well known in this era."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino nibbles on the cookie while her gaze shifts from Chibi, to Mamoru, to Kunzite, and back. The bite is gulped down and she leans to the side to hiss at Usagi, "What are they talking about? Paint? Goth?"

The rest she got. She was there for most of it after all, so she can just nod a bit at the talk of Rubeus. "He somehow knew the arcade was somewhere we hang out. He definitely knew attacking it would get some of us there."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Oh, so it was an evil guy this time," Usagi sighs, and plops herself down, taking a cookie from Kunzite and putting the entire thing in her mouth, before grabbing a second. "And... well, they're from the future so... maybe we're still hanging out there in the future?"

She cocks her head, thinking about that, and both liking it and - feeling bad, too, because that definitely means this was their fault, sorta.

"...do we think they know more places we hang out?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Seeing Usagi is out of uniform... Amy decides not to dehenshin, she might need magic yet, but she doesn't need to keep her sailor senshi disguise on, so, pink sparkles briefly glittering on her form, she changes to comfort clothes -- the red sweatshirt and matching skirt, so soft inside, with striped knee-highs and a pair of fuzzy slippers. Confort.

    "Thank you, again, so much." She smiles to Mamoru. "Take your time." And then looks confused as the long name is said. Isn't that the main character from that one Twilight fanfic? Or wizarding school fanfic. That sounds right.

    "Crimson Rubeus... so another rock name, but not -ite... Or might be a color name. Or both. They like him? Bleh, I don't know what they could see in him."

    She looks back to Usagi. "I was just going to hang out at the arcade and play games! And I saw them there" she nods at the others, "And then that Rubeus guy threw a mailbox through the front window and smashed a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles machine! And... I blinded him, so he made it dark, and Kunzite and Jadeite helped civilians escape, but I was focused on fighting the guy, and I got hit, and then he darkened us, and we tried to hit him and miss, and he left, and when I went outside..."

    Amy frowns. "I wanted... I felt like if I took that power, I could fix everything. Somehow. And then when I stepped outside there was more of it, and I was so mad at people, and you saw the rest." She shrugs and winces with a sharp 'ow' at the movement.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
There. Coffee is fetched out, along with teapot and yet more cups, and a mug that is clearly and maskedly Mamoru's is set down near him and Amy. "He made a forcefield dome out of dark energy," Kunzite adds to Amy's explanation. "When he shattered it, the fragments infected the people they touched. I was able to intercept some of it, at least."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Yeah. And, they're all from a future where we rule the world, and therefore it stands to reason Game Center Crown is still there in a thousand years," Mamoru says, finally, washing down cookie with effervescence, not Amy Lee. Wait, was that-- "Were they in a Warped Tour that had Hi-Standard in, once? Should I stop before I embarrass myself?" he asks, setting himself up.

He stretches tiredly. "Rubeus said hello by throwing a mailbox through the window. The other window's my fault. He blasted dark energy in a wide radius, then a wider one, and also trapped everyone in a dark dome that was pitch black and a forcefield and he blasted out stronger and bigger, that's what crumpled the cars, and then he popped his own forcefield and it-- yeah."

Mamoru looks up again, then starts to pick himself up off the floor. "No worries," he tells Amy with a smile, then just... sits down and goes for the coffee like it's water to a man alone in the desert and not used to it. "I don't know," he tells Usagi, frowning. "And there's no way of knowing--"

He worries at somethnig while Amy speaks, and then finally says, "Hikawa Jinja."

Then he blinks, and looks at Chibiusa. "I'm sorry, or we can just ask the expert."

Minako Aino has posed:
Minako Aino shifts in her seat trying to get a bit more comfortable. Everyone else was changing out of henshin or just getting a change of henshin, so she allows her own to drop leaving her in her regular clothes. A jean mini skirt, a jacket and turtleneck, leggings, and ankle boots with the fur. It was Winter still. Let her enjoy warm feet.

"I was alerted as soon as the arcade was attacked, which is why I showed up. Given the arcade is also-" A pause as she glances to Amy, then over to the others with a small shrug. "Importnat to us. Artemis and I have had it set up to send an alert any time there may be danger in or near it. We should update it to alert all the senshi now though," she muses with another bite of the cookie disapearing with one large chomp.

Another cookie is taken to begin devouring it accidentally mirroring the way Usagi eats at the same time while losing herself in thought.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Small Lady glances at Usagi's question, and then takes a moment to think about it. "Well... Hm. I mean. They're from the future of my timeline, so they're going to focus on places that were important to you there. So the Crown Arcade, the Crown Parlor. Juuban Mall. A lot of places in Juuban, really. The entire Mitakihara ward is new to me, actually."

    Luna-P poofs back into catball mode, and as Chibiusa tilts her head and pinches her chin to think, the floating toy seems to mimic the movement of her head. "During the apocalypse, it became kindof a beacon of safety. It was a defensible position, and people who were purified were put in the surrounding area in order to keep them safe. If they're trying to stop you from coming into power, they might try to make it so you can't help people in this timeline."

    She crosses her arms and says, "That's dumb, though. This is a different world. It's not gonna be the same way! Probably."

    Well she says that, but apparently Beryl is here.

    Chibiusa glances towards Mamoru and says, "Umm... maybe? They've visited Japan a couple times, I think. A lot of that is really old news to me, though."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy laughs at Mamoru saying they'd ensure the Game Crown was still there in a thousand years.

    And then ows, it hurts to laugh. :( u_u

    "Hikawa Jinja? What?" And there's Minako! "Oh, I like your outfit!"

    And then she listens solemnly and attentively to Chibiusa's exposition of the future of Juuban and the world.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Hikawa Jinja is a shrine that's important to Sailor Mars, Amy-chan... and it sounds like it, and then basically every place we like to hang out is at risk... but we can't give anyone a way to call us?"

What can they do?

"Ughhhh, I don't know what to do but we'll figure it out! We'll be able to handle it, as long as we're working together." Stretching her arms up, she says, "I don't like that they could just... infect you all with dark energy, but, I could purify you, and that means probably anyone else could, too, which is good. I almost called Wako-chan - if I'd realized there were that many civilians, I definitely would have - but until we know more... we'll just have to do what we always do: patrol, stick together, and keep our eyes open!"

And with that, she stands, kisses Mamoru on the forehead this time, and turns back towards everyone - "I'm gonna go in the ball pit and like, contemplate life, the universe, and the weirdness of our lives. If anyone's looking for me."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy listens, thinking about the future. Usagi speaks of plans, and the threat to Juuban, and--

    "Ehhhhhh???" Amy double-takes over at Usagi. "Ball pit?!" She looks to Mamoru. "Your house has a ball pit?!"