Latest revision as of 16:41, 14 January 2016

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 16:45:00 2016:
Hi!!! This is Usagi!! We met in the rain and then in Paris? Anyway, I know you said to stay away, BUT!!! You said nothing about texting to make sure you're okay! >:3 Mweeheehee!

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 16:48:59 2016:
If you don't want me to keep your number I'll delete it! But if it is okay, I'll put you in as Darth Vader so people won't know it's you~ /(^.^)\

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: *monster face emoji*

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 19:43:38 2016:
*cute bunny nibbling a carrot emoji!*

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 19:49:06 2016:
That didn't answer my question, though :P

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: tbh i think you have the wrong number, sry

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:06:36 2016:
Listen up, Jerkface, I just checked with my reliable source and I have the right person. I already TOLD you I wouldn't contact you if you didn't want me to, you don't gotta lie about it!

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: no i really dont remember telling anyone to stay away

Dark Endymion texts Homura Akemi: can we talk

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:10:22 2016:
Ummmm...what about the eclair?

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: eclair?

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:10:53 2016:
I saw you put it in your pocket @_@

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: you really have the wrong number lol

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:13:47 2016:
You know, you're probably right. Sorry to be such a brat! I just really wanted to make sure who I THOUGHT you were was okay. He just looked sad. Anyway!! Hope your day goes better for you!

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: sure sure np, have a good one

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: (20m later, unidentified number) the number you have is for a company phone, i'm not allowed to have personal messages on it

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: you can text this one

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i'm ok just worried about a friend

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:16:02 2016:
ACK!! I hope I won't get you in trouble!!!

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:16:32 2016:
Oh? What's going on? If you want to tell me! If not, that's okay! *another cute bunny emoji*

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i just really hope it doesn't get YOU in trouble :| you're a nice girl

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: also the eclair was delicious thank you

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: he's missing, been missing for months. i think i got a lead. maybe. should be okay. worried about another friend, someone just said they killed him, but he's alive. just can't talk to him. hope to see him at the end of the month, maybe.

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:20:56 2016:
D'awwww. And you're welcome! Eclairs here must be tried! (And sorry I called you a jerkface. ;.; And for um...considering whacking you with my heavy purse...)

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:21:48 2016:
Oh no! I hope you find the first friend! I'm sure he's okay, though! And hmmmm. Is the second one of you guys?

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: fff what do you mean you guys

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: he's a friend, please don't mistake me for the same person you mistook me for before

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:23:01 2016:
Wait, when I got scared or when I first first first saw you?

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: when you first saw me

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: we don't know each other. you really don't want to get involved with the stuff i'm involved in, okay?

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: you're a nice girl

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:26:12 2016:
I'm sorry about that, in the rain you just reaaaally looked like someone else.

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:27:33 2016:
And when I was scared, it wasn't anything you did, promise! It wasn't you!

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: haha

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i'll tell you a secret

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:28:09 2016:
Ooooo?

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i hate it when people are scared of me

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: but honestly they need to be

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:29:12 2016:
Awww :( But I think your thinking they need to be but not liking it when they are is a good thing. But why do they need to be?

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: because i could kill them and not even remember it afterwards.

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:30:21 2016:
I'm so sorry! That must be hard for you! :((((

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: ... you're crazy

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:30:52 2016:
You're not the first to say that. NOR WILL YOU BE THE LAST, MWEEHEEHEE!

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: heh. welp

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: now i know you REALLY need to stay away from me

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: far, far, far away

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:31:53 2016:
What? Why? What did I do? I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: and honestly i don't think it's even safe for me to text you on a tracfone

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i know your first name

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i have your number

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i suspect i know how you got my number since only one other person who's not in the company has it

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: which means i have a vector to find you

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: but only if you turn out to be a threat

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: it's a good thing you're not

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:34:23 2016:
I'm cute and cuddly. (But really, yeah. But can I still please text you? You're nice. I won't try any funny business, promise! There's already a boy I like!)

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: but someone else might think otherwise

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:34:34 2016:
Oh...

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: sometimes i'm not myself

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: i am /not safe/ for a nice normal person like you to talk to or associate with, okay?

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: so it's better if you don't text me.

A text from Homura Akemi at Wed Jan 13 20:36:36 2016:
talk?

Dark Endymion texts Homura Akemi: in person. real quick. about walpurgisnacht.

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:36:55 2016:
I kind of figured. And it's selfish reasons I want to text you, really. I'm sorry I'm making you uncomfortable ;.;

A text from Homura Akemi at Wed Jan 13 20:37:29 2016:
hm. it's going to have to be quick. i don't have long tonight.

Dark Endymion texts Usagi Tsukino: it's okay. i like you. i really do. but that's also a problem, because i shouldn't, because i have a really jealous girlfriend, who's also my boss. i'm getting rid of this phone, i'm throwing it in the bay. maybe someday we'll talk again. thank you for being kind to me.

Dark Endymion texts Homura Akemi: that's fine. where are you? or i could meet you on your roof

A text from Homura Akemi at Wed Jan 13 20:39:11 2016:
I'm out and about. I'm not far from that tower I found you at.

Dark Endymion texts Homura Akemi: see you up there then.

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:40:48 2016:
...okay. You deserve better, I think. And I like you, too, just so we're clear. Um, why hello, little fishes...

A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:41:27 2016:
Texting you makes it hurt less.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
One moment there's no one there on the tower, and the next there's a boy stepping out of the shadows, wearing stylish winter clothes in dark greys. He's looking at the screen of a flip phone; it lights his face up literally, because it's dark out and the little screen's bright. His expression shifts from worried and annoyed to something that looks an awful lot like someone just stabbed him, and he takes the phone and hauls back to smash it against the metal girders.

On the screen is a series of text messages from what Homura probably knows at this point is Usagi's number. The only ones visible, should she stop time to look, are the last three.

<PHONE> You text Usagi Tsukino: it's okay. i like you. i really do.
but that's also a problem, because i shouldn't, because i have a
really jealous girlfriend, who's also my boss. i'm getting rid of
this phone, i'm throwing it in the bay. maybe someday we'll talk
again. thank you for being kind to me.

<PHONE> A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:40:48 2016:
...okay. You deserve better, I think. And I like you, too, just so
we're clear. Um, why hello, little fishes...

<PHONE> A text from Usagi Tsukino at Wed Jan 13 20:41:27 2016:
Texting you makes it hurt less.

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura Akemi had a sneaking suspicion that she knew what this was about, regardless of what excuse Endymion gave her over the phone. She almost teased Endymion for 'sounding scary', but decided that might as well be an admission of guilt.

    Yet, as Homura Akemi approaches the tower in timestop, she can't help but notice the phone. Reading the last few texts, like the busybody she is, she frowns. Suspicion confirmed.

    She reaches out to grab the phone out of the air. In this moment, it would be so easy... but then Endymion would know, for a fact, what happened to his phone. She retracts her hand, letting it smash against the girders as time resumes. It's a sacrifice. One she decides to make.

    She's a good distance away from Endymion when time resumes. Her hand rests on her shield, and she watches him with careful eyes. "You wanted to talk?"

    Usagi is in Paris. There's no way this could end in an Escalation. The moment this becomes a fight, she'll have to leave.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Don't give that number to normal girls," Endymion says, looking at the pieces of shattered phone spilling off the tower by his feet. "That's a burner I just bought. I'll buy another one, and I'll give you the number. If you want to coordinate anything with me, or if I want to coordinate anything with you, regarding Walpurgisnacht or anything else, that'll be the number you'll use."

He still doesn't look up at her; his voice isn't despairing, isn't angry, isn't cold-- it's nothing at all. "And I'm wiping the other and hoping that's enough to destroy records, but it could be tapped or monitored. I am our Queen's consort, Homura-san--"

Here, Endymion looks up, and his eyes aren't the bright possessed red, but they are bleak if someone who knows him as well as Homura does is looking at them; they're at odds with the wry expression on his face, showing something that might, in some world, resemble affection. "--and she's very jealous. I wouldn't want her mistaking some innocent girl I happened to run into for some kind of threat to her ownership."

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura watches his eyes. She watches them very carefully. She knows Mamoru, and trusts him, or at least she would... but she also knows that he isn't himself.

    She frowns as Endymion explains himself. She looks away, but only for an instant, as he speaks. Her on-edge tension is turning into a growing apprehension. At the word 'consort', she quickly buries her disgust deep.

    The look on her face is an imitation of one she used to wear by habit. An attempt to be stoney and cold. Yet the face she habitually used to wear in her overwhemling despair isn't here, and behind those almost-blank eyes is a look of sympathy.

    "I understand. I wont explain my actions. That's not a rabbit hole we want to go down. I did not understand your... situation. She's just a girl who was concerned. That's all. Not someone I considered a threat to you." Homura decides not to explain that Usagi is very much a threat to Beryl. She decides not to explain anything at all.

    Her hand is still on her shield. Even with that look in his eyes, she still can't help but be concerned. "If you get a new number, you can text it to me. My number hasn't changed."

    Homura Akemi pauses. She almost asks something dangerous. No, she's done enough dangerous things as it is.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
The relief is palpable; Endymion's shoulders sag a little. "Thank you. I will."

Then the boy straightens a little, jamming his hands in his pockets, and tilts his head slightly. "In the meantime, I accidentally ran into Sailor V: she told myself and Kunzite that while yes, she could coordinate relatively large elements of the battle, she would be aiming for us as much as for the witch. She may or may not have made a bargain-- she'd just informed us she'd killed Jadeite, so I checked, and"

(he is looking directly in her eyes)

(he is reading to make sure he can get her expression)

"I could find him, he was still alive."

Then he glances away again and hunches his shoulders slightly. "So the threat of picking us off one by one if she didn't get us 'all as a package' doesn't hold so much water, but if she does happen to find Nephrite before I do, he wouldn't see her coming. I'm choosing to believe she meant 'all of us as a package' to be instructions that we were all to attend the battle. If it's not, then at least you have warning that my men and I may be defending ourselves as much as we're covering for the rest of you. We will be there. And we will be concentrating our efforts on keeping you all in the battle, since you and yours as offense and me and mine as defense seems the most efficient configuration with our relative levels of experience and combat specialties, and their particular applications with this sort of opponent. If you would do us the favor of at least trying to stress that if they shoot their shields in the back, they will be easier for the witch to shoot at, I would be obliged."

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura's not as unreadably dead as she used to be. The expression that flickers across her face is... almost mocking dismissal, as if she's been told a very obvious lie. "I'm not sure I'd trust that girl anyways, from some of the things I've been hearing about her. I can't stand people that I can't rely upon, but now that the word's out I don't think there's any way to keep her out of it."

    Homura closes her eyes and shakes her head. She's relaxing, a bit more than she should be. She remembers that and her eyes snap open again. "It's funny. I thought that something that threatened us all would unite us, at least briefly. If anything I seem to have aggrivated the conflict. I wouldn't blame you if you decided not to tolerate attacks from her."

    Homura frowns, feet turning away as she says, "... I'll explain it, but I'm sure that girl wont listen. Even if I tell her that her arrogance will lead directly to the deaths of innocent people, that there will literally be people who will die because of her interference, I doubt that'd get through her head. I've known girls like that before. So caught up in their self-righteous rage that they commit folly after folly, attacking even those who only want to help them, until their long litany of mistakes adds up to their own death."

    She might be thinking a bit about Sayaka, Mami, or Kyouko when she says that.

    Turning back to Endymion, she tilts her head. "I almost hate to say it, but girls like her a lost cause. It may be easier to remove her from the fight, if it comes down to it. I doubt anyone else is as crazy as she is."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"She's... not crazy," says Endymion reluctantly. His hands come up, but only so he can cross his arms, jam his hands under them, breath fogging the air in front of him. "We are a very, very real danger to her and to those she loves. Just because I know that my Shitennou will take my direction in the fight, and that I will not permit them to attack anyone that's not the Witch or a Familiar, doesn't mean she knows it, or can necessarily even afford to believe it.

"She is as invested in the Senshi as I am in my men-- if they're going to be there, and you are going to need them-- then you'd have to kill her to keep her out. Please don't do that. Kunzite believes she's necessary, and I believe him. If worst comes to worst, I'll ask Kunzite to drain her energy and give it back after the fight. She already hates us. She can hate us a little more."

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura, for a moment, looks confused. Venus... not crazy? Well, she sure could've fooled Homura. "That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is this: If that girl decides that I am her enemy, which is apparently a thing that she has already decided," if Shinobu's words are to be believed, "then all of her years of experience cease to be an asset and begin to be a threat. Maybe you look at her and only see intelligence and power. I look at her and I see someone whose cooperation I clearly do not have. Her strength only makes her a bigger threat. One I can't afford to ignore."

    She makes a very loud 'tch' noise as the senshi are mentioned. "I swear... if I did not know Sailor Moon herself, I would have written them off by Sailor V's actions alone... but if Kunzite says she's necessary, then I'm inclined to believe him."

    Homura reaches into her shield, and produces a grenade. She doesn't toss it, but she does show it. "Actually, for taking her out of the fight, I was just thinking I could blind her with flashbangs. She can't shoot at you if she can't see, and even if she just starts firing randomly then she's more likely to hit that massive Witch than any of us. I do have plenty of these, and I'm pretty sure I could handle her aggro."

    The grenade vanishes inside her shield again.

    "Trust me, if she's as crazy as she seems to be, I wouldn't waste my time killing her. She'd manage that on her own just fine."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Endymion tilts his head back a little, looking up at the sky, the stars-- the moon.

His gaze is unfocused, his expression pensive. "If you want to find out more about her-- you should talk to Kunzite. When you have time."

He looks back at Homura, then, and links a hand around one of the girders, leaning 'dangerously' out over the emptiness below, casually and carelessly. It's like swinging his feet. "Most of what we're doing right now is preparing for Wilpertschnausnit, and he probably has stuff he could tell you that I don't know. Uh, I mean, about what to expect from the Senshi that I wouldn't know, because I really haven't run into them that much. But: you are perfectly right. I'd just rather you were as distracted as little as possible in the fight itself. I'll cover you as I can; I'll have a lot of backs to watch."

Hauling himself back upright, Endymion actually smiles at Homura, lopsided but honest. "Thanks. For a lot of things. Since you're busy, I won't keep you-- I have to get back to looking for my missing idiot brother. I'll text. Just-- don't give the number to normal girls," he stresses super hard. Comically meaningfully, in fact.

"I like your rose, by the way." As he's saying this last, he's inching backwards off the platform, and he falls and vanishes into the air without a sound.

Homura Akemi has posed:
    "Well, it's not only a matter of time, but also of opportunity," says Homura, "... but I might ask him. If I get the chance."

    She isn't entirely sure she cares, but then that's something that Madoka has been trying to get her to work on. Caring more, that is.

    Despite knowing Endymion's capabilities, seeing her friend (brainwashed or not) lean so far over the edge leaves her with an unsettling feeling. She doesn't like it. That actually managed to bring back her stone-cold face.

    "Yeah... I don't want to be distracted either. I think taking down that Witch is the most important thing we could all be doing that day."

    When Endymion smiles at her, Homura atually manages to smile back, though the smile doesn't quite touch her eyes. "No normal girls, huh? Well, if I have to give out your number, I'll make sure it's to someone who can handle Walpurgisnacht-related business."

    On the compliment regarding her rose, Homura actually reaches up to touch it. Her smile gets a little more genuine. After Endymion vanishes, Homura whispers. "Once I'm done saving the city... you're next."