In a message dated 1/20/2002 10:29:41 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
sommer@3rdm.net writes:

And here we go again:

And here I am, glad that'cha did!

 >     The group started holding hands and singing "Kumbaiyah"
 
 Kill them all. Right now. I demand it.

    The six girls smiled, laughed, and giggled together until Princess
Terrifying separated herself from the rest and backed off, raising her
hands and grinning broadly.

    "Terra, what are you doing?" Princess Serenity asked. "Didn't
you like the song?"

    "Loved it," Terra replied, creating a glow between her fingers.
"I wanna share something with you now."

    *BLAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!* In the next instant, Princess Serenity
and the Sailor Chibiscouts' giggling was silenced as they were
vaporized in a wash of white light.

    The galactic destroyer brushed her hands off and smiled to
herself. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, NOW I feel better."

    Queen Serenity poked her head out of a window in the Moon
Palace and asked, "Terra, are you done playing with the other
girls?"

    Terra glanced between her hands, the Queen, and the huge
smoking hole in front of her. "Ummmmmm, yes, Mother! We were
singing a song, but... they had to leave." She glanced around, red
with embarrassment. "I'm gonna go hijack a starship and get the
heck outta here. That okay with you?"

    "Sure, just be back before dinner, okay, honey?"

    "Uhhhhhhhhh, rrrrrrrrrrright!"

^_^ Mission accomplished!

Any other scene requests, while we're at it? Anybody?

I'm going to count to three. One... two... Going once, going twice...

 >     A minute after that, First Advisor Luna arrived and announced
 > that it was time to depart for the short trip to the circus.
 >
 >     The girls were elated. Arm in arm,
 
 Arm-in-arm (I think)

Is it? Okay, I'll put that in.

 >     "Althea," Terra whispered, "tell me more about Venus."
 >
 >     The blonde shrugged. "Well, it's fairly boring, for the most
 > part,
 
 Drug dens all over the place since none of them are illegal. Gambling. And
 orgies, orgies orgies. Can't walk anywhere without tripping over some hot
 naked bodies. Boring as hell, really.

I see you've discovered where Minako gets her winning personality,
haven't you? ^_^

I just thought John Biles' Sailor Moon Z description and analysis was a
little too dry for me to try to use. So was the version in Trenchcoat Mask,
though it was a bit better for the circumstances...

  but there are some places, like the hottest spot and the
 > coolest spot where it's sooo beautiful," her eyes glittered with
 > stars in them as she explained, "where the shriners and the leopards
 > play their ukuleles all day, and where everyone on the street would
 > gladly shave your back for a _nickel_!" She shivered with excitement.
 > "Waka-waka-doo-doo-yeah!"
 
 All right. That's even more twisted than my version. I concede.

Glad you liked it!

Crossing swords with the creator(s) of the ArbyFish in a twistedness
competition? Isn't that the revised Kobayashi Maru scenario? ^_^

It's adapted from Weird Al's Albuqurque song. Now THAT's some
serious weirdness I can't really hope to match...

 >     Althea nodded emphatically. "I love Venus, and Venus loves ME!
 > There's no place like it in the universe!" She paused, trying to
 > remember something. "Except for maybe Asteroid Akis. Sometimes they
 > get lucky."
 >
 >     Princess Terrifying nodded and smiled to herself.
 
 It would be fun destroying the delightful little munchkin's world.

Thanks! I'll put that in!

    "You really like Venus, don't you?" Terra observed, smiling
back and trying to look like she actually enjoyed making friends with
the blonde.

    Althea nodded emphatically. "I love Venus, and Venus loves ME!
There's no place like it in the universe!" She paused, trying to
remember something. "Except for maybe Asteroid Akis. Sometimes they
get lucky."

    Princess Terrifying nodded and smiled to herself, thinking that
it was going to be FUN destroying the delightful little munchkin's
world, especially after all this having to demean herself in front
of that crazed blonde and whatnot.

    <This is the BEST plan ever!>

    <Well, not THE best plan, but-->

    <At the cost of abasing myself and borrowing from a highly
inferior power-->

I hope the <> dialogue showed up. Sometimes, my AOL mailer
messes up, and it missed a bit in sections 13-15... But I've still
got to finish the story and post the revision. DB, you're helping
quite a lot! Nobody said much of anything when these first got
out, so I just had to assume that people were reading them and
loving 'em so much that they wanted more!!!

A preliminary version of the revision will soon be available on the
Lost Library website, but not until the other chapters get put up.
Going through 2 megabytes of text, editing it and turning it into
HTML and adding text effects can be a daunting task, to say
the least. Larry's done a pretty good job so far...

Hey! Anybody like the website?

 >     <Ah, Daleks, the Spam of the universe!>
 
 True. Too true.

Just my luck Terra's got a fetish for Dalek meat now...

"Mother, can we have Dalek tonight?"

"Terra, you know the last starship we sent to that sector was
destroyed."

"How about some Sayajin, then?"

"That ship was destroyed as well."

"Awwww...."

Poor girl. ^_^

 >     *Wham!* Terra slammed her right temple against Hermione's
 > forehead, her smile starting to get a bit strained. <SHUT UP!>
 
 Heh. Got to hate it when the voices in your head drown out everything else.

Indeed! But for someone with as many personalities as Terra's got, it's
sort of hard to avoid.

If I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head for each time
that happened...

I'm trying to figure out where Terra's gotten all those inner voices from.
I think a lot of them are from sentient species she's devoured, although
only up until recently did she get some sort of a cipher to decode it
all and put it into a humanlike, coherent form, thus her inability to
control it so easily now. Maybe if she had her power back...

 >     "It's GREAT," Serenity replied. "They have," she counted off
 > on her fingers, "five full rings, lions, elephants, a flying
 > trapeze, and they had CereCere and PallaPalla," she giggled.
 > "They're funny!"
 
 Due to me lack of SM knowledge, I have no idea who they are, I am afraid.

CereCere and PallaPalla were Asteroid Senshi in the manga, IIRC, and
later I believe they formed the second wing of the Dead Moon Circus' attack.
I could be wrong, since I've only seen four or five SMSS episodes. Now THAT's
a trip, let me tell you...

Four Asteroid Senshi made it to the present era in SMSS, plus three whatever-
Eye weirdo-types. The Amazon Trio and the Amazoness Quartet.

Their logic system would make an ArbyFish look like James Earl Jones,
let me put it that way. Watch those episodes at your own risk. Great stuff!
(twitch-twitch) ^_-

 >     <I'm kind of busy right now. Please leave your name and a
 > brief message at the tone of the beep..... In case you haven't
 > noticed, there's no beep.
 
 I like that. I'll have to put it on my own machine

Effective, isn't it? ^_^

 >     Terra sighed. <What's so great about this PallaPalla person,
 > anyway?> The redhead shrugged in reply. <Beats me.> Aloud, she
 > asked, "Are we there yet?"
 
 Of course. Even imitation kids have to do that.

Indeed! Terra's trying her best to duplicate the actions of a normal,
healthy human child. Despite her *ahem* difficulties, she's doing a
passable job. Funny that Queen Serenity hasn't noticed anything
yet, though.

 >     "I doesn't remember!" Herc called back, then paused, thinking
 > of his grammar.
 >
 >     "Gotcha speakin' roight propa' now, they does!" an odd accent
 > from a bulge in the neck of Herc's tunic commented.
 
 An Arbyfish smuggling its way back there?

The First One does not wish to be inside a science lab, being
poked and prodded all the time.

Arby(explaining something to a female lab technitian): Then the
maid didn't loike that one bit, but- (a metal rod touches his back
and scrapes off a genetic sample) Ey! 'Scuse me! (someone injects
him with a strange compound) 'SCUSE ME!

~Later~

Arby(being interviewed): Oye loikes it! Oye gets ta run through mazes
n' they inject me wit awl koinds a fluids... then oye can spit it back
at 'em ta see their reaction! (continues to be enthusiastic) Oye didn't
wanna leave, so they kicked me out, so Oye packed up me 'shrooms n'
promised ta be back buy noightfawl.

Or maybe he does...

 >     "Are we there yet?" Pyra prodded.
 >
 >     "Not yet."
 >
 >     "ARE WE THERE YET???" all the girls asked at once.
 
 Herc: Yes, you can get out now.
 
 Girls: But the coach is still moving.
 
 Herc: Don't let that stop you.

Nah, Herc's too dumb and nice to kids to think of that.

Though had it been ANY other type of character... ^_^

 >     "That just goes to show what human beings will do to get a few
 > more acres of taxable property,"
 
 Heh. That's one of the most cynical things I have heard in my entire life.

Terra really doesn't like the human race all that much. Can you tell? ^_^

Well, maybe she does like it... for breakfast, but cannibalism's severely
frowned upon...

Terra(frowns pointedly at Queen Serenity): But I'm not really human! Honest!

Serenity: You're human all right, if the Mercurian geneticists are to be
believed...

  Princess Terrifying whispered to
 > herself as Herc lifter
 
 lifted

Oops! Sorry. ^_^;;;

 >     "Oh. No." Terra frowned and began to tremble.
 
 Eh?

Her reaction at what she saw. She didn't expect the whole Spanish
Inquisition here...

(Leave the cheese, set the trap...)

 >     One might ask what could truly frighten an omnipotent, immortal
 > being that had the power to obliterate multiple galaxies within a
 > matter of seconds.
 
 I would

Well, the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

Or, riding unicycles, rather. ^_^

 >     The galactic destroyer's left eye twitched. "Clowns..."
 
 Heh. She likes them about as much as I do.

Clowns can really be scary, can't they?

 >     <Can. Not. Talk. Faster.>
 >
 >     <Must... Control... Fist of Death...>
 
 T'wont work. Whack him. No one will hold it against you.

Well, we can kill 'em now or wait for a more dramatic moment
when there are no witnesses... ^_^

 >     "Do you have a nervous tic?" Hermione asked Terra, having
 > just made an important observation.
 >
 >     "What (twitch) ever do (twitch) you mean, (twitch) Hermie?"
 
 Hehehehe. Very amusing breakdown.

I'm very pleased you liked it. I had some help writing that one.

Everyone has a weakness. ^_^

 >     <Shutting down cognitive functions...>
 >
 >     "Tee-hee!" Terra giggled, bouncing up and down a little.
 
 Great.

I'm sure we've all felt the same way at one moment or another. ^_^

 >     After that, a pair of young elephants came in. AkiAki and
 > JareJare hopped up on top of them and ran around in circles,
 > juggling some flaming Molotov Cocktails.
 >
 >     The acts basically went downhill from there.
 
 Heh

I've been to some circuses that were good, but others less so...

 >     <Frontal lobe shutting down.>
 
 Beautiful.

If it made DB Sommer laugh, then it had to be good! ^_^

 >     "Just a little bit," Terra admitted, continuing to force
 > herself to smile. "Oooh, lookit the pretty ponies!" She twitched a
 > couple more times.
 >
 >     "Err, Terra, I believe you are having a stroke as well!"
 
 Heh

She's suffering BIG TIME here. ^_^

 > indicated that this was not what she had anticipated to happen.
 >
 >     Catseye pulled out a fist-full of knives, and with an evil
 > gleam in his eye, he said, "Three."
 
 Hmm. Interesting. I'll have to get to the next chapter before too long.

I'll be looking forward to it! I like these little analysis.

 Things flowed well for a filler chapter with plenty of humore in it.

I'm surprised it turned out so well. I was half trying to do a cute, fluffy
and WAFFy set of scene breaks, but it seems I'll have to work a little
harder before I can come up with REAL serious material. ^_^

Thanks for the review! I sure need 'em.

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