Scene #2703: What Do We Do About the Spaceship

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Mamoru Chiba	The dining room table is big, something that was acquired secondhand from a closing restaurant, and the chairs to it are those big captain's tavern chairs, each with a loose cushion on it. There's plenty of room for the amount of food the Outers brought, and the cold drinks that Kazuo brought out earlier aren't quite as cold now, but there's more in the fridge. Mostly what's to drink is iced sencha and various flavors of soft drink and electrolyte. The other half of the living room, closer to the TV, is dark and there are people crashed out on couches and at least one on an armchair. Mamoru had his initial recovery time so he's fine for now, which is great because he's delighted. "Tako and tacos!" His mouth is still blue from the icing, though the painted fox has been cleaned off his face. His glasses are smudged and his red-tipped fluffy hair is messy, but all these are things that indicate he was sleeping at least briefly before the Outer Senshi arrived. "This is awesome!"
Sailor Uranus	Haruka and Michiru are, in fact, fashionable and late. Therefore they have achieved their usual status of being fashionably late. But they did bring both Tacos and Takoyaki, so all should be forgiven. Michiru is in a long blue sundress, and Haruka is in a blak skirt, jacket, and white blouse, with a takoyaki bite being present ion her mouth and keeping her from talking for the time being. Michiru, on the other hand, indicates the mix of foods. "Wasn't sure if we were celebrating or preparing for the next part, but we figured food wouldn't be amiss either way." She looks at Mamour. "And I'm still not ''entirely'' sure." she admits, tapping her chin with a long finger. "Takos are a good worst case scenario." Haruka says before entirely finishing eating so it's a bit mumbly, causing Michiru to shoot her A Look which quiets her until she finishes with a quite visible swallowing of food.
Sailor Venus	Minako Aino had arrived with goods of her own although not as expensive goods. She didn't have a rich girl or boyfriend, and her parents weren't able to be that generous with her allowance. Even so! She had shown up with a bag of energy drirnks in case it was a situation of 'we're going to need to head right back out after a breif rest' as had happened with the trip to the future. She'd not expected to arrive to a small buffet of deliciousness! The energy drinks are there if people want at least. "Mamo-kun," she begins as she pauses in chugging one of her own. A pensive expression is worn as she gives a small gesture toward him with a wave of the drink. "You may want to clean up a bit. Before Izou wakes up at least and has a pissy fit."
Usagi Tsukino	"You're some of the best people in the ''world'' and I ''love'' you," Usagi says seriously, leaning against Mamoru and yawning as Michiru and Haruka make their way in. She's eying the food like it's her against the world, and the world will lose. Like Mamoru, she's in a yukata, pale yellow with pink flowers and bunnies bouncing around. It's a little torn and marred with dust from having been blasted across the field, but she's not changed yet; after her discussion with Ami, she'd fallen asleep on the Soldier of Water's lap, waking only when the door opened. "I promise not to eat everything, but I will eat muchly, Moon Space is ''so'' tiring, I'm ''so'' glad you guys came over -" If Haruka and Michiru and Minako don't take themselves to the dining room table, she'll be dragging them. "And honestly... we're not really celebrating, but we haven't been preparing, either, so... I think I'm up for either. But probably the latter is better."
Makoto Kino	Makoto herself is only just settled in after Masato fetched her back from where she landed as a result of her impromptu Moon Space blimp adventure. She raises her drink in a salute to the arrivals, offering a lopsided smile. "If we run out," she promises Usagi, "I can always throw some more snacks together or something. For the moment, though, she doesn't seem much inclined to move. "How much planning can we really do, though? I mean... we're basically waiting for a shot at Death Phantom, right? Do we even know what he actually wants, or is it just a case of waiting for him to pop up so we can whack-a-mole him?"
Setsuna Meiou	While the earlier battle was going down, Sailor Pluto was sadly otherwise occupied. However, that's now taken care of, and as the tradition seems to have developed of post-battle wind-down at Mamoru's place, she heads that way. Thus, shortly after Minako arrives, Setsuna makes her way in wearing a simple white button down blouse and a black pencil skirt and carrying a large cubical 'keep stuff warm' style bag. She waves to all, "Heyo, all. I brought additional grazing options." She walks over to the table, pausing momentarily to give each of her housemates a quick one-armed hug, then she unzips the bag to reveal it carries four boxes inside it which she then opens to show that each box has what looks to be about two dozen little hamburgers in it. As she unpacks one of the boxes and opens it up for all and sundry to grab, Setsuna looks around and seems to relax a little as nobody seems all that banged up.
Mamoru Chiba	"Tiny burgers! We have to save some of this for Ami-chan, she's still sleeping," Mamoru says, slipping an arm around the leaning Usagi's waist for a second and squeezing. But then he's pulling away to get plates for the food from the kitchen, right there behind Haruka and Michiru. He glances back over his shoulder at Makoto for a second and then to Usagi, and nods. Putting a stack of plates on the table next to the food and the napkins and the utensils for people who don't want greasy fingers, Mamoru says, "Actually, I'm pretty sure we have to fight Nemesis somehow. It's where the main crystal is. It's where all that sickness ''comes'' from. Or maybe we can get away with seeking Death Phantom out elsewhere, but... it's the source of his power. It's gonna be where he goes. We should steal the spaceship to get back to the future. Chibiusa-chan needs to bring the crystal back anyway."
Sailor Uranus	Haruka and Michiru grin at Usagi. "Yeah, we really are." Haruka says, causing Michiru to roll her eyes and gently punch her girlfriend in the shoulder. "Worst case we can get more, Usagi-chan." Michiru notes. "But it probably won't be as good as Kino-san's cooking..." she adds when the other girl offers. "...And here's more already." she continues when Setsuna enters. They'll both easily follow Moon over to the table. Haruka reaches for an energy drink with a nod of appreciation to Minako. "Well, if we can just deal with it by going somewhere and kicking his butt, you know which option I prefer over waiting." Haruka says, saying the word waiting like it's a cursed, vile thing. Michiru somehow starts working her way through a taco without dropping even so much as a shred of cheese on the floor yet making it vanish very quickly. "Nemesis, huh? Like a... tenth, twelveth or whatever planet we're on?" Michiru asks. "In any case we should get the ship and the crystal and everything else back to the timestream it came out of. Except for Death Phantom, we can just remove him from all of them I hope..." she says, picking up a napkin to wipe off her fingers.
Sailor Venus	"On... Nemesis?" The question is asked rather monotone as Minako stops abruptly. The energy drink that Haruka takes is met with a mute nod though her lips work breifly as she tries to formulate a response. One hand raises slightly as if she were about to cover her mouth only for it to hang not-quite-there in front of her. It falls away again with a quick, sharp, shake of her head that sends her hair swishing wide like the fan tail of a Betta fish. She's ushered to the table only to sink into a seat. "Our powers didn't work on Nemesis. Is there a way we could blast the whole place from orbit? Like on that one American movie? 'Space Monster'?" Alien. She means Alien. "I mean," she hastens to add while starting to lay out the contents of her energy-drink haul in front of her one at a time with a little clink of each bottle as it makes it's way to the top of the table. "I wouldn't mind going to the future again. I'd like to see how future Nephrite and the others are doing."
Makoto Kino	"Extra snacks, excellent. Thanks, Meiou-san." Makoto spares Setsuna an appreciative smile before her attention returns to Mamoru, Minako, and the topic at hand. She sips at her drink, her expression shading more serious. She wasn't among the mahoujin who experienced Nemesis first-hand, but Minako's reaction to the prospect of going back is fairly telling. "Taking out a whole planet is a lot. Maybe if we all combine our powers in one go... but even then, I'm not sure that's exactly 'nuke it from orbit' level." She breathes out a heavy sigh before lifting her shoulders in a shrug. "Still, going back makes sense. And you know I'd just as soon take the fight to the bad guy instead of waiting for him to make a move." A tip of her head toward Haruka.
Usagi Tsukino	"Tiny burgers, takoyaki, tacos, Mako-snacks in the future, we're getting spoiled," Usagi sighs happily, takes a taco, a tako, and a tiny burger, and settles down in a chair. She noms it happily for a bit, listening as Mamoru opens the floor with - well. Well. She has a vague memory of Nemesis, being there, but there's no ''details;'' Only the great and terrible sense of pressure, of horror, of being sick. "If we have to fight Nemesis itself... I mean, I think you're probably right, Mamochan, that we're going to have to, because we either... destroy it, or we try to purify a whole planet, but I don't know if me and Madoka and Wako and Coco all put ''together'' could do all that... Maybe if Chibiusa's Mama is up, too?" Maybe if they all worked together, ''that'' way, but still, a whole ''planet''? "But it's not like destroying a planet sounds easier, so I guess... the first thing we should do is figure out how we're hijacking the spaceship, before it crashes in Tokyo?"
Setsuna Meiou	Setsuna listens to some of the ideas floating around, "...yeah, cracking a planet in half is HARD...and unless we're going by 'sunlight is the best disinfectant' and somehow steering it through the sun's corona, that's probably going to be a bit of a nonstarter, too..." Grabbing a couple of sliders and a taco or two for herself, she sits down and ponders...then blinks, "...hangon...got an idea..." She whips out her phone and fires off a text.
Mamoru Chiba	Mamoru nods to Michiru-- "Yeah." Then his voice lowers to a whisper, so Chibiusa her napping self doesn't wake up to it. "I still want to keep Chibiusa-chan though." Then he nods firmly to Haruka. "Same. Best to get it all over with. Hate the anxiety otherwise." Minako has a ''really'' good question, and Mamoru looks a little sheepish. "Not sure yet. There are a lot of question mark steps. But yeah, I want to go back to the future, too. There has to be a way to save it. Or at least to save their Earth." Getting his own plate full of tacos and burgers, and a can of pineapple soda, he drags another chair out with one foot, in order to fold himself up next to Usagi and eat, able to see almost everyone. "Well, she did do it once. It took her fifty years or two hundred years or something, but she purified all of Earth. So with her and the rest of you, maybe?" He EYES Setsuna. "What kind of idea?"
Sailor Uranus	Haruka and Michiru turn to Mamoru. "Well, if we get rid of Black Moon, the other you and Neo-Serenity should be able to handle fixing up the Earth, right?" Michiru asks. "It's my understanding they're recovering from trouble slowly already. They just need a little help from us to clear the way, which should be doable if we can just put one more jerk down." "The jerk that started all of this - fitting it finishes with him." Haruka offers. "And hey, if we can get both Usagis in the same place, with their crystals, plus all of the help? Probably can do a miracle on top of a miracle. Whatever you call that." she suggests. "With everyone chipping in the energy or purification they can, I'm sure the issue can be dealt with, anyways." Michiru suggests. "But it all still hinges upon dropping the root of the problem."
Usagi Tsukino	"We can't keep her, but she can stay with us as long as she wants," Usagi replies to Mamoru, just as quietly, and not wanting a real argument anyway but wanting to make sure she's at least said it once. "We do need to get this over with though, for ''all'' our sakes, and... well, I think it's a given that they'll be able to fix the Earth?" She's a little sheepish with that, glancing at Michiru and Haruka and Mamoru and shrugging a little - "I mean! She already did it once! So of course that's something she can do, and that we can help her do even ''better''. Our choices with Nemesis are basically we destroy it somehow or we purify it somehow, right? It's an evil planet that makes people more evil and more powerful, it's not like it can just ''stay'' out there, in their time, and... we probably want to try and find it in ours too, actually..." Hm. That's not something she'd been spending much thought on, but uh, actually, they ''do'' have their own Nemesis out there somewhere, don't they? She waves her hand. "We'll figure it out. We always do. But going ''after'' them... well, ''hopefully'' Wiseman is still on his ship, because I feel like... it'd be a lot easier for us to fight him if he's here in our time, right? Than if he's back there, in Chibiusa's, and has the whole evil planet to work with."
Sailor Venus	Minako Aino nods solemnly as the others begin to offer their versions of things. The talk of keeping ChibiUsa earns a flick of her gaze toward the sleeping pile of people where the pointy bunned senshi likely was dozing as well. Her mouth opens again and clicks shut just as quickly. All she was going to do was make another movie remark. Why her head was in the movies right now was beyond her--But it probably had to do with the fact that she was cracking open another energy drink at this point. "Maybe we could split the difference? Destroy part of the planet, and purify the rest? Easier to purify something smaller, right? Of course that's still hard either way." "Oh yeah we shouldn't let Wiseman get to the future again. That'd probably be very bad."
Makoto Kino	"One way or another. I'm not exactly a plans person," Makoto concedes. "But when it comes time to throw down - whether it's here or there - you know I'll have your back." For now, she settles back in her seat, looking contemplative. "In any case, you're not wrong that we'll need to figure out what to do about the Black Moon's spaceship. I'll be honest, after all that I'd kind of forgotten about it." She makes a very sheepish face before hiding behind another healthy swallow from her drink.
Setsuna Meiou	Setsuna waits for a few minutes before she gets an answer, then frowns slightly before firing off a response. She glances over at Mamorue, then shrugs, "Well, if purifying the place might be infeasible, I was checking other options and wondered if it'd be possible to yeet it out of the system entirely." After a moment, however, she sighs, "...unfortunately, I might have misheard something so it's probable that's not an option, either." The greenhaired woman downs a slider before absently waving towards Michiru and then Usagi, "...the only other backup plans I could think of to deal with a planet would either end up flinging bits of potentially corrupted debris all over the system or producing so much gamma it'd cook the Earth...so not exactly choices we'd want to go with." She then blinks and points at Minako, "...though doing it in stages might work, too."
Amy Faust	Dad has decided this project must be done ''now''. Mallory is tired and can't seem to remember what the project ''is'' but asking Dad to explain ''again'' just annoys him even ''more'', after Mal just keeps screwing up. He tries to fetch something from Dad's office but the door goes to a cave on an alien planet and he eventually finds a powerup and brings it back only to be asked 'where is it' and realize too late the Morph Ball is ''not'' what was asked for and he screwed up again. He can't explain he screwed up 'fetch this from my office' so badly he ended up on another planet, so he stands there in silent shame like a taciturn teen while Dad goes and gets whatever it was in like five seconds. Simple easy task! This continues until Mallory sees on a clock that it's 17:00 PM, ''how did he waste that much time?!'' and he rushes back to find the rest of the house dark and his father getting ready for bed saying he finished it himself while Mallory was goofing off. At least Mal can finally lie down for a guilty but needed rest. He awakens curled up on a couch in Mamoru's apartment and it all comes back, including that she sulked off for a nap after an argument and she hopes people aren't mad at her. Amy pretends to be asleep and listens to the conversation. Purify the planet? Wiseman has a spaceship. Destroy ''part'' of a planet and purify the rest? We need to figure out what to do about the Black Moon's spaceship. Amy can't help bursting out into a giggle. "Sorry," she stands up from the couch, still in her school uniform, "I know it's serious but waking up to 'what do we do about the spaceship' just sounded so... like am I sure I'm awake, right?" She can't help smiling at the absurdity of life. She approaches the others, "Um, so... do we know ''why'' the planet is like that? Is there like... a thing on the planet, or just the ''core'' is bad, or who built that castle anyway is all the evil from the ''castle'', or something? I'm sorry, maybe I'm still half asleep..."
Makoto Kino	"I have no idea," Makoto answers Amy, cracking an amused smile - she can definitely sympathize with the 'surreal things to wake up to,' especially in the wake of the day they've had. "I think Izou-kun brought back some information from the future... and Ami-chan might've gone through it and drawn some conclusions, we can check when he comes back or she wakes up?" She shifts her weight a little, propping her chin in her hand. "I feel like maybe 'try to boot an entire planet out of the solar system' should be a very, very last resort, in any case. Even supposing we ''can,'' we have no idea what effects that could actually have. Even in the best case, there's no guaranteeing it won't just come back eventually and become someone else's problem. We've had enough of that already."
Sailor Uranus	Michiru has, at some point, pulled out the Deep Aqua Mirror and is looking into it. To anyone else, it only seems to show the tealnette's reflection. And maybe that's all it shows her now, too. "That's just making it a problem for someone or something, instead of us. Destruction or cleansing are the only avenues I can support." Michiru says, bluntly. "And even destruction has consequences. Putting out rocks and debris into our solar system." "Too bad we can't just shove it into the Dusk Zone where it belongs. It'd probably belong better there." Haruka says. "Or become an even bigger problem..." Michiru notes. "We didn't even destroy the Black Moon clan, but we gave them another chance. I think it only makes sense to do the same thing to the planet. Maybe it has a Sailor Soldier out there, or maybe it could if we cure it. Maybe it's not ineffably evil. I don't know. But I do know it can't stay how it is." she says.
Mamoru Chiba	Mamoru says with a taco held over his plate, "Sailor Nemesis? Yikes. I mean yeah if we purify it maybe we should give it another name, just in case. I bet it's easier to purify in this dimension, since in the other it's had like five hundred years of Death Phantom on it." He glances Amy's way, "No idea about the castle. It's probably a dark energy construct, but it's impossible to tell because ''everything there is''. The actual ground, the air, the water-- it all just slowly kills you."
Sailor Venus	"Redemption would be a good name if we rename it. I mean, if we can purify it and rename it. Or Zenith. Or..." Minako holds up a hand ticking off a few fingers while staring at them with wide, unblinking eyes. She stares a long moment more and then just... Just drops her hand again to take another sip of her drink. There's two empty cans by her already now but many more for others to take. "Welcome back, Amy-chan," she greets the newly awoken Amy as she proves maybe she's had a bit much caffiene herself by all her rambling. "I'm just sorry I missed getting to help beat down Demande." For a moment she pauses, considering, only to murmer, "I'm still not sure why he seemed confused when I said he was handsome. I mean he was but he was a complete obsessed jerk too, but... Maybe it would be nice to talk to him if he does get another chance and isn't a weirdo."
Amy Faust	Amy blinks. "...'Dark energy construct'?" she echoes, unsure if she should completely understand that or is just half-asleep. "Does that mean it's ''made'' of dark energy, or...?" She looks around. "Do we have tea? Coffee?" She smiles amiably back to Minako. "Oh, thanks! Where'd you get that?" she points at the drink in the blonde's hands. Another thought wanders through her brain. "'Sailor Persephone'? It has a ring to it but it's also a name... Sailor Proserpina doesn't sound as good though, does it... does the planet have other names?"
Usagi Tsukino	"Izou probably does have more information," Usagi agrees, munching on her taco with quiet contemplation. "He seemed to actually - know Saphir, and Demande kind of, in a way that I definitely didn't, but that I don't know if anyone else did, either." She remembers his voice, telling her that Demande would never work with them, and how he had been right - and also how he had stepped in to handle Saphir's final moments. "Doing it in parts, or in pieces, might work, but I definitely think... even if we ''could'' throw it away, we shouldn't. This is our problem, our responsibility - we shouldn't throw it at other people, and risk it hurting someone else. Purifying Nemesis would be for the best! But if we can't purify it, even if we don't want to... I think destroying it is better, than leaving it out there, to be found by someone else." Amy has joined them! She waves, to show no hard feelings. "Michiru-san and Haruka-kun brought tacos and Takoyaki! And Suna-san brought baby burgers, and Minako-chan brought energy drinks, plus we've got some stuff from earlier too, and more drinks in the fridge! Um, if you want to try the really expensive coffee machines Sugata-san gifted Mamochan, I'm pretty sure he's still got plenty of coffee?" Her expression says that she has not figured out how to work the expensive coffee machines, but that Amy is welcome to try. "Dark energy constructs are like, kind of what the Dark Kingdom was - like, it's not there anymore, under the catacombs, Minako-chan confirmed it, but it ''was'' there - from Dark Energy. That's probably what Nemesis was like. I don't think it really has another name - I don't think it's even been ''discovered'' here, or we'd all know about it, you know?"
Amy Faust	Amy smiles and waves back to Usagi, and does go over to look at the coffee machine... and has never seen anything like it. "...I'm thinking of Planet X, not Nemesis, right."
Mamoru Chiba	"Yeah, made of dark energy," Mamoru confirms as if nothing is weird about that at all. And then he nods to Usagi, tipping his head in her direction... but then he looks at Amy again. "However it was made, it was magically, because the planet is anathema to life." He jams the rest of his taco in his mouth and picks up his burger, putting his plate on the table, and then he gets up. More like lurches to his feet in a mildly ungainly fashion. He steadies himself on the table for a second and shakes out his foot. Pins and needles. Then he pads into the open kitchen after Amy, chewing taco, and silently (but with eyebrow communication) walks Amy through the process of making coffee with the fancy rig, one-handed until he's got the burger in his mouth.
Setsuna Meiou	Finishing a pair of tacos and a pair of sliders, Setsuna wipes her fingers with a napkin, "...to be clear, I wasn't suggesting we fling it AT anyone...more that we fling it into the nigh-infinite void between galaxies to float in endless emptiness for all of time." She then pauses and shrugs, "But since that's not an option, I suppose it's a question of 'do we purify it in stages or all in one go or is there a bit we can purify that's causing all the darkness and that will make it all fade if we can smash it?'
Amy Faust	Amy follows the instructions to make coffee but also "There were burgers?!" She takes one once the coffee's started... coffeeing. When Setsuna proposes a hypothesis, she points to the Senshi of Time. "That. That's what I was wondering, too."
Usagi Tsukino	"The way we keep learning about space, I feel like there's no way to throw it that's just... not going to hit ''something''," Usagi admits. "I feel like we have to purify it or destroy it, and like Michiru-san said, if we can I'd rather purify it. If it ''is'' all evil, then maybe it will just fade away." Which would be nice! "But... I've never tried to purify in stages. I kind of feel like... it's all or nothing. How can we purify something a little? It's either purified, or it's not."
Sailor Venus	Minako Aino finally decides to put some food in her stomach. Rising up in her chair she streeetches over the large table to snag one of the mini burgers for herself before they're all vanished. As soon as it's in her grasp she lets herself fall back into the chair again. "I guess it's a bit like pollution that way. You can't expect to clean a bit up if it keeps polluting--Or corrupting, in this case. Still." The wrapper is peeled back so she can disapear the entire burger in one bite. "Wouldn't there be a center or source of it? Like when we fought Metallia?"
Mamoru Chiba	"Wako-chan can take a little off the top by stopping mid-purification. Purification's done by sections anyway, you don't do it all in one flash unless it's little, right?" Mamoru asks, padding back from the kitchen to fold up in his chair again, but not sitting on his foot this time... "Oh, do you mean like maybe the entire planet is a dark energy construct?"
Amy Faust	"Tiny burgers." Amy notes. "I always thought they were like... ''too'' tiny? But now... I guess they're a bit... ''less'' extremely tiny, when your mouth is smaller." She does take two though. "Puhrify inh staghes?" she echoes, through a mouthful of burger. "Did you read the histories annotated by your future self? They had to purify Earth in stages... maybe it says how... how big is Nemesis?"
Usagi Tsukino	"Um, Mamochan," Usagi says, sheepish, "I do? Do it all at once? It's not in stages?" She's bewildered by the thought. "I've never tried to like, do it a little at a time, it's just... all at once and either it works and they're purified - or, um, kind of evaporated? - or it doesn't?" This is definitely something she's going to have to think about. "Uh - histories? What histories? No? I was a little busy trying to keep an eye on things and then, you know. New Moon and all."
Mamoru Chiba	Mamoru looks equally bewildered. "Maybe," he hazards, "we're thinking of 'in stages' as two different things. But we can figure that out later," he says, glancing to Usagi, then looking to Minako. "What you're saying is right though, like, you can wave away a cloud of smoke, but if the chimney's still going..." Then he looks to Amy as he pops open a ginger beer. "I read the elementary school version of the history," he says, "and yeah, continent by continent, a piece at a time. I mean, Earth may be a relatively small planet all things considered, but it's huge in comparison to one Usagi with fairy wings and a thousand years under her belt. I figured it was a lot of purify! Fly a hundred meters ahead. Purify! But the book didn't specify."
Amy Faust	Amy blinks as she chews her burger and her friends' words. "...Right! Right. You all got kidnapped and then Nemesis and then New Moon and... yeah. Yeah if it'd been me ''I'd''a wanted some time to just ''chill'' before studying what other-me did too. I admit I only had time to very lightly skim it myself. I ''did'' wonder if there'd be specifics about power use, but... I guess when you guys were annotating it you weren't, like, thinking of 'I'd better write down how to use my powers in case myself from another timeline ever needs to know.'" "And I mean, same? I think the other night with Taro mighta been the first time I described trying to use my magic to anyone."
Usagi Tsukino	"I think... Metallia as ''alive'', so that's different," Usagi says to Minako, wiping her fingers on a napkin. "I mean, I maybe if Wiseman is what made Nemesis evil, if we purify him, we purify Nemesis... but if that's ''not'' how it works..." Hrm... "Still! It's worth thinking about! Because Wiseman is ''here'' and Nemesis is ''there''. It's like the order of operations! You gotta divide before you subtract!" She pounds a fist into her open palm, nodding sharply. "I... actually didn't know there were books to study? Ugh, and I already have summer school... but okay, if she did it continent by continent... maybe... she could do it by purifying one whole chunk at a time...?"
Sailor Venus	"Izou spent a lot of time in the library, too. I found him there at one point." Minako opts for one of the tacos this time around, though she's much slower in eating it. Unlike many here she hadn't just been through a battle. A snack was good but she didn't want to indulge too much when others were still resting and recovering. "And you're right, he spoke to Saphir quite a bit. Gave him his phone, went on a date with him. He really was trying to offer him a chance to change. He's probably taking this hard." "If we do go back we can always access the computer histories to find out how it was done. King Endymion showed me how to use the interface. I'm sure there's some kind of short version that's easier than digging through the library itself."
Mamoru Chiba	Mamoru dies a little inside, and shows it by slumping down in his chair almost to under the table. "Usako," comes his mumbled voice, "did..." His voice dies too. And then his eyes open wide and he looks at the girl next to him and scrambles up out of the chair and reaches for her hands. "USAKO. Did you just make a topical and correct ''math joke''?" and he looks. SO. DELIGHTED. Then he glances to Minako and says, "He knew how it would end. But he's also asleep on the couch with Kazuo and Masato over there," and points into the darkened depths of the living room. Then he looks back at Usagi and nods. "Yeah, that sounds like a plan though. And yeah Minako-chan, there's an elementary school history book."
Amy Faust	Earth is a small planet... "Is it? I mean, aside from like, gas giants... I've ''heard'' of theoretical super-earths but... well I guess with only one solar system we've seen in detail, we don't really have much of a sample size to know if Earth is large or small as planets go... given all the tiny trans-neptunian objects, though, depending on what you count as a planet, little ones are probably most common." Amy smiles, pleased, when Usagi correctly remembers order of operations! "Yeah! If that's the case, fighting him ''here'' will fix the problem ''there''!" And then she frowns. "Wait. But if they're connected, it ''could'' be the other way around, too..." A worrying thought. Future Usagi did it continent by continent? "Um." Amy looks like she hates to be the bearer of bad news, but, "Not a continent literally at once. I'm given to understand it was very slow, actually, purifying little pieces at a time while trying to prevent any darkness from getting past. 'Cuz the apocalypse was one where ''every single human'' was a potential dark general that would start darkening shit and throwing around youmas. I forget how long anyplace took but like, it took like 200 years to purify the whole Earth." Amy perks up and raises a finger. "But! Nemesis is uninhabited, so, it may be way simpler!" And she pours herself some cold water to drink while she waits for the coffee. Minako mentions the histories and the library, "Uhh... we have them though? We have copies of the official histories. Annotated editions in digital format. We don't need to go back through the future library... at least, for learning about that part." Beat. "...The full thing is long though. Like I said, 200 years to purify the world. I think the print copies were like a volume for each decade? If they got us print copies one of the Device-users must have them." "...Do you have a thumb drive?"
Zoisite	Muttered voices was mostly what his ears picked up as he drifted between sleep and non, fully leaning against Kazuo on one of the couches. It was the smell of coffee, food, and Minako's voice that started to fully wake him up. A tiny rumble in his middle emphasizing that he has not eaten in a while and only had some water. A dull ache to his eyes as he sat up, careful to not wake up Kazuo or anyone else passed out, and getting to his feet. Still in his academy uniform, having not bothered to change since the fight. He might now, after some food. Shuffles over quietly, wraps arms around Minako without much ceremony and leans on her for a second. "May I get some food?" Looks over to the others.
Usagi Tsukino	"I did! I remember PEMDAS now! I need it for the harder math! And - well, that's kind of how it works, right?" Things have to happen in order, so, they might as well figure out the order they should happen in. "I don't think I can purify a little at a time. So it would be really good if we could try to find Wiseman... but I guess I should study those books too, to see if they help with anything..." Because they're rarely lucky enough to solve things the right way. "...hmmm... oh, Izou! Hi! There's tacos, Takoyaki, and baby burgers! You might want to heat something up, though."
Sailor Venus	Minako Aino tries not to let her eyes glaze over a bit at the talk of math operations and procedures, and PEMDAS and... Oh god if Usagi was understanding this stuff now? That meant that SHE had to learn to understand it too! "Of course you understand it, you have Ami-chan and Mamo-kun to tutor you--" Let's face it, she was about to say something potentially foot-in-mouth given the two people were Usagi's husband, and girlfriend respectively. Thankfully there's the sudden appearance of Izou's arms around her causing her attention to snap away and rivet on him entirely. A hand lifts to reach up and pet over his hair soothingly while Usagi fills him in on the snacks available. "The burgers aren't bad cool if you need something immediately," she offers even as her free hand sstreeeetches out to try and snag one by the wrapper to drag it closer for him. It was hard to attempt without dislodging him but she's not trying to do that. Quieter, she murmers, "You going to be okay?"
Zoisite	Waves and nods towards Usagi. "Thank you to who all brought food." Before he begins to serve himself a bit of everything while still glued to Minako. Accepting the mini burger offered, some takoyaki and a taco... Not that he knew how to properly eat a taco, but he'd figure it out. "...I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, Mina-chan." Murmers back. In reality he didn't know and possibly wasn't in the headspace to process it yet. No tear stains, redness, anything that showed he was physically manifesting any reactions besides numbness. For now, he just wanted food, and to catch up on what was being talked about. "Don't worry for now, yeah?" A gentle reassurance for later. Plate full, it only takes about two minutes for him to heat it in the microwave before returning, claiming a cup of tea and a seat next to Minako.
Amy Faust	Amy looks over. "Morning, Saitou-san. I mean-- hello," she looks down at her communicator-watch to see what time it actually is. Seeing the affection reminds her that she wants a hug, too. Not specificaly from Saitou-san, just, like, in general. It has been a Day. She frowns a bit at the fading memory of dreamt unpleasantness, and the discussion last night. Err. Before nap. Is that coffee ready yet? She investigates the brewing coffee machine. Izou remembers to thank folks for the food and Amy nods, "Yeah, thanks! Sorry, I didn't mean to... ''not'' say it, just... guh." "If I add regular milk and sugar am I performing any sort of faux pas on the fancy coffee?" Also: the burgers are ''cold''??? Oh no. She sets the two she gathered on a plate by the microwave and heats them after Izou's.
Mamoru Chiba	"We should keep study group going through summer vacation," Mamoru says relentlessly, curled up in his chair around his ginger beer. But as Izou wanders up and over to Minako, instead of greeting him verbally, the fluffy-haired prince reaches back and scritches Izou's back like he's a passing cat. The coffee should be ready, hissing away. "Oh? Amy-chan-- it's really good coffee, but it's just coffee, made for drinking in whatever way it is palatable. But if I were a coffee snob then yeah probably, haha."
Zoisite	If Izou had a cat's tail, it would be a fluffy ginger one that would wrap around Mamoru's arm for a moment. He'd curl up and hug Mamoru soon. He just needed to eat. "There's no faux pas for coffee, I believe. Like tea, milk is an acceptable addition to it. Along with honey and sugar. You'll be fine with however you prepare it." Izou glances over to Amy before looking back at his prince. "Are you lot needing extra tutors for the group?"
Sailor Venus	Minako Aino doesn't seem entirely convinced. She nods though, and allows Izou to go free so he can heat up his food. The last of hers is finished off with a single bite quickly washed down with a gulp from her energy drink. When Izou returns she scooches her chair over closer so she can lean in against him as he eats. She's not Mamoru, but she can help a little! Or try to. "Let me know if you need a boys day out. Or girls." The talk of tutoring returns causing her a pained expression which swivels over to fix on Usagi. "Usagi-chaaaan how could you? You know I need to know what you know! Now I'll have to work on math during break!" A pause and she mumbles, "And my other subjects too probably. Mom wasn't too happy with my grades."
Usagi Tsukino	"It's just coffee! It's only fancy because Sugata-san bought Mamochan fancy stuff, it's not Mamochan's pick." She has no problem outing that situation, which, in her mind is pretty obvious because Mamoru doesn't buy expensive things for the sake of it. "Do we ''have'' to? Can't I have a break?" She's whining softly. "It's not faaaaaair... Minako-chan I didn't have a choice! I've got to try and pass high school ''and'' college entrance exams!"
Amy Faust	Amy nods and starts to pour herself a mug of coffee with a bit of milk and sweetener and then realizes what he said and wheezes in mirth, nodding at Izou's answer as well. Tutors... she groans at the thought of school. "Ugggh, exams tomorrow... well I'm not studying ''right now.''" She sighs. "If I don't know stuff by today, it's probably too late already..." "And then I have to take make-up exams next week." She sips the coffee, now prepared how she likes it. "Fortunately, Madoka, Homura, and Lydian taught me about make-up while we were away." She delivers the joke in completely conversational intonation, although she quickly starts smirking as she lifts the mug to her lips for another sip and looks between the others to see who looks amused first.
Mamoru Chiba	"Yes," Mamoru snap-points at Izou, "Maybe between the two of us and Ami-chan we'll get them up to speed for the next term!" He glances back at Usagi and snickers, then explains, "Shindo-kun feels it necessary to pay healers for services rendered. I said no that's ridiculous, but if you want, you can buy me chocolate. And then he bought... ''so'' much chocolate... and then the next time, he was like, what else do you like, and because i wanted to still like chocolate, I said coffee, and ... that. It's hilarious, he's such a jerk." He finishes his ginger beer and says contemplatively, "I'd almost think he were flirting with me if I didn't know how taken ''he''--" He stops. He covers his mouth and lets his head fall to his knee (which is way up there by his face dont worry about how he is sitting, okay). "Amy-chan," he groans.
Zoisite	"Thank you, Mina-chan." He leans his head over hers, smiling a little at the offer of a girls or boys night out. Yeah, they were due for one soon, especially after finals. He wasn't struggling to be part of a study group, but the idea of one seemed amusing. Especially with those that complained verbally, and rather loudly. "Let's plan for one to happen soon. But, you do need to pass your tests first." Straightening then, just so he can take another bite of the takoyaki, attention pulled back to Mamoru. "Alright, I can be part of the group then. I'll make sure to make earworm sing-songs for the subjects so they can be remembered--" Stops. Side eyes Amy. Gently puts his chopsticks down before getting up and disappearing into Kazuo's surveillance room, only to come back out with a box of bonbons. He puts it on the table, opens it, and offers one to Amy.
Amy Faust	Amy's smirk grows at Mamoru's reaction, and then Izou brings her a box and opens it and her face lights up and she claps her hands together, "We get ''puns'' for bon-bons? I'm gonna ''love'' living here after graduation." She happily pops one in her mouth and only then realizes she misspoke, talking around it, "Other way aro-- you know what I meant."
Usagi Tsukino	Usagi is surprised into snickering at the terrible joke, but she's even ''more'' surprised when Izou gets Amy a bonbon about it. She doesn't look jealous - though it ''does'' remind her that Mamoru had cake, and she hasn't had a single sweet. That sweets-less-ness will have to get fixed later. "Sometimes you get told to get out," she says dryly, and shakes her head. "Okay... Amy-chan, can you share with me those books you mentioned? Before I forget. I guess I should know about those histories, just in case we see anything like that ''here''."
Sailor Venus	"Make up tests?" Minako lets out a soft sigh. "If it were just tests about makeup I'd beat that no problem!" She does smile ruefully knowing that she really did need to study. She'd managed to put it off for a little bit--but the 'real world' would always sneak up on her. When Izou leaves to get reward chocolates she almost snort-laughs in reactin. Instead she just shakes her head a little. "I should call my mom and let her know I'll be out for awhile." She rises from the chair already fishing her phone out of her purse to wander away from those sleeping so she doesn't disturb them.
Zoisite	Izou says nothing, just smiles as Amy is now encouraged to continue making jokes. But he doesn't ignore Minako either. He slides one of the bon-bons her way, and another to Usagi. A glance of his eyes look over to Mamoru, quietly asking if one was wanted.
Mamoru Chiba	"You're not moving in with me," laughs Mamoru, "but maybe you'll have a housemate that keeps chocolate in his room and his boyfriend knows it, too." He blinks, then points to himself hopefully. "Can I still have one even though I'm horrible?"
Amy Faust	"Well I mean like... I'll probably see you guys a lot!" Amy answers Mamoru, and giggles a little at Usagi's and Minako's comments. And she nods to Usagi, "Sure! Again, have a thumb drive? They're on my computer, so, I'll get them to you when we're back to the dorm. ...I could put them on Woogle Drive, I suppose, but I feel a little weird about that? And I don't know if I should? I guess it's not like they're gonna read it, but." Amy shrugs. "I guess it's just weird to think of the like. Meeting of two worlds thing? Magical history on some big company's server. It's like. Keeping a collection of magical artifacts in your parents' garage."
Zoisite	"I don't think you're horrible. Here." Izou slides one over to his prince. Now he's settled back in his seat, taking one out for himself. All the bon-bons were of various flavors, represented by the colored wrappers. Some were gold, others red, or black, or green. He didn't look at the color he got until a second later and saw it was blue, for white chocolate. It sinks in his stomach like a heavy rock, and quietly, puts that bon-bon back in the box. Deep breath.
Mamoru Chiba	"I... yeah, yeah it strikes me as I don't want that scraped," agrees Mamoru. "I mean, it would read as a giant fiction novel series. And it was written by someone we actually know, so... ehh, we can figure out the ethical considerations later. Of potentially publishing them." He leans forward and puts his now-empty ginger beer bottle on the table. "And yeah!" he also agrees at Amy's 'see you guys a lot', cheerfully. "That, definitely." Izou doesn't think he's horrible! Mamoru glees and takes the bon-bon slid over to him, starting to unwrap it-- and he immediately puts it down and offers his hand when he sees Izou's particular expression, the deep breath, the reserved motions. "Show me what you need?" he asks quietly, immediately putting his full focus on the red-haired boy.
Usagi Tsukino	"Thank you," Usagi smiles at Izou, sincere, and immediately pops her bonbon in her mouth, before turning to Amy, and humming, "I think I have one somewhere. I usually use the cloud for everything except my games... hmmm... I'll figure it out!" From the corner of her eyes, she sees Izou's reaction, and her face pinches with worry, but she doesn't say anything - Mamoru's got it in hand, and gestures of peace and good will and hope aside, she doesn't think she has the permissions to approach on this one, and Izou probably doesn't want the whole table worrying over him. "If you changed all of our names," Usagi says, slowly, "I don't think it would be too bad to be in the cloud. It's just, if our names are in it, that's not good."
Amy Faust	Amy nods at 'don't want that scraped'. She gives Izou a curious look, then a concerned one, but before she can ask if he's okay, Mamoru is handling it. "...I could do that," she answers Usagi, "but, that messes it up a little for the purposes of sharing the originals... Maybe we could get a private file server set up, if this sort of thing keeps coming up. But for now just passing it around'll probably get it to everyone who needs it."
Zoisite	Tired, mind silent while subconscious knew and barely whispered what all wanted to be voiced when possible. It felt like stasis with the momentary drop due to gravity. That's what it felt when their hands connected. ''I need time.'' Squeezes Mamoru's hand. ''I was hoping I had more time.'' But what he wanted was not in line with what needed to happen. Then he finally felt it. That familiar stinging behind his eyes and a shudder within his mind. ''I need to step out. I'm not doing this here.'' Another squeeze, mind not shitting Mamoru out. In fact, it was an open invitation to follow if one wanted to. But Izou needed to step out of the apartment. "Excuse me, I'm going to change and be right back." The smile was a mask as he got up, letting go of Mamoru's hand and heading towards the front door for his shoes and jacket. Then, he was out.
Mamoru Chiba	Mamoru stands up as Izou excuses himself, and leans to kiss Usagi quick; there's concern but not worry. It'll be fine, he says by touch and expression, and then he gives the table an apologetic smile, but doesn't bother with words because he doesn't need to, they all know exactly what he's doing. The prince, EXIT after IZOU.
Usagi Tsukino	"No, no, I meant, if you want to put it up somewhere so we don't have to trade thumb drives like we're passing hacks around, we can change the names for like, easy reference. You know, in case we wanna pull it up on our phones or something." The frustrating thing about hard copies: not nearly as easy to pull up out of the blue, even when they'd be useful. She's still keeping some attention on Izou, and when he departs, she's not surprised to receive Mamoru's kiss - her own feelings encourage him to ''go, go, go'' and she watches them both exit from the room quietly. "Amy-chan, wanna help me pack some of this up? Looks like everyone else is sleeping, so we might as well make sure it doesn't go bad..."
Amy Faust	Amy glances over as the boys go with mild concern. Something's up, but it's their business. "Oh uh... hmm. That's nontrivial. Like I could run a search/replace, but... suppose I change all occurances of 'Usagi' to something else. What if a rabbit's mentioned somewhere and it's suspicious that also changed? Or what if Endymion called you Usako or some other nickname in the annotations somewhere so it doesn't catch that? Et cetera. The search/replace isn't secure." Amy blinks. "Right, I could just put the whole thing in a password-protected compressed archive. That's ''probably'' good enough for any realistic possibility." "Anyway, sure. Some of the others might wake up for snacks later, too." She retrieves one of her sliders from the microwave and takes a bite now that they're heated, chewing as she helps box/cover things and move them back to the fridge.