The Neon Knight Sabers
A Multiple Crossover / Alternate History
By Ammadeau
Roy.Fokker@UNSpacy.org

Case Files of the Neon Knight Sabers:

Prologue:

[Rei Ayanami:  Founder and leader of the Knight Sabers, whose 
mission is to stop the misuse of EVA based technology by Genom 
and prevent a probable 4th Impact.  Founded seventeen years after 
the 3rd impact, when the Geofront was destroyed, leaving only 
three survivors: Shinji, Asuka, and Rei.  Despite being in her early 
thirties, Rei looks to be around twenty, and catches the attention of 
most people with her short blue hair and pale skin.  She wears blue 
tinted contacts to hide her red eyes.]

	Rei moved about her lingerie shop, attempting to smile at 
the customers.  She was still in practice even after nearly two 
decades, since most people didn�t even notice when she was 
smiling or not.  No one suspected that she was the leader of the 
Knight Sabers.

[Kenchi Ayanami:  Saved by Rei when both of his parents were cut 
down by boomers.  She also adopted him, but is considered an 
older sister.  The boy turned out to be a mechanical prodigy and 
has been a big help in building and maintaining the hardsuits.  
Special note:  due to the onset of puberty he has recently developed 
some perverted tendencies.]

Rei�s �brother� Kenchi was down at Washu�s garage, 
working on Ranko�s motorcycle and daydreaming about his blond 
and red haired goddesses (I must have them both!!).  When would 
they ever notice that he wasn�t just a kid?

[Ami Muzino:  A true whiz at computers.  Provides inside 
information by working as a dispatcher for the AD Police.  Also a 
fully trained medical doctor who abandoned her choosen 
profession for unknown reasons.  Has a penchant for silly poses 
and catch phrases in combat.  Overall the weakest fighter of the 
group, but a superior tactician.  Obvious prior combat experience.]

Ami was diligently working the phones at AD Police, 
occasionally glancing at the old Sailor V episode playing on the 
terminal next to her, shaking her head.  Was it really ever like that?

[Mihoshi Masaki:  Obviously a foreigner, being a six foot tall, 
blue-eyed blonde.  Strange lack of coordination and clumsiness for 
an aerobics instructor.  A fierce fighter, but sometimes panics in 
the heat of battle.  Claims to be a former detective, but can find no 
records of her working in any law enforcement agency in the 
world.]

Mihoshi was trying to teach aerobics without tripping over 
her own feet and doing surprisingly well for people who knew her, 
and would last up to the point when someone tried to get her 
attention.

[Ranko Tenno:   Most skilled fighter of the group.  However, has 
an abrasive and macho personality.  Strong possibility that she was 
raised as a boy.  Powerful phobia of cats and hot water, probably 
due to childhood trauma.  Name assumed to be an alias since no 
real records found.  Currently lead singer of the band Ranko and 
the Replicants.]

Ranma ducked into the alley behind the Hot Legs and with 
a quick splash of cold water Ranko stepped into her dressing room.  
He knew it was risky going out male, but he just couldn�t spend all 
of his time female.  Besides, he doubted that his various fianc�es 
would look for him in Mega-Tokyo.

Program 1a:

	Detective Rally Vincent was relaxing in the Hot Legs, 
listening to the music of Ranko and the Replicants.  The hard rock 
rhythms were making her homesick for old Chicago, when she had 
been a simple bounty hunter chasing down thugs, thieves, and 
other assorted low lives.  Then her partner wound up married and 
the whole business just lost its charm for Rally.  So she hopped in 
her custom Griffin and drove.  Hell if she knew how she had 
wound up in Mega-Tokyo.  Probably shouldn�t have picked up that 
bandanna wearing hitchhiker.  Definitively should have let him 
drive while she took a nap.  It was a good thing that she could 
speak Japanese.
While it wasn�t all wine and roses, working for the AD 
Police beat doing nothing.  For one you had to be a cop to carry a 
gun in this town and Rally would�ve felt naked without one.  There 
was the added bonus that she could shoot down the boomers 
without worrying paying for damages, though she never did much 
damage to them.  Of course her beeper just had to go off when she 
was just getting into the music. Damn.
	Dialing up, she saw the face of her new partner, Aelle.  A 
complete perv, but a good cop, and Rally had learned how to deal 
with her going after anything female, including Rally herself.  She 
wouldn�t stay in the same hotel room with her ever again through.  
Her last partner had been a former prostitute so she really wasn�t 
one to judge.  Still, Rally had never met a lesbian that was that 
aggressive before.
�Party time babe,� Aelle said and winked.  Rally groaned 
and hung up the phone.  Time to get to work.

	Ami quickly sent a coded message to Rei about the new 
boomer on the rampage, adding that she�d do her best to get away 
from work.  Chief Goto was determined to boost up the falling rep 
of the AD Police by nailing this boomer.  Ami wasn�t worried.  
Even with the hardsuit she wasn�t much of an asset in a fight, 
without her senshi powers that is.  And those she had given up to 
save the world over five years ago.

	Ranko had just finished her gig when her watch went off, 
the secret signal that the Knight Sabers had a job to do.  Cool, 
she�d get to beat something up.  Day was looking better already.  
She immediately called up Rei.
	�There�s a boomer on the rampage,�  Rei said to the rock 
singer without preamble and without blinking.  Ranko however, 
had grown used to her boss� terseness.  She knew that Rei wasn�t 
cold or emotionless, just very, very subtle.
	�There�s something different about this one.  I�ll need to 
take a sample in for analysis.  You�ll also have to be careful this 
time, this new boomer could be more than you could handle.�
	�What?  No way!  I�ll kick that tin can!�
	�You�re bike is still in the shop, correct?�
	�Yeah, so?�  Since her driver�s liscence was actually a 
forgery, Ranko had never actually taken a driver�s test.  Still, she 
was starting to get the hang of it.  He only crashed, what, three 
times last week?
	�Good, I�ll have Mihoshi come by and pick you up.�
	�No!!!!�  In Ranko�s book, Mishoshi�s driving was just 
under cats in shear terror value.  Why she never got any tickets was 
a mystery to her.  But it was too late, the phone was already dead.

	Mihoshi was really getting into the set when she started to 
hear a noise.  It was a sort of beeping and seemed close by.  Maybe 
it was part of the music?  She ignored it.  However, it really did 
clash with the music and started to throw her timing off.  In 
Mihoshi�s case, this was like a snowball that starts an avalanche.  
When it was over, the TV and half the people there had been 
knocked over.
	�Mihoshi, there�s a phone call for you,� her friend and 
fellow instructor, Linna, told her.

	Rally parked her patrol car and watched the fight as it 
played out on the street below.  A single boomer verses an entire 
squad of AD Police and the boomer was winning.  There was also 
the strange thing that Aelle had mentioned, which she hadn�t 
believed until she saw it herself.  This new boomer really did look 
like some sort of humanoid bug.  Weird.  Still, she wondered why 
her partner had called them �Bugrom.�  Just what was Genom up to 
now?

	Somewhere, Kasuhito Jinnai laughed and laughed.  
Everyone within hearing distance shivered, even the boomers.

	One by one, the Knight Sabers filtered into their secret base 
under Washu�s garage.  Ami, still in her AD Police uniform, took 
off her scooter helmet.  She was worried since she was starting to 
run out of sick relatives to use as excuses.  Good thing that girl 
Nene didn�t mind covering for her.  Mihoshi practically bounced in 
with Ranko following behind unsteadily, her face a little green.  
Rei nodded to each of them and they all started to get into their 
plug suits.
	Rei was Saber-Blue, in Unit-00.  Ami was Saber-Purple, in 
Unit-01.  Ranko was Saber-Red, in Unit-02.  Mihoshi was Saber-
Black, in Unit-03.
	It didn�t take them long to find the rampaging boomer.

	�I am Sailor Purple!�  Announced Ami to the boomer, 
posing dramatically, like a figure scater at the end of her set.
	�That�s Saber Purple,�  Rei corrected her, not for the first 
time.
	�Oh, right.  I am Saber Purple and in the name of the 
Knight Sabers, I�ll punish you!�
	Mihoshi struggled to come up with a catch phrase of her 
own.  They just sounded so cool.  �And I am Saber Black.  In the 
name eating snacks and daytime TV, I�m going to blast you.�
	Rei and Ranko groaned in embarrassment as the other 
Knight Sabers charged after the bewildered boomer.
	�And just why did you choose them again?�  Ranko asked 
Rei on a private channel.
	Mihoshi tripped on a rock as she ran up to the boomer and 
triggered her jump jets, accidentally executing a powerful rolling 
jumpkick that knocked the boomer�s head off.  The boomer 
crashed to the ground, but somehow managed to get back up again.
	�That�s why,� Rei replied to Ranko�s earlier question, 
embedding the boomer to the wall with a lance.
	When the boomer finally broke itself free, Ranko shouted, 
�Kashu Tenchin Amaguriken�, hitting the boomer enough times to 
completely destroy the thing�s chest.  This time when the boomer 
fell, it didn�t get up.
	�And she complains about my speeches,� Ami said to 
herself, �At least I don�t go on about roasting chestnuts!�

	�So these are the Knight Sabers,� Rally said to herself as 
she watched the fight.  They certainly were impressive and better 
armed than the AD Police.  Their suits had to be about twice as 
powerful as the police�s K-11s.

	Kenchi was sitting in the monitoring room, watching over 
his big sister and the rest of the Knight Sabers.  Normally he�d be 
out there with them in one of the two trucks they often used to 
transport the hardsuits and motoriods, but this time big sister had 
decided it was a little too dangerous for him.  More likely it was 
his punishment for peeping on them while they got changed again.  
Not that the plug suits they wore under the power armor left much 
to the imagination, thankfully.  At least she didn�t threaten to make 
him Dr. Washu�s genea pig again.  Shudder.
	Man he was hungry.  He�d spent so much time on fixing up 
Ranko�s bike that he�d forgotten to eat.  He could have had Dr. 
Washu help him, but she had a habit of adding little improvements 
that usually just made Ranko mad.  She still hadn�t gotten over the 
whole �ejector seat� incident.  Kenchi still hadn�t figured out how 
Ranko was able to throw those fireball things.  Big sister would 
probably be angry if he snuck out to get a bite to eat, so he reached 
for the phone book and decided to order up some take out.
	A few minutes later he hung up the phone.  Hunger must be 
making him delusional, what the heck was a Goddess Helpline 
anyway?  Now Ranko, there was a goddess.  He�d done everything 
he could to get her to notice him, but she still treated him like a 
kid.  He was only two years younger than her and she was as short 
as he was.  What was her problem?
	Needless to say, when a beautiful goddess appeared out of 
nowhere to grant his heart�s desire, he wasn�t thinking too clearly.
	�I wish that I had a girlfriend like you.�
	And then there was a burst of light.

	Rally and Aelle were lounging in front of an all night fast 
food joint, having a little late supper and discussing what they had 
just seen.  Both had heard rumors for a while, but neither had 
watched the Knight Sabers in action before.
	�Well I did notice something important,� Aelle stated, �The 
way those suits were shaped, they all had to be women.�
	�How is that important?�  Rally asked, bewildered.
	Aelle wasn�t even listening, off in a little world by herself.  
�I wonder what they look like without those suits on.�
	While Aelle was indulging in fantasies, Rally noticed a 
someone familiar step out of the place that they were parked in 
front of, big bag of burgers under one arm.  Ranko took no notice 
of the police car as she made her way to her now fixed bike, 
grumbling under her breath about why she had to be the one they 
sent out to pick up dinner.
	�You�re Ranko right?� Rally called out to her, �Of Ranko 
and the Replicants?�
	�Yeah,� Ranko answered cautiously, not really wanting to 
talk to anyone at the moment, especially not a member of the AD 
Police.
	�I caught most of your show before I had to go on duty,� 
Rally told her, �You�re really good.  It�s a wonder that you�re not 
signed to any label.�
	Ranko rubbed the back of her head in embarrisment.  The 
main reason that they weren�t signed is she didn�t want all of the 
added publicity that it would bring.  Becoming a popular singer 
wasn�t a good way of hiding from people.
	During their conversation, Aelle had snapped out of her 
dream world.  With a cry of �red hair!� she jumped over Rally and 
dove out of the open window to latch herself onto Ranko, whose 
face was starting to turn the same color as her hair.  However, she 
was used to dealing with perverts and managed to detach herself 
and drive off.

	Rei nearly smashed her computer to bits to stop the alarm 
the next morning.  She had had a rough night.  First fighting off 
that advanced boomer, then coming home to find her brother 
suddenly had a girlfriend who he wanted to live with them, and 
finally spending most of the night pouring over the fragments of 
the boomer that they had destroyed.  It had become clear to her that 
the boomers were no longer just based off of EVAs.  Something 
else had been added to come up with an even more advanced 
design.  What was Genom up to?
	Kenchi knocked at the door to his big sister�s room.  
Normally he would just let her sleep in and open the shop himself, 
but he knew that she would want to hear about the job offer in the 
newspaper as soon as possible.  Besides, the breakfast Belldandy 
had made was getting cold.  It was simply too good to let that 
happen.

	�Did we really have to take the bus?� Saber-Purple (Ami) 
asked Rei, using the private channel so only other Knight Sabers 
could hear, feeling mildly embarrassed by all the people staring at 
her.  Only her old sailor fuku could make her feel more self 
conscious.  She was thankful that her hardsuit hid her true identity 
even better than the sailor uniform had.
	�It is too far to walk and its not possible to operate one of 
the trucks in a hardsuit.  The motoriods could be mistaken as a 
threat.  This is the best possible solution,� Saber-Blue (Rei) 
replied.
	Rei reminds me way too much of Setsuna sometimes, Ami 
thought, and not always in a good way.  But then again, Ranko 
reminds me of Hakura.  And Mihoshi is so like Usagi sometimes 
that its scary.  �Don�t you feel, well, embarrassed?�
	�No, why should I?�
	�They�re all looking at us!�  Ami practically shouted, 
gesturing to the other people on the bus.  She happened to use her 
gun mounted hand, which made everyone look away for a while.
	�Why should I feel embarrassed by that?� Rei asked in 
genuine confusion.
	Ami gave up and endured in silence, wondering for the nth 
time why she ever got involved with this.  Life as a doctor had 
been so incredibly boring that she just couldn�t stand it anymore.  
But life as a Knight Saber was sometimes a little too weird, even 
for a former crusader for love and justice.

	�So these are pictures of the man and little girl that we�ll be 
looking for,� Rei informed all of them as she passed the photos 
out.  It was an odd job coming from the USSD, but they were 
willing to pay a lot for it.  Maintaining their hardsuits didn�t come 
cheap.  Besides, while thwarting Genom was a good deed and fun, 
it was nice to get paid once and a while.
	They were all sitting around Rei�s large but rather sparsely 
decorated apartment.  Ranko was lounging in a chair, just like a 
boy would.  Mihoshi had taken up residence, sprawled on the end 
of her bed.  Ami and Rei had taken seats opposite one another, 
unconciously adopting the same posture.
	�Wow, Kawaii!!�  Mihoshi shouted with glee on seeing a 
picture of the little blond girl they would be looking for, who, 
strangely enough, looked very much like a chibi version of herself.  
The other Knight Sabers hoped that her personality wouldn�t be a 
match as well.  One Mihoshi was a bad enough, a kid version was 
even worse.

**
Dedicated to Bubblegum Splash! by Mike Koos, since that's
where the inspiration for this came from (and also the idea of
Ranma as Priss).  Also came about by noticing the simularites
between boomers and angels.

Timeline for Various Series:
Bubblegum Crisis � Occurs before first episode.  Many 
characters have been replaced and Boomers are now based on 
EVAs.  Original characters may put in cameos (ie, Linna working 
with Mihoshi, Leon and Daley still cops, Priss is a singing rival of 
Ranko�s.  Sylia could even be working for Genom.)

Neon Genesis Evangeleon � Over fifteen years after end of 
series.  Last episodes altered, Geofront is completely destroyed, 
including all EVAs and Angels.  Only the three pilots survived.

Sailor Moon � Five years after Stars.  Altered so that in this 
world all of the Senshi (save Pluto) had to give up their powers to 
save the world.  They pumped their power into the silver crystal to 
contain Kain (who didn�t get the chance to go back and alter time).  
So far only way to regain powers would release Kain, which don�t 
want to do.  Know Jurai might be able to stop Kain, but have no 
way of contacting them.  Some senshi are still trying to find a way 
to get powers back. Most people think that they died.

Ranma One Half � Just after volume 38.  Ranma needs 
time away from everyone to deal with what happened so is hiding 
out.

Tenchi TV � Years after the first season ended, Shin Tenchi 
never occurs.  Tenchi eventually marries Ryoko and Aeka, opting 
to live on Jurai.  Due to an incident that was all Mishoshi�s fault, 
both her and Kiyone were suspended from the GP and left stranded 
on Earth.  They went their separate ways, Kiyone becoming a 
popular singer (all those karaoke nights paid off).  Mihoshi isn�t 
actually married to anyone, just using the last name as an alias.

Oh My Goddess � Way before start of series, but in this 
world Kenchi is going to get his wish much earlier (and the 
Belldandy who grants it will be much younger as well).
Possible plots: Rei is surprised when she comes back to 
find her brother now has a live in girlfriend.  Ranko confuses her 
with Kasumi and will be very nervous about being found out.  
Belldandy get jelous of the way Kenchi watches the other girls, 
esp. Ranko.  Bell thinks Ranko is making moves on her boyfriend 
(younger, so more immature, think Skuld).  Urd would be about 
Bell�s age in the real series and Skuld would be little more than a 
toddler (with her hammer and machine festish so might actually 
get a crush on kenchi).  Dr. Washu may come to be an inflence on 
chibi-Skuld.

El Hazard � Nearly ten years after first OAV series, second 
never happened.  Makoto returning to Earth turned out ot be a one-
way trip, but didn�t know it at the time so brought many people 
along, including Aelle, Miz, and Ura.  Ifurta doesn�t have enough 
power to send them back at first. By the time she does (with the 
help of Makoto) no one wants to go back.  Miz marries Fujisawa 
(eventually) and Aelle works with the AD Police because she 
misses the excitement and danger (besides some really cute girls 
work there).  Jinnai was also returned, along with a few of his 
bugrom assistants.  Joins up with Genom.  Develops Bugrom 
boomers.

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