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Characters: Minako

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Date: Shortly after the Queen's announcement, Night, Nov. 27
Summary: Sailor Soldier Reunion. Only. Sort of not.
Warnings: Good so far; unlikely to need warnings.

Minako had found her clothing––the volleyball uniform, just like she'd feared, although thankfully the garden was temperate so running around in shorts and an oversize shirt wasn't as bad as it could have been. And she had athletic shoes. That, as she made her way through the underbrush, she decided was a boon.

The cats had been helpful enough, but it wasn't exactly their fault that every time she saw one coming out of the corner of her eyes, Minako's heart jumped in the hope that it was Artemis. And it never was. (She hadn't asked but the cats were all also probably girls. Artemis had a girl's name, but, much to his own constant insistence, he was a boy.) And if they knew where to find Rei, their little scrolls weren't telling.

So Minako set off the old fashioned way: on foot, and shouting. "Rei-chan!" Every so often. She could have, were she clever or thinking more clearly, used the Vine to help her find Rei. Set up some kind of complicated communication... triangulation... Ami used that word, triangulation, and Minako had the sense that it applied here. But she was tired, impatient, and perhaps not thinking clearly at all.

So it was pavemet––or dirt path––pounding for the win. "Rei-chan! Where are you? It's Minako! Can you hear me?" All this, as she was running; she repeated more or less the same material as she made a circuit of whatever paths she could find.

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Rei snickered as she peered upwards into the dim light, watching for Minako in case she fell. Though that was more an Usagi thing to do. How such a clumsy girl had turned out to be a princess and more baffled Rei to some extent. But she loved her, all the same. She crossed her arms and gave a triumphant, and indulgent, grin.

"Maybe. But those aren't exactly common, are they?"

Silence. Then, the noise of Minako's descent, which was possibly even more ungraceful and loud than her ascent had been. "You never know," she declared, pausing as she started to come back into view in the dark. Her white shirt and light hair were easy to see, at least. "It's not like this place isn't already weird as anything."

"So... looking for that Queen lady seems like it's kind of out. For now."

"That's true enough. And we've seen weirder." Rei kept her eyes on Minako, hands on hips now as she waited for her to get down on the ground. Their options seemed to be rapidly shrinking and that was pretty worrisome.

"Yeah. Seems like it," she sighs, "I wish the others were here..."

Minako finally dropped the last few feet, landing with a thump on the ground. At least she was good at landing on her feet––years of running around on rooftops and jumping over things and fighting monsters had given her an aptitude for good landings. "You have no idea how much I wish it too," she agreed, nodding. She looked away, and her posture shifted slightly, becoming almost defensive.

"I thought when I first got here that this was where Ami-chan and Mako-chan had been taken, that this was part of the enemy's scheme, but…" But that idea was rapidly dwindling away. If they were here, they would have responded to her messages, and having all these other people, too? It just didn't add up.

Rei frowned, arms folding across her chest as she looks at Minako, listening. This was troubling her. Something had happened to Ami and Makoto? The future sounded, well, a bit uncertain.

"Minako-chan...What's going on? Is everything okay where--when you come from?" She leaned back against one of the trees, unable to shake the feeling of unease that was coming over her.

In response, Minako just shook her head. "No. There's some kind of enemy who showed up, and they keep saying they're Sailor Soldiers, too. And something happened to Ami-chan, and Mako-chan, they were kidnapped, or… or I'm not sure." She didn't want to say what everyone else had said.