Meanwhile, Tellu of the Witches 5 was in her own summer residence in the countryside, situated in a lush forest. Of course, she could do most of her experiments in Dr. Tomoe's lab... but then again, the current lab underneath the Kiryu construction hangar was really just a substitute lab, since the original lab got destroyed while Hotaru grew into the kaiju-hybrid Destroyah.
And Tellu's countryside lab had everything a demented botanist needed for her work: Plenty of space, and most importantly, a huge greenhouse with dozens of her own, self-cultured monster plants.
It was here where she wanted to test the fruits of her latest project: The daimon-kaiju-hybrid project 'Biollante 2'.
"This is it," the green-haired witch giggled to herself as she left the luxurious main building, a small pitcher and a flask in her hands. She gently swayed the green liquid inside the pitcher around. "An extract of my own darling plants, combined with the original Biollante's DNA. Using this, I will be able to create the most powerful and most loyal creature in the service of the Death-Busters."
With a grin, she looked at the flask in her other hand, which contents were a dark pink. "I only need to add this: A liquified daimon egg!"
She walked over to the nearest tree. Carefully, she then began to pour the daimon liquid into the green mix that was in the pitcher.
"Careful..." she muttered to herself. "One drop too much and the end results could be disastrous..."
However, fate can be cruel sometimes. Setsuna, Baragon and Ebirah had chosen exactly this moment to approach the forest from the south, not knowing that there was someone in the forest.
Setsuna knew what her last visit in a forest had caused to the plants and the wildlife, so she was more than hesitant when Ebirah's urged her to go on.
"I'm... not sure we should do this," she remarked.
"Oh, c'mon, it's not going to be that bad," Ebirah smiled. "How can we ever figure out just how toxic you really are if you don't try it out? Go ahead, just a few steps. When you see that your slime is bad for the trees, we can leave."
"This is nuts..." Baragon grumbled, who was walking behind the two. "What good is this experiment? We all know what will happen when she touches those trees, right? They will die!"
"She's right, you know?" Setsuna sighed. "I appreciate your enthusiasm about this, but..."
"You never know until you try," Ebirah said, raising her pincer. "And who knows, maybe you can control the, um... the 'toxicness' of your slime."
"You have some funny ideas," Setsuna sighed, shaking her head.
"Hey, watch out!" Baragon shouted when a splash of acid barely missed her snout. "We might be immune against the poison gas you emit, but getting hit by your ooze still hurts, you know?"
That was another thing that puzzled the slime Senshi of time. The other kaijus could be hurt by her excrements, but were immune against the poison itself. How could that be? She doubted it had anything to do with their hidden Senshi heritages.
That was another thing she still had to think about: How was she supposed to tell a pair of mountain-sized kaiju that they were magical human females in another lifetime?
Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash, when Baragon suddenly tripped over a small hill in the landscape. The earth shook from the impact, and flocks of birds flew up from the forest in a panic.
Ebirah looked at the four-legged dinosaur with a frown. "Watch your feet, okay?"
"Sorry..." Baragon muttered.
They didn't know that it was this stumble that would seal Tellu's fate. The witch was so focussed on her experiment that she didn't notice anything... not until the earth began to shake. Both the flask and the pitcher shook violently, and both liquids were spilled all over her body.
"Oh nooo..." she whined. "All of my hard work... in vain!"
The mixed liquids began to seep into her skin almost instantly, causing her bloodstream to mutate into something... new.
Tellu gasped when all of a sudden, her skin began to turn green. First, it only happened in the spots where the liquids hat hit her, then it began to spread over her whole body. "Oh no, no, no," she murmured while she frantically tried to stop the spreading with her hands. It was a futile effort. And then, the first vines began to sprout, two from her arms and two from her backside. They were tipped with little, fanged mouths that hissed while the vines began to lash around.
Tellu softly stroke one of the vine-heads as it came close to her head. "Somehow... they are cute..." she muttered. The vine-head began to croon softly as it was petted by the hands of the mutated witch.
Then she began to grow. In a couple of minutes, she was taller than most of the trees... and at the very end of the forest, she was able to see the three kaijus that were responsible for the accident.
"Just you wait..." she grumbled. "I'll teach you not to mess with my experiments..." She then grinned. This was the perfect chance to test out her new powers. And while she certainly did not plan this, it was nevertheless a success. Instead of creating a new daimon, she had become the new Biollante hybrid herself.
"Let's see what I can do..." she smirked. Under her command, her vines began to grow and attach themselves to the various trees of the forest. "You are now under my command!" she shouted.
Setsuna knew that something was odd when the trees in front of her began to grow, twist and change shape. They sprouted vines as thick as the steel cables of the Golden Gate Bridge, vines that lashed out at the three kaijus.
"Look out!" she gasped when the vines tried to wrap themselves around her legs. Interestingly, they did not wither away under the contact of her slime. 'Something strange has happened to these plants,' she thought.
"Oh my," Ebirah commented. "You don't see this every day... hey, let go!" she shouted when a vine wrapped itself around her right arm. She angrily snapped her left pincer and used it to cut the vines in half.
"Stupid plants!" Baragon growled. "Whatever did we do to you? Oh hell, I'm gonna burn them to the ground..." She opened her mouth and began to inhale...
"Stop it!" Setsuna shouted quickly. "If you do that, the whole forest will burn down."
"Well, yeah, that was the point," Baragon growled angrily. "That's what it gets for trying to strangle me."
"You silly kaijus," someone laughed. "You can't burn this forest. It's under my power. I control it... I AM THE FOREST!"
Setsuna frowned when she saw the green-skinned mutant growing out of the trees. In no time, she was as tall as Setsuna herself.
"Tellu of the Witches 5," she frowned. "You have changed."
"Oh? You know my name?" Tellu wondered. "I'm flattered, really, but you don't seem to be a normal kaiju, either... who are you?"
"I am Sailor Pluto, guardian of time, and I can't let you corrupt this forest."
"Don't you think the plants are fed up with what the humans are doing to them?" Tellu smiled. "And the kaijus are not better... every day, dozens of trees die because you giant, clumsy oafs trample them."
"I've had it!" Baragon snapped. "She's going on my nerves! Can I burn her? PLEASE?"
"I don't think so, fire-breath," Tellu scowled. A bundle of vines shot up and wrapped themselves around Baragon's muzzle, hindering her from using her fire attack.
"I've tried to reason with you," Setsuna said. "You leave me no choice. DEAD SCREA... Oh yeah, I forgot." She sweatdropped. "I can't turn into my Senshi form without my Garnet Rod..." She sighed. "Well then, this will have to do." And she threw a big chunk of her slime at the giant plant-woman. One of the vine-heads screeched in pain as the acidic slime oozed through the vine.
Tellu screamed in pain. "My babies!" she yelled. "Now you die!"
'Interesting,' Setsuna thought. 'When I want to use it as a weapon, the slime even affects those mutated plants. Maybe Ebirah was right and I really do have a certain control over it...'
She wanted to jump over the many vines that came flying at her, but her natural stickiness made it hard to leave the ground. The vines slammed into her and threw her down, onto the ground. At once, the many trees wrapped themselves around her arms and legs.
Tellu slowly approached the fallen Senshi with a grin. "How does that feel? You will never be a hindrance to our plans again, Sailor Senshi!" She raised her arm, which shifted into a deadly spear with hundreds of thorns. "Prepare to die!"
"Not if I can help it!" Ebirah shouted. She used her pincers to free herself and Baragon. Somehow, both of them felt a confidence within them, a confidence that they could beat that monster and help their comrade... no, not their comrade.
Their fellow Senshi.
In two flashes of light, tiny wands appeared. One of the landed within Baragon's mouth, the other one on Ebirah's pincer.
And somehow, they knew what they had to do.
"URANUS STAR POWER, MAKE UP!"
"NEPTUNE STAR POWER, MAKE UP!"
A burst of power propelled Baragon upwards. Two of her legs turned into arms, while the other pair became long and slender. Her muzzle got pulled back into her face, while short, blonde hair began to row around her big ears. Her entire form became female and supple, while her tail lashed around. A sparkling tiara appeared on her forehead.
Ebirah found herself surrounded by water. Most of her legs simply disappeared, while the remaining pair became as long and beautiful as those of Baragon. Her arms transformed as well, the pincers turning into glove-like weapons she could attach and detach at will. Her natural, crustacean body armor hugged her curvaceous main torso like a crusty leotard. Her head was covered by some sort of crab-like helmet that was tipped with lobster feelers. Long, turquoise hair spilled out from underneath the helmet like a waterfall. A tiara also appeared on her forehead.
Baragon posed. "I am the protector of the earth, Sailor Uranus!"
Ebirah posed as well. "And I am the protector of the sea, Sailor Neptune!"
"And we are here," they chorused. "To punish you!"
"More Kaiju Senshi?" Tellu gaped. "Dangit, there's got to be a nest somewhere..."
"Deep Submerge!" Neptune shouted. A ball of water came shooting out of her pincer-glove, which hit Tellu and swept her upwards with a huge pillar of water. The plant-woman gasped when she was propelled into the air. She painfully landed on the rocky plain behind the forest, where the three other kaiju had come from.
"Oh no," she murmured. "My connection with the forest is gone..."
"That's what I wanted to hear," Uranus grinned. "World Shaking!" And she spat a flaming ball of energy that connected with the ground in front of her, engulfing Tellu in a blast of heat and rocks.
"AAAAAAHHH! Ow, ow, ow, no fair!" Tellu grunted as she stumbled backwards. "Damn, I can't win like this... gotta get away..."
She entwined the three vines she still had left after Setsuna's acid had severed her fourth one and made them form a solid drill made of wood and thorns, as hard as iron.
"We'll settle this some other time!" she shouted as she vanished underground. She hated them for forcing her to abandon her beloved summer residence and the greenhouse, but she just had no other choice.
"I'll go after her," Uranus shouted. "No one's as fast as me when it comes to digging."
"Let her go, Uranus!" Neptune smiled. "I think she learned her lesson for today." She then looked at herself. "Incredible... all this time, I've been the Senshi of Neptune and didn't know..."
"So, you remember your previous lives?" Setsuna asked as she struggled back to her feet.
"We sure do... Sailor Pluto!" Neptune nodded. "And we also know we have to protect our princess."
"Oh yeah, where is she?" Baragon asked. "Uh, wait a minute... if we are reborn as kaiju... does that mean...?"
"Yes," Setsuna nodded. "The princess was reborn as Mothra, while Prince Endymion was reborn as Godzilla."
"Well, great..." Uranus muttered, recalling her last battle with the 'king of monsters'."
"As long as he doesn't rip off my pincers anymore," Neptune shuddered. She then realized something. "Oh, wait! I can do that myself!" And she giggled as she removed her pincer-gloves.
"So, what now?" Uranus asked. "Do we found our moon kingdom of kaijus?"
"To be honest, even I don't know what the future brings at the moment," Setsuna sighed. "Without my Garnet Rod, I can't even turn into my Senshi form... or access the Gates of Time..."
"Oh... and what's that on your forehead, if I may ask?" Neptune smirked.
"My..." Setsuna reached up to feel her slimy forehead... and indeed, in the middle of the sticky slime that was dripping down, she found something solid. Something that was hard and round...
"The... the Garnet Orb?" she murmured.
Back when Setsuna, had waded through the waves after having been bombarded by the Japanese air force, she had already released a sizeable amount of toxic slime into the sea water.
Hedorah's slime was one of the most toxic substances in existence and could not be washed away by mere water. Wherever the pollution spread, marine life withered away and died. By the time Setsuna had run into Baragon and Ebirah, her pollution had already covered an expanse of water that was as big as all of Juuban.
Such a threatening amount of pollution had not gone unnoticed. But it wasn't just the humans that had watched the spreading carpet of kaiju toxins with worry, no... deep below the ocean, an ancient beast awoke when it sensed the faint smell of poisonous waste.
And in its mind, it instantly realized that it was needed again... to do what it had been created to do: To consume all kinds of toxins that were polluting the seas.
And so, the great monster known as Dagahra swam up to the surface, opened its mouth and swallowed as much of Hedorah-Setsuna's slime as it could.
Humanity did not know how close Dagahra had come to becoming a new threat to Earth. Back in ancient times, Dagahra had destroyed the ancient civilization that had created it, due to a deadly side effect its body produced every time it consumed toxic sewage: Acid-spraying sea-stars that spawned from its body and killed everyone who came in contact with them.
But this time, the disaster did not repeat itself. Because Setsuna's slime was not normal Hedorah slime... it had been mutated by the Senshi energies that were still surging through Setsuna's body.
And thus, Dagahra mutated itself after having consumed most of the slime... the winged sea-dragon creature turned slender and petite (for kaiju standards), a sizeable pair of scaly breasts and hips wider than Tokyo Tower. From its head, curly hairs that resembled red seaweed were growing, making the new kaiju-girl what many high school boys daydreamed of: A hot red-head!
The new creature blinked as it looked down at its new body. "Oh my," it said in a high voice. "This is unusual..." She then giggled. "Dagahra-chan... is pretty!"
Author's Note:
No, the newest kaiju-girl is NOT Ranma-chan!
This is and will stay a Sailor Moon/Godzilla crossover!
However, whoever manages to guess the identity of the new kaiju-girl gets a cookie...