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Rei

Before he or the others can ask what exactly I meant by that a small cantrip I cast upon Rayne takes effect and I scoop up the green and gray toad Rayne transformed into and place it into an awaiting jar for safe keeping.

“Three things before we go here,” I state, turning and handing the still stunned transmogrified Ethan Rayne’s container to Buffy. “First this transformation is readily reversible so Ethan is in NO danger of permanently becoming a toad because of my spell. Point in fact I’ll give you the command word that would do the deed, whenever you like.”

That part was more for the rest of the Scoobies’ (i.e. Buffy and friends) benefit than anything else. We don’t need them thinking that we’re all some kind of power mad magic user types, out to change any old person body (and sometimes mind) into something and such for the fun of it!

God only knows the Fred clan back on Terra Prime ran into enough of those types out there!

A demonstration or two allays any linger fears of trickery on our part for the Scoobies, and there. Easily done, considering that it appears that poor (hah!) old Rayne now has NO magical resistance at all. Even an ordinary rock would have more resistance than this guy!

It wouldn’t/shouldn’t have been possible to have such a LOW powered/half *ssed cantrip to have worked it’s wonders on the former Chaos mage. That I’d been able to do it (and so easily) to Rayne had pretty much confirmed a sneaking supision I and my sisters had about Rayne. Virtual death sentence in the magic laden (albeit hidden) word of Buffy the Vampire slayer.

Demon’s and witches, meet you newest play-toy! Or at least that’s what Ethan will be if the Scoobies aren’t careful and lose possession of Ethan the toad while we walk here!

Janus’ price for that wish Ethan made was high indeed.

Now. . . .I’d just LOVE to hear our sleeping Drow elf’s side of things once she wakes up. Would be nice to know just how justified Ethan had been in his stupid wish/solution thing here.

“I see,” Giles says calmly in a tone that tried to convey that stuff like this happens all the time here in Sunnyvale. Well, maybe that‘s what he‘s trying to do but he‘s not being too successful!

Giles, glancing down at the amphibian that Rayne had become (again) after the final demonstration, looks back up and is awaiting an answer. That is, right after looking over at Xander and Buffy, who’d been muttering something about me having become MUCH more verbose and lively than what they recalled from TV and such.

Buffy then has an odd look and gestures over towards MY Fred and saying something to the effect that he was a big reason why at least I am different. Or at least was part of the change.

Yes, all that is true but then again just exactly HOW did Buffy know this? What, do I and my sisters have a fan club up in Heaven, rooting us on from On High as we attempt to fight the good fight throughout life and our Quests?

. . .

Yet another question for later, but, back to the task at hand!

Setsuna

Hm, I could use this to make the usual overly dramatic introduction for myself and my husband here. Something along the lines of me entering the scene gloriously or some such.

. . .

Several Sailor Plutos from the OTHER realities I’d . . .visited whilst filling other Sailor Senshi roles had an odd tendency to do that, come to think of it. However, I’ve grown to rather . . .not like that. Gods only knows that it gave the enemy time to recoup and counterattack, not exactly a wise choice strategically speaking.

Good for a confidence boost, I should say and that helps makes for more powerful magical attacks. Our Senshi powers are tied to our confidence, I should tell you.

But I’d feel too utterly idiotic to try that nonsense now, for already stated reasons.

“My husband and I hale from another solar system known as the Moon Kingdom,” I begin before lifting my Time Key staff and using IT to convey (magically) the story of myself, my husband . . . And basically the hash of things I’d made after falling into deep madness.

The story of my husband--Prince Endymion (http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Tuxedo_ Mask# Prince _Endy mion)-- is relatively straight forward. He is the Prince of Earth and her defender, like the others who became known as Tuxedo Mask (in the 20th century) (http://en. Wikipedia .org/wiki /Tuxedo_ Mask), but in this timeline (thank the goddesses and gods) he‘d survive! Would be called a Senshi himself except for the . . .unfortunate and uncomfortable fact that I've had my nose rubbed in recently that things seem to favor (heavily) the female branch of humanity much more than the male branch. He isn't officially a Senshi and had not allowed (too politically volatile) "regular" Senshi training, despite having a Sailor Crystal within him! Instead, his training was more unorthodox. . . .but effect. Shockingly so, now that he dropped the “harmless” act and got down to business this night.

Odd. With so many other Tuxedo Masks out there being . . .useful (but not in the same league as my fellow Senshi), did I and the others miss a beat here? Maybe. Know that my husband here is rather VOCAL about the Mask’s shortcomings in combat training. Do not ask me about his private opinions about their lacks in mental shielding. Uh, Tuxedo Mask (in all the other realities) had a bad tendency at getting psionically controlled at various points throughout the timeline after the fall of the Silver Millennium....

Seemingly harmless, throwing just roses and mental talents, right? Better bet I shall throw in my voice into the matter at the other Tuxedo Masks getting refresher courses, to make them better defenders of the world and all that!!

. . .

If tonight, having seen HIM in action did not kill such silly notions within my head I don't know what will!

And all that aside, that and the other basics are laid out for the Scoobies. I originally was called Sailor Pluto (http://en .wikipedia. org/wiki /Sailor_Pluto). Just that things went pear shaped even before I ever met my original reality’s version of Sailor Moon. Had investigated a massive disruption to the timeline at the focal point where Ranma Saotome (http:// en.wiki pedia. org/wiki /Ranma _Saotome) had that gender changing curse inflicted upon him. The poor boy basically got destroyed that day and there had been nothing to do for it, I fear. I’d gotten ambushed and captured by a demon called Randal Flagg (http:// en.wiki pedia. org/wiki /Randal _Flagg). . .

. . .

My Gods! When I took up the task of being a Senshi I never dreamed I’d live such a weird life! I’d expected excitement and adventure. A step above the usual but THIS! This is REALLY convoluted and involved.

Ah, but after that ambush anyway I found myself afloat in what can only be called pure chaos (my original body and life) and then having pieces of my mind and soul ripped away and transplanted into various different parallel timelines, reborn again and again into yet another type of Sailor Senshi (http://en. Wikipedia .org /wiki /Sailor _Senshi) and lived a grand total of eight other, separate lives UP until certain crisis points in my . . .various lives. With my Sailor Moon (http://en.wik ipedia .org/wik i/Sailor _Moon_ (character)) incarnation, the crisis was the night where the Moon Kingdom/Silver Millennium (http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki /Moon_ Kingdom) was to have ended.

It didn’t end, but could have easily due to what happened that night! And unlike the other times where it happened due to Queen Beryll the fault would have lain with ME.

Having been exposed to all that undiluted chaos should have killed me outright, but instead it did . . .something to my original body and translated down into my new lives. I got all those lives drawn back together that night of the Fall, into one form. I was Sailor Moon of the Silver Millennium . . .and so much more. Had all the powers of all the Senshi Sailors and MUCH more: the powers to rival a god. And was driven INSANE by not only all that raw power coursing through me but having suddenly nine lives crammed into ONE mind, without any warning. I drew my enemies and friends from the various timelines (had the power of Sailor Pluto and then some back then!) and proceeded to first KILL each and every last enemy (with little to no regard to collateral damage) and then I was going to remake the world into MY vision (admittedly mad) of paradise.

That and set up some side projects to pass the time, one being Sunnyvale/Buffy.

If not for the Champions (mostly one Champion named Diane Walker, an avatar of a Goddess), I would have gone TOO far and had to be destroyed (and would have destroyed everything I’d loved).

“THE fact I had become a monster and done all that or COULD have done all that sits not well with me at all!!” I finish up, finding myself being more than a little flush at this confession moment. “I and the others wish to prevent a cataclysm from happening and it involves neutralizing the Hellmouth. Effectively sealing it forevermore.”

“Well . . .that sounds very . . .charitable of you but . . .,” Giles begins, looking less than convinced at my and my friends good intentions here. That and the actual feasibility at such an act (having not seen us in action). Understandable, having only just met us, but still...

“Oh, did we fail to mention that even If nothing is done then the Hellmouth in Sunnyvale will close,” Fred Takahashi gently chides from the side, understanding Gile‘s point but driving home OUR point. “Good except for the fact that the resulting accompanying explosion will be like a hydrogen bomb, pretty much KILLING everyone within the detonation zone. Let us not speak of the horrible effects of what the fallout shall be on those who survive.”

Just slightly more horrific than what Hiroshima and the like suffered from, truth be told.

Fred Takahashi

“Who the devil are you?” Giles blinks, taken aback by what I’d just said.

Not every day one learns that the place where they work and live is going to get blown into the stratosphere if steps aren‘t taken, eh?

“But where are my manners!” I smile in what I hope is a self- deprecating manner. “Name’s Fred Takahashi . . .the husband of the radiant creature over there who calls herself Rei.”

Man, what did I ever do to deserve such a woman like that?

1. “Besides that, I came from a Alternate Earths--an area of it anyway--which on something of a dragon problem...”

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