31/A Girl Scorn'ed!

A Girl Scorn'ed!
Date of Scene:	04 July 2023
Location:	Penguin Park - Penguin Playground
Synopsis:	The newbie Phantom Empire General Scorn attacks penguin park! Magical Girls (and boys) stop her from ruining a hot summer day's ice cream!
Cast of Characters:	Scorn, Aki Kurosawa, Rashmi Terios, Chiyo Sakai, Koji Silvia, Tadase Hotori, Cho Konishi, Kyouko Sakura

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Scorn has posed:
It's another beautiful day in Penguin Park and by the playground an intrepid ice cream man has setup their cart and is selling ice cream to parents of children, children with pocket money and passing by people. There's a good line and people are mostly being patient.

A girl peeks her head out of a nearby tree and then there's a clamber and she 'awks' as she falls down nearby the cart causing a small commotion. A crow in the tree facepalms with a wing as it mutters to itself silently. The girl stands up and is dressed in an elegant black dress. She has a ribbon wrapped around her waist and it ends in a bow on her back. She has long purple hair and red eyes. She dusts herself off and points.

"Ice cream man! I demand a fudgesicle!" she commands. The man blinks at this commotion and the line gets noisy. "Uhm, there's... there's a line ma'am? And-- besides... we're out of those." he says, shrugging helplessly. The girl grows a shocked face and points. "No fudgeiscles!? I hate that!" she says. "I'll make you pay for your inability to provide me with one!"

She keeps pointing before throwing her arms out to her sides and calling out. "Let the future reflected in the mirror become terrible...!" she calls out, there's a bright white flash as the ice cream man is replaced with a black coffin shaped mirror containing the ice cream man, red ribbons appearing around it as the girl turns around and draws her hands up. "Please come out, come out, my Terridbad!" she calls out.

There's another bright red flash that looks like a pair of sunglasses as a terrible, big black monster with giant ice cream scoop head and two giant popsicle sticks for arms appears and sends the people into shock before they all start succumbing to a terrible energy drain, falling down as the terribad waves it's arms, the ground starting to become dead and brown and things start growing giant black feathers and also it rains said black crow feathers lightly.

"If I can't have an ice cream, no one can, hahahahaha!" she laughs. "Corvus, isn't that good?" she asks looking towards the tree. "Lovely." says Corvus, hints of sarcasm in his voice.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
When you're a newbie magical girl...

Sometimes it feels like you become just a magnet for troubles, large and small. Even something as simple as standing in line for a lemon-ice bar as a walk-home treat, can turn into a fight for your life.

Luckily, with all the attention on the coffin, there's plenty of room for the bespectacled ginger girl to break for the nearest tree, and run behind it as if looking to hide from danger like a normal person.

There's a flash of what looks like sunlight, and from the other side of the tree steps a girl in what looks like a futuristic, battle-armored dress, clutching an armored encyclopedia to her chest. An encyclopedia that she opens, frantically flipping pages for instructions, suggestions, hints and tips...

She's still a greenhorn, after all.

Koji Silvia has posed:
On the other side of the part of the park that the ice cream man had set up, and where Scorn has emerged from, there is a form currently holding out a small snack packet that a black and white cat is licking from, allowing Koji to reach to their back with some flea medication and press it into the back of the neck. It's an old trick, and since so many cats here in Tokyo are semi-tame... the young female takes to it calmly.

At least until the sudden release of Dark Energy in the plaza causes her to look up, hiss, and vanish into the s<span style="color:enery.

    c#4059FF"><< Young Master. Anomalous Dark Energy Detected. No Jewel Seeds present. >>

"Seriously?" Koji mutters under his breath, "What else <span style="color:oul-"

    c#4059FF"><< Device Detected. Previously scanned. >>

"Okay Hanzo. Set up."

    << BARRIER JACKET >> Says the old and grizzled voice of the Intelligent Device Hanzo, and suddenly there something like an eclipse shadowing the young man, and as the moon-image returns into view, it reveals Koji Silvia in his masked costume form.

Throwing one hand up, a blade-and-thread spell fires off, wrapping around the top of one of the taller lightposts looking down over the plaza, and he pulls himself up quickly to crouch and look down at the scene unfolding...

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
As it happens...Kyouko is on her way to the ice cream truck when all this unravels. She's been looping back and forth across the park trying to catch the signal of a witch for the last hour of this hot day, and it's getting hard to ignore the craving for a cold snack. Unfortunately, for the second time in less than a week, Evil thwarts her attempts to get ice cream.

She scowls and hastily steps behind a tree to watch the battle. This definitely *isn't* a witch, so should she even bother? Surely some other magical girl will take care of it, and she'll be able to get her ice cream.

...and then the first magical girl who appears is busy reading a book. What's with all the nerds here? It looks like she *is* going to have to take care of this. Shielded from view by the branches of the tree, she pulls out her Soul Gem and, in a whirl of crimson motion, she transforms herself into a magical girl, ready to fight.

And then, holding her spear very casually, she saunters coolly toward the chaos at the center of the scene. "Hey!" She shouts at the woozy civilians. "All of you, don't just lie down, get out of here! You're getting in the way!"

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa is cutting through the park on a jog. School ended a bit ago and she's trying to get in shape for dance recitals soon. She looks towards the park as she passes by and smiles a little, Then some girl she doesn't know falls out of a tree and she slows down and blinks. Well that's odd! Even odder is when she watches the girl's Terribad summoning ritual and blinks again. P..Phantom Empire!? But.. this isn't anyone she knows... What?

Still she dives for cover behind a mailbox and digs into her pocket and pulls out her PreChangeMirror...

Cure Tide emerges by leaping on top of the mailbox and points back at the girl finally. "The Joy, that ripples across the ocean, Cure Tide!" she announces loudly and then speaks more properly. "You! I won't let you hurt these people and spread your unhappiness here, whoever you are!" before leaping up into the air, gaining wings, mid jump and taking to the air to try to come on down into the giant Terribad quickly to get a quick head in, bouncing off it's ice cream cone head and coming down to a landing on the ground as she looks over to Kyouko.

"They've been drained-- h--hey this isn't the time for reading!" she suddenly shouts at the reading girl.

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Icecream? After the last encounter Chiyo had with the Dippin Dots vendor she wasn't sure she wanted icecream. It was hot though. She'd convinced herself that surely a popcicle would at least be all right so had made her way toward where the vendor usually hung out in the park intending to indulge in a cool treat to help chase away the heat just a bit. The purple haired teen starts down the path from the zoo where she had been spending some time JUST in time to see the giant coffin appear.

"Oh. That doesn't seem good." The thought has barely time to register in her mind when others start to fall, being drained of energy. Not to mention the magical girls and... Guy? That appears.

Thinking quickly she ducks behind a tree. It didn't offer much cover but most of the attention was elsewhere. Reaching into her purse she pulls out a pair of ornate cooking chopsticks which she holds aloft.

"Mystical Saibashi, to me! Let's cook!"

In a sworl of flames her transformation happens blocking the sight of others. Culinary Guardian Daifuku emerges moments later carrying the long Kine mallet slung over her shoulder.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
Tadase Hotori is in the area, alone for once. Well, not entirely alone. Tadase's never alone, there's always a smaller version of him somewhere nearby. Right now, Kiseki, his Chara, is riding on his shoulder, like the mere act of levitation is below him, unworthy of his effort. Tadase isn't paying him any mind, though. But then it's Kiseki who suddenly stands up, a tremor going through him. Tadase stops, and whispers to his monstly-invisible small self.
    "Is something going on?" he asks the small King.
    "Something bad is nearby, I feel it. Dark energy. An enemy." Kiseki says. Tadase isn't entirely sure what to do, what he can do, but he knows that when trouble happens he has to be there too.

And when Tadase gets closer, he's even less sure of what he can do. Since the problem is a rather big one, a Terribad, a youma, a monster. He grits his teeth, but there are people who need help, right? Tadase knows he can't take the giant creature on his own. Thankfully, he doesn't have to.

There are even more coming than he sees, but he sees a girl in red with a spear moving forward - she doesn't look like she's here to go make friends with the Dark General. And then Cure tide is there, she calls to anoher girl Tadase didn't see. Now he's not alone. Now, he can help.

Tadase outstretches his hand and grips a scepter as it comes into presence, as the Cullinary guardian emerges with a hammer. And then Tadase moves up. He's keeping his eyes on what's going on, but mostly he's pulling downed civilians to a safer location than the middle of what is quickly becoming a combat zone.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi sighed and shook her head. "I'm just saying there's not a lot of point to it."

"You're the one who asked my thoughts on it," Wuwu said.

"But I'm not a monkey!" Cho snapped at her 'stuffed animal', drawing a few glances to the crazy kid walking down the street. Her cheeks went red and she quickly walked down a different street when she could. "Listen, you changed my history, can't you like... change it so I knew this stuff?"

"Listen, if you want me to teach you how to properly groom yourself, I'm telling you that a good line of grooming to get things out of each other's hair is--"

"I just want to know how to do my makeup," Cho whined. "I don't NEED monkey advice. I need girl advice!"

"Why not ask some of the other girls at your school?"

"They might figure out I'm--" She went silent when suddenly... black feathers. Everywhere. She looked down at him. "Deadbeats?" she asked.

"No, I don't think so. Still, trouble," Wuwu said.

"Right," she pulled out her transformation device, a small journal/compact. She pulled out her pen and drew on it. "Historic Legacy, Pretty Cure!" she called out.

In a flash, the short girl with mildly long hair... was gone. In her place was a (very slightly taller) girl with a golden tiara with two massive feathers pointing up over her eyebrows and pink flowing hair that went so far down it practically touched the ground. Her boots were knee high and red, while her dress was pink with black tiger stripes across it. Around her neck she had a yellow handkerchief tied, with a large pink one wrapped around her waist, over a... monkey's tail. Over her wrists she wore black armguards with pink metal plates over the front of her arms. In her hands was a thin, red staff!

"I'll catch up," Wuwu told her. "That way!" he pointed.

Cure Wukong nodded and then ran before driving her staff into the ground. It then expanded out, growing dozens of feet long and pole vaulting high into the sky before shrinking back down to its normal size...

There it was. Massive icy youma. HA! She'd--

Wait, how did you land again? CRUD!

She, unfortunately, was still learning about these kinds of things. And while leaping half a mile into the air was standard operating procedure for a cure... that didn't mean they ever got tutoring on it.

So rather than landing gently on her feet in a graceful landing like she wanted, she quickly realized THAT wasn't happening. Welp, time to put that immortality part of Wukong to the test.

She threw her staff into the air as he came down from the heavens...

And elbow dropped the terribad. And when the pain shot through her arm and side a moment after contact, and her staff landed on the ground nearby, standing straight up... She really hoped she at least looked cool because *owwwwwww.* "H-hope you don't mind if I... elbow my way through!" she said. Trying oh so desperately to not *actually* cry. Ow. Ow. OWWWWWWW.

Scorn has posed:
The girl is pleased with her work, nothing can go wrong. That's when everything goes wrong for her. She looks upwards a moment and squints into the sky raining feathers. She then looks to the arriving magical girls, the girl with the book gets a headscratch from her as she then eyes the girl in red and then the others.

"Aha! I was right, I'd draw out Precu---"

That's when Cure Wukong elbow drops her Terribad from the sky and sends it back a few feet and then finally Cure Tide smacks it a time before it falls down.

On the girl. Flattening her a moment and she coughs and hacks and starts screaming. "GET OFF OF ME!" she yells as she the Terribad clambers upwards.

"YOOOUUU, YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT.. Cure.. Cure whoever you are!" she didn't catch the name. But she stands up, painfully and dusts herself off again. "TERRIBAD!" screams the girl.

"TERRIBAD!" screams the youma, as it launches two popsicle stick missiles at the two attackers, Cure Wukong and Cure Tide to start off with.

The girl leaps to the top of a tree as she holds out a hand, catching some feathers in her hand. "I'm... Scorn, Witch of the Phantom Empire~! You can't possibly stop me, Queen Mirage-sama is going to be so happy when I bring home two cures, ahahaha I'll make Phantom look like a chump for a day." she says, drawing her hand up to her chin and giggling a little to herself.

She hasn't even summoned her smaller kindabads yet. Maybe she's being tactical.

"No, she just forgot again." says Corvus to no one in particular as Scorn giggles to herself.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
Cringing a little bit at the admonishment, Rashmi searches more frantically through the book. What to do what to do what to-- AHA!

A bright yellow runic circle revolves into existence under her, as the pages of the book start to glow. "Nicomachea!"

*BONG* comes an alert-noise from the book, followed by a slightly distorted old-man voice. << COMMAND EXECUTE AWAITS >>

"Time-Space Barrier!"

<< TIME-SPACE BARRIER >>

A dome of grey-black energy surrounds her, then expands outward with startling speed. As it passes over the groggy and unconscious civilians, they seem to simply vanish, as if not occupying this reality at all. In the span of a few seconds, the bulk of the park is surrounded in the energy dome,its only inhabitants Scorn, the Terribad, and the fighters.

"Everyone's safe!" she calls in Tadase's direction. "No need to hold back!"

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
Kyouko scowls and props her lance up over her shoulder as she listens to Scorn go on. "Who the hell is this Mirage person? Doesn't that just mean an illusion? I don't give a crap about fake stuff. This monster's gonna eat the real point of my spear."

She strides forward again...pausing only to look down at Cure Wukong aching and complaining on the ground. "Yeah, being a magical girl hurts! It's hard and you have to be tough. Get up and try again, with a landing plan this time!"

And then, before the other magical girl can get in a response (for now, anyway; Kyouko's still on the scene), she's leaping into the air, lance flashing in front of her as she flings it directly at one of the youma's ice cream eyes.

Koji Silvia has posed:
The air is suddenly thick with the magical community... in some cases literally in how Wukong just airdrops herself in on the huge stick-armed youma in the middle of the park play area. Already, three have moved to actively engaged, another seems to be evacuating the non-mahou from the radius of effect of the energy drain.

Drawing one Blade in his left hand, and all three in his right, Koji flicks the three kunai into the air above the overall <span style="color:rowd.

    c#4059FF"><< THREE BLADE SEAL. WIDE AREA SENSOR. >>

About 30 meters above everyone is a large Midchildian incantation circle that glows a few more times, and then fades away, setting the spell on the region for the time being.

From his spot on the lightpost, Koji says softly, "Good work, Hanzo. Alright. Let's see what we're dealing with..."

    << Time Space Barrier Detected. Device Signature Located. >>

As computer-screen like panels appear in front of the young man, he begins scrolling back and forth over the data that begins to be gathered on the youma and anyone else that's present, "Okay... mark the Device User as One. The attackers as Two through Four, the other boy as Five, and the last one there as Six."

Each of you now have a glowing number above you on his monitors.

"And keep an eye on One for me."

Tadase Hotori has posed:
Tadase's not really holding back, though. He's got a good head on his shoulders, and he knows what he's capable of, and that he's in the best position to make an important play, and let the real magical girls get to the real magical work of slapping the big youma around.

Even Kiseki knows the difference between what Tadase can do with his scepter, and the power of a Cure's fist or a Device user's blasts. Maybe one day he'll be able to be something more, though...

"It's alright. I'm just standing by to help." Tadase calls.

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Guardian Daifuku glances back at Tadase as he had spotted her. A momentary surge of panic rises in her wondering if he'd seen her transform or if he'd simply happened to see her emerging. There was really no time to worry about either possiblity so she merely gives a curt nod as she strides forward intending to help with any civilians first since there were so many here that seemed far more knowledgable in this.

At least until the barrier goes up fading them out of the current space of reality.

"Now that's useful."

Her overly large hammer is swung around to flip her 'leading' hand to the other. It's the only warning she may give before she too dashes in closer to the Terribad. The hammer is swung out leveled to the side. It's a clean, wide swing, and it---

Completely bypasses the Terribad.

The target is turned to the side to slam the hammer into the trunk of the tree that Scorn was currently monologuing ontop of.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide can't shake this feeling. Does.. does she know this strange Phantom Empire girl? She can't place it. She ignore the feeling instead of exploring it more right now. Instead she listens to her words. "Another Phantom Empire General, another butt to kick!" she calls out as she spins the dial on her Love Prebrace and then calls out "Tide Stream!" she calls out, a beam of water erupting from her hands and trying to smack into the Terribad's head to help blind it so the other attackers can get in stronger attacks.

When the barrier goes up, she spouts. "Z..Zero-time again!?" she sputters. Not quite. But she's looking around for Wako again suddenly for a second as she keeps her stream of water up.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong waaaaaas just going to lay here for a moment. Just a few. Hitting the youma had been nice. The ground afterwards? Not so much. Juuuust gonna lay here a few moments. Wait for her body to like... stop yelling at her.

She did, at least, manage a snort when the youma fell on the general. Ha, served her right! Also... Slowly she got to her feet. "Good hit, Cure uhhhh..." Well, she'd been air dropping at the time introductions were made. "Good hit!" she said.

Then she looked towards the general and the terribad getting up. "I am the protector of history's heroes and the immortal monkey king, Cure Wukong!" she yelled before jumping back to land ON her staff head, balancing on one foot in a dramatic pose!

Just in time to eat one of the missles. It exploded on her, covering her in smoke... and... a moment later the smoke cleared. To reveal a smog covered Cure Wukong. She coughed a few times and fell off the staff. "Ow," she said. Then suddenly, everything was changing around them.

She blinked and looked around at the weird... area... "Well. Nice. You know, that's just useful. It--"

Then, FINALLY, she noticed that Kyouko was here. "Oh, hey. Nah, it's fine! I just got a little over... splatty. It's cool, barely even hurts." Liiiiies.

She then glanced towards Scorn. "Right. I don't know who the Phantom Empire guys are, but they sound a lot like Deadbeats. And... well, either way you're causing a lot of problems and that means we're going to beat you down!" she said confidently.

Kyouko and Tide were going high, so she decided to go low. In this case, she tossed her staff into the air before dropping down to all fours...

And no, not in fact running on them. Instead, her tail grabbed the staff before she shoved off the ground with her feet, launching herself like a rocket. "Monkey fist clothesline!" she yelled out. No, it wasn't some magical finisher or flashy attack. She just wanted to yell out a cool attack too, before slamming her arm out(the one NOT used in the elbow drop) to try and sweep out one of the Terribad's legs from under it!

Scorn has posed:
Scorn rubs her hands together. "I'm going to savor your defeat, at my own han---what are you doing?" she suddenly splutters as Daifuku comes out of nowhere and smacks the tree with a mighty SWING making her fall out down into the branches again as she falls and smacks the ground on her butt again. "H--hey--" she splutters. "That hurt!" she screams and raises a hand. "K--kinda bads!" she calls out, black suited, small men suddenly appear from around trees, some pop into existence in puffs of smoke but they begin charging in at the magical girls and boys, trying to punch and attack them.

"It's not strange she fell out of a tree but it's strange it's happened twice, SCORN ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?" Corvus yelled from his tree perch, on a different tree. "I'm alright!" yells Scorn as she clambers up and then throws her hand out, throwing a rather potent ball of bright red dark energy towards Daifuku, who's angered the Phantom Empire General.

The Terribad soaks up the water with it's two giant popsicle hands and they melt, but reform slowly at the same time.... which means Kyouko's spear gets through into an eye, making the monster stagger a moment as it cracks the sunglasses of the youma.

The clothes line to it's legs make it stagger back more but it doesn't fall again this time, instead, it opens it's mouth wide and shoots a freezing blast of ice cream down towards Cure Wukong, trying to encase them in the freezing stuff.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
*BONG!* <<FLIER FIN>>

Bright yellow dragonfly wings unfurl from Rashmi's ankles as the Kindabads swarm the park, and with an almost-graceful leap the bespectacled Mage heads skyward. Flicking her eyes back and forth, she tries to identify the closest trouble spot... though if this battle goes long enough *everyone's* going to need her help so...

Another circle spreads out flat beneath her, and hurriedly she flips the pages, making her selection.

Holding out her hand to Kyouko, she calls out: "Nicomachea! Strike -- Boost Up!"

<<STRIKE -- BOOST UP>>

A comet of sun-colored energy wends back and forth on its path toward the Puella, wrapping around her wrist and just revolving slowly, in place, providing a feeling of warmth and comfort... And *strength,* as if someone had seen her carrying something heavy and bulky, and stepped in to get the other side.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide (Who uh, totally dodged the ice cream missiles last pose, oops, excuse me!) watches as her attack helps the others take down the youma even more and she seems hopeful! Until it starts streaming ice cream onto Cure Wukong to try to freeze her into it / freeze her to death or other horrible, terrible fate.

Daifuku attacks the girl. WELL that takes some guts going for the Phantom Empire generals directly. She'll give 'em that much. Kindabads show up now though.

She throws one over her shoulder and into another one as she becomes busy punching kindabads in their faces as she tries to make her way closer towards the main event.

"I'll...I'll try to hurry this up!" she sputters. "Someone..!" she splutters. Kinda bads are stopping her from being much of a help right now.

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
As Kyouko flings the spear at the Terribad's face, she immediately jumps up to jump up after it so she can grab it back. It's a bit of a gamble that she'll get there in time, but it always is, and she's a risk-taker--

Her eyes widen in surprise as that energy wraps around her arm, and she whips her head around to gawk back at Rashmi in confusion. "Huh--?" And then she realizes: the other magical girl is trying to *help* her. "Stupid! Save that for yourself!" But she can sense the power in the boost she just got, and she's not gonna waste it.

Two seconds after the spear hits, Kyouko somersaults past it, and with a brief huff of effort in midair, she yanks the spear back out of the Terribad's ice cream head. When she lands with it in hand, she's several feet away on the ground. "This had better not be real ice cream I'm attacking," she starts to to complain.

And that's when she sees the Terribad opening its mouth to attack Cure Wukong. Her eyes narrowing, she snaps her lance into segments and sends it hurtling towards the monster's head to try to wrap around it and yank it off course.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
When the Kindabads show up, Tadase can't help but make a mental comment about being able to pick on someone your own size. And then Kiseki makes it for him.
    "Finally, we can pick on someone our own size!" Kiseki says. Tadase gets up and baseball-bat swings at one with his scepter, and actually tries to make use of himself, clear out the trash... make a path...
    "Nobody here is your size but Wuwu." Tadase says to Kiseki as he shifts another Kindabad into the world of unconsciousness with his scepter.

Scorn, though, goes to dump a storm of ice cream onto the monkey Tadase just mentioned and the Cure taking power from them, and Tadase has a moment. He runs over, Kiseki stopping to mostly ineffectually kick a Kindabad in the side of the head before flying off, and raises his scepter high.
    "HOLY CROWN!" he calls out, and a golden, shimmering crown of energy erupts from the scepter, and all of the ice cream hits the shimmering barrier, and not the Cure. Which frees the Historic Legacy Precure to do the beating of things far larger than Tadase's own size.

Koji Silvia has posed:
Finally speaking up from his spot on the pole, Koji moves to stand up as the wind that doesn't exist in the Dimensional Space blows his hair in that properly dramatic fashion, "Anyone who has a fire attack, move up and attack the beast. There is one other being here besides the summoner. It's..."

And he throws a knife at Corvus, "There!"

Jumping off of the light, not even causing it to sway (Because animators are lazy...), he flips, and draws three more kunai Blades. His free hand goes to his belt, popping three cartridges into the ones in his hand... and then throws so they land around Cure Tide!

    << THREE BLADE SEAL. VORTEX SLASH! >>

Suddenly, Aki is surrounded in a tornado that picks up and then slashes apart the kindabads surrounding her!

Landing, almost back to back with the Cure, he draws one more knife off his hip, the blade glowing fiercely, before striking a combat pose, "You're covered."

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Guardian Daifuku withdraws from her attack on the poor tree that had housed the apparent general summoning these creatures. The attack was at least successful in getting her to fall from the tree, and with a triumphant grin she calls out, "The chef is the one that calls the shots, not the prep-cooks!" An odd analogy but one that none the less held merit in this case.

Scorn begins to rise then. Daifuku leaps back bringing her hammer up to bear. There really was little time to avoid that dark energy blast sent at her from such a close distance. All she can do is hold her hammer out defensively--Something it wasn't terribly good at, and she would have to work on in the future.

It impacts sending her flying back and away from the main group fighting where she falls, and skids along the ground in an unpleasant way.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong hit the leg and... Oh. Oh wow. That was just unfair. WHEN SHE HIT SOMETHING IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO DOWN! "Stupid giant thing! Fall when I hit you! Don't--" And she looked up in time to see the ice and... welp. Looks like this is going to be three. Dang nab it. She wondered if the elbow drop counted, though. Sure, it hurt. But SHE did it. Totally shouldn't.

Except, she doesn't. Instead... She's shielded. Her eyes go wide and she barrrrrrrely manages to stop herself from saying 'Prince! <3' Wuwu would never let her hear the end of it.

Of course, this meant she could focus on what was around them and... "Wow. Kindabads?" she asked. "You bad guys really suck at names, don't you? First downbeats, then kindabads? What's next, lilterrors?" she asked. "You're not the only one who can pull out a bunch of random jobbers, though. Monkey bullshit, go!" She reached up and pulled about fifteen hairs out before tossing them into the air! In a puff of smoke, they turned into clones of her, before fanning out and running to fight the jobbers.

Some cures got dances, some got giant explosion beams and some cures got easily destroyed lil punching clones.

Then she grinned to Tadase. You know that grin someone gives you RIGHT before they do something REALLY dumb? That was the grin he got.

"That crown is pretty useful. Mind if I borrow it for a moment?" she asked.

Before jumping out, grabbing him and then *leaping into the air*. On the upside, she held him with both hands, and the staff with her tail. On the badside, he was now far, far, FAR higher in the air with a strange magical girl than he'd likely ever been before. "Okay, do that crown thing again and cover me, okay?" she said, before shifting him to one arm, the other reaching back to grab the stick...

Scorn has posed:
Scorn scoffs and draws her hand down as she starts walking towards Daifuku. She draws up wind into her hands as she grrrs. "I hate smart little jerks like yourself. I'm going to make you pay for that!" she says as she follows up her ball of dark energy with a tornado of wind, trying to impact the downed magical girl.

The Terribad watches mostly as it stops spitting out ice cream and has it's stream of power stopped by the sudden appearance of a spear around it's neck and it tries to tug at it. "Terribad!" it yells. As it's made to stay in one place as it's setup for final attacks!

Now's probably a good time to throw your strong attacks at it!

Kindabads continue to clog up the area though, luckily they're just nuisances that will probably go away with the Terribad, most likely!

Rashmi Terios has posed:
Watching the energy hit one of her fellow combatants, Rashmi has a moment of panic... then stern, calm resolution falls over her face. "Let's give her a hand, Nicomachea," she murmurs... And dives, straining hard to beat the tornado to Daifuku's place.

*BONG!* <<PROTECTION>>

As Rashmi thuds to earth in front of Daifuku, a translucent dome of golden light resolves in front of her, acting as a literal windbreak and soaking up much of the force of the winds. "C'mon," she calls over her shoulder, "Get up! You got this, you can get back in there!"

<<ACCEL -- BOOST UP>>

Another golden wisp emerges from the book, splitting in two and wrapping around Daifuku's ankles, as Rashmi gives the Culinary Guardian an engouraging smile.

It's *always* easier to get back in the fight when you've been given a speed boost.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide gets help from the suddenly appearing Koji. She gives him a wave as thanks quick as they're blown away. She then raises her PreChangeMirror and hehs. "Fire you say? Why didn't I think of that!?" she sputters!

Ch-cha-change!

Cure Tide shoves a card into the top of her PreChangeMirror as she changes into a fancy, red Salsa Dancing outfit, with yellow trim! She 'has!' and does a quick spin as she "Pretty Cure..." she spins the dial on her Love Prebrace as she claps and snaps forward, "Passionate flame!" she calls out, flames erupting from her hands towards the Terribad, weaking it , melting it with firey flame attacks!

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
Wherever a Kindabad swarms towards a magical girl, spears suddenly erupt from the ground beneath it. Kyouko scowls openly as she directs her weapons this way, glaring at all the other magical fighters. "Get good, you idiots, I don't want to have to *help* you all next time!"

And yet, for all her bluster, she's playing support for now, defending the other attackers and letting them land the finishing attacks on the Terribad while it staggers chained by her lance. She's even maybe keeping an extra eye on Rashmi after that boost she got earlier.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
When Wukong asks to use his shield to cover himself, Tadase is about to explain how it doesn't work like that - until Wukong scoops him up and... Tadase is now... not on the ground. Tadase is not in Henshin. Tadase does not have a henshin to go into.

Tadase is actually pretty legitimately scared. But well, when the magical monkey grabs you I guess all you can do is go along with it.
    "H-h-hoooly crooown!Tadase calls as he's going through the air with Wukong whether likes it particularly or not.

Koji Silvia has posed:
Momentarily lamenting he cannot Enhance in the same way that Rashmi can, Koji sees the field is mostly clear, the kinda-sortas still regrouping from being knocked around. As Aki does her change right next to him, and then does the pose and the fire, he nods once, and then takes a breath and then draws all six of his knives.

Throwing them up into the air, they land around the TerriBad, and suddenly the grips of each erupt with a small purple flame. Red lines begin to form and interlock under the monster, then a circle of the same energy. Script writes itself along the lines, somehow floating above the ground but still part of it, purple echoes of it hanging in the air. Six smaller circles surround each kunai, and the purple flames expand into pillars!

    << SIX BLADE SEAL. >>

    << DIMENSIONAL CRUSH. >>

And for the poor huge ice cream monster, pressure adds from the very air around it, pushing from all sides to lock it down, but not enough power to crush it.

And Koji is standing still in a Kuji-In pose, fingers interlocked, working to help set up for the final blow.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong grinned wide and looked down at the figures below, now almost specks in the distance... She then hmmed. How to... Right! She held the staff out before putting a single finger on the top, flat end. She flicked it down and, right before letting it go fully, it began to grow.

The staff, once only a few feet long and an inch or so thick, rapidly increased in size until it was the size of a rather large oak. She then gave it a kick, downwards.

The tree-rod coming down at the youma... "Ruryu... Ruryyyy... Ruyi janga... UGH! FINE! MONKEY BULLSH-- Wait, no! NINE TON PRESS!" she yells.

Ruyi Jingu Bang was harder to say when she hadn't practiced the name.

"Clear the way!" she yelled, before she decided to try and put the 'barrier' thing around them to the test. The staff/tree hurtled down at the youma and when the barrier sprung up around them, she grinned and did it as well. Holding Tadase in both hands, her tail going around him for good measure, they *rocketed* down at the ground.

See, she'd INTENDED to use his crown as a shield in case it tried to knock them off target. But since it was stunned, thanks to Kyouko... Well, what better way to finish this off than CANNONBALLING her staff down on the monster?

On the upside, it likely didn't do THAT much damage, and probably wasn't as destructive as it looked like it should have been. Precures were all about over compensating.

On the other hand, for Tadase, it likely wasn't fun to one second be flying half a mile in the air, the next to be rocketing towards the ground like a missile, just to slam his magic barrier into the staff like a orbital drop hammer on the world's most over the top magic nail. On the other upside, he at least got to be held up, so she crashed into it, not him. Between the barrier and her holding him up, he likely just felt a jarring feeling for a few seconds as the rapid decent slowed down quickly, just not TOO quickly thank goodness.

"Ohhhh, I should have yelled Monkey Fist cannonball."

Beneath them, the staff would quickly shrink back down, allowing them to fall properly, and for her to land once more, and deposit him somewhat gently on the ground.

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Guardian Daifuku feels the ache in her ribs, and the sharp scratches along her legs from her slide on the ground. Thankfully her attire had kept her from further damage due to the ground itself. Just barely at least. There were more important things to focus on though: Scorn was approaching.

Before she can even lever herself to her feet using her hammer as a prop to push up, Rashmi is there protecting her. A little grin comes as she flashese a smile back. "Right! Thank you!"

Back on her feet, hammer firmly in hand again she blurts out, "Okay now, DUCK!"

She launches into a jump to leap over Rashmi with the hammer swung overhead held firm in both hands. Her momentum was a bit more than intended thanks to the speed boost, so when she comes down the hammer literally cracks the ground beneath as she strikes the ground. A little shimmer of heat waves rise off of her focusing her energy into the Kine itself as she cries out, "Bain Marie!"

She didn't really NEED to call out the attack. Really, she hadn't even named it. The name she just used was rather fitting though as cracks spread along the ground racing out toward some of the lingering kindabads and Scorn with a sudden hiss of steam releasing in a hot wash of air.

Scorn has posed:
Scorn is charged after, she glowers and glows in dark energy a moment as she draws her arms upwards and smacks Daifuku's smack with one of her own, throwing her arm upwards into a punch, trying to overpower the called out attack with all of her might. This might smart a bit if she hits home. There's a reason you don't fight dark generals one on one.

The Terribad, however, fairs horribly, melting due to Cure Tide's passionate flames as it calls out, trying to move forward, but it can't, as Koji's dimensional pressure pushes down on it.

Then finally, a giant, orbital drop comes down upon it as it cries out, before melting away into dusky smoke and the area starts to slowly turn back to normal from it's transformed, feathery state.

Scorn blusters and sputters out. "W--well I LET YOU WIN! HA! YOU FELL FOR MY DEVIOUS TRAP JUST TO SEE WHO WOULD COME OUT AND FIGHT ME!" she absolutely lies. "CORVUS!" she yells out for the crow that flies over and lands on her shoulder. "We're leaving!" she says, and suddenly duskports away, in a little spin of wind and black feathers.

The ice cream man, in the mirror, is freed as he flumps to the ground with the rest of the people, on the other side of the barrier at least.

People will wake up soon, but everyone is safe, thanks to the heroes!

Tadase Hotori has posed:
After all of that, once he hits the ground, as the heroes are waking up... Tadase just kind of gently lays down. "Ground. I need to stay on the ground. Just... for a little bit." he says, his eyes spirals. Kiseki looks at him and tilts his head. "The sky isn't so bad."

Because Kiseki can float.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"...Okay Nicomachea remind me to do that barrier thing, like, first time every time," Rashmi murmurs, the book answering with a *BONG!*

Swiping hair away from her eyes and breathing hard, she weaves across the dimensionally-shifted ground, toward her fellow combatants, eyes tracking Scorn as the thwarted General blusters, then retreats.

"...Well that was terrifying!" she says, cheerfully. "Everyone-- hm." Tadase's prone, out-of-energy form gives her pause, but she rallies to try this social-interaction-under-common-ground thing again. "Everyone else all right?"

Koji Silvia has posed:
With only one knife in his holsters, Koji draws it and holds it close to his chest... quickly fading into something like a ghost, and then barely an outline of him inside the Blade's optical camoflague spell.

The most observant persons might see a ruffle of some leaves as he scrapes a treebranch with his foot in passing.

Worse, he was just standing behind Aki, so if she turns, there will not be anyone there!

Chiyo Sakai has posed:
Guardian Daifuku reels back from the punch again. The speed helps her to keep up much as she can, but she wasn't familiar with hand to hand fighting. In fact, while most of her own attacks had seemed to come by instinct, this was only the second fight she'd ever BEEN in. In the end she ends up bruised and bleeding from a lip by the time Scorn departs.

She leans against the staff of her kine taking deep breaths as she mentally goes over her injuries. Most weren't too bad at least... mostly. Now she would find out if they stuck around after she would unhenshin.

The question of if everyone is all right causes her to lift her head with a smile. "I'm fine," she assures only to glance at Rashmi with a nod. "Thank you for the help."

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide transforms back to her normal Pretty Cure form after a bit with another blue flash of energy. She blinks and is about to chase after the girl when she vanishes back to the dusk zone. She frowns and stops when she looks back to the Terribad, where it was and frowns a little. "Well. She's new." she says bluntly. "That's bad. So that's another problem." she grumbles and sort of rubs a hand down her face.

"H--hey." she says. "Is that boy alright!?" she mumbles. She says, walking towards Tadase and leaning down.

"Uhm Also. Before you all. Run away. Have any one of you seen someone call themselves Cure Gull...?" she asks. "Green hair. Kinda goofy..." she rubs the back of her head. "..has a talking seagull friend?" she asks. She smiles.

"F..fine if you haven't!" she says.

"Oh. Right. I'm. Cure Tide! But uh..."

"Is EVERYONE alright?"

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
With the Terribad at last gone, Kyouko can finally get her ice cream (which, she will remind anyone who asks, is the whole reason she fought in the first place--*not* to protect civilians). At least, in theory. She looks down at her magical girl outfit and frowns; she looks up at the giant spear in her hand and frowns more deeply. Then she looks at the ice cream cart and outright scowls at the sight of the unconscious vendor.

Then she strides up to the ice cream cart, slaps some yen down on the counter, and begins rummaging in the cooler, emerging a few moments later with the strawberry creamsicle she paid for. At which point, still in her magical girl form, she turns to go and just leave everyone else behind.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong blinked when Tadase just... dropped. It wasn't THAT bad, was it? Ehhh. Then again, the first time she'd leaped into the air like that and thought she was going to die, she'd been worried too. Considering he did a lot of the student council applying for who did what paperwork, she decided it was best to not give him any grief for it. And hey, for once she DIDN'T call him Prince.

Then her eyes fell on Rashmi and... Oh no. A moment later she was in front of the girl, grabbing her hands and holding them up, practically SPARKLING! "You! You are AMAZING! We have GOT to do a like, tag team battle thing or something sometime! That barrier was AWESOME! I'm NEVER allowed to do stuff like that! I mean, okay, I'm technically allowed but I can't afford the property damage and Wuwu... actually, Wuwu usually encourages it but I'd feel really bad, you know? But if we teamed up I wouldn't have to worry if I like, threw a car or dropped a mountain on someone! It would be AWESOME! I mean, I've never done either of those things before but who knows? I might be able to! I can do all kinds of weird things and... I..." She then noticed some of her clones.

One of which slid into the ice cream truck, took the ice cream man's apron, and started running the stand. Even putting the money Kyouko left into the register. "... I have no idea if it's supposed to do that. Eh. It's probably fine. I'm Cure Wukong! It's great to meet you!" she said happily before glancing to Tide. "And I'm fine! Nice to meet you, Cure Tide! I haven't seen your friend though, sorry."

Then, FINALLY... She glanced to Kyouko. "By by uhhhh..." Should she call her Kyouko? did Kyouko have a name? She needed to come up with a magical girl name for her... "Bye bye Magical Girl Cherryspear!" ... Yes. That was, in fact, what she was going to call her. "It was nice seeing you again!" There, now nobody would know she was secretly Kyouko. Secret identity protected.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide sulks a little when no one is able to answer her question with an affirmative. "Ah. Alright then. I should. Go then, if he's alright, if... everything is alright then." she says as the bow on her back turns into a set of small wings and she lifts off into the air and takes off, turning into a streak of blue.

She'll get back to her job somewhere else. Before going back home to the coffee shop. She worry about the new Phantom Empire General later when she has more emotional bandwidth after the fight.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"Anytime!" Rashmi says, beaming at Daifuku. "That was really amaWAAAUGH!"

The great thing about magic books is, they tend to *choose* to be held. When their owner's hands are occupied... Say, by a Monkey Queen grabbing hold of them as a prelude to gushing exuberance and compliments, a magic book can just as easily float by its owner's head, spine absolutely vertical.

"Aheh... thanks! I'm, uh... I don't have like a hero name yet, but um... this is my friend, Nicomachea," she says, tiing her head toward the book, which acknowledges this with a quick c#ffff5f*BONG!* and a brief glow of the crystal cabochon at the cover's center. "Yeah I hadn't even tried that one yet, this was kinda my first real *serious* fight. It works *great,* though, so.. yeah-- Oh G'bye Cure Gull, I hope you find your friend!"

And one hand is tugged free to wave after the dejected Cure.