#there was another movie I started. Chinese movie called fierce cop

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Anyways I watched I think four movies on the flight. First one was called “Oh! My Ghost” if I remember right, it was a Korean film that started off sort of like a supernatural comedy that I found very fun and then just kept throwing curveballs and new information and drama at me??? The underworld was invading??????? Main character had his memory forcibly wiped because of exorcising an innocent ghost????????? Baffling

Second movie was called “ichikei’s crow the movie” and that one was super fun, Japanese film about a newbie attorney uncovering a small town conspiracy, also an eccentric judge. Had a good tone balance. I love the newbie attorney. Also I love the eccentric judge.

Third movie was dungeons and dragons since I’ve heard people say it’s good. It’s fun.

Fourth movie was a Korean movie called “the thieves” (this flight had a lot of Korean movies actually). Heist movie, but it had a pretty interesting format I think? And an interesting cast. For one thing, very international. Korean group teaming up with a Chinese group, one from each group pretends to be Japanese for the heist plan, quite a few speak English, but not everybody can communicate with each other very well. There are multiple women, only one of them is the charmer, there’s one who’s a middle-aged woman, one of them is a police mole, and one of them is a safecracker. There’s so many differing motivations. But also, people die and it made me sad :(

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do you think it’s possible sarah (hoppers daughter) was an early-formed alter that went dormant before the events of season one? it’d make a lot of sense with how much of hoppers arc in season one was him mourning her and channeling that grief into protecting will (which would make sense since he seems like a protecter to both will and el). love your posts!☺️

Yep . :D

I already discussed all of this in the original did post - how sarah was a “little” (kid ) alter. And how hopper was a protector /introject alter. I also discussed her going dormant as a major possibility in my did theory. My assumption is she either (a) “became dormant” like some alters do- aka they are “gone” sometimes for many years but can return . And this can happen in a myriad of ways - sometimes alters go dormant after they had a simulated death in the inner world . theoretically sarah had such a Death. And so did El. Death isn’t really a permanent thing for alters ...they usually will come back or stay dormant - unless the body of the host dies (or they integrate) . They can’t really die . I think it’s very possible she comes back and Hopper while exploring the various innerworlds of Will’s minds (like the Russian one, the memory scapes , etc ) reunites/ finds her . look at the st s4 movie inspirations. In ‘what dreams may come”  a guy with the guidance of his dead kid explore a heaven like world influenced by a painter’s emotions.We also have the movie ‘inside out’ -which involves “memory islands” (distinct worlds based on a child’s memories) which are influenced negatively by the kid being depressed she moved to California. The characters traveling to these memory islands are constructs of  kid’s mind -and 1 of them also has a guide helping them explore the ‘memory islands’. in  Inception a guy says he’s a construct of a guy’s mind and needs to help him escape the many different Ievels of the dream worlds.The in inception who made the worlds- had dad issues. 'the cell’also had alternate dimensions of a man's mind that a cop explored ( the dimensions were created by a man who was ab*sed by his dad). Movies like inception, matrix, Truman show, total recall, the cell, enter the void, wizard of oz, Peter Pan, hellraiser 2, dream warriors, bill & ted’s bogus journey, and welcome to marwen  also allude to this: because they involve entering simulated abstract worlds usually created/based on happy& traumatic memories/fears.Cough s4 using the movie wizard of oz quote “we’re not in Hawkins (kansas) anymore.While truman show/matrix are more about realizing your reality isn’t real.in bladerunner 2044/total recall it has the theme of false implanted memories… probably relating to hopper realizing he’s an alter and not in “actual Russia.” Before seeing the other segments of the innerworlds with sarah. Like in total recall- the bad ass spy is told all his memories: his wife/ years of marriage,  , his name, are just implanted memories. And she says “you’re life is a dream.” 

In s2 Nancy asks Steve how his “grandpa’s time in the war is a metaphor for your life?” And steve compares the mf to the germans in the war. Dr owens mentions Will has ptsd like “ (vietnam) soldiers’, Hopper saying he had buddies like Will . “In the 70s there was a study that compared the post-traumatic stress symptoms in Vietnam veterans and adult survivors of childhood s**ual ab*se. The study revealed that childhood s**ual ab*se is traumatizing and can result in symptoms comparable to symptoms from war-related trauma.” Hopper isn’t actually in Russia -but in one of the innerworlds (after he jumped through the rift of the machine- into Will’s mind). We’ll see flashbacks but also present circumstances of his imprisonment echo Will’s past with Lonnie (if the movies indicate anything)- being starved, guards getting payed in order to let other prisoners  r*pe a gay prisoner (than claim incorrectly because of his sexuality he wanted it) , as well as a gang of sadist men who r**e others and a warden using that as a threat to be compliant , being thrown in a dark room of solitary confinement and starved when they didn’t obey the warden, the warden being religious, etc. And the Anerican soldiers (in Vietnam) in the movies aren’t much better and do similarly horrific acts to civilians like r**e and bragging/ happily k*lling women, children, and the elderly. The drill sergant in vietnam calling them homophobic slurs & women, and chocking one of the soldiers with one hand, slapping one for not believing in christianity. Tying up a soldier in a bed , gagging him, beating him and saying “remember it’s just a dream.” Only praising them when good in fire arms.(movies : fullmetal jacket, papillon, shawshank redemption, platoon, welcome to marwen, etc ) . My assumption is  flashbacks of his life- will hint he’s an alter of Will’s-the boxes in the basement are “vietnam” ,“dad”, and “ny” (and these are the memories of his we’ll see). And some of the bad characters in said stories will also parallel Lonnie . For instance in s2, Jonathan mentions Indiana writer Vonnegut- In his book ‘slaughterhouse 5′- Vonnegut begins the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who has “come unstuck in time”. It accounts of Billy Pilgrim's capture and incarceration by the Germans during the last years of World War II, and scattered throughout the narrative are episodes from Billy's life with his dad, and his own wife and kids.Billy is forced to be part of the war and similar things against his free will. The moments start from his childhood when his father throws him in the water to teach him how to swim. He was unwillingly drafted into the war. Later, he is kidnapped by Tralfamadorians  (aliens that are implied to be caused by his mental health issues/trauma) against his will. Therefore, he realizes that this concept is just an illusion.

  And some of the bad characters in said stories will also parallel Lonnie . Like how in ‘peterpan’- the young girl Wendy imagines netherland and the villain -captain hook- is based off her father ( in the movie they have the same voice actors/while in all stage productions the 2 characters are always played by the same actor). Similar to the other s4 film- ‘wizard of oz’ where the wicked witch of th west from the mythical land of Oz (is played by Dorothy’s real life mean neighbor in the real world/kansas). Or ‘in the cell’- every villain from the alternate-mind- dimensions is played by same actor in diff makeup. Not sure if they’d use Ross Patridge (actor of Lonnie) in this way . But it would be very interesting if (In makeup) Ross played many negative people in Hopper’s life/past -as a way to show Will’s past tr*uma.

Like also-look at Sarah’s tiger plushie! In chinese mythology/culture: “The tiger is personified by the constellation Orion (interesting given Sara’s interest in space/blackholes). The tiger represents protection over human life (hmm?). Tiger charms were used to keep away evil and disease (that’s awful ironic if she died in the manner she did). In Buddhism, wearing tiger skins during meditations was believed to bring protection from spiritual interference and potential harm while exploring astral dimensions.” HMMMMMMMMM  XD

Kali in the stranger things novel ‘Suspicious Minds’ says…

“I was named after a goddess. She wore a tiger skin and was fierce in battle.”

Then Kali says to Alice (a women who can see future visions): “I love you, Alice. We can be tigers together.”This parallel (in relation to Alice) is fascinating because Kali actually uses her powers to fake Alice’s death- and to trick Dr. Brenner, and allow Alice to escape. The allusion was so realistic, that Terry could even touch the ‘dead’ Alice.

So the tiger symbolism could be a HUGE hint- that Sarah’s death was simulated and she’ll come back and travel the innerworlds/alternate dimensions of Will’s mind (as Hopper’s guide). Hopper about sarah “galaxies the universe-she always understood that stuff.”

Another possibility (theory b) is she integrated with another alter or with Will (which means she can’t return) .Hopper saying about Sarah “the black hole it got her.” Could imply she integrated with the mf/shadow monster? And ,or maybe she will later ?

But... I lean heavily to theory (a) the most , though.

Obviously sarah has a lot of the connections to Will. will and Sarah both being into science, Sarah winning a spelling bee, Will winning the science fair, both being connected to tigers. Both hallucinating something no one else can see and people trying to snap the 2 out of what they’re viewing. Joyce saying as a witch she’ll eat Will. Parallels Hopper saying as an ogre he’ll eat sarah. Hopper, in s1, when seeing Will (with a vine in his mouth) has a flashback of Sarah on a mouth respirator. And he also has a flashback of Sarah when seeing Will’s lion plushie which resembled Sarah’s tiger plushie. And el also had a lion plushie-like Will’s in s1. Hopper monitored both Will and Sarah at the hospital when they were “dying”. Will has a fear of clowns- and Sarah’s hospital gown had clowns on them. All 3 kids draw.

Plus, we all know the parallels of Will to El (Hopper’s new daughter).

I discussed in my did theory that Hopper (as an adult alter) is a form of protector to all the kid alters - el, Sarah, and Will (host/core). And Hopper as an introject-alter (who are alters based on a person the child knows ) are usually put in the system cause the kid assumes that person could protect them . And since original-Hopper was a police man (a little kid could easily assume that). Although, because he’s a “father figure” for the system he has some of Lonnie’s traits- which are reflected in other perpetrator alters/ bad npcs in the system- Brenner, Neil, Billy, the evil’s Russians,etc . So sometimes he acts similar to a Perpetrator alter too . And I listed those examples/bad parallels extensively in the original did post (linked in the beginning).

And I used these quotes from psych papers in my original did post to pretty much sum up Hopper’s use in Will’s system .

“Introjects can also be based off of  figures that the dissociative child found strong, courageous, heroic, or otherwise worthy of being emulated and internalized and could theoretically protect them.”

“Older adult alters are created to serve a nurturing or parenting role, thus serving as a protector. (*protecting Will/el) . However, sometimes their older age is related to taking on the identification of the ab*ser and can therefore take on any of the other more hostile roles too ... Introjects which are mimicking ab*sers are trying to "keep you inline" in order to protect you from external ab*sers. They are copying behaviors shown to them by bad people, not harboring the intent, s*dism or imm*rality of the actual perpetrators.”

I think it pretty much sums up the nuances and motivations of Hopper’s character.

Thanks for the ask, anon :)

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Quantum Minako

Came across this in some old files. It’s a short drabble fic I’d written years ago and it shows., but what the hell, why not. I’m in a mood. 

Minako Aino sat up in bed and looked out the window at the newly risen sun as its light reflected off the facets of the utopia that was Crystal Tokyo. It was over, she realized. The prophecies and their foretellings of the future had run out. There was no way to tell what would happen from now on. 

"Gad, I'm bored," she said. ******* One week later... Doctor Conrad Howard raised an eyebrow as the stack of data crystals thudded onto the desk. Conrad was a tall, skinny young man with brown hair tied back in a ponytail and brown eyes. His lips were turned slightly upwards at some joke that only he seemed to know. He was a genius at creating new technologies out of seemingly irrelevant objects and energy sources. Technically, he worked for Ami, but Conrad was fiercely independent and Ami had long ago given up trying to actually direct him and had settled for trying to make sure he didn't blow up the palace. His lab was a hodgepodge of crystal devices and nineteenth through early twenty-first century technology. Parts and assembly equipment were scattered in a seemingly unorganized mess. On top of a computer tower an iguana perched. It's name was Iggy, which Conrad claimed was short for Einstein.

Conrad and Minako had a relationship that baffled the other senshi. It was more than friendship, but not romantic and as near as they could tell, never had been. Their conversations/arguments were often about things that apparently had happened in their mutual past while Minako was in England, and that they refused to explain to the others. The other senshi never mentioned it, but it bugged them that there was a part of Minako's past that they knew nothing about.

"Let us see here," Conrad mused, picking a crystal at random from the stack and reading the label. "Ranma, Tenchi, Utena, Ruroni Kenshin and...F Three?" Blushing, Minako grabbed the crystal from his hand. "A gift? I'm flattered, Mina-chan."

"It's not a gift," she replied. "I want to enter these."

"Enter?" He stared at the stack for a moment and then looked back at her. "No. No way in hell am I going to be responsible for another Cathedral."

"That was totally different!" Minako shouted. "The bear catching fire and the totaling of the Millennium Dome was a completely separate incident."

"If that's true, why did the bobbies keep coming by my flat to ask questions about it? Do you have any idea how long how I had to listen to my dad give me hell?"

"Bother the cops!" Minako slammed her hand down onto the table surface. "Now will you help me get into these?"

"Why do you want to get into them?"

"Because I'm bored. Almost all of these ended badly or ambiguously. Somebody should do something about it so that everything is fixed and all the wrongdoers have been punished."

"That's a novel reason to violate the fabric of space-time," he observed in a sardonic tone. "Why don't you go ask Ami to help you?"

"Ididshesaidno," Minako muttered.

"I see..." Conrad picked up a handful of data crystals and stared at them. "I'll think about it."

Three days passed and Minako returned to the lab to find Conrad hunched over a lab table, soldering a device about the size of a calculator together. Next to him was a large cylinder upon which was mounted a vertical drum. Set into slots were her data crystals.

"Is that..."

"Yep." He closed the device up and turned it over. The cover opened like a book, revealing a few keys, a small, two inch screen and a rectangular button. He pointed at the keys. "This one determines your location, this one allows you to call home, and the big one will get you out, or if you're here, send you in. In theory. It might also send you to another world. There's no way to tell."

"Great!" Minako said and transformed into Venus before mashing the button with her thumb. A glow surrounded her, the drum spun, Venus vanished, and then the drum collapsed into slag, scattering the thousands of crystals all over the floor. Conrad raised an eyebrow at that. He had cobbled it together from spare parts taken from broken equipment and hadn't bothered to test them. It was only for show, after all. But still...it was amazing what a teleporter, some crystals and a sense of humor would get you.

He chuckled to himself. Tearing a hole in the fabric of space time to travel to other dimensions/universes was only theoretically possible. Hell, even Crystal Tokyo technology could only warp space-time, allowing time travel or teleportation. But that was about it.

After a few seconds passed, Conrad picked a com off the desk and dialed Venus' private com code. "So, Venus, how do you like sitting in the cafeteria's sushi bar?" No response. "Venus? Minako?" No response. "Computer; Locate Sailor Venus."

"Working...Sailor Venus not found."

"System Wide Search."

"Working." Several minutes passed before the computer spoke. "Sailor Venus not found."

"Expand search. Widest parameters. Authorization is Howard Alpha One Cee." Minako had fought with Makoto like mad to get him that clearance, which was just a step below the Senshi themselves and two steps below the Royal Family. "Poke your nose into the Queen's private chambers if you have to."

"Working." "Almost thirty minutes passed before it delivered it's verdict. "Sailor Venus is not within scanning range."

Conrad stared at the spot where Venus had been, vaguely remembering, during a late night work session, of fashioning a crystal matrix and installing it into the transport device.

Was it possible? Could Venus have...could he have... "You have got to be freakin kidding me..." He flipped the switch on the com. It was after midnight, but there was no help for it. "This is Doctor Howard. All Senshi come to lab F Nine. There's...a problem."

******* Neo-Queen Serenity and her husband, King Endymiyon, were the last to arrive. Unlike the others, who were still rubbing sleep from their eyes, the royal couple was awake and one look at Endymiyon's face told Conrad why.

"Where's Minako?" the queen asked, looking around.

"That's why I called the Senshi together, My Queen. I wouldn't have interrupted your sleep, or," here he threw a look at Endymiyon that spoke volumes, causing the king to glower, "whatever else you might have been doing otherwise. To make a long story short, Venus has gone missing."

"Missing?" Makoto repeated. The others were instantly awake.

"How?" Haruka demanded.

Conrad explained Mina's request and his intention to foil it by dropping her into the sushi bar. "I usually work at night and I guess my mind was wandering. Happens sometimes," he finished. "Anyways, we have to find her."

Rei leaned over to Ami. "Ami, is it possible to do what he said?" she whispered. "Breach the...whatever fabric?"

"Only in theory," Ami whispered back. "I couldn't tell you how he might have managed it though." She gave her friend a helpless shrug. "I'm a doctor, not a quantum physicist."

"What do you mean, you don't know where she is? I thought you knew everything," Haruka sneered.

"I told you. I created what was supposed to be a teleporter matrix. Maybe I misplaced a decimal point on the fifth line or something while I was thinking about something else. Genius works like that. The point is, I never installed any way to track her and the transporter has no guidance circuits." He scooped up a handful of data crystals. "Every work of fiction from every part of the world going back twenty-five hundred years in on these crystals. Every anime, TV show, movie, comic, manga, video game, short story and book. Even though some of them offer only a glimpse, each one is a world, a full fledged universe unto itself. There's no way to tell where...hell, when she is. I'm sorry, but I think she's gone."

"You little shit," Haruka snarled, starting forward, hands outstretched. She and Conrad had gotten along like Usagi and Rei had at first, but unlike them, whose rivalry had become friendship, neither one showed any signs of warming up to the other. In fact, Haruka was moving towards him more out of a desire to remove him from the world then any real anger at Minako's disappearance.

"Isn't there anything you can do?" Neo-Queen Serenity asked, freezing Haruka in her tracks. "Surely there must be something you can try."

Conrad stared at her helplessly, and then his gaze dropped. Not to the revealing cut of her gown, but to the scepter topped with a multifaceted crystal that she held. He stared at it a moment, then looked up and straight at Hotaru. His eyes took on a peculiar look and they could almost see circuits being designed in the brown orbs. "Maybe...maybe there is a way." He pointed at the crystal. "I'll need that, Hotaru, her henshin wand, and a whole lotta luck."

"What the hell does Hotaru have to do with this?" Haruka asked as Conrad began to move around the lab, taking items from bins and stacking them in his arms.

"Because she and Venus are linked," Conrad replied.

"Linked?" Michiru asked.

"Each of the Inner Senshi's powers reflect a particular aspect of the Chinese Elemental Compass. Fire, Water, Air, Wood, Spirit, and Metal, if memory serves."

"So?" Haruka asked.

"So, Venus is also known as the Senshi of Love and Saturn is the Senshi of Death."

"And how the bloody fuck does that make them linked?"

"Let me put it another way." Conrad set the stack down on a table. "Suppose your death would mean the difference between Michiru living or dying. Would you sacrifice your life so that she could live?" He took up a data pad and with quick strokes of his fingers on the keys, made a number of notes.

"Of course," Haruka replied without hesitation.

"Why?"

"Because...I love her," Haruka said, understanding dawning.

"Exactly. And since you're all linked by the Ginzinhozu or whatever you call it, there might be a way to piggy back a line of communication on that link. We might not be able to get her home, but at least we can talk to her...assuming this doesn't kill one or both of them because of the mental shock."

"What?" If you think we're going to let Hotaru-"

"I want to do it, Papa," Hotaru said. Her eyes were frightened, but she stood tall and was making an attempt to be brave.

"But...Hotaru..."

"My purpose is to destroy," the frail girl said softly. "Almost all my powers are intended to hurt...or kill. If they can also be used to help, I'll do it. Even if it means my life." She faced Conrad. "What do I have to do?"

"For now? Go back to sleep. All of you. Building this mother is gonna take a while."

******* Conrad hadn't been kidding. It was almost a week before he sent for Hotaru. The lab had been completely altered. In the center of the room was a long bed mounted on a pedestal. A large crystal disk mounted on a long metal rod jutted out from the pedestal and then curved up and over the bed like a vulture. At one end, Neo-Queen Serenity's scepter and Setsuna's henshin wand were mounted on a headboard and thick cables ran from the pedestal to other pieces of equipment scattered across the room.

At his station, Conrad was dipping a wire into a cup of tea, then removing the wire, taking a sip, then placing the wire back into the cup.

As Hotaru, Michiru and Haruka entered the room, Ami approached them carrying a tray of tools and equipment. "Sit down, Hotaru-chan," she said softly. Once Hotaru sat, Ami pushed back her hair and swabbed the area behind Hotaru's left ear, her jaw, and then down her neck to her shoulder with gel and then picked up a large plate that had been shaped to fit the space she had just swabbed and pressed it to Hotaru's face. The plate began to move, forming it's shape to the area Ami had covered in Gel. Then she felt pinpricks up and down her face.

"There," Ami said softly, "that will allow us to monitor your vital signs. Follow me." The blue-haired woman led Hotaru over to the bed and indicated that she should sit. Conrad set the cup down with the wire still in it, and came over.

"Henshin wand." She handed hers to him and he set it into the headboard opposite Setsuna's. Then he picked up a glove and a crescent moon shaped piece of red crystal. The glove was fingerless and on the back was a circular piece of circuitry. "Left hand," he said, handing her the glove. She pulled it on as he fitted the crystal visor over her eyes. "This is going to be a bit like virtual reality," he told her. "See that circular patch on your glove? Once you're in, it should look to you like a circular patch of crystal. Double tapping it like this," he tapped the circular patch twice very fast, "will bring you back here, so to speak. Once you find Minako, tell her to activate the transporter. With any luck, it should return her to her point of origin, which will be here." He picked up a wire and plugged one end to the headboard and the other into the crystal visor as he described the transporter's controls. Another wire he plugged into the glove itself. "Remember, we won't know what will happen until you come back. We can't monitor what you see and hear. You ready?" Hotaru nodded. "Lie down and get comfortable." Turning he moved back beyond the arms and sat down at a control panel. "All right, focus your thoughts on Minako and don't think about anything else."

Hotaru closed her eyes and pictured Minako in her mind. How she looked, sounded and smelled.

"You have it?" she heard him ask.

"Yes."

"Okay, now hold onto that visual, you're going in on three. One, Two,"

"We love you, Hotaru!" Michiru shouted over the rising hum of machinery.

"Three!" For Hotaru, a loud roaring sound fill her ears and she felt herself fall into a cold void.

For the others, the crystal flared with white light and Hotaru went limp.

"She's gone into a state of REM sleep," Ami said from another station.

"Now what?" Makoto asked.

"We wait," Conrad said softly. "Once she comes out of it-"

"She better come out of it," Haruka growled.

"-we should know more," Conrad continued as though Haruka hadn't spoken.

"Wonder what she'll find," Makoto said.

*************** Opening her eyes, Hotaru found herself standing in a room full of people. She was dressed in her Senshi uniform and holding her glaive. Glancing down at her left hand, she saw that the glove with the crystal disc was on her hand over the glove of her uniform. She gazed around the room once more. All of the people were dressed in strange clothing, many repeating the same action over and over, or simply staring at the walls, ceiling or floors. And then she looked behind her. Sitting on the floor, staring at her in wide-eyed terror, was Venus.

"Hello, Venus-san," Hotaru said, bowing. "What is this place?" Venus opened her mouth to say something when one of the other people in the room walked through Hotaru as though she wasn't there.

AHHHHHHH!" Venus shrieked and then began grabbing whatever she could lay her hands on and throwing it at Hotaru. Within seconds, two burly men dressed as hospital orderlies ran in, grabbed Venus and hauled her out. Hotaru stood there for a moment before realizing that she wasn't being taken with them and hurried out, following Venus' shrieks.

******* Hotaru stared at sleeping, strapped-down form of Venus as she lay on the bed in the small room. By looking around and listening to the conversation of the men, and other conversations she had overheard as the men had dragged the shrieking Venus to this room, Hotaru had determined that they were in America, a place called L.A. The year was nineteen ninety-seven, and this was a mental institution. She had also determined that she was invisible, inaudible, and immaterial.

On the bed, Venus groaned and her eyes fluttered open. Hotaru held her finger to her lips for silence. "Venus, what..." she trailed off as voices were heard from the other side of the door. Moments later, the panel slid back and they could see several faces peering in.

"And as an interesting parallel to Ms Conner," said an authoritative voice, "we have this young lady, a partial amnesiac, who answers only to Venus. In this case, unlike Ms Conner's Paranoia Dementia, which leads her to believe in the arising of sentient robots which will wipe us all out,  Venus has Senile Dementia, or believes she is a super hero." There were a few chuckles. "She was picked up in downtown Los Angeles attempting to stop a mugging by attempting to catch him with a 'Venus Love Chain'. Some kind of energy chain. Naturally, it didn't work. She is strapped down as she suddenly began shrieking during her recreation period and then began throwing various objects. When the orderlies came in, she became violent, insisting that there was a young lady standing in front of her holding a weapon. She was taken back to her room, sedated, and strapped down for her own safety. Treatment so far has been mild sedation and sessions with a therapist. Now in the next room is a young man who believes he is a creature known as an 'Arby Fish'." The panel closed and the voices faded away.

Hotaru stared at the floor for a moment, absorbing what she had just heard.

"Who are you?" Venus asked softly.

"My name is Hotaru. I am a Sailor Senshi, like you." Venus stared at her.

"Ho...taru?"

"Yes, yes."

"What's a Senshi?"

"That is unimportant. I am here to get you out of here."

"Out of here?"

"Yes." Hotaru looked around. "Where is your transporter?"

"What's a transporter?"

"You had it with you. It opens like a book and had a screen and some buttons under the cover."

"Oh, you mean this?" Venus held it up for Hotaru to see. "I made it disappear before I went after those muggers. Wish I knew why I did. Go after the muggers I mean."

"Good. Open it up and press the big button. Or do you want to stay here?"

"No." With only one hand, Venus fumbled open the device. Looking up, she found that Hotaru had disappeared. She frowned. Odd girl, and even weirder that Venus felt that she should know her.

She pressed the button.

******* Hotaru opened her eyes to find herself seeing the world through red crystal. Her head hurt and even through the visor the lights from the crystals over the bed were almost blinding. Letting out a groan, she closed her eyes again. Moments later, she felt Michiru's arms encircle her and moments later, the import of what she had seen came crashing down on her and Hotaru began to cry.

"Hotaru? What's wrong?" Haruka asked.

"She doesn't remember, Papa. She doesn't know who she is!"

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Seeking to further the cause of Justice, Minako Anio, ripped a hole in the fabric of space-time with untested technology....

And vanished.

She awoke in another world, her Senshi powers limited, her memories in fragments, and driven by an strange desire to change each world for the better.

Her only guide on this journey is Hotaru, a young girl who claims to be a Senshi like herself, and manifests in the form of a vision that only Minako can see and hear.

And so, Minako travels from world to world, striving to put right all the wrongs and hoping that the next time she presses the button on the transporter...

That it will take her home...