Dislcaimer: Ummm...thinking... Darn..sorry peoples...nothing creative comes to mind for the disclaimer so it'll have to be boring... *sighs* I don't Sailor Moon. Naoko Takeuchi does. I'm not making any profit what so ever off of these stories so please don't sue! Okay..there it is..dull huh? =) So ya'll its the last chapter! Hope everyone likes it...and there might, might be a sequel...eventually... Right now I think I'm ready to get back to my big series... *rubs hands together* All right, on with the show! Email me, I command you!, at inspiredthoughts@hotmail.com Rated PG-13 for some mild language Double Dare Epilogue "Boxers of briefs, boxers of briefs..." I bit my lip but couldn't help but snicker as I bailed Zoicite out of jail. He turned his baleful stare on me. "You know what this is going to do to my reputation?" My grin grew as I patted his arm and tried to act sorry but the temptation was too much. "Well considering the reputation you brag about to the other generals probably wonders." His glare turned icy as we went to the pick up window and retrieved all his valuables. "Think of it this way," I tried to console. "You only got your jacket off before the cops came in and its not like it was a felony. Just a charge of attempted stripping in an unlicensed establishment. It's not like murder or anything." The gaze turned deadly. "Not yet," he muttered. I sniggered again and pretended not to hear. "Do you know how embarrassing that whole experience was?" Eyes dancing I confronted him. "How?" I asked eagerly. The storm clouds gathering in his face threatened to burst. "I was searched by a five hundred pound female officer named Butch. She gave me her phone number." My glee intensified. "Well, see the evening wasn't a total waste!" Zoicite growled as I chuckled. "Where did you get the bail money anyway?" I coughed, embarassed. "Well even though you just started you'd be amazed at how much money already had found its way to the stage..." "You are an evil evil person Ami." I stopped to look at him. "Remind me again who spent his second lifetime employed by the Negaverse?" Zoicite stopped too but his gaze was curious now. "I just don't get you," he murmured. Suddenly annoyed I scowled. "What's to get?" "Well you're so quiet and, geesh, nice and I think I have you all figured out. You're fun to annoy and easy to get mad but after tonight everything just seems different. You're gutsy! Who ever knew you had it in you." My grin came back and, not able to resist it Zoicite smiled also, even if it was a little strained. "Yeah we sure painted the town red huh?" I said softly. Zoicite's smile grew warmer and I shivered a bit but he abruptly sobered as if he remembered who he was with. He snorted. "I hate that saying." I nodded in agreement, for once. "Me too. I hate the color red. I've never really told anyone cause Rei would pound me but it so, so..." "Gaudy?" he finished for me. I nodded. "Yes! That's it." Eyes twinkling Zoicite laughed. "I just thought up a dare I know you'll never win!" Piqued I crossed my arms across my chest. "And what might that be oh unsurpassed genius?" He bent down until his nose touched mine. "Paint the town blue, literally." * * * "Isn't this breaking and entering?" I asked plaintively as we climbed through the open window of the chemistry lab in my high school. "Well they left the window unlocked so I think it would just be entering but I don't think that's a crime." "What would it matter to you?" I snapped, irritated, "You already have a record unlike some of us." Zoicite sniffed. "Oh yes you, the perfect angel." "Well at least you have the perfect part down." We finally clambered through and hit the floor with two thuds. "I'm not responding to that. Come on get to work, let's see how good you really are." An hour later I thought I was nearing a breakthrough when Zoicite broke my concentration. "Are you almost done yet?" Without looking up I answered him. "Anyone ever tell you you're wretched?" He laughed as he sat on an empty table. "You tell me all the time." I sighed and went back to work. A moment later I spoke again. "Zoicite for Mercury's sake quit messing with the helium!" "Why should I?" squeaked a voice several octaves higher than normal. "Do men ever grow up?" I snapped. Zoicite giggled. "Not that I'm aware of, why should we? *Most* women are content to love us the way we are." He said pointedly. I ignored him and looked back to my work. Had I put three or four drops in already? With a shrug I added a few more for good measure. "I think I'm done." Zoicite swung off the table to peer at the jar of blue powder I held. "You really think this stuff will work?" "How should I know? There hasn't really been a lot of studies done in painting the town blue," I replied acidly. Zoicite peered at me. "Is it that time of the month?" I looked at him shocked for a moment before finding my wits, or more exactly my fist. Okay, okay I know violence doesn't solve anything but darn it felt good to punch him. Later he told me I had a wicked right hook. At the time though he fell over and hit the switch for the high powered ventilator which was used to suck up dangerous vapors if any accidents should happen in the lab. From there things went wrong. As the thing powered up Zoicite reached out and grabbed my ankle in retaliation. He yanked. As I fell the unsealed beaker with the powder flew up. The ventilator sucked up every speck of powder in an instant before the beaker fell and crashed to the floor. "Oh no," I gasped. Zoicite looked at me from his spot underneath me. "What do you mean oh no?" he wheezed. I looked nervously away. "Well I wanted to test the stuff first. I'm not really sure what it will do." Zoicite's eyes bulged. "What do you mean you don't know what it will do?" I stammered nervously. "Well I kind of im... improvised on a couple of parts." I said weakly. He pushed me off of him and offered me a hand up. We both stood unsteadily and looked at each other, faces white. "Hay Zoicite," I finally said, breaking the silence. "I double dare you to be the first to go outside." * * * Well I guess those couple of drops made a lot of difference. The concoction was *suppose* to turn all stone work a temporary blue that would last about a week. Instead it turned all organic things within a radius that happened to span Tokyo a brilliant blue instead. Now that in itself wasn't too bad, what was truly awful was the effect it had on stones which wasn't quite as harmless. Somehow it changed the composition of the stone itself and weakened the chemical bonds. In other words, you know the song London Bridge is Falling Down? Well the city of Tokyo fell down. It was mostly the high rises and huge office buildings and what not and since it was so late no one got more than a few bruises or a broken bone or two since only the janitors and a few work-aholics were still there. The houses and smaller buildings weren't strained as much cause they were only a few stories so we didn't really destroy the entire city. Needless to say we were mortified though and highly afraid of what our friends were going to do to us. After all who else could have caused such mayhem? Although as a side note I never thought the senshi looked so nice. Sapphire really suites them. Of course Zoicite and I discussed it and decided to lay low since we were the only people in the city not blue because the powder never really entered the school but was expelled from it. Zoicite drove me home and said he'd call me. He hasn't. At this point I could cheerfully strangle him. I know, I know it's only been a day but still... I never thought I'd actually have fun with that pompous air bag but every time I close me eyes I see him, kissing a duck, stripping, ahem attempting to strip, blushing when we said good night at my apartment. Did he kiss me you ask dear readers? Nope, he was a perfect gentleman. Didn't I tell you he was wretched? He can kiss some stupid fowl but he can't even give me a peck on the cheek. Well I think that's all. I told you it wasn't my fault. Not really, I mean Lita and Nephrite started it and then Zoicite kept pushing. Lita set up the date, Nephrite told Zoicite my weakness and Zoicite... did I tell you he called me a wussie? Me! Anyway, I'm planning on going home and watching a chick flick with my stuffed blue platypus named Snickerdoodles. And I won't cry, I won't. * * * The woman frowned severely and closed her laptop as tears began to form. She brushed them angrily away as she stood and with her computer under her arm and trudged home. She fumbled for a moment with the key and went inside, glad that her mother was at the hospital, studying the effects the blue dye was having on people. Glad to have the house to herself the girl slammed her laptop on the counter, flung her shoes off, and stalked to her room, furious with herself. "Don't be such a baby," she whispered stiffly to herself, "this is the second time he's made you cry and he's not worth it. He's not." She opened the door to her room and stopped, cerulean eyes wide. Her floor, her bed was drowned in a sea of blue roses and on the middle of her bed lay a beautiful red dress. Shocked she waded to the dress and found her answering machine on top of it, its green light flashing insistently. With a trembling finger she pressed the play button. "Ami... this is Rei," "And Mina," "And Lita," "And Serena," Rei's voice continued... "Now we want every *detail* of last night from you. I mean really, turning the town blue? I'm ashamed of you!" Mina's voice broke in. "Me too! You haven't even called to tell us if... you know..." Rei became exasperated. "Mina she can't see your eyebrows wiggle over the phone!" "Um... oh yeah..." "Anyway Ami call us later or else!" She smiled and scratched her head, not sure what the connection was between the room of roses and that message. Then another voice came over the machine. "Hello... is this thing working? Oh Ami-chan I left you a present in your room, hope you don't mind, I know it's your *favorite* color." She smiled through her suddenly present tears. "Wretch." "Now," his wonderful voice continued, "I know that our last date was great and all but I think we can top it, I know we can. So I'll pick you up at eight okay? Bye." Then there was silence. Her joy lasted all of thirty seconds before she became angry again. How dare he assume that she'd accept? How dare he act like she was his to command? How dare he! She'd show him, oh yes she would. Suddenly the voice continued. "And Ami-chan, I double dare you to come." Abruptly her rage melted away and she chuckled, shaking her head. She bit her lip and whirled around the room in her dress before a thought occured to her. She dashed back to the machine and replayed his message. A fake frown pulled at her lips and she shook her head ruefully to banish it. She hadn't even noticed that he called her Ami-chan. What more she didn't mind at all. She bit her lip and dug through a pile of roses to find her abandoned purse. She laughed gleefully as she pulled out her other pictures, the ones the nice cops at the station had given her. She stared at Zoicite's mug shots and her grin grew. It always paid to have black mail fodder. Author's Notes: So? So, so, so? You guys like? Email!!!! LOL... told you the next chapter wouldn't be racy...hehe Off to the continuation of 'the epic'! Zoicite: Rebirth comes out next week! Have a good one everyone! Bye!!