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 **  Synopsis: Usagi gets launched across the Pacific by one of Rita and Lord Zedd's monsters. She's caught in St. Louis by "Davey Crockett", who proceeds to offer her a home for the time. They discover a diabolical team-up of Rita, Zedd, Queen Beryl, [[VR Troopers|Zitkor]], and presumably tons more, requiring them to assemble many characters, powers, and other miscellaneous crap that [[David Gonterman]] and buddy made up as he went along in an attempt to fight the villainous team. A very confusing ~32,000 words of [[Dead Fic]], to be certain.
 **  Comments: One of the most infamous badfics of all time. The story has a horrible, inconsistent structure (although it has surprisingly decent spelling) and a total lack of continuity. Not only do things quickly get contradicted, but new elements just pop up out of nowhere with the expectation that the audience will understand. And it is ''dull''.
-***  The story starts out innocuously (if self-indulgent), but it enters this territory with scenes that are inaccessible because the dialogue isn't credited. These look worse compared to the following scenes with the villains, which are in [[Script Fic|script format]]. (The work has two authors; they may have done their separate parts without care for consistency.) Then the story starts crossing over with ''everything''. Then Gonterman (maybe also the co-author, but he's a relative unknown) starts writing autobiographically, which is the closest to "[[Character Development]]" that Davey gets. Then he drops the [[Drama Bomb]] that Usagi is Davey's brother ''via'' a sickeningly degrading artificial insemination and abortion plotline that makes little sense. Not only does this make the implied sex scene (itself ten levels of [[Squick]], since Davey was in fox form then) incest, but also, he and Usagi still have a subdued relationship with each other after this realization. But they hadn't forgotten that drama bomb: they '''constantly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] it and how wrong it is'''. Not exactly respectful to the [[Sailor Moon]] fandom. They also [[Character Derailment|derail everyone's character]]: they turn Usagi into a weak, worthless [[Distressed Damsel]], making canon first-season Usagi look like [[Alien|Ellen Ripley]]); they make the Sailor Senshi fawning [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] of Davey from the moment they meet him, even fighting each other over his affections; they make Mamoru [[Die for Our Ship|Die For Gonterman's Screwed-Up Ship]]; they make the villains whimpering cowards around Davey; and they generally screw up the characters beyond recognition.
+***  The story starts out innocuously (if self-indulgent), but it enters this territory with scenes that are inaccessible because the dialogue isn't credited. These look worse compared to the following scenes with the villains, which are in [[Script Fic|script format]]. (The work has two authors; they may have done their separate parts without care for consistency.) Then the story starts crossing over with ''everything''. Then Gonterman (maybe also the co-author, but he's a relative unknown) starts writing autobiographically, which is the closest to "[[Character Development]]" that Davey gets. Then he drops the [[Drama Bomb]] that Usagi is Davey's brother ''via'' a sickeningly degrading artificial insemination and abortion plotline that makes little sense. Not only does this make the implied sex scene (itself ten levels of [[Squick]], since Davey was in fox form then) incest, but also, he and Usagi still have a subdued relationship with each other after this realization. But they hadn't forgotten that drama bomb: they '''constantly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] it and how wrong it is'''. Not exactly respectful to the [[Sailor Moon]] fandom. They also [[Character Derailment|derail everyone's character]]: they turn Usagi into a weak, worthless [[Damsel in Distress]], making canon first-season Usagi look like [[Alien|Ellen Ripley]]); they make the Sailor Senshi fawning [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] of Davey from the moment they meet him, even fighting each other over his affections; they make Mamoru [[Die for Our Ship|Die For Gonterman's Screwed-Up Ship]]; they make the villains whimpering cowards around Davey; and they generally screw up the characters beyond recognition.
 ****  Davey Crockett deserves his own special mention. He's an insanely overpowered [[God Mode Sue]] with [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]] built into his robotic arm and access to pretty much every shiny toy that Gonterman wishes he had. He defies every law of physics possible. He shoots a throne on the moon from Earth with a sawed-off shotgun; astrophysicists had best not read this story lest their brains explode. He is a "freelance Power Ranger" that turns into an anthropomorphic fox when he morphs for no reason but [[Author Appeal]]. His [[Backstory]] makes no sense whatsoever and contradicts itself in every way possible (and must involve [[Time Travel]] at some stage). He has nothing likable about him whatsoever. He's one of the worst [[Original Character|Original Characters]] ever written. His friend Ed (who, one presumes, is the [[Author Avatar]] of the other writer) isn't much more balanced, but he seems more tolerable because he has comparatively little screentime.
 ****  Gonterman (the only person to plug the story positively) suffered ''massive'' backlash against this story. His [[Author Avatar]] kills Zoisite in a horrifically over-the-top '''hateful''' way directed against homosexuality. Then he gives [[Character Filibuster|a speech]] about the horrors that homosexuals have inflicted upon his life that makes the Sailor Senshi cry. (Guess nobody told him that the Japanese ''Sailor Moon'' is pro-gay and includes two openly homosexual Sailor Senshi.) He's still banned for life from practically every aspect of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fandom, and mentioning his story within the community causes [[Internet Backdraft]]. Gonterman now considers this story an [[Old Shame]].