Panda: "Okay, I can see that no real harm's been done. Just *ask* me first
if panda's scream before ya go shooting up the neighbourhood, okay?

There aren't that many of us left, ya know! Alright . . .  [Panda reaches

down and grabs his cigar. After tapping it a few times, he replaces it
casually in the corner of his mouth and chomps on it a bit.  He then looks
at the cards and the full bottle of saki in Chang's hands and smiles a sly
grin "Anybody for a game of-  poker?"

Suddenly, another male voice is heard. This one is unrecognizable to
everyone, as it is being modulated by a hardsuit. They all notice this when
the hardsuitted individual faintwarps on-scene.

        Firehawke: "Did you say POKER, Panda? Deal me in."
 

Another voice rings out from the heavens...
"I do... and I will get you back for all the times that you have been away,
Firehawke..."
Falling out of the sky is a very old man dressed in robes, and he lands
directly infront of both Panda and Firehawke.
Both Panda and Firehawke inquire: "Who are you?"
"You do not know me?"  The figure states inquisitively.  "I am... <cough>
<cough>..."
"OZYMANDIAS, KING OF KINGS!!!"  (and how about that for an enterance! >^_^)
"Now let us get on with this game!  I have a lot of catching up to do with
Mr. Firehawke here..."

       An electric snap-hiss from off to everyone's right prompts the
assembled group to spin towards the noise.  A towering, silver-and-blue
battlesuit, sporting a glowing red eyeslot in it's blue antenna-winged
helmet steps out from the bushes.  A brightly glowing, blue-white energy
blade hums hungrily in the right gauntlet of the armour suit.
       "Anyone want me to cut the deck?"  SkyKnight inquired politely.  "I
feel like a game myself, now that you mention it."

Panda looks the three new visitors over and then looks at Chang.

Panda: "Chang, my man. Would you be so kind as to set up a table and a few
chairs for our guests?"

Chang returns shortly with a card table and a dozen folding chairs. After
setting the table up, and seeing that everyone is comfortable, Chang pours
saki into a dozen glasses that ring the card table. The bottle strangely does
not seem to ever get empty. Panda finishes shuffling the cards and takes a long

look at each of the player's faces that surround the table. Saf, Gopher,
Nabiki, A wraith, Firehawke, Ozymandias and SkyKnight all stare back with a

determined look in their eyes (and visors). None of them realizes that the

black and white bear has just returned from the Inter-Galactic and Parallel
Universe >Poker Championship-  as Grand Champion. And they would have a very

difficult time guessing this fact. For what better poker face to have-  than a
panda's.

Panda: Be my guest Sir SkyKnight. You may cut the deck . . .

       "Of course," the silver-clad Knight Saber replied, a smirk evident
in the tone of his voice.  With a flickering, whip-quick snap of motion, the
silver hardsuit whipped one of his arm-swordblades throught the middle of
the deck, lengthwise, flipping the top half of the deck into midair, and
catching it deftly.  As everyone stared, the ailver-garbed gladiator picked
up the second half of the deck, and then riffled the cards in a blurring
whir of pasteboards. 
He paused partway through his shuffling, and extracted a greenish card that
didn't match the rest of the deck.
       "Hmmm," he mused.  "Looks like someone left home without their
American Express card."  SHrugging, the silver hardsuit flicked the card
through the air, where it neatly sliced off a tree, vanishing into the
distance.  "I guess that was a cut-rate deal," he remarked.  Finishing
shuffling, he placed the deck back on the table, and then reached out and
properly cut the deck, manually dividing it in half.
       "Let the chips fall where they may."

 
And they did , as one very perturbed young girl entered the room. She looked 
over at Skyknight with a look that could kill. Skyknight was shocked
, the one person he never expted to meet at this poker game was here. His 
eternal nemisis was here, Ami Mizuno. "How's it going Skyknight...I owe 
you for that last poker game..."

Skyknight gulped. He rembered vividly the last poker game he played. He 
rembered how he had vivdly humilated one Sailor Mercury in one hand. But he 
also rembered that she had made a starnge vow, a vow to hunt himd to end's 
of the earth and reality until she beat him at poker. Lately she had been 
poping up in BGZ making his life a living hell. Now she was here, ruining 
the perfect poker setup....

"So does anyone want to deal me in?" The Ml screamed. At last the unthinkable 
had happened. Bubblegum crisis and Sailor Moon had crossed over!!Panda just 
smirked, these distraction's would make his hand easier to play. 
Ami just smiled, she knew how to count card's know, and when all else failed 
there was alway's her transformation which would distract the hentai among the
poker player's....

Skyknight gulped. He didn't want to have to use his secreat weapon, but he 
had no choice. He couldn't lose to Ami, or to a pathetic Fanfic writer who 
can't spell. 

"All right M'lady..." Skyknight chuckled. He was about to use the most 
dangerous weapon in the world, deadlier then a light sabre, more lethel than 
a hard suit. He was about to pun his oppenet's to death....

Ja ne!!

Richard Beaubien
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Mizuno Ami-chan forever!!!