695/Back To Business

Back To Business
Date of Scene:	02 November 2023
Location:	Juuban Ward
Synopsis:	Riventon attempts to steal (most of) the pure heart of a pet shop worker. Sayaka, Rashmi, and Cho have other ideas, as does Ula.
Cast of Characters:	Takashi Agera, Norie Okana, Rashmi Terios, Cho Konishi, Sayaka Miki
Tinyplot:	Just Business

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Takashi Agera has posed:
    Tires screech as a white Station Wagon with a strange company name rips through Tokyo's city streets, occasionally taking the curb or ignoring lights. "Witches 5" is what the sides of the car read. Driving it is a woman with long, flowing red hair, and her terrified looking passenger is a scientist in a heavy lab coat with bright green eyes and long, silver hair.

    "It's not that important, damn!" Riventon says to the woman.

    "Don't be a coward, this car's perfectly safe." she notes as she turns with such speed that only two of the wheels remain in contact with the road. "Just put the thing together." she says.

    "There is no way in hell I can do that while you're doing what you call driving." Riventon says. The car screeches to a halt, leaving rubber tracks on the ground, outside of a pet shop. Riventon takes a few moments to catch his breath, before leaning town to pick up the suitcase at his feet, and open it in his lap. Inside is a strange magitech rifle, seperated into parts. Riventon starts to assemble it.

    "Your hands are shaking, you'll never make the shot. Gimme." Eudial says, and Riventon hands it over once assembled. "Just go pick up the package."

    "Sure." Riventon says, getting out of the car. As he does, Eudial rolls down her window and the barrel of the rifle pokes out. A young woman, roughly in her early 20s, leaves the pet shop, smile on her face, locking the door before she steps away - and Eudial fires. The rifle bursts a surge of negative energy and the woman is hit full force by it, collapsing as a crystal comrpised of her Heart Energy takes form - missing about a quarter of the usual shape. And Riventon is running over to grab it as the girl lays on the grass near the sidewalk, clutching her chest, eyes wide, breath in short, rasping gasps - though there -is- breath. Also, there are tendrils of Dark Energy creeping over her body, but that's probably nothing to be super-worried about.

Norie Okana has posed:
La Crima, is also in a lab coat, a normal, non-magical non-henshin one. The girl has a notebook and is taking notes from the back seat of the station wagon as she looks over the seat and has wide eyes. She can barely write with the awful driving.

"What is this driving...!?" she sputters.

And then the station stops and she has to grip the back of the seat and she sighs and steps out of the station wagon with Riventon as she leans down to the person and puts down her safety goggles and takes notes.

"Dark energy... seems to be surging..." she trails off as she scribbles into her notebook.

She lets Riventon take care of the Pure Heart.

She isn't touching that. She might. Absorb it by accident and get all her feelings back---wait a minute.

Wait. No. No. The boss is here. Ugh.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
It's really a lucky thing that Rashmi has Nicomachea. As twitterpated as she's been over Chrono and the goofy, silly, maximum-effort cheesiness he's shown her, it'd be easy for her to miss things while on after-school patrol. Things like sign of Chrono's crew, ordinary city emergencies, buildings in the way of her flight path...

...or Dark Energy discharges in her immediate vicinity.

Luckily, Rashmi *does* have Nicomachea, and thus her dozenth private giggle session of Chrono playing 'I Can Show You The World' as they flew to their date spot gets interrupted.

    << BONG! >> << ALERT. MASTER. ALERT. ANOMALOUS CORRUPTIVE EMANATION PROXIMATE. >>

Startled, Rashmi bobbles in the air for a moment, shaking off the soft-focus and getting her head back into the game. << Show me where, Nico-kun! >>

Spiraling in on a pet shop -- a *pet shop, of all places! -- Rashmi spots the woman down, and a very familiar figure headed her way.

"Riventon, *knock that off!*" she shouts, at which point Nicomachea makes his own contribution to the moment.

    << BONG! >> << SOLAR STINGER >>

A single golden sphere streaks out, arrowing in on Riventon with a distressingly-familiar effect; built for endurance, the barret acts like a moth to Riventon's streetlight, and every time it makes contact it delivers the force of a boxer's punch. Distracting, to be sure, but the question is, does it make contact before Riventon can get to the Heart Crystal?

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi had been walking through the city, nothing in hand today. Instead, she just had a monkey on her back. Literally. Wu was on her back, and--

"Look out!" Wu said, his tail lashing out to grab a nearby pole and hold her shoulder, then yanking them out of the way.

Narrowly being avoided flattened by a station wagon driven by a CRAZY LADY! She stood there a moment, staring with shock and alarm. WHAT THE HELL?! She hadn't even been close to the road! She'd been on the sidewalk! WHY?! WHO?!

And then GUN! They had A GUN WHY DID THEY HAVE A GUN?! THIS WAS TOKYO!

And then sci fi sounds and... some... girl dropped. With a crystal coming out of her.

Ohhhhh. MAGIC gun. That was WAY easier to deal with. "Cho--" Wuwu started.

"I know, I know," she said, quickly dipping down the alleyway and...

"Historic Legacy, Pretty Cure!"

A moment later, Cure Wukong was leaping down from the rooftops in front of the car! She then paused, turned... And glared at the driver. She made the point to her eyes. Then double point to Eudial. Learn to drive, you psycho.

"Hey, you! Tall dark and... kind of cute! Leave that sparkly thing alone!" she yelled before dashing at him, drawing her stick from behind her ear, it was the size of chopsticks!

Then she swung it and, as she swung it, it started to groooooow much, much longer.

Just runs right past La Crima. Doesn't pass go. Doesn't collect 200 energy. Doesn't seem to realize there are two baddies here.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
Sayaka is walking through the streets of Juuban Ward - Soul Gem in hand, because Witches never rest - only really paying attention to her surroundings the minimum amount it takes not to bump into other people.

The novice Puella is being followed around by Ula, not because she can actually contribute anything to the fight, but because she is playing lookout, with the bluenette's eyes fixed as they are on the currently inert jewel.

The bluenette dismisses the speeding car with an annoyed glance - how is it they still have their license? - but otherwise goes back to Witch hunting. Her priorities are not currently on reckless driving. Hmm, there is something she is skimming over? Eh, it's not important if you don't remember.

"Sayaka, look back to the car!", Ula is quick to point out when the rifle is extracted. It's not aimed at her this time at least, though things would be problematic in a different way if it actually were.

The Puella catches on quickly when she sees the woman struggling and the incomplete Pure Heart next to her. It is actually jarring seeing it happen from an outside perspective.

A dive behind a convenient dumpster, a blue flash of her Soul Gem and the Sharpsong Puella Magi is ready to fight, sword drawn.

"Ula, get the Heart!", she tells the koi mermaid, summoning a greatsword in her hand and launching it by hand like an incredibly fast projecticle towards the car hoping to at least slow them down while she gets there.

"R-right, on it!", the flying mermaid caught by surprise replies, trying to get there as quickly as she can.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Riventon grumbles audiably and tries to blast the Stinger with his own Dark Energy, with mixed results. "You know if you wanted to get here about five minutes later, next time, that would be really appreciated." he says, to Rashmi. And then to Cho, who's large chopstick-telephonepole weapon is blocked (with some effort) by the blue-fading-to-purple runic Round Shield Riventon puts up. Both of these do stop him from grasping the shiny crystal he's after. Riventon looks down at the civilian. "I mean really, I go out of my way to make the shooty guns not be killy guns, and the FIRST TIME I bring one out all you do is bother me? I'm starting to feel like you don't appreciate my efforts."

    From the car (where she has not made any moves to get out) Eudial yells "I TOLD YOU THAT WAS A WASTE OF TIME." The station wagon is in fact, still running. Ula's on the way, but Eudial just rolls her window up. That seems to be the sum total of her current response to this chaotic situation.

    Riventon looks down at the unfortunate recipient of the shot. "Looks like you gals are busy anyways." The human girl, on the ground, the one gasping... that dark energy suddenly surges up in a column of black inky darkness and after it is finished, instead of a human girl, there is... an eight foot tall bird with purple plumage, a sharp beak, glowing red eyes filled with malice, and tail feathers that are pointed. It screeches and spreads its wings.

    "Careful, by the way. There's still a human girl in there. You wouldn't want to hurt her." The bird takes flight, and -very quickly- starts to soar around the little strip of road, making pecking attacks at Cho, Sayaka, and Rashmi as it does. "She, however, has no such problems hurting you. So you probably don't want this crystal anyways. If you give it back to the bird-girl, you're just gonna have a stronger angrier bird." He says, reaching down and trying to go for the crystal again while he presumes the girls are occupied by Birdzilla.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Riventon grumbles audiably and tries to blast the Stinger with his own Dark Energy, with mixed results. "You know if you wanted to get here about five minutes later, next time, that would be really appreciated." he says, to Rashmi. And then to Cho, who's large chopstick-telephonepole weapon is blocked (with some effort) by the blue-fading-to-purple runic Round Shield Riventon puts up. Both of these do stop him from grasping the shiny crystal he's after. Riventon looks down at the civilian. "I mean really, I go out of my way to make the shooty guns not be killy guns, and the FIRST TIME I bring one out all you do is bother me? I'm starting to feel like you don't appreciate my efforts."

    From the car (where she has not made any moves to get out) Eudial yells "I TOLD YOU THAT WAS A WASTE OF TIME." The station wagon is in fact, still running. The greatsword hits the car, putting a very big knife through the back of the trunk, but Eudial just leans out. "Do you have insurance that's going to cover that? I don't go after your moped or whatever!" she yells. That seems to be the sum total of her current response to this chaotic situation.

    Riventon looks down at the unfortunate recipient of the shot. "Looks like you gals are busy anyways." The human girl, on the ground, the one gasping... that dark energy suddenly surges up in a column of black inky darkness and after it is finished, instead of a human girl, there is... an eight foot tall bird with purple plumage, a sharp beak, glowing red eyes filled with malice, and tail feathers that are pointed. It screeches and spreads its wings.

    "Careful, by the way. There's still a human girl in there. You wouldn't want to hurt her." The bird takes flight, and -very quickly- starts to soar around the little strip of road, making pecking attacks at Cho, Sayaka, and Rashmi as it does. "She, however, has no such problems hurting you. So you probably don't want this crystal anyways. If you give it back to the bird-girl, you're just gonna have a stronger angrier bird." He says, reaching down and trying to go for the crystal again while he presumes the girls are occupied. Ula, though, seems to have been too small for the bird to notice - and now Riventon and Ula are tug-of-warring over the fist-sized glowy crystalline sphere. "That's not yours!" he says to the mermaid.

Norie Okana has posed:
La Crima 'ahs!' as the woman turns into a bird. She takes notes.

Someone calls Riventon cute. She looks over to Riventon. "I mean. Yeah." she says. "I guess." she says as she makes a note here:

Dark energy removal of pure heart turned woman into birdzilla.

That's the offical note she's making as she lets everyone ignore her. She's here to take notes and research today!

She figures Riventon will asks for her help if her needs it. She looks at a watch. She goes back to taking notes.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong looked up at the giant bird...

She looked to Wuwu.

Wuwu looked to her.

They both smiled.

They were both idiots.

"I call the bird!" she yelled. A moment later, she leaped up into the air!

In retrospect, letting the flying girl deal with the flying youma would have been the smarter choice. But since when did logic, intelligence and smart planning have anything to do with Wukong? Never. That's when

Instead, she flew up into the air and tried to grab a hold of the bird's talons and then swing herself up, onto its back!

"Oh, right! We do appreciate it!" she yelled down to Riventon.

However, by this time she was pretty far away. And so it likely just sounded like random yelling at best.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"Are you still *shooting pieces of people* out of their bodies?" Rashmi rejoins, amazed that she even has to clarify this point. "Then, yeah, we're *gonna* stop you! Thanks for not being *murdery* about it, though?"

Sheesh, how Chrono thinks he's gonna get through to this clown...

<< BONG! >> << ALERT. ANOMALOUS MORPHOLOGICAL CONVERSION IMMINENT >>

This is Nicomachea's best guess as to what the pillar of darkness means. Which means this is now a fight in dire need of containment, and a spell-circle spreads out under her feet as she gives Cure Wukong the best present she can today.

    << BONG! >> << TIME-SPACE BARRIER >>

The gray-green static of a dimension-shifting Barrier spreads out, filtering away the hapless bystanders and *inhabited* structures from the fight, allowing the heroes to go as all-out as they possibly can.

"What even is the *point* of this anyway?!"

Sayaka Miki has posed:
"It's not yours either!" Ula obviously replies back, trying her best to keep holding onto the crystal as Riventon pulls in the opposite direction. If she succeeds, this will be another David vs Goliath, though at least Riventon is not that musclebound.

"That's underhanded", she growls when Riventon gloats over their impasse. "Really, how do they get out of this one now? The bird certainly doesn't waste any time making good on Riventon's promise, sending peckings at them faster than Sayaka can react.

The first one gets her on the arm, but by then she has summoned another sword, and used it and the one she was holding to par against the successive peckings! "If I get there, I am so going to make you pay for what you did to her", she vehemently declares to Riventon.

"If only I were in a Witch's Labyrinth..." she finds herself mumbling. "I wouldn't have to worry about destroying anything there." Unfortunately for her, she doesn't know what Rashmi's barrier does.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    The bird's pecks only nail Sayaka once, and now Wukong is on the back of the bird now. This is a thing that has happened. Hooray. The bird is perturbed about this, and starts trying to fly faster to dislodge Wukong which is probably not going to be a successful strategy overall. Might just be fun. The barrier goes up, the world goes monochrome, and Eudial is stuck in a non-moving car. Well, mostly non moving. The window rolls up still. Which is what she does.

    "I can't help but feel like you're not being honest when you thank me." Riventon says, as the bird remembers that it's not a hollow-boned actual bird but a bird shaped monster, and does a loop-de-loop before trying to fly upside down, because screw gravity and physics, and scrape its unwated passenger along concrete at many miles an hour. "I need the energy from pure hearts. This person has a pure heart. Ipso facto I need to remove it at least partially to get at that energy. I'm going to have to keep doing it until I do get the energy, so all you're really doing is ensuring I have to shoot more people!" he adds. "Which means more youma, more fighting. And all of that on the idea that what, you can get to every single person? You can't! Your actions are beyond pointless - they're actively harmful."

    The truly actively harmful thing is the bird, which has now landed and started to flop and flail around, giant wings swooping every which way as it rolls and spirals, aiming to injure either the Puella Magi, the Device User, or the literal monkey on its back. Riventon rolls his eyes at the continued tug of war, uses Dark Energy to cheat when it comes to the test of strength, and picks the crystal up - perhaps with Ula still hanging off of it. "You are really annoying, has anyone ever told you that?" He asks the mermaid, either way. "Back off, or I'll make a sushi roll out of you."

    Eudial has gotten out of the car, and popped the trunk - with the blade still sticking through the trunk door. She leans in and grabs something, putting it on. It looks like... some sort of backpack vaccum cleaner, or maybe a leaf blower? With bubbling red liquid in the backpack. As she leans up from putting it on, she bangs her head on the flat of the sword and curses loudly.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong was holding on! WEEEE! It was-- Oh gosh, no! The bird was flying in every single direction, upside down and... well. At the very least, it caused one of the monkey to fall off.

Wuwu fell to the ground, bouncing twice, all @.@. Wukong, however, held on.

Until the bird scraped her off on the cement. She tumbled and rolled a few feet, landing at the side of the car, her stick held in her tail. She just... laid there, for a moment. Before flashing pink. "O-ow... that... that hurt..." she mumbled, and started to sit up... then dropped again. Just gonna lay here for a moment and...

"Oh, hi!" And then her tail struck out, using the stick, it...

Tried to knock Eudial's feet out from under her. Then she just tossed the stick, right at Riventon's face. "Hey, cute guy! Catch!"

It was a trap! If he didn't catch it, it was him admitting he wasn't cute. But if he DID catch it, it was really heavy!

Wuwu was still just laying there a bit away, not moving much. So, you know. Oddly more useful than normal.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"IT'S HARD TO BE GENUINELY GRATEFUL WHEN YOU WON'T STOP *SHOOTING PEOPLE!*"

With a frustrated noise, Rashmi turns her attention to the bird youma, and the fight.

Cure Wukong-- ... ...... ... --is riding the bird, that's amazing and *entirely on brand.* Sayaka seems intent on the crystal, and anything that undoes the damage *Riventon did* is good...

    << BONG! >> << TELEPATHY >>

Both Wukong and Sayaka get a new voice in their head, to go with their inner monologues. << Wukong-san can you wear that monster down without hurting it *too* much? I have an idea but, I'm not nearly attack-oriented enough to go for the knockout this quickly. And-- um. Sword... Lady...? Anyway hi, I'm about to give you a boost to help out your-- flying-- mermaid...? So many questions. Anyway. It only lasts for a little bit, but should definitely be enough. ...Oh! Also if you notice there aren't any more people around, that's because I kinda took the surrounding couple blocks out of phase with reality. Basically go nuts, the buildings in the real world'll be fine! >>

<< BONG! >> << ACCEL -- BOOST UP >>

A wispy little ball of light appears above Nicomachea, streaking towards Sayaka's center mass. When it makes contact, her feet seem to faintly glow with golden light as the boost takes hold.

And then, Wukong is downed! ...So she *won't* be wearing it down for the moment, that's concerning.

Norie Okana has posed:
La Crima looks up at the fight and watching Riventon. She's keeping an eye on the fight, but otherwise taking notes. That's what she's here for, to take notes. She looks up at the bird and writes.

'XX:XX - A monkey is now riding the bird'

'Monkey is not off the bird'

She scribble scribble notes as she peeks through her safety glasses.

"Sushi sounds pretty good right now...." she trails off in thought.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
The wound on Sayaka's arm has closed by now, her enhanced healing taking care of it as if it had never been there. Well, discounting the obvious signs it was there.

Ula meanwhile isn't frightened at all by Riventon's threat, and when he intimates her to back off she replies "Ok, I will back off the Heart", and she lets go, flying to his face. If she gets there, she sticks onto his face like a magnet, clawing at him with her hands, slapping him with her tail repeatedly, anything that can get him to drop the Heart.

Riventon's little speech gets Sayaka's attention while she dodges the wings of the giant bird. "You are disgusting for treating people as just energy reserves for you to steal. So what if we have to be there for every single one? You better be prepared, because we will", she replies while she jumps about.

She is almost hit by a wing when she gets distracted by a voice in her head. It's not Kyubey though at least. << Her name is Ula, and I have just the thing to both hinder the bird and Riventon >>, Sayaka informs Rashmi, a smile on her face after she gets informed she doesn't have to worry about damaging the buildings. << This is just like a Witch's Labyrinth then! Except fully helpful. Wukong, right? And FriendlyVoice - it's the name she chooses for Rashmi since she isn't Kyubey - I suggest holding onto something. >> She is going to make it much more difficult for the bird to fly.

Nobody is actually close to her currently, but that doesn't matter for what she intends to do. With her two swords in hand, Sayaka starts spinning around, her incredible speed boosted to even greater level by Rashmi's spell, and soon enough a big whirlwind is created with her as the epicenter, sucking everything in its path.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Wukong's stick lashes out, and strikes Eudial's feet - she goes down to one knee and looks at Cure Wukong with a shocked and concerned look. "Crazy girl! Are you trying to blow us both up?" she asks.

    Wukong's attempt to make Riventon catch the Tricky Stick is kind of interrupted because he now has a mermaid fairy attached to his face like some sort of lamprey. "Ow! You little! Overgrown Sentient Sushi Roll! You'll pay for this!" he yells. Though it's probably muffled. He does drop the Heart Crystal in all of this, so he can use both hands to detatch the tiny mermaid. Or attempt to.

    The whirlwind from the Sharpsong Puella, boosted in speed by Rashmi, does in fact pull in the bird. And also the now let-go- heart crystal. And when Riventon gets the small mermaid off his face and yeets her onto the ground, likely pulls her out of the way of a blast of Dark Energy he shoots in retaliation.

    And that's when Riventon looks up and sees what Eudial has put on. "La Crima? It's time to go." He says, grabbing the girl by her wrist. He's trying to get the two of them to the car. "Have fun with the Bird Monster, you all deserve each other!" he says as he rushes towards the Station Wagon. Because Eugeal has the Fire Buster in her hands. And if you didn't know it was the Fire Buster, well. She shouts its name as she depresses the lever and points it at - the edge of the Barrier. "WITCHES EUDIAL FIRE BUSTER!" A Midchildan Barrier is made of pretty strong stuff. But Eudial's Fire Buster is made to go toe to toe with the best magical girls have and tie or win. Despite it's homemade janky appearance, even across the road everyone can feel the heat the jet of orange fire creates as it soars through the air and forces energy against the Barrier. Then Eudial throws herself into the car with Riventon and likely Norie. "Forget this, we'll try again later! Let's go go go!" she says as the barrier starts to fade out. And once her car is real again the tires screech because she's basically crammed the accelerator into the floor and now the car has an engine again, the car screeching as the group tries to make an escape in it.

    There is still a bird, a Heart Crystal, and also possibly a small mermaid in or near the whirlwind. Once Sayaka stops spinning those will all still be there, but when the bird staggers to its feet, maybe there will be time to cleanse it before it gets the power boost from having all of its energy back that Riventon warned about.

Norie Okana has posed:
La Crima pushes up her safety goggles. "It is." she says as she slams her notebook shut and jumps into the jankmobile.

That's what La Crima is calling this thing. The Jankmobile. Seriously. Most car companies stopped making these in the 90's!

Even La Crima knows that, as she sits in the back as that fire buster goes off. W..woah. She places her hands and face against the window, leaving nose prints, hand prints on the glass as she watches.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong shrieked when suddenly FIRE! She covered her head, fire racing out and erupting around the barrier, destroying it. And... "HA! You missed me!" Okay, so she wasn't the target, but well... she still yelled that. Cause screw that girl! She almost hit her! Twice now! "And if we both got blown up I'd be fine!" ... Yay?

Wait, bird monster? RIGHT!

As the car sped up, she started to get to her feet. Fortunately, her stick at least wasn't going into the wind. But... she couldn't use it now. Too much wind.

So instead she focused on the bird! As the wind pulled at her skirt and hair, she began to perform her elemental stances and... "Keep the winds up!" she yelled before...

Unleashing a blast of pink energy! "72 earthly transformations purification!" Unleashing the blast straight into the whirlwind, letting the pink purifying magic swirl up and envelop it!

Rashmi Terios has posed:
With the crystal and the bird and oh dear maybe even the mermaid sucked up into the whirlwind, Rashmi puts a bit more effort into her wings to keep her stable, eyes wide.

The sound of screeching tires catches her attention, and she frowns in thought.

<< Hey you two, can you handle the monster for a moment? I need to upset *more* of their evil plan.* >>

Half a dozen golden barrets resolve into being around her, and with a gesture she brings a smaller spell-circle up in their orbital path. With a sweep of her hand, she spins the Barrets around her, until each one passes through the circle.

    << BONG! >> << SOLAR BARRET -- BIND SHIFT >>

The loaded Barrets streaks out in all directions, curving in midair and all orienting in on the janky hunk of steel about to make it away. For any one Barret that hits the car, a ring of golden light will wrap around its body, anchoring it in place. Perhaps a 90s car, with its inefficient-but-powerful engine, might break all six Binds with enough strain. But it'll definitely halt their getaway, even if only briefly.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
Sayaka stops spinning soon after she has created the whirlwind. She doesn't have to actually hit anything with her blades anyway, the whirlwind is doing all the work here. It does mean she is sort of stuck inside waiting for it for be over. Maybe she could start counting the particles of debris she sees.

One particular "particle" catches her attention when she does that, one that has just actually been sucked in by the whirlwind: the poor mermaid is screaming for her life, which actually contributed to Sayaka noticing her. An upwards jump, and closes her body around Ula, letting the wind scrape her on her way down. Those are going to heal soon enough anyway.

The rest of the debris meanwhile doesn't fully pass properly through the conversion back to reality caused by the destruction of Rashmi's barrier, so it just sort of bounces ineffectually here and there. There will probably a lot of cleaning will be needed.

The bird is left staggering to its feet, so the whirlwind is still doing something positive even if Sayaka can't exactly see it. Once she falls back to the ground, she looks at the mermaid resting dizzily in her arms: she is safe, even if she will need 1 minute to recover from the experience. "Thank you, S-Sayaka", is all she can manage for now.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    The barrets blast through the air, and it probably works better than expected. Because they hit the car, and arrest its movement, but the car was ALREADY going fast and coming to a screeching stop in multiple but different locations causes it to make a wrenching, grinding noise. Not only does the car stop, the car ceases running. Some of it keeps going - but not all of it. Now the car is in many peices.

    Riventon, LaCrima, and Eudial get out of the car. Eudial starts trying to walk back over to the assembled heroes. "MY CAR! YOU DESTROYED MY CAR! MY PRECIOUS ANTIQUE! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU WITH MY BARE HA-" and then Riventon is teleporting Eudial, LaCrime, himself, and the biggest singular peice he can touch of the car into the Dusk Zone before Eudial can get them in any more trouble.

    With Sayaka's effective whirlwind calmed down, Wukong can make his purification of the bird which is currently dizzy and staggering; at least as dizzy as Ula if not moreso - the magic envelops it and it looks... peaceful, rather than all murdery. Before the energy turns it into a little girl again. From there it's a simple matter of someone picking the Heart Crystal off wherever the whirlwind deposited it and getting it back to the pet shop owner. The smiling girl who had spent the afternoon nursing a beautiful bird back to health. Or at least that's what she remembers doing.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
    << ...I think I *really upset her,* she must've been proud of that pile of parts... >> Rashmi commentates, as the purifying flash goes up. With a grin, she makes her way to the ground, stopping to check on Sayaka. "You okay...?"

Sayaka being Sayaka, in the event of a dizzy affirmative, Rashmi does a quick hunt for the Heart Crystal, picking it up and looking *quite* unnerved by the prospect of *holding most of one's soul in her hand.* While the temptation to get readings is strong, the redhead instead chooses to seek out its owner, and return what was stolen. "Wow that was *super* good work you guys!"

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong stared at the bird... at the now girl. At the mermaid. At the blue girl. At the... crystal on the ground, right. They... "We did it! Woo! Victory!" she yelled, making a V with her fingers.

Then... ran forward! To pick up her monkey. "Ohhhh. Wuwu, are you okay?"

"I'm... fiiiiine..." he lied, wobbling head from side to side.

"... I gotta get him back to bed." she asked. "It was really nice meeting you all again! I should get him back to rest, though. Good job on the gem!" she told Rashmi.

"Cure Wukong awayyyy!" And then she leaped away.

... A few seconds later she returned, grabbed her stick, then... "Wukong away! ... Again!" she repeated, leaping away, still hugging Wuwu to her chest, tail holding her stick.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
"She looked positively incensed", Sayaka agrees when she makes her way over to Rashmi. "I think she won't forget today for quite a while."

She nods at the question if she is ok. "Yes, I got a few scrapes when helping Ula get out of the whirlwind, but they have already healed." She shows Rashmi the tiny mermaid still resting on her arms, who by now has recovered from her dizziness.

Ula gets flying again with just a bit of hesitation. "Alright, looks like things are over, they sure got what was coming to them!" She waves towards Rashmi and introduces herself. "I am Ula, nice to meet you."

Sayaka for her part gives her alias. "And I go by Sharpsong, thanks for fighting by my side", she extends her hand towards Rashmi. "What about you, how did you choose to get addressed? I don't suppose you actually go by FriendlyVoice." She is dying inside at that nickname now, that was so embarassing.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"...Actually I don't really have a nickname," Rashmi says, clearing her throat and blushing a bit as she accepts the handshake. "Some friends of mine and I are trying to come up with something, but... It's a process. Best one we've landed on is Book Girl, and frankly Friendly Voice is less awful than that, so... If I'm talking in your head, it's okay to just call me Rashmi, since that's my name. It is good to meet you both, Ula, Sharpsong-- oh man that's *so much better.*"

Sayaka Miki has posed:
"Do you like reading, Rashmi-san?" is the obvious question when Sayak hears Book Girl got suggested. Perhaps too obvious of a question. "Nevermind, I don't know why I asked, of course you like reading if that name got suggested", she fidgets.

"Though, since I now know your name, it's only fair you know mine: it's Sayaka", the bluenette reveals. "And I am glad you like it, I sort of came up with it on the fly." You could say that was some inspiration from beyond.

"Telling her in person is probably better", Ula intervenes, "since she would have realised once she saw me next to you at school. I assume you go at Radiant Heart like everyone, right, Rashmi-san?"

"Well, you are right about that, actually", Sayaka admits.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"I mean I do," Rashmi chuckles, "but I'm pretty sure it's more because of Nicomachea." She gestures to the armored book floating over her shoulder, which gives a helpful *BONG!* as he's introduced. "It's good to meet you too, Sayaka-san, and.. yeah, I do go to RHA, grade 10. ...Also my family owns the Korma Chameleon, down in Pikarigaoka? So if you ever feel like a curry, well... Now you know where to go."

Sayaka Miki has posed:
Disregarding Ula's pleased smile at her correct guess, she is in grade 10... Well, she doesn't seem to mind the formalities, at least. Now that she has started using Rashmi-san anyway. "I am in grade 8, so we can find each other in the cafeteria." Dropped it casually perfect, let's see what she says to her grade.

And she sort of missed Nicomachea over there. He was so silent, really. "Hi, Nicomachea", she and Ula greet in unison.

"Curry is very nice, I certainly want to visit", Sayaka comments. "In fact, I think I want to go there right now, as a post-battle meal." After undoing her transformation, Sayaka quickly applies a Grief Seed to her Soul Gem. She didn't use too much energy, that one probably has two more uses in it.

"Will you get me a portion, Sayaka? I am actually hungry too", Ula asks. "Of course, I will do my best to get you some. Maybe they allow takeaway?" Sayaka wonders.

Whatever the case, the two of them starts heading there to refill themselves. And if Rashmi comes along too, they can all chat along the way.