The Doctor gets two new travelling companions: Ami Mizuno and Ryo Urawa. Because Ami had a temporalspatial crack in her bedroom wall, and had to poke it with her Science Stick, and Ryo saw what was coming and tried to stop it.
And over time, they keep travelling with him intermittently, b/c what with Senshi Problems, their time on the TARDIS is about the only "couple time" they get to have.
It turns out Ami has a real fetish for men in Roman Legion uniforms ("It's the armored kilt-things, they just... oh, RYO!")
And the reason that Setsuna became Sailor Pluto is that she's their daughter, conceived aboard the TARDIS and given a lot of pre-natal exposure to its energies ("Complex genetic effects from the interactions of Precog genes, Senshi magic, and Time-Wimey energies? Bollocks! Obviously it's because of those games you two played with my Sonic Screwdriver -- do you have any idea how long it took me to properly sterilize it afterwards?")
(this is a tiny call-back to another fic, whose title escapes me, where Setsuna was Ami's daughter and basically kidnapped her infant self to send back to the Silver Millenium to close the Predestination Paradox of her existence)
Setsuna's a bit obsessed with the Doc, after all her time spent alone guarding the Time Gates during the Interregnum (he was the only person who could visit her), but now that she's back out in the world with people she's getting better about that. Still insists that they're married, though, which he denies, in a "Methinketh the Time Lord doth protest too much" sort of way. The Senshi are a rather bemused (and amused) by how her usual calm, detached demeanor just dissolves whenever he comes around, though.
"You... piloted the TARDIS? HOW?!? Humans can't do that!"
"Oh, sweetie... Mon's smarter than you are, Dad's a precog, and I'm at least half a Time Lord myself. It wasn't that hard. Besides, she likes me -- I'm the only woman who's never had a problem sharing you with her."
(So, yeah, this started as an Ami/Amy thing, and just grew from there. On the one hand, the Doctor/Ponds arc was great. But on the other, I can see so much wacky fun changing it up like this).
And over time, they keep travelling with him intermittently, b/c what with Senshi Problems, their time on the TARDIS is about the only "couple time" they get to have.
It turns out Ami has a real fetish for men in Roman Legion uniforms ("It's the armored kilt-things, they just... oh, RYO!")
And the reason that Setsuna became Sailor Pluto is that she's their daughter, conceived aboard the TARDIS and given a lot of pre-natal exposure to its energies ("Complex genetic effects from the interactions of Precog genes, Senshi magic, and Time-Wimey energies? Bollocks! Obviously it's because of those games you two played with my Sonic Screwdriver -- do you have any idea how long it took me to properly sterilize it afterwards?")
(this is a tiny call-back to another fic, whose title escapes me, where Setsuna was Ami's daughter and basically kidnapped her infant self to send back to the Silver Millenium to close the Predestination Paradox of her existence)
Setsuna's a bit obsessed with the Doc, after all her time spent alone guarding the Time Gates during the Interregnum (he was the only person who could visit her), but now that she's back out in the world with people she's getting better about that. Still insists that they're married, though, which he denies, in a "Methinketh the Time Lord doth protest too much" sort of way. The Senshi are a rather bemused (and amused) by how her usual calm, detached demeanor just dissolves whenever he comes around, though.
"You... piloted the TARDIS? HOW?!? Humans can't do that!"
"Oh, sweetie... Mon's smarter than you are, Dad's a precog, and I'm at least half a Time Lord myself. It wasn't that hard. Besides, she likes me -- I'm the only woman who's never had a problem sharing you with her."
(So, yeah, this started as an Ami/Amy thing, and just grew from there. On the one hand, the Doctor/Ponds arc was great. But on the other, I can see so much wacky fun changing it up like this).