Disclaimer:  Idea from Metroanime, Rumiko Takahashi, the fic 'Progeny' and
others.  "A Centron production - although we got the idea from another company
because we're cheating - thank you."

---Title---

Where Are We Now?
Chapter Six
By Dr. Suekeiichi Kaiton

The Chaos begins...

---Gates of Time---

	"What!?"  Setsuna looked up from her records, startled as a tremendous
force of temporal magic burst through reality and threw her across the room.
Landing with a dull thump of flesh and cloth, Setsuna shivered at the power of
the displacement, something was happening, something beyond her grasp of
ability to alter and whatever it was, it was going to be big. Her black gloved
hand hauled her bruised body from the black crevice separating the Timegate
from the rest of her chambers and her carmine eyes watched as lightning shot
from the watery pool of magic and vaporized the plush pillows and bed of her
home.  She wisely hid behind the granite divider and waited for the phenomena
to play itself out.

	If she was correct, someone was attempting a chronoleap, and a fantastic
amount of damage was going to be done if she couldn't isolate and destroy the
anomaly.  The garnet orb atop her key flashed in a racing heartbeat in
resonance with the temporal waves invading their reality.  A stray bolt of
power blasted away a section of wall next to her and Setsuna dived for cover
behind the Timegate, apparently all the energy was being projected in front of
the gate where she normally viewed, if she was behind the opening she would be
relatively safe.  [Whoever's doing this knows the correct procedure...it could
conceivably be a future version of myself...but why?]

	A cosmic tearing rent the world to shreds in the next instant and Setsuna
felt her world explode in a blaze of magic and pain.  Reality itself was being
broken, the flow of time was halted and she knew that in the end only she or
another senshi of Pluto would be able to achieve such an impossible feat.
Crumpling to the floor, Setsuna was unconscious as a slim leg and arm broke
free from the gelatin of the Timegate and stepped out into reality, the world
folding and shifting to accommodate the new arrival.

---Juuban---

	Usagi, Makoto, Minako, and Ami made their way up the stairs leading to
the Hikawa shrine.  The blonde was depressed since her last breakup with
Mamoru.  It had become somewhat of a routine for them, go to school, go home,
go to Rei's for a study session.  Since their enrollment into Juuban High
School the group had decided to really buckle down and try to do well since
most of them only got in by a mere margin.  Of course they didn't really study
every day, it was more like fight and yell, especially Usagi and Rei.  Today
was no different.

	"Give me back my manga, meatball head!"  Rei lunged for the comic but
Usagi twirled away and stuck her tongue out at the black-haired senshi of
Mars.  "When I get you I'll give you such a pinch you won't sit down for
weeks!"

	"But Rei I just want to read the new installment!"  The blonde was
ducking behind the couch as Rei resorted to throwing muffins.  As another
chocolate pastry whizzed past her head, Usagi made a dash for the outside,
laughing as the senshi of Mars chased after her.  "You can't catch me!"  Ami
and Makoto sweatdropped, turning quickly to each other and sighing in
resignation.

	"What do you think's eating Rei?"  Minako sat down and reached for a
cracker.

	"Hmm...?"  Ami looked up from the Mercury Computer, thoroughly engrossed
in her formulae.

	"She's been acting kinda weird since yesterday when that notice was
posted about Ranma's classes."

	"Yes, I wonder why it was cancelled so suddenly, not even two days worth
of class."  And Ami had so wanted to get to know Ranma Saotome
more...intimately.  "Has anyone seen him lately?"

	Minako burst into the conversation, pushing her friends apart and
pouncing on the plate of cookies in front of Ami.  "Not that I know of!"  She
exclaimed around morsels of chocolate.  "He just cancelled the classes for no
reason, I guess, kinda a shame."  Both Minako and Makoto turned their heads up
to the blue sky outside and sighed deeply, Ranma was such a good catch - if
only they were given more time!  "So any new news on the Darkspace General who
stole a kiss from brainiac?"

	"I resent that!"  Ami turned away in a huff.  "And no, I haven't found
anything that could link Divus to Magnetite."

	"Well, if he was out husband, why don't we just go and find this Divus?"
Makoto was still in fantasy land regarding her sempai, two cans of whipped
cream and feathers.  Minako looked away from her best friend's drooling visage
and resumed her discussion with Ami.

	"It's not that simple.  Assuming Divus isn't Magnetite, how would we go
about finding him?  I can't track him with the Mercury computer!"

	"Well, what about the dreams?  Could we use a part of that?"

	"Maybe..."  Ami's attention was torn from the blonde as her computer let
out a harsh warning siren.  Usagi stopped dead in her tracks and looked at her
friends gathered around the glowing device, her short stop so sudden that Rei
came barreling into her a second later.

	"What is it?"

	"What's wrong?"

	"What's that noise?"

	"Ow!"

	"OH MY GOD!"

---Nerima---

	"Kasumi, Nabiki, I've missed you so much these past years.  My life never
felt complete without you...my daughters."  Kimiko looked up and felt
Honturi's firm hands on her shoulders, the warmth radiating off his body
reassuring her that this was the correct thing to do.  Her deep green bow
rustled in the breeze as her senshi skirt flew up, exposing a generous amount
of leg and a peek at the white cotton panties she wore underneath.

	Kasumi stared at the ghost smiling sweetly in front of her.

	Nabiki stared as her auntie Yamada stepped out of her energy sack and
appeared as her long dead mother.  Even Ranma's transformation wasn't half as
disconcerting as this!

	"Kasumi, Nabiki, this is the secret I have kept all this time.  This is
the reason I would not fulfill the Tendo/Saotome nuptials, I am your father."
Honturi watched the war on both their faces, neither willing to admit to their
conscious minds that what they saw was real.  "I realize that this is going to
take a long time to understand, but I am your biological father."  Kimiko
reached her hand back and pivoted to caress his face.

	"Take it slow, darling, I think they're both in shock."

	"...Mother?"

	"...Mommy?"  Both Tendo sisters began to cry, pure tears of anguish and
joy pouring from the fonts of their sight; unintelligible mews of disbelief
and happiness.  Kimiko slinked up to her two daughters, herself looking barely
five years older than them, and embraced them.  Like a dam, the long repressed
emotional buildup of their mother's death came flooding to the surface,
spilling out into the warmth of her arms as they let themselves go back to the
primal place of first memory...the memory of being held in their mother's
arms.  Honturi stood off to the side, realizing that since both of his
daughters had a father figure already instilled in their minds, he would take
some getting used to, especially the revelation of his avatar form.  Still, he
could wait.  He had all the time in the world.

	They stayed like that for what seemed hours, each tear soaked in Kimiko's
blouse another fond memory of their mother as they knew her.  Finally the
deluge began to ebb and she pulled away a bit to look at how beautiful her
daughters had become.

	Kasumi resembled her father closely with a clearly defined cheekbones and
a handsome curvature to her face.  Nabiki looked more like herself, her
gorgeous cut features a mirror of what she once was during the Silver
Millennium.  Shakily she took their faces in her hands.  "I love you both so
much...you both carry the seed of greatness within."

	"What happened, Mother?"

	"Why did you fake your death and hide from us?"  Neither sister paid much
attention to Honturi as he tensed in the corner, his enhanced senses feeling
the abrupt change in reality as Pluto crumpled to the floor by the Timegate.
His eyes narrowed in concentration but nothing save a vague wave of distortion
passed by his senses, apparently the change in the space-time continuum was
not so great as to irreparably damage the fabric of reality.

	Kimiko smiled at the youthful innocence that remained in her children and
hugged them again, this time tighter than before.  "You two have to
understand...your mother's gone cosmic."  Honturi twitched.  A power was
almost upon them, the distortion must have changed some things beyond his
sphere of influence because if those were who he thought they were, they sure
had grown up fast!

	"INCOMING!!!"  Honturi leapt to defend Kimiko and his daughters from the
shards of broken glass as Sailor Moon and Mars burst through the sliding doors
leading out into the yard and struck sentai poses.  No sooner had the two
landed than he saw the others approaching at high speed over the rooftops of
Nerima, he had to act quickly to diffuse the situation...

	With two precise jabs to the neck, Kasumi and Nabiki crumpled to the
floor and into his waiting arms.  Moon looked horrified at his toothy grin as
he hefted the girls.  Mars looked like she was going to throw up.

	"How could you so callously murder two such beautiful girls?  For this
outrage and any other in your life -  in the name of the Moon - I'll punish
you!"  Usagi struck a  ridiculous pose.  The others had already reached the
scene before she finished.

	"That's him!"  Ami pointed at the incandescent sword hanging at his hip
and used her Shabon spray, effectively clouding the area in super cold mist.
Kimiko powered up her attack and let loose with a Great Divide, an attack that
split the earth underneath them and swallowed their legs up to the hip.
Honturi ripped the Cosmic Xenosol from his belt and stabbed down into the soil
unearthed from Kimiko's attack as the waves of power turned the hardened cages
of rock into sparkling crystal.  Satisfied that the senshi were incapacitated
for the moment, Honturi sheathed his weapon and caught Sailor Earth as she
landed lightly on her toes from her attack.  Nabiki and Kasumi were laid like
rag-dolls on the stairs.

	"Calm yourselves, Senshi.  The two girls are unconscious, not dead as you
think."  Sure enough they could discern the subtle rise and fall of their
chests.  "I am not your enemy."

	"We know all about you Magnetite!  You're the same Darkspace General that
attacked us before!"  Minako paused in her speech to examine the man's
physique and found it wanting in no respects, there was no way she was letting
a hunk like that go...um...a fiend that him go free that is!  Yeah...that's
it...

	Ami stepped away from her mumbling blonde comrade and was almost bowled
over by an ecstatic Rei as the senshi of Mars brought Honturi to the floor in
a running tackle.  "Um...would anyone mind telling us what exactly is going
on?"  Honturi had regressed back to Ranma by that time as the charged
atmosphere dispelled from the Senshi's combined disbelief directed at their
raven-haired partner.  The group blink-blinked at the image of their martial
arts instructor wrestling Rei's hands away from his drawstring pants.

	Sailor Earth coughed politely into her hand.  "If you are quite finished
trying to rape my husband, Mars, would you let him get up so we can explain
exactly what's going on?"   Rei apparently did not have the good conscience to
keep her big mouth shut.

	"Like hell, Kimiko, he's my husband too!"  Rei was protectively clutching
onto his neck.  "I've been waiting for days to get him in the sack and now
you're telling me I have to wait!?"  Ranma was turning a wonderful shade of
blue as she twisted his neck back and forth.

	"Upstairs, third door to the right."

	"Thanks!  Ranma, it's about time for Honturi and I to get reacquainted!"
Usagi's eyes went wide as she watched one of her best friend strip naked and
carry the asphyxiating man upstairs to the aforementioned room.

	"Rei!?"

	"Husband!?"

	"Would someone please tell us what's going on!?"  Makoto started to
follow them, purely to save her sempai from the clutches of the evil Rei not
at all to do all manner of naughty things to his prone form but Usagi's hand
flew out and blocked her path.

	"Who are you and why are you wearing a senshi uniform!?  And why did
Rei...oop...I mean Mars know you!?"  Usagi blushed as her friends collectively
groaned or shook their heads.

Kimiko shook her head and de-transformed.  "Why don't you all de-energize and
I'll try to explain."  The senshi looked at one another before collectively
changing back to their regular clothes and taking seats around the table with
their older-looking host.  The estranged senshi of Earth took the time to
revive Kasumi and Nabiki from Honturi's pressure points and allowed the
shell-shocked girls to help her serve tea.

	To Nabiki it was a strange occurrence, here she was in the same room with
her 'dead' mother and the famous Sailor Senshi but she found herself without a
camera or the drive to use it, on the whole an odd feeling for the normally
mercenary Tendo.  In the end she relegated herself to setting out the cup and
saucers of her mother's elegant western tea set and sitting beside Kasumi as
their mother began her tale.  Under the gaze of the speculative senshi and her
daughters, Kimiko of the House of Earth, Senshi of the third planet from Sol,
Bride of Marduk, daughter of Tiamat, Siren of the Void, and Mistress under the
Rising Moon at last began to speak.

	"I am Kimiko Tendo now but I once was Kimiko of Earth - Princess of all
her realms and sister of Prince Endymion: Senshi of Earth.  Rei Hino, Princess
of Mars, is just getting reacquainted with our husband, the genetic
reincarnation of Divus Honturi.  These,"  she gestured to Kasumi and Nabiki,
"are my daughters by Ranma's previous incarnation - heirs to the throne of
Earth.  I hope you will be gracious enough to restore our family to power when
Crystal Tokyo is established?"

	Usagi seemed to convulse as the brunette spoke, her shoulders shaking as
her head fell so her chin hit her sternum.  As the others rushed to her aid
Kimiko raised a hand and stopped them dead, pointing to the Princess as a band
of white power coalesced around her forehead, mirroring the Queen's tiara of
old.  "Indeed, you and your family have served me well, when and if Crystal
Tokyo is established you shall regain your lost dominions."  No sooner had her
lips spoken the last word than her entire body deflated like a burst balloon.
Kasumi helped the younger girl to the floor and administered a cold compress
as Kimiko continued her speech.

	"Thank you, your highness.  From what Ranma tells me you are in dire need
of training in the proper use of your powers, we shall instruct you as soon as
we are complete."

	"Complete?"  Ami inquired, that certainly sounded...risquŽ with the
throaty moans and plaster shattering thrusts echoing from upstairs.  "Does
this 'completeness entail all of us together?"  Her blush was bright enough to
eclipse Sol.

	Kimiko gave the nerdy senshi a catty grin worthy of Nabiki.  "Why, Isis,
what a naughty thought!  But since you're asking..."  She covered the
blue-haired girl in hungry gazes, causing the rest of the Senshi to back away
from their fidgeting companion quickly lest they get rolled into an orgy.
"I'm just kidding, no need to worry.  No, I mean that we are not all here -
Persephone, Karane, Aiilus, Vierge, Junpei, and Altaecia are still missing.
Ranma has informed me that Persephone, or rather 'Setsuna Meiou', and Karane,
'Hotaru Tomoe', are in his care.  I don't know where Aiilus, Vierge, Junpei or
Altaecia are but we will have to do what we can with what we have."  Minako
raised her hand in an adorably annoying way.  "Yes?"

	"Uh...not to be rude or anything...but what do you mean by 'our
husband'?"

	"I assume Luna told you already that Divus Honturi, Captain-General of
the Trigan Guard, Bearer of the Mantle of Marduk, Wielder of the Cosmic
Xenosol, acting Ruler of the Cosmos, Bringer of Light, Prince of the Solar
System, Brother to the House of Serenity, Trusted of the Queen and honorary
Chancellor of Pretoria, Boatman of the Styx, Lord of Acheron-"

	"We get the point already!"  The Senshi all had matching sweatdrops...how
many titles did the guy have?

	"Okay, okay...anyway he is our husband, well all of us except Serenity.
She told you how he used to make passionate love to all of us every night and
how the Queen altered the morning by two hours so that we could sleep?  That
she was herself pleasure by him several time...discretely of course,"  Usagi
blushed at that, "that he was blessed with unfailing manliness and you have no
idea what I'm talking about, do you?"

	The Senshi all shook their heads in unison.  Rei screamed in climax again
from upstairs.  A dusting of plaster fell on Kasumi's hair.

	"What did she tell you?"

	"That he was Captain of the Trigan Guard, something about a Cosmic
Xenosol, that he was an old drinking buddy of Artemis and that we were all
married.  She wasn't that...descriptive."  Ami blushed even deeper as Rei was
crying for it harder.  Kimiko moaned in exasperation.

	"Okay I guess it's up to me..."  And she began to tell her tale proper.

---Upstairs---

	"Ah!!!"  Rei arched her back off the bed as she ripped the sheets into
little pieces, she'd been expecting something mind-blowing but this was
greater than anything she'd hoped for, defying all explanation.  Ranma thrust
deep into her before collapsing, cradling her sweaty head on his chest.  The
perspiration was dripping off her breasts as she breathed, hoping to recover
fast enough to go at it again.

	"You always did have that rough and tumble style, Rei, I kinda like
it...takes a lot out of me but I'll live."  The slip of a girl snuggled closer
to her lover and husband, wondering what she was going to tell her
Grandfather.  "You okay?"

	"I'm fine, I'm ready to go again!"

	"Ha, ha!  Well, why don't we take a breather okay?"  Ranma pulled a pack
of smokes from his pants, when one was virtually impervious to all illness and
death one could indulge in guilty pleasures.

	"What?  Not feeling 'up' to it?"  Rei raised an eyebrow as she looked at
him from his chest, she was stretched out over his much larger body.

	"No, it's just that you should duck right now while I take care of a
little business."

	Just then a blur crashed through the window and hurled itself at him.
Rei screamed in fright and ran downstairs, not bothering to get dressed or
wipe up the smattering of fluids dripping off and out of her body.  The glass
lacerated her feet mildly as she dashed into the hall and careened down the
stairs but she was far to busy thinking about grabbing her senshi pen from the
floor where she'd ripped off her clothes.

	Usagi and Minako both went wide-eyed as Rei stormed in, Makoto and Ami
looked away, while Kasumi and Nabiki fainted on the spot.  Kimiko threw Rei a
towel from nowhere and told her to dry off before rising from the table and
cautiously stepping towards the stairs.

	"It's Ranma!  We have to help him!"  Rei grabbed Usagi's shoulders and
shook her violently, demanding that the others transform and protect their
husband.  No sooner had the tirade begun than Setsuna appeared in the corner
of the room, dazed and dizzy from her unconsciousness.  Wobbling on gimpy legs
and collapsing to the couch, the disturbance was enough to stop Kimiko from
scaling the steps and running to the green-haired woamn's side.

	"What happened, Persephone?"  The red eyes locked onto hers with startled
intensity.

	"I'm too late, too late..."  Setsuna fell back into the blissful
blackness, her head falling heavily to the armrest with a meaty crack.  She's
be out for a while...

	"Ahem...guys?"  Ranma appeared from the steps with a bundle of sugar in
his arms.  "Would any of you mind telling me what's going on?"  The
pink-haired girl simply smiled at their faces and hugged her 'Daddy' closer.