"Begone evil spirit!"
Rei sat bolt upright while yelling that, for reasons known only to her. With heavy ragged breaths she took stock of herself. Fully clothed. Lying on a couch. Her two friends and allies, Makoto and Minako, also fully clothed. Flushed face, looking quite deliberately away from everyone else in the room.
"So that's a thing that happened," Minako said, fanning herself down. "Let's never talk about it again."
"I don't know, I kind of want to talk about it," Makoto said. She twiddled her thumbs. "As in, you know, talk about it a <i>lot</i>."
It took Rei a moment to parse what they were talking about. They'd been checking out their new powers. She'd become Sailor Mars. Then her uniform had become its usual form, with the top made of fire that became transparent when it got warm enough, and she discovered that she had the power to make herself hotter by being hotter. As in, by being sexier she increased her temperature.
Then she'd accidentally increased her own temperature to the point that she passed out, and - Whew. Thinking back on it, that was like being in an onsen for too long.
"So, I think it's pretty safe to say that these new powers are kind of pervy."
Ah, Minako Aino. The kind of person who would say out loud what everyone else was thinking, but didn't dare to say. So blunt she'd make a sledgehammer blush.
"I can summon tentacles made of hearts, Makoto can magnetise her assets so that you can't help but look at them - Not that she needs much help with that - And you can turn 'being hot' into literally being hot."
"Yeah, those are kind of erotic powers..." Makoto muttered reluctantly under her breath. "I'm sure there's a reason for it, but..."
"Erotic?!" Rei asked in disbelief. "Oh yes, summoning a batch of heart tentacles -"
"Heartacles!" Minako helpfully added.
Rei continued unabated. "-That makes me think of a hot and steamy passionate love affair. Erotic isn't the word for it! It's pretty hard pervy!"
"Yeah," Makoto said. "And?"
With two simple words, she'd dropped a motherlode into the conversation. It was so efficiently destructive that militaries around the world wanted to turn it into their new secret weapon. What she was saying was a simple, concise argument that Rei wasn't entirely sure she knew how to best approach.
That argument being: 'So what if Libra's a pervert giving us all H superpowers? Without him, we'd have lost to this new enemy already!'
Which was true. It was difficult to argue against an argument with only one premise, when that premise was demonstrably true. They would have lost. For sure. This enemy was way stronger than any they'd met before.
Well, maybe that was not right. They were not necessarily stronger, their powers just didn’t work properly against them. It was like in one of these RPG games where one element is immune to another one. Perverted as his tricks were, Libra had given them what was essentially a bunch of <i>Super Effective</i> moves to fight back.
In the grand scheme of things, if the worst thing he was doing was giving them pervy superpowers and the best thing he was doing was helping them stop evildoers…
“It's just.. I feel worried. You know, lots of our enemies wanted to brainwash us, remember that time with Tuxedo Kamen being turned evil? What if this guy is trying to use us to defeat his enemies while subverting us at the same time?” Rei continued, frowning at the ideas. “We have no background on him, he is not a Senshi or an ally of the Moon Kingdom or anything like that. Just a weird magic spirit thing that randomly popped up to help us. It's way too convenient.”
"I'm with Rei on this one," Minako said. "This is exactly how an evildoer would work to infiltrate and suborn us."
The other two girls stared at her for a moment.
"What?" Minako asked. "I got 'suborn' from a word a day calendar."
"A-anyway, I can't believe what I'm hearing!" Makoto said. "This kind of paranoid rambling is so counter-productive. How can we ally with anyone again if we're that suspicious of their motives?"
Yeah, that was the problem. They didn't really have any evidence of wrongdoing, but... Come on.
“Remember Nephrite? Sure, he turned around in the end but he surprised us. And that was with him being one of the big guys working for Queen Beryl. Sure, maybe we just got lucky and randomly ran into an ally that has the exact trick to fight the enemy but..” Rei looked from Makoto to Minako and back. “Can we really take the risk?”
"We can use these powers to pick up guys..." Makoto offered.
"Tell me more," Minako said.
"Focus, Mina!"
"Kidding, kidding!" Makoto held up her hands. "Gosh, you guys are just so.. Tense!"
"Well, yes! I think Libra is far too suspicious," Rei said. "We need to investigate Libra's background, maybe have a word with him about these new powers."
"Then we should get us all together. Something like this, we should only do when all of us are here."
"Yeah, yeah," Makoto said. "Sure, fine. I don't see the issue though, it's not like Libra is trying anything sinister like turning us into perverts."
We'll see. Rei's instincts were screaming at her that something was wrong about this. She was going to have to be very mindful, make sure they didn't indulge in anything perverted. A watchful mind is an uncorrupted mind.
"Alright! Since we've decided on a plan of attack, let's practise making out."
Right. That seemed completely reasonable and on the level. Nothing wrong or perverted there, no sir, no ma'am, no how! She simply sat back on the couch, crossed her legs, and watched as Minako and Makoto scooted on next to each other, stuck out their tongues and pushed them into each other's mouths.
Nope. Nothing erotic about that at all. She would simply sit here, watch her friends make out, and you know what? She felt like playing with her boobs for a little bit, too, while thinking about the best ways to figure out whether or not Libra was trying to corrupt them into becoming dirty, perverted superheroes under his thrall.
- Ami and the Starlights have tracked down a temple to Libra...
- Back with Usagi...
- Loan Shark makes his move.
- Something else
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