The characters here are trademarks of their respective owners. I am not expecting any money from any story I write, and therefore am not taking any money away from the copyright holders. This series is an official sequel to my "Divided Destiny" series, which was at-the-time an unofficial sequel to my "Let The Punishment Be The Crime" story. Confused? It's understandable, as knowledge of those stories is basically required to enjoy this one, though the important stuff will likely be covered here anyway. Thanks to Lady Jupiter (LadyJupiter@SailorJupiter.com) as her works inspired me to write fanfiction in the first place, and also to His Lordship Chaos (hislordshipchaos@hotmail.com) as this is almost entirely his fault. I'm a huge Jupiter fan. That will become obvious as you read this and other stories by me, they are mostly Lita-centric. I will be using the NA dubbed names. Why? Because the previous part of this tale used NA names and this IS its sequel. This fic features the Scouts and Ken in Lady Jupiter's "Jupiter Knight" World where Ken is Lita's protector, Jupiter Knight. I have been given permission to do so. Also, it takes place before her "Remember When?" series and obviously after my "Divided Destiny" series. My other/future fanfics can be found at my "Writing" page at http://www.muskoka.com/~summertn/writing.html and probably anywhere else you got this fic from. This story was originally aimed to be a bit more humourous than its predecessor, but slowly switched towards duplicating it fairly well. Oh well. Divide By Zero - Afterlogue by Scott "Cyclops" Summerton Last Revised Sunday February 6th, 2000 --------------- "Dreams are not easy to analyze Mina. I can't say why Freddie had those nightmares exactly. Maybe guilt brought them on, I don't know, but... Mina what's wrong?" Mina's eyes were fixated on her watch. "9:18." was all she was able to mumble. Lita rolled her eyes. "She's the guardian of time, and you doubted her?" "Somebody want to fill me in?" asked Raye. Serena giggled at Raye's plight. "Sailor Pluto said that you'd tell Mina what you just told her at 9:18." Raye smiled as Mina was still staring dumbfounded at the timepiece on her wrist. "Well she was right. If I knew what the nightmare WAS I might be able to analyze it a bit more, otherwise there's nothing I can do." Serena waved it off and looked at Lita. "So let's try to get back on topic here... Freddie dumped you, but you still compare..." A questioning glance from Ken caused her to pause. "Sorry, I mean you USED to compare every guy you encountered to him? Why?" Lita got a wistful look in her eyes. "Because he was my first love, really. Sure it hurt when he dumped me, but only because it proved he really had changed." She smiled at Serena. "The Freddie I fell in love with was long gone way before we broke up. I had thought I could bring the guy I loved back and get rid of the selfish Freddie that he had become, but when he dumped me all hope of that went away." "So the Freddie you broke up with wasn't the same Freddie you fell in love with, therefore the hurt was more about the realization that what could have been never would instead of losing what you had?" "Exactly, Amy." replied the brunette as she took Ken's hands into her own. "Besides, that's all in the past now, right Kenny?" No response. "Ken?" Ken didn't respond due to his having fallen asleep on the floor where he sat beside Lita. Naturally she nudged him to get him awake. "Hmm... wha...?" Serena sighed. "You just missed out on Lita bearing her heart for all to see!" Ken smiled sleepily. "I doubt I missed anything I haven't had confided to me before." "Well, still, Darien would never fall asleep during something like that, would... you... Darien?" Serena's speech slowed as she realized that she too had a sleeping male beside her. Raye stiffled a yawn as she spoke. "I don't blame them though, we've had a long day what with that weird battle and all. Everyone's welcome to spend the night here of course, even though it is Sunday." Darien, now awake, replied. "I don't have class until 10 so it's no problem for me. Serena might actually benefit from this since all of us being here could help get her up so she gets to school on time!" Serena's mouth hung open in shock at what her boyfriend had just said. After a moment she spoke. "Well, does everyone have sleeping stuff and clothes for tomorrow?" Amy smiled as she headed towards Raye's room to gather bedding. "Of course we do Serena. We've all got overnight bags in the storage room, which I'm going to go help get." Serena's face brightened as she bounded behind Amy. "THAT must be where my pink bunny pyjamas ended up!" Amidst the laughter that followed, sleeping arrangements were made and bedding distributed. Shortly thereafter everyone was settled in the large sitting room, even Raye who sacrificed her own bed that night to join her friends on the floor. Talk of the past few days soon dominated the inevitable discussion regardless of the late hour. Serena snuggled into her sleeping bag (dressed in those long lost pink bunny pyjamas of course) and smiled as Luna lay down in the crook of her arm. "At least we've got it right this time, eh Luna?" "Don't remind me Serena..." answered the sleepy cat. "Don't remind you of what?" asked Ken as he listened in. "Oh Luna and I were just confused about the sleeping arrangements during the past couple of days." replied a nonchalant Serena. "Confused?" began Luna, somewhat surprised. "We argued about it for nearly 30 minutes Friday night!" Raye was laughing out loud by now. "You mean you argued over who slept where? Why?" Serena held her head high. "Luna always sleeps at the food of the bed and I get the rest of it!" "But we had to keep up appearances Serena." stated Luna. "It wouldn't have done either of us any good if your parents or your brother came into your room to find their daughter curled up at the foot of the bed and her cat sprawled about the pillows." Serena grinned wickedly at the cat. "And how DID we wake up that morning?" Luna was thankful for her black fur hiding most of the resulting blush. "Their daughter was curled up at the foot of the bed and her cat was sprawled about the pillows." Lita, albeit laughing out loud, was still slightly confused. "What's the big deal about it then Serena? You ended up where you wanted to anyway!" Serena didn't back down one bit. "But if we'd just started out like that it would have saved time during the night!" "You're hopeless Meatball Head." laughed Raye. "Still, I suppose that's not much better than Darien forgetting that he was wearing a REALLY short skirt as Sailor Mercury. Thankfully the white bodice isn't see-through." Darien sighed heavily. "I'm just glad Raye had a pair of pants that fit Amy so I didn't have to worry about it when I detransformed." Raye looked towards Amy laying near her. "You can borrow those anytime if you like, they looked great on you, er, you'd look great in them... ah you know what I mean!" Amy smiled. "I should borrow them, check. I will as long as Mina helps me pick out something nice to match them with." Mina did a doubletake as she desperately looked at all save Amy whom she was pointing at. "Did she just ask me for fashion advice?" She now looked to the blue-haired girl and gave her a stern gaze. "Who are you and what have you done with our Amy?" Amy merely smiled a not-so-shy smile. "You helped me see myself in another light, that's all. Or, at least your body helped me see it." Lita looked on somewhat amused. "Amy, are you telling me that you're planning on doing what I think you're planning on doing?" Amy continued smiling and nodded an affirmative. "What?" asked a bewildered Mina. "Mina," answered Lita, barely able to suppress a smile, "you've got yourself some competition from our resident genius here." Mina turned to Amy yet again in shock. "You...?" Amy nodded. "Are going to...?" She nodded again. "Against me...?" A third nod. Mina sighed. "Well, at least you kept my body fit by doing hours of exercise." She pouted. "Not much consolation though." Amy now looked puzzled. "Why?" Mina cast an exasperated look at her friend. "BECAUSE we've always known that you've got a lot of potential but now you're perfectly willing to USE it!" Amy was still puzzled. "I thought you'd be happy to hear this what with my practically giving you permission to play 'human doll' with me." "Don't mind her," began Raye. "She was all happy that Lita had exited the dating game thinking her strongest competition was eliminated. Now you drop this on her..." She shook her head. "It's bound to make things complicated in that red-bowed head of hers." "Well YOU'D be distraught too if you heard similar news after being a CAT for two days." responded Mina. "Hey, I LIKE being a cat." answered Artemis who was curled up beside her. "Oh sure, I bet you just LOVED being a human, doing all sorts of things you've always dreamt of doing if you had the chance to be a person just like us..." -----flashback to the previous night----- Artemis, trapped within the body of Darien, looked wearily at his opponent, trying in vain to read his body language. Finally, after much deliberation in evaluating his current position and determining a plan of action, he spoke... "Got any threes?" "Go fish." replied Ken. He sighed. "I'd LOVE to." "Shut up furball and take a card." -----end flashback----- "Oh yeah, I did LOTS of things..." Mina's rebuttal was interrupted as Sailor Pluto suddenly appeared in the centre of the room. Her ever-presant regal stature managed to command respect even from those who were nearly asleep. Ken wasn't tired anymore. "Pluto, what's wrong?" "Nothing now that I'm here." she replied. Serena winced. "Do I even WANT to ask?" Sailor Pluto turned to her future queen. "It is nothing to be worried about. Freddie had implemented a last chance attack in case his primary assault failed. My presence here now negates it before it will even occur." Lita still looked worried. "What was the attack going to do?" Pluto's face went grim. "It was set to alter your genders, making all the males female and vice versa." The entire room paled. "I take it my decision to prevent this is approved?" Blank-faced nods indicating 'yes' were made by all. "Good, I've had about enough of these switches amongst everyone that it's begun to get on my nerves." She paused for a moment. "Well, the attacks time-window has passed, sleep well." With that she vanished just as quickly as she appeared. Nine sets of eyes looked from one another before everyone quickly lay down in an attempt to fall asleep as soon as possible. For each of them, the end to this most unusual week couldn't come soon enough. END AFTERLOGUE END DIVIDE BY ZERO --------------- That's it! The trilogy is complete! I admit that this all literally flew by and was paced a little too fast, but it told everything I intended it to tell, so I'm happy with how it turned out. Will I ever return to write more in this specific setting? I have no idea really. I've got loads of other stuff that I've been meaning to write that is demanding attention anyway, but who knows? What is an Afterlogue? It's a segment that takes place after the main story and is a general afterthought on my part. 'Epilogue' would have seemed too formal a title for something as off the cuff as that I think. As for this being Chaos' fault, well, the 'Amy as Mina's competition' and 'Luna/Serena sleeping' scenes were thought up by him. Credit where credit is due. :) I find it somewhat hard to comprehend that 1 weeks worth of story began around May 1998 and took until February 2000 to finish. Probably just me though. Here's contact info: Scott "Cyclops" Summerton http://www.muskoka.com/~summertn thrawn27@hotmail.com, sjs3@hotmail.com and summertn@muskoka.com ICQ - 7383852, AOL IM - DarkCanuck Please also visit: A Sailor Moon Romance (www.moonromance.com) Lady Jupiter's Dream House (www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9286/) Curse of the Fanboys! (carnage.fanfic.org) SailorJupiter.com (www.sailorjupiter.com) Cartoon Wrestling Federation (members.xoom.com/cwfcom1/) Began Saturday February 5th, 2000. Completed Sunday February 6th, 2000.