Night Shift 3

[frice2000]

You're the one who said all your story universes were connected and travel between them was possible. Don't blame me for the Cliched cross sex demon idea. That's all your fault for sticking such a possibility into my mind, and you know it.

[LawOhki]

If you didn't see it, last post on the previous page covers the end of Minako's confetti cannon of death scene. Blame frice for trying to say it's my fault that his imagination immediately jumps to succubus orgy scenes.

Another joke for Artemis, because cats are inherently funny.

But now, CAMEOS! And introducing that those that who get killed by these monsters have all the processes in their bodies stopped. All bacteria, all little tiny organisms are killed, and obviously not mentioned because it'd be really weird for these characters to know about them, but it even kills off their star seed. Stopping any possibility of reincarnation. Only those with a sailor crystal are immune. (Hence why Diana has to find the reincarnated Sailor Mau in the past and give her crystal back.)

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“If you say so, why don’t you have a seat and meet some of Ranma’s Senshi friends and their manly cat, Artemis.” She suggested and left without waiting for a response.

“Isn’t Artemis a girl’s name?” Akane asked absently causing Minako to chortle. “And did you just say cat?!” (3)

zx

Within her office, the police superintendent general, Sakurada Natsuna spun her chair back and forth while clumsily twirling a pen between her fingers. Tiredly glancing at her desk clock, she still had two and a half hours before she would leave for the night and it already felt like forever. It was nice not having to walk a beat but paperwork was such a drag. (4)

Running a hand through some of her long dark red hair, she slammed her forehead onto her desk unceremoniously. Pulling out a small framed picture of Sailor V, she gently ran her fingers over the glass. “So boring without Sailor V around.” She groaned.

Hearing a light knock on her door before it began to swing open, she quickly straightened up and tried to look presentable. Her eyes widened at leaving the picture out and hastily put that back in her desk drawer. “Yes?” She asked sweetly as one of special officers, the blond Wakagi Toshio entered.

“I have the report on the Hanazono Apartment deaths.” He placed a plain looking manilla folder in front of her. Natsuna just stared at him without comprehension on why he would give her that report. “You said you wanted to be kept up to date on any weird incidents.”

“Oh! Right! Well on your way then.” She waved a hand dismissively, eagerly taking the report from it’s folder to read, unconcerned with any response by the special officer.

“No decomposition?” She spread out the report across her desk, several disturbing photos mixed in had extra notes. Victims of blunt force trauma or signs of asphyxiation. None of those were singled out as the cause of death, instead everyone of them had died from complete organ failure. It was too early to make a definitive analysis but the preliminary results matched the deaths associated with the current crop of monsters terrorizing several special wards of Tokyo.

Natsuna had already been trying to keep Sailor Venus up to date on these instances and would need to notified about this one. “This looks like a job for Sailor V.” She brought up her laptop and started to send Minako a notice.(5)


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5 - A Superman and Gargoyles joke all in one. Which reminds me I need to work on Between Day and Night

I did think the small framed picture was much less... insane than this kind of thing.
(I'm such a troll)

[LawOhki]

Ryoga’s orange eyes glowed faintly as she inspected her latest outfit in the changing room mirror. After seeing a second instance of just how outmatched the average demon was against Sailor Theia, she had decided to retire, and enjoy herself amongst the humans. There was no reason for her to throw her life away trying to attack such a frightfully powerful opponent when she had a choice to walk away.

“I guess you were right, this tan color does go with my hair.” She spared only the briefest of glances to the corpse sitting on a chair in the changing room. Ryoga knew that a girls measurements were important when finding clothes so she had been sized up by an attendant. Once she had those the girl had lost her usefulness.

‘Trying to coordinate with orange and purple is hard enough. But is this really something that fits me?’ Here she was, trying to find the perfect look for her new life, and all she could think of were Ranma and the Tendo sisters. What did they wear and what did their various wardrobes say about them?

Deciding that the black stretch pants and tan halter top would fit her for the moment, she exited the change room, and passed by the now empty station where the attendant had been working. Loading up her arms as she passed various racks because she had no reason to not to take everything that caught her eye, she was stopped by a taller human male wearing the stores uniform.

“Did you need some help with those?” He asked helpfully.

“No.” She simply walked past him towards the entrance.

“Checkouts are this way miss.” He placed himself between her and the doors and held his arm towards the row of cashiers helping other customers.

“Does it look like I’m carrying any money?” She snorted contemptuously, the noise making his eyes widen in confusion at the inhuman noise. “Move.” Casually shifting her burden to one arm, Ryoga grabbed him by the elbow, and easily threw him to crash through several of the checkout stands causing the humans to scream in alarm.

Unconcerned by the uproar, she strolled out of the building only to be confronted by yet another figure, this time another monster. Standing well over two meters in height, he loomed over her with his hulking muscular physique. For the most part, he appeared to be a dark skinned human, but his forward curving horns ending in sharp points and a bovine like cast to his mouth and nose immediately set him apart.

“The Master wants to know why you haven’t returned.” He asked in an excessively deep voice.

“I’m not his servant.” She narrowed her eyes and glanced to the side, seeing that several humans were on their phones frantically calling or talking to someone in a panic. “How’d you get here anyways?” Ryoga would have expected a bit more of a panic like when Pantyhose Taro showed up in his cursed form.

“None of us are alone. It’s time that we returned.” He answered.

‘Not bad.’ She smirked and nodded, imagining that he had summoned himself to her position. Their teleportation was limited to where another demon currently was. Even she found it hard to pinpoint less than two others amongst their network. For this minotaur wannabe to come to her while she was alone was impressive.

Arriving back at the abandoned hospital, she was immediately set upon by Dr. Tofu. The glasses wearing man spilling her clothing to the floor as he impotently raged in the center of his operating room. “How dare you just leave!” He shouted in her face, spraying her with flecks of his saliva. “When I give you an order you better do it!”

Slowly looking away from the irate half man creature to where her new possessions lay strewn across the floor, Ryoga patiently wiped the wetness off her face. “I’m not your pet.” She answered calmly even though her patience with the man had all but worn out.

“That’s right! I wouldn’t keep a little pig like you as a pet.” Dr. Tofu’s eyes looked to the side for only an instant before Ryoga was struck in the side of her face by a large meaty fist.

Laying on the tiled floor in a daze, she altered her appraisal of the bull oni’s abilities. She didn’t bother looking towards the large man, focusing on the one pulling his strings. “I am not a pig.” She growled.

“Oh please, I can see exactly what you are.” Tofu tapped at his glasses. “And did you think I was ignorant of your Jusenkyo curse from before? All those hints Eury left anytime you came around.”

“Eury? Who’s Eury?” She snarled, resolving to kill anyone that Ranma had told exceptionally slowly.

“Sailor Theia you thick headed piece of bacon.” Tofu scoffed, taking a very deep calming breath before straightening his black doctors coat.

‘One of the Senshi knew about my curse?’ Ryoga allowed a look of confusion to pass over her face.

“Ugh, judging by that stupid face you’re making, you haven’t even realized that Sailor Theia is your most hated rival, Saotome Ranma.” The doctor sneered as though he was revealing the most obvious truth in the universe, taking great joy in treating her like a moron.

Chuckling to herself, she finally rose back to her feet. “And you were expecting me to just walk up and kill Ranma?” Ryoga had been trying to do that for years when the gender swapping teen didn’t have access to powerful magical attacks. “Oh but you did send me out with a few worthless minions who lasted all of two seconds. Great help they were.”

“I would sacrifice every last one of you to protect my dear, sweet, innocent Kasumi from the perversions of that damn redhead!” Tofu’s face developed an angry tic in his left cheek. “I’ve tried to discretely do it myself several times. Scaring her to death, ruining her joints, severing her spinal cord, breaking her neck, even pressing a pressure point that should have left every nerve ending in her body singing a symphony of agony at the lightest of breezes.”

“So you’re a failure.” Ryoga smirked. “Is that why you ran away?”

Tofu’s glasses mysteriously began to glow as though they had caught the light perfectly. “If killing Princess Euryphaessa was so easy, we wouldn’t have had to use trickery the first time.” He answered simply. “There’s a very good reason why she was called Serenity’s Goddess of War.”

“Well then If you expect me to do it, I’m going to need to know more.” She was clearly ignorant on many very important matters and this could be one way for Tofu to make himself useful. “So why don’t you explain why you’re saying Ranma is some princess? And who this Serenity is?”

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Ryoga does not give any amount of a damn about the people she comes across. Also trying to get across that she's this weird dichotomous creature. Yea her insecurities and problems ended up with him being twisted into a female shape and she REALLY wants to excel at beating Ranma and the other females in her former life at various things, but at the same time she doesn't care or want to enjoy being a female. An alien mentality more concerned with her goals rather than what form she inhabits unless they coincide.

Need to keep repeating to myself that I must resist doing an info dump on Theia. Such as this is Theia's comforter, the symbol is normally twisted 90 degrees clockwise so the circles get smaller to the right. A modification of the astrological symbol for the sun to encompass the sun, earth, and moon together.

Also, ninja!Usagi is going to have to come up SOMETIME. (Episode 136) Works too well for jokes about Ranma/Usagi having met before.

[ranmas]

ninja!Usagi is going to have to come up SOMETIME. (Episode 136) Works too well for jokes about Ranma/Usagi having met before.

Really... are you sure your not going to be bringing in the sex demons with that ninja outfit for Usagi? Its really looking like frice had it right lol. However, those red ninja cloths really remind me of something out of la blue girl, but then again if you were to swap out the red for a blue set, and give Usagi a full hood those buns on her head could make her look like another character from that show.

[Dumbledork]

Heh! Monster!Ryoga is not all that much different from Normal!Ryoga, althouh the latter hasn't killed anyone as far as we know.

[WG_Writer]

Seems to me that Monster!Ryoga is feeling more like a different being that has strings attached to Human!Ryoga. But with sufficent pull they could be cut. Actually seems like she is more then willing to cut her losses and go as she just tried to.

The way this is being setup it appears to be that she is willing to defect somewhat if given a chance as Tofu just nailed top of her S-list.

[LawOhki]

Really... are you sure your not going to be bringing in the sex demons with that ninja outfit for Usagi? Its really looking like frice had it right lol. However, those red ninja cloths really remind me of something out of la blue girl, but then again if you were to swap out the red for a blue set, and give Usagi a full hood those buns on her head could make her look like another character from that show.

I'm quite sure. The succubae from Cliched Fantasy do have something Serenity/Theia helped them with a LONG time ago, but that's all there will be for that, just a reference.

As fun as it would be to do the joke of Happosai summoning up one or two of them accidentally, hoping that whatever he summons will teach Ranma a lesson. It doesn't really fit in the story though perhaps an omake will be made. Or maybe in the prequel it'll be something he did before the story and it really rattles Ranma.... amongst other things.

Seems to me that Monster!Ryoga is feeling more like a different being that has strings attached to Human!Ryoga. But with sufficent pull they could be cut. Actually seems like she is more then willing to cut her losses and go as she just tried to.

The way this is being setup it appears to be that she is willing to defect somewhat if given a chance as Tofu just nailed top of her S-list.

.... what's there to defect to?

[LawOhki]

Ranma watched from the second story of her private quarters as her mother slowly made her way through the entrance on the bottom floor. Her quarters were made up of three progressive smaller circular floors and made up the top of the tallest tower. Leaning on the ancient wood railing surrounded the circular walkway around the middle floor, she traced over some of the intricate carved designs with one of her fingers.

While much of the castle’s stylings were somewhat generic due to being created at the beginning of the Silver Millenium, this room was a throwback to Euryphaessa’s homeworld. Like the rest of the castle, the room was built with white stone polished to a mirror shine. The color scheme of everything else matched her uniform. All the furniture being made from a deep reddish brown wood while the various items decorating were primarily red, gold, and accented by silver. The entire room was always intended to be a personal place, to only be seen by the most trusted of guests and servants.

“I guess you went the subtle route to get her here.” Ranma remarked to Lautia, the guardian hovering over the railing with her shoes lightly touching.

“Of course.” The little Senshi construct preened. “A locked door here, a light on there. It was all quite mundane.”

“Just take the compliment.” Ranma groaned and hopped over the railing to drop to the ground floor. No longer in her Senshi form, she wore golden shorts down to her knees, and an opaque baggy silver tshirt with a wide oval neck. Being spotted by the wide eyed Nodoka who was still taking in the size of the room, Ranma flicked some of her unbound hair back over her shoulders. “Hey mom, did you have any problems finding the place?”

“Ranma, what is--.” Nodoka paused to silently judging her outfit. “Just how big is this castle?” She asked, changing her train of thought.

Lautia appeared between them and coughed into her hand. “Forgive me for speaking out of turn, but the entire complex is roughly two kilometers square. While the castle itself is approximately nine hundred square meters.”

Ranma interrupted the castle’s guardian before she began to describe the size of the various living quarters and kitchens. “It’s big.” She summarized, earning an angry pout from Lautia.

“You could have at least let me try to describe the dimensions of the non-dimensional rooms.” The guardian crossed her arms and spun herself partially away from Ranma.

“Non-dimensional?” Nodoka asked in confusion.

“They require a lot of explanation.” Ranma nervously sweated, realizing the extent of explanations that she needed to give in order to get her family and friends up to speed. “I’ll show you one later but don’t you like my private quarters?” She asked excitedly and rushed over to grab Nodoka by the hand and pull her over to the library section.

“I never get to show any of it off but this is my library.” She stopped her mother in front of the wall covered from floor to ceiling with books along with four bookcases extending out towards the center of the room. “Ami loves to come and borrow them.” Ranma didn’t wait, pulling Nodoka towards a small office section covered in small stacks of books and scrolls. “Sorry it’s a bit of a mess.” She admitted in embarrassment. “Never could keep things clean when I worked.”

“You haven’t worked for centuries.” Lautia remarked while looking away innocently.

“Not here, I have my workshop for that.” Ranma stuck out her tongue before continuing on without waiting for a response from her mother. Up a flight of steps covered in red carpet with gold star designs and silver crescent moons. “This is where the walk in closets are.” She took her mother in a circular path around this level.

“Impressive.” Nodoka remarked in shock, seeing the racks of clothing in all various shapes and colors crammed into the first closet.

“Yea but me and Mina are going to need to sort through it. I’m not going to be responsible for trying to revive old styles.” She sighed and continued on to the bath area. “Here’s the bath, kind of nice.” Ranma shrugged, never really spending much time in that particular room even if it did have nice water to soak in.

“It’s quite beautiful.” Nodoka tried to offer resistance to get a better view of the bath area. Perfectly white tile with a small red border around everything, intricate silver faucets, and a full wall dedicated to looking out into space.

“Lautia likes to keep this vanity here even though I never use it.” Ranma indicated a giant vanity with an extensive collection of untouched cosmetics, and several dozen large drawers underneath.

“Except when you want to practice your ‘look at me, I’m so cool’ faces.” Lautia followed to skip across the desk.

“Lautia, go make sure everyone is getting along.” She ordered.

“I already was, but I’ll give it my undivided attention.” The castle guardian bowed her head respectfully and vanished.

“That was rude.” Nodoka commented disapprovingly. “You should be nicer to her.”

“Mom!” Ranma whined dramatically. “It’s her job to do what I say.” She added.

“That doesn’t excuse you from good manners.” The elder Saotome chastised. “I think you should apologize and be more appreciative of her in the future.”

“Alright.” Her shoulder slumped in defeat, not that she would really do it. Several thousand years alone had made Lautia a little loopy from all the free time and choice. Regaining her line of thought, she went behind Nodoka and pushed her towards the steps to the top floor. “No sense trying to apologize now, she’s got things to do.”

“Son, you don’t need to push me.” Nodoka sternly told her after Ranma had finally maneuvered her to the top floor.

“Sorry.” Ranma apologized. “But isn’t this great?” She gestured around them.

The floor was dominated by a large round bed with a wood frame. An embroidered version of Theia’s symbol, a crescent moon surrounding a smaller circle with another cut out from it, in silver with gold outlines. There was only a small half meter wall while the rest was an open view out into space. Around the outside were several small chairs and tables with several lamps, one an out of place violet color. The ceiling was made of a dome obscured by another space scape like in the great hall, with the planets slowly moving about their orbits.

“Yes it’s all very impressive.” Nodoka admitted, her eyes falling on several framed photographs that she approached. “Is this a picture of all the Senshi?” She asked, holding up one that showed all of them hanging out at Rei’s shrine.

‘So glad I had Lautia hide all the embarrassing ones.’ Ranma just smiled and nodded.

“And this one? Who is this woman?” Nodoka moved onto one from the Silver Millenium.

Her smile became slightly forced. “That’s Euryphaessa.” Ranma answered. The picture showed a young Minako of eight in her sailor fuku looking away bashfully from Artemis who was a tiny kitten. Kneeling between them was Sailor Theia after she had stopped aging around twenty two years old, also in her Senshi clothes, and giving a similar strained but much more reassuring smile. “That’s from when Minako and Artemis first met.” She added as an explanation.

“Are you going to look like this again?” Nodoka’s eyes twinkled with a strangely hopeful quality.

“Most likely.” She shrugged, wanting to be tall again more than living up to the description of goddess.

“It’s too bad that you must be manly.” The Saotome matriarch had a slightly manic smile on her face as she placed the photo back down. “Did-- Euryph--.” Nodoka’s face scrunched up in distaste at being unable to pronounce the name properly. “Euryphaessa, have any children?”

“Nah, I was too busy.” Ranma hoped that Nodoka wouldn’t dig into whether or not she had had any suitors, and especially not which gender. “Besides-- even if I was highly sought after, there was just no way I could accept anyone who didn’t meet my high standards.” She added haughtily.

“It’s too bad Genma doesn’t share that view.” Nodoka looked over several of the other photos that were mostly shots of Ranma with other Senshi.

“Pop does have a lot of-- really dumb ideas.” Her mind slowly tried to figure out a way to work the conversation to where she wanted it to go.

“Son, did you have something you wanted to ask me?” The elder Saotome asked in concern. “You went through a lot of trouble to get me here.”

“Kind of--.” She looked up and away. “I can tell you’re not really on board for me being a female warrior for love and justice.”

“I am very skittish over it, yes.”

“I just wanted to give you a heads up that after I go back downstairs, I am going to hang out with my friends. I’m just throwing this out there--.” Taking a seat on her huge bed, Ranma looked down at her lap. “But please tell me now if you think you can’t handle all of this.”

“I’m trying very hard not to be too judgemental.” Her mother took a seat next to her. “As the wife of a martial artist I can handle weird things. But if I need to be patient then you should be patient with me as well.”

“I will.” Ranma felt like a great weight had been lifted from her mind and she reached up to pull out her circular hair ornament to place in her mother’s hands. “And I want you to have this.”

“It’s very pretty.” Nodoka felt around the exterior of the silver piece.

“The front always changes.” She explained, pointing to how it looked like the Sun was setting and the Moon was rising. “But you’ll only really notice after looking away.”

“Thank you, son.” The elder Saotome hesitantly leaned in to hug her around the shoulders in gratitude.

“And if you’re ever in trouble, you just need to open it up and press the crystal on the inside. It’ll bring you to the castle.” Ranma added. “Or if you just want to come to visit, but I am still working out a way to send you back so make sure one of us is going to be here.”

Her mother squeezed the item between her hands and Ranma saw that she was starting to cry. “Mom, what’s wrong?!” She asked in panic.

“Nothing’s wrong dear.” Nodoka closed her eyes and let the hair ornament fall to her lap sos he could cover her mouth with her hands. “This is just the first thing you’ve ever gave me. I feel like I’ve missed out on so much.”

“It’ll be alright.” Ranma nervously wringing her hands together, unsure on what was expected of her. “Trust me when I say we’ll have plenty of time together.”

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Adorable Chibi-Minako meeting adorable tiny kitten Artemis and both of them actually being bashful. The image in my head is just painfully cute.

[frice2000]

Commented this all up in the Google Doc, but generally my comments for this section were that it needed a lot more descriptions of the setting. Do others agree or am I just thick?

[Konsaki]

Commented this all up in the Google Doc, but generally my comments for this section were that it needed a lot more descriptions of the setting. Do others agree or am I just thick?

I vomited my own blast of comments onto the doc. Most were in agreement.

[LawOhki]

Commented this all up in the Google Doc, but generally my comments for this section were that it needed a lot more descriptions of the setting. Do others agree or am I just thick?

I agree.... you're thick.

I vomited my own blast of comments onto the doc. Most were in agreement.

I haven't seen any comments from you in some time.

[Spica75]

Her quarters were made up of three progressive smaller circular floors and made up the top of the tallest tower.

"progressively"

And two "made up" twice that close doesn´t look good. Replace the first with "consisted of" or the latter with "occupied the top..." or "took up the top..."?

[Konsaki]

I haven't seen any comments from you in some time.

Yeah, I'm sorta like a stray dog like that.
I just hopped back into the doc and I can't see any of the comments I made... I think your doc ate around thirty of them.

[LawOhki]

Yeah, I'm sorta like a stray dog like that.
I just hopped back into the doc and I can't see any of the comments I made... I think your doc ate around thirty of them.

I've had it happen where google will lag a bit and changes will take a bit to save. Something really goofy must have happened for it to each that much though.

"progressively"

And two "made up" twice that close doesn´t look good. Replace the first with "consisted of" or the latter with "occupied the top..." or "took up the top..."?

Changed to

Ranma watched from the second story of her private quarters as her mother slowly made her way through the entrance on the bottom floor. Her quarters were made up of three progressively smaller circular floors and resided at top of the tallest tower.

Realized I really need to have Ranma's question of if Nodoka can handle her being a senshi, to be an ultimatum. Preferring to cut her off rather than hold out any hope for something that won't happen. Like right then, Nodoka can start hitch hiking back to Earth if she's going to get hung up on manliness.

[Konsaki]

I've had it happen where google will lag a bit and changes will take a bit to save. Something really goofy must have happened for it to each that much though.

Okay, I've re-added all the comments and they've stuck. Now, get to work!