2110/Drive-by Prince-down

Drive-by Prince-down
Date of Scene:	27 November 2024
Location:	Yumegahama Ward
Synopsis:	Eudial decides to take Mamoru's heart crystal in front of... well... everyone. And they have opinions about this. Not since Beryl has there been a red-head who was struck with such raw, primal hatred and rage.
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Jadeite, Chibiusa Tsukino, Seiko Akai, Haruka Tenoh, Usagi Tsukino, Amanda Faust, Hotaru Tomoe, Setsuna Meiou

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Mamoru Chiba has posed:
It is an absolutely gorgeous late afternoon, on a day gone from sweater weather to long-sleeved t-shirt weather. Instead of a long-sleeved t-shirt, however, Mamoru's in a regular white metal band t-shirt and a long-sleeved black button-down cotton shirt over that, and then black skinny jeans and fancy shoes. His glasses are speckled with salt, and his hair is windblown.

"All right already," he announces mostly in Chibiusa and Usagi's direction, and then he gestures with his phone in one hand and his peppermint mocha in the other and calls out, "Everyone together for a picture. We can label it happy day out."

They're all at the juncture of boardwalk and asphalt, having come from the ice cream parlor, and the golden hour's sun is catching on buildings, on waves, and on Haruka's and Usagi's and Tamaki's golden hair and turning Amy's to brilliant fire, and no matter what else is going on, Mamoru will have his picture.

He takes a sip of that mocha, then backs away from the rest of the group, holding the camera up. "Okay, smile!"

Jadeite has posed:
It's a beautiful afternoon, and Tamaki has refused to take off his oversized Dartmouth sweater despite the way things have warmed up. It can warm back down! He is prepared for the weather! And besides, his sea salt ice cream is in danger of melting if he doesn't dig in.

(He can tease Ami later about how he'd found the one blue ice cream at the shop. She'd get a kick out of it. )

"Is over here good?" Tamaki asks, picking out a place that catches the light beautifully and posing. "We need to make sure Prince-chan gets his very happy day photo!"

He can be cutesy as hell if he wants. He's allowed. This isn't a date but it's not NOT a date either and he is going to ENJOY it.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa has to admit, at least to herself, that hanging out with the teenage version of her parents is freaking weird. A part of her finds it reassuring that they'd still be nice to her even if they didn't know she was theirs, but at the same time she's constantly self-aware about the fact that she doesn't really belong here. She's not even sure that this is her past. She wishes she had asked Pluto for better directions after stealing her time key and running off with it.

    Yet she did not, and now here she is, wondering whether or not she'll cause a grandfather paradox by eating her ice cream the wrong way, then realizing it's probably okay as long as she doesn't fade out of existence like that one movie from literally a thousand years ago.

    Wait, it's a thousand years ago right now. Oops.

    She's wearing a tiny fuku that looks like a blue school uniform, but clearly isn't RHA's standard fare. It's a long sleeve version of the dress made of thicker fabric that keeps the heat in a little bit more. The infamous blankstaring ever-smiling catball hovers nearby at all times, though people might be getting used to its ominous presence by now.

    Chibiusa is, for the most part, 'well behaved' in the sense that it's hard to cause a whole lot of trouble with your hands and mouth involved in the holding and consuming of ice cream. She's standing relatively still, watching Mamoru and trying to look good for the camera, holding off on eating just long enough to make sure that he doesn't snap a picture of her wide open mouth or something else potentially embarrassing.

    However, one can never be too careful. Chibiusa might be behaving, but Luna-P is ever present, and who knows what that lifeless smile is capable of.

Seiko Akai has posed:
Its a busy day for Seiko Akai. Not because of school and certainly not because of work as she doesn't have a job really. No what has her in a tizzy is a very big day less than a month away. Christmas! Whats more, there are a few friends in her life now that she just has to do something for. This has lead her to get out, away from dorms. She didn't want a surprise visit to ruin the surprise for her friends. Nope she needed to get somewhere quiet and away from anyone who knew her. That lead her to the Yumegahama ward where she has set up beach blanket on the beach. In front of her is different ribbons and some boxes to use for shapes. The young girl with Pink hair is making some ribbon baskets. They are being done up in red and green to welcome in the holiday season. She will have to get some stuff to fill them with but a handmade gift for the holiday is definitely the way to go.

Seiko isn't too terribly far from the boardwalk. She looks around, noting the people taking pictures. Of them she recognizes one. "Oh my. I hope She still isn't upset with me." She mutters as she weave ribbon together, forming the base of one of the baskets. She has three of them made already and she is just working on the fourth one.

Hoshi is helping her with the basket weaving. She smiles and looks up to Seiko, "Its okay. Don't worry. I've learned my lesson. I'm staying right here." She giggles and makes herself a little crown out of ribbon.

Seiko happens to be dressed in a pink sweater and a pair of grey yoga pants with a pair of sneakers which have been taken off so she doesn't get sand in them.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Due to the proximity of the beach (and maybe not wanting to challenge fashion sense today) the group is spared the horrors of the Mustard Suit. Instead she's just wearing a long-sleeved white button up shirt, sans tie, and black slacks. It's a very 'casual day' for Haruka. She's not dressed to impress today, she's dressed to be comfortable, and to be able to relax. She's happy to stand behind her friends and their extended friend group (and whoever or whatever the pink haired minisuagi is) and smile, because it has genuinely been a pretty nice time out. She doesn't get to spend a bunch of time with them, that doesn't involve needing to pummel some youma. And she'd been out of the country till recently, so it was partly just nice to be in Tokyo again. "It has been a pretty great day." Haruka agrees. And yet, the wind is... she shakes it off, she hasn't been near a coast in a while, that's probably it.

    Haruka is not used to the catball though and keeps side eyeing it, so Mamoru may have to ensure he doesn't get a picture where she's doing just that.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Beautiful beach days aren't exactly a surprise in Yumegahama, but considering that it's almost Winter, she wasn't exactly expecting it. She's dressed for the weather though, sporting an oversized pink jacket with many gold buttons on the right side of the chest and deep pockets over a thick white shirt and seafoam green shorts, with matching boots.

It's been a pretty good day - her plan to introduce Haruka to Chibiusa having gone very well, though Haruka had not, in fact, possessed any special magical knowledge about mysterious pink-haired girls who fell from the sky. They've been having fun! Sure, there were a few arguments, and sure she and Chibiusa had sniped at each other a bit, but now they each have a treat and they can't argue, because of that.

Her treat, by the way, is chocolate ice cream, melting into a delicious peppermint latte. She might not be as big on coffee as Naru, but the combination of chocolate and peppermint can't be beaten.

Unfortunately, she is leaking the ice cream when Mamoru calls for a picture, and so her eyes pop open wide and she looks like a spooked rabbit, when the picture is taken.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy is invited to go out to a thing? Eeeeeee!

    This really is the life. Sure, there's homework and the occasional monster attack and the even more occasional almost end of the world, but. The sense that she should be doing more, that she's a failure who isn't doing anything with her life and never got anywhere big, and is just kind of waiting for her real life to begin... is not there.

    She is out with friends. There's nothing she's late for. No adult responsibility that's slipped by the wayside due to ADHD. The friends don't mind that she's weird. Like, they invited her. They actually want to spend time with her, rather than tolerating him.

    This... this is what life was supposed to be like.

    It's perfect.

    She's wearing the white-with-blue-designs dress from Princess Serenity's closet, which has not exactly long sleeves but they cover the upper arm and elbow, so for this weather it will do. Paired with regular sneakers because she hasn't... gotten... other shoes yet and also they're comfy for walking around all day in. Over her shoulder is a utilitarian black messenger bag in which she's got like a sandwich and a bottle of water and other minor supplies.

    The weather is nice, but even more so, the atmosphere. She's here, she's with friends, as long as she's with them and following she can't be late for anything or slowing them down, although now and then in a quiet moment she goes off to check her phone.

    This was one such moment, off to the side a bit, checking her phone in one hand and holding a peppermint mocha latte in the other and wondering if as a white girl in the fall she is obligated to take a picture with the peppermint mocha latte, when she hears the call for the group photo and rushes over, careful not to spill her drink and smiling, slipping her phone into her bag and throwing out a peace sign.

    What a great day!

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
A few beach goers were, well, enjoying a bit of volleyball, having a blast. Well, it was going to be too cold soon to go to the beach at all, so why not enjoy it?

And then a big white CAR CAME RISING FROM THE DEPTHS! Like some kind of cthulian vessel of the damned, except with all wheel drive, heated seats and a youma in the trunk. The people on the beach shrieked as a CAR drove by their came, kicking up sand and making its way onto the street!

Eudial was, to be nice, on the war path. She and the res of the witches had gotten screamed at by Kaolinite for STILL not managing to find the brat. How was it HER fault?! She wasn't supposed to be keeping him safe! She swore if she found that little brat, she'd throttle her to within an INCH of her life and THEN bring her to Kaolinite. Say it was an ACCIDENT!

... Okay, no she wouldn't but she'd IMAGINE IT!

She then drifted around a corner, causing people to yell and honk and yell at her, but she ignored them. Where was--

Oh, hello. Her eyes picked up sight of... *him*. Mamoru. The first of their little losers to abandon Obsidian. Heh. Well... Her car swerved to the right, and then--

The window down, her gun was out, the heart snatch rifle was just *there*. They'd have barely a second to realize that something was wrong before the shot was taken...

And then for it to connect with Mamoru. as he started to fall, his very heart crystal shot out... they'd hear the sound of a vehicle approaching. It jumped the curve, before spinning out... The door opened... And Eudial just stepped out of it. Even as the car spun out behind her, she managed to step out, onto the cement, and just snatch Mamoru's heart crystal out of the air before it could even fall to the ground. The car spinning between Mamoru and them. Today she was on. Today she was-- *bam*.

She turned and... "MY CAR!" she shrieked, running towards the smoking vehicle, now jammed in between two of the beach railings, the trunk opened... but the doors now stuck closed.

... Uhhh, well, that made this... more... difficult... Was.. was she going to have to crawl in from the trunk? Ugh. That was too undignified for her... Ugh...

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru takes the picture at, oh no, the perfect storm of bad timing for people's facial expressions, and he laughs and--

--there's a car driving out of the water and across the beach and up by--

He's staring, then abruptly looking for a place to put his mocha so he can come back for it after the fight, and he shoves his phone in his pocket, and he wasn't looking at the right time and

he falls

silently, expressionless.

Jadeite has posed:
Tamaki poses for the picture even as everyone else makes faces or yells or-

It's perfect. Theyr'e all just kids for once. There's even Amy jumping in, and he turns to her and Haruka with a smile on his face to make a joke about how Chibi-usa looks like her ice cream,isn't she the cutest?

Light sparks out of the corner of his eye.

Mamoru falls.

"Usagi, do what you need to, I'll get Mamoru. Haruka-san, Chibiusa is our guest, if anything happens to her while she's out cold, Mamoru will kill everyone in Tokyo and then himself. Amy, keep everyone safe."

He runs towards the car and henshins, his grey sweatshirt transforming into glimmering white and blue cloth as he jumps on the car and clambers over it, and leaps off the other side to grab his prince's body.

He catches Mamoru before he can hit the concrete. Feels his pulse.

Turns, face as pale as snow, pale as his unform, eyes wide and wild as a rabid dog's.

"SNOW THIMBLE!"

Eudiel better dodge, or she's getting trapped under a bell made of ice. She. Does not. Get. To. Run.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Everything goes from a perfect, carefree afternoon to absolute s**tshow in just one moment, one blast. Well, one blast of a Heartsnatcher Rifle and one very loud spin out of a stationwagon. It's chaos, but several of the people present are bodyguards from a lifetime ago, and handle things a lot more orderly than one might expect.

    Tamaki grabs Mamoru, and Haruka grabs Chibiusa - it's not a dignified princess carry, she just hauls the pinkette up under one arm and absolutely books it, down a nearby alley. Because she doesn't know if the shot that hit Mamoru is the first of many or not. And she can't henshin out there anyways. Not in front of these people... or that ball.

    She strikes out with surprising force and kicks in a local shop's back door. One kick. Then she sits Chibiusa down and looks at her. "I don't know what's going on, but I need you to stay here till we get everything sorted out, alright?" she says, softly. "I'll come get you when it's safe. Stay here. I have to go make sure everything ends up fine."

    She doesn't really even wait for an affirmation from the girl; she's out of the line of fire and Haruka needs to get out there before anything happens to Usagi or before whatever happens to Mamoru gets worse. She rolls up her sleeve as she runs, and opens the communicator on her wrist. "Pluto, I think we need you here. Something - some dark energy or monster blast - just hit Chiba-kun and Tsukino-san is here, both out of henshin, and there's some kid. Faust-san's here too. Yumegahama ward, can see the beach from here, probably can sense your way once you're close. I'll be engaged."

    And then there was a henshin pen in her other hand - and rocketing out of an alley with a blade drawn is one Sailor Uranus, ankle-high boots and hot pants and a sword and a very serious look on her face as she steps between Usagi and the car. "Run, odangoes." She says to Usagi. She knows she's not going to run very far - just far enough to henshin, probably. Can't blame her.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Mamoru just got shot.

    Chibiusa is just open mouth staring with a spoonful of ice cream watching as the person who is supposed to be her dad someday suddenly DIES right in front of her.

    She immediately looks down at her hands. No fading yet. Is that a good sign or bad one? How could it possibly be good?! Mamoru just died! Wait... what if he didn't?! Maybe it's not too late to save him.

    "Abraca-- ack!"

    She's suddenly picked up and carried away by Haruka. Before she can say anything, she's being set down inside the back door of the shop and told to stay still. "But I..." she starts to say, before suddenly being left there. It takes a second or two for Luna-P to catch up, floating through the door with a spin as if it were doing a combat roll to get out of trouble.

    Speaking to the catball, she says, "We can't let anything bad happen to him, but everyone's fighting out there right now..." Luna-P pings, and Chibiusa grabs it with both hands. She holds it closely while sneaking out the door and peering out from behind the building. Red eyes and catball watching the ensuing combat.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    The picture is taken and then--

    Chaos.

    It's that woman again, the crazy driver with the flamethrower.

    A car goes by and it could have killed someone.

    Mamoru is on the ground. Amy thinks she saw a beam and the woman grab something? This lady was there at one of those crystal-heart-taking things before, too!

    Obviously she's got to fight, and stop her, and get Mamoru's soul crystal back, and there are at least some tall people to duck behind and henshin before the group scatters!

    A vulnerable child being present is one of the furthest things from her mind, although Amy isn't really categorizing the smaller Usagi as 'vulnerable child' -- she has access to powerful magic, knows about magic, has a magic catball, and isn't the target here, so she can run and hide like a civilian only with the advantage of knowing magic stuff is going on and appreciating the danger.

    Amy's mind making tactical decisions may have failed to note that Chibiusa appears to be like, five though.

    So Amy just focuses on Eudial right now. The Dark General appears to be... grappling with having crashed her car. Why isn't she villain-teleporting away? Can she not do that? Is that why she arrived by car?

    Either way, if she's upset at the state of the car, Amy can use that. Attack it, keep the enemy's focus here and not on running away, make them careless.

    Also, Jadeite and Sailor Uranus are here, Sailor Moon is about to be, and the villain isn't looking this way. She'll confuse the villain by pretending to be one of them. Pink sparkles change her outfit, as she manifests an over-the-shoulder launcher and -- unless that's a magical, super-tough car -- takes out the engine block with a cannonball.

    "You're not going ANYWHERE!" The sailorsuited redhead announces!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
It's not a perfect moment, but that's what makes it the perfect moment, them all being kids, being friends, a group of perfectly normal kids hanging out, taking pictures, having fun -

She sees the flash of the camera on Mamoru's phone and by the look on his face she knows the picture was hilarious and she wants to see it, she wants to ask him to show her, except then there are screams, and a strange rushing sound that she can't quite identify until all at once she realizes it's a car, driving on the beach, and there's a flash, and -

Mamoru falls.

There's a Heart Crystal. It's not on the ground. It's in her hands.

A red-headed woman with a gun, and she's just like the one who shot Chiyo-chan, she must be the one who shot Chiyo-chan, and now she's shot Mamochan, and he's on the ground, and it's like her ears are ringing, like there's nothing, because there's nothing, because she felt the moment it snapped out of focus, Mamoru gone and back again but she's holding him -

Tamaki is moving, gone, henshin overtaking his form, he's over Mamoru's he's telling her to do what she needs to do as if she needs to do anything other than be with Mamoru, than feel him under her hands, than reassure herself that he's alive, and she doesn't even notice Haruka running away with Haruka, she's just there -

Staring.

At the crystal.

At the woman.

Haruka is there, again, Sailor Uranus, telling her to run -

This, of all things, is what reaches her. Usagi Tsukino takes a deep breath, blinks eyes that have been watering for how long they've been open, unblinking, and grabs her compact.

As if she's going anywhere.

"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!"

She changes right there on the street, in front of Godoka and everyone - in front of Eudial and Amy and Seiko and it's a damned good thing most people were busy running away from the crazy car instead of staring- and her body is light and sparkles, prismatic colors and ribbons, and then she is Sailor Moon, and her Moon Stick, her Crescent Wand, is in hand, pointed directly at Eudial.
Hernce upon a time, her world ended when Endymion fell in front of her. Once upon a time, she did it to herself.

Now, her eyes are a blaze of determination as she stares down Eudial, and the Silver Crystal glows bright.

"Moon Healing Escalation!"

She doesn't even bother to carve the circle. The silver light blazes from the crescent moon on her wand, streaming for Eudial in a blaze of punishing purification.

Seiko Akai has posed:
The sound of a laser going off is not exactly something Seiko was expecting to hear today. Still there it was. A Laser going off. She whips her head around to see a tall guy get hit. Then there is the sound of a car accident. Immediately the pinkette is taken aback to her time in the States where she attended school before moving to Tokyo. "Seiko-chan! get down!" Hoshi exclaims knowing that things weren't exactly good. The Chara bearer dives forward, Right on top of her finished baskets. All of them destroyed.

As soon as things quiet down a moment she scrambles to her feet. "We gotta do something, Hoshi!" She quickly rushes under the boardwalk. There is next to no one there. The only other person present was a drunk who happened to have passed out. Seiko takes a breath, "I dunno what we are going to do but, MY HEART, UNLOCK!" Light flashes from under the boardwalk and The girl transforms into Star Shine! The now transformed magical girl rushes out from under the boardwalk and up onto it. "I saw the attack, is there anything I can do?" She asks curiously trying to find a way to help out. "Should we call an ambulance? I mean this isn't very good at all.

She watches a familiar magical girl go after the red head. She watches the other Sailor Senshi jump into action. All Star Shine can do is ask what she can do to help. She does the only thing she knows. She prepares to sing.

"Seiko-chan! Hold out your hands!" Hoshi's voice echos in her head. So Seiko extends her hands and a pair of glow stick batons appear in her hands. She smiles, "No go after that crazy shooty person!"

With that Star Shine takes off running to join Amy in the fight against Eudial. "You endangered people having a good time. There is no reason for that! So you are going to undo what you've done! With that she rushes in to attack.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Eudial sighed, well, if she was going to have to deal with this... she grabbed her.... vacuum? Slinging it over her shoulder and--

Wait, snow? She looked up to see ALL the snow falling at her. She shrieked, one hand grabbing the weird box, dragging the strange... nozzle? Part of it? Along the ground. As a whole bunch of snow fell on the ground. "Ugh, hurry UP!" she yelled, before KICKING the box and hopping on one foot as it went flying . "Ow ow ow ow!" High heals were NOT made for kicking youma crates. However, the youma DID release! And in front of them... stood.... a weird youma.

Her right arm... was... a waffle maker? And its left arm was a spatula. "It's time to flip!" she called... before she started launching WAFFLES AT THEM FROM THE MAKER! NOOOOOO!

"Ugh. More of you brats... and another traitor..." she muttered as her eyes fell on Tamaki and Sailor Uranus. "Let's just skip the speeches today, shall we?" She then held up the crystal. "*I* have something you want, you have something I want." well, she'd also like her car to not be wedged in between the poles, but. You know. Witches can't be choosers.

"I-- WHAT THE HELL?!" Eudial yelled. As Amy just BLEW UP PART OF HER CAR! "HOW DARE YOU! OKAY NOW I WANT TWO THINGS!" she yelled.

And then... Wait. That twin tailed girl... SHE was SAILOR MOON?! Wait. No.That made WAY too much sense.

However, as Sailor Moon got ready to unleash the Moon Healing Escalation... Eudia reached down with ehr free hand. Dark energy rotated within the... weird... thing? "Fire... buster... II!"

As the silver light blazes at her, her own fireball of dark energy... slams into it! Erupting into a mass of dark and light energy! And Eudial smirks. "Now, as I was saying." She then held up the heart crystal. "You want this so bad? Then the answer is simple. I want to know where you lot took the bosses brat! He's been heart wrenched since you lot kidnapped her and I know there's no way we'd have not found her by now if she was on her own!" And frankly, she doesn't want to get yelled at again.

Jadeite has posed:
"You'll give us what we want? How nice." Jadeite's face is as white as bone. "Please die for us."

He's kneeling on the ground, Mamoru's body clutched to his chest (no pulse, no breathing, it's fine, he can fix this, it's fine, he MUST fix this) in one arm, the other raising high.

"Glory of the Snow," he says in a voice like ice cracking.

Three icy shields in the shape of flowers slam down around Eudial. She cannot go back, nor to the left, or to the right. The only way out is through Sailor moon and her allies.

(He trusts in Sailor Moon, in Sailor Uranus, in Amy, in the singing girl. He will keep Mamoru's body safe. So please, please, make sure his beloved prince breathes once more.)

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Uranus is not surprised - and really not even disappointed - that the Princess henshins right out here in front of everyone. Not with her love collapsed on the floor and his Heart Crystal in the hands of some crazy woman who can't even handle her own car with care. Still, it was going to cause a lot of problems, if the enemy knew where she lived, who her family was... problems that they could address after all of this was done. And then... in the midst of all of this very serious thought, two things happen. One, there's now some sort of killer waffle iron youma heading towards them, and two, Eudial deflects Sailor Moon's attack with what appears to just be a really janky flamethrower.

    "Do you think this is some kind of JOKE?!" Uranus yells, her sword a gleaming line of light as she rushes in to meet the youma, swinging her sword and cutting a path through the... waffle storm. Some days were stranger than others, the mix of ridiculousness and actual fear for the lives of a friend mixing in her heart and actually just really pissing her off.

    "I can take the appliance freakshow, Moon, Red... and new girl!" she's never seen her before but it looks like she's headed in to bash Eudial and that makes her Uranus' friend right now.

    She is not entirely sure she can take the youma down herself, but she knows the youma is a distraction, and she knows she's incredibly light on her feet. So she moves in on the strange creature, with blade and long-legged snap kicks, trying to wear it down before she burns any of her Big Attacks on it. "Get that witch!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
The dark fireball strikes at the same moment as the Escalation, in proper physics-defying beam war fashion, and Sailor Moon's lip curls back as Eudial makes a counter offer, wanting Hotaru -

As she releases a ridiculous youma, as though this is a joke, as though she doesn't have her life in her hands. Mamoru's life is her life, hasn't that been proven, hasn't it been shown, they are a pair, do not separate -

"Counter offer," she says, voice biting. "Give me my fiancé's heart crystal and you won't die the way Beryl did."

Maybe this arrogant witch, this heartless wretch who demands that Hotaru be handed over like cash at a bank robbery, won't realize that this doesn't mean she'll live.

She won't. There's not a chance, after this. Mamoru is dead-but-alive, captured in her hands, and she knows who Usagi is, she knows who Jadeite is all over again, and -

She felt so bad, after Paris, blood on her hands, a body on the floor, an explosion of light and flesh, the knowledge that she could kill, that if it came down to it, she would. She would rather feel that a thousand times over than feel this pre-cursor grief, this hollow horror.

"I am never sending that little girl back to that hell."

A hand flies to her forehead, and she snatches the tiara, sends it flying for Eudial's wrist, even as she starts racing towards her, fully prepared to tackle her to the ground for that crystal.

"Moon Tiara Action!"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa stares and watches the fight play out. The unknown dude that's always strangely protective of Mamoru currently has him. Chibs isn't really surprised that the once (for like 5 minutes) and future king has a bodyguard, it's just... weird that she's never seen him before.

    Sailor Uranus. Okay that makes sense. It makes sense that a Uranus would exist. Sailor Moon is no big surprise. Waffles are flying everywhere... not even the weirdest thing she's ever seen. There's a singer here and the singer is also a magical girl. How come her parents never told her about magical people other than Sailor Senshi?!

    Another thing to be mad and judgemental at Usagi about.

    They're looking for a brat? Funny, they don't look like Black Moon Clan. It must be a different kid. Beryl apparently is dead in this time though. At least one good thing is going well.

    "Luna-P," she whispers, turning to the catball. "Turn into a notepad. I need to write all this down."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Normally, by this point in the day, Nurse Meiou would have been either at home or most of the way home under general circumstances.

Fortunately enough, this particular late afternoon had involved quite a bit of paperwork for various things which kept her busy in the infirmary until quite late.

Fortunate because, when one can roof run the speeds a fully empowered magical girl can clock in more or less straight lines, the distance from the school to the beach isn't terribly far at all.

Frankly, the slowest part would be the bit having to run along the suspension lines of the bridge across the bay.

Fortunately, however, once on said bridge, navigation ceases to be an issue, as at that point all one must do is orient on the rising plume of smoke and, since Amy is reported to be there, the sound of cannonfire.

As she runs, she sees various attacks get thrown at...some crazy redhead with a mad-science flamethrower that somehow manages to be LESS practical looking than what grimdark model companies can come up with.

Still, apparently it's got some oomph behind it, as it manages to parry one of Sailor Moon's attacks.

THAT gets a blink of surprise...but then someone slams down some obstacles to prevent the redhead from escaping.

On the one hand, GOOD: She's not getting away.

On the other hand, BAD: Now she's under cover from Pluto's perspective.

On the other, other hand, GOOD: That means she doesn't have to struggle with the choice of whom to help.

Uranus is engaging the youma, and taking it out is a good idea one way or the other.



Thus, the first announcement of Pluto's arrival will be a large purple ringed ball of death energy flying in from out of nowhere towards the waffle iron youma.

A few moments later, Sailor Pluto lands not far away, "Protector of the planet of space-time, Sailor Pluto has arrived."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy didn't blow it up, she just put a 3-1/2kg bullet into the engine block at hundreds of meters per second! Either way it's not good for the car.

    And what's not good for Amy is... waffles? Amy reflexively dodges, "W, what do we have that you want? You stole our friend and we're getting him back. ...So do these waffles explode, or something...?" Amy does watch one fly past her to see if it explodes on the ground or something.

    Also, Star Shine is here! Amy points at Eudial, "She took Mamoru, we have to get him back in his body!"

    Eudial reveals she still has a flamethrower, and gets a moment to make her demands, and...

    "'The boss's bra--' who the fuck are you talking about, lady?!"

    Amy runs a brief mental calculation.

    The Dark General is willing to kill Mamoru, which is about as far as you can escalate. There is no downside to responding in kind that she can see in the seconds she has to make the decision of what attack to use next.

    Jadeite puts up shields. Sailor Moon throws her attack. Chibiusa sees the unknown person in a senshi costume -- red skirt and collar, black bows, red armored boots that don't match the style at all --change her weapon (it is instantly replaced by a new shape covered in quickly-fading pink sparkles) to a begemmed sci-fi monstrosity, still braced over her shoulder, and she fires a smaller, high-velocity penetrator right for Eudial's center of mass at supersonic speed. Let's see her block that with a flamethrower.

    The boom of firing it echoes off of distant buildings.

Seiko Akai has posed:
Star Shine sings as she moves in to attack Eudial. Its a song the speaks of battle. Of fighting for whats right. A song that speaks of defeating the darkness and bringing the light. As she sings, purifying waves of sound roll off of her. All the while she comes in with those glow stick batons and starts swinging. Its clear she really doesn't know how to use them but she is trying gosh darn it!

"You can't stop us, you can't get away! You're butts in trouble and you'll lose the day!" Star Shine sings out as she comes down with a pair of hard swings at the witch. "Just give up already. Just surrender! Just undo the damage done, Just give up this Misadventure!" She continues singing fighting with all she is, even if she is just a distraction for Sailor Moon and for her friend.

Star Shine looks at Amy. "They took the guy on the ground? I'm guessing its a part of him she took. Either way..." She turns her attention back to Eudial. She points one of her glow batons at them. "Give it back, or else." She smiles. "Or else I am going to focus on purifying you!" She grins and rushes in again.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
The youma was ambushed by Uranus! It had no choice! It would fight with honor, dignity, and this spatula! Spatula met Blade in a duel of the ages...

.. And it was hard to say which of the two were more ridiculous in this case.

I tied to get Uranus to flip out, their weapons of choice locked, only to aim the waffle maker at her! her time was at an--

And then the youma was envelloped in a dead scream! It roared, body being obliterated....

And Eudial couldn't flee. Suddenly, ice, ice, everywhee. And the youma was USELESS!

And a gosh darn TIARA and some kind of rocket blast penetrator missile were firing at her! Ha! Well, jokes on them! AND OH MY GOSH BATONS TOO?! WELL FINE! MORE FIRE! "FIRE BUSTER II! FIRE BUSTER II! FIRE BUSTER II!"

And she unleashes blast after blast of flaming destruction, striking the tiara, the batons, the missiles! Blasting it all away. "You think you--" And then...

Then the Fire Buster handle explodes in her hand, the earlier drag making itself known. Eudial gulped. Oh yeah? They think--

and from the smoke of her blasts, COME SAILOR BERYL SLAPPING MOON! And as the Moon Girl tried to jump her... Eudial SLAPPED HER!

WITH MAMORU'S OWN HEART CRYSTAL!

Glaring at her... and seeing the tide was against her. She smirked, tossing the vacuum off. She gave a smile, holding the heart crystal in her left hand. "Fine then. Think the lot of you can threaten me?! Last chance. Give me back Hotaru, or say goodbye to your pretty little traitor!" Her left hand was enveloped in flames, surrounding her as the lab robe disappeared from her body, replaced with red, bagg pants, a black skirt and a red top... and a weird red crystal on her chest, under her neck. Her body was enveloped in fire, erupting out from her and shattering the mirrors. "You were fools to underestimate a member of the Witches 4!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
There's a second out of time, as Mamoru's heart crystal makes contact with Sailor Moon, where she will feel what he's feeling...

He's feeling.

Helpless fury, a distant sort of fear, a fierce belief, love, apology-- Eudial is using him to hurt her--

Then that split second between seconds is over, and the crystal is shining bright, brighter in Eudial's hand.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa freezes dead cold in the middle of drawing an unfavorable picture of Sailor Moon.

    Oh shoot. Pluto is here.

    The small stranger's mind races. Oh gosh, she's here for the Time Key! She's gonna be so mad. Does she know about the future? Chibiusa is in so much trouble right now.

    Wait. Wait. Sailor Pluto is a friend. Maybe if she just talks to her, explains the situation, and apologizes for stealing from her and breaking taboo, she'll understand. Yes, that's what she'll do. She'll walk right up to her after the fight and explain herself like an adult.

    Haha, no. No she will not. Instead, Chibiusa is going to hide under her catball-turned-parasol and pretend to not even be here.

    Yet she can't leave. That's Mamoru's heart crystal. Her tiny hands tighten around the handle of her parasol as her beady little eyes plot and scheme. No point in worrying about getting caught. She needs to preserve the timeline!

    Parasol turns into catball. Catball gets dribbled like a basketball. "ABRACADABRA! Luna-P, become a sprinkler!" Catball gets flung through the air at Eudial and turns into a yard sprinkler that somehow is shooting water around in all directions despite not being hooked up to anything.

    It's magic. I'm not going to explain it. A mahou did it.

Jadeite has posed:
Fire.

Fire around his poor Endymion, who had grown to fear fire as Mamoru. Fire in the hands of a woman with flaming hair like Beryl. Fire, flame, heat, and now he can see the glittering crystal that is his prince's heart. That is the soul that will make the empty shell he holds breathe again.

Does this mere WITCH think she can take his love away?

Does she think she can wound his love's love, his friend, Usagi?

The child. The other senshi. The other warriors. No, he will not let her harm anyone. No, he will ensure she meets her end.

Jadeite makes a noise like a glacier cracking in two. Pure power screams from him as snow tumbles down over her shoulder, arm, hand - putting out fire, and if he does not knock that crystal away from her, he's made sure that someone else has a clear shot at it.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
That flame thrower isn't just an ordinary flame thrower, obviously. It's magic, and it's deflecting shots, and her Tiara goes flying away, blasting off again, and Sailor Moon plunges into the smoke, reaching for the crystal, ready to tackle Eudial to the ground -

And she's slapped down with the crystal, the sharp points cutting into her face, leaving trails of blood to pour over her cheek, and -

She feels him.

She feels him. Even though he's in the crystal. He's awake. He's angry. He's afraid. He's in there and she's going to get him back, she's going to get him back, "Give him back!"

And in her hand, the Silver Crystal blazes with light, until the Crescent Wand is swallowed up in light, as though she holds a torch that burns without fire and heat, blazes like a star captured on Earth, like the cosmos itself is in her hand.

When it settles, the Moon Stick, the Crescent Wand, is gone. Instead, there's a slim pink rod the length of her forearm, with a golden bow with four flaps attached to a golden fastener, which is itself crowned by a gold-outlined heart with it's own golden crown. In the center of the heart, is an oval-shaped gemstone, which shines with light. It's a heavy thing, this rod, and Sailor Moon winds her arm back, before slamming it around, right into Eudial's face.

Slap and be slapped, Witch.

"If you think that's all it will take to stop me, you don't know anything! Now let him GO!" There's light glowing from the Spiral Heart Moon Rod, a budding threat, a growing power.

Sailor Moon hasn't noticed, but her broach has transformed too, the old design replaced by the Crystal Star broach, perfectly circular with an outline of gold, a pink body, and a golden star etched in the center, with a crescent moon in the center, and four gems in the colors of the Inner Senshi at the connecting branches of the star.

Inside of it, the Silver Crystal builds power in response to the strength of Usagi's heart.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Sailor Uranus was very aware of the ridiculous fact that she was engaged in a sword/spatula fight. That a sentient waffle maker with a spatula was dueling an ancient princess/guardian. She was aware of it, and she was mad about it, but she couldn't actually do anything about it. She was landing some good hits, the occasional sword strike and kick, but now she was dug in, no room for Space Sword Blaster or World Shaking to clear things up.

    Except unbeknownst to her in the morning, she had already done something about it. She'd called for help. Tall, awesome, ancient and gorgeous help (Haruka's favorite kind, really) - the purple sphere coming in from the youma's flank and Uranus keeping the creature's attention so the full force of the Sailor Soldier of Time could slam into and render it effectively useless, just a waffle iron with an urgly egg popping out of it.

    Uranus ran up (quickly!) to Pluto's side. "Nice. Glad I called the other Artallery." she says with a smirk. "She's got Chiba-san's heart crystal." she says. "Let's get that back." she says to Pluto. The two of them rush into a more distant and advantageous angle; and as Jadeite's snow hits, Uranus raises her hand up into the air.

    "World...." she begins, compressing the furious power of the solar wind into a concentrated crystal. But instead of slamming it to the ground, she passes it to Sailor Pluto, hand in hers.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy gets a look on her face as Eudial blows away all the attacks coming for her.

    Did... how did... she deflect that?! Fucking magic!

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    Also, Pluto is the planet of Space-Time? What?

    Star Shine comes in confused. Eudial is bargaining. Amy reiterates for Star Shine first, pointing at the crystal he dark general is holding. "She took him. That's his body on the ground." Perhaps for most purposes it isn't important, but if crazy magic happens -- and it might -- and a situation develops where it is important, that had better be clear to everyone.

    Also, getting that awareness into her friends' heads could one day be critical for saving herself or another Puella Magi.

    Amy looks back at Eudial and glances at the others, mouthing 'who the fuck is Hotaru?' and watching them -- primarily Usagi -- for what move they're going to make. She's expecting all of them to try another quick strike, and Amy had better pick up on it and get the timing right.

    Sailor Moon is close. She readies a weapon. A... She's hitting with a magic stick.

    Amy's weapon changes and fires immediately afterward before the sparkles have even faded, an anti-tank homing missile streaking through the air and airbursting -- the piercing lance of light that is the actual direct attack aimed at Eudial's head is also magic bullshit fire. Well. Okay. Technically superheated molten copper, which is kind of fitting given the symbol on her tiara right now.

    "Give him back."

    ...In retrospect that's not especially unblockable if the previous attack wasn't, but it's the best Amy could come up with in seconds.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
After helping Uranus handily dispatch the youma, now it's time to turn attention to the witch.

Who is now threatening to burn Mamoru's soul.

Oh, yeah...that's a BAD idea.

In these parts, that kind of thing gets you put on a LIST.

One does NOT want to be on said list.

BERYL was on on said list.

The operative word in that sentence being 'WAS'.

Still, the threat is there and has to be respected...but Pluto knows her Princess. Knows that this isn't going to go well for the witch...and knows that an opening is likely to happen, so she readies herself.

As Uranus runs up, Pluto smiles a grim little smile, "Glad I didn't leave you waffling too long." A beat, then she nods, "Yes. Let's."

She joins on the quick little dash for a better firing angle...and then, as Uranus compresses her power into the ball of her normal attack, Pluto spins around in place, and just as she levels the Garnet rod at Eudial, she reaches over to meet Uranus' hand and pulls it over to grip the greater Key of Time, whereupon the golden energies of Uranus' attack speed down to the end of the Rod where they're surrounded by several purple rings wich spin around and compress the attack.

And with a whisper, she finishes the attack name and fires the combined attack downrange at the witch.

"...scream"]

Seiko Akai has posed:
Star Shine quickly backs away from the flaming hand. She smiles sharply before she starts singing again. This time she is less focused on fighting. More focused on singing her song. Light erupts out from her in all directions, sending purifying energy outwards and namely towards Eudial. She keeps singing letting that energy build and grow stronger. She looks at Amy and reaches over to hold her hand for a moment. Then her attention is back on Eudial.

She looks to Sailor Moon, Letting her attack. She isn't used to fighting against people like this. Not someone claiming to be a witch. So what would her purification song do? Only one way to find out. "Pure Heart!" She whispers and the light erupts out of her. Then it stops. It isn't like she is dealing with X-eggs or X-charas now. All she can hope is that she's weakened a bit.

As soon as she finishes her song, she backs away. She gets out of the hot zone so she can recover a little. She still isn't used to maintaining her henshin for super long after a purification song but for now she is handling things alright.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
The witch jsut laughed as the ice came tumbling down her arm. While it didn't put out the flames, it dampened them. Protcting the crystal which, fortunately, wasn't too flammable.

And then there wasa sprinkler. She wasn't laughing now. Now? She looked annoyed. Her head turned towards the kid who threw that. Another. Brat. Oh. Ohhhh. The dark energy was seething through the woman and she saw RED. Another. Brat. Like Hotaru. How many times had the brat stolen something from her lab? Glitter bombed them? Tossed out their coffee? Put TACKS in her SHOES?! Sure, most of those she couldn't prove was her, but oh. It was ALWAYS the brat. And look. Here was ANOTHER brat for her to unleash her anger on. She moved a hand towards her, fire forming and spurting out towards Chibiusa... only to get stopped when suddenly Sailor Moon came roaring again with a STICK! Why did she have a STICK?! As Sailor Moon tried to hit her with it... A rod with a black star appeared in her hand and she used it to CATCH the other girl's rod, and shove her back. "Your toys are useless!" But they weren't, apparently, tha useless. Between the raining ice, the song dampening her powers. AND THEN A MISSILE! WHY WERE THERE SO MANY OF THEM?! She held up her rod, torrents of fire erupting around her. "I am Eudial of the Witches Four! I will NOT be made a fool of, you will all--"

And wait, was the world screaming?

There was a golden orb of magic with strange, purple rings... That slammed into her rod.

And then there was an eruption.

As the smoke cleared, Eudial was standing there... her eyes wide with horror. Her rod disintegrating before their very eyes. "Im... impossible... that's... how..."

and it was only then that she realized... she'd dropped the crystal heart. She eeped, looking down... and growled. "FINE! THEN YOU ALL LOSE!" and she lifted her foot, intending to stomp on the Heart Crystal...

Right in front of Sailor Moon.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
There's a sprinkler from nowhere, raining water, and snow, and Sailor Moon's eyes flick to Chibiusa, absent her little cat-head toy, and Jadeite, clutching their prince, and she sees the moment that Eudial goes for Chibiusa and she was always going to go down.

Let's make that clear. She was always going to go down. No one in all the world gets to kill her Mamoru and walk away from it.

But to double down? To go after Chibiusa, that annoying and already lovable little girl who picked fights and was so smug and superior and needy and demanding and -

"Don't you even think about it!" As she tries to slap her down, but the rod is in the way, and Sailor Moon is rocked back, enough to put distance between them, enough space that World Scream can strike, a double pair of attacks that roil together and shatter Eudial's rod, leave her open and helpless and the crystal is on the floor and Eudial -

It's over for Eudial, now.

There's a pulse in Sailor Moon's chest, a call that knows what to do, and the words come to her instantly, the motion, as she flings her arm out, spinning once, twice, as her arm lifts, and it might seem so innocent, as literal pink hearts begin to fly away, milling through the air, pink hearts of energy, but they swirl around her, growing in number, multiplying by the dozens, until hundreds of delicate gossamer pink hearts are swirling as she spins a third, fourth time, and the pink energy grows, billows, becomes a translucent pink heart taller than Sailor Moon herself, wider than her outstretched arms could hope to be, and it spins, right there in front of her, picking up terrible speed -

"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!"

- and the heart races across the distance between Sailor Moon and Eudial, growing larger, larger, until Eudial's entire body could fit inside that heart, and then slamming into her like a runaway train.

In the moment of impact, it's no longer translucent at all. It's a solid wall of pink, heart-shaped light, and when she crashes through it's like breaking through a wall of crystal.

Before she hits the ground, Sailor Moon has closed the distance, has knelt on the ground, and is cradling the crystal that is Mamoru to her chest. She doesn't look to see where Eudial's body lands - if it lands.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    The crystal is dropped. Chibiusa sees it. If what Unnamed-Red-Senshi said is true, Chibiusa's gonna start fading out if Eudial steps on the thing! Probably! Either that or Pluto will get mad because now she has to clean up a paradox or something. Chibiusa doesn't really understand the rules of time travel and she doesn't really want to experiment with having her direct parent die.

    Fortunately, not-her-mom-yet has not-her-dad-yet's crystal and Eudial is...

    Chibiusa stares at the big heart thing that impacts Eudial and clutches at the necklace hidden under her shirt's collar. The significance of this moment is slightly lost on her, this being the first time she's seen Sailor Moon fight in person. She remembers the stories, but... stories don't always do justice to reality. So... this is what the Silver Crystal is supposed to do. If only she could...

    The sprinkler transforms back into Luna-P, floating high into the air, slowly turning around to watch Eudial's fate with its unchanging smile.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
That crystal that Usagi cradles glitters in relief, but-- that warmth Usagi knows so well holds no fear now, but Mamoru's sort of rueful, but also extremely satisfied.

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    She doesn't blame Sailor Moon - Usagi - Princess Serenity, at all, for blasting the unequipped Eudial. But it's a far cry from the last time Uranus set up a killer situation with Sailor Moon in the vicinity, that's for sure. Still, never get between a Sailor Soldier and the one(s) she loves. That's a lesson Eudial wouldn't get a chance to learn. The pink heart slams into her and Sailor Uranus just stands next to Pluto.

    At least until the creepy smiling ball draws her attention, to which she nudges Pluto and points at it. "What the hell is that, do you know?!" she whispers. She is more concerned with Luna-P than Eudial's fate. Eudial deserved being removed; she's not sure about the ball yet.

Seiko Akai has posed:
Star Shine stays back and watches Sailor Moon's attack. She watches as Eudial attempts to crush the crystal that is the downed tall guy. She watches them get their just desserts. "Woah!" She exclaims excitedly. Its a reminder that Star Shine is still very much a rookie magical girl and she has a lot to learn. She will probably never be as cool as the people here fighting but she could try and thats the best she can do.

"That was amazing!" Star Shine exclaims to Sailor Moon. "I'm glad you got your friend back." She smiles and backs away a little more, still feeling a bit like an outsider at this time.

Jadeite has posed:
Sailor Moon shows no mercy. All is right in the world. He watches as the light fades into beautiful nothingness before he moves.

As he holds Mamoru, waiting for his body to be reunited back with his soul, he looks up to Salor Uranus. "That's Miss Chibiusa's companion, Luna-P. As far as I can tell, she's indestructible and has a life of her own."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Eudial moves to shatter Mamoru under her heel, and Amy reaches her hand out, trying to device some kind of attack for this situation like the DG Girl killer she developed in the Catacombs benearth Paris--

    Hearts.

    Sailor Moon is being surrounded by hearts, and the thought that flashes through Amy's head is Mamika's first fight scene in Re:Creators of all things, deconstructing the power of magical girl attacks flung around carelessly in a world where collateral damage is a thing, the thought of it as something that needs to be pointed out is so ridiculous given how many times Amy's seen -- how many times Amy's dealt -- collateral damage in magical fights--

    And Eudial is blasted before Amy can come up with an attack, she's just left standing hand outstretched as the situation changes, and Eudial is gone, whatever attack she would have done no longer appropriate.

    As Amy's hand goes to the grip of her weapon it is suddenly a multi-tube missile launcher, and four smaller missiles ripple-fire to chase after the Dark General. Just to be sure. Or to keep her out of comission longer, at least.

    She's probably too far away to target by the time Amy thinks of following up more, and anyway, more pressing is Mamoru and Usagi-chan.

    Amy glances at the empty body, and runs over to stand by Jadeite, beckoning Usagi over and keeping watch for any other enemies that might be picking just the worst time to show up.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Sailor Pluto sees what happens to Eudial and...can't really bring herself to be all that upset.

If the Princess...a person whose ability to forgive astounds Pluto at times...decides you've gone way too far over onto the 'Find Out' side of the scale, she's not going to gainsay the results.

Now that the threat of further attacks has passed, she relaxes a bit and stands there next to her fellow Outer Senshi to watch what happens.

When Uranus then draws her attention to the floating cat head, Pluto stops and blinks at it a few times.

Obvious tech toy of some kind that is also obviously based on Luna.

Awha??

And something feels...odd.

Absently, she starts walking over in Chibiusa's direction.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Eudial had only a moment to realize... things were going really, really bad. She froze up... and then destruction struck her. She screamed. No 'lovely'. No 'Refreshing'. No 'Yay' or any other 'purified' sound.

Just the scream of a creature of dark energy being purged from existence, the heart of magic making her body sizzle and smoke as she stumbled back, her body fading away...

Until nothing was left. Nothing remaining except for a discarded lab coat and some ash.

Well, and the car. Within the car, the Heart Crystal gun had a small, green light on it... and as Eudial faded, the gun disappeared.

A moment later the car followed suit, seeming to melt away, as if it was disintegrating.

And back at Obsidian... Three witches looked up.

And Mimette grabbed a marker, a piece of paper and started writing a big ol' '3'.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa admittedly really did not want to find out what Eudial was going to do to her. She does not have a proper henshin, unlike most of the people here. Luna-P doesn't give her that kind of magic. It's more on the same level as the disguise pen: potentially annoying but not really Dark General killing. Unlike Sailor Moon.

    The small pink breaths a sigh of relief before looking at the ground where her ice cream landed earlier. Whoops.

    Then she hears familiar footsteps approaching her, then looks up at Sailor Pluto approaching. Chibiusa gulps. Great. There's no avoiding this now. "I... I'm sorry!"

    Should she just give the Time Key back? ... but wait, it's on the same necklace as... No, she can't show that here.

    Luna-P drops to Chibiusa's side, looking up at Pluto. As offputting as it is, at least the catball is eternally loyal.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Cradling Mamoru (heart crystal edition), Sailor Moon walks to Mamoru (flesh body), and kneels down, pressing the crystal back into his body.

She's not thinking about what she did. She'll feel bad about it, later, but she'll look at Mamoru, whole and healthy and awake, and she'll be okay.

For now? For now, as Mamoru wakes up again, she drops her head in relief, sighing -

And then hear's Chibiusa's voice, crying out in apology. She snaps her head up, wary -

"Oh. Pluto! That's Chibiusa, she's my roommate, please be nice to her!"

Not that she expects otherwise, but maybe Chibiusa will relax, if she hears that?

Haruka Tenoh has posed:
    Uranus notes that Pluto isn't answering her... and isn't going further away from the floating cat ball. Instead she's coming closer, and then the kid is apologizing?

    Sailor Uranus walks up, just slightly behind Pluto. "You're sorry? What did you do?" the blonde asks. She's almost pointedly asking Luna-P more than Chibiusa. Then smirks. "Did someone tell you to stay put and then you came out to watch, is that why you're sorry?" she asks, tilting her head.

Jadeite has posed:
He holds Mamoru close. He makes sure his body is ready when Usagi returns with the crystal. He holds him, and he waits, and the world is vanisehd from his awareness as he sees his prince stir.

"The battle is over and we were victorious," he reports to his prince. "Your princess is very worried. You ought to give her a kiss fo rhow well she fought."

He would also like a kiss, however! He did not wipe that woman from the face of the earth. Usagi did. Therefore she has earned the kiss. Jadeite can admit that.

Seiko Akai has posed:
Star Shine turns to walk away. Now that everything is as it should be, she smiles. Thats when she notices her baskets are destroyed. "Awww Come on!" She laments and then lets out a sigh. She shakes her head and walks out onto the beach. "That witch destroyed my baskets. Can't have nothin in Tokyo!" She complains as she walks. She is still in ear shot of the others of course. So if asked anything she could potentially hear.

Amanda Faust has posed:
EDIT: Amy doesn't bother with a followup attack after Eudial is ERASED FROM EXISTENCE. She just. Stares as that happens. And then gets down to business.

    Sailor Moon approaches. Amy watches, curiously, as the Soul Gem (internal edition) is put back into place.

    When Mamoru wakes up, her face lights up with a smile. "Welcome back!" Then she looks concerned, "Did it hurt?" Wait, that might be weird to ask without context. For the others, she clarifies, "I've never lost my link, but it hurts when I get near the edge of my range. I tested it once."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
And Mamoru does wake up, though it's the breath catching in his chest as his heart starts again first, under Usagi's and Jadeite's hands, and then it's his hand over theirs and there's his warmth and also a moment of a jangly sensory experience as he reorients to having a body again.

For a moment, he breathes, and then his hands are over his ears as his hearing settles back into place and Jadeite is saying things and everyone is saying things and it's too much, he shuts his eyes and he whispers, "A minute please."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
In a moment that may mirror events of Futures past, Sailor Pluto stops near Chibi-Usa and drops to one knee so she does not tower so much over the pinkette.

As Sailor Moon calls to her, the greenhaired Senshi looks over that way and notes what Moon has to say, then she turns to look back at the shorter Tsukino and asks, "...and what, young Miss, are you sorry ABOUT?"

She gives the pinkette that look that she's had so much practice with as a Nurse in a school full of preteens...the one designed to get someone to confess to any wrongdoing so that she can find out what ACTUALLY happened.

It works enough of the time that it's always worth a shot.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Oh, he needs a moment. That's reasonable! Sailor Moon sits back on her knees, waiting for Mamoru. As part of that, she reaches out, and she catches Jadeite's hand, and squeezes. With her other, she raises a finger to her lips.

Shhh, quiet.

She waits, watching Chibiusa and Pluto and Uranus while she does so.

Jadeite has posed:
Quiet. He can be quiet. The world has narrowed down to everyone huddled around Mamoru's body.

He holds him as the pieta did. His heart is returned, and his body sanctified.

(You know. Normal things for a sixteen year old to think!)

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa would likely have questions for Amy and how her magic works, but Sailor Pluto is here and Chibiusa is now in deep trouble.

    Well, at least she hasn't erased herself from the timeline somehow. Yet.

    Then Sailor Pluto is asking her what she did wrong and...

    "You... you didn't notice?"

    Wait, why didn't she call her 'Small Lady'? She always calls her Small Lady. She's acting like she doesn't even...

    This is wrong. Everything here is wrong. Where did she even end up? Sailor Pluto should still be able to know, right? Even if Chibiusa was in a different timeline. She...

    Chibiusa starts to confess her crime, nearly pulls her necklace out from underneath its collar, and then hesitates.

    Something is wrong here.

    This isn't her Sailor Pluto.

    "I'M IN THE WRONG ONE!!!" she shrieks, then turns and runs away while holding her head. Luna-P stares at Pluto for a moment before chasing after her owner.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy simply nods.

    Magic weirdness of having your you yanked out of your body aside -- and come to think of it, it hurt pretty damn awfully, when she was moved outside her body, she wondered if she was dying for a moment back there -- like, it's probably a lot, and disorienting, to lose your body and then get it back again, even if it was like just passing out and waking up. Plus sometimes people just need a moment and that's fine! There can be a lot to process, or emotions, or whatever.

    So Amy just gives a little nod and watches him with mild, optimistic concern.

    I'M IN THE WRONG ONE!!!

    Amy's head turns at the sound of a screaming child. What.

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    Mamoru's fine. The rest of the group seems fine, though she has to agree with Seiko's comment about not being able to have nice things here because of the youma/Obsidian, and nods slightly. But then the small girl, the Chibiusa, she's making a loud yelling and running off while commenting that she is in the wrong one.

    "Anybody want to fill me in on what that means?" she asks broadly. "Or should I chase her? Cause I can catch her. Or if not, we should get an exorcist."

Seiko Akai has posed:
The loud shout from Chibiusa gets Star Shine's attention. She turns to look in the direction that the girl is running and she gives a little sigh. With no words to anyone, She starts walking in that direction. The Pinkette doesn't bother changing back now. Nope. Gotta make sure the smol kid is safe. Once she takes a few steps she starts running after her. "Hey wait up!" She calls out to the little pinkette.

At that moment, Star leaves behind her ribbons and destroyed baskets. Her beach blanket and anything else she may have had. The important thing is the girl running away. Why is she so invested in this girl? Why did she get involved in the fight for a heart crystal for someone she doesn't know? Because She is a Magical Girl, Its in the job description.

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While Pluto has seen 'THE LOOK' cause a student do everyting from clam up totally to confess to wrongdoing to compulsively list out everything they've done wrong since they woke up that morning, having a target grab her head and scream 'I'M IN THE WRONG ONE!!!' IS a new one for her.

In the short period before Luna P follows it's master, Pluto turns a confused look to the magical ball...and then she shakes her head when it follows the pinkette.

Gears are turning now...but while she has values for X and Y...until she knows which operand to use, she could get a result anywhere between '42' and 'fish'.

Standing up straight once more, the Senshi of Time shrugs a little, "Not really sure what that was about. She clearly recognized ME. Which is kind of strange in and of itself."

Sailor Pluto isn't exactly the most well-known figure, after all.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Chibiusa screams and it gets past Mamoru's hands and he breathes, and he says, "Anko-- I know you're here-- usual deal, don't lose her please."

This time he doesn't think to put his communicator on her, but they'll sort it out. Chibiusa's probably just going back to the dorm, maybe--

Baby in trouble, force self past wild discomfort.

"Thank you everybody," he says first, and he breathes, and he sits up slowly, "I saw what you did... you all did so well..."

And Chibiusa and Star Shine are already gone.

And he takes Jadeite's and Usagi's hands and squeezes them, and the jangling is much more faint, but still there. He's putting his filters back with a lot of energy, and they can feel them go up, and he lets go before his handhold feels like anybody else's.

He sits there, and he breathes, eyes closed for a moment still. "She fell out of a magic pink vortex cloud thing in my apartment ceiling and then moved in with Usagi. She says her name is also Usagi Tsukino, so we call her Chibiusa."

A beat. "It's complicated."

A slightly longer pause, and he looks back at Amy and says plainly, "Yeah actually, but it didn't hurt being a crystal. It was just infurating, I couldn't do anything."

He reaches up to rub his head, rub at his eyes under his smooshed glasses, sigh, take off his glasses and stick them in his shirt pocket, laugh so he doesn't cry, and then lean to kiss Usagi.

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    Amy blinks at Sailor Pluto. "Is it? Her name is Usagi Tsukino and she knows about the Silver Crystal. Maybe she knows you in whatever universe she came from."

    Red eyes blink again, "You only know about Time stuff, right? Not Alternate Universe stuff? Why is Pluto the Time planet, anyway?"

    Red eyes go wide briefly, and Amy holds a hand to her face. "Oh my god I just got that. You're our Time person. And you're the school's Doctor."

    And then Mamoru is talking again, and she drops her hand to her side and looks to him. "You could see?" Though a frown flickers across her face as she thinks, Lulu couldn't. "That... does sound incredibly frustrating. I think we just go unconscious. I guess the magic is very different."

    Aww the cute couple are kissing after a pretty damn harrowing near-death experience that they and everyone else are glad they got through! Amy smiles at that.

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    "Well, if Anko's got an eye on her, and that singer-girl is also following her, it might be less than helpful to have a bunch of out-of-place cosplayers chasing a five year old down a road. One at least might look like a sister or something, but if it becomes a group of us... might get more questions than we like." Sailor Uranus says, hand on her hip. Then with Star Shine gone, everyone else she's pretty comfortable here with, having met them in other venues as well. So she shrugs and banishes her henshin; in a blast of multicolored light, the beautiful soldier becomes the handsome guy (who is still truly a girl) once more.

5t"So, Pluto-san, do you feel anything off about her? I just don't like the orb that's with her, but the girl... I don't feel any negatives about. Just kind of... a kid I want to protect." she explains. "But I don't know how much the wind knows about five year olds. She seemed to recognize you, Pluto-san."

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Chibiusa screams and goes running into the - well, the afternoon, and Usagi closes her eyes and breathes out real hard and thinks that maybe she owes her mom a box of chocolates, or something. This being responsible for a kid thing is hard, and she's not even her mother!

In the far future of another timeline, Neo Queen Serenity doesn't twitch, because she's unconscious and protected by what remains of her connection to the Silver Crystal, but astro-projection King Endymion can feel the way a part of her is vaguely thinking 'you don't know the half of it' for no real reason.

In the present of this time, Usagi waves at Anko as she goes chasing, and helps Mamoru lift himself up, offering her support and her hand. And when he kisses her?

She kisses back, gentle and sweet, and then pulls away, bringing a hand up to his chest, feeling his heart beat, beat, beat.

"I could feel you," she confesses, and her cheek is still bleeding. "You were a pretty unhappy crystal."

As far as Pluto goes?

"She knew about me and the Silver Crystal, too, so... I think it's safe to say she knows a lot more than we'd think she should. But she claims she's not me, so?"

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    Chibiusa's tiny legs do not let her run very fast. Not enough to outrun anyone in henshin, anyways. She stops next to a lamp post, still holding and shaking her head.

    She's in the wrong timeline. She knows it now. That's not really her mom or her dad... I mean they are, in many of the ways that matter but... If they ever have her, it will probably be a different Small Lady.

    When Star Shine catches up, which doesn't take very long at all, Chibiusa clams up and goes silent. How to even explain what she did? She must have taken the wrong turn, went through the wrong hole in space. There was a storm in that strange place between Then and Now. The Time Key was supposed to guide her, but... somehow, she ended up getting turned around anyways. Now she's here.

    Chibiusa reaches down into her collar, lifting up a necklace to reveal a very pretty and ornate key that she holds in her hand. A careful eye might also catch a glimmer of another crystal hanging just below her neckline.

    Chibiusa is shaking, then frowning. She stuffs the key back below her neckline and says, "I'm fine. It's nothing. I don't want to talk about it."

    She is not, on top of everything else, going to embarrass herself further by explaining that she wound up in the complete wrong timeline entirely. If Anko makes herself visible, she will get silent pets.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Sailor Pluto blows out a big breath, then throws her hands up in a universal gesture of 'I Dunno!'

The Garnet Rod, however, remains standing straight next to her in a way that's perhaps slightly unnatural.

After a moment, she shakes her head and says, "There's something slightly off about her. It's nothing BAD...but it makes my gnaster itch."

Human language really isn't well designed to talk about temporal things and people that are born to deal with them, sadly.

Amy's comment, however, gets a smile from Pluto and she points at the redhead, "Not intentional, but it DID make me giggle for a good long while when I realized that, yes."

She then reaches over to take hold of the Garnet Rod once more and absently taps the butt of it on the ground, making a slight 'ring' when she does.

Seiko Akai has posed:
The singing magical girl smiles and leans against a wall near Chibiusa. "I'm more worried about you being safe than anything right now. But now that I'm here, it sounds like you really need an ear." She smiles and pushes herself off the wall. "My name is Star Shine. Whats yours?" She asks curiously, trying to be as cordial as she can be. "When you shouted I kind of got worried and wanted to make sure you're okay."

She sits down with her back to the wall now. "You know, if you want to talk to someone, I am here. You are safe with me." She smiles happily to the younger girl. "If you want to talk anyway. You don't have to if you don't want to. I just figured that you might need to vent."

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    "The only thing I expect now is the unexpected." Haruka says. "Kid could be from another universe, another time, have the wrong memories, be a misfired clone, and I'm sure that Pluto-san has even more ideas that I've never heard of. Put Pluto-san and Charon-chan in a room and they'll have a whole list of possibilities." Haruka notes.

    "I'm just glad Chiba-san's heart crystal thingie is back where it's supposed to be, and that the person who tried to remove it is hopefully an object lesson. Though... they probably don't learn lessons, do they."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
That kiss is sweet, and Usagi pulls away, and Mamoru's one hand finds Jadeite's again, and his other reaches up, fingertips glowing bright and quick as he slides them across the cut, smudging the blood there, but leaving the skin beneath it whole and unharmed. And: it comes with a deeply satisfied love, and the jangling is gone, and Jadeite can feel that love and that slow relaxation and that warmth, again, too. He's back where he belongs.

And he murmurs to Usagi as he touches her face, the glow erasing what it did out of its own control, "I was very unhappy. I couldn't help."

Over there, way over by Chibiusa and Seiko, a fluffy calico cat meanders out of an alley, headed for Chibiusa, and slinks around her ankles before staying still for pets. She also yawns wide and toothy at Seiko.

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    Chibiusa listens to Star Shine, but doesn't look at her at first. Instead she stays still and holds onto Luna-P the way that a child might cling to a favorite toy or plushie for comfort. As mysterious as the child can be, she is most certainly not skilled at hiding her emotions or being stoic. Or maybe she is, because these people still haven't seen what a real outburst from her looks like.

    If Mamoru was actually dead, they might have.

    She squats down next to Anko while petting and scritching her, while explaining to Seiko."My name is Usagi Tsukino, but people call me Chibiusa." She turns her head towards the direction she ran from, towards Amy, and opens her mouth to say something, but... she's not quite ready to open up. There's too much to say, and not enough words.

    She sighs, then looks up to the skyline, finding relevant landmarks that will guide her, then turns towards the direction of Radiant Heart. She scoops up Anko and offers the cat a place on her shoulder before saying, "I'm going back to my dorm. Sorry for making you worry about me." Then she starts to walk.

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    Amy stares at Pluto like she's imagining her in a strange and vaguely victorian suit next to a police box. Yeah, I can see it.

    She blinks and shakes her head a little. "So hey, wait, come to think of it... why are you the Time Person? Like... I got this impression, when we were in the past. People talked about you as if you were the person to go to about time stuff." Amy then remembers something else. "And you did make Chrono Trigger references to me and insinuate that I really don't want to meet whatever the real life analogue of Spekkio is."

    Amy looks away thoughtfully, then back at her. "I mean, maybe I already did? My magic's unlocked!"

    Amy clears her throat. "But seriously. I got the vibe you were the time person. Although when I told Princess Serenity we had your guidance, she didn't seem reassured... And now you just said Pluto is the Space-Time planet. In what way is Pluto the Space-Time planet? Just like... in what way are you the Time person? Besides that you lived a lot of it -- that wouldn't have meant anything to people in the past, anyway. Did I... miss something?"

    Amy glances from Pluto to the others, trying to get a read on if this is okay to ask about.

Seiko Akai has posed:
Star nods slowly. "I will let the others know where you went. I don't want them to worry about you." She smiles to Chibiusa and shakes her head. "You don't need to apologize to me. You didn't do anything to apologize for. If you ever need to talk I will listen." She stands up and gives the cat a few pets before Chibiusa starts walking off.

With that Seiko stands up. She starts walking her way back to the group. She quietly hoped they were still there. As she gets close she can see that they are. She approaches the people present and speaks up. "Chibiusa went back to her dorm. She's got a lot on her mind. She didn't wanna talk about it. I'm sorry I couldn't get you more information but at least she's safe."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Sailor Pluto looks over at Amy as she starts asking questions...then blinks.

Some of those ARE rather good questions.

She then sighs and shakes her head, "The only thing you missed is a bit of context that you couldn't have been expected to have."

She then looks around the beach, "...however, now is not the Time or Space to give it. We can talk later. For now, I think we all have stuff we need to get back to before too many people start wandering back here."

With that, she gives Haruka a friendly little little shoulder nudge before turning to Sailor Moon and saying, "Anyway, I need to be getting back...I shall see you all later."

And with that, she does a standing leap to a nearby rooftop from which she starts heading back across the bridge and into the city proper.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy watches and listens to Pluto intently.

    And then Pluto leaps onto a nearby rooftop and starts heading back and Amy throws up her hands. "Did you just 'I'll explain later' me?! That's even more Doctor Who!"

    She's smiling, though, and isn't actually put out about it.