Texts: Kidnapping O'Clock

Texts: Kidnapping O'Clock
Date of Scene:	06 September 2023
Location:	Texts
Synopsis:	Following Scene 376 and between scenes 380 and 382, Hematite texts Riventon for help. Riventon texts Sunbreaker for answers.
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Takashi Agera, Hinoiri Kirara
Tinyplot:	Dangerous Orbits

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(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Hey. So uh. Do you know Sunbreaker? Because she just kidnapped a friend of mine.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Do you have any idea what time it is?

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: It's kidnapped o'clock.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Wait, kidnapped? Who?

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Naru Osaka? The girl from study group. Also Usagi's best friend

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: And apparently also Sailor Moon's friend

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: why would somebody do that? Oh that explains it

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: She doesnt have any magic

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: One second. I know *A* sunbreaker. Not one of my people, though. Freelancer.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Cool thanks

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: So that puts you on the case and also Sailor Moon? Or just Usagi giving you sad eyes?

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: bro sailor moon is the one who princess carried me at the beach, she's good at sad eyes too. all my bad decisions aside, yes, both i and sailor moon are on the case. so are others. i'm probably going to bring pyrite in.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: How many others? I feel like this is A Thing.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: at least four others. this is A Thing

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: I mean of course it's A Thing because that's a civilian but. you know what I mean. Not Internal Affairs Thing but External Affairs.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: ...let me guess, knocked her out first, in front of somebody?

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: fought and grabbed her in front of counselor fucking inai

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: teleported away

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: naru is friends with like everyone

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Everyone as in civilians, or everyone as in people who matter.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: how would i know? i mean i end up making friends with everyone too, it's awkward when they turn out to be magical and not on my side, but they're not all magical. she has a lot of magical friends though, apparently

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: I expected you to know because you are the one who texted me in the middle of the night, and I'm trying to figure out how badly this other person screwed up.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Well the people involved in making it A Thing are magic. Sailor Moon is trying to keep civilians out of it.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: It was absolutely this Sunbreaker.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Any chance of getting Osaka-san back in one piece?

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Working on it. She's hotheaded, full of herself. Offworlder. I don't control her.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Oh jeez. Thanks, I will owe you big.

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(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: she's being stupid.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: You know Pyrite is a little overenthusiastic about knives and bones and teeth and ghosts, right? I mean

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: I will def tell her not to kill Sunbreaker but she likes Naru too

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: She's being really stupid. I don't think it's a 'Naru's in danger' kind of stupid, but she's not listening to me. Like I said, she's not one of my people. Stubborn offworlder with an overexaggerated view of herself because she can perform a few tricks. I'm going to try and find Naru before Pyrite turns half of Tokyo into spirits way too early trying to help. I'll let you know if I track her down. If you guys start making a lot of noise it'll be harder, not easier. I taught her some of how this world's magic works, I can trace her.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Okay. I'll relay the relevant parts to the most frantic. And I'll keep Pyrite from making this a ... ghost town

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Thank you so much. SO SO much.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Good to see you're taking this seriously.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Yeah, yeah. put it on your tab

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: I'm scared as fuck dude

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: If i don't make dumb jokes I'll scream.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Py won't eat people if you tell her no all the time, you don't need to be scared, just keep repeating in a firm voice. Or call Hotaru, she's got the big-sister act down.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: Yeah? OK.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Look I have a box of energy drinks and a box of also actual energy. I'll text you when I find her.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: <3 <3 <3

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: won't be long. rest so you don't accidentally give them my real name or something.

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: I WOULDNT

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: not if you've gotten enough sleep. You gotta get that beauty rest, you have to close that gap with me.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: I've even been not sleeping to make it more fair

(PHONE) Mamoru Chiba texts: So kind!! A-as expected of Taka-senpai!!

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: pyrite give the phone back

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(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Did you kidnap someone?

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: wo in tadais iz tis how u get tis #

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: I helped you get the phone when you were still figuring out what fingers were. It's Riventon.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: 1 sec get... fuk it. magicing

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: What in tartarus are you talking about? I didn't knock out any kids.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: How about short teenagers, then.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Fingers are useless. What are you talking about? Why does it matter if teenagers are napping? Is this you telling me I should get more sleep? I was tryi

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Oh.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: I looked up what kidnapping is. Why didn't you lead with 'did you take someone hostake'?

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Because I can spell.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Just a sec, I need to figure out how much trouble you're in.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: I have it under control. Relax. Nobody is going to find her.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Nothing about my interactions with you leads me to believe you have this under control.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Going to bed. Night.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: and here I thought you might want to be able to wake up in the morning. Silly me.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Are you THREATENING me?

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: No, trying to help. But you have this all under control. So when the armed mob comes for you, I guess drop as many as you can?

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Nobody is going to find her. I covered my tracks and I'll let her go in a few days. How did you even find out?

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Other people know. They reached out to me. Apparently, you're becoming a celebrity.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Seriously? Over THIS? Now I'm just offended. Wait. Since when are you on the sparkle skirts side?

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: I'm not, but people I know have been trying to sit on the fence or haven't yet figured out which team they're on. Keeping in touch with them is helpful to me. Like now, when I know what trouble is brewing over there. Helps to be one step ahead.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Right. Fine. How many coming for me? You know, I wouldn't have even done this if one of those idiots hadn't stuck their nose where it didn't belong.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: I dunno. I get info, not full marching orders. But if they have time to get everybody riled up it'll be a lot more than normally show up to stop a plan in progress. They have time to get togeether.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Well, then I'll leave the door open or something and they can come grab her. I'll be done in a day or two, so it won't matter. That's the thing about mobs, they take time to gather.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: You probably don't have days. Hours, maybe.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: During the salvage operation I was just in, I saw some of them using wide-area searching magic. Might be able to follow her trail. Or yours, since they're looking for you specifically. I can't say.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: ... Fine. I'll move her further out. How long can a human survive in the dusk zone, anyway?

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Do not take the civilian human into the Dusk Zone. if you kill her I can't help you at all. Why don't you just take this L and leave her. They saw you grab her, girl.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: I tell you what. I'll take this L if you tell me the entire, honest, detailed reason you care. Because I know it's not for my health.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Because it's going to amp things up for us. You start taking people, they start vanishing off the grid for literal days, a flash mob of the primary colors of the rainbow shows up and wrecks some of our stuff, everything escalates. I don't want escalation right now. This is a huge escalation and every moment it goes on it gets worse. Alright? It makes my job harder. Thanks, by the way.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Wow. You know, that was... almost believable. I mean, it was BS, but nice attempt. Bravo. Coming up with it on the fly like that? Good job. She'll be fine, she'll be back in a few days, a week. Tops. So long as nobody messes with things, nothing bad is going to happen to her.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: I thought you were supposed to be smart.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Frankly, your fence straddlers should be grateful. There's a lot of worse elements who could take her in. People who, after they took her, would never have her be seen again. Don't think I don't see what goes on deeper in Obsidian, Agera-san.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Then you should know there's a form and approvals for this sort of thing. Don't think it won't get you in trouble with our side of the fence either.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Sure it will. If you really have to do something to get these kids to sit down, tell them she's safe. So long as people stop interrupting my work. She's fine... for now.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: That has never once calmed anyone down in the history of humankind. Maybe it works in your magical world of rainbows and horses and dragons, but here. You're going to get hurt or worse. This isn't a game now. This isn't draining energy from a bunch of nobodies. This is the stuff that gets people disintegrated. There have been magical girls in the past. The fights aren't always nonlethal, Hinoiri.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Well if it comes to that then the problem will solve itself, won't it? I'm not going to lose. I have it under control, chill. So, what, do you have the hots for this girl or something? Cause if that's REALLY what this is about, for the right bribe I'll let you come play knight in shining armor and scale the mountain for her.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: Alrighty, fine, I'm done getting involved. I can wash my hands of the matter now - I warned you. Now I'm just gonna get as far away from this bomb as possible. I'd throw them off your trail if you hadn't done it in broad. view. of. people. but you did, so I can't even distract them while you figure yourself out. This is officially Not My Business anymore.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: I don't NEED your help and I don't WANT your help! I can take care of myself. Stop acting like you give a shit and try talking to me when you actually want to talk about the real reason you're so pissy about this.

(PHONE) Takashi Agera texts: The number you have texted is out of fucks. Please hang up and don't try again.

(PHONE) Hinoiri Kirara texts: Sunbreaker, always desperate to one up, blocks his number. Or thinks she does. She just deletes his number.