9/Hope to Brighten Your Day

Hope to Brighten Your Day
Date of Scene:	01 July 2023
Location:	Penguin Park
Synopsis:	A Bake Sale, A Soda Sale, A disgruntled General and a new Precure!
Cast of Characters:	6, Mio Morita, Francesca Leon, Zephyr Windstar, Hanako, Megumi Aino

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Mio Morita has posed:
    The lazy sun shows its evening light over King Penguin Park. There are dozens of people there. More than usually in fact. There are people walking about, just taking the park to get to where they are going, Can you ask for a nicer area? There are children playing, celebrating the end of the school day and the day off tomorrow. Amidst the activity, a small table is set up with a bunch of baked goods displayed out for people to see. There is a short line there of people just buying the baked goods.

    "Remember, All profits go towards feeding the homeless!" The red haired girl in a Radiant Heart Academy uniform speaks loudly and with a very kind tone to her voice. "There is plenty. Oh You should try the blondies! They are like brownies but made with peanut butter!" She smiles and comments to the customer in front of her who grabs one of the blondies and pays a few yen for it.

    Things are going great for the girl as she works. She is just starting to run low on a few of her items. She will have to remember to make more for tomorrow. As another person steps forward, "Oh! Good to see you again. You came by last week. I'm happy you enjoyed the lemon bars. Yes I have more of them." She grins and gets a few for the gentleman in front of her.

Zephyr Windstar has posed:
    There's an Outsider around here. Pulling along a cat with an emblem on the sides. it's a circle, with a stylized pair of hands in Rock Paper Scissors gestures. Rock and Paper specifically. Between is a soda can with 'POP' written on it in english caracters. Hiragana beneath the emblem reads' Jan Ken POP! and the stores business address and other legal requirements. A mobile soda sale cart from one of Akihabara's store fronts is here.

    The girl pulling it is late teens, wearing a dark purple t-shirt with the same logo on the right breast and the back, camo cargos and a pair of heavy steel-toe boots. An oddity is a medallion or coin set into a bracelet on her right wrist. The blue-white crystal lightly pulses rhythmically, almost as if it were 'talking' to the wearer. Other Device Users might recognize a Device in Standby mode.

    "Jan Ken Pop! We're running a special deal today!" she says chipperly, with a clearly foreign accent to her words. "Buy one, get one free. The price of the second will be donated to the homeless!" she adds, setting up the cart with a few quick flicks.

Megumi Aino has posed:
Megumi Aino is here after school, it's that half day Saturday, afterall and she's still in her Radiant Heart Academy uniform. She's alone today, her usual hanger on claimed she had 'princess stuff' to do, whatever that is.

She understood though. She's walking her way home from the bus stop through the park humming a merry tune when she comes across the commotion of a bake sale and a soda cart. This is when her stomach growled. She shouldn't ruin her dinner but...

Maybe just a little. She sneaks on over.

She looks around conspiratorially for her mother. Who is nowhere in sight. Good. Good.

"...Can I get two of the blondies, Morita-san." she says, making a smile and a two sign with her hands, which looks like a peace sign.

"One's for my mother!" she says. "I mean it!" like she would eat two of these. (She would eat two of these, but that's besides the point!)

Hanako has posed:
That rude redhead ate her breakfast. But, that's what you get for putting up strays for the night; especially ones you know that're only going to be trouble in the morning. Rather than hit up her usual spots for a quick bite to eat she's decided to explore the city a bit and find new places to eat.. which is what you should do anyways when you move into a new city, less you get caught in a rut and find yourself at the same restaurant day after day and miss out on the great eggs and brisket combo a few blocks down the road.

Or you might run into an group of your fellow schoolgirls selling things for the homeless. Which is .. again.. her. She's got money though, so she finds herself in line not too far away from Aino eyeing a stack of s'more bars.

Francesca Leon has posed:
    Penguin Park's not bad. There are a few places to hide away to sneak a quick cat-nap when needed.
    Right now though Francesca Leon isn't napping. It's a little too loud with the regular activity of a park in full swing.
    The girl is currently parked on a park bench, laying on her back with her hands folded behind her head as she kicks one foot in a lazy fashion as she stares up at the sky.
    She tends to avoid the children mostly, but something does make her crack an eye open.
    It's the table with all those nice baked goods.
    Francesca's stomach snarls angrily.
    Sigh.
    Picking herself up from her seat she makes her way over, hands stuffed in her pockets. At least she has a little cash on her- not much- but she may as well see what she can get.
    "... Yo." She says sidling into line behind Hanako.
    If profits go toward feeding the homeless and SHE'S here, Francesca can't help but crack a tired smile.
    "Ironic, huh?"
    It is kind of ironic.
    She'll probably grab a soda after something to gnosh on as well.

Mio Morita has posed:
    "Oh Hey, Aino-san. Good to see you!" She listens to Megumi's order and nods. "Of course!" She gathers a pair of her blondies and bags them up. They are already wrapped up and plated. She hands the bag over to Megumi and smiles to her. "Here you go, I hope you have a nice day." She states, her well-wishing sounding quite hopeful.

    Then she hears the calling of the soda salesperson. She doesn't feel crowded or anything. They are helping the homeless as well and that is enough for her to give a wave. "Good Luck!" She calls out to Zephyr. The small line continues to move, each person buying some food or passing on it and moving on.

    That's when a peculiar figure steps to the front of the line. This figure has light blue hair and eyes that match. He is wearing a white button down shirt and blue pants. "You said that this is all for the homeless," He comments to her, "And I assume you made all of these yourself?" He smiles a million dollar smile. "I think I would like to try one of these." He states picking out a Candy Cake. He gives her the yen for it and then reaches out with something in his hand. "I want you to have this. Call it a tip." He hands her a pink glowing crystal.

    "Yep! I make them for the weekends. All Profits go to feeding the homeless. The only money I take out is the costs of the the baked goods. I'm happy to help people, as long as it brings a little hope to them, its worth every minute of time!" Then there is that 'tip'. She looks at it curiously, "Sir there is no need to tip me, you don't need to..." But he is gone.

Hanako has posed:
Strange crystals don't make good tips. Nor do distinguished gentlemen that just sorta.. disappear. Nope. Hanako's already on edge at this; is she going to have a second meal ruined by suddenly animate concession stands?

Please let this just be some new age flippantry that isn't going to blow up in her face.

Trying not to think about it too hard, Hanako nods absently at Francesca. "Hey again. Ya want anything? My treat.. let's just.. get out of here soon like. " A moment's thought and she quickly adds, "Oh! have you seen a girl with red hair around, green hoodie and shorts? With a bad attitude?"

She's not paying much attention to Francesca at all when she asks that; all attention is on the crystal, the girl behind the cookie stand, and the cookie stand itself; and not with just the anticipating eye of someone really hungry.

Zephyr Windstar has posed:
    Zephyr smiles back at Mio, tipping her non-existent hat back to the other stand owner. She serves a few people that come by, then eyes the odd man that visits Mio's stall. "Hey, Dee... keep an eye open." she murmurs to noone in particular, the gem on her bracelet flickering without sound.

Megumi Aino has posed:
Megumi Aino missed the blue haired gentle person. Else she'd say 'Hi!' and blush and go doki-doki, but that didn't happen. Because she's too busy looking into her bag and inhaling the fresh scent of peanut. butter. brownies! She digs into the bag and takes hers out and eyes it with wide eyes....

"So delicious smelling...." she goes as she puts it back in the bag. No, be good, Megumi. Be good and take the bag home now, don't waste all your allowance on...

"Can I get five more!?" she asks suddenly, turning around and holding out the bag, as if she was gonna rob the place for five more blondies.

"And after that can I get..."

"Another five more!?" she asks.

Francesca Leon has posed:
    That was... A little weird. Guy leaves a tip and then bails. Though Francesca didn't see exactly what it was that he gave over, the sheer speed with which he makes his escape is a little sketchy.
    "Huh."
    Her attention's on Hanako though.
    "I'm not going to say no to something free." She admits before furrowing her brow.
    "A girl with red hair around, green hoodie and shorts and a bad attitude... Can't say so."
    And then Megumi wants to ROB THE PLACE OF ALL THE BLONDIES.
    "H-hey leave some for others."

Mio Morita has posed:
Mio blinks a few times as she looks at the odd crystal in her hand. She shrugs and slips it into her pocket because you can bet that Radiant Heart Academy skirts have pockets! "OH SORRY!!" She looks up at Megumi again who cut in line. "Oh umm Yes of course!" She quickly bags up not ten but eleven blondies. "Here you go." She rattles off the cost for the 10 blondies. "Glad you like them, Aino-san." She collects the money and puts it in her cash box. From there she crouches down and pulls out more blondies. Thankfully she has a bunch more.

    "Its okay! There is plenty more! Don't worry." She smiles brightly to Francesca before watching a man walk on by. "Have a nice day sir!" She states kindly, not being upset about the man not wanting to buy anything. "You all should try the White Chocolate Macadamian Nut cookies They are really good." She holds up a small bag containing three cookies. A lady just looks at her like she is just telling tales. "I try all my goods to make sure the quality is good. Trust me, these are really good."

Mochi (6) has posed:
Out on the street, a little blue van pulls up, and a reporter climbs out of the passenger seat. It's a local news channel. "See, look." the reporter says. "People doing the right thing, helping those less fortunate. It's a good story. It makes people feel good, it makes them happy. It makes them think about helping others." she says.

"Come on, Masuko. This is just going to upset your boss, he wants something more than just another feel-good peice." the cameraman protests even as he gets the camera ready.

"He says that but then he always runs my stuff anyways. Deep down he likes to think he can make people feel better too." she replies.

But someone in the street does not feel better. In fact, he feels worse - because he can feel it. First, the happiness spreading. But then... the fact that someone worked so hard, overheard, bothers him more. But more than anything, it's the video camera. There should be no video cameras anywhere but in one place...

The man in the strange orange uniform walks up and gets right in the way of the camera. "Hey! If you want to do a news story, the most important one of all is right here." He says, loudly. Everyone turns to look at him. "All of this hard work to help others - and it won't be remembered at all. Because the only thing anyone remembers in the end is who is on top! And that's me! General of the Phantom Kingdom, Oresky, the number one!" He says. "But I don't have to tell you - I'll show you." he shouts. And the pulls the medal off his chest.

"Let the future reflected in the mirror turn terrible! COME ON! TERRIBAD!"

It pulls a few of the people online, plus the cameraman, into a strange coffin-shaped upstanding mirror, where red ribbons criscross their sleeping visages.

A flash of light later, and there is a giant black figure that stands as tall as the buildings around, with glowing red glasses and a yellow scarf, along with green heavy fists and legs. It starts to wave its arms, and most of the people in line start to collapse, more and more going unconscious - or perhaps frightened that way - as the world starts to quickly degrade, becoming a burned out field.

"I don't know what they were all saying about. This world is pathetic, and this is so easy..."

Zephyr Windstar has posed:
    < Chief, trouble. Heavy mana spike. > remarks Tenraikaze from Zephyr's wrist. "I see 'im. Drive Ignition!"

    < Understood, Standby Ready. Barrier Jacket Set! Device shift to Gale Mode. >

    Zehyr ulls the coin from her wrist, holding it u as it bursts into a dee urle light. It exands out into a long staff-like form, before one end balloons into a air of axe blades. Her clothes glow brightly, shatter into urle motes then resolve into a gaudy semi-medieval-looking suit of armour. Metal breast late, leather surcoat and reinforced boots. She sins her axe around one handed, then oints it at Oresky. "Right buster, how about you just get lost? We're trying to do business here." she announces. c+cyan< Yeah! We worked hard on this, it took like a whole day to get the boss to agree! >

Megumi Aino has posed:
Megumi Aino is happy for her bag of blondies (that she totally blew all her allowance on.) and she's about to thank Mio when she notices the crystal finally, and blinks a little. Is that...

But then Oresky shows up. She looks down to her bag, Oresky, the bag and she makes a determined face. "I-- I won't allow him to spread misfortune around like this----!" she says as she pulls out her PrettyChangeMirror.

"R-R-R-Rolling Mirror Change....!"

Megumi shoves cards into the top of the mirror, causing a dramatic transformation to take place. Megumi Aino has become Cure Lovely, in a sequence that involves lots of hearts. Lots. of. them.

Still, when Cure Lovely stands there, there's a click of her heals as she calls out. "The Big love, spreading throughout the world... Cure Lovely!" she announces as she then dramatically points at Oresky.

"Hey! Stop this at once! I won't allow you to spoil people's happiness over baked goods and helping people!"

The first thing she does, is try to launch a kick into the Terribad, leaping into the air and coming down at an angle as she yells 'kiyah!' into the air.

This is personal, you may have ruined her blondies, Oresky!

Francesca Leon has posed:
    Some people don't HAVE allowance to blow on sweet treats. And what little cash Francesca has is probably going to be spent buying soda for her and Hanako, if Hanako is paying for the snacks. So Francesca is kind of glowering a little.
    But then things happen.
    And Oresky makes his introduction known.
    "What?"
    Then everything goes to heck in a handbasket...
    People pass out, others are stuffed in mirrors, and a wide-eyed Francesca scuffles back a few paces away from the snack table.
    "The heck...?"
    More importantly why hasn't she passed out.
    This is when the cross-shaped pendant with the purple gem on her necklace gleams.
    Tenraikaze might pick up on it. A Device waking from dormancy.
    "Uh... I think I should... Bail now..." She's starting to back up, pointedly AWAY from the massive figure looming behind Oresky. It's something else that halts her entirely. A voice that, at first only she can hear.
    <Use me.>
    "Huh?"
    <Use me!>
    Glancing down at the glimmering pendant at her neck she clutches it.
    "How do I--"
    <No time. Standby Ready! Barrier Jacket set!>
    There's a flash of purple light and Francesca is left standing there holding a sword at least as big as she is, a long black heavy armored coat worn over layer her clothes and.
    "... What."
    <Ever hold a sword before?>
    "No!"
    <It's easy just swing.>
    "You're KIDDING, right?"
    <Not kidding, kitten.>

Hanako has posed:
At least it's not her lunch being ruined! The cookies should still be edible after this .. interruption is dealt with. She'd be a lot more angry if a second meal was lost.

Instead she's a bit concerned about the girl she was about to buy breakfast for. Staying in her normie mode for now, Hanako turns to give Francesca rather than the giant big bad her full attention. "Hey you doing okay?" She asks in concern as Francesca starts to wobble.

"Leaving's a good."

*beat* *purple flare* "...hahhaa, ok. You got this. Go hit him a bunch! Try to stay away from his mouth."

Back to the fray then! Hanako steps forward and *purple flash* her clothes are replaced with a light blue body hugging leotard and another step and *blue flash* a pine green bolero over that. A little twirl and a sparkly necklace and full length platinum armlets take their place, along with an ornate gold embellished long bow that Hanako raises towards the source of all this hassle.

The air reverberates with mocking laughter, multiple disembodied mouths forming around Oresky to mock. "Ahahahahaha. You're going to get your butt KICKED by a bunch of LITTLE SCHOOL GIRLS! TRY NOT TO BREAK SOMETHING WHEN YOU FALL DOWN!! " Then all the faces contort into hideous grimace that erupt into giggles and raspberries before disappearing.

Mio Morita has posed:
    Mio is there. She is behind her stand still. When the guy dressed as an orange military man shows up, she gets a really bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. She watches with a frown as people are sealed in a mirror. Then she sees all the people that collapse. Why didn't she? All she can feel is something horrible inside her. Misfortune. Or worse, Hopelessness. She sees those trapped people and she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that they weren't very hopeful right now. "They... They need help!" She comments.

    Her attention goes to her stand. Its still standing. That's good. She can breathe a sigh of relief a little later. Her attention then goes to the heroes who are already standing up for those who are fallen and those within the mirror. "I... I gotta do something. I gotta try..."

    The red haired girl quickly runs around the table so she is in front of it. Throwing her hands outward, she tries to use her body to protect her baked goods? No. The money is there too. But is that what she is protecting? No its not. "STOP IT MISTER! I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU STEAL THE HOPE OF A FULL BELLY FROM THE HOMELESS PEOPLE THAT THESE ARE FEEDING!" She shouts at Oresky. Already her body is shaking. What was she doing? Was she really being so brave? Or was it just impulse? Either way, White light emits from her pocket as something changes. She reaches in her pocket and instead of a small crystal, she pulls out a prechan mirror and a few cards. These are not unlike Megumi's.

    "What in the world? What am I supposed to do with these?" She didn't see Cure Lovely change. So she has no idea how this stuff works. "This is really cool and all but what is it!" She laments as she looks around, hoping she hasn't drawn the ire of the towering terribad that is currently being pummeled.

Mochi (6) has posed:
Lovely's kick comes in - but it's a fresh Terribad made from multiple people. It puts an arm up - and despite the fact that the force of her kick leaves a dent in its strange wrist-armor plate, and it scoots back a little, it pushes her back towards the group. And then, Oresky laughs. It's that deep throated obnoxious laugh that he does. "It's good that so many of you came here today. It will make my victory all the more complete." he says. There are voices, around him, taunting him. But for Oresky, there are only two voices he worries about. The voice of his on internal self pride, and the voice of his Queen Mirage. And the second of those is debatable.

"Taunt me all you want, because soon you will be signing my praises, as it should be!" he proclaims, to the voices. "But I don't need to even waste energy on you. You might think you have me outnumbered, but it is I, Oresky, number one general of the Phantom Empire, who have you outnumbered!" he yells, and then with a sweep of his hand, pouring out in great hordes, from alleys and even crawling out of manholes, comes a very large squad of much smaller youma. They're making creepy noises and getting into... frankly, amateurish-looking fighting stances.

"Standing up for others' weakness only proves you want someone to do that for yours. The strong can stand on their own merit! Kindabads! Shut them all up, and then I won't have to hear any of this noise." he says, and with a dramatic 'go forth' gesture, the girls who are standing against him are suddenly set upon by what seems like an unending horde of small youma.

Zephyr Windstar has posed:
    < I think we can forget the diplomatic approach Chief. > remarks the Device. < Also we got a live one. new Device coming out of Sleep Mode looks like. Patching through to it now. > Mistofelees would get a Ping from Tenraikaze. 'Hello there~ Welcome back to the land of the living. Keep the kiddo safe until we can have a chat, kay~?'

    Zehyr snorts softly. "Right, got it. Kee me osted on the newbie. Mistral Cutter!" c+cyan< Roger! Mistral Cutter! > the mage and her Device charge forwards < Flier Fan! > and lift into the air on a air of raidly sinning 'turbines' around the ankles of the teen. She aims to low her axe-blade with its boiling mass of wind-asected magic into the giant after Hanako's arrow fussilade and the other girls attacks. c+cyan< The Timing is specific. NOW! > On impact the blade explodes like a shaped charge, trying to make an opening for someone else to get a more telling hit.

Hanako has posed:
Aw, that didn't force the badguy to instantly repent of his crimes and think about being a good boy and totally not trying to abduct people and harness their life force for dark energy. Time to do this the hardway! With a few other magical girls leading the way.

Lacking front line options, Hanako's back in the rear and keeping her options open just in time to see a flood of gremlinish minions erupt from the sewers and drainpipes and underneath closed doors. Ew.

"You SUUUURE you don't want to give up?" She calls out. "Save us a lot of energy and hassle and we can go back to helping people! And I can eat breakfast!" *mrf* he's not listening.. they never do. She keeps the disorted voices of giggling going though.

Drawing back on her bow, Hanako jumps up to the top of a street light, keeping her focus on the minions as she draws back her bow, creating a giant arrow that splinters into a myriad of magic missiles as soon as it launches, each one exploding in the midst of the approaching flood.

Francesca Leon has posed:
    A lot's happening, and Francesca is struggling to take it in.
    Okay so let's start this from the beginning.
    Apparently she is now a magical girl.
    She has a sword that talks at her.
    Her vague street acquaintance is also a magical girl.
    So is the soda vendor lady.
    Leaving would be a good idea now except for the fact that she has absolutely no idea how to cancel her transformation, put the big sword away, and sod off. She probably couldn't if she wanted to.
    'You got this'. Hanako says.
    "I do NOT have this."
    <You've got this, Kitten.>
    "I DO NOT HAVE THIS." She bemoans the situation that destiny has thrust upon her.
    <Again. No time. Protect the cookie girl.>
    This prompts the girl to look up from her blade at Mio.
    "... Hey..." She says to Mio.
    "After this... If there are any cookies left like..."
    <Cookies later. Fighting now. Let's go.>
    Planting herself in front of Mio, Francesca starts to swing- hauling off with that huge sword as though it weighed almost nothing in her hands. She actually swings it so hard she offbalances herself and nearly flips ass-over-tea-kettle as the sword's blade embeds in the ground.
    <Don't worry. We've got this.> Mistoffelees pings back to Tenraikaze.
    "DON'T HAVE THIS!" She protests, wrenching the weapon from the ground and hacking through a cluster of kindabads, cleaving clean through a swathe of them.
    

Megumi Aino has posed:
Cure Lovely is pushed back by the force of her own kick not leaving a big impact. She lands somewhere close to Mio and looks towards her. Wait, she has a Mirror!? and Cards!? But why isn't she using them!? She looks confused a moment as that dawning remembrance of seeing her with a love seed earlier. Oh--oh. "Oh..."

"P--put the cards in the top and and just... you know, roll with it." she says with a smile, because now is the correct time to make jokes.

She rears back a hand though and punches a kindabad back into the ground and then turns around to punch another one to the right as she winks at Mio.

"Come on Mio-chan!" she announces as she leaps into the air and calls out "Lovely Explosion Bomber!" as she spins her Prebrace, before her right hand explodes into fire and she tosses it into an array of Kindabads, causing them to be flung all about the battle field.

She lands on her feet and starts clearing out more of these Kindabads slowly, with punching.

"Oresky, you...!" she throws a kindabad over her shoulder. "..really don't have a figure for television!"

Mio Morita has posed:
    Mio listens to Cure Lovely, "Like this?" She puts the cards in the top of the mirror and 'rolls with it'! "Pretty Cure! Rolling Mirror Change!" Suddenly everything around her is orange. Her clothes vanish leaving her in a glowing orange slip. She goes through the transformation getting a brand new outfit and her hair getting longer and really cool looking. "HOPE RISING TO BANISH THE DARKNESS! CURE DAYBREAK!" She calls out as the transformation ends. She smiles and looks over herself, "Oh My God I'm a Pretty Cure!" She giggles a little bit and jumps up and down.

    "Okay lets do this!" She takes off running towards a kindabad. She quickly punches it and sends it flying. "Woah! Okay I hit really hard! HEY COME HERE!" She grabs another kindabad and this one gets thrown. It goes flying at Oresky. "Thats for attacking a bunch of innocent people, you big meanie!" She comments before seeing Cure Lovely obliterate a bunch of Kindabads.

    Her attention shifts to the Terribad. "Okay big guy. Lets dance!" She rushes in and jumps high into the air. "WHaaaaa Woo hoo!" She really has no idea what she is doing but right now there is this big monster with bad shades and it needs taken down. She unleashes a barrage of punches into the terribad, hoping to do at least a little damage to it.

Mochi (6) has posed:
There are smaller youma - the Kindabads - being thrown every which way by multiple attacks. "Television doesn't have a figure for me, th-" he says, before being cut off by the Kindabad body that's thrown at him, and his need to dodge. Despite the fact that, at first, the horde seemes endless, the device users, the puella, and the cures are making short work of the horde.

"Why did you wait to transform? Are you stying to steal even more spotlight from me? Unforgiveable. I will not allow you to join my fan club, Cure Daybreak!" Oresky yells, incensed.

"Fine, I'll just pound you into dust. Or, rather, he will! Terribad! Get them!"

And then the monster starts to lurch forward, only for two things to happen. The first is the barrage of punches from Cure Daybreak, which stop it from advancing forward and force it to bring up a guard, and the second is the Mistral Cutter from Zephyr, with the explosion of wind energy pushing it back and forcing it to drop the guard it was readying and leaving it exposed.

"What? What are you doing? Don't you dare disgrace me, Terribad!" For just a moment, the shades glow a brighter red.

Zephyr Windstar has posed:
    < Now! Hit it now, while its guard is broken! > calls Tenraikaze to the others around. Zehyr herself jukes, 'winging over' and making a tight banking turn around the staggered giant creature. "We should clear the trash u a bit for the others." states Zehyr as she watches the hoard of kindabads. The others are clearing them u handily, but they're mostly distractions. "Wide area Barret." c+cyan< Roger! Impulse Barret, Storm Shift! > intones the Device, as multile boiling urle 'wind bullets' aear around her like a star field. c+cyan< Coordinates are specific. Wide area strike. > "FIRE!"

    Like a fussilade of gunshots, the 'barret' sphers blast down, striking at kindbads who aren't directly engaged with the others, keeping backs unmolested and the way clear for Hanako to do her arrow thing.

Hanako has posed:
Hanako keeps her fire on the horde of minions until they've thinned out enough she's convinced none of them are going to be a threat to the sleeping normies littered about the place. She gives a short sign from atop her lamppost perch, studying the light purple gem set in her left palm for a moment.

"Right then," She murmurs to herself, then turns her attention to the main battle in general with particular attention paid to Stray. She looses an arrow at a minion that was trying to sneak up on her back, then sets her sight on the bigbad. She pulls back on her bow once again, letting the energy build to make a rather large arrow that all but crackles with the magical energy she's pouring into it. She aims for the bigbad right between the eyes and lets her arrow fly.

Francesca Leon has posed:
    It takes a moment. A beat. A few more practice swings, and the kindabads are soon going everywhere as Francesca gets a feel for the weight and heft of her new weapon and...
    It turns out she doesn't have to protect Mio.
    "... Huh. She's a Pretty Cure."
    Pause.
    "What's a Pretty Cure?"
    This question goes unanswered as Cure Daybreak takes a massive leap and staggers the Terribad with her blows.
    <What do you know about magic?> Francesca's sword suddenly asks.
    "That it exists, that's about it!"
    <Okay. Imagine yourself flying.>
    "That's not happening."
    Indeed, it's not happening; because Francesca does not go 'flying' in the typical mahou sense.
    There's a sudden lurch- and then, like she were tethered to an invisible rocket by a bungee cord, the girl LAUNCHES THROUGH THE AIR.
    "Dsgsgdfdgshgshdfdds!" She says succinctly before landing at the Terribad's wrist while it's guard is down.
    She slashes it. And as she slashes it she starts to run- hacking and slashing and cutting and slicing as she runs along the youma's gigantic arm and up to its shoulder.
    <Yes! Yes! Split it wide open!> Her new Device encourages as she raises the giant sword over her head and brings it down in a heavy handed swing to follow up.

Megumi Aino has posed:
Cure Lovely cheers loudly when Mio transforms! "That's so awesome!" she announces to the area, despite the only able to hear it being the other magical girls in the area. She watches Mio... Daybreak Machine Gun Punch(?) the Terribad!? Even better, Daybreak gets another cheer from Lovely as she raises her arms above her head, spinning her Prebrace again as she calls out "Lovely Punching Punch!", two, giant pink hands appearing over her fists as she throws them one, after another into the Terribad to help wear it down.

"We have to weaken it and... this one is strong..!" she says as Stray goes flying past her.. "Wow! That was so cool!" she says.

Mio Morita has posed:
    Cure Daybreak quickly moves back away from the terribad as Cure Lovely does her punching punch attack. "Wait, I can do stuff like that too!" She looks at her prebrace and thinks a moment. "err Okay I think its like this?" She turns the little dial on the prebrace and calls out in a questioning tone, "Err Morning Sun Beam?" She throws her hands forward and beams of orange energy go flying at the terribad. "Woah! Cool..." She trails off.

    "I wasn't trying to upstage anyone! I just transformed for the first time!" She comments in response to Oresky. She really doesn't say this loud enough for him to hear. On the other hand, She IS loud enough to be heard by the other magical girls present. "Not going to let them hurt anyone else!" She states to herself and looks out at the terribad.

    A few kindabads get the great idea of trying to rush her. She engages them, punching and kicking them, sending kindabads flying. She has no real technique. She simply flails punches and kicks like a wild woman.

Mochi (6) has posed:
It is chaos, but it is a sort of controlled, magically focused chaos. There's Kindabads, but they're getting absolutely rocked, especially by the wind bullets, and aren't really providing the level of distraction Oresky might hope for. The arrow soars through the air - and the Terribad catches it as the gleaming tip would hit it's glasses.

Oresky laughs. "See? My Terribad exceeeds all others with its skill, just like I exceed all others with my everything!" But he won't stay laughing for long, because there's more attacks coming - like the girl with the device who lands on the Terribad's arm and runs the blade along it as she runs, causing the thing to make a truly hideous cry of pain - or the bright pink fist that then slams into the arm and causes the gripped arrow to still slam into the Terribad, leaving a crack along its strange glasses. It tries to swat at the device user that's currently Shadows of the Colossus'ing it, but it's not super effective. Mostly, it's flailing - Oresky has to duck a foot.

It finally manages to shake Stray loose - which allows them to cut downwards on the way by and down.

It turns around to glare them, but it looks... like it has seen better days, with its cracked sunglasses and wounds.

Zephyr Windstar has posed:
    "Okay, trash collected, lets finish the big guy." says Zehyr as she turns, watching Stray, and the Cures laying into it, and that arrow shattering the glasses. "Tenraikaze. Gear U. Maelstrom Form." c+cyan< Gear Second! Maelstrom Form Set! Storm Bits Cycling. > announces the Device as it shifts forms. One of the axe blades salls away to form three turbine fan-like drones that orbit around the Mage, while the remaining blade becomes angular and rotates around to allow the crystal at the head of the haft to have a more oen view. "Maelstrom Buster." c+cyan< Maelstrom Buster! Bombardment Mode, set! > A rhombus-shaed sell seal aears beneath Zehyr's feet, and ribbons of urle magic lash out to anchor her to this latform She holds the device like one may a S.A.W. and the three Bits form u around the head as it gathers magic. c+cyan< Shift to Bombardment mode. Anchor Points locked. Linker Core pressure rising normally. Storm Ring has started revolving. Ready to fire. > "Maelstrom Buster! FIRE!"

    A torrent of purple magic lashes out from the crystal of her staff, being 'pinched' into a more coherant beam by the Bits as it passes through them.

Hanako has posed:
A glance at her soulgem tells her the inevitable truth. Puellas don't run on magic power forever.

With everybody distracted piling on the big guy, Hanako hops down from her perch and looks for a few bodies that might've been roughed up by the horde of minions. She'll grab one or two of the poor unconscious souls as she makes her way out, leaving them at a nearby police post for proper care.

Francesca Leon has posed:
    Summarily launched from the Terribad's arm, this time Stray DOES go ass-over-teakettle through the air, flailing as she sails through the sky.
    <Hold out your dominant hand.>
    "BUSY FALLING!"
    <Just do it! And imagine that you're shooting!>
    It's as Stray hits the highest arc of her falling height that she holds out her right hand and <span style="color:oncentrates.
    cxterm31"><Claw Stinger!> The Device announces as Francesca aims for the Terribad's eyes, several- pretty weak- bullets of purple light launching from her fingertips as she aims to stun it or blind it.

Megumi Aino has posed:
Cure Lovely can see cracks, it's weakened. "M---" pause. "Daybreak!" she calls out. "We have to purify it now, you can do this!" she calls out as she throws a kindabad over her shoulder again and then punches another one.

"Spin the Prebrace and and call out....!" she says, "It'll come to you, I'm positive!" she says.

"T...then..."

"THEN THE FIRST ONE TO PUNCH ORESKY GETS ONE OF MY BLONDIES!" she spouts off. "If.."

"If they still exist!"

Mio Morita has posed:
    Daybreak nods, "Okay I will give it my best!" She quickly spin the dial on the prebrace and calls out, "Light of Hope become Sacred Power. PRETTY CURE: FIRST LIGHT SHOOT!" Suddenly what looks like a mini sun drops in front of Daybreak. She quickly punches it sending it flying at the Terribad. Her eyes go wide, "Did I just do that?" She asks herself as she tries to comprehend just what she has become.

    The terribad is hit and starts rising into the air a little with light all around it. It bellows out lowly, "Nirvana."

    "Light of Hope, Return to the heavens."With that the Terribad vanishes and the light fades. Daybreak turns her attention to Oresky, "Your big guy is gone." She calls out with a little smile on her face.

Hanako has posed:
As Hanako slips out, she leaves Oresky with a final gift. That last little mouth right next to his head blaring at the top of its non-existant lungs, "GETTING YOUR BUTT KICKED BY SCHOOL GIRLS MUST FEEL REAAALLLL GOOD, HUH?"

Mochi (6) has posed:
The youma feels it, that strike. That Malestrom Buster. Oh, it reels from it. If the thing wasn't made of the capture of multiple people, it would have probably gone down from this attack if not sooner. But it doesn't go down, it's trying to gether itself, gather strength - and then it gets pepperd by the Claw Stinger shots too. It's not gathered. It's not stable. It's not ready.

So when the giant mini sun slams into it - it's done, toast, finito. Going to Nirvana, in fact.

Now alone, Oresky glares at them, and sort of... tugs on the edges of his uniform. Maybe nervous, or maybe just trying to keep it looking proper. "Tch. You know what? I'll let you have this one." he says, even as everyone currently aware can hear Hanako's mouth yelling at him, *especially* him. "Yeah. I'll let you take this one so that when I inevitably destroy you utterly, my victory will only be greater. So just you wait, Pretty Cures, and whoever else you are." But Oresky is alone, and, like so many Obsidian Generals... alone he flees rather than stands, so in a sharp surge of dark energy, he is gone. And the world starts to shift from the bombed out, post-war black field to exactly what it should be. Within a few minutes people will wake up, and come up with random explanations for what happened.