2191/Maybe you can be Defreshing

Maybe you can be Defreshing
Date of Scene:	29 December 2024
Location:	Ice Cream Parlor
Synopsis:	While, due to her other activities, Melona is generally ignored when it comes to dark energy quotas as she assists in repairs and helps out in labs, she does still have a small quota. With very few ideas, she looks at a certain mostly-disassembled and wrecked ice cream cart that she had stolen oh so long ago. Many rivets and poundings later, and something has been created. ...It is not refreshing. But maybe it's defreshing enough to meet her quota.
Cast of Characters:	Melona Mizu, Hinoiri Kirara, Minako Aino, Madoka Kaname, Seiko Akai, Amanda Faust, Jadeite, Mamoru Chiba, Usagi Tsukino

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Melona Mizu has posed:
- A FEW HOURS AGO -

Misery Melon puts some of the last little touches on fixing up that ice cream cart that she'd stolen nearly a year ago, twisting a bolt that held an arm into place on it, staring up at the thing she'd created. "...Ja, you are a crime against ice cream." She comments absently. It looked like some sort of mechanical monstrosity, and wholly unfunctional. But that's fine. That's what the youma-ization was for.

Misery Melon shrinks down the ice cream cart to slip it into her apron, reflexively glancing at her Soul Gem before she started on her way to figure out where to unleash the automaton.

- PRESENT TIME -

Misery Melon stood atop the roof opposite of the ice cream parlor, holding a seed of darkness which she pressed together with the miniaturized automaton, infusing it with darkness and tossing it down towards the ice cream parlor. As it falls, smoke begins to billow from its miniaturized form. Click... click... click... click click click click HYOOOOOOONK!

As the automaton lands, the ice cream cart-turned-automaton unleashes a massive train-like blast of sound as fire sparks into existence, steam and smoke coming off of its form as uneven legs carry it towards the ice cream parlor with a CLUNK-TINK CLUNK-TINK, what had once been the opening where ice cream would be gotten out of is now a twisted metal mouth with two giant headlights bolted on to function as eyes, wheels spinning uselessly in the air as it runs towards the door to burst through it, shattering glass as the thing neglects to actually use the door.

And Misery Melon sits down atop that rooftop to watch the chaos from across the way, knees pulled up to her chest and arms wrapped around her knees.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Hinoiri Kirara was a unicorn. Deal with it. And that meant sometimes she wanted ice cream even on cold days. Well, at least now she didn't yell at the clouds on otherwise nice days for blocking the sun, since apparently it didn't work that way here.

Actually, now that she thought about it, she used to make a ton of other mistakes whenever she went anywhere that she didn't make now. She almost, dare she say it... fit in.

Truly, a magical place. She...

"Oh come bucking ON!" she snapped as, walking out of the parlor, an ice cream cone in her hands, a giant robot came and landed down RIGHT in front of her.

She then just sighed... stepped aside... watched as it hit the building... and... "Not my fault!" she yelled out. Before taking another lick of her ice cream. Welp. This was about to get busy. She wondered who it was. Giant steam punk ice cream machine... mmmmmm... No scarf, so not Mirage's crew. No noses, so not Pierott's. Keaka? Possibly. She seemed the type, but she didn't remember ever seeing her with a 'steampunk' anything. No cthulu bits dangling out to snatch souls, either. Witches 5/4/5/3? Nah...

She took a seat at one of the benches and watched for now. Which of her ex coworkers were causing problems today and who was going to get punched...

Minako Aino has posed:
A cute blonde with a red ribbon in her hair makes her way toward the icecream shop. There's a little suitcase on wheels being dragged along behind her, with a white cat perched ontop of the suitcase getting a free ride along the way. It had been awhile since Minako had been back in Japan! And she wasn't looking very happy.

A huge, dejectged sigh breaks from Minako before she whines, "I can't believe I just spent *months* in Paris! THE most romantic city in the *WHOLE WORLD*, and I was ALONE the whole time!"

The white cat beside her glances up to remark, "Excuse me, but I was there, too!" Artemis flicks his tail in a clear huff at Minako's whining.

The blonde tosses her hair over her shoulder indignantly. "You don't count, Artemis! You're not a cute boy! I should have been there with some hot guy, enjoying the scenery together, hand in hand while the sunset was behind us!" Minako Uuuughs wearily. "Instead of skulking around in the sewers looking for bad guys."

Artemis protests, "They weren't sewers, they were catacombs, and we were doing very important work to ensure there was no remaining signs of Queen Beryl or Metallia!" Pause. "And I'll have you know I'm very handsome by cat standards thank-you-very-much!"

"Yeah, yeah," Minako flaps her hand at the cat dismissively. "Veeeery important --" Muttermumble. Approaching the icecream shop she adds, "STILL should have been there with a hot boy. The only thing that can make me happy now is some icecream to cheer up!" Fistpump! "With extra whipped cream and chocolate and--"

"Wait is that a youma?"

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka is currently sitting in the ice cream parlor, in a booth, with a very large bowl of ice cream in front of her containing a total of eight(!) scoops, all different flavors and covered in a variety of toppings. Sprinkles, both rainbow and chocolate; whipped cream; hot fudge and a bright red cherry on top.

    It is, once again, ice cream time. The time when Madoka Kaname has ice cream with all of her little Chara and they catch up on things. It's the closest thing she gets to "family time" with the seven fairies, and also her way of making sure they're all okay at least once a day. After all, no minidoka would ever miss out on ice cream time unless something really bad was happening, and handling things like this makes her feel less bothersome than doing something like calling them every day. It is in some ways a sacred time, and not just because one of her Chara is a goddess.

    So imagine her horror when an evil ice cream cart suddenly smashes through the front door, making a very loud and very big mess.

    "Protect the ice cream!" shouts Brai, floating between the ice cream bowl and the youma with her arms spread wide.

    "Is everyone okay?" asks Medo, covering her mouth as she sees the point of impact.

    "Oh geeze... so much property damage," bemoans Sio.

    "Not to think of the poor decor!" agrees Lydian.

    Tia rests her parasol on her shoulder and says, "Tsk. Such a nuisance."

    Rens adjusts her tiny glasses and says, "Ice cream of the future? Perhaps it's time to consign this youma to history."

    Kamiko glances at Madoka, and then at the Ice Cream bowl. The divine fairy offers, "I can keep the ice cream safe and cold. Go and fight." Madoka gives her an odd look, but Kamiko cuts her off. "I know, food and my Labyrinth don't mix, but that was a Gretchen problem. Not a Kamiko problem."

    Madoka considers it for a moment, then turns to Rens and says, "Rens-chan, you're with me. Everyone else, go hide and be safe, okay?"

    Kamiko's Paradise portal opens, and the tiny minidokas are pushing the ice cream bowl through while Rens and Madoka stay behind. Madoka doesn't even bother to hide before she shouts, "MY HEART: UNLOCK!" The tiny science chara then returns to her egg and mergest with her bearer, turning them both into Hope Blossom.

    For some reason, Hope Blossom is wearing a tiny pair of glasses that rest just on the tip of her nose. Her branch bow appears in her hands, and she nocks back an arrow.

Seiko Akai has posed:
Its been a quiet Christmas for Seiko Akai. She managed to make some gifts but they are all late! She is still scratching her head over what to get Amy and Rashmi! The only one complete is Laura's. That is actually what lead her out today. She came out with the intention of getting some plushies but the desire for ice cream has overwhelmed her senses. Yes. The need for ice cream is THAT powerful! MUST CONSUME ICE CREAM! So she turns to go in to the ice cream parlor.

She walks in only to turn around and walk out again. "Is that a Decepticon on the Roof?" She asks curiously as she looks up at the creature and then at Misery Melon. "Umm... Why do you have an evil transformer up there? You know this is an ice cream parlor right? The only thing evil here is the Pralines and Cream." SHe winces and quickly takes off running. She isn't ready to do this. Not out here. She just wanted an ice cream! Quickly she transforms, becoming Star Shine! She quickly comes back out and throws her arms out. A pair of glow stick batons form in her hands. She goes into a crouch and prepares to rush in in an effort to take down the ice cream cart.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy is a human. (She's pretty sure. The chances she's secretly an alien or a fairy princess and doesn't know it yet can't be more than like, 1%. maybe 5%. Right?) She still wants cold sweet treats on cold days sometimes!

    She's walking back from the counter with a bowl of ice cream -- birthday cake flavor! ooh! And, spying Madoka and the chara, is just walking over to wave when

[center(*CRASH!*,84)]

    "Are you kidding me?!" She shouts although Rens's comment brings back a distant memory. "Wow. I don't think I've gotten to try dippin' dots since... I mighta been younger than this..."

    When ice cream is stowed to keep cold, Amy sets her bowl down on the table for storage as well (if the minidokas deign to) and--

    She blinks at Madoka. "So what do you get for merging with Rens?" She's never seen that transformation before! "Oh, wait."

    Amy ducks under the table, and thankfully the flame SFX of her henshin don't actually burn anything unless she wants them to. She stands up next to the table: "WHY. Okay, why are you attacking ice cream, what problem can you possible have with-- oh forget it. You know, this feels weirdly familiar..." The memory of fighting the music machine youma as a civilian comes to mind. "Ah. Well, this time... I've got magic! And you've got to get outta here!"

    Amy charges up to the machine, swinging her launcher like a battering ram -- but on contact, it just detonates an explosive with no round loaded (and a saltwater countermass that replaces the muzzle-flare-like backblast with a mist that coats the counter and wall behind her in water), trying to use the force to knock the youma back towards the window it came through!

    "[So long gay Bowser!]" She shouts a seemingly nonsense English phrase!

Jadeite has posed:
It is. Super normal for Tamaki to be tagging along with Usagi and Mamoru's date. Extremely normal. Don't worry about it! He's being socialized to be a normal human being and not Earth's most uwu killing machine. This includes third wheeling, holding umbrellas, and running ahead to see if there are delicious snacks to eat while out on the town.

"Dipping Dots! I haven't seen those outside of the States in a long time," he says, having marched on ahead of his prince and princess to scout for food. And trouble.

And an awful tingling in his head, like he. REmembers. This.

Ah. Hematite had told him about THIS fiasco, once upon a time. Tamaki ducks into an alley; Jadeite pops out, already summoning an ice shield to deal with this - this - this ice crime, this glacial giant. R
"One date. Why can't there be ONE date," he mutters, and looks around to see where everyone isbefore pelting the general area with large exploding chunks of ice. (Important not to cause collateral damage!)

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"'So long gay Bowser'?" Mamoru echoes from where he and Usagi are on the sidewalk with Tamaki trailing behind them like an awkward third wheel bodyguard friend-- which is awkward-- but they already have their sweets, so Mamoru stuffs mochi in his mouth, takes out his pocketwatch, and says (muffled by all the goo in his mouth but still intelligible): "Earth Prism Power, Make Up!"

As the dark jewel tones of Mamoru's henshin sequence start up, his eyes twinkle at Usagi, and he says with his whole chest, "Bishounen Senshi Tuxedo Kamen! In the name of Earth, I'll f--"

Tuxedo Mask stops both flirting and trying to do Usagi's hand thing when there's more yelling from inside, and he starts scanning the nearby rooftops. "Ah. It's--"

He looks from Misery Melon to inside the ice cream parlor where the monstrosity is, and he reaches up and runs his hand through his hair, looking a little disbelieving. "MISERY MELON! We barely even met! Why would you--" A beat. "Wait is this an homage or something?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Having Tamaki play third wheel while she's out with Mamoru is not Usagi Tsukino's favorite thing to do, but, on the other hand, his socialization as a normal human being and not a person who insists on thinking of himself as a magical bodyguard is a project. A long-term one. One that Usagi had hoped wouldn't take this long and sometimes she thinks she should let Chibiusa brainwash him, but Mamoru would be sad about that so -

So look.

The point is, when a monster shows up and transformations fling out every which way and Mamoru starts flirting with her -

"WHOO, BISHOUNEN SENSHI!"

Obviously she's going to cheer as though she's white girl wasted, even as she runs off for some cover to hide.

A minute or so later, Sailor Moon comes running out, and she finally takes in the monster instead of her fiancé and doubletakes.

"Is that the Dippin' Dots cart?!"

Melona Mizu has posed:
As Hinoiri licks at her ice cream while the Youma charges past, the sheer HEAT coming off of the 'ice cream' cart might make it a bit more of a melty lick than before, the belching out smoke and steram of the monstrosity like a raging fire now that it was 'spun up', the constant ticking and clanking of the mechanics that should not function accompanied by that uneven gait from one leg having a longer piece of junk for its lower leg section.

"ORDER RECEIVED."

Click click click whirr. It rotates on a small platform attached to those uneven legs to face Minako Aino, unleashing extra hot whipped cream and molten chocolate...that somehow is still keeping the correct form factor. Ish. As it rotates further to unleash a wave of that molten hot and somehow still whipped cream-and-chocolate over the area.

...Well at least chocolate sauce was nice?

Meanwhile, someone apparently saw Misery Melon throw the youma and asked questions of her. In response, she mostly just... ducks down further behind the lip of the opposite roof that she'd been sitting on.

If she can't see them clearly she doesn't exist!

... Wait does she have to make sure the're gone since they saw her throw the Youma?

Think. Think. Think.

Pause. She pulls out her phone quickly to send off a text.

<<TXT to Takashi Agera: If someone sees you throw out a youma you have to kill them right, boss?>>

And also the person who helped Sayaka Miki BREAK HER CONTRACT like a bad evil bad person is there too, but that's fine the Youma would take care of her.

Speaking of being taken care of, Puella Amy charges the youma and swings her launcher towards it, sending it flying back out the window the crash onto the street with a screech of metal and hot molten chocolate and whipped cream spewing into the air like the most awful fountain.

Which then gets a pelting of explosive chunks of ice falling down onto it and cooling the heat of the Youma off somewhat!

However after the one-two punch of attacks, the Youma proves its durability as its legs stamp down onto the ground and then it lifts up to its full height, before snapping straight back up into place unnaturally with a ~ping~.

Melona Mizu has posed:
Meanwhile Melona is still texting furiously on top of the rooftop. Okay, don't kill people. Beat them up, steal their energy. She lifts her phone over that lip of the rooftop, the flash and shutter-click of the phone going off pointed towards Star Shine.

A soft sigh and Misery Melon grabs the charm form of Drei Spitzen, the three-headed mace taking on its normal full sized form with a THUD overhead.

Aaaaand Bishounen Senshi Tuxedo Kamen calls out at her. Aaaaaa even the slightest bit of surprise is ruined now!!!! She leaps from the rooftop, intent on intercepting Star Shine with the three-headed flail, the three heads briefly merging together into a single giant head with a CRASH!

Luckily not a direct attack but if she doesn't redirect she might run headlong into solid steel.

"Why would this be a homage to you, weird healing ... welcoming earth... man?! I stole this from Hematite." Hmph.

Aaaand Sailor Moon was there. Great, multiple people she /didn't/ want to see here.

...Mostly because she knows they're strong. "...Yes? Recycling."

HJYOOOOOOOONK.

"See? It likes being something more useful."

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
So long gay bowser? What in the world did that mean? Hinoiri wished her english was a little better, because now she was going to have to ask Double Trouble about it later and.... you know what? Maybe she'd just look it up online. She took another lick of her ice cream cone.

Then she glanced towards Tuxedo mask... then up. Misery Melon? "Huh. I don't think we ever met. Sounds kind of like a sad sack.

Then she blinked and took another look at the ice cream cart and... "Okay, what is a 'dipping dots'? Is it like dip for your ice cream?" she called out. "And what does it have to do with a 'gay bowser'?"

"Ack, no, bad!" And her ice cream was melting from the presence of the heated youma. She... she was going to take the opportunity to get up and just... slowly walk away. Trying to save what she could of her ice cream as she went. "Good luck M&M! Try not to get beat up too hard! Or... do. I guess." She gave a shrug before mumbling much softer to herself. "She never tried to kill me, at least. So... probably not one of the terrible ones."

Nooooo, drippy cone, ugh, now her hand was all sticky... why... why you do this, youma?

... Wait, it was shooting out boiling hot magical chocolate and you know what? She was going to run now. Screw the half melted ice cream, she'd get a new one and this one could just go into the trash.

Minako Aino has posed:
"MY FUR!" Artemis leaps out of the way to cover before he ends up with chocolate all over himself! Whipped cream he could maybe deal with but chocolate was far too sticky to get out easily. The cat bolts for cover without regard for his ward who he completely abandons!

Pay no mind to the talking cat it probably was your imagination.

Minako for her part leaps the other way to dodge a similar fate. "This is not what I meeeaant!" Tuck, roll, and tumble right into an alley across the street in a whirl of skirt and hair. At least she was safe. Right?

Moments later Sailor Venus leaps out with her Venus Chain held between both hands. "Evil Doer! How dare you ruin a perfectly good day with this Fakey Fake Icecream dot thing! Icecream is meant for enjoying slowly with a cute boy offering to wipe up any drips, not for freezing your tongue on little peices of flavorless ice balls!"

Oh, hey, there was Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask and some others too! This meant she didn't have to give a speech. Excellent! "Venus Love Chain!"

Whirling the chain around her arm snaps it back, and then lashes it out toward the Dippin Dots Machine Youma trying to capture it before it gushes out any other toppings.

Seiko Akai has posed:
Just as the picture from the phone is taken, Star Shine takes off toward the youma. With her glowstick batons brandished. Just after Amy strikes, She comes in hard and fast. She skids on the ground, taking the batons to the back of what pass for the back of its knees.

"Hiya Red!" Star Shine smiles to Amy and gives a wave before scrambling to her feet. She turns to look up at Misery Melon. "Getting Good Pictures? I thought you types were trying to get dark energy! I don't got any of that!" She calls out before turning her attention back to the Dippin Dots Youma. "Anyone got any advice for taking this thing down fast? I can't exactly sing at this one, unless purifying magic would help?" She asks curiously.

She begins circling around the place, trying to look for an opening to try to get another attack in on the youma. "Shame, I thought Dippin' Dots was good!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
And there we go, he's *completely stymied*. Mamoru stands there with his mouth open for a second, and finally just very clearly and plainly and obviously values pride over safety. "I *am* Hematite!" he blurts, offended. "It was PERFECTLY useful before everyone broke it--"

Tuxedo Kamen, you have more important things to do.

"Ehh. Purification would help," he calls over to Seiko, "it's just a youma."

A pause. He experimentally throws a rose at one of the cart wheels, trying to nix its mobility. "I'm kind of curious how long it would last with us just waling on it, though."

Jadeite has posed:
"We know it's a real date now," Jadeite teases Sailor Moon and tuxedo Mask, gesturing at the Dippin Dots cart interupting their date. "It seems as though this Hematite is as much of a third wheel as I am, isn't he?"

See. It's funny because Mamoru is Hematite.

A building's leap behind Tuxed Mask, Jadeite balances on the edge of the roof and watches as the hideous cart barfs up boiling chocolate, grimacing. Granted, it's not as immediate a threat as some other attacks, but slipping on and into molten candy would be a pretty painful and embarassing way to go. So!

"Glory of the snow!!" he casts, and two huge ice flower blossoms slam vertically into the ground, channeling the majority of the boiling chocolate away from the fight and into a gutter; the ice sparkling off the two flowers would cool the rest of the chocolate enough to be safe to walk on. The only issue here would be for the sewers once the chocolate solidified.

"Do we want to just beat it up for fun? It's been a while," Jadeite offers.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Kamiko directs the rest of the Chara through the portal, spots Amy's bowl, then looks up at Amy's and nods before peeking into the portal to call out, "Let's get Amy's, too!" Before Brai and Lydian pop back out to push the rocket girl's ice cream through. Fortunately for Amy, the minidokas are pretty well behaved when they aren't seething with dark energy.

    As for what form Madoka makes when she merges with Rens, well, it's pretty much just the same Hope Blossom as it almost always is. Her hair is tied into a bun by a big red ribbon, and a small pair of glasses rests on her nose. "Eheh... I actually don't have that much henshin variety despite having so many Chara. Something to do with alternate timelines always ending up giving me very similar transformations." Has she explained that before? She forgets, but here it is again.

    With the windows and door all busted up, and with Madoka not really wanting to deal more property damage to the shop itself, Hope Blossom leaps through the already broken window, keeping her arms and legs close to her body so that she doesn't get sliced by glass. When she lands outside, she takes another hop away in order to avoid taking splash damage from the chocolate death fountain.

    "You're doing this, but why?!" she says, finally noticing Misery Melon nearby. With a determined frown, she turns her attention to the youma and fires a spread of pink magic arrows at the steampunk monster. "I wont let you besmirch the name of ice cream! I, Hope Blossom, will defend the honor of all things cool and sweet!"

    To Tuxedo Kamen, she asides, "Eheh... I actually remember that! Or actually, I remember not remembering."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"How is this useful?" Sailor Moon asks Misery Melon, before hearing a familiar voice call out a very familiar attack, and smiling hugely. The conversation is abandoned. The youma? Honestly, also abandoned.

"VEEEEEENNNNNNNNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSS!"

The Soldier of the Moon, the Pretty Guardian who fights for Love and Justice, the Princess of the Silver Millennium - goes running across the battlefield to tackle Sailor Venus in an enormous hug, squeezing her like an octopus with new prey.

"Venus-chan, you're here, you're back, oh my gosh you're back, it's been forever, you missed practically the whole terrrrrrrrm!!!!" Sorry Misery Melon, there is a reunion happening here. Questions are being asked - Sailor Moon has an answer for Star Shine. "It's a youma, so purification probably works, but you should hit it instead!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Oh, it's-- in the final boss of Mario 64, Mario says [so long-ee Bowser!]' when throwing him, but some have misheard..." Amy explains.

    She does smile at the Senshi of Earth starting to imitate Sailor Moon's catchphrase! Then Sailor Moon brings something else to Amy's attention: "The Dippin' Dots cart? Did I miss something--EYAH!"

    Amy reflexively leaps over the attack, only then does she realize from scent and heat that it's molten chocolate, landing on the counter. "Ya don't gotta boil me!"

    Hinoiri has questions, and someone is calling them 'flavorless ice balls. Amy starts to retort/explain, "Hey, I thought they were good the one time I tried them! They're an ice cream treat that... ugh I'll explain later."

    She doesn't just stand there talking, taking the opportunity to fire a high-caliber gyrojet rifle repeatedly, aiming rocket-propelled slugs at the base of that arm. "Who the heck is Misery Melon?!"

    Amy hops back down from the counter and immediately slips on the sweet mess, sliding on her butt to the front of the store, "Dammit! Y'know my third youma ever pulled the same thing with whipped cream? I was starting to think youma were all--" but as Red slides forward, from the floor she can see...

    "YOU?! But you're a Puella Magi, why are you helping-- why are you using youma?!"

Melona Mizu has posed:
In the youma's defense of Hinoiri's chocolate it's just really hot! And not in the attractive way! Misery Melon doesn't seem to pay much attention to comments of being a sad sack or anything like that. There were other things to focus on, but she's going to Remember That! Probably!

The Venus Love Chain wraps the youma, holding it still for a moment... turned towards Sailor Venus.

And its mouth opens wider, a gurgling noise coming from within it, and one of its arms reaches in, a spade-shaped hand pulling out what ... looks like a relatively normal scoop of purple ice cream!

...Which it then chucks at Sailor Venus!

...In spite of having the right shape and consistency... if it struck? She would find that this is a /different/ kind of horrifying fakey fake ice cream. Because it, like the whipped cream and hot chocolate, was a scoop of /boiling/ hot ice cream. That ... was... not melty. Somehow.

Star Shine had apparently just zipped under where Misery Melon had been aiming. Ugh, that was the problem with giant weapons, they make it hard to track down the quick and dextrous ones, her batons smacking the back of the uneven knees of the youma, forcing it to fall down and land on its shorter leg -- which then almost immediately takes a rose to the wheel that it was attached to, causing it to fully fall down to its side.

It doesn't immediately stand up, instead just reaching in with those spade-arms to chuck more of that boiling-hot ice cream towards the various mahou gathered!

...A chunk of plain vanilla 'ice' cream chucked at Tuxedo Kamen, as if to add insult to potential injury!

"Well yes but it's useful /again/ instead of a busted broken mess." Pause. "Wait. You're Hematite. Oh. Okay."

... Yeah she's surprisingly calm about the casual unveiling of who Tuxedo Kamen used to be.

GLORY OF THE SNOW! Two huge ice flower blossoms slam into the ground, reducing the worst of the boiling chocolate which was... now... doing horrible things to the sewers! ... Luckily once the youma was defeated it probably would disappear and just become energy or something, right?! ... Or the workers are going to have a bad time later. It's fine. Probably.

You're doing this, but why?!

"...Quotas? I guess? I don't know I was told I had to." Misery Melon shrugs helplessly. Arguably worse than any other reason... because she didn't seem to think much of the fact she was attempting to harm people, she does, however, swing her Drei Spitzen to intercept the spread of pink magical arrows with the spiked flail-head. It's out of the way again as those rocket-propelled slugs strike the defreshing youma, sending it skidding off and back on its back again with a CRASH.

Dark energy rolls off of Misery Melon at the questioning from Amy Faust. "Ja. I'm a Puella Magi." She pauses. "And you're all bullies. Constantly ganging up on people... calling Kyubey evil when it is trying to save the universe... beating up people just trying to save you from yourselves..." There is a slightly unstable edge to her voice. "I HATE bullies... they're bad people... YOU'RE bad people!"

In spite of having JUST gotten a grief seed the other day, her Soul Gem, of note, is already half-darkened.

...But considering the dark energy rolling off of her, this likely is unsurprising.

Misery Melon darts towards her youma, reaching to grab a chunk of convenient parked car... which she shoves INTO the youma with a glow of twisted Puella energy, patching up some holes that had started to form in the Youma from the attacks and patching the leg that had been heavily damaged.

And then as it stands again, she crawls onto its shoulder.

"Go, Diptomaton! Defeat these bullies!"

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
As Hinoiri made her escape, there was only one thing left to do... Henshin into Equivalence. And from there, well...

... Soon, the gray mahou was standing on top of a building and looking out over the battlefield. Dipping dots, which were... apparently a type of flavorless ice balls. Or actually good? And apparently... this thing was called gay bowser or something. She didn't even know. Was she even necessary here?

Why did this girl think they were bullies? Sure, the mahou weren't exactly... okay, they NEVER fought fair. But that didn't make them bullies. It just meant they were dirty fighters who you wouldn't honor duel with. That was different. However...

She leaped off the building to make her entrance by... Trying to come down on Misery Melon directly, attempting to kick her OFF the youma. "Girl, if you're a puella magi using a youma, stick to dark energy *or* puella magic. Don't mix and match, pick a lane."

HA! Pick a lane. A totally earth-style choice of dialogue. She sounded just like a proper earthian now.

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus yanks back on the Venus Chain intending to try and overpower the Youma to topple it. That was the intent! Really she was doing her best here! The cry of her name however snags her attention away as she's left holding the chain while hte youma whirls in her direction.

"Sailor Moon!" The cry of returned greeting was friendly, warm, happy--And cut short as she finds herself bowled into by the hugging mahou. With the ground already a bit damp from chocolate sauce her heels slip sending her down, fast, with a yelp. The chain is released in favor of wrapping her arms around Sailor Moon to swivel and protect her from the fall instinctively.

Protect the Princess!

Too late does she see the youma lob a ball of something dairy related at her. It turns from flip-to-being-on-bottom to flip-to-being-ontop abruptly! All a tangle of blonde hair, ribbons and legs.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
'Wait. You're Hematite. Oh. Okay.'

"Yeah, so, like... yeah," Tuxedo Kamen agrees lamely but with conviction as he whips out his cane and jumps over a puddle of chocolate and slides across some that's frozen; he lands in time to stop the attack on Venus and Moon, but not in time to get them away from it and let it hit the side of the building or something.

Nope. All he has time for is turning on his heel and lifting his cape up between the ball of boiling hot purple ... kinetic sand? Oobleck? Smooze? What do you call ice cream that's boilingly ice cream shaped?

Either way Mamoru and his cape stand between Moon and Venus... and DISASTER! His hair is much shorter. He can--

"Fffffffff," Mamoru hisses while biting his lip as the extremely hot fake foodstuff hits, splashing away from his magic cape and spattering his hair and the back of his neck. "We should," he starts, and then he gets his with really cold ice cream in the back of the head and he full-body flinches.

"WE SHOULD HIT IT MORE!" Tuxedo Kamen finally shouts, and flings back his (sticky) cape and yells (with ice cream in his hair and aggravation in his voice, "Tuxedo--"

Then he pulls his fist (and a fistful of cape) in and calls out, chocolate dripping into his collar, "--la Smoking--"

And then he flings his hand out and it glows gold, then white, and then a punchy laser of beamspam jolts forward from that hand as he finishes, "--Bomber!"

Seiko Akai has posed:
"Okay, Thank you Sailor Moon! Tuxedo Kamen! How about both!!" She begins singing as she fights! She smiles to Melon before turning her attention to the youma. She comes in hard, doing a 3 swing combo on the thing. "Boost your spirit off the ground, I'm the spark that won't go out. We can go much higher now, Gravity can't hold us down. We're only at the beginning of this one way dream. IGNITE. Dreams. To Life!" She sings out, encouraging and letting her own purification magic flood the area.

She darts backwards, getting out of the attack zone, not wanting to take an ill timed strike, "They said we'd break. They said we'd lose. But here we are, what else is new? Stronger with Every Fall. Faster with every mile." She keeps singing, letting that purifying magic build. Once she has an opening, she comes running in and belts out, "This is how we ignite!!!" She sings loudly and uses her glow stick Batons to drum rather hard on the youma. She smiles. Could she really be having fun right now? Well yeah She is totally having fun. She looks up at Misery Melon, "I think you are confused about bullying. We're trying to protect people here. Unlike you who is attacking people willy nilly."

Jadeite has posed:
Hit it more, Mamoru says, and Jadeite will - but first he's got to deal with the huge blob of ice cream headed their way!! Especially since Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus are trying to have a proper reunion!

"Glory of the Snow!" he casts again, throwing one icy flower shield in Amy's direct - since Melon seems furious with her, it'll probably behoove her to have xtra protection! The other shield he throws in front of him as he jumps to take a hit for Tuxedo Mask -

Unfortunately. THe problem with chocolate is.Even when you cool it off, it's slippery. And so instead of shielding Tuxedo Mask and the Senshi from the killer ice cream, his foot slips and he flops on top of Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus, the dome of his ice shield landing on top of him to....protect.....themmmmm??

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
There is a conversation happening. One about bullying and Kyubey and defeating people who are just trying to help, and Sailor Moon is trying to have an all important reunion with a good friend who has been gone for months and months and probably flirting with people and having the time of her life and forgetting all about her forlorn princess, so lonely, so sad (maybe she has been talking to Anko too much) -

She and Sailor Venus slip and slide in chocolate, and the Love Me Chain is released in favor of being swiveled around (whoops) and they go crashing in a tangle of limbs that sees Venus taking the brunt of the fall -

And then there's ice cream coming, and it looks normal, right - "Tuxedo Kamen!!"

Because she can see the pain on his face, and she's squished most on top of Venus but also under her and she's squirming to help as he strikes out with his beam, and then there's the Spiral Heart Moon Rod in her hand, and she swivels her arm because it's the only part of her that can get any spin on right now -

"Moon Spiral Heart - WARGH! YOU'RE SQUISHING ME! - Attack!"

Dozens of various-sized hearts start filling the space between Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus, and Tuxedo Kamen's legs, all of them a bright translucent pink, ranging in size from that of a fingernail to that cantelope, whirling around Sailor Moon's arm and Rod, coalescing into a pink heart taller than Tuxedo Kamen and as wide around as outspread arms... but it's kinda funky looking. Squished and lopsided, and it spins and spins but as it shoots off towards Diptomaton it sways like a drunken sailor.

That pink heart is going to hit like a brick wall. At speed.

Sailor Moon, feeling very crushed under Sailor Venus, Jadeite, and an ice-shield, wheezes.

"If anyone - is being bullied - it's me -"

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Hope Blossom's mouth goes agape as she witnesses the unmelting-even-at-high-temp ice cream. "That's horrible! What kind of preservatives are they putting in ice cream like that?"

    She's heard tales of unmelting ice cream before, particularly ice cream sandwiches, but to see it in person...!

    She whines, "How come whenever someone talks about quotas it's always something bad?!" Then she gets accused of being a bully and then she just gives Misery a dead stare and a flat frown. "Yeah no. I'm not going to accept that kind of criticism from people who prey upon the unaware or helpless. Sorry if you got bullied or something but taking it out on random people isn't right!"

    Hope does notice the Soul Gem getting darker, a bit concerned for Misery Melon's safety here. She's also, quietly, glad that none of her Puella Magi friends are using dark energy. Well, actually... Did Mami ever use that? Maybe it's better off if she doesn't know.

    So Misery is defending the youma from her attacks. That... complicates things. Hope purses her lips and draws back another arrow. She takes a step back and slips on a puddle of molten chocolate, slipping immediately and falling on her tush. "Ow! Ta-ta-ta-ta, ouch." She unsteadily gets up, tries to wipe the chocolate smear off of her frilly dress, sighs as she realizes it's impossible, and then turns her attention back to the ice cream monster.

    "I'm sure you put a lot of work into this, but it's ruining our Ice Cream Day." She takes a hop, step and jump back to get away from the chocolatey mess, and unleashes a homing arrow each time her feet touch the ground.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Incoming boiling ice cream! Amy twists from where she's sitting to dodge, which doesn't work very well as she just slips around, thank goodness for Jadeite's shield, and is just rapidly getting chocolate all over more of her. Fortunately, it's been in contact with the cold floor and, thanks to the broken window, the freezing winter air, so it's not scalding her.

    Bullies?! Calling Kyubey evil? "First of all," Amy responds, trying to stand up in the slipperiness and eventually grabbing a chair to pull herself up, "Kyubey improved my life immensely and even I think his story is fishy. I've been to the past; the universe was getting along just fine before the Incubators' interference. Anyway, he doesn't care, he doesn't have emotions, those bodies are like drones or puppets to him, he can't be bullied."

    Amy points at Misery Melon. "And second of all..." She spreads her arms to her side to indicate the assembled mahou. "We're bullies? Lady, because other people can't remember magic we could gaslight people endlessly; steal their stuff and leave them mystified, they're powerless against us. We're the ones who aren't doing that. We're trying to stop you from doing it; you're the one who caused property damage and a mess that everyone here today, and the store employees, won't be able to remember or do anything about, and you just broke that person's car!"

    Amy points at the car. "For all you know, their livelihood depends on that car and even if they have insurance, it might not cover this and they might be choosing between car and food and rent this month and never be able to recover, ending up destitute!"

    Beat.

    "...They could also be a rich asshole, but you didn't check, because you don't care, because you are the bully here who thinks you can do whatever you want to people without magic. Try that repair trick again and I will shoot you because I know you can regenerate."

    Amy conjures the usual recoilless rifle on her shoulder and fires a high explosive round at the ice cream truck.

    "Magic has given you a wonderful opportunity, and the people here at Radiant Heart are the nicest in the world." Amy can't stop speeching. "I'm sure you have some reason, but we're not the bullies here, and you don't have to be. He left Obsidian. Why can't you?"

Melona Mizu has posed:
'Defeat these bullies!' and then very shortly afterwards a not so short person comes leaping off of a building nearby and Rider Kicks her right off of the shoulder she /just/ climbed onto. Misery Melon is sent back to the ground, where she impacts ... rather heavily considering she was still holding her giant flail, the ground cracking where the three impacts of the flail struck. She stands, turning towards Equivalence, as that dark energy gathered into her Drei Spitzen, as if responding by picking, and swinging that dark-energy-filled flail towards Equivalence in response -- and if it strikes.

"Spitzen Burst."

It would then proceed to EXPLODE with dark energy, potentially engulfing the both of them in that dark energy, while the youma runs off to make some distance between them and chasing towards the three that were downed on the ground.

Which is intercepted by TUXEDO... SMOKING... BOMBER! As a punchy laser beamspam is launched towards it, causing it to briefly lose its uneven footing and skid along the chocolate, as a song is brought out and begins to ignite!

Purification magic begins to flood the area, and the youma gives off a metallic screech as smoke bellows from its form. HJOOOOOOOOOOONK!

Some of the dark magic that was making it work reduced, one of its arms locks and freezes up in place! However the other? The other one reaches into its mouth again. And pulls out some molten caramel. Which it starts to chuck towards people's heads.

The singing hurt. So stop the singing. Gum them up with caramel muck!

...Even as it's being used as part of the musical instrumentation!

"Ja, of course bullies claim they're not, that they're just trying to protect people! I have been watching though! It is always the same! One person trying to do their thing and then /suddenly/ five of you show up and gang up on them!" The dark magic is definitely not helping with Misery Melon's logical skills.

Luckily she's focused more on Equivalence who had just drop-kicked her over the pile of Senshi over there because frankly trying to figure out /that/ mess was going to be easier said than done. That said, with that burst of purifying magic coming from Seiko -- though her own explosion of darkness had mostly protected her from the initial wave, it didn't feel great either way -- and the Moon Spiral Heart Attack, Misery Melon was quickly leaping AWAY from the immediate area and back up to the roof, where she grabs a section of the roof, scooping it out like so much clay and beginning to mold it in her hands.

Melona Mizu has posed:
Hop, step, jumpu~!

Arrow arrow arrow!

"Prey... what do they matter... they just try to take advantage of me... try to stop me from doing what I have to... they're in the way of me finding my happy life... the happy life stolen from me..."

And each arrow strikes the Youma true as a homing arrow would, disrupting its aim with the caramel briefly, which slams into a car nearby, sticking over it.

And Amy begins to talk. Begins to argue against her. Begins to tell her how SHE is the bully. That she just broke that person's car. "..."

A recoilless Rifle is launched towards the Ice Cream truck youma, stopping its flinging of caramel, shooting a hole through it.

"...How can you even understand." She mutters quietly under her breath, her voice probably not even properly carrying as tears start to well up in her eyes.

The Youma falls, breaking apart into the parts that it had been made from.

"Magic didn't give me a wonderful opportunity." She continues that quiet muttering. "Magic let me survive." She continues her muttering, as that dark energy grows deeper, that soul gem grows darker, as her voice grows louder, more unstable.
"OF COUSE I'M A BULLY! I DECIDED A LONG TIME AGO AFTER THE LAST TIME I WAS SHOVED INTO A LOCKER THAT *I* WOULD BE THE BULLY! THAT I WOULD BE THE BULLY THAT BULLIES BULLIES!"

She forms the piece of rooftop into a massive fixed ballista on the side of that building, aiming it towards Amy Faust. "Bullies that don't know the horrible things that they're doing."
"Like you."

And she pulls the trigger, unleashing a massive ballista bolt towards Amy, infused with darkness. The darkness of Misery Melon's inner misery, the darkness that wants to drag down those with it.

Because, even if she would never admit it.
Misery loves company.

Minako Aino has posed:
with the impact of the ground and the weight of her princess on top of her, Sailor Venus wheezes out all the air in her lungs in a single breath. It leaves her head spinning as she tries to quickly recover.

The sudden added weight of Jadeite has her vision dancing with stars. Stars that soon drift into little spotty orbs of light as her vision refocuses on the face of the latest addition to the blonde pile.

Of the HANDSOME face of the strapping Jadeite that had just attempted to save them. Immediately red-faced Sailor Venus grins and releases her hold on Sailor Moon so at least she can maybe untangle herself from the mess. Instead she reached out to drape an arm around Jadite's shoulder.

"Oh my~ Thank you so much for saving me! Heehee my heroooo is so handsome where have you been all my life?"

Yeah she might have hit her head a little.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Equivalence stared with wide eyed horror as the puella did... something she REALLY shouldn't have.

She was using dark energy as a puella magi, mixing it in with her weapon. Sure, a youma made sense... but putting dark energy INTO her weapon like that, mixing it with her puella magic?

That was incredibly dangerous. She'd done enough research on it to know how reckless it was. Also, deadly. As the attack exploded, she was sent hurtling back, hitting the wall of a builduing and then rebounding off it, into a car, then down to the ground.

"O-owww..." she muttered, giving a light groan. She reached up and hauled herself up, using the car to stand up again. "W-what... what do you think you're DOING, kid?! Hasn't anyone told you... d-don't mix dark energy with puella magi magic? That's... so dangerous and--"

And her grip slipped. With a shriek, she dropped to the ground again.

Ugh. She missed being Sunbreaker. She was SO MUCH stronger! Now? Now she just ached... But it beat being dead, at least. She'd be back in a minute. At least here were half a dozen of them to pull her weight until she got back.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
As Sailor Venus starts flirting with Jadeite, Sailor Moon does the only reasonable thing for a princess to do - abandons him to his fate. That's right, she squirms out from under the pair of them, army crawling right between Tuxedo Kamen's legs, and bounces up covered in chocolate, caramel, and still warm ice cream as she brandishes her Spiral Heart Moon Rod at Misery Melon.

"You're not a bully who bullies bullies! You're another Obsidian jerk who thinks your problems are worth of hurting innocent people for! You think the people who own this ice cream parlor are bullies? What about all the customers who just wanted some ice cream? What about like, everyone else's business, and how they have to close up until they can get this placed cleaned?! That Dark Energy is cooking your brain if you think you're the one doing a nice thing here."

She puts one hand on her hip and just glares at the sad Misery Melon - and when she sees the Dark Energy attack fly at Amy? She swings the weapon in swift circle, tearing apart the air to make a golden ring - one that aims towards Amy and Misery Melon.

"Moon Healing Escalation!"

And beams of purifying silver light and clouds of mist pour out over the area - even if Amy gets hit, even if Tuxedo Kamen gets hit, even if someone else gets hit - they'll be purified, before the Dark Energy can seep in too deep.

Jadeite has posed:
Jadeite COULD get up and get back to guarding - if Sailor Moon did not immediately use him as a ladder to pry herself out of the blonde pile, leaving him trapped under his own shield with Sailor Venus.

Who is obviously concussed given that she immediately starts hitting on him. Between that and the dark magic and dark ballistas being thrown around, Jadeite is not going to give Mamoru a THIRD reason to be upset Jadeite got a head injury and will instead weather out the storm under his shield.

"Ah. I'm Jadeite," he replies, pasting a polite smile on his face. "I might have tried to kill you last year? I got better!"

Seiko Akai has posed:
"Boost your spirit off the ground. I'm a spark that won't gooo OOWWWWWWWWW!! HOT CARAMEL!" The Singing Magical girl lets out a screech as she is hit with the caramel. She scrambles to her feet albeit slowly. "You interrupted my song! RUDE!" She rushes as fast as she can toward youma. She starts using her batons on it. "I am so going to need a bath after this. How do you even clean your Magical outfit?! Bloody Caramel?!" She shakes her head, her attacks being a bit more violent since she got all sticky. "You bully! You made me all sticky! I don't like being sticky!" She just keeps swinging away with her batons.

This isn't helping. Sure she is getting some hits in and good hits at that. But her song was doing more damage... WAIT. She she doesn't need a song just yet. She just needs a note or two!" It won't purify but sonic damage is definitely a thing.

"LAaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!" She sings out sending out a sonic blast at the youma. "This needs to stop. You are hurting yourself and these innocent people here. We gotta finish this soon." She calls out just in time to realize she's on the same page as Sailor Moon. That is really kinda scary to think about, if she knew who Sailor Moon was.

The Caramel covered girl sings out again. This time, she is much more focused on the job. "Boost your spirit off the ground. I'm a spark that won't go out. We can go much higher now. Gravity can't hold us down. We're only at the beginning of this one way dream... Pure Heart." She whispers those last two words, releasing the built up purifying Energy within her.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru feels like cheering at Amy's speech, it's so good! And then a Usagi pops up in front of him like a bunny from a hat, but she's covered in chocolate and caramel and no it would not be okay to just. taste. that...

His eyes widen behind his mask (that has chocolate on it) when he sees Misery Melon really going all out on the crazy villain rant and then hauling back and--

Moon is Escalating, and he's only now processing the giant drunken sailor heart from a minute ago now, and the burn from the boiling ice cream's already healed, and he's already moving. He is running, he is so fast he's a black and white and red streak and a barely-there impact with Amy, and he gets her out of the way of the ballista even as Sailor Moon is purifying them all--

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Hope Blossom, from this distance, is a bit more able to see the sheer chaos that's happening. There's chocolate everywhere, people yelling at each other, and... a senshi pile in the middle of the fight?! "H-hey! Far be it from me to tell a princess what to do, but is this really the time to make cuddle puddle?!"

    Clearly she missed what actually happened, even though something similar also happened to her.

    She also takes a look at Equivalence and winces. Ouch. That looks painful. In fact, literally everything here looks like a mess. There's chocolate and caramel everywhere, making everything slippery. There's ice cream that doesn't melt, and the Rens in Madoka's head keeps theorizing about its chemical composition and honestly Hope Blossom would rather she not. She's also pretty sure her cute henshin glasses just broke the last time she fell over, which she isn't used to having to deal with, and it kinda looks like a couple of Kamiko's benotafraid Familiars have escaped her Paradise and are now feasting on the fallen ground ice cream.

    "H-hey! Don't eat that! It's not good for you!" She takes her branch broom and tries to shoo them away. "Go home! This isn't food grade! You'll get a tummy ache! Or a... bell ache? Wing ache? Eye ache?"

    The tiny eldritch things make a noise that sounds both jingly and sad before vanishing through a portal.

    Then she turns her attention to Misery Melon, who totally isn't her evil twin. Madoka pulls the Humpty Lock from beneath her collar and says, "Puella Magi shouldn't use dark energy... unless you want to turn into a Witch! Don't be so reckless with your own life!"

    Then she makes a heart shape with her hands, calls out, "NEGATIVE HEART... LOCK ON!" and tries to catch Misery in the heart-shape beam. "OPEN HEART!" She shouts, unleashing a torrent of magical rainbow light purification on the Puella Magi. She's not sure if this will hurt more than it helps, but... that much darkness combined with a Soul Gem cannot ever be good.

    Then as an aside to Star Shine, she says, "I mean... whenever I want to clean my henshin I just turn it off and on again. Usually works?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy ducks a flung chunk of caramel, although a little bit splatters across her face and hair. "OW! Hot hot...!" she tries to wipe it off her face, which gets most of it but leaves a smear that's quickly chilled by the winter air. Her powers' focus on appearance can quickly and cheaply regenerate damaged skin, fortunately.

    "If your definition of right and wrong is solely whether one or many fight for it, then you understand human values even less than Kyubey."

    Magic didn't give me an opportunity. It let me survive. Amy knew that might be the case. She remains stern, expression softening only very slightly. "A second chance many don't get. Why use it like--"

    But the Melon has more Misery to speak of. Amy winces as she speaks of being bullied, and her quest to bully the bullied. And that's a big ballista.

    Amy starts scrambling to get to cover around the building, but the floor and pavement are still slick with chocolate...

    Fortunately, she has friends to protect her! Amy finds herself in Tuxedo Mask's arms, eyes wide in surprise, and she can't help blushing. Being protected, and purifying energy... they both feel nice!

    Amy gives Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon a look of relief and thanks as she stands again, before turning to face the miserable Melon once more. "You don't know what you're talking about." And then she's angry. "I have seen countless accusations that someone like me would only choose this life to take advantage of people!" Her soul gem flickers slightly. "Like I'm some kind of demon with no purpose but tricking others! I'm only safe because no one knows magic is real!"

    "And because I have friends." She smiles, briefly, at the others assembled here.

    And then red eyes glare at the other Puella Magi. "I don't know what goes wrong in those people's minds, or what's gone wrong in yours. Whether you accuse us of doing what you would do, or if you simply can't understand why we'd protect people, or that stopping you is protecting people."

    She has no purification attack. She doesn't want to just inflict pain (and magic expenditure) on the girl. Hopefully words and others' attacks will be enough.

    "Your vengeance is misplaced."

Melona Mizu has posed:
Equivalence gets a response that is just... pure confusion from Misery Melon. "...I've always used this. Kyubey said it's fine to just do what I think is best. And this is just... how it's always been." After all, Misery Melon is a Puella born in darkness. ... Sort of. The source technically wasn't really, but well.

...It's Kyubey. If she witched basically immediately that was just a perk for him.

Another Obsidian jerk. "..." The dark energy is cooking her brain. "...You can't understand. You... horribly bright person who's always had everything." She mutters.

Moon healing escalation.

Fudge.

Beams of purifying silver light and clouds of mist pour out over the area as Star Shine uses her batons continually on the ... now-corpse of the Youma, and then resumes that purifying song!

Both of which bathe the area in purifying magic.

And Melona.

Screams.

A scream of pain and agony and TERROR that bleeds into /RAGE/.

"No no no no... no no no no no no NO!!!! YOU WON'T TAKE THEM FROM ME!" She screeches as she builds up dark magic once more.

Negative Heart.
Lock On.

Rainbow purification magic is shot out at Misery Melon, and strikes once more, even as she tries to duck behind cover, crouching down and holding her head as the purification washes over her, trying to purify her negative heart.

No no no.
If you feel better they'll be gone too
You're not allowed to feel better.
NO. NO NO NO NO NO!

Even as Amy talks, it's lost on Misery Melon as she shakes her head, slamming it against the edge of the building briefly as she works harder on gathering that dark energy, dark energy that was starting to slip through her fingers. She screams one last time, this one more desperate than angry.

"YOU WON'T TAKE ALL I HAVE LEFT!"

And a familiar spell triggers.

A duskport.

Taking Misery Melon away.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"I'll have to ask Riventon about her," Tuxedo Mask says with a sigh, squelch-stepping back towards Sailor Moon and licking her cheek before continuing on to lift up the bell of Jadeite's shield. "Gross... you okay down there? Tamachan? Venus-san?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Misery Melon flees, leaving the remnants of her youma - mostly just the busted up remains of a Dippin' Dots cart now - and plenty of cooling ice cream, caramel, and chocolate behind. The mahou who fought today are a sight to behold, messy, sticky, and slathered in toppings, and Sailor Moon grimaces as she realizes some of the chocolate is in her hair.

She's drop henshin right here in front of the goddess 'doka and everything, if not for the fact that Equivalence is here too...

And Equivalence, Sailor Moon knows from warnings, is unpredictable when she feels off-balance.

"...I wish that would help for good," she sighs, "But there's no way someone as mad as her won't build her Dark Energy back up soon. I mean... she got the purification from all three of us, and she just wasn't ready to let go."

Any other sensible words are lost in jibberish as Tuxedo Kamen walks up and licks the chocolate from her cheek. Her face goes red, her jaw drops, her twintails form little hearts behind her, and metaphorical steam practically billows from the top of her head as her eyes turn to hearts. She drifts behind him like a kite, making heart hands.

Seiko Akai has posed:
The singing Chara bearer drops to her knees for a moment or two. "I feel like the floor of an old family station wagon." She winces and shakes her head. "I dunno if I can stay transformed like this. I mean I'm a pop idol! I'm supposed to look good, not like an ice cream sundae." She shakes her head and stands back up.

Jadeite has posed:
"I have avoided cranial damage," Jadeite reports. He unsticks himself from Venus with an unfortunate splorching sound, tugging her up with him. "Sorry about eating shit during the battle, the chocolate was NOT as solid as I thought it was. Can you check her for a concussion?"

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Equivalence just sighed as the girl left. Of course. Something some... ugh. Idiot. Someone had to do something about that. Grudgingly she crawled to her feet, climbing back up the car and shaking her head. She looked to the other girls, opened her mouth... paused. Looked between them, crossing her arms... and then finally shook her head. She turned and ran off. Nope. Nope.

... She still had a while to go. Besides, she wasn't sure she could face Usagi and Madoka right now. Sure, maybe Kamiko, Kamiko was cool. Jadeite too. Mamoru was okay. Amy was sweet. But well...

She wanted to get more positives before she faced them.

Of course, it wasn't long until she pulled out her phone, de-henshined and...

Hinoiri texted Takashi: Hey. Your sad sack puella is mixing dark energy into her puella magic. You might want to warn her about how dangerous that is.
Takashi texted Hinoiri: are you there with her? the sparkles should shove off
Takashi texted Hinoiri: I don't come to their job and interrupt them. oh wait they don't have jobs
Hinoiri texted Takashi: No, doing the crappy civilian thing of having to watch from afar. Just warn her before she gets herself killed. Unless you'd rather her get herself killed on your watch.
Takashi texted Hinoiri: yeah I have before I think. or Mami should have
Hinoiri texted Takashi: ... Just tell her before it turns out nobody did. If you tell her and she gets herself killed, that's her problem. Puella are delicate.
Takashi texted Hinoiri: Already did.
Takashi texted Hinoiri: well, am

Hinoiri rolled her eyes. Bunch of idiots tampering with magic none of them understood. They were going to get themselves killd and she wasn't there to help pick up the pieces for them. Heck, she could barely pick up her own pieces... ugh. A puella using dark energy. How can she not understand how DANGEROUS that is?!

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Hope Blossom frowns where Misery Melon just was. After the dark Puella is gone, Madoka crosses her arms and pouts. "It's not like we don't have our own problems... or traumas."

    Turning towards Sailor Moon, she nods and says, "I mean... if she chose dark energy from the start, she can just choose it again."

    Star Shine is looking a bit worse for wear, and Hope Blossom winces sympathetically. "Eheh... well, thanks for your help again today! I'm sure you had things you wanted to do other than fight evil ice cream. I'm sure the henshin will end up clean later, right? ... I think."

    Then she looks down at the ice cream mess and notices that even more tiny hamster-sized benotafraids are trying to eat the fallen ice cream, chocolate and caramel. "Geeze..." she whines. "They're eating off the ground again... Hey! You don't know where that's been! ... Actually you do, and it's really bad!"

    The portal to Paradise appears next to her, and Kamiko floats out. She puts a commiserating hand on her Bearer's shoulder and says, "Just let it go. I can't control them either."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    All she has left? What is the Puella Magi talking about...

    But then she's gone, and all that's left is the sticky, messy aftermath.

Shehe braces herself and focuses on keeping thoughts and feelings chilled as she looks over the others to make sure everyone is alright. She's generally resistant to the evident physical hotness of all Radiant Heart students, more focused on personalities and how they act towards her, but...

    The shape of clothes de-emphasized and the shapes of women underneath emphasized has an effect on her, alright? Though not one that provokes action towards anyone else. Fortunately, Mamoru and the Benotafraids provide shenanigans to laugh at and keep her mind off such things!

    "Kuiper Belt Cape tried feeding off familiars and a Witch once and just got sick. I doubt they have to worry about eating off the floor, they're already..." Amy gestures vaguely at the familiars as she approaches. "At least they're cleaning up the mess?"

    Star Shine gets a sympathetic look, an awkward grimace. "I mean... yeah but... I guess it's extenuating circumstances? It's not like you're performing right now, we'll... Go home and wash off."

    She furrows her brow and holds her hand to her chin as she starts thinking about the mechanics of cleaning henshin outfits and scientific questions about how they work... "We take damage and are fine the next fight all the time... maybe the outfits will clean themselves...?"