2739/Gutter Trash

Gutter Trash
Date of Scene:	17 August 2025
Location:	Mitakihara Ward
Synopsis:	Introducing Corona! A slew of mildly incredulous heroes give her what-for because she pulls out a youma over her ice cream daring to melt over her hand.
Cast of Characters:	Mai Elcamino, Rashmi Terios, Usagi Tsukino, Koji Silvia, Roman Talleday, Setsuna Meiou, Chibiusa Tsukino, Laura La Mer

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Mai Elcamino has posed:
It's the heat of summer, and at least school is out for most kids. Those who may or may not have spent a month and change brainwashed may or may not be being threatened with moving back home if summer school doesn't work out, we don't know, but for most people that's absolutely not a concern. This isn't a call-out.

At any rate, 'heat of summer' isn't an exaggeration, there's an excessive heat advisory in Tokyo, and Mai Elcamino's ice cream is melting down her hand. Her hand is getting sticky. Her eyes start to burn with vengeance even as she hurries to eat more of the ice cream before the rest of it melts, and it gets to a point that no matter how much she wants it to be otherwise, she realizes that she will have to contort her arm and neck if she wants to keep eating ice cream because it's DRIPPING. All over.

"AY! You filthy cretin, selling defective ice cream that melts too quickly!" the tall girl in what somehow manages to be a svelte sundress yells, turning to the ice cream vendor with eyes ablaze in fury. She takes her cone and throws it on the ground! And then she shoves two waiting people out of the way to grab a bottle of water and dash it all over her sticky hand, shaking her hand out everywhere and spraying anyone unlucky enough to be too close.

People have already begun leaving, and the vendor is starting to get really really mad because they're leaving and there goes his business because this crazy foreigner is being crazy and psychotically rude.

When her hand is clean is when she finally holds her hands out in front of her, dropping the partly-full bottle in someone's purse, and poses as if she were both stretching and showing off her manicure, and she cries out in rage, "Pelotillero! ATTEND ME!"

<< ding~! >> << AT ONCE, MISTRESS~! >> comes Pelotillero's high chirpy tenor.

Oh it's a full-on henshin sequence, starting with gloves digitally painting themselves up her arms and progressing through her barrier jacket, to her hat oh she has a hat, oh she's very purple-and-black isn't she, oh those are actually really nice shoes, a kind of leather bootlet with a reasonably high heel? But the important part is that that's a barrier jacket, those are runes under her feet, this is a Device Mage. With a hat that has wings and roses on it where it's tipped rakishly on her head.

"Flier Fin!" the young woman cries out next, and purple-and-white energy wings-- two pair!-- unfurl behind her, stretching out imposingly as she achieves a respectable amount of air with one beat of those wings, then lets them do whatever it is they need to do to keep her afloat.

"You may kneel before CORONA! ...incluso si eres basura de alcantarilla, como mi Fernando. However, the only apology I'll take from you is your energy! Fernando! Haz tu trabajo!" she yells, flying higher and watching with narrowed eyes.

Something starts coming out of the gutter, out of the storm drain. It's inky and it's growing and it breaks off and the rest slops back into the drain, and the part that broke off settles out at about waist-high to her 5'7" self. Corona starts to look unimpressed. "Taller," she orders. It gains a few inches. "Taller!" she orders again, and the youma turns into basically a Usagi-height CLAMP noodle.

"Ugh fine. HAZ TU TRABAJO!"

The clamp noodle does, at least, have pretty great hair. And it runs at the attemping-to-leave vendor and latches on to him, starting to drain his energy.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
With every possible variety of ice cream place doing a brisk business in the sweltering heat, Rashmi decided to just go with a cup, because seriously who wants to chance losing half of their treat to The Drips? And she had *just* tossed her empty cup into the trash nearby, and was about to find a conbeni for drinks, when some weird foreigner starts *yelling* at the poor man for... selling... defective... ice cream what the heck?

Oh wait that was the sound of a Device.

OH WAIT THAT'S A YOUMA.

OH GOOD IT'S A DARK DEVICER HOW FUN.

Slipping into a nearby alley, using the panicking crowd as cover, Rashmi henshins in a literal flash, and Nicomachea's voice rings out over the distressed-people noises.

        << *BONG!* >> << FLIER FIN >>

And out from the alleyway soars the Page Mage in full Barrier Jacket, fluttery dragonfly-looking wings of light at her ankles, soaring up to stare eye level at the maiacal Devicer. "Seriously? Over *ice cream?!*"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi Tsukino doesn't know why, but she's feeling very called out today, as she stops for ice cream. She's been doing homework for summer school and decided she deserves a break, and that's what she's in line to do when the rude foreigner girl starts yelling and insulting.

Ughhhhhhh, what is with these people? It's just ice cream!

Only? Then? There's a monster? Seriously?! Before she could even get her ice cream?! Usagi stomps a foot furiously and then runs off to a side alley, light and sparkles and ribbons and the whole ordeal playing out in a few quick seconds before Sailor Moon bursts on the scene.

"Ice cream is a wonderful treat for beating the heat, but even the best ice cream will melt on a hot day! Selfish girls who are too scared to just eat the whole thing in one bite shouldn't ruin it for everyone else! I'm the Soldier of Love and Justice, Sailor Moon, and in the name of the Moon, I'll punish you!"

Koji Silvia has posed:
Speaking of conbini, the doors slide open and allow Koji to come outside, waving a Gunpla magazine to ward off the sudden change of heat, and carrying in his free hand a shaved ice and fruit, bright blue food coloring to represent blue raspberry covering the top half of the giant mound. The chaos goes unnoticed at first as he's walking away from the ice cream and towards the rail station, but then people come walking past him too quicky to ignore.

Turning his head to look back, the person flying in the air with four magical wings catches his attention, followed by the downward look towards where the very tall... person-thing... is starting to drain away energy. Eyes flick back under his glasses to his shaved ice with cut strawberries and bananas ringing the cup's lip, and then he just sighs, "Hanzo..."

    << ON IT. STORAGE. >>

The cup and the magazine, as well as a small slingpack on Koji's back all seem to just fade from sight, being taken into his Device's storage area for safekeeping as Koji doesn't even bother moving off into the shadows like Rashmi did.

     "Set Up." << SET UP. >>

As the words scroll across his folded smartphones outer display, a person runs by in front of Koji, and suddenly standing there is 'Hanzo', the wielder of Shin Hanzo, and when another stumbles past, he's just not there anymore, already vanishing using the illusion magics at his disposal. There's a blur as he's on the roof of the building, looking down towards the fracas.

    "Well... at least you'll be here to keep me cool, Hanzo. Let's do the usual... scan and plan."

Roman Talleday has posed:
Roman had been considering an icecream, given the weather. He'd not been too far off, poking through market stalls and generally waiting for something to happen-- this area was as good as any to find trouble happening-- and Mitakihara did not disappoint.

From across the street, he heard the commotion, straightening up to see some top tier antics going down. His first instinct was to get out his phone and film it to show Lincoln later. Icecream with nuts--

But his teacup earring was already swinging with mild alarm, a pitched squeak betraying Darjeela's anxiety. And then, that woman sprouted wings.

"Oi, nah!" He almost dropped his phone for fumbling it back into a pocket. Soon enough, in Princely attire fit for a High Tea, Cure Chai appeared. Beautiful and swift, pink-haired and long lashed, he seemed to match Sailor Moon on with a pose, on the opposite side.

"Everyone is feeling the heat, they don't need to deal with your Summer meltdown, yeah? Order up, Cure Chai!" He pointed at the Clamp noodle. "Get offa him, ya spaghetti sewer lookin' menace!"

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
While many have stopped in the area to get icecream for themselves to enjoy now, others have stopped on the way home to stock up on the stuff.

Four people in one household in this weather means that a LOT of ice cream can be consumed if allowed.

Thus, having just parked nearby, Setsuna found herself approaching a nearby convenience store when she hears the distinctive and telltale sounds of panic and screaming.

Also Sailor Moon giving a speech.

She's too far away to make out the specific words, but the tone Moon's 'prebattle speech' voice is VERY distinct.

Sighing to herself and shaking her head at the lost errand, the green haired senshi quickly finds an alley to change.

With her it's a call and cosmic nonsense and wind and a bit of built in makeup glam...and then after her transformation ends, Sailor Pluto looks around, then leaps up atop the building to go up and over towards the fight.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    "For once I agree with Sailor Moon!" calls out a small, pink, angry voice from above. "Eat the whole thing at once, coward!"

    Chibiusa wasn't here with Usagi persay, but she was in the area and sensed a service worker being mistreated. That alone would be enough to tick off the small child, but then the crazy lady had to summon a whole youma.

    ... a youma that looks like a CLAMP noodle.

    So now she's standing on a nearby lantern, pointing angrily at Corona. She glares at the mean device mage, then at the noodle, then at the mage, then the noodle, then at the mage. "Like... okay... what even is that and why?"

Laura La Mer has posed:
"Ugh, why did it have to be so hot today?", Laura sighs, walking all hunched over and towards the ice cream shop. What possessed her to come all the way here for ice cream? She could have just ordered delivery, or better yet, just go to Grand Ocean for some tasty treat. It wouldn't have been ice cream, but still.

Ugh, she really needs to introduce it to her home as soon as possible. How hard could it be? They have all sorts of amazing recipes already! They could even be making bubble flower ice cream! "Kururun, you are with me, aren't you?", she calls out to the seal fairy, who pops out of the Aqua Pot holding a wet washcloth to the mermaid's head.

"Thank you, Kururun. When I am Queen, I will be using the Aqua Pot as much as I want. Not even the Veil will stop me." The seal fairy only keeps patting her forehead in response.

The things she does for ice cream.

Her lamentations are cut short by people shoving and running away from the salvific stand, almost making Kururun one with a nearby bush. "Hey, watch it!", she yells at the running person, retrieving the seal in her arms. "Kururun, you ok?", Laura caresses the back of the fairy.

Somebody is playing around with things they should never touch. "Pretty Cure! Tropical Change!", she announces as a pink sphere surrounds her. Taking off the Heart Swirl Ring and inserting sideways into the keyhole of the Mermaid Aqua Pact, she twists it upright and its seashell cover splits in half, revealing a purple base with white stars and blue waves on the left side and white hearts on the right side, surrounding a blue circle with a motif of crystals all around a white sphere.

The opened compact transforms her completely, enriching her appearance with make-up and her clothes as Cure La Mer. Jumping upwards with a splash of water, finally Laura introduces herself. "The Shimmering Ocean! Cure La Mer!"

"I am impressed with you guys. You can't even tell that moving around will only overheat you more", La Mer stares at Corona. "Luckily for you, I will cool you down into next week!", she raises her pen with a smirk.

Mai Elcamino has posed:
"If you fight me, then you, too, are fighting over ice cream," Corona hisses at Rashmi, then gets a good look at her and proceeds to look POSITIVELY OUTRAGED. "A nerd? They send a NERD to fight my Fernando? UGH! Tu tambien eres basura de alcantarilla!! You smell from here, do you never shower?! Begone, basement urchin!" she says in disgust, waving her long-gloved hand dismissively, with an air of yet again getting something sticky off her hands.

Then she stares at Sailor Moon as if the girl were lower than dirt before she starts laughing incredulously. "You are a FOOL if you think I could be scared of brain freeze. That is not an experiment that will have a different result if you repeat it, idiota. Basura. Poor filthy children-- ay!! A prettyboy with a terrible attitude! Roberto, please back up your brother Fernando."

Oh.

Well, Fernando the CLAMP Noodle at least lets go of the ice cream vendor, who is now on the ground. He goes, spaghetti-like ink arms wobbling freakishly, after Cure Chai. But it's as he's going after Cure Chai that a wind kicks up street debris, swirling in a little dust devil that gets bits of leaf and paper and broken plastic and whatever-- oh it's literally lifting the dirt off the street, oh it's lifting the grime off the street, it's collecting it and now there's a figure made of tornado-swirling gutter trash and pollution and dark energy standing twelve feet high, and it rears up and turns its tornado-wind grime face toward the arrayed heroes.

"Well?" demands Corona of Roberto.

Roberto reaches a tornado arm up towards Rashmi, and oh no it's a funnel and yes that's some fierce suction going on.

"I suppose," sighs Corona, then looks over at where Fernando is going after Cure Chai-- and then doubletakes at Sailor Chibimoon. "Are you his sister?! Oh, you asked a question. It was a smart question, without the immediate accusations and JUDGEMENT that these other despicable pieces of human excrement are guilty of. 'Why' is because Fernando needs to stretch his legs, don't you, you precious darling?"

Yes, she looks away from Chibiusa at the CLAMP noodle as she coos that last. Then she turns to Laura, and her eyes widen. ANOTHER one with pink hair. One who's ocean-themed and threatening to cool her off? "You wouldn't dare," she seethes, turning her back on Rashmi to turn the full force of her violent aura in Laura's direction. "Pelotillero! APEX ANNOYANCE!"

<< ding~! >> << APEX ANNOYANCE~! MISTRESS, I ADVISE TACTICAL RETREAT~ >>

While Pelotillero's advising tactical retreat, six little stacked pairs of magical discs vibrate into being in the airspace around Laura, who is apparently currently Public Enemy Number One, because oh god the saltwater will kill her hair, and also wreck her makeup, and aren't these boots leather? She's never gotten this henshin wet before-- anyway ANYWAY-- basically six bodiless suggestions of speakers show up around her, about four feet away from her in a ring, and start belting out a really obnoxious and loud aural hellscape only within that ring. VEEVEEVEEVEEVEEEEEEEVEEVEEE at such an obnoxious pitch, an anxious tone-- "That is for THINKING ABOUT IT!"

Rashmi Terios has posed:
*Nerd?!* Is that... seriously the best she could do?

"Are... are you *mad* because we're *not good enough to fight you?!* That's.... wow that's new. It's been two years and I thought we've dealt with every petty annoyance Obsidian could throw at us, but... *wow.* Turns out you *can* make entitlement your special interest..."

She's about to say more, but the woman is *making a youma out of street grot* and *oh god it's reaching for her.*

She spends a few moments fighting the suction with her flight speed, and losing enough to be pulled a few meters down before she gives up that fight.

        << *BONG!* >> << SOLAR FLASH >>

It's never been clear if the spell actually turns Rashmi into a packet of energy for the eyeblink it takes to travel forty meters to one side of the suction funnel, or she simply moves so fast it *looks* that way. Either way, when the spell runs its course and she's flying to point that vaccuum away from the others, she takes a moment to take the bystanders out of the equation.

        << *BONG!* >> << TIME-SPACE BARRIER >>

As the bubble of yellow-black staticky energy expands to cover most of the block, non-magical people are taken away from the scene of panic... and maybe with the battle taken half a dimension over, the panic itself will subside by the time they're done...

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon frowns down at Corona and shouts, "If you think I'm not judging you then you're really not reading the room."

    Several things are happening at once. Evil tornado, evil noodle, evil speakers. Why are youma always so weird? Well, she doesn't have time to gawk at it, so she hops down from the rooftop and onto the sidewalk. She points her Pink Moon Rod at Roberto and announces, "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"

    Firing a bunch of sparkly pink hearts at a tornado youma is either a bad idea or a worse idea, but Small Lady only realizes that after firing. This is why she wanted to get more experience in the past.

Koji Silvia has posed:
The targets go from two to three, as a really 'trashy' youma rolls on up to help his squiggly brother. Hanzo just narrows his eyes from his spot on top of the building and they flick back and forth between who-all is going after what.

Pushing up to stand and making his decision, Hanzo holds his one of the Device-gloved hands out, the other hand resting on his wrist as he concentrates for a moment. A Belkan-style tri-gram circle appears around the wrist. Three kunai-style blades appear, floating in front of it, and after one rotation, three become six.

But then his hand turns down to here Cure La Mer is being assaulted by sound!

    << DISRUPTOR. >>

The six blades fly out to strike the six spell construct speakers, and begin bombarding them with disruptive magical energies, meant to kill the magic before it can overtly harm La Mer.

    "You know, I usually call them trash youma, because they're usually not ACTUAL trash youma. Congratulations for leaning into your role... but the other guy? No style, no finesse.. no theme? This is Tokyo. You just don't roll up into our city with a second-rate badguy and think you're hot stuff."

    "How about you telenovela your way out of here, and we can all cool off a little."

Laura La Mer has posed:
"You are asking too much of your Device. No way they can trump your annoyance", Laura flips back her hair at noticing the girl's attitude. "He seems to be smarter than you anyway. Have you considered becoming his Device?", the Precure mocks Corona, though she has to pay for choosing to, cut off by the extremely loud noise.

The first few seconds, she is still standing, gritting her teeth with her hands blocking the ears, looking at the punishment of her bravado furiously. The continued force of the aural attack forces her to her knees, and she starts feeling her brain rattling. "Not enough", she forces the words out.

In a desperate leap, she forces herself at Corona, posed to deliver a headbutt at the villainess.

Roman Talleday has posed:
The noodle has a name, and apparently, it's Fernando. Roman doesn't know a lick of Spanish, but he does know how to size up a gross looking monster. As Fernando runs at him, he takes a flag fromt he icecream stall and makes the motions of a matador with it.

"Ole!" It's something like dance and baton twirling, but it's intended to dodge and bait noodly limbs, teasing and confusing and distracting.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
If Corona thought that calling Sailor Moon a fool would stop her, she's wrong. If anything, Sailor Moon just shoots her a Look. "If you're not scared of brain freeze, why'd you let your ice cream melt like a dummy?"

One hand goes to her hip. The other points a finger squarely at the latest Dark Lieutenant around. The look on her face? Bemusement.

A barrier goes up, attacks are flying, mockery is happening, and this girl is... mean. Honestly? Kinda like Hinoiri-chan, back in the day.

"You know... I kind of missed this," she realizes, and then decides to cheer Sailor Chibimoon on. "That's right Chibimoon! Splat that monster with the power of hearts!"

Mai Elcamino has posed:
"APEX--" starts Corona, then stops when Rashmi calls up a time space barrier, miffed. She glares. "Of course I am entitled, I am Corona! Is that not so, Pelotillero?"

<< ding~! >> << YES, MISTRESS~! >>

The woman's hat's feathers settle a little -- do they seriously ruffle with her mood? -- as Laura suffers under the sinister soundscape, and then Roberto nearly yoinks Rashmi in when she escapes by the skin of her teeth! It's fine, though, it's fine, because now Roberto is full of hearts and dark energy at the same time, and he starts whacking people with them, scattering them every which way -- including one that flies out at Fernando over there and whacks him in the back of his tortellini-like head, sending him crashing inkily into Cure Chai and his flag. Fernando doesn't know any better. He starts trying to drain a Precure.

On the other hand, every time the hearts are expelled from Roberto, they leave impossible persistent heart-shaped holes in the funnels that make up the garbage monster's body. Roberto makes a sound like tires screeching and a rattling muffler. But those hearts do doink where they hit, look out.

She gets headbutted by Laura and reels back, kicking the pink-haired mermaid girl away from her with one hand to her forehead and tears at the corners of her eyes. Tears of RAGE. Which she points. At. Koji. "APEX MANICURE!" she chokes out past her towering fury.

<< ding~! >> << APEX MANICURE~ >>

As she launches herself at Koji, the tips of her fingers grow long razorsharp energy claws, runic diagram circles leaving them in their wake. "HOW DARE YOU! How DARE YOU say that like it's an INSULT!" she screams at him.

Roberto the Street Grot Tornado Youma looks nervous, somehow.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
        << *BONG!* >> << TELEPATHY >>

<< ...Okay so Lesson One, let's try to keep our sass *not* so personal, >> Rashmi's voice is heard in her friends' minds. << Hello new person! I'm Rashmi Terios, and this is my communications net! Just imagine yourself saying what you mean to say. You'll get used to it, I promise. Now then... >>

        << *BONG!* >> << TERA STRIKE -- BOOST UP >>

A trio of wisps resolve into being around her, then streak out to Hanzo, Cure La Mer, and Cure Chai. Because if you're gonna give someone a hard punch, *any* time you can give it to more than one Cure is a good use of time and resources.

Which still leaves the matter of Roberto... Well at least this can still be educational.

        << *BONG!* >> << RING BIND >>

A pair of golden rings shimmer into being, then snap into place around Roberto's legs, locking their positions in spacetime. It's kind of a testing strategy, to see if this pile of street-grime is actually too coherent to get out of a Bind or not.

Koji Silvia has posed:
    << GEISTMESSER. >>

To counter Corona's incoming attack, Hanzo claps his hands together, then turns them to fists, thumb to thumb. Drawing an energy sword from air with a flourish, the coronal blue blade is only as long as a short sword, but is shaped more like the shorter yet straighter cousin of the wakizashi, or... the ninjato.

One foot moves back to ground himself against the attack incoming, and then...

    "You're right. Where are my manners. Welcome to Tokyo."

Despite his being a sassy punk, his form seems to shimmer in the air for a moment.

    << FLASH STEP READY, MASTER. >>

Parry or dodge, Hanzo is ready as the nails come in at him and he sweeps back at them with the energy blade.

However, to Rashmi, he quickly sends, << I don't suppose, for ONCE, we not try to find the better nature in our adversaries? Maybe? WOW THOSE ARE LONG NAILS! >>

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon notices her hearts swirling around inside the tornado youma and yelps as a few of them get launched in her direction. She runs and dodges a few of them as they impact the wall behind her, then stops as one whizzes by right where she was just about to move. Good thing they're in a barrier now!

    "I am pretty sure that's not what they mean by 'spread the love'." she complains. Okay, attacking the tornado might be a bad idea. She instead turns to the CLAMP Noodle and fires off another heart beam.

    "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"

Laura La Mer has posed:
Success! Being kicked away from the villainess is more than worth it despite the subsequent pain that comes with her powerful attack. Too bad for her this is nothing, she can deal with much more than this, the mermaid Precure thinks, slowly pushing herself to her feet.

She feels strength returning to her when Rashmi's wisp circles around her, and she gives a smile to the redhead. Maybe she will try a kick later, she has a promise to deliver on first. She starts stirring with her pen the disk at the center of her compact, causing water to gather and move in a pattern of recurve spinning lines as it concentrates inside the Mermaid Aqua Pact.

"Can you really blame him, though? There is so much you could do better. I have some pointers", the blue-pink-haired magical girl remarks loudly, pointing her makeup pen at Corona. "Pretty Cure Swirling La Mer Stream!", she shouts, a huge rotating beam of water erupting out of the Pact, ready to help Corona cool off just like she promised.

Roman Talleday has posed:
<<What I mean to say ain't communications aproppriate, Rashmi, but good to know I'm not goin' crazy-- Oh, man, he stinks like mudflaps and bogwater-->>

Roman's braced the flag against the noodly attackers face, knocked into and grabbed at and pinned, for a moment, against the icecream counter.

"You could use a bit of mint, mate," A powerful kick gathers pink, sweat smelling steam, leg tucked up between to push off, before the Cure grabs at a long limb-- through flag-- to grasp and pull back. "But spaghetti's made to be twirled!"

Now, Roman start to spin, intent on whipping the noodle body around and aorund with him and hurling him bodily into the nearest hard wall.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
As retaliation for mostly standing around and antagonizing the enemy, Sailor Moon is felled by that most terrible of weapons: reflected pink hearts that go doink! as they strike heart square in the forehead, cheekbone, and collarbone.

On the plus side, the one that hits her forehead hits her tiara and the one that hits her collarbone hits her chest-plate and bounces back towards Roberto. On the negative side, they all hurt a good bit, bruises starting to bloom, and Sailor Moon scowls.

"Okay, well, if that's how you're going to be, I won't just cheer on your downfall!"

Her pink and red rod lashes out, silver moons and sparkles and stars flying out, aglow with energy and purification.

"Moon Princess Halation!"

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
There are some mahou who generally announce their arrival with a big speech...see the Moon pair.

There are others whose arrival is generally heralded by some kind of action...see the two sparleside Devicers.

And then there are the ones whose arrival is generally heralded by their signature attack streaking in from nowhere.

Sailor Pluto is in the latter category...helped greatly by the fact that the vocal for HER signature attack is WHISPERED rather than shouted.

And so, in an effort to take some pressure off her friend Rashmi, a beachball-sized sphere of purple death energy comes quietly flying in from a nearby rooftop at Roberto...and anyone tracking it back to look will see Sailor Pluto standing there with the Garnet Rod pointed at the fight.

...and anyone who says she's late to the party because she got lost in the building's AC units is a lying liar who lies.

Mai Elcamino has posed:
Roberto starts tugging is what happens, and the heart-shaped holes in his limbs catch on the bindings, and he looks frustrated at the same time as he's nervous, and then he looks down and turns his feet into tornados, and then into one tornado, and he's like Genie from Aladdin floating after Rashmi kind of reluctantly. His heart's not in it. He keeps glancing over at Fernando trying to drain Cure Chai, then at Chibiusa who he sort of-- oh, oh no she's going after Fernando. He's supposed to back up his brother!! He starts to go help the littler youma, abandoning Rashmi who is way too close to Corona, and then gets hit with (         )... Moon Princess Halation makes absolutely sure that Roberto is not coming back from the remains of dead scream, which is GREAT, but the thing was made of a little wisp of something that flies free and a bunch of pollution which falls in a cloudy pile and makes breathing nasty for a minute.

It's goopy-- oh Fernando keeps trying to hang on to Roman, it's so gloopy goopy sticky long-limbed nonsense, but no, no, Chibimoon is making heart-shaped holes in it while it tries to hang on, which gives it less mass and also handlebars, which means that Cure Chai's throw literally just turned Fernando into an inky splattermark on the side of the building. An inky splattermark that fades, a little wisp escaping to dissipate above.

"I GREW UP HERE!" Corona snarls at Koji, her wings a brilliant purple-white swooping windy the noise of angels backlight framing her aristocratic face in its personally offended fury. She grabs his hair with her free hand while Koji parries her claws, and she YANKS it to get his attention, then headbutts his nose. "Filthy-- traitorous-- how DARE you, HOW DARE YOU--"

And then she can tell immediately that she's alone. She's alone and there are like ten of them here ganged up on her. She KICKS at Koji in her pretty high-heeled bootlet, and that annoying ocean Cure is talking again and agreeing with... and her youma are dead and...

<< ding~! >> << ADVISE RETREAT NOW, MISTRESS. OR SHIELD~ >>

"NO! I--" Corona starts, and then she eats the entirety of Laura's attack, hat blown clean off, makeup wrecked, entire drip ... dripping.

"You..." she whispers, shaking, eyes lit by an almost demonic fervor of disdainful offended personal hatred. "In my own name, I call upon the power of my father and the fury of my mother to protect me and punish my enemies! Let the abyss yawn wide below and the heavens crumble from above!" she chants, biting out the words rhythmically, almost melodically. A magic runic diagram circle forms below her bedraggled form, and her energy clawed hand lifts high, higher; she flies higher; she yells out, "APEX ANNIHILATION!"

Pelotillero is thinking about it.

"Aniquilacion apice?" Corona asks hesitantly.

<< ding~! >> << APEX ANNIHILATION~~ >>

A WALL of purple-white light boosted by crackling inky black dark energy slams out at building levelling force.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
<< Thaaaaanks, Sailor Moon, >> Rashmi's mental voice comes over the comms as Roberto turns into a rain of sludge, and Cure Chai makes Picassoesque sumi-e out of Fernando. << Well that was fun, if a little gross, who wants to get-- >>

...Nope, that's an aria she's chanting.

<< THAT'S AN ARIA SHE'S CHANTING!, >> she repeats to all and sundry. << IF YOU DON'T HAVE SOMETHING DEFENSIVE, *RUN.* IF YOU DO, I COULD USE THE HELP! >>

And she suits deed to word, swooping down to street-level to stand in front of Cure La Mer, orienting herself on the chanting Corona and thrusting one arm forward. Her other, slips a book-marky bit of tech from Nicomachea's cover, and slots it into place as a Mid-childan seal spins into being in front of her.

        << *BONG!* >> << AREA INDEX: SOLAR SHIELD -- GLACE SHIFT >>

The disc of golden light that expands into being in front of Rashmi begins at a point a good ten meters in front of her... and keeps going. and *keeps going,* until its 'bottom' edge is gouging into the buildingwork. Then, with a screeching *CRACK* it becomes a thick, heavy convex plate of golden, crystalline ice, festooned with spikes meant to attentuate the flow of energy splashing against it. It is, in fact a *huge* Shield, one of Rashmi's biggest, and she's pretty certain it won't serve to *block* the attack, only blunt it.

<< Guys I would *totally* appreciate help if you can give it! >>

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon helped defeat not one, but two youma! She's feeling pretty good about that. She's got a smug smile and hands on her hips and she's feeling really confident about this whole Being Sailor Chibimoon thing. That's why she aims her red eyed smirk at Coronoa and its about to gloat when--

'APEX ANNIHILATION'

    Um.

    Well.

    That might be a problem.

    After a day of putting heart shaped holes in youma, Chibimoon is now putting herself-shaped holes through walls. She yelps as the wave impacts her and she has no means to dodge, so she gets sent into the building behind her which itself gets turned into rubble on top of her and in the name of the dear moon she is so glad she has henshin armor now.

    Which is not to say that she's fine, but it is to say that she lived, and honestly she'll take that.

    Her tiny hands push a rock off of her prone body. "Get her!" she shouts, cheering from the sidelines because what else is she going to do?

Koji Silvia has posed:
    Being headbutt is a first. He's been punched, shot, blasted through walls, bodied down a building into a very comfortable chair, slashed, impaled, and even thrown into a knock-off handbag. Now Koji can add headbutt to his bingo card.

Of course slamming down into the roof from that kick doesn't help either, but the updates to his Device and the earlier Boost Rashmi provided means it's the dramatic bounce off the concrete roof, a little arch of the back, and of course getting the breath knocked out of him. A little blood is trickling from both nostrils, but it's tasteful for the audience.

    << She headbutted me. >>
    << YES, BOSS. >>
    << Why didn't we use that Flash Step? >>
    << HEADBUTTS ARE NOT A NORMALLY ANTICIPATED MANEUVER... >>

    << ...BOSS... >>

He is not out of sass, not yet, as he snaps back while wiping his nose clean, "It's kind of hard to betray someone you DON'T EVEN KNOW!"

    << FLASH STEP. KINETIC SHIELD. ABLATIVE SHIELD. >>

Three things happen in rapid order. Koji blurs... and just vanishes from where he was laying, the propelling spell putting him into the air and close by Rashmi. A small hexagonal platform is there that eats the kinetic energy from the leap, which means instant and safe braking.

Lastly, both his hands come up and steam jets fire from the undersides of the gauntlets, as a fleet of coin-sized hexagonal shields start to appear just behind Rashmi's shield, and they just keep building and layering, building and layering, meant to be sluffed off slowly like pieces of cloth being shaped to make a flower...

<< Still trying to fine-tune this one, but what do you think? >>

Laura La Mer has posed:
Ok, that looks pretty bad. She must be seriously ticked off something fierce. "Don't be such a wet blanket, I can reapply it for you." If she is going down, she might as well go down after having paid the price in full. She will be quite bruised, but she can deal with it. In those moments between the name of the attack and the mass of energy traveling at speed, Laura puts her arms in front of her, bracing herself for the upcoming strike and mustering her forces to better withstand the hurt it's gonna bring.

Only to become paler when Rashmi appears in front of her. "What are you doing!? Be careful!", she shrieks panicked, scrambling to use the attack she was saving for later now, before the redhead gets hurt in her place.

"Marine Heart Swirl Ring! Charm Up!", she stretches her arm upwards, a blue sphere engulfing her from the ring on her arm and making her change form. "Five powers, roar through the seas!", she shouts, the ring creating a blue heart above her from which a bioluminescent whale comes out. Jumping inside of its mouth, La Mer swims in it, sending the purifying whale crashing against Apex Annihilation. "Pretty Cure Marine Beat Dynamic!"

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Sailor Pluto takes a moment to give a slight smirk as she watches one youma eat first her Dead Scream then have what's left utterly obliterated by Moon's attack...and then she watches the other youma get splattered across a wall like a cartoon mook hit by the protagonist in a looney tunes short.

And then she gets to watch the devicer at the center of it all go into a BREATHTAKING meltdown.

Things look to be approaching the finish, so the Senshi of Time jumps down off the roof of the bulding she was standing on...only for Rashmi to scream a warning just ahead of Corona's going Nova Mode.

On the upside, she actually DOES have a defensive barrier she can erect.

Even better, it's one she can activate even while still midair.

So with a quick invocation of "Garnet Ball!", the falling Sailor Pluto encapsulates herself in a bubble of deep red energy.

...UNFORTUNATELY, there's a bit of a downside to this...as while her shield is quite capable of withstanding the onrushing wave, it acts as one might expect a ball to act when smacked by a wave of force with nothing anchoring it in place...and thus said Garnet Orb does a little bit of pinballing back and forth between some of the upper stories of nearby buildings before crashing down not far from where Chibimoon came to rest before shattering and depositing a rather dazed Sailor Pluto on the ground nearby.

She looks over towards Chibimoon, "...oh, hello there Small Lady...and Small Lady...and Small Lady..."

Roman Talleday has posed:
He'd only just discared of slimy ick-- good thing he used the flag, that was a small that might seep into skin otherwise-- when he looked up.

<<... An Aria?>> She wasn't-- oh. Well, Cure Chai got a swift answer. Big attack. That was a big attack coming.

"A dance of flavours!" The Teaspoon was taken from his hip and twirled in his fingers like a baton, only for him to pirouette in graceful form as a stream of pink milk seamed to flow around him like a ribbon, ending in a demi-plie. That 'ribbon' wrapped him like a bubble. "An enduring warmth!" He hunkered down, buffeted by whatever the shields didn't catch, but debris only seemed to vanish into the bubble, making it grow. Being transformed, inexplicably, into elements of tea.

"Boiling Burst!" A pose struck, as Cure La Mer started to push back, and Chai joined her. A thrust of the spoon directed an explosive jet of pink chai milk, complete with spinning cardamom pods and spiralling streams, towards Corona.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
The youmas go own. There's a moment of celebratory excitement, the ending of a perfectly normal, old-fashioned fight -

Then, there's the meaty collision of skull to skull combat as Corona headbutts Koji, and the rapid chanting of words that has Rashmi crying out for help, and Sailor Moon doesn't have defensive powers, not ones that don't just shunt people into another dimension to the left, and Rashmi already did that, and the last time they opened a barrierynth in a barrier the world went weird, and -

Sailor Moon has officially thought about it for too long. The attack comes, and like Sailor Chibimoon, Sailor Moon goes flying, making a (larger) hole one floor higher than Chibimoon's. She drops from the hole to the ground with an oof and groans as Sailor Pluto lands nearby.

"Owwiiiiiiieeee..."

Mai Elcamino has posed:
Poor Chibimoon, buried alive. The pulse gets sent out and the shields put up by Koji and Rashmi hold, the whale valiantly holds all the way through the onslaught-- Garnet Ball and whatever Cure nonsense that boy just pulled, they do their jobs. It's a powerful attack, but they are powerful heroes. She's considerably outnumbered. "Yes shut up Pelotillero," she hisses, "just, pinche hostia, start the duskport--"

<< ding~! >> << YES, MISTRESSMamoru (talk) >>

The heroes are starting to come out of their oh no Oh No OH NO OH NO

Oh yes. She was already bedraggled and hatless and messy makeduped and they threw a WHALE at her that should be ILLEGAL and Cure Chai also gains +1 Villain Personal Beef because the dripping drip is now just dripping with steaming sticky hot sweet PiNk gOdDaMn MiLk tEa. It's a low slow wail of dismay and ridiculous amounts of OW THAT'S HOT and NO I'M STICKY, there. It gets cut off as she rushes dramatically through the dusk portal she summoned.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon didn't see what happened to Corona, but she heard it and that's good enough.

    Alt-mom and Alt-Puu landed nearby. Oof. Chibimoon is just spiral eyes looking up at rubble while her hand twitches from underneath the mess. Hopefully someone can just turn off the barrier and make the rubble go away or something because one tiny mahoujin is not meant to lift an entire building's worth of rubble. At least, not all at once.

    Well, maybe Mako-chan could.

    Chibiusa is not Mako-chan, though.

    "So like... who was she?" calls out Mini-Moon from underneath the wreckage. "I've literally never seen her before."

Rashmi Terios has posed:
Tanking a Bombardment-class attack, even one that is heavily mitigated by Whale-n-Tea-in-the-air-o, is a test of mental fortitude; there is *incredible* pressure put against Rashmi's shield, pressure that requires constant effort to keep the shield coherent and able to resist. It's like pushing a pallet of bags of concrete, really; bags that start to tear and spill their contents under the opposing forces. Moving away from the analogy, deep fissures begin to open up in Rashmi's spiked ice shield, letting through fantastic energy that is forced to spall and spray off of Koji's little Ablative defenses. Upside, it keeps them from actively being *hit.* Downside, it's a little hard on the surrounding area under the spiked umbrella.

...But then it's over, and Corona is gone. Off to wail and curse over the *tea firehose in the face,* no doubt. And Rashmi can't help but snicker at the realization that she's pretty sure she saw a cardamom pod *donk* off Corona's forehead.

<< So that's pretty good, Koji! >> she says, *clearly* wiped out in voice and stance. << I would... double? the area of the shields though; the bigger they are, the shallower of an angle the oversplash has to take which'll probably up the overall durability. >>

And then her mind gets pulled away from defense theorycraft, as the dust begins to settle, and *three holes in an entire wall* show themselves. << Moon-chan? *Chibimoon-chan?* Pluto-chan??? Are you guys all right? Related question, who's up for cold soba? >>

Koji Silvia has posed:
The Kinetic Shield Koji is standing on fades out as he runs low on juice helping Rashmi with what little he can really add to think. However, a fifty foot drop is nothing when you're in a Barrier Jacket and actually ready for it.

Landing lightly, he checks his nose, which is feeling sore but not entirely broken by that headbutt, causing him to tear up a little before he says, "I'll take mine with shredded daikon and melon, thanks."

Walking over to the ball-shaped crater where Pluto is, he reaches down to help the Senshi of Time from her hole in the ground, and adds, "She was really uptight. I mean Riventon has his limits, but he usually stops himself before throwing that much ham."

Roman Talleday has posed:
A spin of bejewelled around his fingers, and Cure Chai blows at it like it was a gun, holstering it back into the bow at his hip. The area, at the very least, smells strongly Noon Chai, sweetly spiced, and sea salt. That's a marked improvement from gutter trash and other gunk dredged up to be thrown about.

"I dunno about that, I think that thing's put me off noodles for a while..." He muses, stepped over to the exhausted looking Rashmi, "That bird was mental. You'd think she was lactose intolerent, like, the mess she made. Look at the state of it."

A small pink pop saw a chipmunk-like fairy peek out of the tilted teacup-saucer hat on Chai's head, and Darjeela rubbed at her ears. "She was so loud, Stir-stir..." A shake of her head and sigh. "I believe I heard her call herself Corona."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Having benefit of a large staff to lean on in the Garnet Rod, Sailor Pluto finds it a bit easier to start pushing herself off the floor than she might have otherwise, so she's at least in a mostly seated state and rubbing her temples in order to try to get the building to stop spinning like that when she hears Chibimoon's question, "...I didn't recognize her either, Small Lady...but she sounded very, very Spanish."

    here's a brief pause before she goes on, "...I'm beginning to remember why I DON'T LIKE the Spanish."

As Rashmi checks in on them, Pluto pushes herself fully to her feet with thanked assistance from Koji, "...Page Mage, I think at this point I really really need something cold and sugary..."

She produces a phone from...somewhere...hits a few buttons and does a bit of squinting at the result, then says, "...and apparently there is a place around here that sells matcha gelato and I want some. Anyone want to tag along? I'm buying."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon is now on her back, staring up at the barrier-tinged sky, breathing through the ouches. There's nothing so bad she needs to run off to Mamoru about it, but it's an ouch...

But oddly? A clean ouch.

<<I've never seen her either, but you know? Is it weird that I kind of missed fights like that?>>

Just a good old-fashioned battle against a youma (or two), that went down in a fight and a Dark Energy user who threw a tantrum about it.

<<I'm sore, but I'm okay. Chibimoon, you did so good! I'll get you out of there!>> RHauling herself to her feet, she starts digging Chibimoon out as carefully as she can. <<Cold soba sounds like a great choice.>>