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It was the appointed time agreed between senshi, and Kallichore stood perched on the edge of the building she'd specified in their previous meeting. She sent out a text to the senshi of tigers with the details - time and place. She stood awaiting her arrival. The wind had died down that evening and the air was still warm with summer. Comfortable. Eternal wings shifted with the senshi's movement. Her moon was calling to her.

I'd like to meet you again by the building where we once trained. You don't need to bring anything unless you want to. I'll be waiting.

There was a hum in the air she couldn't describe - something of a magnet pulling her upward. Perhaps her moon was upset that she had neglected it for so long? Kallichore was more overwhelmed to find that the cat's tales of ancient civilizations were true. She collapsed in the middle of the ruins of a house she never thought she'd see. There weren't supposed to be people on other planets. NASA and other space expeditions didn't see them... that sort of thing wasn't taught in school. And what about that woman she kept seeing?

Too many questions, too few answers. Maybe something will be answered tonight.

Kallichore wasn't prepared for the upgrade. There was a stronger signal coming towards her and at first, she mistook it for Pasiphae or someone like that. She almost ignored it until the signal stopped right next to her. And spoke. Kallichore couldn't stop the look of suppressed shock when she turned around and saw, not a senshi, but a Super Senshi of Tigers, complete with fur trim and everything.

"Well well well," she breathed, walking in a slow circle around Tsui to observe every last detail of her outfit. "Would you look at this? The tiger's earned her stripes! I'm very impressed, Tsui. Not that I didn't think you could do it. It was all a matter of when." Kallichore reminisced about the day she ascended from senshi to super. It was like a stepping stone to something greater, but a huge accomplishment in and of itself. Not many made it to super and even less to eternal, but Kallichore had no doubts Tsui would make it that far. And uncorrupted.

"Love the boots. Very you." Super cute too, but I have an image to uphold. "I hope you don't mind accompanying me to my moon? I mean, unless you want to show off your new duds to Destiny City." The eternal chuckled and pulled out her cellphone, ever ready. "I'm hoping we can learn a thing or two, and maybe one day we can visit Tsui. See what life was like back on your... set of stars?"

"Everything is deadly in capable hands." came a reply and a short laugh. Kallichore remembered when she was out of options and bit Painite to get away. She was a foolhardy base senshi fighting a captain. How she made it out was anyone's guess. Pure, dumb luck was hers. "People underestimate resourcefulness. Sometimes you have to be unconventional to win. Like spitting or clawing. Hardly anyone expects that." The eternal blinked and frowned for a moment before speaking in a hushed tone. "...not that it's particularly sanitary but it gets the job done."

Oh yes, school. She'd enrolled in DCU as a writing undergraduate but really forgot about it. Some other things just seemed more important. You know, like saving the world from bad guys and things like that. If her father and brother knew, they'd understand. Wouldn't they?

She nodded to Tsui and stepped closer to her. "First thing is to tune into the frequency of your celestial body. I think of it like a hum or a song even. Your cellphone is what takes you there. I've never taken a passenger, but a long time ago, Europa explained to me how to do this. I haven't seen her in a while but I think it's our duty to teach everyone we can. I don't know how much we can learn from our past but I firmly believe it's worth a shot." Their moons, stars and constellations were a tool they should utilize more often, or so Kallichore was beginning to think. Nodding firmly, the senshi of madness pressed the center button on her cellphone and the world around the two of them sagged and shifted as they were rocketed into space.

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The surface of Kallichore was a green as the last time she visited - gentle rolling hills, fragrant grasses and the rise of jagged cliffs in the distance. The whole moon was rather emerald in comparison to its senshi and Kallichore herself never understood why she didn't look like she belonged on her moon. Maybe that was the point. The eternal turned and looked for Tsui to make sure the newly-anointed super senshi arrived safely. Never having brought passengers, she had no idea what to expect. Tsui looked alright. A sigh of relief.

"Welcome, I suppose, to my old home."

They were a midst the ruins of a small village temple made of stone and marble. Some gems were inset in the one pillar left standing. It was almost Grecian in design with a splaying of houses circling the temple like the planets did the sun. Or like Jupiter's moons revolved around her. It was quiet, peaceful and the eternal still mourned for those lost in the calamity. She wondered if she'd see them again. Laughter reached her ears and she ignored it as nerves. The remaining village houses that still partially stood had a wooden wall here or there surrounded by a stone base. The wood was very old and dilapidated. It was a miracle something of it still stood. The temple's marble slab, small staircase and portions of the roof were still intact.

Turning to Tsui, she hazarded a question. "What do you think, Tsui? Are you alright?"

Kallichore didn't know how proud of her moon she was until someone else was there to admire it. There was something nostaglic and fresh, yet so very ancient about her moon. No giant technological advances. No floating cities, no air cars or space tubes. Not even a single magical bit of crystal or hydroponic vegetable garden. Nothing but the same building blocks the men and women of Earth once used back when their civilization was new - rocks and wood and gems, all provided for by the moon herself. The senshi stood in awe of her own moon for a moment before returning to her visitor.

"Thank you, Tsui." The eternal nearly blushed as red as her fuku at the complement. But it wasn't like Tsui was complementing her - it was the moon they were standing on. "I haven't explored much, I'm afraid. I know there's a body of water that direction," She pointed to the west (or what was believed to be the west) where the spray of sea salt and the cries of long-dead birds would have been. "When I first came, I landed on the beach and traveled east. I found this village and the temple and that's pretty much where I've always ended up every time I came back. I haven't really gone much further than this."

Kallichore pulled stray gray hairs from her face and turned to look down the great gaping corridor of green and hill. "I know there's something back that way. Something big, but I have yet to see it. To be honest, it's odd being here." Brown eyes traced the ground between them, as if counting the blades of grass or scattered stones. Brows furrowed. "I keep seeing this... woman. She looks older and has very long green hair. I've never seen her on Earth. I have no idea why I keep seeing her."

She turned to face the east. "Where would you like to go, Tsui? We could stay here and explore, or continue that way. I'm fairly sure it's pretty green all around. Hardly any trees from what I can see."

"I suppose. I guess I needed someone else to tell me what I was thinking all along... so I wouldn't feel so crazy thinking it myself." Brows furrowed again but this time, Kallichore shook herself out of it. Over thinking things wasn't helping them in the slightest. With a nod, the eternal started walking to the east, past abandoned and flattened homes that once housed families. Sometimes she mourned for them. Now was not the time.

The weather was mild, comforting and the wind was lulled at best. The moon seemed almost asleep as they traversed the areas between great green swells of grass and stone. Kallichore had no idea how long they'd been traveling. The road they walked was a slow undulation without any real obstacles to stop them. In the east, a great tower started to rise out of the distance, a light fog obscuring it. "That must be it," mused the eternal. She'd never once laid eyes upon whatever this place was nor did she have a clue as to its importance. "I guess something tells us these things when we visit our homes - like our past is pulling us to important sites. That might be why I keep ending up in that village. It has to have some sort of significance I haven't figured out yet..."

The tower stood on a high hill slightly shorter than the mountains surrounding the valley. The slopes were gentle and the remains of a stone staircase lead up to the entrance. The stones were inlaid with the same sort of jeweled pattern seen on the temple when they first arrived. "I wonder... if this is a temple too?" she asked aloud. "I'd be interested in seeing what your homeworld is like, Tsui. Is it as green? Or is it something else entirely?"

The end of the staircase led to a door, or what would have been a door had the calamity not befallen the moon. The doorway had been something rather large, wide enough for at least five people to stand next to one another and still enter. Kallichore gingerly stepped inside and started to look around. The walls were dim without as many gems as the staircase outside. The tower was made entirely of a grayish stone, somewhat like marble. There was an intricate pattern carved out of the walls to let in light. No torches or other light sources could be seen. Upon the walls were hundreds upon thousands of markings, starting from the very base of the floor, arching up over the ceiling and ending at the base of the floor on the other side.

"...what is all this?"

The senshi snorted. "You can joke all you like, Tsui. I don't mind. In fact, I wouldn't put it past my moon to want to ******** with me, since I like ******** with the Negaverse as much as I do."

Kallichore nodded along with Tsui's musings. "That would make sense. If your tigers could speak like our Guardian Cats, sign me up for the next trip. I have a lot I'd like to ask them." It was true - perhaps the cats alive on Tsui could tell them a great deal about the war and the past, about the Calamity that befell all their nations and caused this whole reborn-into-another-war-on-Earth thing to happen. Crimson boots clicked against marblesque stone as the gray haired warrior looked around. The symbols looked so foreign and yet so damned familiar, but she couldn't read a single one.

Could it be huge to keep people out...? Or something in? Tsui could be on to something there. She quietly observed the staircases leading both down and up -- something she didn't expect. Brown eyes followed the spiral cresting above their heads and she whistled. "I'm not sure how tall this place is, but it looks like it goes underground too." She pointed to the staircase that lead down like a cellar. Kallichore wasn't sure if light went down there or if it was black as pitch. Oddly, the thought didn't make her nervous. Walking to the side of the staircase leading up, the eternal tilted her head. "Looks like it's lighter upstairs and the symbols go... damn, they go all the way up these walls."

One day, we'll run out of walls, Sibyl!

Laughter, jovial. Nonsense. We've enough stone to last all of our history. You must have faith.

"....what?"

Kallichore turned to face the corridor she thought she heard the voices coming from. "...alright, I'm hearing things now."

Kallichore rushed to the place where Tsui had flattened herself out and knelt, listening intently. She could hear... footsteps. Someone was barefoot but someone else was not, and they were speaking in friendly tones to one another. "Please tell me you hear that." the eternal whispered. She couldn't be the only one hearing this, could she? Was she really crazy after all, like her sphere suggested? "Tell me my moon isn't ******** with me. That's not cool. That's... deliciously ironic, but still not cool."

Slowly, like a dream, a conversation could be heard as the two participants walked closer to the top of the stairs where the two senshi waited. Parts of the building became whole again, warm with use and life. Kallichore blinked and stared in awed confusion as a tall, slender woman with long green hair and a simple white dress emerged from the staircase below. Her eyes were orange, her voice soft and matronly. She appeared older or perhaps just weathered.

"It wasn't your fault, Tsui. You did your best and now you can relax for a spell."

The figure behind her spat, crossing her arms. "I can't believe Mao would do such a thing. But what's done is done. She's beaten and now she's taken to whining about it like a sore loser." The second figure emerged from beneath the staircase and looked... shockingly similar to the Tiger Senshi.

Cheerful laughter. "Would you be 'sore' about losing as well?"

"Baihu deserves to be united, but not like this!"

Kallichore blinked. Their strange and shared vision was gone in a heartbeat and everything returned to its previous lifeless shell. No warm flames coming from the walls below, no laughter from the halls above. Nothing. Just a ghost of a castle, just like they'd seen when they first arrived. The Madness Senshi stood up. "Tsui? ....was that you?"

The eternal senshi blinked and stared stupidly at her White Moon companion. "I... believe you may have been here before. But... how?" Kallichore stepped back and watched the floor, half-wondering if the vision would play again or if some other part of it would emerge before their shared eyes. When nothing happened for a few silent moments, she frowned.

"They were coming out of someplace beneath us..." With a grunt, the senshi swooped down to the lower level, halfway up the stairs. Brown eyes peered down the darkened corridor. "Very little light, but... the walls down here have the carvings too. I smell water. I don't think this is too long or deep but... hell, what do I know?" she said with a short laugh. She waited to see what Tsui would think about all this and whether or not her super counterpart would think this would be a good idea. Was something important down here? It was hard to tell with so little light. Scorch marks on the wall indicated the corridor used to be lit by something that gave off heat. Likely torches since no other crazy technology was present.

Unless, again, the moon was messing with them and hid all the technology when it realized it was going to have visitors. Kallichore sniffed.

She wouldn't put it past her moon.

"Tsui? What is Baihu?"