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Part 69

Vahn's Revenge Part 2

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Yohiko Hibiki smirked as she looked at Coach
Mitaka. He was worn and tired. "So, how are you
enjoying your job so far?" They were both standing
in the schoolyard after classes had ended for the
day with most of the students long gone.

"How can you stand it here?" he grumbled
irritably.

"Easy, I'm the biggest fish in this little
pond," she replied calmly.

Mitaka nodded and sighed. "Right."

"How are your studies coming?" she asked him
calmly.

"I've improved a lot since that trip," he said
with a smirk. "I imagine you wouldn't even break a
sweat though."

"That's good," she responded with a nod. "How
about it then?"

Mitaka blinked. "You're not going to hurt me
are you?"

"As much as I'd enjoy that, I think I can go
easy on you," replied the woman calmly.

Mitaka nodded and moved into a combat stance.

Yohiko smirked; his defense was actually
pretty solid. "Not bad," she commented.

"Thanks," he said nervously.

"Come on then, attack me," she said with a
small sigh.

"Right," replied the man as he rushed forward.

Yohiko dodged around him easily, his speed was
good, but he was still little more than an
educated idiot as far as she was concerned. "Well,
you have improved haven't you?"

The man stopped his attack and backed away,
panting for breath. "Yeah. I think so anyway, I'm
still not ready for your class though."

"I'd give you a year or so," she replied with
a shrug. "Yusaku would wipe the floor with you.
You need to build speed more than anything else.
Your technique is surprisingly good for as long as
you've been at this."

"Well, I have been taking classes since I was
little," grumbled the man. "I'd like to think that
counts for something."

"You had a good teacher then," said the woman
with a smirk on her face.

"Most people don't take this as seriously as
you do," he said with a small snort.

"Well, most people don't need to," she replied
with a shrug.

"Yeah, I figured that," muttered the man.
"Fighting off the boy's classes, and escaping
those perverted girls probably helps."

"Ha!" said the woman in genuine amusement.

"What?" said the man with a hurt look forming
on his face.

"Nothing, your method of training is similar
to someone I know. He does it intentionally
though."

"Intentionally?" muttered Mitaka dumbly.

"Yes, his name is Happosai," said the woman
cheerfully. "You probably wouldn't like him much."

The man shook his head. "I'm finally able to
at least hold a class now."

"Yes, I'd noticed. You haven't been getting
chased around the campus much these days," she
said with a smirk on her face. "You'll get this if
you keep up. Maybe even before the year is up if
you keep working at it."

"Right," said the man. "Are you doing anything
tonight?"

"Now Mitaka, you know you don't stand a
chance. Just give up and find another woman. There
are plenty of women more willing than I am."

The man sighed. "I don't want another woman."

"Yes, I know. I'm out of reach though," she
replied with a shrug. "I'm past pining for my
husband, and I'm enjoying myself as things are
now. I don't want a man in my life."

A man walked up to the pair with a smirk on
his face. "Oh? What am I then? Chopped liver?" He
had a long pigtail going down his back all the way
to his waist, and was dressed in silk Chinese
clothing.

"Huh?" said Mitaka.

"Mitaka, this is Carrot," said Yohiko with a
frown forming on her face. "He's...an old training
partner of mine."

"Hiya. I'm Yohiko's lover," said the man
cheerfully as he politely bowed to the man. "You
must be Mitaka."

The poor man about choked where he stood.

"You are not my lover!" screamed Yohiko
angrily.

"What would you call it then? Fuck buddy?"
replied the man with his smirk remaining strong.

"You bastard!" she snarled as she stepped back
into a combat stance.

Carrot merely smiled at her and looked at
Mitaka. "Good luck, I'd be happy if you managed to
take her off my hands."

"What?" cried the man in shock.

"I'll kill you!" screamed Yohiko.

"Maybe later, in private," said Carrot
cheerfully. "You seen Dan around today?"

Yohiko relaxed slightly and growled. "No. Not
since you two left." The group had separated at
the end of the last lunch period about two hours
earlier.

"Hmmm. I hope he's not getting drunk again,"
commented Carrot with a shrug.

"Dan?" said Mitaka in confusion.

"He trained with us too," said Carrot
cheerfully.

"Oh," said the man as he found himself
becoming more and more confused. "He's lying,
right Miss Yohiko?"

"Not really," said Carrot lazily. "We don't
get along very well, but we just can't seem to
help ourselves. It's weird really."-

Mitaka was white as a sheet, and Yohiko was
turning red with anger.

"We can fight about it later, I'll see ya,"
said Carrot as he turned away and started walking
towards the gates.

"That bastard!" snarled Yohiko.

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"Ah, Carrot," said Cologne as her former son
in law's doppelganger walked into the restaurant
and sat down at one of the tables.

"Hiya," said the boy cheerfully.

"What brings you to this place?" said the old
woman.

"I've been using that new technique to hang
around town while I'm teaching classes."

Cologne nodded at this and sighed. "I see.
It's a shame it's not more permanent."

"Not really, I'd probably end up killing most
of the Amazon tribe in the end," he said with a
thoughtful frown.

Cologne coughed in surprise. "I think you
overestimate yourself."

"Naw, you'd get me in the end I think, but I'd
take a whole bunch of you down with me. Not
economical really."

"It's a moot point, but I fail to see how
you'd survive against three thousand years of
Amazon techniques."

"With two thousand year old martial arts
counters of course," said the boy cheerfully.

Cologne almost sprayed her tea across the
table, but managed to control herself. "Pardon?"

"I've been studying up," he replied with a
shrug. "The old Musk techniques would be useful,
as well as a few of the techniques of that old
monastery that used to be around your area about
fifteen hundred years or so ago. They had all
sorts of counters, as I recall, you got the
Hiryuushotenha from them. They had a counter for
it; I've almost got it. I learned how to defeat
the Splitting Cat Hair's technique about two weeks
ago."

Cologne's eyes about bugged out of her head.
"Where did you learn about that?"

"It's a secret," replied the boy cheerfully.
The Mercury computer they had was very useful to
them. It couldn't predict the future, or alter
reality, but its information database was
flawless.

"The counter techniques for the Hiryuushotenha
and the Splitting Cat Hair's techniques were
destroyed with that hellish place. We burned it to
the ground, along with everything and everyone
inside it!"

"Yeah, a real shame," said Carrot lazily.

Cologne simply sat where she was and mulled
over this revelation. "There's no way! It's
impossible for any of those techniques to have
survived that inferno."

"Don't look at me. It's not my fault your
elders were so hateful in your world."

Cologne seemed to relax suddenly. "So that's
it! In his world, they must have survived, or the
Amazons didn't destroy that knowledge. A pity."
She looked up at him as her thoughts ended. "Yes,
my ancestors were foolish in that regard."

"Haven't changed that much," he replied with a
snort. "Three thousand years of staying the same
ain't healthy ya know."

"We have survived this long because of it!"
she snapped.

"Naw, you survived this long because you're
living in the mountains, it was too much trouble
to be rid of you. Sending an army up there would
have been difficult until recently. If the Red
Army decided to get rid of you..."

Cologne snorted at this. "Preposterous!"

"Yeah, don't go getting all belligerent on
me," said the boy casually. "I think you're smart
enough to realize what a battalion of tanks and
soldiers would do to your little paradise, to say
nothing of the Chinese Air Force that would
precede them."

Cologne merely sat in her chair, shaking.
Carrot couldn't tell if it was anger or simply
fear of the idea he'd just placed in her head.
"I'm sure your political contacts and herbal
medicine have been able to keep yourself beneath
notice though. As long as you're useful, you've
got nothing to fear."

Cologne's head snapped up at him and her eyes
narrowed. "How would he know about that?"

"Don't look at me that way. I'm not your brain
dead son in law. I've learned a lot over the
years," he replied calmly. "It's the same way you
avoided notice where I'm from. The higher offices
of the Chinese Government benefit from your
counters to poisons, cures for rare diseases, and
assorted magic. To say nothing of the use of some
of the poisons that are only available to you in
your area."

Cologne sighed and shook her head; she was
actually chuckling with laughter. "You never cease
to amaze me boy. It's a shame you weren't born a
woman."

"Who says I wasn't?" retorted the boy calmly.

Cologne's head snapped up again.

Carrot chuckled as he decided to put the
finishing touch on his little game of psyche out.
"The dreaded training ground of Jusenkyo Hot
Springs. Each pool cursed with a tragic legend."
Ranma started screaming obscenities inside their
head at this announcement.

"What?" muttered Cologne.

"Well, I did tell you I wasn't from this
world," he replied with a shrug. "You don't think
a boy would be as smart as I am do you?" He
shifted to his older female form and grinned at
her.

Cologne gasped, everything made sense now.

"But..."

"I have a daughter Cologne, I'm her mother,"
said the woman as her eyes sparkled with
amusement. "My name is Yohiko Hibiki, you don't
think my parents would name me Ranma if I was born
a woman do you?"

"This is..." stammered the woman in shock.

"I've been watching this place for a while,
ever since I was sent to this world. I've been
here for a while ya know. I even got married, my
husband died about seven years ago."

Cologne simply stared at her, unable to speak
or move. Everything was starting to make sense
now.

"I've always been fascinated by Ranma Saotome.
What I would have been had I been born a man."

"So, you were sent here from another world,
into the past," said the old woman as she nodded
her head. Things were starting to make sense.

"Something like that," agreed the woman
casually. This was probably the greatest session
of bullshitting she'd ever done. It was immensely
satisfying.

Cologne frowned. "That would explain your
reluctance to allow my Shampoo to chase you, and
your attitude about fighting off these girls. The
male Ranma would never do such a thing without a
good reason."

"You're catching on," said the woman as her
face contorted into anger for a moment. It quickly
shifted back to a pleasant smile before Cologne
noticed.

"I see," replied the old woman as she nodded
her head and sighed. "A daughter?"

"Yes," said the woman cheerfully. "Her name is
Usagi Hibiki, by a strange coincidence, I am Ryoga
Hibiki's aunt in this world. I had no idea Keiichi
was related to them."

Cologne jolted from this mild shock, shaken
already by the previous revelations.

Yohiko looked down at her hand and smirked.
"Looks like my time is up. Later old lady."

Cologne merely stared as the woman started to
fade away. "Wait! I..." She sighed as the woman
vanished completely. "This changes everything. I
can't have Shampoo chasing her around anymore. The
council would pitch a fit if they found out about
that." She mulled over her problem for a moment
and sighed. "Oh dear. I suppose it's time to tell
her."

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Within a minute, they were all back together
in the apartment.

"So, now what?" asked Carrot lazily.

"Time for afternoon class," said Xianfu
irritably. "You and I are gonna have a little talk
later."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," replied Ranma with an
angry snort. "We got some stuff to tell ya about.
Carrot's being an asshole again."

"Heh. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist! Admit it,
the look on her face was worth it!" replied the
voice cheerfully.

Ranma tried to be angry, he really did.
Finally he sighed. "As much as I hate to admit it.
It was kinda funny."

"That's the spirit!" said Carrot.

"What the hell have you done now?" snarled
Dan.

"I know this is gonna bite us all in the ass,"
snapped Xianfu.

"Probably, but we can deal with it. It's only
the Amazons," said Carrot.

"Oh, that's okay then," replied Dan with a
shrug.

"Right," agreed Pissant. "It wasn't mean was
it?" he asked hopefully.

"Not really," said Ranma. "Well, at least not
for Carrot."

"Oh, well then," replied Xianfu.

"Anyway, let's go get our lazy students," said
Carrot cheerfully.

Ranma growled slightly as they walked out into
the hall and moved towards Yusaku's door.

They opened it and smirked at the scene
inside. "Well, hello."

Everyone froze and stared at the woman for a
moment.

Yusaku was halfway through the act of putting
a beer to his lips. Usagi was beside him talking
with Akemi, and the rest of the residents were in
the process of getting rather drunk.

"Um. Miss Yohiko..." said Yusaku dumbly. "I
didn't think you'd join us..."

"That's Sensei, Godai, get dressed, I feel
like a workout," she replied calmly as she turned
away.

Usagi and the boy looked at each other with a
frown forming on their faces. "Again?" grumbled
Usagi. "We already did that today!"

"Do you really want her to come get us?" said
Yusaku.

"Right," grumbled the girl as she stood up and
walked out of the apartment.

"Everyone out, I gotta get changed," said
Yusaku as he glared at the drunks for a moment.

"Hey. I ain't goin nowhere," said Akemi with a
sultry looking grin.

"Me too! Me too!" agreed Itchinose.

"Out!" cried Yusaku as he shoved both women
out the door.

Yotsuya quietly slid back through his hole in
the wall and left the boy to change.

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"Why are we doing this right now?" grumbled
Usagi.

"Silence!" snapped her mother. They were
standing in the middle of the abandoned lot they
used for practice. "Yusaku! One hundred Bakusai
Tenketsu! Get started!"

"Right," muttered the boy as he walked over to
a large pile of rocks that he and Usagi regularly
lugged to the site during their normal training
hours.

"As for you," said Yohiko as she stared at her
daughter. "You're going to keep practicing the
Katsutenshin Amaguriken for the rest of the day. I
won't have you two slacking off!
Bwahahahahahahaaa!"

A moment later, Cologne pogoed over the wall
just in time to see Yohiko laughing. She paused
for a moment and noticed what the girl's students
were doing. "Well, it seems I've caught you in the
middle of a lesson."

"Huh?" said the woman as she blinked and
turned towards the hag. "Oh, yes. My lazy students
aren't working hard enough lately, so I'm giving
an extra lesson today! Bwahahahahaaa!"

"Is she always like this?" asked Cologne as
she turned to the young girl.

"No, she's usually much worse," grumbled the
child as she rubbed at the burns forming on her
hands.

"Yes, I thought she was taking it awfully easy
on you," said the crone with a shrug of her
shoulders. "You must be Usagi."

"Huh? Do I know you?" said the girl in
surprise.

"This is Cologne, she's an old friend of
mine," said Yohiko.

"Ha! Old is right!" said Usagi cheerfully.

Cologne promptly whacked her on her head with
her staff. "Faster! You'll never master that
technique if you're slacking off and talking to
me!"

Usagi sniffled with a tear in her eye and
turned back to the small fire she had just
started.

"What brings you here?" said Yohiko calmly.

"Not much, just checking up on the chi
signature I felt. I thought it was you, but these
two others had me wondering."

"Ah, not much to worry about," said Yohiko
calmly.

"Yes, I can sense they are both mere
beginners," agreed Cologne.

"About half a year, they've come along rather
well. I thought it would take at least two years
before I could start these techniques with them."

"Six months?" muttered Cologne in wonder.
"You're joking?"

"Huh? Not really, it's been a little more than
that, almost eight months really."

"And they are already up to this level?" said
Cologne as she turned to look at the pair. "Most
impressive young lady."

"Really? I didn't think so, they're both
slackers," snorted Yohiko calmly. "I have to keep
them both on their toes all the time. They keep
trying to get out of training. Yusaku's not so
bad, on account of he's still trying to get into
my pants."

The boy paused his exercise for a moment, only
to receive a thwack on his head from Cologne. The
old woman didn't even look at him, or stop her
conversation with Yohiko. He grumbled and started
again.

"It's a good motivator," replied Cologne.

"Yeah, I've been trying to beat him out of it,
or wear him down. He's stubborn though," replied
Yohiko.

"Well, I'll leave you to your students then,"
said Cologne cheerfully. As she hopped away, her
mind worked diligently. "A woman like that, could
be useful. If she was able to teach her students
to be so strong in such a short time!? Plus her
teaching degree in academics?! This is a prize I
cannot pass up!" She smirked as she put the small
camera she had hidden in her palm into her robes.

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"What is this?" snorted Tanaka as he glared at
the paper in his hand.

"Your next assignment," replied the man in a
dark suit that stood in front of him.

"A brothel?" snorted the man irritably.

"Yes," said the man calmly. "We have reports
of a drug lab being run inside this operation."

"Again?" said Tanaka irritably. "The last time
we had a suspected report of this kind of
thing..."

"You understand then," said the man with a
small chuckle.

"Oh, I see. You think he's going to show up
again," said Tanaka calmly.

"Yes, go there, eliminate the one who is doing
this without our consent, and take over the
operation. Don't shut it down."

"Vahn will be pleased to hear this, he's
growing impatient," said Tanaka calmly. "I'll be
take care of this right away."

"Excellent."

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A small moving truck backed into the back of
the large mansion. It was unmarked and the estate
was on a rather large lot. It was a high-class
brothel frequented by some of the most powerful
men in Japan. The Oyabun would not be pleased that
a drug lab tainted this operation at all. In fact,
the order probably came from him. It was very
unusual for someone as high ranked as the person
running the operation to become greedy and do
something so stupid. He probably thought he could
get away with it because he was so high.

Tanaka snorted as he jumped out of the
passenger seat of the truck and glanced around. He
turned towards the well-built man who was driving.
The man was wearing overalls and a mover's
uniform. "Let him out, send him into the basement.
Tanaka pointed at the large pair of doors that
lead into the basement.

The back of the truck was opened, revealing a
pair of red glowing eyes deep in the blackness of
the rear.

"Go in, don't kill too many people, and try
not to damage anything. This place is our bait."

"As you wish," replied the mechanical voice.
There was a whirring sound as the thing stood up
and began to climb towards the door. "At last, the
time for my revenge grows near."

Tanaka smirked to himself as he turned away
and started walking towards the front of the
building. "I might enjoy staying here for a time."

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That night, Usagi Hibiki stood on the rooftops
of Tokyo with a frown on her face. She was in the
guise of Sailor Moon, and had yet to find anything
of interest. "Man, this is boring."

Xellos appeared before her and grinned.
"That's a good thing. It means you're doing a good
job."

"Jadeite is still out there, I know he's
plotting something," replied the girl sourly.
"I'll be happy when I get him."

"I'm sure you will," replied the man calmly.

Usagi paused, she was on the outskirts of
town, and noticed something unusual.

Several men in suits, surrounding an old man.
They led him to a limousine and climbed in around
him.

"What's a guy like that doing in a place like
this?" muttered the girl in confusion. She wasn't
in the best neighborhood in Tokyo. It was a run
down looking place really, graffiti cluttered the
walls, and trash was thrown carelessly on the
streets. The whole place looked rather grimy and
gray.

"Probably a Yakuza," said Xellos as he noted
the quiet display. "Nothing for us to worry
about."

"Yakuza are criminals," replied Usagi.

"Yes, very powerful ones at that," agreed
Xellos. "He's not doing anything wrong. He
probably owns a lot of the property around here.
Just let it be."

Usagi frowned at this and snorted. "There's
nothing else of interest around here. I'm gonna
follow him."

"I don't recommend it," warned Xellos.

"Screw it, I'm bored," she responded as she
jumped away.

A moment later, Xellos appeared on the rooftop
where she had once been standing. Another image
appeared in front of him, Jadeite's face. "We have
a problem. I need you."

"Why, I had no idea you swung that way old
friend," said Jadeite calmly.

"You've been spending too much time around
Zocite and Kunzite," replied the man casually. "I
need you to distract Usagi, she's following a
Yakuza somewhere. Looks like he's pretty high
ranked too."

"In over her head?" asked Jadeite with a
chuckle.

"Not really, but it's more trouble than I
think she wants to get into if she does find
something. This is more of a hobby for her than
anything, those kidnappings and such were mostly
one-time things. If she's not careful, she'll get
pulled into something a lot more serious and
complicated than she's ready for."

"I see," replied Jadeite calmly. "I'll see
what I can do."

"Do that," said Xellos as he vanished.

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Usagi frowned as she looked down on the
mansion that the limo had driven into. "What? I
guess he just went home," she said with a small
sigh. She waited anyway and frowned when several
other expensive looking cars pulled up to the
building. "What's this? A party?" Her eyes
narrowed as she jumped down into the street and
started towards the building.

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Getting into the building was easy enough. She
changed her appearance and now looked like a woman
in her early twenties. She was wearing a business
suit and her long blonde hair was now tied into a
tight bun on the back of her head. A pair of
sophisticated looking glasses appeared on her face
as well.

No one tried to stop her as she walked into
the building. What she found, she definitely
wasn't expecting. She was standing in the middle
of a whorehouse. She snorted in disgust and went
in anyway, it would seem odd if she just walked
out. Xellos had taught her a lot over the past few
months. She knew it would be best if she waited
for one of the men in suits to leave, and followed
him out. It would look like she was working for
him, and he'd stopped off for a little relaxation
after a meeting or something. Then she could slip
away quietly.

One of the men walked up to her and smirked
lecherously. "How much for a night with you?"

"Do I look like one of these whores to you?"
she snapped as she leveled a glare at him angrily.

The man chuckled at this and grinned. "No, but
that makes you more interesting."

"Find yourself someone more willing, pig," she
snapped sharply.

"I see, you're upset your boss isn't satisfied
with you," he said with a small shrug. "Is that
it?"

She turned away and stormed off in a huff.
After a moment, she sat down in one of the chairs
that lined the walls, away from the whores that
lounged around the room lazily, waiting for
someone to find them interesting.

She was pissed after almost fifteen minutes of
watching more men come in. No one left, but there
were a few other women sitting with her now. Most
of them in the same position.

"Why do they bring us to these places," said
the redhead to her right. She was in her early
thirties and had a scowl on her face much the same
as her companions.

"Who knows? I think they either just don't
care, or they want to humiliate us," responded the
brunette to her right.

"Why do you put up with them if you don't like
it?" asked Usagi with the same irritation in her
voice.

"Hey, you're here too. They're all sexist
pigs, disgusting perverts, and complete jerks. We
all know that, but we put up with them because
they take care of us. We're relief at the office,
we work well, and their wives are good at ignoring
us more than they ignore places like this."

"No better than the women who work here I
suppose," said Usagi with a small sigh.

"Don't say that darling. I can see you're new
to this," said the redhead sympathetically. "We
only do what we do for money it's true, but we
only do it for one man." She winked at her and
smirked. "As long as we're young and pretty, we're
set. The retirement plan is great too, they'll pay
for us for the rest of our lives out of gratitude,
and to keep us quiet."

"If they don't kill us that is," joked the
brunette.

"You make it sound...not so bad," muttered
Usagi in surprise.

The redhead laughed at this. "We aren't
criminals dear, but our lovers are."

"Hey! My boss is a governor!" snapped the
Brunette.

"If he's here, you can bet he's dabbled in a
little criminal behavior. In fact, that's what
this place is," responded the redhead.

The woman blushed slightly and turned her head
away.

Usagi had stopped paying attention though,
something had caught her eye. A man in overalls
walked over to one of the men hanging around the
back of the room. He'd come from a stairwell that
led to the basement. The man leaned into the
character in a suit and whispered something in his
ear.

Usagi stood up and started walking towards
them slowly. She was cautious and moved slowly.

"Hello," said a man who walked up to her and
grabbed her arm roughly. "I haven't seen you
around here before."

Usagi gasped and glared at him as she jerked
her arm away from him. "Back off I'm not here to
entertain you."

The man snorted in disgust and grabbed her
roughly. "How dare you speak to me that way wench!
I think your boss will appreciate me teaching you
a lesson! He started to pull her towards the
stairs roughly.

That was when he suddenly jerked to a stop and
almost lost his grip on the woman. She was
standing firmly in place, and seemed to almost be
riveted to the floor. "Let me go, or you'll regret
it," she said coolly. Everyone had their attention
on her now.

The man reared his hand back to slap her, but
stopped as her features slowly melted away,
revealing a much younger girl dressed in a fuku.
Long tendrils of ribbons floated in the air behind
her, and an aura of menace surrounded her. "I was
going to leave quietly, but then I noticed
something is going on downstairs. Plus, you've
gone and done something stupid. I think I'll have
a little fun before I leave now."

The man jumped back in horror, but not before
the ribbons lashed out and snagged him. He was
thrown into the wall and left a crater in his
wake. He slumped down against the wall as Usagi
was lifted into the air as several of her ribbons
latched onto the floor. There were now dozens of
them floating around her, grabbing men in suits
indiscriminately and tossing them around the room.

The one by the wall with the man in the
overalls simply stared in shock. He turned his
head and said something to the figure in the
overalls. The man dashed down the stairs and he
continued to stare at the girl.

"What are you looking at?" she snarled as she
moved towards him. Her ribbons acting like the
legs of a spider as she crawled across the floor
and walls towards him.

"Cool!" he exclaimed with tears in his eyes.

Usagi blinked and almost fell out of the air.
"Huh?"

"A real magical girl! What's your name!?"
cried the man as he almost fell to his knees in
front of her.

"I'm...uh...Sailor Moon," she replied dumbly.

"Can I have your autograph?" said the man with
a fanatical smile on his face. "This is so cool! I
didn't think stuff like this was real!"

Usagi took the pen and pad he'd offered her
and signed it. She wasn't quite over the shock of
her situation. Her ribbons continued to work
around her, disarming thugs and throwing people
around the room.

"Do you have a handsome and mysterious
boyfriend?" asked the man cheerfully as he took
his pad back.

"Yeah, kinda. How do you know about that?" she
muttered dumbly.

"This is so great!" said the man. "I'm Tanaka.
I'm an evil Yakuza. It's always been my dream to
be one of those villainous Bishonen guys! I never
thought my dream would come true!"

"Huh?" said Usagi with confusion clear on her
face.

"Are you doing anything later?" he said
cheerfully.

"Gross! I'm fourteen! You pervert!" snapped
the girl angrily. Her ribbons started to reach for
the man.

"Oh, you've probably already got a boyfriend
then," said the man as he looked at the floor and
mulled over this.

"I just told you I did!" snapped Usagi.

"Well, I'm pretty bishonen, don't you think? I
could be better," he said cheerfully.

"Not really, you're kinda short, and your hair
is all greasy," replied the girl as she pointed to
his slicked back hairstyle.

"Hmmm, maybe I should start fluffing my hair
some? Do you think I'd look good with long hair?
Maybe I should grow it out some..."

"Um, you'd probably look better with short
hair really," said the girl honestly.

"You're right. I should fluff it out some.
Maybe get an earring too," said the man with a
small snort. "Of course, I'd need a cape, and some
armor. A really big sword or a rapier would
probably help too."

"You'd still be too short," said Usagi
irritably. "Look, I've got to destroy this place
in righteous anger. So, sorry about this."

Tanaka blinked as he saw one of the ribbons
wrap around his waist. There wasn't really anyone
left standing in the room anymore. People had
stopped bursting from the bedrooms, and most of
anyone who could had already run away.

"Well, I suppose I'll have to stop you," said
Tanaka cheerfully. "Man this is so cool!"

Usagi blinked as a strange sound emerged from
the stairwell that led to the basement. "What's
that?"

"That's just Vahn. I'm sorry about this, but I
am the villain it seems. I have to try and kill
you now. You understand? Hopefully you'll escape,
and we'll have all sorts of interesting battles!"

"Right," grumbled Usagi as she tossed him
aside and he hit the wall roughly. The man
staggered to his feet and she ignored him in favor
of the doorway with the strange noises coming from
it.

The small wooden frame exploded outward, and
Usagi gasped. "What the fuck?!!"

"Meet Vahn, my servant," said Tanaka as he
stumbled forward a little.

The thing emerged from the hole that had once
been a door. It was huge, eight feet tall and
completely metal.

"A robot?" gasped Usagi as she backed away.

"Cyborg actually," replied Tanaka proudly.

The mechanical legs were bent back, like those
of a bird. The metal claws on the end dug into the
ground, supporting the massive weight and
balancing the thing as it stood there. Its torso
was huge, almost four feet wide. A skull like head
glared at her with glowing eyes. A closer
inspection revealed it to be more of a helmet than
an artificial head. The arms were the scariest
part of it. Two thick cable like protrusions that
resembled a pair of muscular human arms. On the
ends of both arms was a huge set of claws. One
resembled a human hand, while the left arm had
four finger like protrusions opposite one another.
Each of them ended in a sharp blade. In the center
of the palm was a small hole. Usagi could see
quite a few door like seams in the chest and
shoulders. Probably hiding hidden firearms of some
sort.

"No fucking way!" she muttered in horror.

"Impressive ne?" said Tanaka cheerfully. His
face fell as he snarled at Vahn. "Kill her."

"You are not the one I seek," said the thing
as it started towards the girl.

"You're not so big. I'll kick your ass!"
snarled Usagi as she rushed forward.

The thing leveled its left arm at her and the
girl's eyes went wide. A roar filled the room and
Usagi found herself sprawled across the ground and
rolling on the carpet in pain. She had noticed a
small hole in his shoulder that spat out around
twenty spent shells. Her chest was smoking, and
there was a scorch mark on her chest. "Damn!"

Vahn chuckled as he lurched forward.
"Interesting."

"Monster! I'll kill you for that!" snarled the
girl as she sat up.

Vahn responded by grabbing her face with his
left arm, the four claw like fingers grabbing her
head.

Usagi screamed in pain as the barrel burned at
her face. Vahn lifted her up off the ground and
held her. Her ribbons were desperately wrapping
around the thing. Sparks were being thrown off the
thing's hide as they met with the razor edge of
the ribbons.

Vahn ignored this, and began to increase the
pressure on her head, a long threaded rod began to
slowly rotate out of the back of his shoulder as
the claws started to crush her head. "I had hoped
this would be more interesting. My true opponent
will be less disappointing I hope."

Usagi screamed as her head pounded in pain.
Finally, she grit her teeth, her entire body
suddenly changed. She turned silver, and the sound
of gears grinding inside Vahn's shoulder sounded.

The metallic Usagi raised her fists forward
and pointed them at Vahn. Her hands turned to
metal spikes and shot forward, slamming into the
thing's chest. A few sparks flew from the impact,
but Vahn's chest was little more than slightly
dented.

The cyborg snorted and opened fire with its
arm cannon, blasting Usagi in the face at point
blank range. She flew from his grasp and slammed
into the wall. She grunted from the impact, but
slowly rose to her feet again. "Bastard! It'll
take more than you to kill me!"

Vahn had started his next attack already
though. Usagi gasped as two compartments on his
shoulders opened. Two mini-guns rose up on either
side of his head and started firing.

The girl screamed as she was pelted with high
velocity bullets. Her costume protected her, but
she could feel the bruising they were causing on
her body. "Damn!" she screamed again as she fell
to her knees.

"You are no match for me," said Vahn coldly.
His right hand slid into his wrist, and a blade of
energy formed on his arm. It looked something like
a four-foot blowtorch.

"This is really gonna hurt," muttered Usagi as
she struggled to move. Her eyes were latched onto
the flame as the thing moved towards her. She
wasn't sure if her costume could protect her from
that. She screamed in effort and her ribbons
lifted her off the ground and onto the ceiling
away from the thing's slash just in time. "Damn
it!"

Vahn snorted and looked up at her. Usagi's
eyes went wide as she saw something large emerge
from its back. A jetpack, the thing had a damn
jetpack. The jets roared to life and Vahn crouched
to leap up at her.

"No!" she screamed as she willed herself to
move, but it was obvious she wouldn't be fast
enough.

"SHI SHI HOUKOU DAN!"

"Wa?" gasped the girl as a beam of power
slammed into Vahn and sent him crashing into a
wall. She dropped down to the ground, but didn't
have the strength to stand despite the fact that
she'd landed on her feet.

A familiar pair of arms wrapped around her and
she gasped.

Ryoga Hibiki was glaring at the thing in the
wall as it struggled to right itself again. He
glanced at Tanaka and then started to back away.
"Sailor Moon. Are you all right?"

"Not really," replied the girl weakly.

"Bastards," growled the boy as he turned and
ran, carrying the girl in his arms.

++++++++++++++

A few minutes later, Ryoga was sitting in a
quiet park with a fire going in front of him.
Usagi was lying on the ground resting next to him.

"Are you hurt?" he asked her gently as he
touched her face lightly.

"Not really, that thing was really strong
though. I'll be a little sore, but I'm fine thanks
to you."

Ryoga nodded and frowned at her. "You
shouldn't have tried fighting that thing! You
could have been killed!"

"I can't run away," she replied calmly. "If I
don't fight it, who will?"

Ryoga closed his eyes and nodded. "Still."

"Don't worry. I'm sure it has a weakness, I've
just got to find it," she said with a smile on her
face. She blinked suddenly. "Hey. What the heck
were you doing in a place like that?"

"What? What place?" he replied dumbly.

"That was a whore house! Why were you there?
What, I'm not good enough?"

Ryoga went beet red. "What? No! I heard the
noises, and went to check it out! I had no idea!"
he replied as fast as he could.

"Oh," said the girl sheepishly. She wrapped
her arms around his neck. "Thank you Ryoga."

"Yeah, sure," he muttered in embarrassment.
"Anytime."

"I don't know what I would have done if you
hadn't come along, I mean it," she replied.

"I couldn't let anything happen to you,"
replied the boy with a romantic look on his face
for the briefest of moments. "You should get home,
you need rest."

"Ryoga, I don't think I need any sleep," she
said with a smirk growing on her face. She pulled
him down into a kiss and he floundered on top of
her for a moment before relaxing.

++++++++++++++

"Oh my," muttered Jadeite as he stared at the
scene for a shadow. "Who could have known she had
it in her?"

Xellos appeared beside him. "Oh, again?" he
muttered in slight disgust.

"Aren't they..." asked Jadeite as he looked at
Xellos for a moment.

"Yes, neither of them knows though," said
Xellos with a smirk on his face. "Still, this
thing could be a problem."

"You're right, Usagi might not survive another
encounter with it. I couldn't make it fast enough
to stop her," said Jadeite. "I arrived just about
the same time he did. I would have had to blow my
cover and save her if not for him."

"Such a shame," snorted Xellos lazily. "In any
case, I'll set mother on the right path, she
should be able to handle this. This is right up
Dan's alley really. They'll probably enjoy it."

"Should we interrupt them? Yohiko won't be
pleased to find out her daughter is sleeping with
her cousin," asked Jadeite nervously.

"No, as far as I'm concerned, neither one of
us knows about this. We're safer that way," said
Xellos with a slight wavering in his voice. "I'm
surprised the boy didn't pass out yet. Look at
what she's doing to him."

"I'd rather not. Incest isn't my thing," said
Jadeite with a slightly sick frown. "Zocite and
Kunzite I can deal with, this is just sick."

"I'll be surprised if the boy manages to
survive when her mother finds out about this,"
agreed Xellos as he started walking.

"She doesn't know about Sailor Moon yet? I'm
surprised, she gets pretty banged up sometimes,"
commented Jadeite.

"I've been healing anything major," said
Xellos. "Small wounds can be attributed to her
training."

"Oh," said Jadeite with a small shrug. "I'll
be seeing you."

"Yes, it's almost time," agreed Xellos as he
faded into the shadows.

Jadeite shuddered as a cry of pleasure floated
over to where he was standing. "Little perverts,"
he grumbled as he faded away as well.

++++++++++++++

TBC...

Next time: Vahn's Revenge, the final chapter!