Leslie trudged, foot by foot, towards home. Just because she had been absent for a few days SAVING THE WORLD, her rotten educators had not only piled ALL of her homework for the past few days, they had given her EXTRA ASSIGNMENTS! Leslie was just trying to do something for Neopiankind! She was enraged. If Mrs. Filmore was sucked up into Sloth's ship, Sailor Lupe wasn't going to lift a finger to help.

She wasn't exactly watching where she was going, and bumped into Kami Neko, a fellow senshi. From her statement, it looked as if Mrs. Taheri wasn't very merciful either.

"You...got...extra...homework?" Kami stuttered.

"Yah...Mrs....Filmore...go...to..."

"I...get...picture."

And so, with an equal load to diminish slowly once they got home, Leslie and Kami treaded off to Leslie's house. After a few minutes of walking, they ran into Zelda Amaryou and Brooke Kinezumi, or rather, Zelda and Brooke ran into them. These were also known as Sailor Zafara and Sailor Usul.

"Sup?" an overly enthusiastic Zelda chirped. "I just told my teacher I was off attending Brooke's dead grandmother's funeral, and she let me off the hook! No assignments!"

"Yah, same here!"  Brooke happily commented. Kami didn't look as happy. She glared at the two lucky students.

"Maybe, um, you could help...us?" Leslie attempted to make the best of the situation.

"Oh sure." Zelda told Leslie as she pulled out Leslie's Trig textbook to examine the situation, and flipped to the last chapter. "Hey, this is easy! See, for this problem you just divide the x squared by the x cubed, and multiply your result by pi, and..."

In case you didn't know, Zelda Amaryou is a total genius. She's twelve years old, and in 9th grade! She made her teammates communicators by hand, and even hooked them up to a satellite system so they would have clear receptions anywhere!

"Why don't you guys come over to my house, and I'll help with everyone's homework! It'll be a study party, even though I'll probably be the only one doing any of the work! Plus I'll invite the rest of the team!" Zelda offered.

"I'm game for that!"

"Me too!"

"I don't have any homework, but I'll come anyway."

"Okay then, it's settled. We'll call Ji and Mel to come too."

"Watcha doin, geek?"

"Go away!"

"Excuse me?"

"Go away! Hightail it outta here! Vamoose, skidaddle..." Zelda pulled out a thesaurus and flipped through it for inspiration. "...flee, escape, fly, hoof and tail, get away, leave, hie, journey, proceed, depart, exit, push off, roll on,  run along, take a powder, make one's way, shove off, pass on..." 

"Okay, I get the point." Zoe retreated, displaying a rude sign of her index finger and her thumb shaped like an L on her forehead.

As she stepped back, Leslie realized that she would like to be any other place, at any other time, doing absolutely anything else, even if she was a foolish skateboarder going the wrong way down I95 at rush hour. She had bumped into Kelly, the High School Bully. The instant she had come to Neopian High, the entire class had been afraid of her. No one dared tease her 6"4 height, or her red streaks in her raven hair, or her red and black baseball shirt that said "Bite Me." When Kelly was in 8th grade at her old school, a senior boy called her a dark faerie minion, then a coward. And boy, did he learn his lesson. They had to rush him into the hospital and put him on a respirator. 

Of course, everyone also knew she was super-rich. When her parents died, they left her their fortune of fifty million Neopoints! She used them for karate lessons and to buy a car. 

"You'd better watch where you're going." Kelly told her, nearly paralyzing Leslie with fear and suspense. Leslie was about to faint, or run screaming bloody  murder, or cuddle up into a little ball, or transform (but that's against the rules, no hurting innocent Neopians, especially if they aren't w/ Dr. Sloth), when Kelly resumed her speech. "You were about to walk into that brick wall." And with that, she walked away,  revealing the hard, cemented wall right behind her.

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii evil worm dude!"

"Don't CALL ME THAT!"

"Oh, I'm sorry creepy sludge ball who-killed-his-own-parents."

"I did not kill them. My father died on his own and I turned my mother into a slug. See?" As the spiky-haired green alien explained this, he opened a door in his desk and took out a small glass jar, occupied by a single, slimy puny gray slug, crawling along the glass walls and leaving an oozing trail of slime in its wake.

"Oh, it's so cute!" Sailor Chia snatched the jar from the doctor's grip. But because of the quickness of this movement, Chia was caught off balance and tripped, hurling the glass jar out through the window. Being in a space station, once the jar had shattered the window it landed in the uninhabitable void outside. 

Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately, at least as far as the rest of Neopia was concerned), Sloth retained the presence of mind to press a button that sealed the opening before they were all sucked out into space. But it was too late for the occupant of the jar. 

Sailor Chia took one look at Sloth's face and decided, wisely, that it was time to hightail it out of there, and departed in a hurry, leaving the room's remaining denizen to collapse into sobs alone.

"Hmm, the little senshi can't even stand before me. I guess no one has the courage to battle. If one of you does, then stand." 

"Why should we fight you, Abbie?" Leslie demanded to know. 

"Because if you don't, then your little pets get it." Chia ended with a snarl. Then she untied the string around the top of the burlap bag, and revealed its occupants: A red lupe, a blue acara, a silver shoyru, a spotted usul, a yellow, demure shoyru, and a green moehog.

"FirePrinse!"

"Zaffie!"

"Shoylana!"

"Hyper Mix!"

"Moehog374!"

"Sparkle Acara!"

Sailor Chia showed she wasn't kidding by giving a minor electric shock to each before she placed them back in the burlap bag. As it retied itself, she snickered, "Like it? It was a present from the Chaos Faerie; there's some magic behind that. I've got a cool new attack up my sleeve too. So, who wants to lose first?"

Kami bravely got to her feet. "SparkleAcara means a lot to me, and I couldn't bear letting her stay in your irresponsible hands. I challenge you. Acara Neo Power, Make Up!" Kami finished her speech with her transformation spell, allowing herself to transform into the powerful blue and pink Sailor Acara.

"Acara Tumble!" Sailor Acara threw a ball of blue energy at the evil soldier.

"Chia Chaotic Shield!" Chia held up one hand, and black electric energy crackled around it. This energy formed a semitransparent shield, which sent Acara's attack flying back at her and hurling her up into the air. "Who's next?"

Zafara got burnt, then frozen; Leslie got scratched by her own claws, and Shoyru and Usul just got whacked by their various attacks, and Moehog almost became Senshi Fillet. Chia, pleased by her accomplishment, started half-running half-skipping in the other direction. She might have gotten away with it, but Zoe Amaryou, who wasn't paying attention to where she was going but listening to 3LW, knocked into Chia, who dropped the magic sack.

"Playas, they gonna...ouch! Hey, watch where you're going! And PLEASE, get a different outfit." Zoe rudely instructed to Chia, and continued walking, nearly tripping over Sailor Zafara, who had scurried forward and untied the sack to free the pets.

"What's with the freak show? Do you people actually think...Zelda? Hey, aren't you the...those sailor people?" Her twin's statement turned startled, then angry.

"Tell anyone and pay the consequences."

"Whatever sis." As Zoe responded, the sacred chalice rolled out of Leslie's backpack, stopping at Zoe's feet. It opened up, sending a teal and lavender pen floating up in front of her nose, which she grabbed. The chalice then rolled back into Leslie's backpack.

"What's this?" Zoe asked.

"It's a transformation pen," Sailor Zafara replied. "Okay, you have a peophin, so try saying 'Peophin Neo Power, Make Up."

"Peophin Neo Power, Make Up!" When Zoe said this, she was surrounded by a column of water, which parted to reveal Sailor Peophin. Her fuku was gold and lavender, and she had an amethyst horn where the jewel on her tiara should have been. Zoe didn't exactly like the outfit, but could live with it if it came with superpowers.

"Hey, Zoe! Get Chia before she runs away!"

"Who?"

"The creepy blonde girl who tripped you."

"Oh yeah...this is gonna be fun" Sailor Peophin ended on a sly tone, before letting loose an attack...it would be an awesome, devastating attack...If only Peo could remember what it would be.

"Err...umm...hmm...uh...Peophin, not that's not it. Peofaerie...no" It was then that Moehog yelled out, with all of her battledome experience, "JUST TRY PEOPHIN SPLASH!"

"Peophin Splash!" The new senshi put her hands together at the wrists, with her palm facing out and her fingers pointed in opposite directions. A small, blue ball of energy accumulated right in front of her, and suddenly shot out an extremely sharp jet of water at Chia. If the stream was any harder it would have shot right through the evil senshi.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUCCCHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Chia screamed and ran out of sight, saying some not-so-G-rated words. Sailor Peophin then DE-transformed, and Zelda fiddled around in her backpack to get a small, gray, wallet-sized machine. She pressed a few buttons and it became a gold/lavender color, with a lavender peophin head on the front.

Behind them, they heard a faint screaming that got louder...and louder...and louder...It was Sailor Acara! She fell and fell, huddled in a ball. "Shoyru Hover!" Sailor Shoyru swooped up and broke Acara's fall, so that instead of crashing they landed relatively slowly in a bush right next to the path. Climbing out and picking twigs out of their hair, they DE-transformed with the rest of the sailors. 

"Aww, borovan! We're late!" Kami screamed, and all seven of them ran off to school.