Silver Crystal Outbreak

It's in the evening in Tokyo when the latent dark energy within the citizens of Tokyo who have touched one of Sato Izono's pamphlets or books engages. It's one of those things anyone with magical energies can feel - and if they touched it, it might be an effect they have to fight. All over Tokyo, it begins at once. It starts small - housewives digging through thier own jewlery, salarymen pulling all the files out of their desks.

But rapidly as the easy places it would be sought out are exhausted, the search becomes more frantic, more desperate. Banks find themselves raided by police and guards and managers, saftey deposit boxes spread out on the floor. "It's not here! Where is it! WE HAVE TO FIND IT!" Comments like these rush into each other in a storm, a din of aggression.

And at the top of Clover Tower, legs dangling off the side and ponytail swaying in the wind, sits the beautiful Professor Sato Izono - smiling a vicious smile. "That's right. Tear it apart. Find that crystal. All of you now work for me, as it should be."

And there's a soft laugh - a wicked laugh - that escapes her mouth as she watches the ensuing chaos.

Minako Aino just sorts of hangs out and enjoys the civil disobedience and riots, since they are exciting and technically not something she's responsible for. The mood changes when she hears talk about crystals and boldly assumes it might be a crystal she has a vested interest in, for princesses or contraception.

A quick call to Usagi: "Heeey. You might wanna not go out tonight. It's a little cold out. Also, rioty."

Unfortunately for the professor and all her newly acquired minions, what everyone is searching for technically isn't in Tokyo. It's buried, deep, within the soul of Sailor Moon. It's so far down she doesn't even realize it's there.

She's at home when the outbreak happens. Jadeite, the newest (temporary) resident of the Tsukino household is on the couch with her, probably uncomfortable with her Papa's scowls and her Mama's friendly smiles.

She picks up her cell phone when it rings, is about to great Minako, and pauses, sitting upright.

"Um, yeah, about that. Already promised I'd help take care of it. I'llbecarefulpromisetalktoyoulater!"

She hangs up before Minako can object.

For a moment, she's frozen in place, staring at Jadeite for a moment. Then her shoulders slump. "Can you watch them?"

"Of course."

A grateful smile, and she's rushing for the door.

"I need to pick something up, be good, Papa, I already told you he's not interested in my virtue!"

And then she's out, and transforms along the way.

Sailor Moon watches from roof tops.

Holy cow, there's a lot more than she thought there'd be...

Asclepius almost opened the box his book came in yesterday.... then there was some notice over the the Virtue channels and he's glad he didn't even get the pair of scissors out in time. Venus came by at /some point/ and whisked the book off to Mercury which he is intensely thankful for. However, there was that other warning. Something was going to happen soon.

When that happened he... found himself transforming and standing on top of a nearby rooftop as the rioting went down. huh. Well. This was.

A mess. He had other colorful words for this in his head but they were all rather crass.

For now, Asclepius is kind of at a loss. He probably couldn't just heal this kind of thing away.

He looked around. Maybe there was something leading the rioting-- or was it just a timebomb?

As Usagi, Daisuke, and Minako watch, they can see the search growing more desperate - car alarms blare as windows as shattered and people search within them, and then they're /pulling open the hoods/ of said cars because the Silver Crystal might be stuffed in /there/ somewhere for all they know and the search is getting increasingly more crazed and desperate.

"We have to bring that crystal to Professor Izono!" one of the women in the riot-search shouts out. That cry rapidly gets echoed across it, and it becomes a rallying cry almost, and the search somehow becomes even more frenzied and insane - because the Silver Crystal is somehow maybe UNDER the cars so FLIP THEM or maybe it's in the sewer so GET THAT BULLDOZER.

Chaos is rapidly devolving into EXTREME Chaos.

Minako Aino/Sailor V beats people up.

Not too much. And it's mostly kicks instead of Crescent Beams (for the most part), but it's pretty rough. And a good short-term plan.

Also, there are cameras and it's on TV. She smiles for the cameras and tries to stay away from overflipped vehicles, because that would be bad for her reputation.

For Makoto, who has lately been rather preoccupied and didn't make it to Professor Izono's lecture, this outbreak of increasingly violent "crystal madness" is unexpected, a little confusing, and more than a little alarming. This is definitely some kind of malevolent influence at work - people are going to get hurt out there. If they haven't already.

At first, she tried calming people, but it didn't take long for Mako to realize that no amount of reasoning was going to get through to the people rushing around the shopping centers and sidewalks. This isn't going to stop until the power behind it is stopped.

That's when she reached for her transformation pen.

Now as the chaos escalates, Sailor Jupiter springs from rooftop to rooftop above the outroar, calling out on her communicator. "Sailor Moon, are you there?"

Sailor Moon frets for a moment. There's so many and--!

She recieves Jupiter's comms and her shoulders slump in relief. "I'm here!"

Venus is out there somewhere, too, and with Mercury MIA (she's NOT telling Venus this is who she promised, those two are already fighting way too much as it is), hearing Jupiter makes her feel a little less concerned.

"I'm near the mall where we found that cute dress you secretly like. I'm going to try to..."

Without finishing, she jumps down to the street.

"Hey! What you're looking for isn't here! ...Or under that lamp post."

Asclepius ponders getting down there and clonking people over the head with his staff to knock sense into people. Then he realizes this is a hilarously bad idea because he could actually hurt people. He's not here to hurt people. He looks around and frowns. Teleporting people against thier will doesn't really work well-- so .. teleporting people into a hole in the ground they can't get out of for a bit isn't exactly feasible he guesses.

He holds his staff in one hand. Holds his palm out with the other.....! and tries healing one of the rioters near an edge to see what happens.

Probably... just heal a rioter. But. He has to try what he desperatly want to hope will work first.

Right?

Sailor V's roughing up of the drones actually has a positive effect - they're not tearing up Tokyo while they're on the ground unconscious or in pain. There's just a lot of them - maybe even too many for Sailor V to beat up. Maybe.

The attempts to covince people were not having much effect - usually they'd just ask Makoto why SHE wasn't busy looking too, with crazed looks in their eyes.

Back near the mall, one of the women approaches Sailor Moon. She is not a small lady. She might be recognizable from the jewlery store early in Sailor Moon's career. "Well, it has to be SOMEWHERE!" the lady gasps. "WHY AREN'T YOU HELPING LOOK FOR IT?" she then demands, getting /all up in/ Sailor Moon's personal space.

Asclepius moves out to heal the civilian - but the problem isn't mental - it's dark magic. He might be able to draw enough information off of his intuition to learn that as he successfully cures the civlian in question: of his exhaustion and superficial wounds. Then that civlian turns on him. "Thank you. BUT WHY AREN'T YOU SEARCHING?!"

Vague though Sailor Moon's description of her location may be, Sailor Jupiter doesn't even have to ask for clarification. "Okay!" she comms back instead. "I'm near there, so - what do you mean 'secretly'?"

Now is so very much not the time. Especially not when Usagi starts to say she's going to try something and doesn't finish the sentence. Makoto puts on an extra burst of speed, hurrying to catch up to her friend's position. "Usagi-chan! Don't go doing dangerous things by yourself--!"

In moments, she's on a rooftop across from the mall where they found that cute dress that will never, ever come in a size that fits her, and from above Jupiter can just see the woman getting up in Sailor Moon's grill. Still too far away to be much help herself, she calls the wind to rush ahead of her, filling the street below with a confusing and distracting tumble of petals. "Flower Hurricane!"

Asclepius steps back and sighs--- and--- teleports back up to the rooftop away from the morass of people and doesn't even bother responding. That didn't work. Of course it /didn't/ but... he hoped... maybe. It might. Well.

He really doesn't have a choice in the matter then he supposes. He doesn't want to do this- but he doesn't have much choice. He sees Sailor V getting into the thick of it, at least. So. Maybe this could be the only way.

...it's not like he had the strength to kill someone with his bare hands. Right?

He'd teleport. Again. Back down to ground level.

That guy that asked him why he wasn't searching earlier gets a massive clonk on the head from the bussiness end of a snake staff.

"S--sorry!" he says.

He moves to another one.

"...sorry!..."

"...I'm /realllllly/ sorry." he says, trying not to think too hard about it.

Sailor Moon lets out a yelp and her hands come up, ramming into the woman's solar plexus. Apparently, she is not in the mood to share her personal space tonight! "Because I got more important things to worry about, Lady! Everyone's looking for that stupid thing!"

And now, of course, the everyone is near literal.

The crescent want is in her hand, but instead of purification at this moment, she uses it to bop the lady on the head. Personal Bubble!

Then Jupiter's very pretty petals are everywhere!

She takes the moment of obfuscation to leap away to her friend.

She gives Jupiter a sheepish grin. "Well, now we know that telling them it's not here doesn't work."

Minako Aino/Sailor V also puts out the all-points bulletin to Virtue friends and senshi, giving her senshi the added benefit of a phone call to allow them to meet up. It has some weird moments of service outage - those are actually periods when the phone is being used as a bludgeon.

"Stop asking dumb questions about crystals!" she shouts, striding over some unfortunate sap she not-so-gently introduces to the ground before dashing off to the other senshi (and flower hurricanes).

"I know where the perpetrator of all this chaos is. Just one short elevator ride away," she says in the most enigmatic way possible.

Mystery is immediately ruined, because she just points on top of the tower at laughing maniac Sato. (Artemis pointed this out to Minako earlier. She takes credit for it now.)

The woman in Sailor Moon's personal space leans ever closer, and then Sailor Moon's hands shove up, causing her to take a couple big steps back and give Sailor Moon that much-needed space. A bonk on the head from the crescent wand comes at the same time as the petals, and Sailor Moon's space is no longer invaded! Yay!

Asclepius is apologizing, bonking, and conking, and the entranced humans go down like sacks of potatoes. Harder than they would otherwise. Because Zoisite, being Zoisite, has killed two birds in one stone; the crazed manner in which the civilans are searching is also being used to pull energy to the Dark General in disguise.

This may, in fact, be how the white mooncat has traced the impact to her.

Sato is giggling to her(him!)self up on the tower - of course she sees the Senshi involved in the chaos. But he's also full of confidence that this is going to be the turning point. He'll earn Beryl's favor, Kunzite's mind won't wander to pointless things, and that damned Prince won't look at him with those strange eyes and make him feel those strange feelings anymore. Doing all of that AND handling the Sailor Senshi would make for an acceptable evening.

Sailor Jupiter grins back at Sailor Moon, crookedly. "You okay?" she asks, her first and most immediate concern.

Then Venus arrives, and brings with her the crucial information about where to find the one responsible. Mako's eyes track Minako's pointing finger up toward the distant top of the tower for a moment before her attention comes back to her teammates. "Our best bet's going to be stopping it all at the source, right? It doesn't seem like we've got much time to waste."

She starts off without waiting for further discussion, though at least she looks to make sure the others are on the same page as her.

During a brief pause, she texts Ami-chan so she doesn't worry. Just a cursory 'things are handled!'

Sailor Moon flashes Jupiter another grin. "Yep! All fine! Got my personal space back."

Sailor Moon looks to where Venus points and is about to jump away first, but Jupiter beats her to it! Probably for the best, because if she went first, she'd likely just end up antagonizing the crazy lady on the tower.

"Why do they always send us crazy ones?"

Asclepius sorry! *bonk* s-sorry! *conk!* Argh... *wonk?*

Then Sailor V points out the figure. A short elevator ride away? Asclepius could get there faster. But does he want to? Nrg. That Professor /was/ familiar- but that really could mean anything good or bad. Wait. He doesn't have to go alone. Right?

He clonks another head.

"Hey. You guys. I can probably get a couple of you up there faster than that if you tell me the two who's going." he says.

"I dunno if I can take more than that."

Minako Aino/Sailor V invites people to follow her on a heroic trip into the building, through the secured entrance, past the check-in area, and right to the elevator, with a dramatic fight against some crystal-seekers along the way.

The ride up is much less dramatic, with only two unexpected stops where people shout, "IS THERE A CRYSTAL IN THIS ELEVATOR!?" and awkward confessions that the elevator is going to the roof. "But there's a crystal on the stairs!"

Very dishonest.

Even less dramatic is the greeting for Professor Izono: two strong kicks to the roof's security door don't do much.... so V gingerly pulls it open. "PROFESSOR! Stop causing riots! Or we're gonna riot on you!"

With the Senshi closing on the tower - and the search rapidly going from 'sort-of-useful' to 'wanton destruction for no reason', Sato looks down at the population. "It's definitely not here. Searching for it anymore is useless. I suppose I no longer have any need for you..." The not-so good Professor outstretches her hand, and the last of the energy in the riotous masses rises up in long tendrils, towards her. People go from rioting to napping unconscious on the sidewalk.

So it looks pretty much like the Three Wards had the craziest party ever and then the booze ran out.

She rounds on the door as V kicks it... then waits... and V opens it. "Really, you're so very brutish." she says with a smile. Her words are oddly kind sounding, and her face is so pretty, but there's that unmistakable vile undertone in the words, in the face. "I don't suppose YOU found the Crystal and you're here to deliver it to me in exchange for mercy? That would probably be far too intelligent for you though, wouldn't it." she says, hands down at her sides.

Oh, this lady was just so rude!

"Listen here, just because you have impeccable fashion sense doesn't mean you get to have a nasty personality! Beauty only gets you so far, lady, and insulting people just makes you ugly!" She points at the professor. "And whether or not we've found it is none of your business!"

Sailor Jupiter does not get on the elevator. It seems like a bad idea, in this kind of emergency situation.

By the same token, however, it's clearly not a time to discuss it in committee, so all she says - with a reassuring smile for Usagi and a quick dip of her head to acknowledge Asclepius - is, "It might be better if we don't all go up the same way. I'll meet you guys at the top."

Then she spreads her hands to either side, and the wind kicks up around her, swirling in a tight upward spiral that buoys her off the ground and upwards toward the top of the tower. It's not exactly fast - but if they're lucky, 'Professor Izono' just might not see her coming.

Her, or the whipcrack of electricity that leaps from her fingertips while Izono is busy taunting Venus and Moon.

Asclepius sighs and closes his eyes and-----

Teleports to the top of the tower in a flash. He walks forward--- but keeps his staff in an unguarded postion.

"Professor Izono. Why are you doing this? What does this hope to help you accomplish? Making a mess!?" he asks.

He sort of taps his staff against the floor to drive the point home-- though not in a 'you shall not pass' manner or strength.

"Beauty gets you far," Sailor V comments, vainly. "But I get the jist of what you're saying, Moon!"

"ALSO! No crystals for you! What were you even trying to accomplish? Sounds like you're getting desperate! Take her out!" she shouts, drawing her whip out and snapping it to cleverly coincide with Sailor Jupiter's snappling thunderclap of electricity. "Treat her like she's a Dark Kingdom general!"

She's not 100% confident with this accusation, but it makes sense.

"My personality is just fine, you little pest." Professor Izono says turning to Sailor Moon. "And even still, I am not just pretty - I am gorgeous... But it's so like the ugly to be jealous - and the weak to be jealous as well. And all of you are both."

Sailor Jupiter ascends her own way, and the jolt of electricty comes from behind Izono, so it connects - because she's busy at the same time putting up a barrier of black energy to ignore Sailor V's whip. Then she takes to the sky, flying with effortless grace.

"Now who's being rude?!" she asks, with the tone of someone who's suffered a great personal indignity. "ZOI!" and there's a rain of pink flower petals. While they're very pretty to look at, they're deadly razor sharp, and they're threatening to carve up all of the assembled heroes below! "I'm going to bring the Silver Crystal to Queen Beryl!" she says, perhaps in a delayed answer to Asclepius - or in a defined statement of purpose as she attacks. Zoisite likes looking down on people like this. People in general, really.

Asclepius watches as Professor Izono.... flies. Upwards. Into the sky. Whelp that's a thing.

He raises his staff to point dramatically! Wind whips through his robes. For a moment, he looks noble... heroic! He's about to say something decisive! He bleeds confidence for a change.....! It's almost like he's a different person. Just for a moment.

Then deadly sharp petals rain down and his eyes go wide before he can say anything and all that mellowdrama is dispelled as Asclepius teleports away a moment as the petals fall over the roof. He's on another rooftop, looking upwards.

When the petal rain stops. He reappears-- he shakily raises his staff...

"...Aesculapian Strike." he calls out.

A small purple ball of purple energy flies from the mouth of the snake at the top of his staff. It's /not/ a powerful burst-- but it represents all Ascelpius is able to do from this distance.

Oh, that...that...AUGH! "Don't you call my friends ugly, they're beautiful!"

She's about to go on a spiel, but Jupiter is there (yay Jupiter!) and suddenly -- ACK! She dives from the petals!

"Venus, how did you know?"

When the petals clear, she's on a precarious ledge. Spotlight ensues.

"Hold it right there, Zoicite!"

She points her crescent wand at him. "While you are indeed still incredibly gorgeous (but not as gorgeous a male as my Mamo-chan, even if he's quite rude right now) your heart is corrupted! If Beryl wants the crystal, she should come get it herself instead of being all busy trying to brainwash herself the most intelligent, incredibly smart, utterly gorgeous and beautiful boyfriend ever to exist! (Too late, he was mine first!)"

She brings her wand to her side. "Mark my words, Zoisite, I will rescue you and your brothers, even if I have to beat you to a pulp do it! In the name of the moon, I will punish you until you are good again, darnit!"

She sees Ascelpius and takes a step...just...over...this way! There! Out of range of his attack!

Sailor Jupiter's boots touch down on the surface of the roof only a moment before the flurry of razor-edged petals descends. Instinctively she braces herself, arms crossing in front of her - the wind that carried her up here from street-level still swirls around her, whipping her hair and skirt and buffeting some of the petals away. Others get through, slicing little tears in the fabric of her uniform. A thin red line opens along her cheek, another where a petal grazed her arm. Even so, the look she shoots up towards Zoisite is undaunted.

"You talk big for someone who just got sucker-punched! Look at yourself, Zoisite! Is this kind of thing what you should really be doing?"

In the wake of the ball of energy that Asclepius fires at Zoisite, the Senshi of Thunder gathers her strength and springs, once again using the wind for a boost to throw herself fists-fist at the Dark General.

"I know 'cuz I did my homework!" Sailor V claims. "I'm really smart," she continues, dancing between the flower petals when she can or protecting her face with her arm when she can't, pressing towards the edge of the building and flowery shrapnel wounds and Zoisite with one single purpose.

"You'd better hope she 'rescues' you, or you escape, because you're going to die up here, ugly and alone!"

She interrupts herself with aggressive air-whippings and violence and a thousand dangerous lashes with both chain and tongue, the kind of unpleasantness to let her allies really beat in how one-sided she wants this fight to be.

The Asclepian Strike blasts out from Asclepius, and it's got enough distance the Dark General in Disguise can put up another black ward to ignore it - there's such a distance she can see it coming... though she can feel it pressure the shield harder than she expected it, she knows not to visually seem pressured. But just as she does, Sailor Moon starts talking. And Zoisite knows exactly who Sailor Moon is talking about. "As far as I'm concerned you little pests are made for each and you can have him back, but Beryl wants him and I want what Beryl wants!" he says, near-rage in his soft voice as the Izono costume falls away, alternately melting into dark energy and fading into the wind like scraps of burning paper.

Does he want what Beryl wants? No, right now he wants to kill that prince so she doesn't have to look into his eyes ever again, feel those feelings ever again. But Beryl might be watching him, so he doesn't say that. He feigns that loyalty.

"I don't need recuing... but you do!" A hand outstretches to fire a bolt of deep black energy at Sailor Moon - as an added touch, if it misses, it'll erupt into a black flower under her and vomit a second darkblast in a column! (They don't call Zoisite the Trickster General for nothing!)

He glares down as Jupiter jumps up, and dodges this first punch gracefully, almost elegantly. "No, this isn't what I should be doing! I SHOULD be enjoying a bath of the finest soaps and perfumes but instead I am here fighting you horrid girls because you won't just die! So I'm going to resolve this!" Zoisite is too busy dodging Sailor V's chains to counter-attack Sailor Jupiter, but she DOES manage to catch one of the chains in her hand, safely protected from the cutting-hearts by a gauntlet made of backness and starts forcing Dark Energy back through it, like a lightning rod. "Such an uncivilized weapon."

Sailor Moon crosses her arms and tilts up her nose. "Well, if you ever get bored enough of him, feel free to drop him off. I'll gladly take him back."

She does indeed evade the bolt, but not the column. She screams when the dark energy rushes through her, because, well, owie...

Minako Aino/Sailor V chirps up, "You want what Beryl wants? So you want Tuxedo Kamen? OOOooooOOOoooh." It's a little childish.

Less childish is the little flicks she gives her chain to try and catch it on Zoisite's wrist or arm. She grits her teeth and keeps a hold on her own dark-empowered chain.

Then leans back and falls off the edge so Zoisite can support her weight.

Momentum and a cushioning swirl of wind carry Sailor Jupiter back down after Zoisite smoothly evades contact; she lands in a crouch, just in time to hear Usagi cry out and glance back towards her friend with concern and alarm. "Sailor Moon!"

Oh, that does it.

"ZOISITE!" It's an angry bellow that carries like a clap of thunder, to match the sparks that blaze around her clenched fists. "Beryl's not the one you should be following!"

While Zoisite is occupied with Sailor Venus and the sudden yank of weight at the other end of that chain, Jupiter takes the opening and a running start into another flying leap, driving her fist full-force at that pretty face. "WAKE UP!"

It takes Zoisite a lot to not say "You can be together in death" as the beam hits Sailor Moon. In fact, it takes him so much not to say it, it actually requires a degree of focus and grinding his teeth behind his smiling, wicked and beautiful face.

His attention is not helped when Sailor V catches the chain on his arm and falls off the edge of the building, sending Zoisite un-gracefully tumbling forward in the air.

This means very bad things are about to happen. Very bad things Zoisite can see happening before they do, and life is in slow motion... and there's a VERY powerful fist and it connects with Zoisite's face. His beautiful, beautiful face.

    There's probably a very slow-mo closeup animated of it distorting from the impact.

He shatters the Venus Chain (which may lead to interesting results for the Senshi of Love) in his absolute shock and rage. That pretty mask is gone. There is no honey, only venom. A hand slowly, shakingly comes up to feel the bruise on his chin, the blood from a split lip.

YOU INEFFABLE, VILE, TWISTED, REJECT CRETIN!" Zoisite shouts at Jupiter specifically. With Sailor Moon momentarily down, Asclepius on another building, and Venus currently dealing with her archnemesis, Gravity - that leaves Jupiter and her fists as the sole recipient of Zoisite's incredible rage, flaring like a supernova. Both hands come out, and the burst of black energy that erupts is accompanied by a whirlwind of jet-black petals that all swarm at the rather punchy senshi.

That belch of dark energy doesn't last long in reality, but it lasts just about forever when you're feeling it tear through your soul.

When it's gone, she's on her hands and knees, trying to catch her breath.

The first thing she notices is Venus falling, and on instinct, she cries out a name. "Asclepius!!!"

Then she sees Jupiter.

It's then she realizes why Tuxedo Kamen tanks things. Because seeing a friend in danger is not something that sits well with her.

Before she can even think, she's in the air again and forcibly shoves her body against Jupiter. Whether this budges her or not is not what she's paying attention to.

"MOON HEALING ESCALATION!"

She's aiming her crescent want at the burst of dark energy, her own pure light crashing against it with all her strength.

Asclepius raises his staff as he fires off another burst from his rooftop location. This one is further away. He curses under his breath. He gets closer when the fallout from... whatever Zoisite is doing. He calls out as he raises his staff high.

"Zoistite. Stop this nonsense." he seethes. Yeah he has all the weight of like cotton candy here in his voice.

Then Sailor Moon calls out his name.

Then he looks to Venus.

Then he's teleporting mid-air.....placing a hand against Venus...

and trying to get her to not falling to her death somewhere on the rooftop.

Minako Aino/Sailor V wanted to drag Zoisite with her or hold onto the chain long enough that she had to take her hands off her chain.

The chain is ok. She can get another one instantly. Love-Me Chains are weird like that. Now she's mostly dealing with falling and ledge-clinging.

When Asclepius pops in, she's really snappy and demanding in the fractions of a second it would take to teleport back up. "Take me back! To the top. Fast!"

All of a sudden, Zoisite can feel it behind him, and everyone else can see-- a swirling black portal opening up in the night air. In the center of it, a figure resolves: navy blue jacket, partially armored and trimmed with light blue and gold designs, sword belt, red-lined black cape, pauldrons... and that distinct up-curl of short, wavy hair that characterizes two princes hundreds of thousands of years apart.

Dark Endymion.

"You just got hit by Jupiter," he says conversationally, reaching out to grab Zoisite's arm and yank him back out of the line of fire and toward the portal, "in the face. After getting slapped around by a bunch of Senshi anyway. And Moon's about to kill you. So. Let's get you fixed up, you can kill them all later, after you tell Kunzite what a dick I am for spoiling your fights."

He waves to the girls (and Daisuke). "Tell Mercury I said thanks for the opportunity to make a dad joke at that witch-hunting girl!"

Zoisite does not want to go through the portal. Zoisite wants to kill ALL OF THEM WITH HIS BARE HANDS. He turns to Dark Endymion - probably the only person who could move his Current Anger scale from 11 up to 12 somehow - and YELLS IN HIS FACE AS LOUD AS HE CAN. "I KNOW SHE HIT ME IN THE FACE. THAT'S WHY I HAVE TO KILL THAT LITTLE..." and thankfully Endymion is dragging him through the portal and the long string of curse words in many languages both ancient and modern is muffled by the struggling as he vanishes out of sight.

Asclepius just stares when.... Mamoru!? appears and steals Zoisite back away through a portal and he just...stares. This is AFTER teleporting Sailor V back up to the top of the tower of course. Which he did.

"Yeah. Okay." is all he can say. He looks back down at the group.

"...Are all you okay?" he asks looking around. "Besides the obvious?" he asks softly.

Minako Aino/Sailor V arrives just late enough to hear lots of impolite words, Endymion, retreats, and dad jokes.

Not early enough to get any hits in. It makes her sad. But only a little bit - technically, this one is a victory.

"Uh, also, thanks for the trip back up. I guess it was faster than crawlin'!"

Sailor Moon blinks at where Zoicite was. At where Endymion was.

She blinks.

"Dad jokes?" Ug. Why. "Still brain washed, why does he do things that are so..." She should say annoying. Really. "Hot?" Hey, she loves dad jokes.

She blinks and gives Asclepius. "Yep, all good." She hides her wand behind her back, hiding it from Venus, like a kid about to get scolded. "Thank you so much for catching her!"

She'd hug him, but she has a Jupiter leaning on her!

Asclepius smiles to Venus. "You're welcome. Sorry we didn't get back in time to get him for good." he asides.

He waves to Sailor Moon. "You're welcome, aswell." he turns to look around.

"I think these people'll be alright.... whenever they wake up." he says peeking over the edge.

"Media's gonna have a field day with this one I'm sure." he mutters.

He turns around. "I should be going then. Remember... if you need help. You all know how to contact me by now~" he says.

Then he'll politely teleport away after he's sure he doesn't need to respond to anyone else.

Minako Aino jumps off the building. But this time, with a little more control and less 'plunging to death'.