104/Caffeinated Chaos!

Caffeinated Chaos!
Date of Scene:	17 July 2023
Location:	FaM-Mart
Synopsis:	Scorn entraps Naru Oksaka in a mirror, and Tadase Hotori, Cho Konishi and Amy Faust stop her and free Naru. Coffees may had been involved at some point.
Cast of Characters:	Naru Osaka, Tadase Hotori, Amanda Faust, Cho Konishi, Scorn

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Naru Osaka has posed:
There is a steady stream of students who keep the various markets in business, and FaM-Mart is no different. Especially for those who might have managed to sneak away early and feel obliged to get a few snacks to tide them over through after school Clubs and the like. It's a lovely afternoon, so many of them have been lately. Brilliant blue skies, warm but not too hot. The breeze is even refreshing rather than just more hot and humid on top of hot and humid. It's an excellent day to loiter just a few moments outdoors, just to enjoy it all.

And loiter is exactly what Naru is doing. Still in her school uniform, still with her school bag in hand. She has a little snack and a chilled bottle of latte drink as she sits at a picnic table, enjoying both of them on this perfect sunny afternoon.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
Tadase Hotori is generally not one for loitering, especially not at this time of day. But nobody, not even the Prince of the Student Council is immune from the occasional exhaustion, the need to get away from his usual work, and just go grab something slightly unhealthy but happiness-increasing So he's not slacking off, directly, but he is standing in line at the FaM-Mart right now. There's a small bag of chips in his hand, which Kiseki is floating next to almost greedy, rubbing his hands and saying 'soon' as he looks at the bag. After all, when you're his size, a single chip goes a lot further.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Amanda Faust" had her first day of high-- well, technically middle, although at the Academy it's all one campus anyway --school today. The subjects, other than Japanese history and literature, are mostly easy, although she keeps fumbling for the words in science and math class. It's all been sort of weird and uncomfortable and she needs to come up with a proper cover story doesn't she and oh god somehow she made it through.

    Mallory had lived in Japan for years, so he'd gotten used to walking everywhere instead of driving, and the convenience of the local konbini. And man, after today so far he could really go for a slushie. Not the sort of thing he used to splurge on, but... it's relatively cheap, school expenses are covered, she can afford to treat herself, damn it!

    So it is that she walks out of the konbini and over to the picnic tables, blue raspberry ice-cold slushie in hand. Wearing the same school uniform as Naru, she smiles in acknowledgement to her fellow student, and sits down-- and then makes the face of someone once again surprised by some unfamiliar physical sensation, before she tries to look normal and ignore it while sipping her slushie.

    This has been bugging her ALL DAY. Every time she sits down for goddamn class! Feeling bare thighs and panties making contact with the seat is uuuuugh how does everyone wearing skirts put UP with this ugggggh they must all be used to it. She may have to see if they'll let her wear the slacks from the boy uniform instead.

    The annoyance manifests as a 'resting bitch face' as she sips her slushie.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi was, of course, the ever faithful assistant. In this case, grunt work assistant. Having brought the paperwork and, unfortunately, chips don't go as far for her. She had some snacks of her own, anyway. The important thing, though, was that she WAS with the prince and could therefore get away with a bit of 'hookie', as it were. And flip through their 'work' and quickly determine who it goes to... before holding out a form to Tadase. "You'll need to sign this for the glamour club."

Of course, once she said that... she saw something she *had* to have. A simple toy... Smoke pellets. Okay, maybe not a toy. And they were bargain bin things. So they likely didn't even work. But... STAGE MAGIC! ... Okay, so maybe the prince wasn't the only irresponsible one here.

Scorn has posed:
Scorn appears on top of the minimart in a duskport, which has an effect involving wind and feathers, she has her arms on her hips. "Do you think. Queen Mirage-sama was that mad at us?" she says. Corvus, a crow on her shoulder, looks over to her and says. "I dunno. Was it the speech or the yelling that gave that away?". Scorn sulks. The girl in the elegant dress and bow, looks down. "I better not mess this next one up then!" she says as she jumps off the building.

She saunters up to the table where Naru is enjoying her drink and snack. She leans down and says to her, like she is an authority on the subject. "You're enjoying an iced latte!?" she says. "I hate Iced Lattes..."

"Let the future reflected in the mirror become terrible!" she calls out, spreading her arms out, as Naru most likely starts to feel an encroaching dark force around her. Before she's sealed into a mirror, red ribbons forming over the top of it- the mirror coffin shaped.

"Please come out, come out, my Terribad!" she calls out after, making a come hither motion with her hand as she turns around and merely spreads one arm out. The shape of red glasses flash in the sky before a terrible monster forms! A Terribad carrying two hot coffee cups and dressed like a bad barista.

"Terribad!" goes the monster as it starts to wave it's arms, spreadin misfortune and causing an energy drain, putting all the normal humans to sleep,, and it starts to rain feathers, giant tufts of feathers forming on suraces again as Scorn sits onto one of these feathers and sits side saddle on it, looking down at her nails.

"*SIGHHHHHHH* I wonder who'll come out this time. Maybe if I'm lucky..." she trails off.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"Are you alright?" Naru glances over at her classmate who apparently isn't super comfortable on the bench, her expression gently concerned. She takes another sip from her coffee drink, and a careful glance would note that Naru's uniform skirt is not obnoxiously short. It tucks nicely under her to sit on a bench, no bare legs on benches required.

A glance over as she watches people go in and out of the conbeni and Naru leans just a little as she spots Tadase in line. A little nod of recognition, and a smile before she turns back to Amy. "It really is a lovely day out. Did your classes go alright today?"

Naru is just about to take another sip of her iced latte when the wind picks up in an odd way. She looks up at the woman who is heaping scorn about her caffeine of choice. "I.. well.. you can get something else if you don't..." Naru trails off as things get Very Odd indeed. She lifts her hands up, as of trying to ward off ... something? The energies? The mirror perhaps, but she's trapped in that mirrored coffin. At least she's trapped with her latte?

Tadase Hotori has posed:
Tadase is standing in line with Cho, having nodded back at Naru, when the Hot Coffee Terribad is born from Naru's mirror - as Cho tries to pass him a form. "I think that's gonna have to wait." Kiseki says, able to sense it before the people in line with the two of them start dropping to the floor from the energy drain.
    "Well, looks like we're going to have to do our other job before we do our student council job." Tadase says, holding out his hand as a golden scepter appears in it and a crown arrives on his head. But it's not the ranting kind of change, it's the protector, the fighter kind of change. He leans out the door, and sees the Terribad and Scorn, turning back. "Well, I'm glad you're here, Konishi-san. This one is a little large for me to deal with myself." Okay, it's a LOT large for that.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Naru speaks to her. Amy blinks. "Uhh, ummm... I guess they went alright? Yeah, it is nice, with the breeze here..." and then she stares, wide-eyed, mouth agape, at Scorn, recognizing her from the clothing store... and then she's... what the fudge, putting Naru in a mirror?! She can't transform in front of the villain -- oh right, she looks like a civilian right now. Running and screaming would be normal. She gets up and RUNS... around the side of the building.

    A moment later, it's the Puella Magi's turn to be on the roof! Um, she's not really sure what to do, though, or what to say as a speech, so she summons her rocket launcher and takes aim... wait.

    Can she just...

    Ask?

    "HEY! HEY BIRD LADY!"

    The puella is standing on the edge of the konbini's roof, waving with her left arm while the right casually holds the rocket launcher at her side. "HEY! YES YOU! SO WHAT IS YOUR DEAL ANYWAY? CONQUER THE WORLD? DESTROY IT? ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR AN IDEAL OR SOMETHING? LIKE, WHAT DO YOU WANT?!"

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi sighed when suddenly... feathers. "Well, great. Isn't-- oh. OH! If it's... dang it. If only she were..." UGH! If only AKI were here! They could try and work out a plan! Dang it! Who all WAS here! Tadase! Great! Err, no offense to him. He was great. Just... not what they needed. "Well, Hotori-san, I don't know. I'm sure you can take him, well enough," she said in a joking tone. "I'll be right back, though."

She, of course, had to go and hide behind some of the aisles, before there was a flash of light and...

"A thousand immortalities wouldn't be enough to make me overlook this terrible act! Cure Wukong!" she called before leaping onto one of the tables and posing on one foot! She... she was still working on it.

She then paused and... "Oh, right! Hi Scorn! I'll be making you look like an idiot today, hope you don't mind~" she taunted.

Before glancing up at Amy and blinking. Wait. It was the cute rocket launcher girl! "Oh, hey! We didn't get to introduce ourselves last time! Hi! I'm Cure Wukong! What's your magic girl name?" she asked.

Thirty seconds in and already distracted. Sigh.

Scorn has posed:
Scorn entraps Naru, and looks over to Amy first. Who calls her 'bird lady'. "Rude." she says, frankly. "I want to spread misfortune. Isn't it lovely?" she asks, holding out her hand and letting a few feathers fall into it.

Corvus pulls a tiny umbrella from his feather fluff and uses it.

"You should stop bothering me." she says. "Because I won't forgive you for ruining my life!" she says to Amy. Because Scorn remembers. Then Cure Wukong appears. "Oh. It's you again." she says glumly. "You know what. Join me for a cup of coffee. Terribad!" she calls out and points.

The Terribad throws it's hot cups of coffee, causing them to spread terribly scalding hot magical coffee out into the air, aiming to cover Cure Wukong and Puella Amy in it.

Naru Osaka has posed:
There's something to be said for being trapped in a mirror. Naru is not getting hot coffee thrown at her, which is a feature. She's struggling, not that she can move much, trying to fight against the drain that is eating away at her spirit. There's no escaping it, not from this side of the mirror at least.

She can't even finish her own latte.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
Tadase steps out and, well, at least a wave of coffee is something he can prevent - and Cure Wukong is, from Tadase's limited experience, not the one who thinks about dodging early on in their game plan. Maybe ever.
    "Holy Crown!" he calls, still mid-stride, as the orange energy flares into existence from the tip of his scepter, making an impromptu umbrella for the King and the Monkey King, letting the coffee spread around it rather than over them. And then he looks to Cure Wukong. "Please don't try to use me as a battering ram this time, though." There's a lot of honesty in that please. "I do much better on the ground."
    There's another girl yelling at Scorn... with a rocket launcher? Okay, but Tadase has still seen weirder. Alright, sure. And then Tadase looks to Scorn. "No, it's not lovely. That's why it's called misfortune! The prefix Mis means wrong or bad! That's the opposite of lovely." he explains. Like he's trying to tutor someone or explain a concept to them. Student council habits die hard.

Amanda Faust has posed:
> What's your magical girl name?
    "Uhhh... call me Red for now? How do we normally come up with these things?"

> Scorn being... Scornful.
    "No! That's not lovely at all! What do you even GET from it? You're not some D&D demon that's just intrinsically compelled to do evil, right?!"

    But then there is SCALDING HOT COFFEE. Puella 'Red' drops and tries to roll out of the way of the coffee, her cloak absorbing it for now -- she gets to her knees and quickly tosses the scalding, soaked cloak aside, "Owowowowow hothothothothot!"

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi blinked and looked towards Scorn. "Sure, it could be-- WAIT NO THAT'S NOT--" Oh crud, oh crud, oh CRUD! Ugh, she hated boiling! If nothing else, at least her powers tended to dampen damage so--

Oh. Hey. Small prince. She looked to him... and he could *see* the gears turning in her head. The way her eyes lit up and--

Then deflated. "Awwwwww... Fiiiiiine." She then glanced back to Red. "Oh! We just... like. Name ourselves, usually! I'm Cure Wukong! This is King Cannonball!" she called up before leaping into the air, to land besides Amy. "Also, hi! One moment." She reached behind her ear to pull out her toothpick... before it grew to a good thirty feet long and she tried to crash it down on the youma. "I prefer my coffee COLD!" she yelled.

Scorn has posed:
Being trapped in that mirror is awful. It's draining. You're trapped. It's just. Horrible. Terrible even! But that's the point.

She looks up to her terribad as she speaks. "What do. I get from this?" she asks, sitting down on her feather. "I spread misfortune for Queen Mirage-sama. She tells us love... justice... courage... these things are just illusions. I am dispelling these illusions with my misfortune. don't you see?" she asks.

"You should be helping me you know. If you we're smart." she says as she.

The Terribad, however, gets crashed down upon by a giant staff and gets pushed back along the ground. Scorn gasps. "TERRIBAD, GIVE 'EM THE WHIP!" she calls out, raising her hand.

"TERRIBAD!" yells the youma as it produces two giant cans of whipped cream and tries to capture Cure Wukong, Puella Amy, and Tadase in giant globs of the stuff, spraying it all over!

Naru Osaka has posed:
On a scale of English grammar exams to being strangled by a youma in the form of her mother, this experience is certainly more at the 'strangled' end of things. Except less 'I cannot breathe, why are things getting fuzzy' and more of that sort of sensation over one's entire body. In a more controlled circumstance, it would be fascinating. Instead, it's making her struggles start to slow, as there's less and less energy to fuel the panic response of "MUST ESCAPE". She's not given up yet, although Naru's soon going to drop her latte.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    Tadase looks at Scorn, almost confused... "So even if you succeed you're misfortunate, miserable? That sounds like truly the terrible future, yes! I wouldn't help you make things worse. You should help us make things better!"

    But then he hears her telling the Terribad to give them 'the whip' and he's ready to try and block you know, a whip, the weapon. He is not ready to defend against a spray of whipped cream. The misjudgement of it is enough that, on his own, he's a little too slow, and he's likely to end up trapped inside delicious dairy. (or, non-dairy substitute.)

Amanda Faust has posed:
> They're illusions!
    Yeah, but you have to believe the little lies first before you can-- wait no, those are the big lies, that quote doesn't work. "Ugh..." Amy stands up and points dramatically. "There may not be one atom of love, one molecule of justice, one particle of courage in the world, but these ideas affect lives! They make life BETTER!"

    She lifts up the rocket launcher and fires at the incoming glob! "HEY! It's hard to explain philosophy to you while fighting!"

    The rocket... catches the weird, tar-ry substance and probably goes off to explode somewhere, some smaller bits of the stuff raining down.

    'Red' stands slumped with mouth agape again, arms at her side. "Are you KIDDING me?! I'm not-- First monsters that wanna EAT us, now you're covering us in whipped cream?! Why are monsters LIKE this?! You wan' us to wrestle in the whipped cream next?! DIE!"

    She hefts her rocket launcher and takes aim again.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong gave a soft sigh. "You know, you all keep mentioning this 'Queen Mirage'. Like, I've never even seen her before. Is she at least cute or something if you're going to keep getting your butt kicked for her? On top of that, listen to King Cannonball! Like, what kind of example are you setting? What if you had a little sister or something who looked up to you? What do you think she'd think if you kept trying to take away her happiness?" she asked.

Of course, now THE WHIP was coming! And... it... was whipped cream. Huh. Well, that was easy. She reached up to grab a handful of hair...

Then... then it was diverted. With a rocket launcher.

Wukong just side eyed Red. Seriously? Maybe Wukong was jsut REALLY bad at defense. When the ROCKET LAUNCHER is better at defending them.

But it left her room to operate and THAT was useful! She leaped at the youma. "Hey, I think your coffee needs to be properly STIRRED!" she yelled driving the staff down at the youma... then *swirling* it, to stir the youma around in a dizzying circle.

Yes, she could, and would, pun all day if need be.

Scorn has posed:
Naru will find she can't move very much in the mirror. Downsides. Upsides, she won't drop her latte right now! And it was cold anyways to begin with!

Then the whipped cream glob coming for the heroes gets intercepted with a rocket as Scorn pfffbbss and stands up finally. "UGH!" and then the Terribad gets spun dizzy and gets swrily eyes over it's glasses, it's weakened and now dizzied and unable to attack right now.

"No, my my.. Terribad!" she complains. "UGH! Why are you asking such silly questions about Queen Mirage-sama!" she grabs the sides of her head as she screams. "I Just... hate you all so much!" she says, as she gets a massive migraine suddenly.

Corvus pats the side of Scorn's head.

Naru Osaka has posed:
It is an upside, the latte will be saved! Sure the cold drink is getting warmer, but that's alright in the grand scheme of things. Naru tries to wriggle and mostly fails. She strains to kick, hampered both by the lack of movement AND by the lack of energy. She's well caught, and whipped cream free.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    Tadase tilts his head. "You know, if you've got a headache, it's probably not a good time to be doing such focus intensive things, like getting your butt kicked when trying to do evil?" he suggests. Tadase can't really help finish or solve the Terribad, but he can certainly frustrate the already frustrated girl who seems to be commanding the big youma. "Not being evil is at least 25% less likely for you to have to get a headache from Cure Wukong."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy blinks at Wukong. "His name is King Cannonball?"

    She looks back at Scorn. "But yeah! If we're foiling your plans... isn't that just spreading misfortune to you and your queen? So it's win/win for you, right?" She smirks as she fires, the dazed terribad giving her an opportunity for a good shot!

    The rocket -- which looks like a regular explosive rocket but with gems on it because Puella -- streaks towards the coffee-monster.

    Hopefully this goes better than last time, where she aimed at Scorn and accidentally hit the giant purse...

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong grinned wide. This... was an opportunity. Scorn had a headache and... wasn't paying attention as much. Well, she supposed, for her friend, she'd better try. As the rocket flew at the youma, Wukong landed.

A bit behind Scorn. She dashed forward before trying to SHOVE her, with both hands, palm out. "Monkey fist, shove!" she called.

No, that wasn't an actual attack. Why?

Because if the missile hit the youma, she was trying to make it so the two would collide. Granted, if it would do that was... anyone's guess. Not to mention she might not even be able to shove the other girl. "I'm sorry, here, have a DRINK on you!" she called. And hoped, if it worked, the others would be able to suppress the two long enough for her to, maybe, give Aki some good news.

Scorn has posed:
The mirror makes you want to sleep, soon. Go to sleep. Sleep forever Naru. In the mirror.

The terribad gets hit with the rocket and is sent flying backwards and Cure Wokong comes up from behind Scorn and she doesn't see her...!

Corvus does though. And it's enough. It's always that damn bird. Scorn turns around quickly and punches into that shove, with a wind infused punch, wind building around her fist, as she counters it, possibly pushes Wukong away from her.

"You can't just do that." she says angrily.

The Terribad, now on it's feet again, produces biscotti! Delicious Biscotti, that it throws into the air and they suddenly become they're OWN Rockets, aiming to crash into all the heroes and explode with dramatic might!

Scorn frowns and keeps concentrated on Wukong. "Go. Away. Vanish!" she calls out, before sending a torrent of wind and feathers towards Cure Wukong!

Naru Osaka has posed:
There is a rebellious streak in the little mundane that is screaming at the back of Naru's psyche to stay awake! Possibly it's the beloved latte, but more likely it's very much a 'you want me to what!? Oh heck no!' sort of attitude.

Still, it's hard to fight and she feels like she's been fighting this nap for ages already, no matter that it hasn't been that long at all. Her eyes drift closed, the 'blink' that one takes in the most dull of history classes, when you're just you just blinked, but somehow nothing on the blackboard is familiar anymore.

Naru's eyes snap open again after an extended blink. She's not ready to sleep yet, dammit! But it's getting really hard not to.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    Tadase calls out "Cure Wukong! It's basically you and rockets there against Scorn and a building sized monster! Go for the monster first!" he advises. Because now Scorn is stuck into all of it and, if you don't count Tadase (and he himself kinda doesn't) the odds aren't that heavily stacked in the favor of the heroes today. Honestly, he's a little worried when Scorn joins the battle against Wukong. They can't just destroy the Terribad with Naru in that mirror, either. He just wishes he could... do more...

    He at least has the ability to move a little better than someone who wasn't Chara Changed at all, and makes his way up to Amy Faust - he calls out "Holy Crown" again and this time it's her that's being protected from the attack by him, leaving her free to, hopefully, rain down a storm on the Terribad and bring them closer to getting away before the battle turns against them. Maybe he should get cell phone numbers, or something? He hates how powerless he often feels in these situations...

    And that's when Kiseki flies off from hovering near him and over to Corvus, and tries to grab a feather and pulls on it. "Hey, bird-brain-bird." the king says and then pulls down his eyelid and blows a raspberry at Corvus. Maybe if the bird is distracted, Kiseki thinks, Scorn will be too.

    It's only a moment after he's started this plan that Kiseki rememebers that he slowly floats through the air, and birds FLY.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Biscotti?! How is THAT going to--" OH NO NOW ROCKETS ARE USED AGAINST HER! IT'S SO UNFAIR WHEN SOMEONE ELSE DOES IT! She can't make it by dodging...

    But...

    She does seem to have a *little* control over her rockets. She's noticed that they can be more or less destructive to terrain, for instance, depending on what she's trying to do. So maybe...

    Amy aims it at the roof in front of her and *BOOM*

    Rocket jumps.

    On the bright side, she's blown herself clear of where it's raining biscotti rockets!

    On the other hand, she was hoping to just land behind the store, and seems to have misjudged this by like a city block... or two... And in the air she has NO control over her movement, only flailing wildly. "AAAAAAAAH!"

    She'll probably be fine and be back in several seconds, but she's so angry at herself for the words running through her mind right now:

    Looks like Team 'Rockets blasting off again!

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong looks, wide eyed, at the bird. Oh. Oh that's not FAIR! How dare she see through Wukong's underhanded trick! Wait, no. Oh crud. She let out a shriek as she was sent flying back, slamming into a tree. "O-ow..." She was enveloped in a pink light for a moment. "T-that's one," she said. "Y-you got a mean swing, birdy," she said...

Moments before she was enveloped in *rockets*. When they cleared, Wukong was... collapsed on the ground, face first, groaning. That... that was two. Ow...

She glanced up and... oh. There went her allies. That... that wasn't a good sign. Note to self, next time... Don't... ow. She tried to sit up, only to collapse again a moment later. She REALLY wished she had a, say, young, cute boy (or girl, she wasn't picky) to come out of nowhere and, say, throw a rose at the enemy to distract them. "H-hey. Right. G-good point. N-no shoving Scorn. You... got it, boss," she said. She was just going to need a moment. *Ow.*

Scorn has posed:
The Terribad throws Biscotti rockets and causes extreme chaos. IS..is anyone gonna actually purify the thing? The Terribad, done with throwing rockets screams out "Terribad!" as it raises a hot expresso dispenser! It's about to follow up on the floundering aerial figure(s)? when Scorn calls it.

"TERRIBAD! WHIP THE CURE!" she calls out. The Terribad dropping the dispenser as it follows orders, picking back up it's whipped cream can and trying to cover Cure Wukong in more whipped cream.

Regardless, Scorn approaches the downed figure and leans down. "Think, Cure!" she says. "Soon, you'll you won't be a problem for anyone ever again!" she laughs.

She's left the others against her, alone though. That may have been a bad idea. Maybe.

Kiskei annoys Corvus, and pulls a feather though, and he turns to him and mimes pulling up a sleeve as he gets into a comical dust cloud fight with the Chara. Suddenly.

"H--hey what are you doing!? Leave Corvus alone!" she suddenly cries.

Naru Osaka has posed:
Naru fights sleep in the mirror like an overtired toddler. She droops, even without moving far, her eyes closing, and then she startles back awake, her eyes wide and wild and only half focused on what is going on outside her be-ribboned coffin. Not that she can really make it out clearly, nor.. if the truth be told.. entirely comprehend what on earth is going on out there. Clearly, it's another terrible dream. Dreams happen when your eyes are closed. Perhaps she'll just rest her eyes a moment. Just for a second.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    "He started it!" Kiseki yelled from inside of the dust cloud. He mostly did not, in fact, start it. Well, he kinda started 'it' as in the whole attack, but not this specific fight. "Also, no!" Kiseki adds, as for a moment there's a few frames of him trying to assault Corvus with his as something to bludgeon the bird with.

    Tadase, after his adventures with Wukong and Gravity before, at least has a solution to it - another crown, but this one is not made of thick energy, but instead it's rather like an air cushion, like something soft, and he aims it where he would otherwise land.

    He rolls out of it and it vanishes. Well, now Tadase needs to do something, though. Kiseki, small though he is, found something to fight. Now Tadase just needs to find something his own size to fight. Or maybe just a few years older. Someone like... the girl who was crowing over Cure Wukong. He grips his scepter a little tighter and moves up behind her, running quickly, swinging the scepter like he'd seen his friend Kukai swing a baseball bat. For the fences. But not at her head, square at the center of her back. Still... maybe he could stagger her. It was at least a magic scepter and not a mundane stick, right? And worst case she tried to beat him up and Wukong could maybe save the girl by purifying the Terribad - please, please do this right Wukong, he whispers to himself as he swings as hard as he can.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    While in flight, Amy also gets a moment to process that just as she looked up some boy had stood protectively in front of her and put up a shield. No one's ever treated her like she's worth *protecting* before... it's a nice feeling, but was it just because she's a girl now? And a cute one at that, she's seen how she lookOH SHOOT HERE COMES THE GROUND

    Amy impacts and rolls before slamming into a building or tree or something. "Oww...." But.... it didn't hurt *nearly* as much as it *should* have. She's like, cartoon character thrown into a wall hurt, not the broken bones she'd expect from a normal person. .oO( Guess magical girls *are* pretty tough... )

    She quickly gets up and starts running back... And damn, she can just keep running, too! She'd have gotten winded quickly before...

    It's still a bit of a distance, and there are intervening buildings and stuff she has to leap over. She's almost there!

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong groaned, ow. She REALLY needed backup. She... was not made for this. Wait, whip? NOOOOO! And she was buried under whipped cream. The sad music would play, filled with drama. Cure Wukong... was defeated. She...

Meanwhile, Scorn and the bird were getting in new fights. Scorn was distracted! And... And Cure Wukong was beaten, though. The only purifier. She was....

And then, uplifting music! Wait. Where WAS that music coming from?! Off in the distance... DJ Wukong! One of her clones! As if an ominous foretelling of what was to happen, the whipped cream began to rumble...

And then explode.

"Don't count on it, Scorn! I've not even begun to approach the amount of everybody's problem I can be!" she yelled out.

As she and her clones rose up, she flipped, tossing her staff onto the ground with her tail. Landing on it one footed, her clones raining down around her, amidst lil clouds of whipped cream. "72 earthly arts purifaction!" she cried. Making the five elemental stances... before gathering all five of them together and unleashing a blast of magical, purifying pink magic at the youma. "I'm ALWAYS going to be a problem! Wait, no, that came out wrong!"

Scorn has posed:
Scorn reaches into the dust cloud and yoinks Corvus from the cloud and Corvus keeps swinging still. "Lemme at him, lemme at him!" he says. Scorn is really distracted now. She makes a face but Corvus says "Scorn, lookout!" too late and Scorn gets clonked in the head with a scepter and sent flying forward onto the ground, herself and 'args!' She rubs the back of her head and seethes. "SUCH A LOW DOWN, RUDE, DIRTY TRICK!" she yells angrily.

MEANWHILE.

The Terribad gets purified, putting it's arms out, going 'Sooo relaxing!' while it disappears into nothing after being punched to it's butt with the purifying set of stances and punching. The Mirror trapping Naru fades, freeing her, and the world turns back into normalcy, the feathers disappearing.

Scorn gets up and angrily leans forward. "ARGH! I ALMOST HAD HER AGAIN!" she says. "DON'T THINK I WON'T FORGET THIS!" she says as she duskports away in a burst of wind and black feathers, along with her bird, which she's still holding. Corvus keeps trying to fight with Kiskei the whole time.

Well. That happened?

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Puella 'Red' arrives just in time to see the Terribad get purified, and Scorn to go I'LL GET YOU GADGET, NEXT TIME, NEXT TIIIIIIIME while she catches her breath. She walks over to Wukong, looking around. "Is everybody okay? What WAS that thing, like, we didn't really get to talk about how all this WORKS before..." She glances at Naru. "Umm, is she gonna be okay...?"

Naru Osaka has posed:
At this point, the mirror coffin was all that was holding Naru upright and when it fades, she tumbles to the ground. And so the latte falls. Still cool, but spilled all over the ground.

RIP Latte. You were with us such a brief time.

It is not RIP Naru, however, although she is not exactly in ideal shape, drained and curled up on the ground, catching her breath. She doesn't immediately reply to Red's query as to if everyone is alright, which is probably a good sign that she isn't quite awesome.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    Tadase Hotori actually winces when Scorn's distracted movements still end up with her getting knocked upside the head by the scepter. "Trick? You put an innocent girl in a mirror and started a fight in the middle of a busy street, and stole energy. It's not my fault you lost track of me!" Tadase said, shrugging. Kiseki, who is now free of Corvus and just making faces at him as Scorn holds onto him, adds "And you interrupted us getting chips." as though this is at least as critical an offense as the whole locking an innocent girl in a mirror thing.

    Wukong does the purification thing, Naru does the 'not being trapped in a mirror' thing, Scorn leaves in a cloud of angry feathers, and Tadase breathes out calmly, his crown and scepter vanish, and he finds a nearby bench and just lies down on it. Tadase is not in henshin. Tadase is not an athlete. Tadase is very, very tired.

    But then his head pops up for just a moment, so he can add "Also, my name isn't King Cannonball and you know that." he says to Wukong. "It's Tadase Hotori." he says to Amy. And then returns to lying on the bench and breathing heavily.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong blinked a few times, sighing before glancing to Tadase. "Sorry, Hotori-san. But you know the rules. If you don't choose a magic name, one will be chosen for you," she said before holding a hand back and a clone put a piece of paper in her hand. She then showed it to him.

Ru1e5: wut i say tey R

She glanced back at the note a moment later before sighing and using her stick to bop the clone, making it poof.

"Okay, right. So, Hotori-san, uhhhh..." She glanced at Naru. "... I think we're going to be a bit late getting back to school. Want me to catch Red up while you take care of the uhhh, victim?" she asked, grinning at him before looking to Naru.