Written By BHart
June 1, 2005

Act VII
Part 1
Tomihiro Hoshino Museum

Pendrell had just walked on the deck of the spacecraft. “You wanted to
see me miss?” asked Pendrell. “Yes; I wanted to let you know that I will
be going down to Earth and begin my campaign. We have finally
progressed far enough in our plan that I am able to do that. I will keep in contact with you via a satellite phone. I will also be overseeing the remaining brainwashing projects we have going on down there since the sailor senshi have halted a number of our plans already under your incompetent command,” said Sailor Sun. “I understand,” said Pendrell. “Good, I will contact you if there is anything else to discuss. You may
leave now,” said Sailor Sun. “Yes ma’am,” said Pendrell as she left.

Luna and Artemis were in Kousagi’s room. “I have an idea of a place you could take Kiusako to so we can get to know him better,” said Luna. “Oh really? Where?” asked Kousagi. “Artemis and I thought it would be a good idea if you went to the Tomihiro Museum. We will accompany you two
while you are there,” said Luna. ”Okay. What is the Tomihiro museum anyway?” asked Kousagi. “The museum is named after a man who was paralyzed from the neck down due to a serious neck injury. It has many paintings done by him which he painted by holding a brush in his mouth,” said Artemis. “Okay, I’ll call him and set up a time,” said Kousagi.

Kiusako was at his place and remembering back to when he saw the silhouette of a sailor senshi who saved him earlier. “Who could it be? Perhaps a new ally. I will tell Kousagi next time I see her,” thought
Kiusako to himself. His phone rang and he picked it up. Kousagi was on
the other end and setting up a time to go to the museum. “Tomorrow afternoon would be good for me,” said Kiusako. “Okay, tomorrow it is,”
said Kousagi, hanging up the phone.

The next day, Kiusako had met up with Kousagi at her house. Kiusako
was old enough to drive so they went in his car to drive to the museum. Luna and Artemis went with them. As they were on their way to the museum, there were posters and signs up for people running for election.
A few people were running for mayor of the city. “You’re old enough to
vote. Are you going to vote?” asked Kousagi. “I don’t think so. The whole voting process is rigged anyway,” said Kiusako. “How so?” asked Kousagi. “There have already been many instances in the past where the majority
of people have voted one way; but their leaders disagreed, so they ignored the voice of the people and did whatever they wanted,” said Kiusako. “Really? I didn’t know that,” said Kousagi. “A couple years ago, the
people of the city got to vote if they wanted a new form of public transportation in addition to the buses. The majority of the people voted ‘no’, but that didn’t seem to matter. So we now have the Trax Trolley.
There have been a number of other instances, but you get the point,” said Kiusako. “I agree with you; but if you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the outcome. Even if our voices or opinions don’t count for anything, it
still feels good to voice them anyway and let them be heard,” said Luna. “Only problem is many times nobody is listening,” said Artemis.

They arrived at the museum. Luna and Artemis jumped in a purse Kousagi was holding since no pets were allowed inside. They walked around and
saw many paintings, writings, and essays done by Tomihiro Hoshino.
“What an interesting life. It says he grew up on a farm. I’ve never been
to a farm before,” said Kousagi. “Well, maybe we should go to one
someday. It is much more peaceful and quiet on a farm. You might like
it,” said Artemis. “All these pictures he painted; all from the farm he grew
up on. So beautiful,” thought Kousagi to herself. Kiusako pulled Kousagi aside and began to tell her and Artemis of the mysterious sailor senshi
who had saved him earlier. “Another sailor senshi huh? There must be so many sailor senshi we know nothing about,” said Artemis. “Well,
hopefully she’s an ally. At least I would assume,” said Luna. “By the way Kiusako, when are we gonna meet your girlfriend?” asked Kousagi. “Oh, I
will schedule a time sometime soon. I am having a hard time with
whether I should tell her of my identity as Sailor Earth,” said Kiusako. “I would advise against that,” said Artemis. “That is a tough decision. Just
be careful; it’s good not to have too many people know your identity,”
said Luna. “Well, if you really think she’s the one, you can trust her with keeping your secret,” said Kousagi. “I believe she is the ‘one’; I just don’t know how she’ll take it,” said Kiusako.

As they were wandering around, they saw a door which was partly open. Kousagi took a look inside. “What are you doing?” asked Kiusako. “Maybe there’s some more of his paintings in here,” said Kousagi. Kiusako took a peek as well. They saw a silhouette of someone who looked like they
were wearing a sailor senshi suit. The figure was talking to someone else
in the room. It was a small room which looked like an office. They couldn’t hear what was being said though. “I’m getting an evil aura from those
two people in the room,” said Luna. “Are you sure?” asked Kousagi. “She’s usually right about these things,” said Artemis.

The silhouette looked similar to the one Kiusako had seen before, but it
was hard to tell. Sailor Sun was in the room talking with one of her
minions. “I’m glad to see at least one of our plans hasn’t been screwed
up by Pendrell,” said Sailor Sun. “It is an honor to work for you and
Pendrell,” said the other figure in the room. “Just continue doing your
job,” said Sailor Sun as she disappeared. The other person who was in the room walked out of it. “Now’s our chance; let’s go see what’s in that
room,” said Luna. The others were reluctant to do so at first, but they trusted Luna’s instincts and entered the room. It was just a small office
with a desk and a few computers in it. They looked to see what was on
the computer. They saw the website for the museum. They clicked on a
few links but Kousagi and Kiusako didn’t notice anything. Luna and
Artemis saw a strange flashing on the screen. “This is a website which is using subliminal flashes to brainwash people,” said Luna. “Are you sure about that?” asked Kousagi. “We lunar cats pick up on these kinds of things,” said Artemis. “What should we do then? Destroy the computer?” asked Kiusako. “Well, there’s no time to find out the source of the brainwashing flashes. It would be best to destroy it now since this is the server which the site is hosted on,” said Luna.

They unplugged the computer and began taking it apart and damaging the hardware. A fat man with blond hair and blue eyes walked in. “You take a bathroom break and people are in your office destroying equipment,” said the fat man. “You were using the server to brainwash anyone who used
the museum’s site,” said Luna. “My, you are quite intuitive. I didn’t think anyone would ever find out. It doesn’t matter, because you all will die
now. You will die at the hands of the mighty Ben Brown.”

Kiusako and Kousagi transformed. Ben took off both of his suspenders
and lashed them out at Sailor Earth and Sailor Parallel Moon. Just as they had finished transforming, the suspenders hit them and wrapped
themselves around them. They were both bound around the arms and
legs. Ben’s pants fell down and he was wearing red slacks underneath
them. Sailor Earth and Sailor Parallel Moon were trying to get free. Ben
took off his jacket and underneath it, he had a red jacket. “My true
identity is Gourmando Linux.” A red had with a white plume in it appeared
on his head. His skin turned a pale red as did his eyes. He shot out heat rays from his eyes. The heat rays hit the suspenders and began to catch
fire. The fire headed towards Sailor Earth and Sailor Parallel Moon as it burned the suspenders little by little on its way to them.

Luna and Artemis tipped over some vases which had plants and water in them. The vases fell over and broke as water was spilled on the
suspenders. The fire was doused and Sailor Earth and Sailor Parallel Moon broke free of the suspenders. “I’m gonna kick your fat ass,” said Sailor
Earth as he ran towards Gourmando Linux. Gourmando Linux pulled out
the plume from his red hat and it stuck in the ground and landed in front
of Sailor Earth. Gourmando Linux began preparing his next attack. “Torvaldian..” Before he could finish, Luna and Artemis jumped on him
and began scratching away at his face. Gourmando Linux screamed in pain and knocked Luna and Artemis off of him.

Sailor Earth saw his chance. “Gaia Rache.” A large energy sphere with the symbol for the planet Earth on it crashed into Gourmando Linux. He was blasted to the ground as some of his blubber was dispersed around the room. “Eww, gross,” said Kousagi. His body was mostly intact and he got
up and started running around the room breathing fire out of his mouth. A few things caught fire, but the Sailor senshi were stomping out the fires
and dodging his attack. Kousagi stopped and said “The rabbit on the
moon pounds the mochi (rice cake); but you’re going to be the one
pounded on today.” Kousagi used her attack. A zig-zag of hearts and
bunny heads hit Gourmando Linux with much force and destroyed him. A
day or two had passed. Luna and Artemis were checking the new website
for the museum. “It seems as though the enemy isn’t using this website
to brainwash people anymore,” said Artemis. “That’s good. If we only
knew what else they were up to,” said Luna.

Sailor Sun was talking on her satellite phone. “Send down more creatures. We are getting low on them,” said Sailor Sun. “Yes ma’am. They should
be down in a day or two. I will send you a list of locations where they will
be landing in the pod shuttles,” said Pendrell on her phone in the
projector room. Sailor Sun hung up and was pissed off. “I can’t believe
those sailor senshi found out about our plan at the museum. I will get
them sooner or later,” thought Sailor Sun to herself.

Kousagi was getting ready to go to bed and saw a book on her bed. She picked it up. The title of the book was “Road of the Tinkling Bell.” “Luna, where did this book come from?” asked Kousagi. “Well, Artemis and I thought we’d get you that book since you seemed to like the museum trip
so much. It’s a book written by Tomihiro Hoshino. It’s got paintings,
poems, and writings in it,” said Luna. “Thanks Luna, I know I’ll enjoy it,” said Kousagi.



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