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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,701 Views)
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URAE, Post Kyoto. Remember back when I started doing previews of the Sailor Mars intro chapter?

No?

Well, it happened.

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"Good morning! How may we help you?" the kind and beautiful young lady running the gift store down the hill greeted her.

"Tee hee!" Shiina Sakurako giggled giddily. "Oh, I just came for a good luck amulet! For love, I mean! I think I'm in real need for one!"

Minutes later, she rejoined Negi, Chamo, Asuna and Ayaka several blocks away, at a small park that was currently otherwise empty. "Everything went okay, Sakurako-san?" the boy teacher asked.

Shiina nodded, handing him the amulet. "Like silk, Negi-kun!"

"Well, obviously she doesn't know the first thing about the area, then," Asuna observed, "Or she'd have known you of all people never would need buying an amulet. Yep, she's fishy alright."

"But I still don't know how this could help, Negi-kun," the cheerleader said. "I mean, the other mages must have thought of that and checked these before, right? Why should we find something they couldn't?"

"Because we have a type of specialist they lack, Sakurako-san. A magic canceller," Negi said, examining the object closely. "No, I can't feel anything, but if you want to make the honors, Asuna-san?" He passed the amulet over to her.

"What do I do with this?" Asuna asked.

"Snap it by half, please," her teacher requested. "Don't worry, the money Sakurako-san used to buy it was mine."

"Ehhh!" Asuna's pigtails stood up. "But what if I get stuck with bad luck over breaking a sacred trinklet? Tell Iinchou to do it! Besides, this could help me with Takahata-sensei!"

"Just do it already, Asuna-san!" an annoyed Ayaka told her. "And besides, you'd need far more than this to catch the affections of any fine gentleman!"

"Since you're the instigator, I hope the bad luck goes to you!" Asuna shouted back. "Honestly, what kind of teacher promotes peer pressure..." she grumbled, easily snapping the artifact between her Baka-strong fingers.

Immediately, a diminutive wisp of black vapor emanated from the amulet, quickly dissipating into nothingness.

"Whoa," Asuna noted.

"We found it!" Sakurako cheered.

Negi nodded austerely. "Yes. That gift shop was set there while we were in our class trips, and since we resumed activities, young women have disappeared all across the city. I hoped it was only a coincidence, but..."

"Well, what do we do? This hardly proves anything in a court of law," Ayaka said. "Do we attack them directly, or what?"

"Maybe they're just selling amulets charged with black magic, but are otherwise innocent?" Asuna posed the question.

"What kind of ridiculous supposition is that?-!" Ayaka snapped.

"Why it's so far-fetched?" Asuna defended herself. "Itoshiki-sensei and Takane-sempai use dark magic all the time, and they're good guys! And Eva-chan-- Well, Itoshiki-sensei and Takane-sempai are good guys."

"What if we set a trap for them?" Sakurako asked. "One of us or more could get into that bus at the cursed hour, and then..."

"Absolutely not!" Negi gasped. "I'm not endangering any of you!"

"But we need power training and field practice to fight that end of the world thing Skuld-chan told us about, right?" Asuna asked.

"Actually, I have thought long and hard about it, and reached the conclusion maybe we should leave that for--" he began.

"I want to be as strong as Twilight Nee-sama!" Asuna said.

"Asuna-san, this isn't a game!" Negi raised his voice.

"No, it isn't," Ayaka agreed, placing a hand on one of his shoulders. "And that's exactly why we must do this, Sensei."

Negi looked at the three of them, who nodded resolutely as one while Chamo chuckled. The young teacher ended up slumping in defeat. "Very well," he relented. "I suppose there's something we might try..."
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"So, how was your class trip, Negi-sensei?" Itoshiki-sensei asked him.

Negi smiled a bit awkwardly. "Oh, it wasn't bad at all! We had some problems when a separatist from the Kyoto Association kidnapped Konoka-san and summoned two gigantic monsters, one of them intrinsically tied to Mc Dowell-san, to destroy the whole association and all Western mages, but we managed to prevail with the help of Ala Alba and Batman-sama."

"I see," the older mage nodded sparsely. "However, your secret wasn't compromised anymore than it already was, right?"

Negi fell into a perfectly still stance, his smile freezing as much as the rest of him.

"How many?" Itoshiki sighed patiently.

"Let's see... Iinchou-san, her maid Roberta-san..."

"Who?"

"You danced with her in the Christmas party."

"Oh. Her."

"And Chao-san, and Kuga Natsuki-san... Suzushiro-san, and naturally Konoka-san... Makie-san and Yuuna-san..."

"My God. Akashi-sensei is going to go insane..."

"Actually, it seems she has decided not telling him she knows yet. I respect her decision, although I'm sure it'll only provoke comical misunderstandings further along the line..."

"Comical ones? Still always the optimist, I see..."

"How 'still'? We only were gone for a week."

"It felt like more than one year, however."

"Yes, I guess it did. There also was Deadpool-san..."

"Who?"

... and Kaede-san and Ku-san, although Chisame-san remains in denial telling herself they could have been Baka enough to not make the connection between seeing me make a Pactio and my condition as a mage..."

"I wouldn't be so hasty at calling it denial. We are talking about Nagase-san and Ku-san, after all."

"... and Chisame-san's sister and her friend, who was our driver. And obviously Batman-sama, and Haruna-san and Nodoka-san, but it's okay, because they already had found a book holding the magical legacy of Clow Reed..."

"THE Clow Reed?-!"

"... and other than Asakura-san, I think there was no one else who found out!"

"That's great to know, although-- Asakura Kazumi?-!"

"She has promised she wouldn't tell anyone!"

"That is no guarantee of her silence! Asakura-san redefines 'free press' as 'press free from any moral obligations'!"

"You're exaggerating, Itoshiki-sensei. Asakura-san is a good girl, and she promised me she wouldn't tell a soul, with a hand on her heart..."

"And Sakurazaki-san behind her?"

"Not that you mention it, yes... Why? How did you know?"

"And remember!" Setsuna whispered, pulling the sword back as Negi walked away. "A single word about this is spread, damaging Ojou-sama and Negi-sensei's lives, and the sharp one is used! With a lot more pressure! And I do mean A LOT!"

"Dammit!" Kazumi growled. "This is previous censorship! The masses deserve to know! The truth will be made public eventu-- Okay, okay, I'll shut up! Just pull the darn sword from my spine already!"
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Zazie and Yue.

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Yue was sitting at the reception hall, waiting for her, by the time Zazie made it back to the inn, relatively late that afternoon. "Rainyday-san. I was worried about you. Why did you leave without telling me anything?"

"Got a call. Family affairs," she said.

"I see. Still, you at least could have told me before disappearing. What would I have told Negi-sensei if he asked me about your whereabouts?"

"Sorry."

Yue half-sighed, then patted the seat next to hers. "Mind to keep me company a little longer, please? Nodoka and Haruna aren't back yet. N-Not that I'm meaning your company is just a temporary substitute or anything, it's just... I feel lonely," she ended up confessing.

Zazie nodded and took the offered seat. Yue handed her a carton of pomegranate and cherry juice identical to the one she had been drinking, and Zazie accepted it with another single nod.

As their sipped their juices, Yue asked, "Did your errand go well?"

"Yes."

"I'm glad. So, you can drop by at Library Island with us any time you want, you know. That is, to check on the kind of books you need..."

"Thanks. But you can't find that kind of books at Library Island."

"You can't? No way. Library Island has all types of texts known to mankind. And those you bought today..."

"Only the basics. I'm going to need more advanced ones."

"Oh," Yue was mildly perplexed. "Oh, I see."

Somehow, there was something about that harmlessly phrased sentence that rattled Yue, and not only because it was a relatively long line coming from Zazie. It was as if, between the lines, the most enigmatic of her classmates had actually been saying "I know about the Clow, bitch." But surely that had to be Yue being paranoid after last night's events.

"Anyway," Ayase said, "I'm... happy we could spend some time together, then, even if it was a short one."

"Yes."

Yue had to half-smile. She wasn't sure why, but she still did.
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Senshi.

"So, tell me now, and tell me with full details," Minako eagerly said after all but pulling Akira into her room, and all but forcing her to sit at the other side of the small table where Ami had been studying, "How did your trip go? Did you meet any handsome guys?"

"Ahhh, w-well..." Akira gulped, "Sort of. I mean, I got to meet Konoka-san's father, who is, it must be said, actually... attractive for his age..."

"Waaaaaiiiiii!" Minako shrieked, waving her fists at the sides of her face. "Akira-chan goes for older men after all...!"

"I-I never said that! You only asked me if I met any handsome men, and he was the only actually handsome man I met there! Just because I can see why he'd be attractive, it doesn't mean I'd be attracted, myself!"

Never lifting her eyes from her laptop, Ami asked, "But, is he a good man?"

"Well, yes, he seemed very devoted and loving of Konoka," the taller swimmer said.

"And well placed?" Minako's eyes shone.

"If you mean his economic status, yes, he has a huge mansion at the mountains," Akira answered. "Or at least he had it before all those demons trashed it down."

"Yeah, demons are always so annoying with their--" Minako perked up in alert, something Artemis and Ami already had done before she even started talking. "Wait, which demons?-!"

"The ones an enemy of Konoe-sama summoned to stop us from rescuing Konoka," Akira said. "Luckily, the three other Sailor Senshi I met there helped us alot. That was why I came here this early, actually. I understand that's the kind of subject you just can't discuss over the pho--"

"THREE OTHER SAILOR SENSHI?-!" Artemis and Minako yelled.

Akira nodded. "Pluto, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto-san is a bit cold, but actually seems a nice person, although eccentric. Uranus-san is very... genki, but in a sort of creepy way. And Neptune-san is... well, very pretty." She thought of adding "and a real witch" at the sentence's end, but decided Artemis and Minako already had enough, with the shocked way they stared at her, long hairs randomy sticking out their heads in an abnormal way.

Seeing the talkative and hyperactive Minako had fallen into mute stillness, Akira shyly added, "Oh, and by the way. I suppose there's another handsome man you'd like to hear about. I don't know for sure if he's handsome, with that mask he wears, but I also met Batman-sama. At the very least he's well muscled, and I know you like that, so..."

"YOU MET BATMAN-SAMA, TOO!" Minako began to shake.

"THREE OTHER SAILOR SENSHI!" Artemis gasped.

"Are you sure that was the real Batman, Ookuchi-san?" Ami asked her.

"I think so. He certainly knew well how to fight. It also seems I made an enemy out of a girl with powers over fire I ran into twice. I don't think she has anything to do with the Dark Agency, however. I was convinced she actually has good intentions, even if she's a bit misguided. Her name is Homura, does that ring a bell from anywhere, Artemis-san?"

"No, no!" the cat shook his head. "But let's discuss that later! Tell us more about those THREE NEW SAILOR SENSHI first!"

"Sure thing. Oh, Pluto-san said Luna-san sent you her best regards, by the wa-- Artemis-san?"

He had fallen off the table as soon as the word 'Luna' had been uttered.

Despite everything, Minako found it in herself to snark. "What is it, Artemis-kun? Another old girlfriend? Didn't you have enough with Yoruichi, Blair and Felicia-san?"

Akira blinked a few times. "Who?"

"Don't ask!" the blonde sighed. "You don't want to know, trust me."
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Ship of Fools.

"Wait, no! Don't fight! Don't fight!" Tokiha Mai cried out, trying to stand both as far from the fight as possible and close enough to clam the two weirdos down, waving her arms around. It worked as well as you'd expect.

En alguna otra parte, Emiya Shirou estornudo.

A giant labrys appeared in the hands of the hooded woman as she backed away far from a sword slash of the braided girl. And then the older girl began singing aloud without a care in the world while ramming ahead. "Aozora ippai ni. Watashi-tachi no omoi ga chiribame rarete iku...!"

The labrys and the just as huge sword clashed against each other, in a grandiose way that sent shockwaves and sparks everywhere. the deck under Mai's feet quaked and she lost balance, just as a random flying spark hit her hair and burnt the tips of several of her strands. She was falling on her back when she felt a pair of powerful arms encircling and holding her before she could hit the deck. Blinking, she stared at the confidently smiling face of her benefactor. "Archer-san!"

"Not even at Mahora yet, and your life's already endangered..." he shook his head, faintly amused. "Really, at this rate you won't even make it to mid-terms..."

She disentangled herself quickly, while both strangers kept on pushing against each other, snarling vigorously. The smaller one was quickly gaining a clear edge, pushing her adversary back. "T-Thank you, Archer-san, but this is no time for jokes! We have to separate those two before they kill each other!"

"I was unaware I was joking," he said, hands on his hips as if the whole ship wasn't trembling around them, "And what it is to you if they kill each other?" He casually caught the hooded female in mid-flight as the smaller girl tossed her back like a ragdoll, before she could splatter against a wall. Taking a quick peek inside of the hood, he hummed. "Although I guess it would be kind of a waste, in this one's case..."

"GEH!" the mystery woman slapped his prying hand away, swinging her labrys threateningly. "Don't get touchy, Romeo!" Then, seeing how the petite girl was charging at them to Mai's gulping horror, she easily blocked her rampage with her own weapon, holding her straining ground against her. "Go! Run away, you idiots!"

"But-But she might kill you!" Mai protested.

There was a tingle of perfect white teeth in a grin under the hood's shadows. "Who, me? Nonsense! I'm too cool a character to be killed off in the first episode!"

"Hate breaking your bubble, but we're in Chapter 47 already," Archer said, beginning to push Mai away from the struggle.

"Archer-san, separate them, please!" Mai asked. "They're going to take the whole boat down!"

"Don't be so paranoid, Mai-san," he chided her. "These are, after all, human beings. Stupidly powerful as they are, with emphasis on 'stupid', it's not like they are Servants, and--"

The deck section under the two combatants collapsed from the sheer pressure of their standstill, and the whole area of the corridor crumbled down; Mai fell with another scream as there was no floor below her anymore. Archer easily caught her again during the fall, as the two strangers kept slashing at each other even while falling. The Servant pondered, "Hmmm. Well, I should have known better than this, I suppose..." Then he shrugged without batting an eye, as he landed on his feet down into what seemed to be a grimly dark and huge storage room, securing Mai against himself to shield her from the blunt of the impact.

After hitting the floor with twin thuds, both fighters shook themselves off and began trying to chop each other down again.

"Do something!" Mai told Anthy's magical boytoy/bodyguard/whatever he truly was. "They way those two are going, they'll sink the ship in no time!"

"What a bother," he grunted. "This has nothing to do with the Grail War, so why should I care?" He looked aside while Mai fumed.

"Don't give me that crap!" the orange haired girl shouted. "Don't you even care about what happens to Anthy-chan?"

"Well, all I'd need is going to her, taking her to an escape boat, and leaving. As a matter of fact, I think I might do just that right now.."

"Hey, hey, no! Listen to me! Don't tell me you're a cowardly poser who only acts cool!" as she said that, the fight sent several boxes down, crashing into splinters and startling her.

Archer wasn't even fazed at all. "I have no reasons to obey your orders. I only recognize Himemiya Anthy as my Master, and believe me, I'm no foolish hero of justice. Give me one good reason why I should obey you."

"Fine, I'll give you two!" she smacked herself on the chest. "In the case you haven't learned it yet, nature dictates women lead and men follow, because boobs! And I have big ones, so I have a lot of authority! So there!"

Archer blinked. "What kind of desperate faulty logic is--"

"Just go!"

He sighed, pulling two short blades out of his badass trenchcoat. "You realize this is just going to lead into a hilariously disastrous Let's You and Him Fight misunderstanding, don't you?"

"GO!"

"Very well..." he said, starting a dash against the black haired girl, who had subdued and pinned the woman against the floor, with a foot on her chest, and held the titan of a sword menacingly above her. Before either could reach their objective, however, a cry came from the level above them. Mai looked up to see a shapely girl she recognized from earlier that day, but now looking much more majestic, all in black and hovering down, standing on a large black humanoid figure with a featureless white mask. Her long golden hair trailed behind her, and her fists were balled up at her hips defiantly. Archer stopped in mid-spring with an annoyed grunt, really missing Rin for once.

"Foul evildoers, threatening the peace and safety of our passengers! You are under arrest in the name of the Mahora Paranormal Defense Commitee!" she said, and her voice filled the whole chamber. "Takane D. Goodman, THE APOSTLE OF JUSTICE, will make you pay for your sins!"

"What in the world," Mai said.

With an angry huff, the small girl with the giant blade jumped on the fallen woman's chest, using it as a trampoline of sorts to leap up at the newcomer, slashing at her. Mai was sure several laws of physics had just been shattered, but nonetheless rushed to the downed woman, pulling her hood off before she could stop her. "Are you okay?-! Hang on there, please! I..."she paused, seeing the beautiful face and bright red hair of the woman, "... wait, don't we know each other from somewhere?"


Next: Mikoto vs. Takane!
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I still remember it as if it had happened yesterday.

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The gateway down exploded and then imploded back into itself before the legions of angel brandishing flaming swords could reach it, compacting into a miniature black hole that swallowed itself and then was no more. The goddesses standing on the level above stared down in shock, an emotion they had forgotten they had long ago.

"They're gone! They're back at Midgard, with the Code!" a young Peorth panicked. "Lady Anzasu, what should we do?-!"

"And they stole our panties too!" the young Urd added.

Belldandy gasped softly, with a hand on her lips. "We... We cannot possibly initate retrieval programs, can we?"

With her hands on the protection rail, her mother Anzasu let a very long sigh out. "No. No, we cannot. The terms of the agreement with Nifelheim were clear. We cannot interfere with the mortal realm any more than they can."

"But Clause 5438, Paragraph 6932, specifies we can start an emergency protocol under Type Alpha situations like this!" the young Rind said. "Give the word, Lady Anzasu, and we can launch an erasure process on the site where they landed!"

"No, since they have the copy of the Code," the mother goddess shook her head. "Hitting it could trigger a Third Impact. The consequences for the mortal realm could be catastrophic, and we have no Omega Initiative clearance."

"All those lives..." Belldandy whispered.

Her mother straightened up. "I will assume full responsibility over the breach and escape to the All Father. You all did what you could. Now go down there and attend to the Security Squadron Gold. Some of them might have been injured."

"But, My Lady--!" Rind protested.

"You heard me, Rind."

As her mother sharply left and her sisters went down to carry on her olders, a tiny, wide eyed Skuld kept on looking at the place where the gateway had been. To think, simple mortals with such primitive technology could have booby trapped a Heavenly escape way like that...

"Cool..." she whispered.

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"We did it!" the Juraian Prince pumped a fist up. Back then, he still was an optimistic fool, a true Idiot Hero. Not in book smarts, on which he had plenty, more than any living human but Lorentz, but in the ways of life. A pampered rich boy who had ran away from his father's domains after seeing their subjects were slaves. The poor idiot. As if it wasn't the same everywhere, and it wouldn't be the same forever no matter what. Back then, I was the only one I could see it. Then again, that's the advantage being the oldest and wisest one has.

The Prince had come up with the name in a whim. Ala Argenta. No doubt due to the wings of silvery energy he could display at extreme situations. He always was a narcissistic, like any good prince is, even if he wouldn't admit it. Always thinking the whole world ws on his shoulders, always believing he knew better than everyone, when it was the full opposite. Then again, since those wings had saved us from certain death up there with their shielding capacities, I played along. As a sign of gratitude.

Next to him, Lorentz panted and nodded wearily. The weakest and frailest of us all, only brought along because of his mental prowesses. Our Smart Guy. The visor he had used to protect his eyes while surfing through the Yggdrasil databakans and retrieve the info on the Code had fused to his face due to the Holy Light, and there were hideous bleeding scars where the metal melded to the flesh. They would take years to heal, but right now, he didn't care. He was happy, as well.

"Miss Kimidori?" he asked with a weary but vivacious voice. "Is it safe?"

The biggest outsider of us all, you could have called her our Sixth Ranger, analyzed the huge and heavy metallic container sealed with glowing runes she was holding in her small pale hands. We could see the complex codes running down in her eyes for a few moments before she nodded, her long light green hair caressed by the dry breeze of the desert. "Yes. The Code has survived entry, as well as the Tabris samples. The mission has been reported as a success to the Data Overmind. Thank you, it has been a mutually benefiting collaboration."

"Hah! I told you we were going to do it," the other alien, the green skinned one, turned to smile at me. "See now, Savage? It was worth it, after all. With this, we have the key to a better world. One that won't need subjugation under anyone like you."

He towered over me, full of might and majesty. Our Big Guy. He still had a lot to learn, however. Behind him, the short man with charcoal black skin stood in silence, arms behind his back. Now, maybe he understood it to some degree. It always was difficult to tell with Popo. Truth be told, he was the only one of the bad of fools who gave me pause. There was something unnerving about him I never could exactly quantify or pin down. He never did anything that threatened our goals, and yet, I had the impression at times he, and not me, was the team's Token Evil Teammate. His vacantly cruel remarks at times didn't help matters.

Still, I wasn't without those myself. "We'll see," I said. "I wish you good luck in your enterprises from this point, lady, gentlemen, but I believe this is where our paths grow apart. I got what I was looking for, and so did you, so I see no need to stick with you anymore. I have no interest on creating any new world; only on ruling over this one. Maybe when I'm done with that..."

The green giant stepped on my way. "Wait a second. If you think we are going to--"

"Let him go," the Juraian Prince said. "We must honor our word. We swore we would let him escape just this once if he helped us, and he did."

"That is true," Popo said with a single nod, his expression unchanging.

With a gruff humming, the green goliath stepped aside reluctantly. Yet I could feel his killer intent, his desire to squash me down. "You'll have to reign that dark side someday, my friend," I walked past him. "Or you could end up actually hurting someone."

"I'm not your friend!"

"Savage!" the Juraian Prince called out for me one last time.

"Yes?" I asked. Vandal Savage. Back when I was young and stupid, when I was just trying to make a name for myself as a barbaric conqueror, I renamed me that hoping to impress my enemies. If I had to do it again now, I'd choose a less stupid name. For God's sake, it sounds like something a Gotham madman would come up with. But despite it all, I have grown used to it, and it is part of what I am now, for better or worse.

"Thank you," the Prince said, and there was warmth in his voice.

I smirked at him over my shoulder. "You're welcome. Just remember my warning, hero. You either die a young hero, or become an old villain. So please try to die young so this old man can have his way gracefully, will you?"

And the Prince laughed, full of life and enthusiasm. "Oh, Savage. I'm almost going to be sorry next time I foil your plans and kick your butt. Almost!"

"Heh. It might be. Regardless, good luck all the same, Lifemaker."

"Huh?"

"Well, you told me you hated your birthname and what it stood for, didn't you? And you are going to create new life, so it is just fitting you get a name matching your new existence. Farewell, Lifemaker."

As I walked away slowly under the dawning sun, I still could hear him one final time, musing to himself.

"Lifemaker, huh? I actually think I sort of like it..."

Like I said, back when I was young, and I still was somewhat young then, I came up with names only an idiot would like.
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Dolly.

Around the time my parents divorced, my mother went crazy. Despite my best efforts to learn on it, I've never been told if Dad decided leaving Mom because she went crazy, or if Mom went crazy because he decided leaving her. I'd believe either option. The thing is she went crazy as fuck, and she began believing one of my dolls was me. She ignored me but bathed the doll, dressed it up, combed its hair and slept with it. Now I look back at it and just go 'That was some fucked up shit,' but back then it was a really big deal for me. I mean, I was just a dumb kid, and when you are one, you think the world starts and ends with your old folks.

I wasn't allowed visiting my mother's bedroom alone. Old Man Nitta, who was a friend of my parents and not so old back then, took over as my tutor, and he never let me be alone with Mom. But even the best watchdog slips at times, and one rainy night, I slid into Mom's room to see if I could snap her back. Like I said, I was a dumb kid, like all kids, even that English teacher twerp. I had just watched some Care Bears tripe and I was sure I could bring Mom back with the power of my love.

"Mom? It's me... Asuka..."

"I know it's you, Asuka-chan, silly, now let me put this pretty new dress on you..."

"Mom, I'm over here...! Mom...!"

Since she wouldn't stop playing with the damn doll, I got angry, grabbed the fucking thing, slammed it against the floor, and stomped on it. Hard.

Mom looked at me as if I had just murdered her dear, precious daughter, and began strangling me.

I had no chance against her. She was much bigger and stronger, even without taking in account the maniacal rage fueling her then. I was lucky Old Man Nitta overheard our brief struggle and crashed in, saving my life. Right after that, he tried calling Dad, but Dad was too busy with his honeymoon in Germany and couldn't be bothered to come, sorry. Honestly, I don't hold anything againsy his second wife because she's a cool person to hang around with, much better at it than Mom. And it wasn't her fucking problem, so of course she had no obligation or reason to care. But I do hold it against my father. I was his only daughter. He should have cared.

Mom was sent to the funny farm, and I didn't see her again for another two years. While she was there, she met some woman who had been in severe post-trauma stress, catatonic and emotionless for months. Her name was Katsuragi Misato. Somehow, they managed to click during group therapy. And you know, it's fucking annoying, how her own daughter's love never did anything for her, but some pills and nookie with a fucking drunk brought her back. The thing is that they more or less cured each other, because sure as eggs it wasn't because of the hacks treating them. Later I learned one of those, a weirdo named Hugo Strange, returned to America and became one of those freaks who try putting the Batman into giant cheese grinders or something.

Since Dad still couldn't be bothered, the courts handed me back to Mom after she was declared competent again, and no doubt after Grandpa greased a few hands up as well. She told me we'd have a new, better life from then on, and we moved to Mahora, where 'Uncle Nitta' was teaching. Naturally, we moved in with the Katsuragi slut. And there we are now.

It's not like I'm complaining, really. If Mom's happy now, more power to her, and Misato can be kinda cool in that she lets me do things without being overbearing. Mom spends most of her free time working extra hours, so it's not like she tries strangling me anymore. She never fails to recognize me, and to embarrass me in public like all mothers do, and I can really appreciate the fact she's still alive and somewhat kinda normal.

I don't have nightmares about the rainy night anymore.

But even so, I've hated dolls ever since.
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"I'd like to know something..." Batman said, suddenly standing right behind the Misoras, who yelped and hugged each other.

"See? Of course he'd be right there, " Illya sighed.

"You followed us all the way from Kyoto!" a disbelieving Chisame said. "I can't believe it! Don't you have better things to do than stalking us around? Like, going to hunt the Joker before he kills another dozen or something?"

"Hnh, " the Batman grunted. "The Kyoto trail is cold by now. Joker moves quickly once a plan falls apart, and burns all traces left behind as best as he can. I have to try new angles to deduce what will he do next, and figuring exactly why he was after you, and why he had one of those 'Averrunci' with him, should be of help with that."

He held a small picture of an albino girl with large sad eyes. "My contacts got me this last night, " he said, mentally thanking Barbara's hard work in a school night. "She's the girl Joker held hostage at Cinema Town. A bio-engineered prodigy baby kidnapped from an international military agency a month ago. Information on her is scarce, but she has been raised to be the perfect hacker, a literal living computer interface."

Chisame and Calculator's eyes shone despite themselves, their interest highly piqued.

"I see. That would explain why not only they could breach through the magical barriers at Eishun's manor, but also all the added electronic defenses, " Takahata pondered.

"What was he doing there in the first place?" asked Asakura.

"From what he pieced together, stealing the Yoh-katana Hinata to hand it over to Tsukuyomi-san, " Negi said, making both Setsunas cringe in remembrance, and Konoka sigh sadly. "Later, they escaped together, along Quartum-san, Temptress-san, Tsukuyomi-san's twin bodyguards, and Sailors Uranus and Neptune."

"Wasn't there a crocodile man and an old guy with a puppet there, too?" Asuna scratched her head.

"Wait, Tsukuyomi has twin bodyguards here?" Asakura repeated, taking notes. "Let me guess, she picked them identical to Setsuna, didn't she?"

"NOOOO!" both Setsunas cried.
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URAE Omake. Probably for the tail end of the chapter, after Ala Alba 2814 has left.

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"Hey, Negi," Asuna said. "After all I've done for you, what if you do something for me?"

"Ah? Like what, Asuna-san?"

"Well, what if you find out what does Takahata-sensei like, so I can give it to him?"

"Oh, but I know that already!" Negi said. "He likes ramen, waffles and French toast!"

"Pass. I'm not good at all at cooking. Anything else?"

There was a thoughtful beat pause, after which Negi cheerfully added, "And cigarettes!"

"No, that won't do! First thing I'll do after we marry is making him quit that decadent habit! Well, after the honeymoon, but still!"

Chibi Setsuna, wearing a police uniform, floated to Asuna's side and handed her an infraction. "This is for incorrect use of the 'decadent habit' term, Asuna-san!" Then she winked for the readers and pumped her butt up a bit, chirping "Fanservice!" before floating away.

Asuna and Negi blinked before returning to their conversation as if nothing had happened. "I need something I can use to seduce him, no matter what! I don't know, for a starter, ask him what he really thinks about me!"

"B-But Asuna-san, that's bad! You're a teacher and student, and...! And...!"

Asuna leveled an accusing glare on him and showed him her Pactio Card.

Negi shrank down and squeaked, "I'll see if I can go read his mind..."

Asuna was mildly surprised. "Won't you need a Pactio like Psycho Purple-san's for that?"

"No, that's for long range mind reading. I can read minds too on direct physical contact lasting a few moments. I'll try it on Takamichi this afternoon after the teachers' meeting!" he promised.

A few hours passed.

"Well?" Asuna urged him, eagerly, when they met again. "Did it go well?"

"Ahhh... yes, I suppose..." Negi scratched the back of his neck. "I asked him what he thought about you before touching him and reading his mind. Although I think his mind was elsewhere, because I don't know what could a donkey have to do with it..."

"Ah? What happened? What's that donket nonsense about, Negi?"

Negi gulped aloud nervously and answered reluctantly. "I don't know! But all he could think about was some 'nice ass'!"

Asuna fainted.
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For the pun to work, Takahata must have been thinking in English. And Asuna must be able to get English double entendres.
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For the pun to work, Takahata must have been thinking in English. And Asuna must be able to get English double entendres.

Hence, why it's only an Omake. Other than the whole Chibi Setsuna thing.
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Long overdue return to the Mai Hime subplot. Plus, Takane!

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The strange blond girl had made herself a sword of shadows, somehow, and was now dueling the girl Mai had given mouth to mouth breathing that morning. In the meanwhile, the no less strange pale teacher in the hakama Mai also had met earlier that day had fallen at Archer's feet before he could join the fray.

Looking up, way up at the tanned taller man, Itoshiki Nozomu asked, "Are you the Angel of Death?"

"Uh... No. I'm his receptionist."

Itoshiki rose back to his sandaled feet, wooden ruler well in hand. "Are you the one behind this chaotic ruckus?"

"As usual in these cases, it's the work of ladies," Archer replied, pointing to where the dueling girls kept on clashing swords, with the blonde quickly getting the worst part.

"Hey!" Mai said.

"I see," Itoshiki calmly looked that way. "Then, I suppose I should--"

"Stay out of the way," Archer said just as evenly, casually slamming his right hand down on the back of Despair's neck, knocking him out in a single merciful chop. He grabbed him and tossed him into Mai's arms, making the relatively ordinary student stumble back and fall on her butt. "Take good care of him, will you, Mai-san? After all, you're used to look after babies."

"Say anything bad about Takumi-kun and you'll regret it," Mai deadpanned as Archer eyed both combatants, then leaped on the smaller one.

"Watch and learn. The most dangerous one must always go down first!" he said for Mai's benefit.

Feeling him come her way in the nick of time, the small girl kicked Takane back to get herself more space, before swinging her huge sword at the incoming Servant. But he only blocked it easily with one of his much smaller blades, smiled in a confident way, and said, "You shouldn't have done that. Trace on."

Much to the girls' shared shock, an identical looking copy of the giant weapon appeared in his hands. He used it to swat the little girl away as easily as a fly.

"Hey!" Mai yelled. "Don't hurt her, either! She's only a kid!"

"Wouldn't dream of it," he coldly said as the attacked girl rubbed her head and pushed herself back to her feet with her own massive blade's help. But then Takane, with an impressive battle cry of KYA-KYA-KYA-KA-YAAA, lunged at Archer with several shadow constructs at once. Archer easily dodged each one of them, slashing them to ribbons of darkness with his newly acquired weapon. "Quite an interesting blade, this Miroku. However, it is a bit impractical for closed spaces, so..." he pulled it back, falling back to use his dual shorter blades again.

Believing him in a disadvantage, both other combatants, placing their own differences aside for the moment, jumped on him at the same time. But seconds later they were sent flying back against opposite sides of the machine room.

"... Wow," Mai whispered, as the red-haired woman at her feet grumbled in recovery, pulling her hood back on. "He's good..."

"Nothing in this mess is any good," the msytery woman mumbled, then looked around for her labrys. As she grabbed it, she felt a bony hand on hers. She looked up to see an already recovered Itoshiki staring down at her with haunted eyes. "Sugiura-sensei?" he asked.

Sugiura Midori jerked in place before talking in falsetto. "Who? Me? Sugiura Midori? No! I'm just a much younger, seventeen years old warrior of justice! My name is, um, Pretty Cure! No, wait, Cutie Honey! Actually... Look, I don't even know any Sugiura Midori, okay?-!"

"Wow," he blinked. "Even worse at it than Kasuga-kun. It's certainly impressive."

"Bah!" she shook her armed hand free from his grip, even as he tried taking a better peek into her hood. "Never mind that! That bastard will kill those two poor girls if we don't act pronto!"

"Hey, he's not a--!" Mau began, but then Itoshiki interrupted her without even listening.

"Indeed!" he said solemnly. "So I'll do the only thing I can and sacrifice myself for them!" and he threw himself into the middle of the conflict before anyone could stop him. "Cut me to ribbons, but don't harm the children...!"

Takane batted him aside with a big shadow puppet. "Don't be a clown, Sensei!"

"I'm in despair! Being reduced to comedic relief has left me in despair!" Itoshiki wailed as he was slammed against one of the nearby machines. "Even if it's probably more than I deserve..."
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