2188/Wasp knows no love

Wasp knows no love
Date of Scene:	22 December 2024
Location:	Plot Room 1
Synopsis:	Mimete releases... the Waspion! It... goes poorly. Fortunately, Amy, La Mer and Wedding Bell are there to save her from her mistakes! And she even helps! Poorly.
Cast of Characters:	Hotaru Tomoe, Laura La Mer, Amanda Faust, Angela Erickson

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Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
It was a beautiful day out, a few days before Christmas. Birds were chirping, kids were preparing for their treats and Mimette was annoyed because she had no cute boy to spend Christmas with, eating fried chicken with and cuddling on a bench with a shared scarf. Worse, she had a quota to meet.

And so it was that she was out in the cold, wearing what she thought was a VERY cute poofy white jacket, with mittens. She was here to steal hearts with the power of magic! Also, these demon wasp she found in the labs. Maybe it had been one of Eudials projects from before she was offed, maybe it was something Viluy or Tellu had been working on. Well, their loss, maybe they should have marked their work better, nyeh.

"Rise, my youma, rise!" Mimette called from on top of a gas station sign before opening the briefcase and... "OH GOD WHY?!"

Wasps just spilled out of the suitcase, some stinging her, some flying off, leaving her... collapsed on her knees, a great, evil wasp with metal plates hovering over her...

And launching smaller wasps from little cannons that ran out! As they swarmed, stinging people throughout the area, they began to collapse... their energy being drained from them...

"W-why... wasp...ion... why?" Mimette asked.

But the wasp knew no love. No loyalty. The wasp only know... suffering.

Laura La Mer has posed:
Laura's frantic rush to figure out Christmas presents with the short notice of having found out this very month was over. Great job as always, Laura, now you won't have to figure out what to do if your friends weren't left with their Christmas presents.

And so it was that she had decided to enjoy the winter air reserved to those that had nothing to do. Which just so happened to be the same winter air as everyone else. Hey, a walk is nice, you know? Let's not sweat the details.

She is holding a bunch of shell cookies, and feeding them one by one to Kururun, who is hanging off her shoulder and making happy sounds each time Laura gave her one.

A pity then that the leisurely happiness of that walk wasn't destined to last, thanks to Mimette setting up a far greater evil with her actions. Why, for the love of Grand Ocean? What recklessness was this?

"The Shimmering Ocean! Cure La Mer!" the pinkette-bluenette exclaims with the completion of her transformation. "Are you the villain responsible for all of this? What is wrong with you!?" Laura feels compelled to ask Mimette upon witnessing the stupidity of unleashing wasp youmas upon the world.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amanda, Lawful Female Human Archaeologist, chosen of Quetzalcoatl, descends once more into the Dungeons of Doom with her trusty leather jacket, fedora, bullwhip and pickaxe, and her loyal kitten by her side. It has been over thirteen years since she was last here, but very little has changed.

    Newts, grid bugs, and lichen fall to pick and claw. Jackals, foxes, and even a murderous hobbit are no match. And then she happens upon... a sink?

    Amy Faust sits in cafe across from the gas station, unaware of the approaching Mimette and waiting for a server. She has deployed an old tablet and its keyboard/cover to test an ancient pastime, technology barely changed for years. She glances at her stats: Int 16, Cha 15. That's good odds, right?

    The sound of clanging pipes ring out through the dungeon, until a black pudding oozes out of the sink. Uh, whoops. How dangerous are those? Amy doesn't remember. The pudding corrodes her pickaxe as it splits the pudding in two, and then the two corrode Amanda.

    Yet Another Stupid Death. Amy has changed, but the dungeons have not, and she holds her face in her hands at just how dumb that was. It takes a waitress asking "Excuse me miss, can I take your order? --What is THAT?!" to get Amy's attention.

    Amy looks at the waitress, and then outside where she's pointing at... is that a wasp monster? "That is so much for my peaceful afternoon." Amy quips, closing the tablet and putting it in her bag before she ducks past the waitress and around behind the booth, transforming while most civilians who aren't down or fleeing are staring at the monster.

    "I see you're here to BUG us!" Magical Rocket Girl Red points dramatically. "It looks like it's time for some PEST CONTROauugh get away no!" Red hurriedly backs away from swarming wasps, and she can't just put FIRE EVERYWHERE because there are collapsed civilians all over! Truly Mimette has a fiendish strategy!

    Amy is left waving burning flares wildly to keep the stinging wasps at bay while she tries to come up with something!

Angela Erickson has posed:
Angela Erickson drops her bag of snacks walking out of the gas station and drops to her knees. "Oh no, not the bees!?" she says as she throws her hands to the sky. Suki, the tiny bride floating behind her rolls her eyes. "What a ham."

"Come on Suki, let's go...!"

Angela calls out. "My Own Heart, Unlock!" and her and Suki merge. There's an elaborate transformation sequence here. It involves a bright white light, a girl being put into a wedding dress, arms being thrown back as fingerless gloves, long to her elbows form and she places a finger to her lips and winks to a non-existent camera. "Wedding Bell!" she calls out, as her and Suki merge into a transformation.

Wedding Bell leaps up to the top of the gas station, dress waving after her. She points. "Your giant bee is too buzzy!" she squints. "Wait. That's not a bee. That's not a bee at all...It's...a WASP!?"

She then leaps away down the backside of the gas station. She peeks around the corner.

"I'm allergic maybe!" she mutters.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Mimette looked down at La Mer, little tears in her eyes. "I-I don't knoooooooow... this isn't my fault, it won't listen to-- GAHHHHHHH!" And she got stung again! She swatted one... and then shrieked as a cloud of wasps turned towards her, their eyes glowing. "O-oh no..." she said softly.

And she leaped off the sign, fleeing for her life, before... Dashing behind La Mer. "You! You have like, water or something, right?! Anything! Get it! Do the sparkle sparkle-- OH GOD NO!" as a swarm of wasps descended on the two.

As Angela hides behind a wall... she'd feel a tap tap on her shoulder. When she turned around, a swarm of the wasps had taken the form of a hand, eyes glowing red.

Oh no.

Amy, though, Amy got the worst of it. The giant wasp turned towards her and her flares... before... "Butt dagger!" it yelled, before descending on her, its dangerous, magical stinger lancing towards her! FLEE!

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "You unleashed a monster you can't control?! Why?!?!?!" Amy shouts, but soon she has bigger problems: Specifically, rather than a swarm of little wasps, she is suddenly facing one big one!

    ...And honestly, that's kind of... way less bad, actually? One big wasp, she can fight.

    "Gah!" Amy hops back, the 'butt dagger' scraping her chestpiece just barely as the youma lands in front of her and now, well, she's in melee with a giant wasp! Which, while probably better than melee with a swarm of tiny wasps, is not as good as being at range against a giant wasp. She looks UP at it, "Uh..."

    There is suddenly a launch tube in her hands, which she tries to swing into place against the wasp, but it's alredy got her on the defensive -- the cannonball she tried to put through it shoots past and then vanishes into sparkles after a few feet. "F***!" the American magical girl swears, stumbling back and frantically trying to use the tube like a long narrow shield against any insect limb strikes.

    "...Wait, 'butt dagger'? Really?"

Laura La Mer has posed:
Leaving Kururun and her cookies to the safety of the Aqua Pot, Laura was begrudging the fact that she had to be out of the safety of the bottle, but this situation certainly wasn't going to fix itself! Unfortunate, really.

She was doing her best to stay away from the bunch of them for now, but she could feel it in her bones, she was so going to want to never ever see another wasp again by the end of this. More than usual, at least. And she had only gotten to know about them for what, six months? Too much, really.

"What do you mean, this isn't your fault?" the Pretty Cure stares bewildered at the villain cowering behind her. "Listen, just... Try to do something too. You caused this!", she orders to Mimette.

She does have water, but there's a swarm of wasps on them already! Mermaid Queen, a bug repellant as a power-up item maybe? By the time she has taken out her Mermaid Aqua Pact again, she has already been stung by a few and drained of energy. "Want numbers? Prepare to get numbers", La Mer groans at the wasps, trying to do her best to fight both an itchy sensation, and the energy drain.

"Perfume Shiny Ring - Bubble Form!" she declares as she inserts her pen under the Aqua Pact and the ring above it, the cover splitting open again. Grasping it by the now attached pen, Cure La Mer shouts "Aqua Charge!" and rotates the disk, a vortex of bubbles entering her Aqua Pact.

The mermaid spins around, a trail of glowing pink energy following behind her. "Pretty Cure Ocean Bubble Shower!" she shouts, pointing the Mermaid Aqua Pact towards the swarm, the magical item briefly glowing yellow before it rapidly fires an uncontable torrent of bubbles.

Angela Erickson has posed:
Wedding Bell peeks around the corner again and gets a tapped shoulder. "Go away. I'm hiding." she goes, shooing the hand away. Tap tap tap. "I SAID GO AAHHHHHHHHWAAAAAAY!" she suddenly says as she turns around and bolts out from the alleyway into the fray, as she starts throwing Bouquets all around....!

They start to glow and explode all around her in small purifying blasts.

But also. She isn't aiming them even a little, has her eyes closed and is frantically trying to get away from wasps.

"...or was it hornets I'm allergic too..." she thinks. Oh well.

Bouquets away!

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
"I was tricked!" Mimete yelled. She was not tricked. Well, okay, she was tricked, if you counted she lacked the knowledge of what this thing truly was or how it operated. And that she just kind of swiped it and was now using it and "Ow ow ow ow ow!" As a few more stung her. She then yelled. "GAHHH! FINE! I'LL HELP!" A staff with a black star on the end appeared on it. "Charm buster! Charm buster! CHARM BUSTER!" Purple stars swirled off it in random directions, powerful dark energy blasts! Unfortunately, they did little against the clouds of wasps.

... If they hit the girls, though, they'd be far, far more damaging.

The wasps, however, were not enjoying the exploding bouquets OR the flurry of bubbles! The former incinerating vast amounts of them, while the latter washed over the wasps, drenching them and making them unable to fly, dropping to the ground and vanishing in flurries of dark energy!

Waspion turned to the destruction the other mahou had wrought... Before turning two cannons and launching a cloud of wasps directly at... Wedding Bell and Amy. It then pulled its stinger out of the ground, before launching itself into the air. "Hiya! BUTT DAGGER!" it called, before descending on La Mer. Ignoring Amy's objection to its totally cool and unique attack name.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Charm Busters and explosive bouquets rain upon the battlefield! "Stop helping!" Amy shouts at Mimette, and fortunately, they are not actually aimed at her, and so the red magical girl has a somewhat easier time avoiding them -- but she does still have to try to avoid them, creating an opening exploited by the cloud of wasps headed toward her! Waving flares helps, but some determined wasps can get through, and Amy grits her teeth and grunts in pain. It only takes a few stings to get distractingly painful!

    So she chooses not to feel it. The lag gets her stung more, but... she can't feel it.

    She also can't get a good shot in on the youma itself, when it's so close to La Mer... but maybe she can do something about the little wasps? Something that looks more like a sci-fi, high-caliber assault rifle (with gems and vaguely magical-looking greebles on it) appears in her hands as she fires small missiles across the battlefield -- and these she can magically guide, so they don't hit anyone, instead guided to groups of wasps and exploding in loud, concussive blasts of force she hopes will stun the insects without hurting any humans!

Laura La Mer has posed:
Good, finally they have a villain to fix the mess they caused, and a bit more potentially. Who is to say that she won't dump most of the work onto Mimete while she is at it? Ordering a villain around? All the yes, really!

A darn pity that her attack does nothing instead, and she has to do it herself. At least Ocean Bubble Shower did as it should, Laura fills with relief as more youmas disappear.

"Red, thank you for being here!", La Mer shouts once she is no longer alone. And firearms were her thing, too. "Got any flamethrower to deal with these things?" the Pretty Cure exclaims relieved. She would settle for a giant can of bug spray too.

Barely dodging the Butt Dagger descending on her, Laura starts arguing with the wasp, shuddering. "Anything less dirty than that? I don't want to know where it has been", she says with an annoyed stare.

Turning around and sending justice upon the wasp. "Butt Punch!", she shouts, jumping with her behind aimed at the youma. Two can play at that game.

Angela Erickson has posed:
Flying bouquets all around her, and exploding in light purifying energy, she stops and goes.

"RIGHT IT WAS HORNETS, durrrrr, silly Angela..." she goes as she turns to face the swarm and...

Oh right, they're still WASPS and she gets STUNG and DRAINED and she starts running again and she calls out "BRIDAL SHOW==="

"Wait?"

She says stopping. Oh my god, you can punch with your butt? A whole new world is open to her!!!

"BRIDAL BUTT PUNCH!" she calls out, jumping backwards, with her rear end at the swarm of wasps.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
"Do you want me to help or not?! MAKE UP YOUR MIND! This is why I should be in charge I ALWAYS give the best directions, I swear! You, blue girl, use more of those bubbles, you, rocket girl, use a flamethrower thing!" Like La Mer said, but she wasn't going to mention that. "You, wedding... dress... oh, you look absolutely precious! Have you thought about-- KYAAAAAAA!" Another swarm of wasps found her and she ran around, flailing her arms.

As the explosives boomed into the swarms of wasps, they were slowly being knocked down, collapsing to the ground and fading to dark energy. The massive youma stung the ground, its stinger getting trapped...

Only for a mermaid to turn and BUTT PUNCH IT! The youma, so proud of its stinging butt, was defenseless against the butt of justice, getting struck and toppling backwards! Meanwhile, Wedding Bell's own butt punch pierced through the air, scattering the last of the swarms, freeing the sky of the winged, buzzing menace... And the wasp, punch-butted into a wall, was temporarily dazed.

"Finish it, now!" Mimete said, pointing a hand at the youma, having managed to escape her swarm long enough for Amy to blow it up! Ha, she'd done it, she'd directed them on how to save the day!

No. No she hadn't.

Laura La Mer has posed:
"Would you stop distracting me?", La Mer glowers at Mimete just after she lands back with a triumphant smile and a spin at the successful butt punch. She turns her attention away from the villain now, to instead talk to Angela. "Good job on following my cue. We totally showed it to that wasp!", she regales the pinkette with a confident smirk.

"We should work on naming it too", the mermaid continues, still ignoring anything Mimete might be trying to order her to do. "I suggest the Apollodoros La Mer Wedding Punch." She didn't think much to come up with that one. "Of course, if I..." she stops, an idea hitting her.

"Fine enough, I will finish it", the Pretty Cure acknowledges Mimete, glancing briefly at the Marine Ring. "Marine Heart Swirl Ring! Charm Up!", she smiles, as she stretches her arm upwards, a blue sphere engulfing her from the ring on her arm and making her change form.

"Five powers, roar through the seas!", she shouts, the ring creating a blue heart above her from which a bioluminescent whale comes out. Jumping inside of its mouth, La Mer swims in it, sending the purifying whale in a collision course with the wasp youma. "Pretty Cure Marine Butt Punch!" Only instead of slapping it with its tail like it would usually do to purify it, it does that by throwing itself at the wasp backwards. Someone like, say, Mimete telling Laura there is no actual Butt will get that information acknowledged and promptly discarded.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Since the recent reappearance of the Illuminate, Amanda has made a self-imposed challenge of fighting them with loadouts of only weapons she can actually summon IRL, and she's ended up counting the flamethrower pistol as close enough for this because she's so terrible with using the grenade pistol against anything, but that also means she is very aware of just how badly spraying flame around will backfire; many helldivers were sacrificed for this lesson. "I can't throw fire everywhere here! There's civilians passed out all over the ground!"

    However, while she's explaining that, Wedding Bell is already proving that the wasp's sting is no match for the butt of justice, and gives them all an opening for finishers.

    Honestly, spending that much magic is overkill, but a thought occurs to Amy and, tempted too much by irony, she sumons some kind of greebled, mil-sci-fi-looking missile launcher, slapping some kind of canister into it and sliding the compartment closed. She aims it upward, "Aura... PILLAR!"

    It's not her usual aura pillar -- she fires the new weapon, the whole canister rocketing up into the air and arcing back downward before releasing seven micromissiles all at once in a cluster at the youma! It's fewer projectiles than her full finisher has, but...

    She just helped finish off a wasp youma with the WASP launcher. If she could turn poetic irony into damage, she'd be set!

Angela Erickson has posed:
Wedding Bell looks at Cure La Mer. "Eh? Punch? No. I'm going to shove it into a big bell." What?

And indeed, after Cure La Mer's and Amy's attacks, she raises her bouquet and shakes it in the air. "WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING!" she yells.

Indeed, a giant bell falls from the sky on top of the wasp, before it starts ringing with the wasp inside now, muffled, as the glint of purification magic appears as it burns into the ground.

Wasp is like 'I hate it here.', maybe? She thinks. She'd like to.

Yeah it's okay, she does too, Wasp, she does, too. Too many wasps. ;_;.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
"How am I distracting you?! I'm just giving you feedback! It--"

Holy... holy... magic... whale... it was... The wasp was smashed by a giant butt whale.

Then had light ordinance dropped on its head.

Then, to finish it off, got trapped in a giant WEDDING BELL!

Mimette stared with a look of horror and respect, her mouth hanging open.

And then the bell finished off and... when it was all done... there was no youma. No great monster.

Instead, there was merely a tiny wasp. Flying out from the bell, confused, yet still an evil unto this world.

Mimete, meanwhile, was as boastful as ever. "Ha ha ha ha! We did it, good job, girls! Following my directions to the letter!" Not a single one of her directions were followed. Well, except... finish it now, but it wasn't like they could just... never finish it.

"... Oh... I left... the suitcase up there..." she said, glancing up at the suitcase on top of the gas station sign. She sighed and walked over, kicking the sign. "Stupid sign, you--"

And then the suitcase fell OFF it, landing on her head and making her shriek. "Ow ow ow ow ow OW!" she screamed.

Only for the wasp to sting her back. "OWWWWWW!" she screamed again. "I HATE WASPS!" she screamed, before she disappeared... leaving the wasp and the empty suitcase behind.

Mission success.

Laura La Mer has posed:
"VICTORY!" Laura jumps up with a smile, looking joyfully as an explosion of rainbow lights accompanies her declaration. "Don't stress yourself over it, we were just doing the right thing", Laura doesn't reply to any of what Mimete actually went over and just nudges her towards calming down.

"Of course, you can and should avoid forgetting to thank us, but other than that you are good to go", La Mer doesn't drop her smile and attitude any. Especially not when she still has her teammates to talk to.

"We did great, both of you!" she exclaims while the whale she had gotten out of dissipates behind her. Of course they can improve some, like acquiring a bug spray for future returns, but it was a worthy job. "We should still name our dual butt technique, you know? 'Butt' still, what's your name?" La Mer asks Angela.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy blows smoke off the muzzle of the WASP launcher before dismissing it in a small shower of pink sparkles.

    She's not sure how to respond to Mimete, but the witch leaves, and Amy rushes over to grab the briefcase, but does not pursue the wasp. "Th'heck was with her? A monster she couldn't control... hopefully someone can figure out something from this briefcase? Maybe it has magical traces on it or subtle magitech on it, I don't know." She turns and runs back over to hug the others. "Great job, everybody! Uh, I don't suppose either of you have healing magic for these stings? If not..." huh, well, stings can't be much for her to regenerate, right?

    "What do you say about getting together at that cafe over there after-- ahahahaha!" She bursts into light laughter upon hearing 'dual butt technique'!

Angela Erickson has posed:
Wedding Bell has HAD IT. She looks so done. But that's okay she shoved a wasp into a big bell over there. Yeaaaaaah.

She turns towards Cure La Mer and Amy and goes. "I'm WEDDING BELL!" she says. "But also. Angela." she says to Cure La Mer.

"-and I should really be going but before I do...." she leaps over to Amy, high into the air, as three bouquets rain down upon her. "Catch them all!~" she says before she scampers away, giggling mightily.