"I've been waiting months for this!" Haruka grinned as she adjusted her white tie in the mirror.

Michiru walked over to her and fixed it. "Stop messing with it Ruka Chan."

"Sorry Michi." Haruka apologized. "Setsuna! Are you and Hotaru about ready?" She called out into to the adjoining room.

"Almost. Hotaru hold your foot still please."

Hotaru stopped swinging her legs. "Sorry Setsuna mama!" The eight year old (physically at least) apologized as best as an anxious child could under the circumstances.

Haruka rolled her eyes. She had promised this to Michiru. One night of culture before going to the Porsche factory in the morning to pick up and test drive the new Team Tenoh race car. And in Navy Blue and Gold... Not Stark Red and Gold. She smiled in satisfaction. I'm not in the business of selling Tony Stark. He does that quite well by himself.

Setsuna finished buckling Hotaru's Mary Jane shoe as Michiru gathered her violin

"It is such a honor to be asked to play here Ruka."

"I know... And I'm glad we invited Koneko and the others to come with us. It'll be good for all of them."

Michiru smiled as she tuned and rosined her bow. Her long curly hair falling over her sleeveless dress. "Ruka is my dress zipped fully?"

"Just a moment." She zipped it up the remaining few inches.

Michiru looked in the mirror and smiled "Well I need to take my spot."

"Go get 'em!" Haruka grinned.

Michiru beamed and headed out to join her fellow performers, taking her seat next to an Asian man unpacking his violin "Kano Hiroshi San?"

"It's a pleasure to be playing with you again Kaioh san!"

"And you as well is your wife in attendance?" Michiru asked.

"She is! I do hope you and Haruka will come visit us back in Tokyo sometime."

"We'd love to! We have adopted a child." She said as she placed her music on the stand.

"Oh?" He asked, setting his own music.

"Oh yes! A liittle girl." She pulled out her phone to show him a picture of the 8 year old.

"She's very pretty! Meihi will simply adore her!"

"Any pitter patter in your home yet?"

"Not yet I want to get a bigger house first. I'd like to give Meihi a garden."

"We just bought a home by the sea ourselves." Michiru told him.

"We'll have to visit then!" Hiroshi checked his watch, noting the time. "Well! It's time. Ready?"

"Of course." Michiru confirmed. The quartet began to play as guests started to arrive.

Haruka glanced at the clock as she continued to fiddle with her tie.

"Enough." Setsuna said flatly, her arms crossed. "Hotaru? Stay with Haruka papa while I go check on the others."

"Ok Setsuna mama!" Hotaru agreed and then turned to look at Haruka with a stern look. "Papa stop with your tie. Mama is gonna whack you with her bow. Again."

Haruka chuckled. "You're probably right. Well! Shall we go?"

"Are you gonna try and sneak out and go look at your car so mama doesn't see?" Hotaru accused.

Haruka sighed. "Kid... you're getting too smart for my own good." And scratch that idea...

"I've been learning quantum physics." Taru chan replied as she stared at her polished shoes.

"And you've been hanging around Setsuna too much." Haruka groused.

"Is that bad Papa?"

"Not really but quantum physics makes my head hurt."

"Oh?" Hotaru looked around the hall and then noticed the man approaching the lectern. "Papa who is that?" Hotaru pointed at the old man getting ready to speak.

"He's a scientist of some kind I think."

"Papa are you mama's eye candy?"

"Hmmm... where did you hear talk like that?"

"Setsuna mama."

"At least it wasn't Minako. Well Yes I guess so and we know mama loves her candy don't we?"

"Is that why she eats you so much?"

"Uh..." Haruka Tenoh flushed red. She REALLY needed to spend more time finding out just what Michiru and especially Setsuna were teaching Hotaru. "Let's listen to the man for now."

Hotaru blinked as she noted a lean well dressed man calmly, yet purposely proceeding down the stairs. "Papa? Who is?" She began. "PAPA!'

Haruka's eyes widen in alarm as an attendant was sent flying with a bone shattering crack to the head by the smartly dressed man who now advanced on the host.

"Get Hotaru out now. GO!" Setsuna said imperatively.

"All right! " Haruka nodded and hurried Hotaru outside.

In an instant, everyone was running out of the hall in panic. Haruka caught a glimpse of Rei and Makoto hurrying Usagi out a side exit. Turning to look behind her, she saw the well dressed stranger now wearing a horned helmet and bearing a spear as if it were a staff of some kind. She and Hotaru gasped as a police car was slammed with a bolt from the spear and watched as it flipped end over end. Haruka knew she had to get Hotaru to safety and then find Michiru and the others but there seemed no way out for the mass of humanity. As copies of their attacker appeared blocking all exits and surrounding them much as one would contain a herd of cattle. She held firm to Hotaru's hand.

"Kneel before me." The stranger demanded. Hotaru looked up at her Papa for instructions as the man slammed the butt of his spear down "I said. KNEEL!"

"Stay down and wait honey. Whatever happens, stay down until I tell you." Haruka told Hotaru quietly as she looked impossibly for an opening.

Hotaru fell to the ground in a kneeling position with Haruka beside her, an elderly man on her right. she clutched onto his wrinkled hand with her own small one.

"Is this not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel." The stranger pronounced as if to a crowd of children… or his subjects. A King defining his people.

Okay. This guy has had one too many bowls of Cocoa Puffs… Haruka told herself.

Hotaru looked up to see him right in front of her.

The old man stared at Hotaru. A flash of ancient memories in his eyes. He squeezed her hand gently and then stood with the strength and dignity of a man who had seen the worst mankind could offer and would no longer bend to fear. "Not to men like you."

The man in the horned helmet stopped with a dangerous smile. "There are no men like me."

"There are ALWAYS men like you."

The man lifted his scepter and Hotaru's eyes widened "Papa!" She gasped in alarm.

"Look to your elder people."

Haruka began to slide out her henshin wand and then stood. "Must be a challenge threatening old men."

The stranger smirked at this new interruption "Let them be your example." He sent a blast towards both of them as a man in a uniform with stars and stripes jumped in front of them wielding a round shield with a star. The beam deflected off the shield and back and knocked the horned man off his feet.

"You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing."

Haruka felt her hands bunch into fists "Hey! Boy scout!"

The green garbed adversary regarded her dismissively. Then his eyes returned to the Boy Scout. "The Soldier. A man out of time!"

"I'm not out of time. You are." A stealth jet appeared, hovering and aiming a large multi-barrel gun. "Loki! Drop the weapon and surrender." A woman's voice called over a set of external speakers.

Hotaru got to her feet as people started to run. "Saturn planet power. Make up!" She summoned, vanishing from the mortal plain for a split second before reappearing as Saturn, the Sailor Soldier of Destruction. "Silent Wall!" Saturn called forth her barrier to protect the civilians "Go! Run!" She turned to the elderly man who stood up to...Loki was it? "Hurry please." She urged.

He looked to her with kindness and relief. "I will go, but I cannot run. Be safe my child."

She nodded gravely, making a promise as she watched the battle. The other senshi had also transformed by now, each looking for an opening. Sailor Moon and the Inners were trying to hurry the crowd out of the path of combat. Hotaru gasped as the man in the red white and blue was forced to his knees.

"Kneel..."

"Not today!" He knocked Loki off his feet.

Saturn turned sharply as without warning, very loud music poured out of the jet's speakers. Uranus looked at her with an uneasy expression.

"Is that...Shoot to Thrill?"

"You know it?"

"Yeah...I do." Uranus watched unsurprised as Iron Man flew in, blasting Loki several feet back.

"Make your move, Reindeer Games." A whole assortment of weapons revealed themselves as he aimed them at Loki.

Loki allowed his armor to drop as he put up his arms. Sailor Saturn watched warily but dropped her wall.

"Good call." Iron Man pronounced smugly.

Sailor Uranus stormed over. "Hey Boy Scout! What was the deal back there?"

"Huh?" The star spangled hero asked confused and bewildered.

"You got in front of me! I had it under control!" Ruka insisted with some visible annoyance.

"Sorry." He replied in confusion. "Fury didn't tell me anyone else was going to be here."

Iron Man crossed his arms. "This isn't Fury's doing. Uranus? What the hell are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing Stark. But then again, you usually end up arriving right behind me. Don't you?" Uranus replied.

"You really want to go around right now Tenoh?"Stark asked her.

"Don't call me that. I'm on duty and unlike YOU, I still value a little freaking privacy." Uranus shot back.

"Ahem! As thrilling as this all is." A delicate voice spoke up, stepping between them "Tony San who is that?" Sailor Neptune inquired.

"His name is Loki. He appeared in a secret government installation two days ago and stole something that the spy boys want back." He gestured to Black Widow, who was now disembarking the now landed quinjet. "If you want to know more you'll have to go ask the head spy himself. Right Agent Romanoff?"

Natasha sighed. The Sailor Senshi. As if things were not complicated enough. She hit her com "Director?"

"Romanoff? What's going on down there? We lost your signal."

"Iron Man happened. Sir. We have Loki and a situation."

"What situation?"

"The Sailor Senshi are right here in front of me. Orders?"

"Bring Loki in immediately. I'll send Agent Coulson down with another bird to pick up the senshi."

"Yes Sir." She turned to Uranus "Agent Phil Coulson will be here shortly to retrieve you." Romanoff turned to the two men. Captain? Mr. Stark? If you would kindly escort Loki aboard?"

The Captain tucked his Shield under his arm and gestured to Loki to follow Agent Romanoff.

As they took off, Sailor Saturn looked up at Uranus "Papa? What have we gotten involved in?"

"I don't know but between Tony Stark and that Boy Scout, we'd better go make sure it doesn't blow up in our faces."

That's it for the revised Chapter 1. Hopefully this bit of polishing helps. As always, we own none of the characters. This story is for entertainment only and not for profit. Thank you and keep watching for more of The Avengers, The Senshi Intersection!