One down and MUCH more to go!

Setsuna (the Senshi formerly known as Sailor Pluto)

"We are concerned citizens who stepped up to do our part for the Imperium," a female voice states, interrupting.

The voice in question is my voice, of course.

”But that said and aside I came here directly as your wish Emperor to inform everyone when we were ready,” I smile as the Emperor (who’d been named James Bond amongst other things in his entirely TOO long of lifetime) nods at this, apparently happy at the interruption.

Leeman Russ’ return had been predicted by the Emperor’s visions true, but they had stated he would have been returning well after my party had left and “Ambassador” Horus should have contacted his (the 30th Millennium’s) Emperor of the Imperium of Mankind about aiding the 40th Millennium plight. I am pretty sure that Horus was absolutely correct in being certain that his Emperor would aid his counterpart here and now, even without the “sweeteners” to the deal.

The soft copy of the STC which I made a magical copy of into Compu- Chan (the very BEST laptop short of what I carried as Sailor Mercury available to those of the Silver Millenium) that I made (and plan on giving a copy or two for Rei’s discretion on what to do with) tells me that it we are talking a sweet deal indeed . . .if not a very SCARY one.

God! Some of the weaponry describe within an STC could easily cause nightmares upon up to my next six generation of ancestors!! And to think that even with THAT Rei had hinted that her Uncle (Felix) who worked with the Military’s “Terror Closet” had even WORSE…

It’s pretty damning when you think how such things gave even the “God” Emperor pause, Rei’s revelations (verified by Horus from glances he’d gotten from that mess back in the Hellmouth), really. Damn frightening to me anyway, as I am!

. . .

Hey! With me having accepted the life of being the daughter of Queen Serenity I gained much (including my husband and love and a LOT more empathy than I ever had before . . .gods!), but forfeited much too in the mix. No longer am I armored against what I see around me, jaded by a lifetime almost a long as what the Emperor experienced; I saw MUCH and experienced much as Sailor Pluto. Now, as Sailor Moon I . . .find I am just a young girl. A young girl who’s pretty terrified of this realm I find myself in, truth be told.

Thank all the gods and goddesses that Rei’s dealing with everything here and leaving me down in isolation, working on the anchor; who knows how things would have gone if not.

The leave the Emperor gives us to attend to our business (and finally be FREE of this Warhammer 40k nightmare business), is most welcome. Let the Emperor explain all the madness that has been happening around the Imperium while his son, Leeman Russ, has been questing about in that Eye of Terror place, looking for a cure for his father’s terminal condition! I rather doubt we could explain it well enough, especially OUR part in the last right before Russ’ return!! I have trouble making heads or tails of it myself and I LIVED it, for crying out loud!

We leave before we hear what Leeman Russ asks about us and HURRY down to the place where we’d gotten into this debacle in the first place. Down the Hellmouth tunnel and past what Horus tells us is a VERY false lead indeed (the Imperium on the other side is being lead by an Empress of all things), quiet a different thing than Horus’ home realm, shall we say. Something he’d missed the first time around, being concussed and all I am sure.

”ss Protects!” mutters Reika, shaking her head. “Let us NOT go down that way, shall we? One bloody wrong turn was enough for me, wouldn’t you say?”

”You think?” Rei and some of the others of the party nearly shout, including Horus. He hadn’t had a fun time back there when not being near the Empror, either! The glares alone from the guards—Imperial pardon or no—weren’t friendly at all!

By the Seven Hells, he (or his analog) was considered the equivalent of the Christian devil, or whatever. Not a comfortable thing to be!!

So when we finally arrive at where Horus leads us…

”The Palace on Terra again . . .but my timeline,” Warmaster Horus whispers almost reverently, looking around. “Oh what a blessed sight! And the Warp . . .is silent here too?

”Uncle Felix strikes again and wanna bet money that Buffy’s crew had something to do with it?” Lilith asks the others.

No bets, even from Yukiko; even she, as inexperienced with life as she is can see it being a sucker’s bet!!

”This is where we part and I do what I must,” Horus adds, looking back at us, looking noble despite looking almost like some kind of vagabond in this entirely beaten up Terminator armor. “You have your Quest to complete and . . .I fear that even here the Palace Guards are a bit more trigger happy than you’d like so….”

”Go with . . .take care,” Rei simply says.

And we leave and find ourselves back in the Library back in Sunnyvale; the passage back to the Imperiums sealed for all time. The justifications for why Rei and her sisters having left certain technologies (like the Jump Drive) sounding rather flimsy (but still justifiable) most interesting to me.

Myself, I had reservations about letting such a dark place have technology that allowed them to visit (and perhaps conquer) other realities. But . . .she does have a point. They’ already had the ability with their Warp driven ships, just wasn’t done for a very special reason: the Warp Gods would have made such a move suicidal

One down and several MORE to go; hopefully quicker next time around, I pray!

1. Of COURSE we have a situation awaiting us once we return though. Wilow’s awake now and . . .she’s still somewhat in a state…

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