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-after the meeting-

Charoite stormed into the lab underneith her and Charles home in the city, Charles in tow.

"Dear, we'll be fine, we've been stocking up for months. " Charles opened up a metal cabinet and started rummaging through a pile of microchips.


"Its not going to be enough.. not if we don't know WHERE dear. " Charoite was frantic. "Eugine, what is the status of our war supplies?" She queried the magical UI that helped her run her lab as she pulled an empty chest out of under a table and opened it.

As she went through the motions and incantations for a floating disk, The unmistakable monotone of Eugines voice filled the lab "5 wands of shielding, 3 wands of fog. 2 wands of lightening bolt. 3 scrolls of shocking grasp, 14 scrolls of shielding........"

The transparent disk shimmered, fully formed in the middle the room by the time Eugine finished his inventory. Charles instinctively picked up the chest and placed it on the disk for her.

"I can booby trap and shield and seal up any location he chooses, but without a location, how the heck am I supposed to put up wards? What about Arcane lock?" Charlotte asked Eugine as she circled the room collecting strange items and placing them into the chest. Scroll cases, wands, strange yellow and red rods.

No response "....."

"Eugine, What scrolls or wands do we have of Arcane Lock?" Charlotte asked again as she dug through a closet full of scroll cases.

"3 scrolls, 2 wands" Eugines voice again filled the lab.

"That's not nearly enough" Charlotte deposited a few more scrolls into the now nearly full chest and collapsed into a chair.

"You don't know that, we don't know how big a force he's sending" Charles rummaged through a closet, pulling out old communicators. "I think I might be able to pick up some basic burner phones and re-program them to work on our comm channels. They won't be as fancy, and won't have the magical capabilities, but we they'll work in a pinch.

"That would help, we have alot of guardians without communication. If you can make them out of burner phones, we could give them even to mortals. " Charlotte was silent a moment. "But, we've been hearing murmurs for months, whatever Saphirs doing, its gunna be big. Communication will help.. but I don't think it's going be enough"

Charlotte and Charles sat in silence for a few minutes. "Artificial Senshi? What does that mean mean?" Charlotte suddenly exclaimed. Charles rushed to her side and wrapped his arms around her. "It'll be ok. Remember the animates Galaxia sent? Those were taken care of, we'll take care of these. "

"GAH, I need to call my sister. " Charlotte ripped out of Charles arms and grabbed her communicator. "Call Odette"

The specialty communicator dialed Odette and a familiar ring came over the phone. It picked up and Charlotte started talking.

"Sister, did you hear Diamonds announcement?"

"One moment ma'am" A servant answered. A moment latter Odettes voice came over the line and filled the room.




Charlotte Frowned, sitting back into a comphy chair. "Well for one, I think Black Moon Clans hiding something. Regardless, I think we have alot of work to do. Charles has got a plan for quick and easy communicators. They won't be great, but they'll be tied into our comm channels, we should be able to get one into the hands of most of the new senshi before morning...."

Charlotte paused a moment. "But we have another problem. Our Intel is utterly atrocious. We need more eyes and ears. Our spy in the throne room was invaluable tonight. We would have both missed the announcement without him. I'm thinking its time we gave some more key mortals access to us...if only so we don't have to find out whats happening on the news. Any idea who we should trust with this?"

As she spoke, Charles kissed her on the head and whispered in her ear. "Going to go get the phones. Be back in a couple hours, be safe"