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[Tyler Jones]

February 16th 8:30pm.

It had been a long day at work, not a good or productive day just a long one. Tyler had been working on a few filler pieces, nothing of substance. He really wished he could stumble on something news worthy, he needed to break out of the basement. He really just needed that big break. Wishing for it wouldn't make it happen though, he would need to work hard and chase up leads. As well as hope that while chasing a story that could potentially get him that front pager that he wouldn't be pulled into an alternate dimension by some crazy bitch that wants to either kill him or make him her flunkie.

Now Tyler had a very important decision to make, would he go grocery shopping make a relatively healthy dinner and do some research or would he go to a pub, have greasy pub food and drink. One of those options was particularly more appealing then the other he wasn't sure it was the best idea though.

Suddenly a scream, the sound of broken glass, an inhuman shriek. Tyler broke into a run, the camera that was usually strapped to his wrist sliding into his hand. This was going to be a great story, an attack from Metallia or potentially if Peter Parker had taught him anything both. The beast was like nothing he had seen before. It was like it was composed of shadow itself. Dark wings and blood red fangs and slits for eyes. Tyler took a quick snapshot before disappearing down an alley holding up the hand that carried his henshin ring.

"Uranus Power!"

A burst of wind and leaves and Sailor Uranus appeared at the scene leaping into the fray.

"Hey ugly! Why don't you pick on someone who can fight back. Uranus Air Slash!"

Three bursts of wind that spun so fast that they would cut like swords were thrust at the beast. This monster had picked the wrong part of town to terrorise. now it would have to deal with one of the Outer Senshi.

[Leon Mason]

Being, essentially, unemployed was crap when he was bored, but on days like this it was great because he could do what he wanted for however long he wanted. He had spent a day just wandering around town – mainly checking out the DVD and comic stores; he could spend hours in there just browsing and witling down what he may buy. The time senshi had called into the store towards the evening time and spent an hour or so there before going to talk to his friend at the register. That took up another half an hour before his friend got a phone call and he left to browse around some more.

He ended up buying a couple of new issues before leaving to get some grub; it was getting late now and half of the shops were closing soon anyway, so food and then home. It was good buying food – none of the cooking effort needed nor the cleanup, and the food itself was worth the money so Leon did not complain. Today had been a good day…

Mid walk home was when he heard it – the scream. It was muffled by distance, and if the streets hadn’t been deserted he probably wouldn’t have heard it. He ran in the direction of the scream, calling on his planet mid run – “Pluto Power!”

He leapt up and climbed onto the rooftops, bouncing from roof to roof towards the direction he had heard the scream echo from. As he came closer he heard other sounds too and a muffled but distinctive Uranus air slash. He slowed down, stopping on a rooftop to look down at the fight, seeing the youma get struck by the air blades. Interesting, another awakened senshi.

This youma did get hit, but this one looked tough – big, and bulky, and winged. Uranus had speed but even then he may get injured from this fight alone, so Leon leapt onto a smaller rooftop before leaping down towards the battlefield, blasting out his own “Timestream Resonation” mid-air.

[Koni Kane]

It was that awkward between period between the first dinner rush on and the second, and Koni barked a few orders before snagging the pack of menthols from his hiding place near the back door and stepping into the alley. The kitchen guys would give him shit for taking the first smoke break after rush ended, but some days, he had to. Like today. He'd fielded more complaints from foodie wanna be nut jobs tonight than he'd thought entirely possible for a freakin' Monday. Apparently Monday was the new night for new mothers and their husbands to get a babysitter and go out, and then to nit pick at the food they're being served like idiots.

He took a drag, then another, enjoying the relative peace of the atmosphere. The second rush tonight wouldn't be that bad. It was Monday. Surely it couldn't be that bad.

Something startled him right out of his peace, and he gritted his teeth at the noise. A scream, and glass breaking. In the distance, he heard something pretty epic going on. Cursing, Koni threw the cigarette into a pile of damp trash and took off running. He was going to be in so much fucking trouble when he got back, but what else could he do?

He skidded around a corner, spotted the conflict, and then ducked back. He grabbed the pocket knife out of his khakis and snarled "Neptune Power" before letting the grace of the ocean overtake him.

He stepped out to join the fight just as he spotted Sailor Pluto across the way shoot off his own attack. "LEVIATHAN'S WRATH!" he snapped, the water serpent coming easily at his call. He shifted and directed his attack with more precision than he normally managed, striking the monster in the back at about the same moment that Pluto's attack struck the front.

Good team work, if unintentional.

[Tyler Jones]

Sailor Uranus had jumped into the fray and let loose his attack to the beast. It has fazed it sure, but not stopped it. It's blood red eyes met his. Maybe running in half assed wasn't a great idea as it let loose a blast of darkness at him sending him flying backwards, the wind rushing to meet him, catching him as he landed on his feet.

Suddenly he had back up, he saw familiar powers hit the beast from both sides. Neptune and Pluto his memories of them were hazy, he knew that before the war they were a team, they patrolled the outer limits of the Solar System to protect it. The war had divided them with their planet's loyalties. Still this felt familiar like they could function as a unit, instinctively know where each other were. The Outer Senshi didn't have a leader as such, they didn't need one. Uranus was the first on the scene though, he would take the reigns this time.

"Neptune, Pluto it's tough. We need to synchronise."

He leapt with the winds aid to land between them. A combined attack of the Outer Senshi should be more than even this beast could handle. It was from Metallia he was sure of it. It needed to be taken down quickly.

"On my mark." he raised his arm celnching his fist when the time for them to strike together was. "Uranus Air slash!"

[Leon Mason]

Leon launched his fizzling ball of anti-time at the youma, landing with a soft thump and spinning to see his attack and a watery serpent attack hit. He smiled, recognising the signature attack of Neptune – of Koni. The youma was still standing, and Leon had to give it points for surviving three attacks, but turned to Uranus and nodded to the man, agreeing with his plan.

The water senshi was behind the youma while he was off to the side; Uranus at the front, for now. The wind senshi lept up and landed in between him and Neptune, enabling them to fire their attacks in a walled barrage. He nodded to Koni, his only sign in greeting he could before Uranus raised his arm and signalled for their combined attack.

“Timestream Resonation!”


Uranus launched his air blades as he launched his own terrible violet energy of death.

[Jean Baptiste Chastain]

What truly frightened Jean Baptiste is that death was whispering.. and then absolutely silent. He paused in his trek downtown, considering, and finally felt the spike of... something... from near enough at hand for him to respond. He moved into a sprint, as fast on his feet as he was light. As he moved, he summoned the still, cold hand of death. As always, he murmured an invocation, something he'd heard once as a child. It was one of the few things he knew in Coptic Egyptian.

"No wealth, no ruin, no silver, no gold, nothing satisfies me but your soul. I am death, none can excel. I'll open the door to heaven or hell." He closed his eyes as the still cold shroud wrapped around him, leaving him as a senshi instead of a man. He felt the spike of powers, the snarl of death, as he stepped into the battlefield.

He studied the three before they spotted him. Water. Time. Air. An uneven balance, and even he knew that. He held his head up, raising a hand, summoning the glaive that was his birthright. It appeared in a flash of silver and violet, like a beacon. He heard the order to attack in unison and smiled to himself. He could do this alone... but he didn't want to.

He wanted to be part of this team.

He always thought he fought the war alone... but he didn't have to. He didn't want to. The part of him that was Anubis protested, but Jean Baptiste shushed him. He was the senshi now, and would do this his way.

"SILENT REVOLUTION!" he snapped, summoning the energy that was his birthright and sending it spiraling towards the beast.

[Koni Kane]

Koni was last, which annoyed him, but it took him a second to resummon the water. The tidal wave rose around him as he twisted the water upward, around him, raging into power. "LEVIATHAN'S WRATH!" he snapped once more, allowing the tsunami to rage. The water brushed around him, almost protectively, as the great wave struck downward with a microcosm of city destroying power.

Unsurprisingly, the beast scattered into nothingness, and Koni smirked, running a hand over his close cropped hair.

He glanced at Leon before turning his gaze to the other two, the two he'd never met before. A young blondish guy who commanded air, and the other... an ethnic guy who for some reason Koni couldn't place (Arab maybe?) who commanded... what precisely? He couldn't tell.

But he knew who they were. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Saturn.

"We're getting the band back together," he smirked as he spoke.

[Tyler Jones]

Wind, water, time and death struck as one. If there was a chance of the youma surviving the combined strength of Pluto, Neptune and Uranus it was completely nullified by the appearance of Sailor Saturn. The final piece that completed the unit. The Outer Senshi were all together for the first time since before the war. Tyler wasn't entirely sure how he should feel.

They had bound together to fight off this beast, it had been to the part of him that was Kairon at least like old times. Was that just an alliance formed of necessity in the heat of the moment? Or did this speak of a reforming of the team. Sailor Neptune's comment seemed to imply the latter. Would he feel the same if he knew the beast was sent by Metallia though? Neptune had taken the side of Earth and Sun in the war. Uranus had remained loyal to the Moon. Saturn and Pluto were neutral, so where did that leave them? The war was long since over but it's ghosts remained. Would it return to drive them apart yet again?

"Sailor Neptune, Sailor Pluto, Sailor Saturn. Thanks for the assist, that youma was a resilient one."

Tyler looked around, the area was empty. Anyone that had been nearby had long since fled. They were on their own it seemed.

"The Outer Senshi together again, I suppose we have a lot to talk about."

[Leon Mason]

The youma disintegrated, naturally, as their three combined attacks struck it with another new combined fourth. A dark blue attack that he immediately knew from turning and seeing the newcomer in his garb. Sailor Saturn. Leon smiled, having his memories of Saturn in their past life, of the times they would spend together to quell the loneliness that both of them felt from their duties. What were the odds that all four of the outer senshi would be in one time and place like this…

Leon looked towards Neptune, his smile still on his face and nodded, his staff upright in his left hand; his symbol of his station just like the newcomers glaive. It was Uranus here that he was unsure of; Koni he had already met and formed a tenuous alliance with, and Saturn and he should get along again like last time. Uranus he didn’t know about, and had never really known about save for rumours.

The time senshi nodded to Uranus’ thanks, a non-verbal ‘you’re welcome’. “I guess we do.” He said, agreeing that the four of them probably had matters to discuss. He looked from Koni, friend, to Saturn, old friend, to Uranus, unsure. “But not here” He said, looking around at the area that was too open, could easily have watchers or humans stumble in. “Somewhere more appropriate perhaps?”

Koni was looking for his Princess, like he himself was, but what did the other three know of Metallia, and the war that had happened – did they know that it was all of Metallia’s manipulation? And what sides did they stand on when the war struck – Thanatos had been murdered by that point and wasn’t there to see; alliances could be difficult if any of his fellow outers had stood against each other in the past life.