Chapter 3: Beautiful Momoko Park! Don’t Attack On a Special Day! “What?!?! How come Mama gets a whole basket to eat for herself?!” Hoshi whined. Seiya sighed. So many people thought Taiki was a glutton, when the fact was that she NEEDED to eat much more than the average person, considering that she had HUGE muscles and a height of 9 feet. She also exercised a lot, which was another reason. “Hoshi-chan, you know Taiki-chan needs to eat a lot just to be healthy. She’s not trying to take it all from you, and if you wanted extra food, I’m sure she’d let you have it,” Seiya reassured her niece. “I would more worry about Mama Pikachu eating all the food. You know how fat people are,” Nabiki commented. “How DARE you stereotype like that! Why you little...!!” Seiya lunged for Nabiki and started choking her (like Homer does to Bart on The Simpsons). “Seiya! Stop choking her. She’s just playing,” said Pikachu, intervening. “Yeah, that’s it! Of course you’d say that, fat people are all just jolly and stupid,” retorted Nabiki. “Nabiki-chan, she was defending you!” scolded Sushi. “Well, it’s obvious you would defend her. How come you’re Sailor Chibi Aurora, but are my sister? How come you took after our Mama Pikachu? It’s not proper,” challenged Nabiki. “I don’t know, okay?!” Sushi yelled, not really knowing the where or why of her Senshi powers, just that she had them. “I bet Mama Seiya likes me better because I’m Sailor Chibi Star Fighter,” bragged Nabiki. “No way! Until you stop stereotyping people, Sushi-chan is my favorite!” snapped Seiya, grabbing Sushi protectively. “She is? She’s got a dumb name,” retorted Nabiki. “How dare you! It is a very noble and traditional Japanese name!” Sushi shouted, touching her brooch in preparation for transformation. “No, it’s the name of a traditional food. Not a name for a person,” Nabiki said smugly, touching her pendant which started glowing as well. Before either of them transformed, however, Yuriko intervened in the crude way of dumping a bottle of water on each girl’s head. “Hey! Fighter Prism...YAAAH!!” Nabiki shrieked as Yuriko grabbed her and started running for the car. Momoko took Sushi as well. “Incompetents! How can you be afraid of battling the Sailor Senshi?!” Melissa was screaming at a girl with long black hair and one with short, dark blue hair. “Stop it! Mary and Kimberly have good reason to be scared; Tiffany just barely got out of there before those two wretched daughters of Saturn got her,” retorted a girl who looked oddly like Michiru. “You just always take Mary’s side, Elizabeth. What do you even SEE in a crybaby like her?” Melissa snapped. “You’ll see. My water powers can serve Mystina’s revenge better than yours can. Let’s have a test. Whoever can attack more Senshi is the more powerful,” Elizabeth challenged. “You’re on. I can see in Mystina’s old mirror that a group of Senshi are having a picnic. Let’s rain on it. But that obnoxious Taiki is there, too. She was the one Mystina always had trouble with,” Melissa said wisely. “Taiki? She’s not THAT much of a problem. I’ve always thought her pacifist attitudes were going to get her trouble. MWHAHAHAHA!!!!” laughed Elizabeth evilly. “I have an idea! Let’s take a boat ride while we eat!” Yuriko exclaimed. “That wouldn’t work. Mama could easily flip the boat over,” Azuri pointed out. “Hey! Taiki-chan has her good points too!” Seiya shouted. “Geez, I was just saying that it would be dangerous for her to ride a boat. I didn’t say she was all bad,” grumbled Azuri. Suddenly she heard a shriek, turned around, and saw Hoshi pulling on someone covered by the blanket. “I ate Kasumi, and I’ll eat you!” growled the person under the blanket. Hoshi was pulled under, there was some yelling and fighting underneath, the blanket flew up in the air, and Kasumi and Hoshi were underneath, panting. “What was that about? I doubt there’s anyone here who would be scared of that silly trick,” Pikachu said, then she looked up and saw Seiya clinging to a tree, shivering with fright. “Aunt Seiya is a wimp,” Azuri said bluntly, and Seiya jumped out of the tree and tackled her, sending them both rolling down the hill. Noticing there was a rather large drop down to the lake at the bottom of the hill, Taiki silently leapt into the air, jumped over the edge, and caught her older sister and daughter. She luckily was able to grab onto the ledge, holding Seiya and Azuri with one arm and holding herself and them up with the other. Pulling herself up with her super-muscles, Taiki was able to get all three of them safely at the bottom of the hill. Soon they all found a level spot to have their picnic. Immediately, unfortunately, Yuriko decided to stick Hoshi’s grape popscicle into Nabiki’s dark blue hair. Hoshi and Yuriko got in a fight, and Seiya tried to pull the cold, sticky treat out of her younger daughter’s hair. “That’s typical of her. She’s a middle child, so she’s just trying to get attention,” Nabiki remarked. Seiya, snarling, yanked the popscicle, wrenching it free and pulling some of Nabiki’s hair out in the process. “OWWW! Can’t you pull it out gently?!” Nabiki screeched angrily. “Then don’t stereotype people!” Seiya scolded. “Yeah, who are you to talk? You’re an Aquarius, but you don’t act like it,” Azuri pointed out. “And who are you to comment on how an Aquarius is supposed to act? You said you don’t believe in astrology!” Nabiki retorted. “Because you always tell Aunt Yaten to be more open-minded since she’s an Aquarius too! And YOU are NOT open-minded!” shouted Azuri, standing up and raising a threatening foot towards Nabiki’s head. Nabiki ducked out of the way, grabbing her pendant and shouting “Fighter Prism Power, Make Up!” Azuri toppled over, off balance from standing on one foot, and she landed on Taiki’s lap. “Mama! She’s crazy!” Azuri gasped. Taiki, ignoring the commencing fight, stood up to refill the water cooler at a nearby drinking fountain. Suddenly she was grabbed by Elizabeth, and Melissa encased a wall of ice around her. Taiki flung the cooler at the wall in an attempt to break it, but the second attacker, hanging from her perch on top of the ice wall, caught it. By now, everyone else had transformed. “How dare you do that to my sister!” shouted Star Fighter. “Free our mother!” shouted Chibi Maker and Sailor Nebula. “Rainbow Prismatic Ray!” Sailor Chibi Aurora called out, shooting a rainbow-swirled beam at Melissa, who ducked behind a tree. The attack hit the tree, and it crashed on the Senshi, all except for Sailor Spring, who had managed to get out on account of her having a height of 2 feet despite being 18 years old. Meanwhile, Taiki had transformed as well, but when she used her Senshi attack to melt the ice, Elizabeth used her water powers and doused her energy ball. Then she tried to punch a hole in the ice, but she just got her hand stuck. Smirking, Melissa waved her hand, and the ice started to inch up her arm, slowly freezing her. Sailor Spring noticed this (author’s note: the ice is clear, by the way, so it’s like looking into a crystal) and used her own attack, Spring Blossoms Tornado. At the same time, Melissa threw the cooler at the tiny warrior. The flower storm sucked up the cooler, and flung it out at the blue-haired villain, knocking her unconcious. Elizabeth then heard a mental message from Amanda. “Enough! Come back, you two! Attacking a whole bunch of Senshi was a stupid idea anyway,” she told her ocean soldier, using telepathy. “Okay. And when Melissa comes to, I’ll tell her I won the argument. I at least didn’t get knocked out,” Elizabeth bragged to herself as she teleported herself and Melissa away. “Summer Heat Scorch!” Sailor Summer put her flaming fist to the ice that was slowly encasing Taiki. Luckily, it started to melt, and soon Taiki was freed, with only a cold hand as a result. A few minutes earlier, all the Senshi together, shooting their attacks downwards, shot themselves free from under the tree. So everyone was free now.