Bishoujo no Senshi...Sailor Ryder!

[Asrana]

"Mmm...besides what's in your satchel, not that-Oh! I'm such an idiot sometimes...your communicator, it should be on your dresser...looks kinda like a clalculator, y'know?"

Sighing at himself, he yawned and stretched. "I hate getting up that early...probably why I missed it." Shrugging, he sat down.

[RyderHakubi]

"Actually, I do know what the communicator looks like..." Ryder replied as she pulled out the satchel and grabbed the communicator off her dresser.

"I suppose I'm ready now..."

[Bean Bandit]

Suddenly, Ryder's satchel rang.
More precisely, a small cell phone within it began ringing, and the new Senshi of love answered. "Moshi Moshi?"

A sort of brusque, unrefined female accent comes back down the phone, though it sounds a little unsure of itself. "Uh, is this Minako Aino?"

Ryder was not much better, still getting used to being Minako... However, since this seemed to be a voice she didn't know from Sailor Moon, she relaxed and replied, "Yeah, you've got her..."

"Oh, good," replies the voice. "Are you.. well.. not where you should be, in a manner of speaking?"

Blinking at the question, she asks, "Uh, if you're a narc trying to get me, I'm on my way to school! Hell, it hasn't even started yet..."

"Oh. That's not what I meant," replies the voice. "Does the word 'Soulriders' mean anything to you?"

Ryder's eyes suddenly dropped from being happy, with a bit of anger mixed in, to dead seriousnes, as she replied, "Yeah, I know it... Who are you, and what the hell do you want?"

"So touchy," observes the voice. "I'm Carthrat. Who the hell are you?"

Ryder suddenly was happy... Extremely happy... VERY INCREDIBLY HAPPY... as she said, "RAT-BASTARD!!! Thank God!"

"Hah! 'Thank God', indeed.." replies Carthrat, chuckling.

"Hey, out of all of us, there are worse people that could find me first... like Kwok... and Kwok... and did I mention Kwok?" Ryder replied as she smiled to Artemis, mentioning to him, with her hand over the reciever, "It's one of the others..."

"I don't think anyone else got a list of names to search for, though," replies Carthrat, flatly. "By the way.. have you had a shower yet?"

"What kind of question is that? Of course I took a shower... it was... interesting..." Ryder replied, a bit of a blush forming at that last part.

"Interesting? It was.. educational," replies Carthrat, blushing a little herself.

"Yeah... definately..." Ryder added, still thinking about why it took her a while to finish.

"But, uh, that's not what I'm supposed to be talking about. Nonono. Ok. Ok. First, are you in one piece? Had any weird shit happen to you so far?"

"Oh, yeah... forgot to mention... If you haven't guessed by now, my name is," Ryder said before taking a deep breath, "I am known as Valetinez Alkalenela Zeehock Sushira Boherez Gombigomela Blue Stradavari Tralentrent Pierre Andre Charttenhemos E'Vonnivitchi Baldos George Doitzel Kaizer The Third... And you've already called me, haven't you Rodent-chan?"

"I'll call you Ryder for short," replies Carthrat, flatly.

"Aww... How'd you guess it was me?" Ryder replied with a hint of disappointment in her voice...

"Because nobody else speaks like that," replies Carthrat, nodding to herself. "Except maybe Kwok."

"Don't you dare compare me to him..." Ryder warned, before remembering Rat's question, "Well, besides a missing piece that I miss so much, I'm in one piece. And, I've had a couple of twisted nightmares, fell over about 20 times trying to learn to walk in heels, and have to go back to high school... other than that, it's been peachy keen."

"High school? You ain't going to school! We've got stuff to do!" exclaims Carthrat.

"I know that very much, but if I don't go, then the other Senshi will find me out, and I don't want that to happen yet..." Ryder replied, annoyance in her voice...

"Call in sick," replies Carthrat, flatly.

"Har har, that would bring Usagi over to try and make me feel better..." Ryder replied, equally flatly...

"I don't know. Make something up. Or you could just come clean with them. Though they'll probably try and exorcise you or something. Anyway, that doesn't matter just now. You seen anything called 'Steel Angels' or something?"

"No, I haven't... why?"

"Well, someone we know is from that series. Except, I don't know, she's in stasis or asleep or something, in a temple on the outskirts of Juuban.And, y'see, if Chaos or wheover gets to her first, I think she can be turned against us. Now, Remy is the one who told me this. He also told me who you were, along with a few other people."

"But I think it's absolutely crucial that we get to this person before anyone else does."

"It is important... we can't lose anyone to Chaos... Except Kwok."

"Ryder," snaps Carthrat, "Don't joke about that."

"I know, I know... Don't give me the Lunar Inquisition, alright?" Ryder replied, her serious tone and look returning...

"Right. Anyway, the first thing we have to do is *find this temple*."

"All I know is that it's on the outskirts of Tokyo, around the Juuban area."

"Look.. oh, yeah. I'm Ritsuko from.. Those Who Hunt Elves, that's it. Ra-chan is with me; she landed Yomiko Readman. The other people I know of are Sakura Kinamoto, and Tsuruko Aoyama. We're going to try contacting them, and then try and find some place to meet."

"You CAN use my place I suppose... My... Uh, Minako's parents are out of town on work related business, so we could meet here if you can find it."

"Well, you're the one who lives there. I'll get the address off you when we're ready to move."

"Look, after I've contacted as many people as I can, I'll try and get us all to Juuban so we can search for this temple place."

"Alright, that sounds like a plan O'Fearless Leader... In the meantime, I've got to try and keep myself from being found out today. I'd rather have some proof of my identity when Luna finds out..."

"Sure you'll have proof. Us. And don't you have some cat of your own?"

"Of course I do," Ryder replied as she started to pet Artemis, "But, do you honestly think she'll believe him? You watched the series, you know how much faith Luna has in Artemis..."

"Well. Actually. I didn't watch the series," replies Carthrat, flatly.

Ryder quickly whispered, "No offense..." to her cat before replying, "Oh great... well, feel lucky you've got someone who doesn't need to prance around in a CFM outfit to get her powers."

"You do have a point," replies Carthrat. "But any moron can use a gun. Only you can do what you do."

"And of all of them, I had to get stuck with the one I liked the least... Why couldn't I have been Ami or something. Then I wouldn't have to act brainless..."

"On the other hand, if we need to seduce someone, you've got all the equipment necessary."

"Har Har Rat... Go Fuck Off And Die..."

"I'll be doing that. I'll phone you again when we've got our plans sorted out...Oh, yeah. You wouldn't know anything about what's happening yourself, would you? Remy contacted me, I guess something else could've contacted you.. or something."

"Nothing contacted me... I've been in the dark, except for the post-armageddon nightmare..."
"Ok. Any questions, queries, or doubtful points?"

"I think it was my own self-esteem getting in my way... Or, maybe it was a wake-up call..."

Carthrat blinks. "Um.. nightmares? Self-esteem?"

"Sorry... just rambling a bit... No, I don't think there's anything else... Besides, of course, who's phone this is..."

"Oh! I forgot to mention. I'm with Nenene Sumiregewa, in Yomiko Readmans apartment. It's Nenene's mobile. Heaven knows how much of a bill I've put on it." She hesitated. "Here, I'll give you her number."

Ritsuko hesitated a moment, then read off a string of numbers to Minako.


Ryder smiled and replied, putting her pen back into her bag, "Good... Now, if I had actually seen RoD, that would mean something..."

"Well, no time to worry about the specifics. Try and get out of school."

"I'll be seeing you later. Hopefully."

"Yeah... I'll try and cook up something, but, it'll be hard..."

"Well. Stay safe, and all."

*Click*

Ryder closed her cell phone, and sighed...

[Bean Bandit]

Suddenly, as Ryder was about to walk out the door, she saw the TV, and it triggered her memory... "Oh shit, I do know that! Fuck me!" she exclaimed as she pulled her cell out and dialed Nenene's number quickly. The phone rang, and an older woman's voice answered. After Minako identified herself Ritsuko's voice returned.

"What? Forget something?"

"Of course I forgot something you idiot, I wouldn't be wasting her minutes if I didn't..."

"Haw haw."

"Yeah... it's all coming down this weekend, at the Tokyo Dome. It looked to me like it was something like ULTRA... Oh God, please tell me you've read ULTRA."

"Not only havn't I read it, I've never heard of it."

"OK... think... you're going to hate this... WWF with Anime"

"I somehow doubt we'll be restricted to wrestling," notes Carthrat.

"Of course... but, that's the style I think it's going in... And it's going to be TELEVISED."

"Er.. right," replies Carthrat. "Televised, you say? Well.. all we need to do is win, right?"

"After that, it doesn't matter."

"Yeah... But, now you know... Tokyo Dome, this weekend... And, we're probably going to be facing other characters we know too." Upon further rememberance, she added, "This was BS... Chaos made the commercial, and then decided to have f'n AMELIA beating me... I'm going to maul him just for that..."

"Amelia? Y'know, when you think about it, she's not all that different to a sailor senshi.."

"Except that we're alot better... the CFM suit does more than make us look like we're dying for attention. I tried it this morning... you get a nice little strength and speed boost, and there's a rush you get when..." Ryder stopped her bullet-train of thought, and added, "Rat, when you see me, make sure to slap me, OK?"

"Huh. Ok."

"I guess I lucked out. Ritsuko doesn't have any weird baggage or odd destiny traits or any of that junk."

"Check that, I'm going to slap you for bragging..."

"Whatever. Anything else you forgot?"

"Thankfully, no... I'm late, and you've probably have already figured out other people, right?"

"Er, we're working on it."

"Riiiiiiiight.... Tell Ra-chan that I'm asking her to keep you in line..."

Carthrat's voice drops to a whisper. "Between you and me, I've had just about enough of that sort of treatment."

Ryder giggled and replied, "It's all cool man... Out of everyone, I don't know who I'm scared most of, Luna or Chaos..."

"Heh. Well, be seeing you."

"Yeah..."
*click!*

[Asrana]

Artemis seemed a little more upbeat with the news that they'd been contacted by Ryder's friend, his tail swishing in a recurving motion across the floor. "So...what's the new situation? And when do we get to give Luna enough evidence that you're you that she has a seizure trying to say you're a youma?"

[RyderHakubi]

Thinking a bit, she said, "Well, for one thing, we have a member who's trapped in a temple outside of Juuban... If we don't get to them first, they may switch sides."

"Secondly, Rat wants me to skip... But, I can't do that or else I'll have Usagi over "trying to make me feel better' and that scares me almost as much as your female counterpart..."

"Third, Rat's evidence is going to be the united front of us all... which will not be enough, so I gotta find something... I wish I could contact Order."

[Asrana]

Artemis frowned, his tail thumping slightly on the ground as he moved it about nervously. "Well...you could try the 'family emergency', but they might get even angrier otherwise...or just a 'personal emergency' that you don't have time to talk about, THAT certainly could be true...you'd have to deal with them eventually, but that'll happen anyway."

Artemis sighed, humming. "As for the proof...well, we'll have to deal with that when it comes up, and hope for the best...oh, and if you pull a 'personal emergency', you're taking me with, I do NOT want to try and explain what's going on to Luna..."

[RyderHakubi]

"That idea might work... and trust me Artemis, I wouldn't just leave you behind to face the Lunar Inquisition alone.  That might be regarded as cruelty to animals..." Ryder said with a small smile on her face as she pulled out her cell again, looking for a number to reach Usagi...

[Asrana]

Artemis nodded, sighing in relief.

Usagi's phone number was readily found on the list of numbers contained in the phone, there were actually two related to her. One was the Tsukino home number, and the other labeled as Usagi's mobile.

[Asrana]

*ring ring*

*click* Moshi moshi.

Usa-chan, g'mornin'!

Mina-chan? Good morning! What's up? I'm going to be a little late to our meeting spot, gomen.

That's ok... Listen, can you let the others know that I'm not gonna be in today?

Um...okay. But why? Are you sick? Should I come over and make you feel better?

Nononono, I'm not sick... It's just that an emergency came up and I need to take care of it today...

Alright...do you need any help? Some of us could stop by if you need it.

No, it's fine... It's something I need to do on my own...

I guess...but call us if you ned any help, 'kay? That's what friends are for!

Thanks Usa-chan, I'll let you know if I need any help... Though, can you let Ami know that I'm going to need her notes for the day?

Sure! I'll tell Ami when I see her. So see you tomorrow morning?

Yeah, I hope that this all clears up quickly...

Okay! Bye! *giggles*

Ja-ne Usa-chan... *click*

[RyderHakubi]

Hanging up her phone, Ryder smiled at her cat, "Alright, Operation Missing Errant has begun," she said before marching back to her room to change into something... not so fuku-ish...

[Asrana]

Artemis snickered, nodding and following Minako until the new girl entered ehr room. "Alright, did you get any idea where to head from your friend? Or are we going to have to find out some other way?"

[RyderHakubi]

Through the shuffling of clothes, Ryder could be heard replying, "I don't quite know... but, I could give Rat a buzz real quickly if I needed to.  Oh who knows, the temple my drop right into our laps..."

[Asrana]

"I wouldn't rely on luck," Artemis called back warily, looking a little worried. This was chaos they were fighting. "I'd suggest calling your friend again, and getting the info from him."

[RyderHakubi]

The door suddenly opened, and out stepped Ryder, saying, "Yeah, I'll give Rat a call in a few hours..."

It was a white sweatshirt, with a red vest overtop, and a pair of black jeans.  Her feet were covered by a pair of black zipper boots, and she was also wearing a golden chain around her neck.

"Ready to go Artemis?"