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Okay, the next chapter..
Let's just hope SOMEONE's reading this.
I haven't gotten any C&C for a while, but everyone might just be
too busy reading the backlog or something after the list crashed a few
days ago..

Anyway, here goes. The fourth chapter in the series.. I don't know
how far I really need to continue this. That's what C&C is for, I guess.

So, alright, if anyone's reading..

It's...

Chapter 4!

&&&[Begin Chapter 4.]

	This particular day, Ms. Haruna's class was a great deal
more rowdy that usual.

	"Quiet! Be quiet, please!" Ms. Haruna said, beginning to get
angry. The class continued talking, throwing paper airplanes, 
swinging from the shandeliers, well, everything imaginable except
for that last part. The only ones who weren't making a loud mess
of the place were Molly, Melvin, Amy, Serena, and Terra.

	Ms. Haruna left the classroom.

	Less than a minute later, a young girl walked into the 
class.

	"Stop acting like delinquents!!" She snapped.

	Nobody took notice.

	She held up a coin.

	"Five yen happo satsu!" She said.

	Energy drained from the ones who qualified as 'delinquents,'
and the girl grew to be Ms. Haruna. The drained ones slumped to
their desks.

	"Let's continue, then." Ms. Haruna said.

	Everyone that could made a sign of acknowledgement.

	"Now, we are going on a field trip, and YOU WILL BEHAVE!"

	The drained students slowly regained mobility and nodded
vigorously.

	A chuckle could be heard from the hallway.

---

	<Didja see the looks on their faces?!> Atomic Starlight
Knight thought, laughing at the situation. It had been a 
relatively simple task to adapt one of the previous youma's time 
modification abilities and draining powers to this task. Once 
Ms. Haruna had heard about this opportunity for a practical joke,
she had been all too happy to agree to try it if the class got
too rowdy. It finally did.

	<And all was right with the world!> One part of A.S.K.'s
mind thought.

	The past few attacks had been easy to repel, almost too
easy... But A.S.K.'s mind quickly swallowed that thought. They
had fought off perhaps a dozen attacks since A.S.K. had
upgraded Sailor Moon. During the attacks, if the Sailor Scouts..
or was that Senshi? Anyway, if any of them ran into trouble,
he or Tuxedo Mask, or both would show up and blast some serious
youma dust. Tuxedo Mask would concentrate on giving moral advice
to Sailor Earth, while A.S.K. would cause extreme property damage
while attempting to train Sailor Moon, in hopes of improving her
balance. Why was she so clumsy as Sailor Moon, anyway? With 
her upgraded powers, when she fell, she got imbedded into the floor. 
You don't know how difficult it is to fight evil with your face 
stuck in the pavement.

	That thought was also crushed as the immediacy of his
situation. He felt evil a' brewin'. And that meant more
explosions. Atomic Starlight Knight smiled.

	<Ya hear that? We get to blow something up!>

	<Alrighty, then! Let's go do it now.>

	<Later, when the evil appears.>

	<But I want to do it no->

	"Shut up, shut up! Everyone just SHUT UP!" A.S.K. yelled,
pounding on his head.

***

	"What do you have to report, Jedite?" Beryl asked. Jadeite
smirked.

	"Well, for you, I have to report that my project is going
EXTREMELY well," Jadeite said, smiling evilly.

	"What do you mean, Jedite? All of your battles with the
Sailor Scouts have ended in your defeat!" Beryl snapped angrily.

	"Exactly." Jadeite said calmly. Beryl rolled her eyes.

	"Alright, then, what do you have planned for your next
attempt?" Beryl said. Jadeite laughed.

	"Humans have a strange obsession with charms for good luck.
I plan to use this obsession, and, of course, drain them with it."
Jadeite said, "I also plan to factor in busses somehow." Beryl
sighed.

	"Proceed, Jedite." Beryl said.

	"And one more thing." Jadeite said.

	"What?"

	"It's JADE-ite!" Jadeite said forcefully, laughing as he
disappeared, just barely avoiding Beryl's blast.

	"What's wrong with him?" Zoicite asked, appearing with an
annoying laugh and a swirl of flower petals.

	"He's enjoying his work a *little* too much," Beryl said.

***

	On a field trip to the very temple a certain Raye Hino just
happened to work at, a group consisting of Amy, Serena, and Terra
were having a look around.

	The afore mentioned Raye Hino, upon seeing the group, went
wide-eyed with surprise.

	"What kind of person would be hauling around THAT much
power?!" Ray asked herself. Either a super-ultra-super-hero(ine)
type, or a mega-demon come to make life a living nightmare.

	"BEGONE, EVIL SPIRITS!!" Raye yelled, pouncing upon Terra
and Serena, slapping wards on their foreheads. Serena went down,
Terra just stood there, smiling.

	"What's this about?" Amy asked.

	"Nothing. Just banishing DEMONS, that's all." Raye said.

	Serena got up, wobbling. Raye looked shocked.

	"Ulllmm," Raye began, "Oh, sorry, I thought you were evil
spirits."

	"Alright, what made you think that!?" Serena asked.

	"Just the fact that your auras are powerful enough to 
mistake for small stars!" Raye said, "But besides that, there's
been some evil lurking for the past while, and it doesn't look 
good for anybody."

	"Sounds like fun. Maybe we could have a look around. We
fight evil part time," Terra said helpfully, Amy and Serena
giving her 'be quiet!' motions. Raye looked a little interested.

	"Exactly how do you fight evil?" Raye asked.

	"Oh, we go and mfmfdufnyodyursf," Terra said as Serena
clamped her hand on Terra's mouth.

	"Oh, nothing, nothing at all, Terra was just joking,
WEREN'T YOU?" Serena said, glaring at Terra.

	"yphe!" Terra said, her mouth still covered by Serena's
hand. Raye sighed.

	"Just go ahead with the tour, then." Raye said. Jadeite
walked by.

	"Hello!" Jadeite said cheerfully.

	"Who's that?" Amy asked, not quite being able to see his
face.

	"My name is Jay Dite." Jadeite said directly to Serena, 
"Allow me to repeat that. I am JAY-DITE." Jadeite walked off, 
laughing maniacally.

	"Yeah, yeah, we know." Raye said, rolling her eyes.

	"Wait! Wasn't that-" Serena began.

	"Oh, that's just Jed. Don't mind him. We hired him to help
with today's work." Raye said.

---

	"The simpletons don't suspect a thing!" Jadeite said
to himself quietly, watching the students merrily buying the
'good luck charms.'

	"I'd like one of those good luck charms," A student asked.

	"Of course," Jadeite said warmly, "here you go."

	"Thank you!" The student said, walking off, boarding her
bus.

	"Goodbye!" Jadeite said as he waved.

	The bus drove off, directly into one of Jadeite's traps,
being sucked into some other dimension to be drained.

	Soon he would have the energy necessary to fight off that
annoying green-armor-wearing sword-wielding explosive-chucking
prank-maker! Ah, yes, revenge is a dish best served with pinto
beans and TNT!

	Jadeite stopped. Why did he hate that guy so much? He was
just someone that popped up soon after that one 'destroyer of
worlds' creature attacked and the second princess appeared.
Summoning the memories, he attempted to reinforce his seemingly
irrational anger.

###

	Jadeite was going to be Earth's emissary for a combined
meeting of officials from every planet in the solar system.
In transit, he met an unusual man.

	"Prince Endymion?" Jadeite asked, looking at the man in
green armor. The man looked up at him.

	"Who? Me? No. I'm not good ol' Prince Darien. I'm someone
a great deal different." The man said.

	"May I ask who you are, then?" Jadeite asked. The man
thought about it before responding.

	"My friends might call me The Atomic Starlight Knight,"
The man said, then thought it over again, "But there are others
who might call me... Tim."

	"Greetings, Tim." Jadeite said. Tim shook Jadeite's hand.

	"But, please, call me Admiral." Tim said.

	"Why? Did you just become the commander of the remnants of
the fleet?" Jadeite asked.

	"No.. however, that IS the plan." Tim replied.

	"How about I just call you 'Tim?'" Jadeite asked.

	"Oh, that'll be fine," Tim said. A few minutes went by, 
then Jadeite decided to strike up a conversation to help pass
the time.

	"So, what are you headed to the Moon for?" Jadeite asked.

	"Actually, I just came from the Moon. I came to Earth to
brush up on my primitive civilizations etiquette." Tim said.
Jadeite raised an eyebrow.

	"Primitive civilizations?" Jadeite asked. Tim shrugged.

	"I would have gone to Nemesis, but, well, Earth was closer."

	"So you consider Earth and Nemesis to be primitive
civilizations compared to the Moon?" Jadeite asked.

	"Well.. a little. Not by much, really. I'm not from the Moon
either, so.." Tim said.

	"Where are you from?" Jadeite asked, interested in where
someone with this attitude might be from.

	"A civilization composed of beings so powerful it 
annihilated itself the second the first being gained sentience." 
Tim said, slowly shaking his head.

	"Mars, huh? No sentient beings there! Heh." Jadeite said 
jokingly. Even though Jadeite had been chosen as an emissary,
he still had a bit to learn about diplomacy. Tim thought
about it.

	"Well, a little farther out, actually." Tim said. Jadeite
decided to let the topic go, since his joke died a terrible,
terrible death. They had a discussion on what they were going to 
be doing on the Moon. Tim found out that Jadeite was attending a
meeting of some sort, while Tim was going to be conducting
"ballistics demonstrations."

	A while later, they arrived on the Lunar surface. They said
their goodbyes and went their ways. Before they did, however,
Tim gave Jadeite a pat on the back.

	"Have fun!" Tim said. Jadeite left. After he did, Tim 
finally lost control and had to pound on his head and tell
the voices to stop, then he began to laugh.

	On his way to the meeting, Jadeite kept wondering
why so many people kept trying to kick him.

###

	Jadeite remembered now. The embarrassment of having a
childish sign attached to his back throughout the entire
meeting, during which everyone was staring and laughing at
him.

	The worst part was that he couldn't reach behind his
back! He had to get someone else to take it off. Asking
Queen Serenity to "please get this thing off my back!" had
been too much to handle. Jadeite gritted his teeth in anger.

	"RANMA SAOTOME, PREPARE TO DIE!!" Jadeite called out
with heavy malice.

	A pigtailed boy looked around in a paranoid fashon.

	"Wait.. why did I say that?" Jadeite asked himself.

	"Sorry! I meant Tim!" Jadeite quickly amended.

~Meanwhile~

	"I, THE MATHEMAGICIAN, WILL TAKE CONTROL OF ALL THE SCHOOLS
AND FORCE THE CHILDREN TO DO NOTHING BUT HOMEWORK!!" The youma in
purple robes yelled.

	*KABLAAAM*

	"Yeah, quiet." Atomic Starlight Knight said. The children
cheered.

	It was times like these that made life worth living. Or, in
A.S.K.'s case, existing. He existed for combustion. It was a
wonderful thing. Fission and fusion were fine, too.

	This reminded him of how this particular persona came into 
being.

###

	The former "big scary monster" found her relatively new
existence as an adopted princess.. different. She spent a goodly
portion of her time learning how to act. She knew, from the info
download, basically everything she needed to know, but experience
was something that needed to happen. Being talked down to, for
example, was a completely new thing.

	"Now, Terra, you really need to learn some responsibility.
You can, at the very least, clean your room," Queen Serenity
told Princess Terra.

	"But mother.." Terra whined.

	"You must." Queen Serenity said firmly.

	"Yeah, but I could still destroy your planet if I really
tried." Terra mumbled under her breath as she went to her room.

	"What was that?" Queen Serenity asked, concerned.

	"Nothing, mother!" Terra said sweetly.

	It was extremely strange to not have people running and
screaming at her appearance. But, that was the price of being
too cute to be terrifying, she supposed.

	As a matter of fact, that was where she had chosen her name
from. Terra, short for Terrifying. Most thought that she chose 
the name since it was another word for the utterly insignificant
little blue-green planet that was almost always somewhere in the
sky.

	As the time passed, she began to really miss the destruction 
and cataclysm part of her life. In order to avoid destruction 
herself, she felt that she had to act like a "perfect little 
angel." And as such, she couldn't go around randomly blasting 
things as much as she'd like to. Very young princesses don't
get out very much either, so leaving to privately blow things up
was not an option. And, face it, there are only so many times
you can manifest "limited bursts of amazing power" without people 
getting suspicious that something's up.

	That was when she saw a case of what she deemed 'The Knight
in Shining Armor syndrome.' Sufferers of KISA tended to have a
portion of their personality separate and concentrate on whatever
part of their personality was not being used and was strong enough 
to surface. Classic cases involved someone with a wiped memory who 
had previously been involved with an EXTREME case of 'True Love' 
having their need for protection of the loved one surface and 
become its own person for a period of time, normally until their
memory surfaces and the extra protection is no longer needed.

	Having retained her energy duplicating abilities, she 
attempted to modify a case of KISA to suit her needs.

	She was working on this while cleaning her room when an 
assasin just decided to step in and attempt to do whatever it is
an assasin does best.

	Why would an assasin be after her? Simple. After the assault
and her appearance, rumors spread about her. Some said that she
was really a hideous monster. Others said that she had come to
destroy them all. Still others said that she had tricked them all
into putting her where she was. Many such rumors spread throughout
the solar system, all of which were true, of course, but that was 
no reason to make a fuss about it.

	"Soon, you little menace, will feel the taste of cold 
steel!" The assiasin said mechanically.

	Acting her part, she backed off and screamed when the
assasin drew its blade. She tried the door, but it was sealed
and wouldn't be open before the assasin could do its work.

	A gray flash occured and a grenade imbedded itself in the 
floor in front of the assasin. Princess Terra dove for cover as
the grenade exploded, blowing the assasin to pieces. Metal
clattered to the ground.

	"A robot?!" She asked rhetorically.

	The one who threw the explosive stepped into the light.

	"I am the Atomic Starlight Knight!" He said.

	"IT'S ALIVE!!" She said triumphantly at having successfully
created her 'Knight in Shining Armor.'

###

	<And I STILL managed to get my room cleaned! That was fun.>
Atomic Starlight Knight thought.

	<Yeah? Not as fun as that time I made it rain instant
nyannichuan!>

	<How'd I do that, anyway?>

	<I "borrowed" the Silver Crystal for a few seconds, I
analyzed the sample, then I added a convenient rain cloud.
BAM! Instant chaos.>

	<Heh heh. They STILL don't know that it was me!>

	A.S.K. got a merry chuckle out of all this, as he tried to
figure out why he was still feeling ambient evil if he blew up
the monster-of-the-week.

	<Have you considered that this wasn't the monster of the 
week?>

	<Yeah, maybe this was only a diversion.>

	<But that would mean.. JADEITE'S FINALLY LEARNED TACTICS!!>

	<No, it's not true! That's impossible!>

	<Search your feelings, fluke, you know it to be true!>

	<NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!>

	"This is a bad thing." A.S.K. concluded.

---

	"Sacred fire.. Show me the cause of all this." Raye said,
meditating before the fire.

	The fire sputtered and showed a shadow. It intensified to
show the face of Jadeite. Raye gasped.

	"Jed!" Raye said.

	"Jadeite, actually," Jadeite said, walking in, "I am,
quite frankly, surprised that it took you so long to figure
it out."

	"Why?" Raye asked, standing, moving into a defensive
position.

	"Simple, really. I need energy. This is a good a plan as
any." Jadeite said.

	"So what are you going to do now?" Raye asked. Jadeite
smiled, as if expecting that question.

	"Why, since you now know that I'm the cause of it, I
now have to destroy you." Jadeite said, raising his hand to
throw an energy blast.

	"NUCLEAR BOOT TO THE HEAD!!" A voice rang out.

	A man in green armor came out of nowhere and smashed his
foot into the face of Jadeite, who staggered back. The man
rebounded, did a flip and landed in front of Jadeite.

	"Oh, I see, attacking innocent bystanders instead of just
draining them, eh? Thought you could send me on a wild youma
chase, didja? Well, it's not gonna work! On behalf of the 
Moon, I'll punish you!" Atomic Starlight Knight said.

	"Hey, that's my line!" Sailor Moon said as she ran in,
followed by Sailor Mercury and Sailor Earth.

	"And on behalf of Mercury," Sailor Mercury said.
	"And Earth," Sailor Earth said.
	"We will punish you!" They finished, posing cutely.

	Jadeite burst into laughter.

	"What?" Sailor Moon asked indignantly.

	"Oh, sorry, it's just that.. when you did that.. it looked
exactly like what Paracite, my cousin, does when he.." Jadeite
managed to squeeze out before he collapsed on the ground,
laughing uncontrollably. All present sweatdropped. Starlight
Knight thought about it and started laughing too. Mercury was able
to guess a possible situation and also joined in. Soon, everyone 
except Sailor Moon was consumed by the hilarity of the idea.

	"Hey! We're supposed to fighting here!" Sailor Moon said,
annoyed about being left out on the joke. They gradually calmed
down.

	"Right. So say goodbye to your (laugh) miserable (laugh)
misbegotten lives!" Jadeite said, still not fully recovered.

	"Okay, (laugh) ATOMIC SUCKER PUNCH!" Starlight Knight, 
driving a fist at Jadeite, but missing entirely when Jadeite
decided to teleport. His forward momentum drove his fist into
a wall. "Hey! You can't do that!"

	"Where'd he go?" Sailor Moon asked. A bus's horn honked.

	"The bus!" They realized all at once, leaving a surprised
Raye behind. Arby fluttered up to her.

	"You're prob'ly wonderin' what just 'appened. Well, it's
like this.." Arby began.

---

	"Don't let him get away!" Starlight Knight said, running
after the bus, finally catching a handhold. The others were
chasing the bus as well. Finally, only Sailor Moon was able to 
get on. Sailor Earth, deciding to be nice, stayed behind with
Sailor Mercury.

	As they went in, they saw that Jadeite, wearing a pilot's
cap, was driving. Scattered throughout the bus were drained
people. The bus finally entered a glowing portal, which ended
in one of Jadeite's pocket dimensions.

	What they saw shocked them. Dozens of busses were there,
full of drained people.

	"That's... Brilliant!" Starlight Knight said.

	"What?" Sailor Moon asked.

	"Don't you see? Jadeite's been stealing busloads of people,
draining them, then just leaving them."

	"What's so brilliant about that?"

	"I would never have expected him to do that!" Starlight
Knight said in wonder.

	Jadeite jumped out the window.

	"Not so fast!" Starlight Knight said, following Jadeite.

	"Wait for me!" Sailor Moon said, also following.

	Outiside, Jadeite was waiting for them.

	"Now prepare to be defeated, annoying ones!" Jadeite said.
Starlight Knight chuckled.

	"Yeah, by you and *what* army, pal?" S.K. asked.

	"This one." Jadeite said calmly. With that, dimensional 
gates appeared and hordes of youma poured out. Sailor Moon's jaw 
dropped. Starlight Knight remained calm.

	"I suggest a change in tactics." S.K. whispered to Sailor 
Moon.

	"What?" Sailor Moon asked.

	"RUN!" S.K. said, tossing a sphere into the youma army.

	Jadeite caught it. S.K. and Sailor Moon ducked behind a
bus.

	"Stay down and cover your ears!" S.K. said to Sailor Moon.
She did so.

	There were a few shouts, some musical notes, and finally an 
explosion, then the noise level went down. S.K. motioned for 
Sailor Moon to come out.

	Jadeite stood there with a surprised expression and his
hair blown back. The army hadn't been destroyed, since there
was no scattered dust on the ground; they had simply left.

	"Amazing what they leave behind after a robot carnival,
isn't it, Jadeite?" S.K. said. Jadeite shook himself out of
his daze.

	"Still up to your cheap tricks, I see!" Jadeite said, "So
I'll just have to trap you here instead of destroying you!"

	"Yeah, yeah, we heard it," S.K. said to Jadeite, then to
Sailor Moon he said, "Do you want to blast him, or should I?"

	"Moon Tiara Magic!" I guess that answers the question.
Before the tiara could reach Jadeite, he disappeared. 

	"He's learned!" S.K. said in bewilderment, "You don't take
hits, you dodge them! The big pansy learned!"

	The busses started to move to a portal that was struggling
to stay open. As one went by, S.K. saw Tuxedo Mask driving one.

	"Good plan.. Get them out of here before the gate crashes."
S.K. said, noting the procedure.

---

	Back in the normal dimension, Sailors Earth, Mercury, and
the newly found Mars were concentrating on keeping the gate open.
Finally, string of busses came out, followed by Starlight Knight
and Sailor Moon. The gate finally collapsed.

	"Whew! That's the last of them." S.K. said, "Catch ya 
around, Sailor Moon."

	Starlight Knight left, bounding over a building.

	Sailor Moon, noting a new Sailor Scout, went over to ask
about it. It turned out that Raye was Sailor Mars.

***

	"JEDITE! WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?!" Queen Beryl asked
angrily. Jadeite still appeared smug.

	"Following my plan, of course." Jadeite said.

	"That's all well and good, but (deep breath) WHY DO ALL
OF YOUR PLANS INVOLVE YOU LOSING?!?!" The throne room shook
as Beryl said this. Jadeite still appeared as if he knew the
situation was going well.

	"You'll see." Jadeite said.

	"I had better, Jedite, or you're going into the eternal
sleep!" Beryl said. Jadeite looked a little shaken at that last
part, but he soon regained his composure.

	"Don't worry. I have everything under control," Jadeite
said.

***

	*WHAM!*

	"HEY! What did you do that for?!" Serena asked, looking 
angrily at the Arbyfish that was brandishing a Heavy Blunt 
Object(tm.).

	"Re-enacting me favorite song. Lil' bunny fu-fu 'oppin'
through the forest.. Ya know, pickin' up the field mice and
boppin' 'em on the 'ead!" Arby said.

	"Arby, go back to bed!" Luna said with a sigh.

	"Oh, I see. One a' those deals, eh? Oh, all right." Arby
said, fluttering back to his mushroom patch under the house.

	"Was he like this back in the Moon Kingdom?" Serena asked.
Luna was able to remember a great deal about Arby.

	"Worse." Luna said.

	"Why did you keep him around?" Serena asked.

	"I made a promise to him that I would stay with him until
he learned to control himself." Luna said.

	"Rough promise, huh?" Serena said.

	"You have no idea. But promises must be kept!" Luna said.

---

	Jadeite stood on top of a tall building, holding an ever
growing ball of energy.

	<Soon, very soon I will finally be able to destroy them!>
He thought, drawing the energy into himself.

&&&[End Chapter 4.]


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