88/Fashion Disaster

Fashion Disaster
Date of Scene:	15 July 2023
Location:	Fairy Drop Fashion
Synopsis:	Scorn attacks Fairy Drop Fashion and nearly wins, until a new magical girl is born!
Cast of Characters:	Scorn, Aki Kurosawa, Minako Aino, Koji Silvia, Cho Konishi, Amanda Faust

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Scorn has posed:
It's Fairy Drop Fashion. They're having a sale of some sort on clothing!

So the store is of course, packed with bargain seekers today as various girls and boys stream into the store, looking to obtain the latest fashion.

Inside, an elegantly dress woman, in a black dress, with purple hair and red eyes surveys this.. thuis madness, as she tugs at the bow wrapped around her waist.

"Such foolishness!" she says as she sputters out loud.

The crow on her shoulder says nothing except "Caw." No it doesn't caw, like a crow, it just says 'Caw' like someone doing a bad crow impression.

It must be an agreement as Scorn considers the bargain shoppers for a bit.

"How..."

"Ugh...!" she continues.

She's just. An aside, currently.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi had, finally, managed to get a hold of Aki! And even asked her to meet at this store that was having a sale! Because... she was a girl. And... and girls liked sales, right? She liked sales. She just didn't... know... how to do them... or...

... The important thing was that she was a girl and this was a girly thing and she was going to meet another girl to have talks about precure things. As a girl. Another precure, though. Even if she... wasn't... part of the same 'group' as her, it was kind of nice to be able to see SOMEONE who shared experiences of this nature with her. So she was standing outside the shop, rocking back and forth, book bag held nervously in front of her, waiting for the other girl.

Yup, just a totally normal girl. Nothing suspicous. Nothing at all.

And hey, she LOOKED like she needed to get some new clothes, as her fashion was... cobbled... together. Kind of. Maybe. If you were being... generous.

Koji Silvia has posed:
    Along the rooftops of Mitakihara...

Sometimes you use your ability to transform into a magical form because you need to get away from your normal problems. Such is the case of one Koji Silvia aka 'Hanzo'. The Device-armored form uses magically created wires with small blades on the end to grip to buildings and billboards, swinging and pulling along while maintaining enough invisibility to not be seen by the public below.

Stopping on top of an Obsidian Billboard that has an animated display of people doing important things in important spaces, he rolls his shoulder and mumbles out, "Wow, this is a lot harder than it looks."

    << Young Master. Warning. Dark Energy Form Detected. >>

Stopping to look around, Koji draws two of the Blades on his hips and flicks them into the air, and then follows with a second pair, "Create a grid in the area Hanzo. Let's see what's up." But even more quietly he says, "And I could really use the distra<span style="color:tion."

    c#4059FF"><< Ikemasu. SENSOR. >>

All four kunai-styled blade fly out to the four corners of the huge retail block and screens begin to appear in front of Koji's masked form, looking for the somehow familiar signature...

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa showed up. She had papers with her. She smiled and bow'ed to Cho, respectfully. The handshake of Japan. She smiled. "Hey there... Konishi-san... right?" she asks as she shifts a bit. "It's nice to meet you, out of the whole uh. Thing." she smiles. She holds that stack of papers under an arm as she smiles. "So uh. What do you like. What do you do? I'm in. The Dance club." she says. "I like dancing as a performance art. It's fun and...people will watch you when you're really good at it."

"My biggest fan was my sister though." she says uncomfortably. "She's uh. She's missing." she says. "Currently. I.. I don't know where she went. She's uh. You know. Also. In the thing." she says, rubbing the back of her head.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Mallory Faust is walking home from work. The foreigner's head of messy white hair sticks out above the locals; 5'8" may be average height for an American man, but it's tall here, a fact that makes the bespectacled man feel all the more self-conscious as he thinks he sees people looking his way.

    Mal idly glances towards the shop window to see what kind of store this-- Oh. OH it is some kind of girl clothing store. He moves a little further away on the sidewalk, almost to the street, as if suddenly aware of an invisible forcefield repelling him from the store. Near the entrance, his gaze briefly falls on Cho and Aki. Pretty girls in cute clothes draw his attention as he walks past... and then he shakes his head. Don't be a creep, Mal! They're teenagers.

    As he turns his head forward, his eye is drawn towards something out of place in the split-second before his brain processes it -- one white head sticking above the others, reflected in the shop window. He immediately regrets looking as the reflection of a tired man briefly meets his gaze, the angle just right to superimpose his reflection over one of the shop's outfits -- Mallory jerks away as if shocked by electricity, looking away and walking on a bit more briskly, hunching slightly with his hands in his jacket pockets as if he could be smaller and less noticeable. If the Academy's dress code is sufficiently lax for IT staff, he's wearing a big comfy jacket over his T-shirt and slacks instead of the usual suit of a salaryman. Mallory always *hated* wearing suits.

    Unnoticed by passers-by, a pair of red eyes watch from the next alley.

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Minako Aino has posed:
Fashion? Sale? A day off? Minako was there! After all, she wasn't going to let the fact that she still technically didn't have a date stop her from finding something cute for the Summer dance.

Dressed in a miniskirt and a white hoodie jacket over a light orange top the blonde with the red bow tied in her hair moved excitedly into the store. Unaware it seems, at least for the moment, of the woman and her faux crow!

Scorn has posed:
Scorn finally has enough of this... this joy and mirth of the sale as she points out at three girls pushing clothes against one another to see how it looks on them. "You have fun, trying on clothes, but you don't understand this fun is just an illusion......" she says, eyeing the three....

"LET THE FUTURE REFLECTED IN THE MIRROR BECOME TERRIBLE!" she calls out as three girls get pulled into the mirror at once, red ribbon tying around it as they go to sleep, sleeping forever in the mirror as she throws her hands out, turning around. "PLEASE COME OUT, COME OUT, MY TERRIBAD!" she calls out, a bright red flash looking like glasses exploding as a Terribad, dressed in a fancy dress and a fancy hat, and a fancy big purse forms into existence!

"TERRIBAD!" screams the new youma as it waves it's arms, starting to rain black crow feathers and feathers starting to grow out of the ground and surfaces as Scorn paffs into a new bushel of them and starts draining the energy of the nearby people, sending people down to the ground, as she waves her arm out.

"I WILL SPREAD MISFORTUNE HERE!" she commands.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi couldn't believe it! The girl showed up! She actually showed up! Cho bowed quickly. "A-a pleasure, Kurosawa-san. And, ummm. I'm part of the gymnastics and stage magician club and, uhhh, I work for the student council," she said sheepishly. "A-and, err. I... I get that. It's really cool having people watch you doing well. And... uhhhh..."

"... I'm sorry about your sister. I... I'm... sure we'll--"

Before she can fully hear it, things get... dark? She glanced back before groaning. "Ah. Great. It looks like the terrible-at-their-jobs are here," she muttered, her voice dripping with annoyance. Seriously? Why were they attacking a SALE?! Who did that?!

"We should go deal with this, huh?" she asked. She pulled out her transformation device, a small journal/compact. She pulled out her pen and drew on it. "Historic Legacy, Pretty Cure!" she called out.

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

She didn't wait for the other girl, dashing out and into the shop before... posing! "A thousand immortalities wouldn't be enough to make me ignore these crimes! Cure Wukong!" Dramatic pose!

Koji Silvia has posed:
As Koji swipes through screens, still narrowing down the location of the Dark Energy...

    << Located, Young Master. Previous Scan Match: 100 Percent. >>

All his other windows vanish to a single one in the boutique Fairy Drop Fashion, just as the feathers begin to fall and people start to collapse from the drain.

"Okay.", The young male Device Mage says, "Take control of all 6 Blades once we get in there Hanzo. I want you point warping people outside and away from it as fast as you can. I'll handle the big... lady... thing..."

    << Course of Action NOT Advised, Young Master. >>

Koji actually starts running to the edge of the billboard as it shifts and the OBSIDIAN logo flashes towards the streets, and then LEAPS off of it, arms spread like a diver about to go into routine, "Until one of those girls with some real power comes along, we'll have to do our best, Hanzo! DO IT!"

    << ... >>

    << 6 Blade Form. Multi-Point Warp. INITIATING. >>

Using the Blade inside of the clothes store, the black-clad form of the magical boy just appears right in the center of the fray, and immediately all the remainder kunai-Blades unsheathe themselves and begin to focus on the closest victims, touching them and causing them to vanish... reappearing outside in the street so they can recover.

Lacking any enhanced magical protections, Koji aims both his hands up and intones, "GUIDEWIRE!" And twin strings shoot up into the ceiling so he can ramp up for a swinging KICK at the Terribad. A. KICK.

You work with what you got...

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Aki Kurosawa blinks when it starts...raining black feathers. She frowns and pulls out her Prechangemirror and her precards...."ROLLING MIRROR CHANGE!" she calls out as she shoves her cards into the mirror.....

She gains her gloves...boots... dress... all in a flashy sequence that involves jumping into a heart and with a cloak. When it's done, she poses and calls out, making waves with her hands. "The Joy... that ripples across the ocean! Cure Tide!"-- she smiles at Wukong. "Let's go kick their butts!" she says as she leaps into the door and watches the magical boy swing into the new Terribad. "Huh...." she says as she bumps her fists together and leaps into the fray, trying to punch into the Terribad with amazing force! Or trying to.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Something is moving fast towards him inside the store--!

    Mallory ducks as feathers crash through the storefront window and lodge in the people next to him, who

    lose their color and fall over.

    What.

    Mallory glances around. People running and screaming. Feathers lodged into walls, clothing, and color-drained people (or is it corpses?) on the ground.

    WHAT.

    Okay, of all the stories to randomly start haening in real life, Mallory would never have in a million years guessed it would be chuPreeny Has To Repeat 6th Grade.

    Mallory doesn't have some kind of purification magical talent to undo... whatever the feathers are doing. Draining people's... fur power? Colorfulness? Uniqueness? What would, HOW would that even WORK?? He has to run from whatever craziness this is!

    As he's looking for an escape route, he hears...

Justice speeches?

    Mallory lifts his head just enough to peer through the bottom of the window, to see... Three, no, FOUR magical girls (sorry Koji, from a rear view you have long hair...)

    Is this... is this REALLY HAPPENING?

    As the bystanders who were lucky enough to NOT get feathered clear out, Mal is increasingly conspicuous, but... Something magical is happening! He's been waiting his whole life for this, but... none of it makes any sense. Black feathers? Four magical girls in completely different outfits fighting a lady in fancy clothes? What? It turns out this sort of thing is WAY more disorienting when you're a bystander witnessing the middle of the plot with no explanation.

Minako Aino has posed:
That was cute! That was neat! That would go with- wait, why was it getting dark and...Oh come on!

A little noise of frustration and Minako dropped her armful of clothing she'd picked out before ducking out of sight.

It was only a moment, a moment where she was out of sight and the flare of bright golden light surged from where she was standing. For a few moments her form was nothing more than a sparkling silhouette of her form, detail obscured before swirling ribbons of light wrapped tightly around her form and formed the outfit of a Sailor Senshi.

Choker, boots, skirt and bow all take shape before she drew her hands down and the red mask formed across her upper face.

"It takes a wicked soul to target those just trying to find some happiness and fun in looking good!" she proclaims, striding forth and still glowing. "In the name of Justice, I'll punish you!"

Of course, the play on the words of a certain less experienced princess was...slightly interupted by the fact others had sprung to help. Huh. Okay.

Roll with it!

"And I won't be doing it alone!"

Scorn has posed:
Scorn watches the magical boy charge in. She watches Cure Tide charge in. She gets a justice speech from Sailor V. Scorn stands back up and sighs, throwing her arms out.

"Justice..." she says.

"Justice. Joy. Happiness. These things are illusions. I will eliminate them for Queen Mirage-sama!" she throws her arm up. "Terribad..." the Terribad suddenly swings it's purse up and grabs it, opening it and---

It starts to suck, trying to suck the magical girls into the purse to contain them.

Some Kindabads, smaller humanoid figures in skin-tight black body suits appear popping out of feather fluffs and leap to action, trying to leap at Sailor V.

"Kindabads, show this champion of justice her mistakes!"

The kindabads try to crowd her.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong frowned, what? Scorn? AGAIN? "Seriously?" she asked. A purse monster thing? She glanced at Scorn... and... "You know, I expect more. I'm not mad... just disappointed." Okay... she was actually a bit mad. But NEVER let the enemy hear that. Honestly? She just wanted to do some shopping with someone who might maybe possibly be a friend? I mean, they were both precures. Didn't that mean they were autopmatically friends? Ish?

Maybe?

Of course, as the blowing started and the kindabads came out... she snickered. "It's time to stop monkeying around!" she yelled, before yanking out a handful of hairs and tossing them into the air, making clones of herself!

... Who... promptly... started... IGNORING the kindabads... and instead started looking through things. "Ohhhh, does this purse match my staff?" "Would I look good in this sweater?" "Could I pull off these shoes?"

Wukong, meanwhile, was getting redder and redder. Then the power of the youma's purse was revealed, and she shrieked, grabbing a rack and... "Oh yeah, how about you take a--" And stopped.

There wasn't any field of no property damage here. She hesitated, again. If she broke something, what if she--

The hesitation cost her as both she AND the rack were suddenly sucked INTO the youma with a shriek... along with a few of her clones. Who promptly popped.

Koji Silvia has posed:
A couple meters from connecting with an actually COOL looking flying kick, and the huge Lady opens up her fashionably bad and out of season purse, and starts to feel himself being tugged towards it hard...

    << WARNING. DARK DIMENSIONAL SPACE DETECTED. >>

Under the mask, Koji mutters under his breath, but it starts to scale up the closer he gets, "No. no. no... no... NO... OH NO..."

Snapping one of his Guidewire spells free, he just manages to swing himself down and clear of the initial tug of the purse, but then as he turns to stabilize himself...

Koji finds himself just about to slam face-first into a flying mid-punch Cure Tide!

All he can do is bring up his free arm to guard his face, and reflexively yells, "LOOK OUT!"

About the only thing going FOR The Device Mage at this point is that his Blades are still teleporting more and more victims outside, diluting the Terribad's harvest to about half of what it was...

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide..collides with Koji, and for a moment, she's thrown back and frowns. "H--hey!" she says sharply. Before she feels the suction of the bag. "W..what!?" she goes as she grabs a rack.... but that's not anchored. She grabs at the floor, however, as she suddenly gets sucked into the air and into the bag with everyone else!

She's stuck in this horrible, last years design handbag! She screams. "LET ME OUT, I'M GONNA COOK YOUR BIRD WHEN THIS IS DONE, YOU HEAR ME!" she yells as she punches at the inside of the bag, to no effect!

Minako Aino has posed:
Well...that's not quite so good! A surge of mini-minons rushing her? Well, that was counterbalanced by the monkey clone Wukong-....and they're gone. Crud. The others who she'd just proclaimed that she was going to face the monster with backup? Well, now they were mostly trapped in the handbag thing while she was being rushed by bodysuit wearing mini-monsters.

Well, not everyone had been doing this since they were 12, right?

A back in her blue heels and she draws one hand down as the light swirled around her form and then began to take a more solid form.

"Cresent..." The energy took shape, starting to weave itself into her grasp and starting to solidify as it crackles. "Love-me..." the energy began to take shape into a series of interlinked heart-shaped molten energy. "Chain!"

The weapon surged out, sweeping in a burning arc like a whip brandished in a potent swirl that was far less likely to be blasting a hole in a wall or hitting a civillian like a beam might, but suddenly became very -very- bad news for the creatures trying to swarm her who'd find themselves right in that arc.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Happiness and fun in looking good? What's fun about *clothes*? They are a necessity, to cover your body. Only vain people care much about *which* clothes, as long as you don't look *ridiculous*. Mallory's opinion of one magical girl lowers slightly.

    The one with the feathers expected more. She's not mad, just disappointed. Okay, so allies of justice really DO banter like this! Good to know!

    Unfortunately, two of them collide by accident and are almost sucked in to that... purse monster(?)! Based on what happens to the one girl's shadow clones, it's not good for that to happen to anyone...

    You can help them, you know.

    Mallory startles at the voice in his head, ducks out of view again, finding himself face-to-face with those red eyes, in a furry little face on something that looks like a plushie come to life. "I-I..."

    If you make a contract with me and become a magical girl, you can fight just like them! Instead of being like them... Kyuubi turns its head to look at the people hit by the first wave of feathers, lying silently on the ground.

    "I... wh... why me?! I'm nobody... and don't-- shouldn't you be asking... w-well, a young girl? ...Wait, are all magical girls secretly, um..."

    You are here. Drawn to the conflict, instead of running. Kyuubi turns his head towards the grou engaged in combat. chrBut not so foolish as to charge in carelessly. You have potential. Something in Mallory's brain bristles at that wording. Of course, it is up to you. If you refuse, and these four win, and you survive, you will likely not remember any of this. You'll be able to resume your normal life--

    "N-no! I want to... I want to do something!" Mallory speaks without even thinking, something about the thought of day after day after day of nothing in particular, each day leading to the next and not really building towards anything, just waiting, hoping, for... something to be different.

    Today is pretty damn different. This might be his only shot.

    Kyuubi turns his head back towards Mallory, exression unreadable. chrGreat! All you have to do to make a contract with me is make a wish!

Scorn has posed:
Scorn has two cures... a magical boy... trapped, hardcore. She waves her hand out as the kindabads get wiped out, poofing into black smoke as they're attacked and taken out. "Stop, Sailor V!" she says dramatically.

"I have three of your friends. Two Precures...." she says with wide eyes. "I'm going to make you an offer!" she says. "You..."

"For these three friends." she says. "You come with me and you c+urlesleep forever in the mirror..." she says.

"And I'll let these three others go.."

"OR." she says.

"I leave right now with them and they c+urlesleep forever in the mirrors..." she says spreading out her arms.

Corvus flaps his wings. "Sounds like a pretty sound deal to me." the crow says.

"Perfectly Sound." says Scorn.

"Your removal from this world would satisfy Queen Mirage-sama! Sailor V" she says, raising her arms. Like this is a perfectly okay thing.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong was inside a weird, magical purse! But... wellllll... She looked around before asking those eight words that, frankly, very few would *ever want to hear. "I wonder how much this purse can hold."

Something you'd never, ever, EVER want to hear... when stuck in a purse with Wukong of all people.

And she began... to pluck... hairs... Oh. Oh wow. She may be one of the few, if not only, precure who got a *massive* power up from the precure hair massiveness.

"Don't worry, guys, we should be out of this in a jiffy!" as she began to make copies.

This could ONLY end well... No. Wait. That other things.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide's eyes go wide. "H..Hurry.." she pleads to Cure Wukong. "S.she's gonna take us back to the Phantom Empire. If that happens. We're done." she says as she continues to punch the walls of the purse. Grunting, panting, tiring herself out. "T...TIDE PUNCH!" she calls out, water swirling around her fist as she tries to punch her way through. All she's doing is tenderizing the leather of last years handbag design.

"How... how did we let a rookie general trap us like this!? It's... it's..." she begins to tear up. She knows what happens to people that get taken to the Phantom Empire.

They sleep forever in the mirror...

Koji Silvia has posed:
And now... *THUD*

Koji is in a purse...

Standing up, he brushes himself off purely out of reflex, only to hear Cure Tide punching at nothing and hitting something it seems, and then suddenly there's a half-dozen Wukong around him...

He sighs, keeping his back to the girls to hide his dejection at this low moment. A moment made worse because his kunai start reappearing in their sheathes, which means he's no longer shifting people away from being drained, maybe a third of the victims still left that he can estimate.

"Hey... Uhhhh...", he pauses, because he doesn't actually KNOW Cure Tide or Wukong's names, "Wait... ummm... I think I can... yeah... maybe if we work to-"

Only to be interrupted by a Wukong running right up and yanking down his mask as she says, "Oh, you really do have a mouth, cool! I thought you were just like a robot are something. Robot boys are cool..."

He pushes her away, and pulls it back up before anyone else can see, but the clone is the one who says, "HEY! RUDE MUCH!"

Minako Aino has posed:
Threatening swirls of the chain seem to hiss in the air, the Sailor Senshi might be teenage girls but they were also reincarnated warriors after all, and Venus had once been their leader. She was ready to fight, ready to destroy the threats, and she remembered sacrificing herself in her previous life to try and save the Moon Kingdom.

The call for her to stop had the veteran magical girl slowing, the offer? It brought her painted lips to a grim frown. Of course such a vile being would use such an underhanded tactic, leaving her caught between herself and doing the right thing.

But what -was- the right thing? Would she sacrifice herself to save someone? Certainly. But would that sacrifice leave the Princess unprotected before she was truely ready in Minako's eyes? That made things harder. A battle at the cost of their entire future?

The chain begins to vanish, disappaiting as she lifted a hand to point towards Scorn. "What about the other girls you took? How could I even trust that you'll let them go? You'll just try to take us all."

Her hand moves, pointing at the monster with the purse.

"You let them go, let all of them go!"

Of course, that gloved finger still crackling with energy that was -probably- just from the chain was pointed at the purse. Riiiight at the purse.

She just needed to have one moment to take aim.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "A... wish?" Mallory quirks an eyebrow and cocks his head to one side slightly. 'Wish' is a concept in his brain that pulls up thoughts of world peace, or ending hunger, or how exactly should you word a wish for immortality so it won't backfire? He's pretty sure he once saw an internet forum workshopping it...

    That's right! You can change fate--

    Wait. The sounds of battle have changed. Mallory lifts his head... and his eyes go wide, mouth dropping agape. Three of them are down?! That last one, the vain one, is in trouble... and if she's a heroine, she just might take the bad guy's deal! "I... I just want to help them! To protect people... to be a hero!"

    Well, if you make a wish, I can make you a magical girl here and now. Does that meet your definition of 'hero'?

    "Does it... not matter what the wish is?"

    Kyubey shakes his head.

    There's one girl left. Time is running out. If the last one is caught while Mallory is thinking, his chances for victory are halved.

    "I... I..." Wish for something! Wish for anything, and if this isn't all just some crazy dream, you'll be able to DO something! You'll be able to really make a difference! You'll be a magical girl!

    ...the reflection of a tired man briefly meets his gaze, the angle just right to superimpose his reflection over one of the shop's outfits... In his mind's eye, the dress in the shop becomes a magical girl's outfit--

    That shock and disgust jolts through him again. "I-I... if a, if I become a magical girl, will I be a cute one?" Kyubey cocks his head to one side.

    The last girl might fall any moment now, without backup.

    "I wish... I wish I could be cute!"

    

    A second passes. And then Mallory clutches at his chest as it feels like something is ripping out of him. His heart...? "W-what?" he tries to ask, gritting his teeth through the pain.

    The contract has been made. Your wish has prevailed against entropy. So, go now... unleash your new power! :3

    Something glowing red rises out of Mallory's chest and floats into the air while Kyubey says this, then surrounds him in red-limned whitish energy...!

    He's standing again, in front of the store. He looks down at Kyubey, but in the lower edge of his vision he catches sight of thin legs wearing some kind of costume boots. Wait, there's a red skirt, and then some kind of white material hugging a body shape that *definitely* isn't his, although an important detail he would otherwise check is covered by armor. He lifts his hands into view. Petite, gloved hands. Holy shit, is he really a magical girl?

    Mallory shivers as that mental image returns to his head, but all the nearby windows are broken... There's no time! Save the day now, sort everything else out later!

    He runs through the window, wait! He needs something to attack with... but that will seems to be enough to summon something... and he recognizes what it is: A goddamn *rocket launcher*. He has line of sight to the enemy. He drops to one knee, wincing and expecting it to hurt but a lighter body and knee armor makes it no issue -- ah, THAT'S what those are for. Aim, FIRE!

    Only THEN does he stand, and shout dramatically: "No, *I* offer *YOU* a deal! You let them go, un-drain all these peoples'... personality or whatever, and maybe we'll be too distracted making sure everyone's alright to stop you from escaping!"

    And then the new girl now demanding everyone's attention looks absolutely shocked and holds her free hand to her throat.

    That was NOT the ever-notably low voice he's used to hearing in his head! That was a cute girl's voice! Holy shit, he really did turn into a magical girl...

Scorn has posed:
Scorn throws her hand out and points. "If I bring you back. I make the Precure Hunter look like a chump!" she grins. "Oh I can promise I'll let them go...!" she says, showing her hands so she can see she isn't crossing fingers. Corvus also does it to show he isn't crossing his wings.

As Venus tries to target the purse she clicks her tongue. "You can't break it!" she says. "So you don't want to give yourself over?"

"Very well. We're leaving" she says as her eyes gleam, getting ready to duskport away with her terribad... she'll come back with two pretty cures. Some magical boy. She'll be rewarded so well by Queen Mirage. She'll have RESULTS! She'll show up the Oresky Trio!

"Goodbye, Sailor V! I hope you remember this day well!"

"The girl throws her arms out, about to teleport out....."

When a fricken rocket explodes into the purse. It explodes the side and it allows the magical girls (And boy) inside to escape as she blinks and looks to the source of the rocket.

"W..what!?" she says. "WHO ARE YOU, WHY ARE TOU RUINING EVERYHING! TERRIBAD!" she screams out as the terribad swings it's broken purse towards Puella Amy.

"THIS IS YOUR FAULT! I HATE YOU!" Scorn screams.

"SUCH A... A KERFLUFFLE!"

BGM: https://youtu.be/g83a9ThKpno

Amanda Faust has posed:
> WHO ARE YOU, WHY ARE YOU RUINING EVERYTHING! TERRIBAD!

    Puella Amy blinks. And is briefly lost in thought. Mallory didn't think of a magical girl name! Too late, she realizes a... giant purse is swinging towards her, and holds up her arms before getting smacked and stumbling and falling to the side.

> THIS IS YOUR FAULT! I HATE YOU!

    "I... mean... isn't stopping you what a hero... what a magical girl does?" Amy points out as she gets back to her feet.

> SUCH A... A KERFLUFFLE!

    Amy looks to the others, just... not sure WHAT to make of this at this point. "Are the bad guys... always like this?"

Minako Aino has posed:
She was spotted! Her 'actress' moment had been seen through and Scorn had recognized she was trying to take aim while disguising it as a simple point. Her eyes widen behind her mask and she opens her mouth to protest, to let sense slip and perhaps truely offer herself up...but she'd never know.

A new challenger has arrived!

A new magical girl, now coming to rescue the rescuers! Sailor V's lips return to a smile before she tightens her fingers and extends the index back to a point. Now or never!

"Cresent Beam!"

The rocket launcher was devestating (and frankly kinda awesome!), but the beam of pure energy was precision punishment quite happy to take advantage of the distraction.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong blinked as suddenly there was... a rumbling? Then a BOOM? "Wasn't me!" she calls out.

The purse opens, though! And... wait, should she claim credit? Shoot. Too late now! It--

And then *so many wukongs*. They just come flying out, swarming over the field, burying the shop in dozens of them... Some, of course, in new shoes, some in dresses, one dressed in an ice cream apron...

And they begin to pop, of course... And scorn gets to know what it feels like to have dozens of monkey girls laying on you.

However, the ACTUAL Wukong... Finds herself swept onto the wave and over onto... a new girl? She blinked, staring down at her. And uhhhh. Wow. Wukong just stared. Her cheeks slowly getting redder. Wukong was good at many things. CURE Wukong, on the other hand? Noooot... so much. And she suddenly found herself over probably one of the cutest girls she'd EVER seen. And just stared for a few more moments before...

"O-oh. Wow. You're really cute," One of the wukongs said. Moments before Cure Wukong thwakked her on the head and she popped. "S-sorry!" Wukong said before getting to her feet. "O-oh. Wow. Ummm. You have a rocket launcher. That... that's pretty awesome. Errr... T-thanks for the help. Uhhhh... I'm gonna... go... now..."

She had NOT expected that. So instead, she focused on the monster! "Monkey fist!" she yelled, before jumping away, wait, no. Full on RETREATING and lunging at the terribad...

And kicking it.

That was NOT a fist.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide pops out of the purse and looks relived! Fresh air! "T..thank you Mystery girl!" she calls out to Amy.

"Wukong...please...take care of the Terribad. Please." she begs as she turns towards Scorn. "The Joy that ripples across the waves.... Cure Tide.....!" she sputters as Scorn gets buried in Wukong Clones. "Misery...ENDS NOW!" she calls out as she leaps into the fray directly and attempts to punch down through the clones, towards Scorn, she's going for the general.

This may be a losing battle, but she's angry. And upset... She was almost... almost...

Those mirrors...

Koji Silvia has posed:
Riding high on the Wukong wave, Koji almost gets thrown from the bag, and with a flip to do Sailor V proud, he throws all six blades out towards them!

    << SIX BLADE SEAL. BARRIER FORCE. >>

Instead of sticking, they turn inwards and form a circular shield he lands on and uses to ride himself to stop right next to the 'professional' masked crime fighter.

Those Blades all come back to him and re-holster save for two that become a set in his hands. There's a brief nod of greeting to the Sailor Magical girl, and then a double-take as he goes, "Wait... Are you..?! No way... THE SAILOR V?! You look just like the video game!"

It's just gonna be that kind of day... and as he realizes it, Koji catches himself and tries to recover a little bit of his dignity, "Sumimasen... we should stop the giant lady with the bad fashion sense."

Scorn has posed:
Scorn is completely overridden by clones and she gets buried but she glowers in a dark aura and Corvus on her shoulder.... wings large and wide from the crow suddenly burst out of the pile as she glowers in dark energy. "I can't believe this..." she says angrily. Minako's smack to the terribad sends it flying back! (It's purse was opened by the rocket earlier, it's damaged now!) as Wukong moves to kick the terribad sending it flying backwards and too the ground. It's weakened!

Scorn, however, is now beset by Cure Tide. She's punched backwards and she grunts and has to rub her nose. Was she just...punched....?

"Y...you----- Cure Tide you----!" she glowers and builds up wind around her hands and suddenly throws a wave of crow feathers and wind at Tide. "I'll....!" she says angrily, not finishing her statement.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Are bad guys... Always like this? OOF!" The new Puella Magi is hit by a wave of magical girl shadow clones and finds herself... not kabedon'd, what's the word when it's the floor instead of the wall? That, by a magical girl and frankly this is the closest she's ever had another girl's face to hers, let alone such a cute one.

> O-oh. Wow. You're really cute,

    MYSTERY GIRL's face goes bright red. "I-i-i-i-i-i-i... I'm not..." she stammers.

> That... that's pretty awesome.

    Mallory can't remember the last time anyone was so *impressed* with him for any reason other than 'doing a basic computer task that only impressed them because they know nothing about computers. It feels... ni<span class=" bold_fg_x bg_n ++ e.

chx">> T..thank you Mystery girl!

    Mallory feels like she just snuck a cookie from the cookie jar. They really see her as a girl and not some freak! Perhaps she didn't have to fear... or the wish made sure she didn't.

    She gets to her feet.

> THE Sailor V?! You look just like the video game!

    The new girl turns and stares, mouth agape. Now she recognizes Sailor V! She played that game in an arcade once! "You're REAL?! Or a cos-- LOOK OUT!"

    Seeing the FEATHERS THAT DRAIN EVERYTHING SPECIAL ABOUT YOU or whatever they are flung at Cure Tide, without thinking she just runs and tries to TACKLE the other mahou out of the way!

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide weathers the assault, bracing against the wind...the feathers cut into her Pretty Cure outfit. They slice. She doesn't care as she pulls up her arm. "....Joy, become a sacred power..." she calls out, spinning her prebrace as she calls out. "LOVEPREBRACE!" she calls out, before as power cycles through her, spinning hands around one another and up as energy builds up around her, a giant bubble of water forming above her as she spins around. "JOYFUL...WAVE. SHOOT!" she calls out, sending a wave of powerful purifying force directly at Scorn, through her wind... trying to overpower it.

She does. The force against force pushing and pushing until she overpowers Scorn.... and catches her in the bubble...

She floats there a moment before she calls out. "JOY, RETURN TO THE HEAVENS!" she calls out, an explosion happening and taking MUCH Dark energy with it.

When she poses at the end of this....

She gets tackled. She waughs and has a cute girl suddenly tackling her, what!?

Minako Aino has posed:
Now this was more like it! The bad guy was outnumbered...really outnumbered given the tide of Wukong, but most imporantly the 'Precures' and the Magical Boy were free. There was no winning hand for Scorn now, and she could let out the breath she didn't really know she'd been holding.

With Koji touching down beside her and greeting, she grins, nodding her head at his apology and then turning her gaze to the Cures and the Cute-Rocket-Girl.

"We'll handle the Terribad, you deal with the Crow lady-" She begins, defaulting to offering command even though this group were very noticably -not- the Inner Senshi, nominating Koji to assist her because he was the closest and the 'Cures' seemed to have a hand at their familier enemy. She was even already moving to charge the creature...then Amy was throwing herself into the path of an attack.

Cute =/= experienced. Clearly.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong kicked the youma. Now she was furious. "Hey, terribad! You're really living up to your name because you're TERRIBLE at your job!" she yelled before pulling her toothpick from behind her ear. The clones began to pop around the store in a flurry of smoke, before the 'toothpick' grew to a twenty feet or so... And she spun through the air, giving the youma one more powerful SMACK before tossing the staff to the ground., It balanced perfectly on its tip and she landed on it, one paw out.

"72 earthly transformations purification!" she yelled, before going through the five stances of the elements... Then launching a beam of bright, pink light out from her hands, surging forward at the creature...

And it was only then, as she stood there panting, hands out, taking a moment to notice something else...

"Holy bananas. Is that SAILOR V?" she asked. "Your cosplay is AMAZING!" ...

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy is too slow to save Tide, but she's okay anyway, but also Amy can't really STOP. Oops. "I'm sorry! I was afraid the feathers would..." She stands up and points at the fallen civilians. "Like them..." Then she crouches down and holds out a hand to help Tide up. "Sorry." She already said sorry. "That attack was really cool!" She grins earnestly, clencing her fists in front of her at collar-level. "But umm, are they gonna be okay..." She looks towards the civilians again.

Koji Silvia has posed:
He heard, We'll handle the Terribad, you deal with the Crow lady-"

He Saw... Cure Wukong fire a pink laser worthy of a Device User.

In the whole confusion and the realization that they're all in the presence of a magical girl with a rocket launcher and a celebrity, he steps back a few times, and then draws out all his Blades once more and tosses them into the air.

    << WIDE AREA OBSCURE. >>

The air in the shop and the street outside begin to fill with a strange mist and everyone's electronic devices begin to glitch and make odd noises. The cameras in the shop, across the street, and anyplace that could get images of everyone begin to lose the data as his Device does it's greatest function.

Standing in a classic Kuji Kiri pose, he has his eyes closed, but says, "They'll be fine as soon as the enemy is out of the picture... and I'm erasing the fight from any media so no one has to worry about it."

He certainly SOUNDS more confident than he did a little bit ago...

Scorn has posed:
Scorn is trying to overpower the purification. She can't. She's trying there's a sudden push of force against force. Scorn is a dark energy user. But she isn't strong like other Generals. She suddenly finds herself encased in a purifying bubble. She's suddenly very scared..."NO......" an explosion happens, dark energy gets taken from her.

But she's sent flying backwards. She skids across the ground and comes to a stop. She groans. She looks different. Tints of green in purple hair. One of her eyes is a different color. Also green.

"K--kerfluffle..." she says weakly...

Corvus, who flew off a moment ago lands on Scorn's shoulder. "..Whoops. Go time." He duskports away, taking the odd looking girl with her.

The Terribad gets smacked with a bright pink purification beam----- it gets locked on and evaporates... "...So Relaxinnnnng!" it says as the three girls get freed from the mirror, falling slowly to their knees as the energy drain, the feathers and raining feathers disappear, slowly as the world slowly starts reverting back to 'normalcy' instead of Scorn's twisted bad future.

Aki Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Tide is tackled. She looks up and blinks at Scorn.... kerfluffle... she quickly stands up, ignoring Amy for now as she looks at Scorn in her damaged state....

The veil is broken.

"H----haruna...!?" she says as she pushes Amy away for a second, starting to run towards Scorn when that damn bird takes her away. She clenches her fists and then just screams. She punches a wall. She leaves a dent in the wall. "W--why!?" she asks as she looks to Amy.

Tide is not okay.

Tide is very not okay.

You can see it in her eyes. She just looks at Amy. "T...they'll be okay. This wears off quick.....h...hey. I'm. gonna go now. I uh. S..Stuff." she says shakingly as she starts to leave.

Minako Aino has posed:
"Cosplay?"

A concern for another time, this was just the price one paid for achieving some popular culture fame. Sailor V was already the Idol Minako wished -she- could be!

Zipping forwards, as Wukong continues to batter around the monster, leaving it completely helpless. Well, physical weapons seemed to be working pretty well, so she'd follow the lead!

Light coalesced around her hands and begin to take shape of a more familier profile: an uchigatana. She was literally hitting the creature with a -sword-! So that's where that came from!

'V-chan's sword' swings with all the motion of her enhanced form with a little gravity added for spice on a foe that was probably a little more distracted by Wukong knocking the stuffing out of them. Either of the two magical girls might land the final blow, but it was almost certainly going to hurt!

Koji Silvia has posed:
Koji speaks up, "Wait...Please..."

Recalling his Blades as the fog starts to settle bit by bit, "At least let me get us all someplace where people can... leave safely."

Refocusing for a moment, he draws and throws three into the ground, where they form a glowing and floating magic circle with a complex diagram along the outside, then a fourth is thrown and vanishes out into the street, "Consider this a thank you for saving us. Both of you."

Amanda Faust has posed:
> They'll be fine as soon as the enemy is out of the picture...

    Well, Amy has a very straightforward objective, then! ...Wait, where's her--

    She looks back over where the wave of Wukongs knocked her down. But as she reaches out and takes a step, the dropped launcher disappears into sparkles that rise into the air and quickly fade, and she's suddenly holding it again. Handy! She also has a sense she can fire it again, even though she didn't load another round (where would she get one? How does any of this work? Magic! For right now, she'll roll with it!)

    Still, she gives Koji a sad look. "Is that really fair to them?" She was in their place, a minute ago.

    Scorn villain teleports away just in time for an explosion to erupt where she just was. The camera pans over to Amy holding the rocket launcher, barrel now smoking. "Damn, she got away. NOW how do we-- oh..." She looks around as the results of the purification make the world go back to... well, Amanda's world will never be *normal* again, but they're no longer facing the rain of feathers from Preeny Has To Repeat 6th Grade, so that's an improvement. "What... happened? Who are those girls? Why were they in a mirror?"

    Amy blinks. "Wait, I have *no idea* what's going on, I need, um, like... can I get brought up to speed on like..." She gestures vaguely. "What the whole *deal* is???"

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong let out a sigh of relief. They'd done it! And... Koji was dealing with the cameras? Awwww. But SHE wanted to be famous, too! Except that didn't work, as far as she knew. At least, she thought so. Either way, though, they won! As if there was ever any doubt. Now she just had to--

And then she saw Tide. Oh. Oh no. Something bad happened. She could see it on Tide's face... she didn't know what it meant, but... she...

'I'm gonna go now'.

That hit her. And she hopped down from her staff. She stared at Tide.

'I'm hurting. But I can't show it. I won't show it. I won't.'

Wukong had been there. She had been that so many times. Suppress it. But... but Tide needed help. didn't she? She... And... Wukong froze. She wanted to be someone better. Someone... who helped when those moments happened. But that part of her, that said she wasn't actually liked... wasn't... wanted. Wasn't... any... use...

It made her freeze. Made her stop and watch the other precure leave...

Only to shake herself out of it a moment later. "NO!" Wukong yelled. "Ummm, errr, help the new girl out, okay? I need to go after ehr!" she yelled before dashing after Tide. No.

NO! She refused to just... to just let that hurt *happen*. That was NOT who she wanted to BE!

Minako Aino has posed:
Monster slain, but clearly there was more stress and trauma others were dealing with. Cure Tide and Wukong were moving out and well...it seemed that mentorship duties were falling on her. Sailor V gives a little sweep of her hand and the sword vanishes into a little flare of light before she turns to the new magical girl and lets her hands fall back to her side, stepping towards Amy and giving a little reach out to pat her shoulder while the other hand lifts to raise a finger.

"Okay So..." She points towards where the Terribad had been destroyed, "Bad lady summons monster to attack people," her hand moves towards the others, "people came to help...those girls are Magical Girls called 'Cures' I think...I don't know any of them, but they seem to be good and they're helping people."

As for the mirror? She pauses, a frown on her lips. "That seems to be what they do, capture people and put them in that mirror."

Did she introduce herself? Well...No, but Minako was doing her best helping the cute girl.

"And...you helped!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Shoulderpat. The senior magical girl is ready to impart wisdom. Amanda looks up into her eyes, seeking answers.

> Okay so... Bad lady summons monster to attack people,
    The new Puella slumps a bit. "I figured that much..."

Cures... mirrors...
    The puella cocks her head to one side slightly. "There are different types of magical girls? ...How right are the stories?"

> And...you helped!
    Amy blushes and looks away. Then smiles up at V. "I... I really did?"

Minako Aino has posed:
"Depends on the story?" Sailor V offers, herself shrugging her shoulders and having nodded at the question of different magical girls, and magical boys for that matter. She wasn't going into specifics though, after all there was probably plenty of 'Sailor V' stuff out there that wasn't quite correct.

"You did," she confirms, other hand coming up to grasp both shoulders for a moment of locked gaze (as much as her mask would allow). "I was in a really bad spot before you arrived. I don't know if I would have been able to win without you."

She'd been about to sacrifice herself...and in a way Amy had beaten her to the punch. If only Minako knew...

Hands withdraw and she stands tall once more. "I want you to remember, whatever happens Sailor V owes you one!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    There's a lot Amanda doesn't know either. DRAMATIC IRONY.

    Amy nods at the 'depends' bit. Yeah, that question was too vague... she startles slightly at the *double* shouldergrasp and the serious look. She looks away awkwardly. "I... a-any of us would've done the same, right? That's what heroes [yuusha] do..."

Minako Aino has posed:
Turning away, Sailor V actually giggles, lifting a hand to grin and give a wave of farewell along with a wink.

"That's right! Thank you for your help again, hero!"

Perhaps Amy would have been asked her name...but she probably had to come up with one first, right? At least, that seemed true in Minako's mind.

"See you around!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Picking a name is one of many awkward considerations The girl once known as Mallory is about to have to deal with. Well, she had Amanda picked out and ready to go actually, you see-

    OH YOU MEAN A MAGICAL GIRL NAME

    ...Yeah. One of many considerations.

    A cute girl giggled and sincerely thanked her and called her hero, like something out of a videogame. WHAT IS HAPPENING.

    'Uuuugh.... my head...'

    A civilian groaning and rousing to consciousness draws her attention. Uhhhhhhhhh... she's not sure how all this works, but she *probably* shouldn't be here when people wake up. Or the cops show up, or whatever. "Uh... seeya!" She waves, too late, and then runs out to the street and, somehow expecting she CAN, wall-jumps up to the rooftops to get away from here unseen.