WELCOME TO S&S

[Leon Mason]

The time senshi groggily opened his eyes, feeling the weirdness of his body being upright instead of in his bed. His internal connection to time told him that he had been asleep for way longer than normal - being the senshi of time he always knew what time it was, like it was written on the back of his eyeballs.

Said eyeballs opened, and then he knew why he felt so weird - he wasn't in Kansas anymore Todo. With a sense of resigned foreboding he spun his eyeballs, taking in what he could see through the translucent...whatever it was he was in - from looking across he saw one other person encased in the same stuff, and it looked like crystal...oh joy... Leon couldn't make out where he was through the dim lighting, all he could see was the other person encased in crystal - it he really pushed his eyes to the side he could make out what could possibly be a third person, but it hurt too much to keep trying to figure that one out.

Why wasn't he dead - he couldn't breath in that thing?

No longer after that thought the crystal retracted, peeling back like some sort of...retractable thing...and Leon was surprised that it didn't hurt, but then he was free again and in control of his body and was spinning around to see what was out of his previous sight - he had been taken here, while he was asleep! Of all the sneak, cowardly things to do 'they' take him while he was asleep! He heard noises from the other...two...previously encased crystal-people and looked over towards them, not recognising in them but knowing, hoping anyway, that they were like him - senshi - because getting out of here on his own....could work....maybe....

[David Loyals]

David was in a dazed state of consciousness. The world around him seemed dark. Flashes of what was in the past took form in his head like vines suddenly sprouting from the ground. Faded images of events, they were familiar to him from countless dreams in his past but it never made sense to him. Ball Room music and a crystal room filled with masked dancers. A garden only illuminated by a faint moon light. A fallen white mask. Screams and a sullen and malicious laugh soon echo into the void of space.

David awakens from his slumber. His hands pressed against clear crystal that incased him he could only hear muffled sounds from his chamber. He tried screaming “Let me out!” but sure enough the sound was encased in the tomb along with him. David felt a surge of power run through him as a faint spark of yellow static engulfed him and as if obeying his mental thoughts the crystal shattered and from a distance safe enough to land he fell to his knees and hands. The fall bruised his knees a bit but he pushed through the pain for now.

More images flashed before him. A red rose, a white rose, a black rose, the trinity of rose circled his thoughts as he had more flashes of the past. Suddenly, he realized that the images were shifting. A moonlit city skyline, then a chase through snow, shattered glass, red roses and the flapping of a cape behind him as the sound of feet tapping in the wet concrete ground. Just who was he? David fell to the ground now on all fours and buried his head under his arms as if he were to shield his mind by an unseen force. “Agh…. My… head….” He groaned.

[nicolette moreau]

Nicolette was hardly someone who couldn't find a position to be comfortable in. She'd gone a few weeks in France sleeping in her cousin's room on the floor for a week and slept like a baby. She couldn't believe that her body was curled up like this, in fact her body was starting to ache, and she slowly felt herself rise into consciousness. The more she began to arise, she more her body began to cramp and ache. She wasn't a cat, and her body wasn't made to curl up like that.

Nikki finally opened her eyes and stared at the foreign surroundings. She was staring out at of a... crystal? Perhaps she was still dreaming... She pinched herself just to be sure. Nope, she was awake. She groaned a bit and sat up, some of her muscles groaning at the change and then in relief. She was no longer quite as.. awkward. Still, she'd preferred to be in her comfortable bed and her favorite soft pink blanket over her, and off one leg only.

She sat up on her knees and laid her head on the.. cold crystal like cage she seemed to be. Oddly enough, she could steal breath. Did that mean there was holes in the crystal? Hmm, she was thinking logically! Looking around, she noticed that there were two others in crystals. Wait... one more. She looked in astonishment as one broke out and pouted a bit. She wanted out... but then she couldn't even bring herself to stand at the moment. "Hello?" She said, trying to speak loud enough for the guy to hear her. Well... could he hear her? If there were air pockets certainly sound could get out of here... Or was it more magic that might keep sound inside?

[Leon Mason]

As his own crystal prison receded Leon caught sight of one of the others shattering outwards with yellow sparks, and now that he could breath again he did, strangely finding himself nowhere near out of breath. Now that he could move he observed the other two in the room with him – the spark man who was on the ground holding his head, the other still behind a crystal wall of her own…now the dilemma – to transform and bust her out and in the process reveal himself? Whoever these other two people where they were most likely star seed carriers based on what he had seen the man do so far. With a sigh he made his choice.

“Stand back” he mouthed very obviously to the woman still inside her prison, using his hands to gesture for her to move back from the crystal wall encasing her. Then, after she did, he called out his planet – “Pluto power!” – and let the purple plutonian energy engulf him, smiling when he felt that familiar weight of his staff.

A full attack on the crystal prison could be too much and could hurt the girl inside, so he only charged some of his usual attack energy at the tip of his staff and then swiped it at the cage in a melee attack, the crystal cracking significantly but still standing. So he reared back and gave the prison a hefty boot on those cracks, watching in satisfaction as the wall shattered and came raining down, the hold now big enough for blondie inside to climb out.

[David Loyals]

David laid on the ground, in his fetal position. His head was surging with images now of both past and present. He was having so much coming towards him it had become only roaring chaos. Out of the depths of mindless and senseless noise only a single scene stood out.

Suddenly he was back in high school. His eyes remained focused on the board as there was a diagram of the earth, the sun the moon and other planets. Instead the Earth remained transfixed and stood at the center as everything else revolved around it. “In old days, it was philosophized that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the Moon, Sun and the rest of the planets revolved around it.” The voice of the 50 year old English Teacher instructed as he wrote down more information on the chalk board.

“The poet Dante, debates that there are nine celestial spheres of Heaven. These are concentric and spherical, as in Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology. While the structures of the Inferno and Purgatorio were based on different classifications of sin, the structure of the Paradiso is based on the four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues.”

“The first seven spheres of Heaven deal solely with the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Fortitude, Justice and Temperance. The first three describe a deficiency of one of the cardinal virtues — the Moon, containing the inconstant whose vows to God waned as the moon thus lack fortitude; Mercury, containing the ambitious who were virtuous for glory and thus lacked justice; and Venus, containing the lovers, whose love was directed toward another than God and thus lacked Temperance. The final four incidentally are positive examples of the cardinal virtues, all led on by the Sun, containing the prudent, whose wisdom lighted the way for the other virtues, to which the others are bound.” He paused as if the Sun, the Moon and the Earth were a triuvium in its philosophical meaning.

“Mars contains the men of fortitude who died in the cause of Christianity; Jupiter contains the kings of Justice; and Saturn contains the temperant, the monks who abided to the contemplative lifestyle. The seven subdivided into three are raised further by two more categories: the eighth sphere of the fixed stars that contain those who achieved the theological virtues of faith, hope and love, and represent the Church Triumphant — the total perfection of man, cleansed of all the sins and carrying all the virtues of heaven; and the ninth circle, or Primum Mobile contains the angels, creatures never poisoned by original sin.”

David awoke, and opened his eyes. Still immobile he simply rolled to his side and looked up. Above was compelte darkness, with no star correlation or moon light to enlighten his sight. “Without the Moon or the Sun, to light the dark of space. Earth would be lost in the dark.” The sentence escape David as he laid immobile.

[nicolette moreau]

Nikki had no idea what the man was saying... she thought she heard a voice but it had been faint and she really wasn't a good listening to begin with. She stared at him blankly until he looked like he was going to try and take down the barrier like he had his own... and she got as far from the crystal wall as she could. She curled herself in a ball and protected her face with her arms and knees. even in this position, she felt some of the broken crystal graze her flesh and flinched. It was only shallow scraps... but she didn't like pain! Despite it's unimportance, she whimpered a bit and trembled a bit. Now what could they do? They were in this dark... hell. Darkness and enclosed spaces... not good for a clausterphobic girl.

She uncurled herself and looked over at the man who had freed her. "Hello...thank you..." She said softly, wondering if someone with such power would actually hurt someone like her. She read manga and watched movies! Get on her good side then BOOM, she'd be the victim... again. Really being accident prone was hard enough. Ticklish made her friends so very entertained. She was very doomed. She just hadn't thought it was life threatening doomed... not like this.

she slowly crawled out of her cage and looked at the man who freed her and then the other one who was lying curled up... but he looked slightly familiar. Poor guy... She moved over to him and, despite her complete lack of knowledge of the body and how to check for damages, she began to try and check for a pulse or any injuries like a broken arm or pulled joint. "Hey, Mister. Are you okay?"

[Leon Mason]

Leon heard a soft thump of flesh hitting the ground but had paid it no heed as freeing the other trapped prisoner seemed more prudent. The crystal cage shattered, some, and Leon couldn’t help but be a little impatient as he gestured for the girl inside, who seemed rather apprehensive at him if he read her right…he had just broke her out for Gods’ sakes, and he didn’t trust that it wouldn’t regenerate or something and re-imprison her. The time senshi smiled at the girl and nodded to her ‘thank you’, not feeling that he needed to do more as, again, he gestured, this time more smoothly, for her to come out of the cage / structure.

She crawled out and he offered her his hand but she managed to right herself – good sign, that she hadn’t lost any energy or have any injuries. Then he turned to the other man, the one lying on the floor mumbling something – he heard Moon, Sun, and Dark; he had been a little preoccupied getting the blond woman out of her cage.

Leon moved over with the blond and stood by as she tried reaching him verbally, taking some minimal comfort in the presence of his staff in his left hand. That was actually good…he looked around, at where exactly they were, but he couldn’t see beyond the area they were – the dim lighting prohibited him from seeing further than their area – was that darkness around them more space that they couldn’t see or walls that were keeping them in?

[Sybil Covington]

In the silence and shadow, a strange repetitive noise started. To the three whose nerves must be wired a bit too tightly, no doubt it took a moment to recognize the noise as clapping. The shadows shifted, peeled back, revealed a woman dressed in business attire. Severely professional, intimidating, but hard supernatural... in this form.

She approached a few steps, but stayed well out of arm's reach, studying all three.

"I must admit, I didn't expect that we would had snagged an active senshi. Not in the plans. But you'll find, Sailor Pluto, that your abilities are somewhat... muted in this place. This is a dimension outside of time... a precaution, knowing your somewhat extensive abilities." her vision shifted, taking in the weak blonde and the dark haired young man.

She couldn't be luckier. Her face spread into a hard smile, and she raised a hand to the young man, for now completely ignoring the girl... Serenity and Endymion in her possession, and neither of them aware of their true purpose. She had time... she had not been able to find Beryl in this time, not yet. But Endymion would suit her that much better.

Solaria would appreciate this.

Metallia smiled at Endymion. "Ah, and a prince, to boot." she bent at the waist slightly, but hardly enough to show deference. "I suppose that you're a king now, but your kingdom would hardly welcome you. Earth has become a cold, solitary place while we slept."

[David Loyals]

“King? What are you talking about?” David said narrowing his eyes at the woman. He didn’t know the slightest bit of what was going on, what was this woman talking about. “GAH! MY HEAD!” He said, he squeezed the sides of his head with his palms as if it would contain some large force from exploding his head. Kneeling down he screamed a high pitched wail of terror as a white spark of lightning flickered around his body again.

A bright intense amount of light engulfed the male, illuminating the darkness around him and temporarily blinding those whose eyes focused in on him. From the place where David stood a new figure took his place. His black shirt and jeans that he wore transfigured itself into a new costume that included a silky black tuxedo, a top hat with a wooden can and a white mask who know revealed the bright brown twinkling eyes behind the white mask.

“A rose by any other name is just as sweet. I am David Loyals, I am Tuxedo Mask, and Prince of Earth, ENDYMION!” Tuxedo Mask declared sheathing his cane and pointing it directly at the ghostly figure. His unconscious heroic nature unearthed itself from it’s dormant slumber.

“I demand explanation WITCH! What have you done? Where is the princess of the moon? Where is your daughter and where is MY Daughter? IF you so much as hurt any of them I swear I’ll make you PAY!”

[nicolette moreau]

Nicolette thought she might have felt something out of whack, but that was completely bull shit and nothing was truly wrong. Still, in Nikki's mind she was worried. He was going to hurt himself even more... Her mind was chasing down ideas of what she would have to do and what the little bump she imagined might really be. Her thoughts were pleasant. It was things like the bone was broke... he had dislocated it and if it wasn't set properly quickly he's become disfigured forever and no one would ever love him because they'd be too afraid to walk up and get to know him. That bump could have been something that didn't belong in the body at all...

Nikki stiffed when she heard a voice behind her.She instantly tried to make herself smaller and hide away from the world... but she doubted that this trick would work. The woman said some very odd things though, stuff about royalty. Was either of these guys royalty? They were both cute so she just needed to figure out which one it was... Of course then there was something about a sailor which she didn't understand. Why wouldn't a sailor be active? She dismissed had dismissed that as soon as she heard the prince bit though.

Nikki literally fell backwards when suddenly her...patient was up and shouting. He shouldn't do that... He was injured and doing stuff like that could make him more injured... that though went through her head and he was clutching his head. Somehow, this frightened Nikki so badly that she sat frozen on the bed. Every atom in her body wanted to go comfort him but... something looked off in his pain. It scared her... His scream... It made her nails dig into her thighs and her eyes clenched shut. She was glad she did because she could see the light bright LED lights right in front of her face in the middle of the night.

Her eyes went wide as the man before her started to speak. She gasped. He looked... different.The tuxedo looked good on him.... No back to what he was saying... he was someone named Tuxedo Mask... but the Prince of Earth made her wonder if he had hit his head... then again he had transformed just before her eyes. This was all so confusing. He also had a daughter... and was looking for someone who was the princess of the moon. Was this princess of the moon his wife and the daughter their child? Or was his child the princess of the moon and he had just been repeating himself three times?

Nikki thought for a moment and really didn't think she belong with all these special people. She was Nicolette Moreau... no one special like a royalty from a planet. She raised her hand and looked at everyone in the room. This was going to be an important announcement and she had to use her serious face and make her tone sound important. "Hello, I'm sure I'm here by some mistake. It's understandable but I would really appreciate living through this entire... thing and wonder how long it's going to take." She dropped her hand and suddenly thought that speaking out had been a very bad idea. She had sounded like an idiot anyway...

[Leon Mason]

Clapping…the chill in his gut was all he needed to have an idea of who was behind them, but he turned anyway and looked right into the face of the woman who had been the cause of his death the first time. Metallia. He would recognise her anywhere, her darkness permeated everything around her, almost palpable. The business suit just completed the persona of power and dominance she wanted.

Metallia moved toward them, secure that they wouldn’t attack, knowing that it would be futile; Leon now knowing it too after he stopped to feel that, yes, he was outside of time. His abilities were diminished in here. Diminished, but nowhere near gone!

Queen bitch of Evil looked past him and to the man on the floor and the blond woman by him, and Leon stepped into her line of sight to block them from her view, a futile gesture, but one he did nonetheless just to oppose her.

Prince…? Leon so wanted to look over his shoulder at the man Metallia was calling a Prince…wondering which planet he could be from for the second before Metallia mentioned Earth. Then it all clicked into place – Endymion.

The time senshi did turn when the man behind him cried out and fell to the ground, standing sideways to watch both him and Metallia – he would not be stabbed in the back! This bitch has fucked him over one time too many already! Energy engulfed the man and Leon smiled, finally something in their favour, and Endymion, Prince of Earth stepped out of the light. Endymion, Metallia’s son in law, love of her daughter once upon a time…this changed things…perhaps.

Endymion called out Metallia and Leon turned against the witch too, standing beside Endymion in this fight. The blond girl on the floor – probably another star seed carrier even if she didn’t know it – spoke out, sounding as fragile as she looked and Leon stepped to block her from Metallia’s view; Endymion had some power now he could defend himself: blondie couldn’t.