"...In other news, the World Trade Center in the state of New York in the United States has been attacked by two hijacked airplanes. Death tolls are rising and are assumed to be in the thousands..." the radio announcer said.
"Oh hell." Arashi exclaimed at what he heard. He pulled himself out from underneath the hood of his car and wiped his oil soaked hands upon his equally dirty mechanic uniform. "Kawari's not going to be too happy about that."
"...A few moments after the World Trade Center attacks, the Pentagon was also attacked by a hijacked airplane. The possibilities that these two attacks are done by the same group is unknown at the moment..." the announcer continued.
"Damn. Well now, that's just nice. Kawari, I want to know what you put in Fuu's coffee...he's the wacko time guardian and he's asleep on the job." he sarcastically said to his car as if it had ears to hear.
"I was not asleep. Just because things like that happen doesn't mean I was zoning out. What do you think this is, an episode of that one American show called '7 Days'?" Fuuteno exclaims as he materializes from thin air.
Arashi yells in surprise as he jumps nearly a foot off the ground.
"Hey, why don't you try more conventional methods of entry....like say the front door?"
"Aww...where's the fun in that? Besides, with this new line of events, I can see we're going to have a handful." Fuuteno said with a smirk.
"No shit, Sherlock. I can just imagine Kawari and Chigo now. Both have a temper like wild fire."
"So what are you waiting around here for? Why don't you blow this popsicle stand and gather the others for a meeting on what to do with this situation?"
"You'd be able to do it quicker, so why don't you?" Arashi said with a glare.
"Time consuming research." Fuuteno chuckled. When Arashi didn't join in the laughter, he sweat dropped and said, "I, uh....plead the Fifth?"
Arashi continued to glare at Fuuteno as the time guardian left quicker than he arrived. Arashi grumbled, sighed and with a quick movement closed the car's hood, jumped into the car and sped out of the garage to pick up the other senshi on the way to Fiesta Destiny.
"I'll kill the bastards! Even without my powers, I'll kill them!" Chigo bellowed when he heard the news.
"Oh, no you won't! My planet, my people, I have first dibs on killing!" Kawari shot back.
"Calm down now, both of you! Or we'll send you to Negapluto for a time out!" Bakurai said while he and Arashi held Chigo and Kawari back.
"We have to come up with a plan to deal with this." Taka said once everyone settled down.
"Yes." agreed Tensaiji. "It'll take a while to do it as we gather more information. And are we sure we want to kill them? If this group is where I think they're from then there's a better, well thought of plan that many from the future retell for many generations yet to come..."
A resounding laugh came from the resident psycho, Fuuteno, who appeared within the room from one of his regular time portals.
"Ah, yes. This 'operation' is going to put us down in history books for sure. I can see the looks on the faces of the people of Afghanistan now to see that man go through such a change like that."
Several sets of eyes looked questioningly at Fuuteno.
"Oh, come on! Don't you know subtle hints when you hear them?"
Still more heavy silence.
"A man going through such a change....operation....Afghanistan.." Tensaiji quickly mulled it over while sipping on some soda. "That's it! Now it makes sense. Women are treated very poorly there. If we capture this Osama bin Laden, we can give him a sex change operation and make him a her. Then we release him, er her back to some place in Afghanistan...like Kosovo for instance. Fuu, for a psycho, you can sure bring out the best, albeit strange, ideas."
"But what about this Taliban group that is obviously covering for him?" Kaiba inquired.
"We're senshi for crying out loud. A few bullets aren't going to stop us!" Jinsokuse said. "Okay, so the bullets can if we're caught off guard, but the fact remains that we do get reborn, right?"
The others in the group decide to ignore his remarks and continue the discussion as if he never spoke.
"What if we let the Earth's populous provide a distraction? You know, it isn't easy to hold back a war when something like this happens..."
"Too risky. Many more lives would be on the line."
"Kawari, it's not going to matter to them. You, above all others should know that vengeance of this scale is best worked through."
"Fine, but when the time comes, it'll be me that does the operation."
"Hey, no argument there, right guys?"
A round of 'nope's filled the air as they paused long enough to get refills on their drinks. The idea stage of the plan continued for many more hours until a conclusion was met.
"We're clear on this plan, right? No more last minute forgotten details?" Tensaiji inquired.
"Just one thing..." Chigo spoke up. "Are you absolutely sure that I can't just kill him off and be done with it?"
Everyone in the group sweat drops.
"For the last time, no! Besides, there's a whole world of other people in line before you that want to do the same thing. What we're going to do is infinitely better for all intents and purposes." Taka replied.
"Enough chatting. Transform already!" Gengetsu exclaimed impatiently.
"Earth Gaia Power..."
"Moon Selene Power..."
"Earth Life Power..."
"Venus Magellan Power..."
"Mars Phobos Deimos Power..."
"Mercury Marina Power..."
"Jupiter Io Power..."
"Pluto Charon Power..."
"Uranus Miranda Power..."
"Neptune Triton Power..."
"Saturn Titan Power..."
"...MAKE UP!" they shouted in unison.
After the transformations were completed, they combined their powers to transport themselves and their wolf guardians to the suspected area of Afghanistan where they believed their target, Osama bin Laden was to have been.
Upon glancing at all the cave entrances from a distance, Negamars sighed.
"Let's get started. Gengetsu, On'you, Taiyou...what are you waiting for?"
"An actual idea of what the fiend smells like would be nice..." Taiyou replied.
"Now you tell us..." Negavenus groaned.
"You never asked." Gengetsu stated.
"Just get started and start smelling for anything human or anything else out of the ordinary, or else this bin Laden guy isn't going to be the only living thing I do an operation on." Negaearth stated with a just barely contained anger.
Quickly the three wolves started their search. On'you's ears twitched as he paused long enough, looked past Negauranus and shouted, "Duck man!"
"How many times do I have to tell yoooomph..." Negauranus started to gripe at On'you, but got winded as the young wolf rammed into him and made him fall to the ground.
Seconds later, bullets whizzed through the empty area where Negauranus had just stood.
"What the hell?" Negauranus sputtered.
"No need to thank me..." On'you muttered sarcastically. "...just make sure that you duck the next time, man."
Negauranus was about to retort when Negaearth took control.
"On'you, you and your...parents will have to speed things up. Negauranus, take to the air and tell us what's going on. Negamars, set up a firewall. I don't want any more snipers getting through. Let's get this bin Laden person and get out of here before the Taliban catches on."
With that, the three wolves split up to speed up their search, Negauranus turned into his red-tailed hawk form and took off on the thermals created by Negamars' firewall and with their backs protected, Negamercury and Neganeptune focused their powers while waiting for the signal to flood out the cave that Osama bin Laden was in.
Several hours later, after numerous reports (not to mention numerous dive bomb attacks) from Negauranus, a howl from Taiyou brought everyone running to her position.
"Good work, Taiyou. Now, let's get this sucker and get out of here!" Negajupiter exclaimed.
A round of 'Yes's and 'Here here's sounded from the others.
"Glacial Tsunami!"
"Aqua Blizzard!"
Neganeptune and Negamercury called out their attacks at the same time, sending icy streams of water, hail and shards of ice into the cave. Then Negajupiter stepped forward.
"Time for a nap, Mr. bin Laden. Or, by the time you wake up, should I say Miss bin Laden? Primal Thunder!"
Negajupiter unleashes his attack into the now very soaked cave. They waited long enough so they wouldn't risk electrocuting themselves before going in. It didn't take long for them to realize that it was going to be next to impossible to see where they were going. Suddenly a bright light appeared before them and the familiar form of Hoshite greeted them.
"It'll get darker the further we go."
"Hoshite! What the hell are you doing here?" came the curt response of Negamars.
"Yes...Hello to you too. Well...If you haven't already noticed, there's a war raging outside and it's most of this planet's populous versus the very man you're hunting down. Not that I don't trust your wolves, which I of course, naturally don't, they can get only so far within the maze that is called this cave without the risk of hurting themselves over such innate things as not seeing loose stalactites that might tumble down and the like. I want to see that justice is done to this fiend and you need light to navigate these caves. So I say we call a truce until this is over. Agreed?"
The Nega-Senshi agitatedly agreed and with the combined efforts of Hoshite and Negamars, they were able to see quite clearly in what otherwise would be a dark dank cave. It didn't take them long to find several unconscious forms laying hap-hazard around in a hallowed area.
"So which one are we to take?" Negamercury said while crouching next to one of the drenched forms.
"Let's take them all and figure out who's who later, when we're back in safer territory." Negamoon replied.
"That's going to put a big strain on our teleporting abilities. I say we wake one of them up and have Negaearth and one of the wolves convince the guy to tell us which one is bin Laden, then we knock him out again and leave." Negavenus suggested.
The other Nega-senshi look from Negavenus to Negaearth to see what would happen next. Negaearth stepped forward and motioned for Taiyou and Gengetsu to go to the closest form.
"Wake him." Negaearth said pointing to the man.
Gengetsu bared his teeth and started to growl as Taiyou bit the unconscious man. The man awoke to pain and was scared half to death as both wolves were making sure that he didn't get away. Negaearth then knelt and looked the man in the eye.
"Who are you?" she asked with a sneer. No response. "Of course. Language barrier. Hmm..."
She then put a gloved hand on the side of the man's face and waited a few seconds as her hand glowed teal.
"Who are you?" she repeated, this time in Arabic.
"Who are you to be asking me this thing?" came the response.
"Like the circle of life, I am the infinite sailor suited soldier, Sailor Negaearth. Hell hath no fury when I'm scorned. Don't make me ask a third time or I'll let these wolves have some fun before I do something irreversible."
Taiyou got right next to the man's face and growled so fiercely, that the man simply had an accident in his garments. The next three words out of his mouth identified him as the man that they were searching for.
"Thank you for your time and energy." Negaearth said right before draining him of what little energy he had left. She then removed her hand from bin Laden's face, stood up and said, "Let's move!"
Negamoon grabbed the man in question while Negapluto opened a portal large enough for all concerned to walk through, as long as they hunched over. This in turn got him some very dirty looks and glares from the other senshi.
************
"Scalpel..." demanded Kawari as she was decked out in full doctor's scrubs.
Tensaiji, who was also in full doctor's scrubs, echoed the word and handed his future mother the scalpel. Several incisions later, she requested gauss. A few minutes later though...
"Man, this bin Landen's a bleeder. CLAMP!" Kawari exclaimed in frustration.
"Sorry, the newest editions of CardCaptor Sakura and Clover haven't come out yet." came the reply.
"Drats. Err...that's not what I meant! Let's get this wrapped up and done with already."
Seven hours later, Kawari and Tensaiji came out of the operating room, tired and blood-stained. They pulled off their scrubs, washed up and slumped down on the closest couch.
"Some operation. We both need a break. Let's get some food..." Kawari suggested.
"After all we saw for the past 8 hours and you want food?" Tensaiji shuddered. "How about we get some sleep first, eat first thing in the morning and deal with our new woman later."
"Done deal. But you get to hang up the 'Do not disturb' sign and make sure the others follow it."
"Figures. Okay." Tensaiji got up and hung up the sign. By the time he got back from telling the others about what Kawari said, Kawari had already fallen asleep on the couch. Tensaiji, being too tired to even grumble, plopped down onto the overstuffed chair and quickly fell asleep.
The next morning greeted Osama bin Laden with pain, stiffness and confusion. Having no idea what had transpired during the last 32 hours, Osama tried to slowly get off the hospital bed, but instead was stopped instantly with a glaive pointed at his now bare neck. Osama gasped and carefully looked up to the holder of the glaive. A dark, inky black hooded cloak covered most of Negasaturn's features, giving him the appearance of the Grim Reaper.
"What..." was all Osama could say in Arabic before Negasaturn pulled down the hood which in turn retracted the cloak and it's dark color into the near nothingness of hyper space, leaving an empty white hood loosely hanging around his shoulders.
"You're not dead, unfortunately." Negasaturn replied in Arabic to the unspoken question. "You are, however, never going to be the same."
Negasaturn pointed his Silence Glaive at the full mirror across the room. With that, Osama bin Laden gingerly got off the bed and carefully walked over to the mirror. At the first moment that Osama saw that he was now a she, a blood curdling scream could be heard throughout the entire wing of the hospital, waking up anyone and everyone within hearing range.
"I demand to be turned back into a man at once!" she exclaimed in terror.
"No can do. I've got my orders."
"If you won't change me back, then kill me. I'd rather die than live a retched existence as a woman!"
"Believe you me, I'd love nothing better than to kill you a million fold, but orders are orders, and I'm suppose to keep you alive."
"Who gave you these orders?"
At that moment, Kawari and Tensaiji who was followed by Arashi, entered the room.
"Ah, I see our patient has awoken. Aww, look how cute she is. Are you sure we have to send her off to Kosovo first thing in the morning?" Arashi commented sarcastically.
Kawari, who was still able to understand the Arabic language from the encounter answered the woman's question, while ignoring Arashi entirely.
"I did. Remember me, Miss bin Laden? We met a few days ago in that cave that you were hiding in."
"What have you done to me?" bin Laden bemoaned.
"I've only done what you deserved. The toss was up in the air. Many of Earth's population wanted you dead, but with time, we were able to convince most of them that putting you through mortal hell as a woman from that sorry place you're from would be far better for everyone."
Bin Laden's eyes glittered with both fear and rage. "H-how dare.. you...how dare you demons do this to ME! Bah! I've done nothing wrong.. all I did was to ensure the Muslims' victory over the world!"
Primal rage flashed in Kawari's eyes at bin Laden's comment. "How dare I? Look who's talking...the man, oh, excuse me, I meant to say woman with a multi-million dollar price tag on her head!"
Negasaturn chuckled. Arashi and Tensaiji look on with confusion as they haven't a clue as to what's being said. Negasaturn walks over to them and starts to translate as the conversation continues.
"And further more," Kawari continued. "...your village called, their idiot's missing! But they haven't begun to search yet. You know why? I assured them that they would have an all new, gift wrapped idiot in 24 hours. Do you even know who their idiot is? I'll give you three guesses, of which 2 will not count."
At this, Osama completely forgot that Negasaturn with his Silence Glaive was there in that room, as she leapt at Kawari's throat. Kawari ducked and executed a move, that along with Osama's momentum sent the woman crashing into the full length mirror, shattering it into many smaller pieces. Osama then fell to the floor, unconscious.
"Ouch, that has got to hurt." Arashi commented.
"You're telling me?" retorted Negasaturn.
"Seven years bad luck to the new girl on the block." Fuuteno as he entered through one of his many regular time portals.
"Why stop at only seven?" Arashi asked sarcastically.
"You're right....Who came up with that whole 'seven years' thing anyway? I say seven lifetimes bad luck for the unlucky lady there." came Fuuteno's response. "And she should start it now by going back to Kosovo. We wouldn't want to delay delivery of Kosovo's new village idiot, now would we?"
"No, I guess not. Kawari, I know you want to see this out, but since we're going where we're going, it'd be best that you stay behind." Negasaturn said while turning to face Kawari.
Arashi bent down and hefted the unconscious Osama over his shoulder like a rag doll. Fuuteno opened a portal and waited as Arashi, Negasaturn and Tensaiji walked through it. Fuuteno then looked at Kawari.
"The monitor is down the hall and to your right. You can't miss it. It's in the paisley colored room. If you're interested that is."
"So that's where you've been able to see what's going on. I better remember that for future use."
"Wouldn't do you any good. The location changes every day."
"Fuu, you know you're crazy, right?" Kawari commented as she started into the portal in the direction that Fuuteno mentioned.
Fuuteno grinned as he entered and closed the portal behind himself. In a remote, dingy section of Kosovo, Arashi put Osama down as quickly as possible, as if to hold her any longer would mean a death sentence for himself as well.
"We better leave before we..." Arashi started.
Suddenly the shout of an oncoming unknown man surprised them.
"...get caught. Move out and meet up here later when the brouhaha dies down." Arashi finished.
Negasaturn lifted up his hood and seemingly melted into the darkness of the shadows as he watched over the uncontious Osama. Arashi, Fuuteno and Tensaiji left in different directions. An hour later, the four senshi met at the same place and left for home after making sure that Osama bin Laden was noticed. Back at Fiesta Destiny, all of the senshi, plus the three wolves (who got special permissions courtesy of Kawari) sat in their usual area while listening to the news on the radio.
"...In late braking news today, the Taliban is at a loss for words other than they deny claims of a woman, who only 48 hours after Osama bin Laden's disappearance, surfaces and states that she's really bin Laden, but had been taken hostage by a group of evil supernatural beings and had been placed in a new body. The Taliban refused to comment as to what would happen to the woman after she was escorted to a ran down building near the Pakistani border..."
Throughout the newscast, satisfied smirks were exchanged and the usual maniacal laughter from Fuuteno could be heard.
"What is your name?" the interrogator asked.
"Osama bin Laden." a severely beat bin Laden replied weakly.
"LIAR!" the interrogator shouted as he slapped the woman on her face with the back of his hand.
"I'm telling the truth. Honestly. Do a blood test."
The result was another, harder slap.
"Women do not have the rights and privileges to go to hospitals and get blood tests."
The interrogator stood up straight, sneered at the woman and walked to the guard. After a few moments of hushed conversation, the woman who was formally known as the terrorist Osama bin Laden was forced to be an outcast for the rest of her life.
"Ahem!" Fuuteno cleared his throat as he makes his way upon the blackened scene. "That is to say, the rest of her seven lifetimes. You can't have forgotten the broken mirror already, have you?"