876/A Crow Scorned!

A Crow Scorned!
Date of Scene:	11 December 2023
Location:	Penguin Park
Synopsis:	Scorn tries to make a new Corvus. Everyone thinks that's a bad idea!
Cast of Characters:	Scorn, Tadase Hotori, Cho Konishi, Iona Hikawa, Amanda Faust, Mio Morita
Tinyplot:	The Precure Hunter Attacks!? The Dreaded Precure Graveyard!

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Scorn has posed:
Did you know Crows are free and they just hang about in parks even in the winter!? It's true! And thusly, Scorn is here today, crawling on a branch towards a crow that is hopping away from her, before it flies off.....and Scorn falls off the branch. She screams and starts shaking the tree and even more crows fly away and she 'grahs'! and then tries to push the tree over! It actually shifts a bit, with her tremendous dark power, but doesn't fall.

"I've had enough of this!" she yells as she turns towards an unsuspecting crow...

"LET THE REFLECTION OF THE FUTURE IN THE MIRROR, BECOME TERRIBLE!" she calls out as she throws her hands out. "PLEASE COME OUT, COME OUT, MY TERRIBAD!" she calls as she pulls her arms towards herself. The crow gets trapped into a mirror!? and it forms, a giant crow terribad with the glasses.

Seriously what is it with this girl and birds. "THERE, NOW I HAVE A TERRIBAD CROW! A TERRICROW IF YOU WILL!" she says as she places her hands on her hips, as the crow starts to spread her misfortune zone, waving it's wings as black feathers rain from the sky, and giant black feathers start to form on everything! Scorn plops back into a fluff of forming feathers!

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    Tadase Hotori and Kiseki were shopping nearby for vegetables for dinner tonight - okay Tadase was shopping, Kiseki was being curious. As Tadase handed over money to the shopkeeper and took his bags, Kiseki suddenly stopped floating and became still in the air, stiff like a board, a shiver crawling up his spine. "Kiseki...?" Tadase asked.

    "I sense something bad, Tadase-kun." the little floating King explained. "Like an X-egg, but not. Probably some other kind of Dark Energy." he explained.

    "Alright then, lead me." Tadase replies - a little bit more eager, maybe, than he strictly should be. Following his Chara to the park Scorn was hunting crows in - and seeing the giant crow terribad and the mirror - remembering that time he saw Naru Osaka trapped in one. That time he'd only had the ability to chara change, and had to keep his involvement limited. But now? "Kiseki, are you ready?" he asked.

    "Let's get that bird out of that mirror... birds can be grateful loyal subjects too!" Kiseki noted, and Tadase sighed. Well, whatever it took.

    He pulled the lock on the necklace out from under his shirt and readied himself. "My Heart: UNLOCK."

    A few moments later, a handsome young male in a red and white quasi-royal outfit with a crown and scepter appeared after a tremendous leap. "You!" he said, pointing the scepter at Scorn right as she vanishes into feathers. "You let that innocent crow out of your strange mirror and stop attacking people!"

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cho Konishi had been having a pretty good week, all things considered. She'd begun working with the other precures (Blue's, admittedly). Wuwu was pouting a bit about it since 'apparently' Blue had enough precures without stealing his. But Cho was NOT being stolen. She was... well...

She was forming bonds. A team. And she was learning a lot from Blue's girls. While their fighting styles were different, she could learn a lot about the magic from them. So it was that she and Iona were actually celebrating a practice session by going to a creperie that Iona had recommended. Cho had never been to one, but it sounded fun.

In a strange twist, she'd gotten a blueberry crepe! It was pretty good... and she was about halfway through it when suddenly a poor, innocent, harmless bird fell into despair... and then captured a crow by encasing it in a mirror. She glanced up at the black feathers and then sides, giving Iona a slightly amused grin. "I guess Scorn's causing havok again. What do you want to bet it's a bird youma? I think all three of my last ones have been those. I am NOT going to ride it this time." Pause. "Probably. Maybe. But yeah, we should probably go deal with this before she... well. We should probably make sure we're there to help her sister when she shows up. Who knows? Maybe today will be the day we finally save her!" Then there'd just be one more sister to save!

She got up, ran off around the corner... and pulled out her device, the scroll and pen. With a swirly signature, her henshin began! Historic Legacy, Pretty Cure!"

Once Fortune was ready, she'd run off towards Scorn with her and soon... Dramatic pose time! "A thousand immortalities wouldn't be enough to make me ignore these crimes! Cure Wukong!"

Skip beat!

"I CALLED IT! BIRD YOUMA! Hi Scorn! That's not Corvus 2.0, is it?"

Iona Hikawa has posed:
Iona has brought Cho to a creperie she knows as a post-training reward. She knows this place and it's actually her favourite creperie in Tokyo. Besides the convenience of its proximity (at least when she still lived in Pikarigaoka), the cooks here knew their stuff, so it's actually a place she would recommend.

The training sessions with Hime and Cho are progressing at a good pace. Hime's aim is good judging by the volleyballs she has been tossing, and Cho is actually good with a staff, but she has been using it a long while, so no surprise there. What Iona is actually worried about is the fact she quarrels with her own clones sometimes. She should make that Cho's next exercise, but it is overall a success that has to be rewarded, hence the crepe break.

Or at least, that is the intention if they aren't interrupted by Scorn starting to use animals to create Terribads, more specifically a harmless crow. She really has a theme to adhere too at all costs, does she?

A quick use of her Pretty Change Mirror and Iona is glamourously changed into her Precure alter ego. "The star of hope that glitters in the night sky! Cure Fortune!"

"This is enough, Scorn, leave that bird alone. That won't get you anything."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Are those... black feathers falling from the sky in the distance? Amanda hasn't seen Scorn active in awhile... what fresh horrors could she have been working on these past months?!

    Amy makes her way to the park, transforming in an alley on the way.

    And Cure Wukong is already doing the dramatic pose and speech thing... Well, why not?

    Amy stands with her left hand on her hip and her right hand pointing at her enemy. Or in the crow's direction if she can't actually see Scorn right now. "Scorn! You... You return after all this time to spread despair, but we heroes haven't dropped our guard! The only despair you'll find today... is YOURS!"

    Not bad for improvised on the spot! That was kinda fun! Maybe she should do this more often? When, y'know, the future of the world isn't hanging in the balance and all.

    "Cure Wukong, Cure Fortune, good to see you! Hiiiii!" She waves.

Scorn has posed:
Scorn watches Tadase arrive and blinks at how frilly he looks. "Are you............. Cure King?" she says softly as she scratches the side of her head. She peeks her head out of the feathers and explodes outwards of her poof. "Hey, it's just a bird, are we gonna fight over another bird? Seriously!?" she calls out.

Indeed, soon, Cure Wukong and Cure Fortune arrive and she leans back and points at Cure Wukong. "YES THIS GIANT BIRD IS MY NEW CORVUS, BIGGER AND TERRIBADDER!" she says to Cure Wukong and Cure Fortune.

And then Amy arrives and gives a dramatic speech and she sputters. "IT'S ROCKET GIRL" she says. "I haven't forgotten you either, I still owe you for ruining my big break!" she waves out her hand.

"CORVUS 2.0, BOOGALOO!" she says. And the Terribad crow squacks out. "TERRIBAD!" and sends a wide wave of powerful winds into the group of magical girls and boys!

Scorn holds onto a tree. "H-hey you're supposed to blow them away , not me!" she says.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong rocked back and forth on her feet and... finally noticed. "Platinum Royale? Huh, long time no see. Brings back--"

WINDS! She hadn't expected them to actually be that powerful and she was sent hurtling back, slamming into a tree with a pained grunt. "O-ow... H-hi Red, good to s-see you too," Wukong said, giving her a feeble wave before dropping to the ground. Ow.

"And yes! We're going to definitely fight over a bird! We'll fight for ALL the birds! Because you're not the right bird for this... I had something and I lost it! But yes, this Corvus looks much cooler than the last one!" Admittedly, Corvus would likely be miffed to hear that.

"Hey, remember this one Scorn?" Cure Wukong leaped off the ground, bounding up high into the air, plucking her staff from behind her ear! She then swung down, the staff growing longer and thicker until it was the size of a VERY large tree. "Wukong Timber DROP!"

... If the others got to yell Princess XXXX and Fortune XXXX she wanted a special callout too!

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    "I'm Platinum Royale." The young king says. "And I don't know what a corvus is, but I'm pretty sure I know what a Terribad is, and I'm pretty sure it's also making everything around us worse, so yeah, I'm gonna fight over the bird." Platinum says. Corvus 2.0 sends waves of energy at the group, and while Wukong is a little out of place, Platinum figures he should be able to mostly cover the rest of the group, jumping in front of them with a tried-and-true tactic, one he had even before the lock.

    "Holy Crown!" he calls out, letting a blast of golden-white energy fight back against the waves - but Platinum too is surprised at how much energy there is behind the shockwaves, and it takes him a tighter grip on his scepter and more focus to push back against them.

    "You know, I'm not sure it likes you very much either." Platinum calls to Scorn.

Iona Hikawa has posed:
"Cure King? Is that really who you are?" Iona stares confused at the boy addressed by Scorn. Cure Princess exists, but isn't King a really pompous name to have?

But Wukong has called him something else, so a Precure he is not.

"Wukong, be careful with her", Iona suggests the other Precure as she cheerfully greets Scorn. Maybe that's a needless worry since she is sturdy, but surely better not to give Scorn any opportunity, right?

"Hello, Red!" Iona greets Amy back with a smile. "I see you have met Scorn too. Corvus has been purified, that's why she is doing this."

She is about to move close to fistfight the bird Terribad, but the gales prove a serious obstacles, pushing her back. She should push back against this winds, else she isn't going to accomplish anything on the backfoot like this.

"PreCure Rolling Mirror Change! Anmitsu Komachi" she declares, putting the PreCards inside. "Sakura Blizzard Dance!" All of a sudden, Iona is wearing a Sakura kimono and she is dancing among Sakura petals, engaging in percussive music with her Fortune Tambourine. She creates her own gale to try and oppose the Terribad's.

Mio Morita has posed:
"A Bird? Really?! You actually mirrored a crow." Cure Daybreak lands on a tree branch. She had some trouble finding a place to transform. Turns out there was a few events going on that prevented her from using just any old alleyway to change. Eventually though she got transformed and flew to the park. "Hiya Scorn, didn't expect you to be back in town."

Cure Daybreak quickly jumps down off her tree branch and turns her attention to the terribad...or terribird. "RISING SUN FLARE!" She hits the dial on her prebrace and turns it. Magic builds in her hand as sshe winds up and throws a burst of flames the terribird.She doesn't wait for instructions. She darts in and assaults the legs of the terribad in an effort to take it off its feet.

"Hiya Wu Kong, Fortune, Red and ummm You're Highness. Good to see you out for the fight today." She comments to the other fighters as she tries to maintain focus on the fight at hand. "Hows training been, Wu Kong? Is Princess improving?" She asks as she darts back to put a little distance between the manic Terribird and herself.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    ALSO Cure Platin--err, that King guy is here! Amanda remembers him from the coffee fight! "Oh hey, King guy!" She waves to him too.

    It's just a bird? Amy looks at the mirror. "Wait, that WORKS? You can make youma out of random animals?!"

    'Rocket Girl?' Amy blinks, muttering to herself and holding her hand to her chin. "Rocket Girl Red... Rocket Girl Amy...? Rocket Girl Red Amy? It's a good start... UWAH!"

    She's sent flying by wind, forgets to use explosions to stabilize herself and hits the ground rolling and tumbling. "Nngh..." She looks over at Scorn by the tree. "Looks like you should've... uh... shouldn't have CROWED so much?"

    Amy stands up. "Well, this ROCKET GIRL is gonna... blow up your plans?" The launcher appears on her shoulder and she fires at the crowibad. The Terribadder. "Girl Rocket will send you blasting off again? No, that doesn't work..."

Scorn has posed:
Winds buffet out from the Crow Terribad as Scorn manages to steady herself as she watches heroes get blown back or need to protect themselves. "Yes, get blown away by how awesome I am, gwyahahaha!" goes Scorn as she watches Platinum Royale protect the others.

"Hey that isn't fair!" she yells.

Cure Fortune transforms, and manages to buffet back wind against wind, before the beam battle going on between the two forces gives and the Crow Terribad gets blown back before Cure Wukong traps it under her large staff.

It manages to get back up quickly, but is quickly taken back down to it's side by the Rising Sun Flare to it's feet. Before rockets impact the Terribad.

"I CAN TRAP ANYTHING I WANT IN A MIRROR!" she says as she huffs. "I'm gonna..gonna terribad your lunch!" she yells at Amy.

"TERRIBAD!, peck at 'em!" she commands.

She then yells at Daybreak. "YOU RUINED EVERYTHING IN SEATTLE! I WAS GONNA.. GONNA MAKE IT THE PHANTOM EMPIRE COFFEE CAPITAL OF HATE." she yells, before the Terribad lunges out to try to peck at Cure Fortune, before more winds can be created.

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong slid down the pole, the tree quickly shrinking back down to fit in her hand as she went, allowing her to land with a graceful bow.

Admittedly, the bow was more accidental as she hadn't really... thought that far ahead and had more been a liiiiiittle flaily and tryign to decide if she should try and land on the stick or go for the bird and by the time she made a choice it was too late, so instead landing on her feet, wobbling back a few feet and bowing.

When she stood back up, she pointed at Scorn. "YOU'RE not fair! Your sister is very worried about you, you know!"

She then gave Amy a thumbs up. Keep working on those puns! You can do it, girl! "And, frankly? Every day is a terriBAD day when you spend it assaulting innocent birds! Just because they're smarter than you is no reason to get mean with them!" she yelled before spinning her staff and then trying to SMASH it against the side of the youma's feet. "Wukong's upside-down clothesline!"

She then called out to Daybreak. "The training has been going great! Fortune has joined us and she's really helping us all get into our A-game! We're doing way better, did you see how powerful her winds are? You Blue's Cures have the most awesome dance cards! Wuwu's totally jealous, though. He's a silly monkey. Hey Platinum, think you can blind the bird brained? The big one, not the little one!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Ugh, 'get blown away by how awesome I am' was better than what Amy came up with!

    And now Amy's lunch is threatened. "Wait... you can do that?!" Amy isn't that concerned about ger lunch, per se, but is concerned about the implications that Scorn can make a monster out of literally anything.

    Also: Seattle? "Wait, you went to America?! When?!"

    Amy gives an appropriate "Oooohhhhh" at the 'smarter than you' line.

    "Hey! Peck on someone your own size!" Amy turns towards the Terribadder as her weapon changes to a gyrojet rifle in her hands, and she fires several rocket-propelled bullets at its head to distract it from Cure Fortune.

    "I mean you gotta... you gotta deal with all of us, not just one! And put together, we're pretty big!" Amy tries to save the line and makes it worse.

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    "Seattle?" Platinum asks, confused. "Why were you in an American city - you know what, I don't even wanna know." he says, though internally he's also admitting the blown away pun was pretty good.

    "You know, if you could Terribad someone's lunch and it got as big as a bird you could feed a lot of people." he considers, always thinking to some degree of others, but then he pauses. "Wait, I guess it'd be some kind of living monster thing so maybe not.

    "No, I'm not a Pretty Cure." Platinum reiterates. "I'm a chara bearer - you know what lets deal with the evil bird monster first then I'd be happy to explain."

    Wukong asks Platinum to blind the creature, and he shrugs. "I dunno, but I'll try!" he says, before leveling that scepter at the bird. "HOLY SHOT!" he yells as a beam of the same kind of bright, golden-white energy erupts and tries to shoot the bird in the eyes. Well, that's a form of blinding them anyways.

Iona Hikawa has posed:
Anmitsu Komachi fades back into Cure Fortune as she sees Corvus 2.0 charge at her to try and assert the pecking order. She Can barely jump enough to expand her back bow and fly to the skies. That was close. Have you seen that beak? It had to have been as wide as the Pretty Change Mirror.

"Can you actually make Terribad out of really anything?" Iona asks dragged into the conversation despite herself. "What about doing it out of yourself? Would it work?"

Iona gets a little nervous when Cho talks. It's good to know her winds helped, it actually feels nice to know she is contributing to the others. At the same time she is not sure how to feel at being called one of Blue's Cures. She has nothing in common with him and didn't even get her powers from him. Plus, his edict to prohibit love, and all. "Thanks, Wukong", which has atmospheric if nothing else.

Mio Morita has posed:
"Awesome Wu Kong! Keep going with it! You all are awesome!" She smiles happily as she keeps her focus on the terribad. "I will explain what I was doing in Seattle later. Stay focused!" Daybreak looks around and notes that everyone is focused on the the terribird. She quickly moves clear of the birdibad looking like she is going to do another ranged attack.

Well that much is true at least. She is winding up a ranged attack. "DAWN RUSH!" She calls out and punches the ground. Fiery light erupts from the ground, not under the terribad but under Scorn! "May I have this dance?" She asks as she gets ready to fight. She never thought she would ever have the nerve to take on a General but right now she has something to prove. "You know your Sister cares about you greatly. You can just walk away from this, Scorn. Walk away and spend time with your sister. She misses you." Daybreak states, having certainly gotten the attention of the Phantom Empire general.

Scorn has posed:
Scorn ughs. "That again!? I'm not anyone's sister. STOP WITH THAT!" she yells loudly. "Ugh, where do you think I went!?" she asks Amy, finally.

Amy and Platinum Royale both shoot for the head of the creature and cause it to erupt backwards, away from Cure Fortune, as it tries to clear it's vision by flapping it's wings around it's head, cawing painedly while it does this.

This gives plenty of time for Wukong to sweep it off it's feet with a clothesline to it's feet, as it falls over on it's side again. It struggles this time getting up, remaining on it's side for a few moments longer...! Perhaps it's ready for purification already!?

Still, Scorn feels the world get warmer and she suddenly is launched into the air by Cure Daybreak and she stays there, turning around and hovering as she angrily stares hard at Daybreak. "She. Isn't. My. Sister!" she yells before exploding forward with her own gale force, wind emanating from her palms as she throws them forward at Daybreak, but also, the entire group of magical girls and boy. This feels twice as strong as the Terribad's one!

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong had, admittedly... missed the 'blown away' pun. It was really good and subtle. So it was, definitely, the kind of pun that later she'd be kicking herself when it clicked. Assuming she lived long enough. Knocking the youma down! They'd done it! "Okay, time to finish this off!" she said, beginning to do the stances for her finisher!

Then WINDS! Halfway through her poses, the winds sending her flying across the battlefield and, frankly... out of sight.

Was... Was Cure Wukong gone?! Was this the end of her legend, blown away in the fiercest of winds?!

Truly, Scorn was the most powerful of generals, her abilities to blow hot air impossible for even the likes of Cure Wukong to oppose!

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    "Well, whether you're someone's sister or not, you're someone's kid, right?" Platinum Royale asks as Scorn is getting ready to join the fight herself."HOLY CROWN!"He calls again, but this time the Dark General's fierce waves are enough to cause hairline fractures to appear in the golden shield the moment it comes up, and Platinum grits his teeth and plants his feet and puts all he can into holding up the shield.

    "You're someone's daughter, someone granddaughter. Would your mother and grandmothers be happy, with what you're doing today? Wouldn't your ancestors be dissapointed? Someone out there who cares for you is certainly there and wants to see you do better than this! Right?" he asks, the kingly boy appealing to succession and honor and such, based off the talk about the sister. It was a fair question, even if it might be a low blow. He doesn't know. He's just trying to get her to think about what she's doing. "Locking innocent animals in mirrors and causing trouble!" he continues.

    As he tries to hold back Scorn's wind - and is now being pushed back along with his shield - he looks to the others. "Maybe you guys can finish off the big bird?" he offers. "Or the little one. Either way, really." By which he means 'from the safety of the shield before it cracks and he goes flying', primarily.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Bird down! Also Cure Fortune can transform again and throw wind? How's that work? Will Amy get other transformations like Adalinda does?

    Rocket Girl Amy... Rocket Magi Amy? Rocket Puella Amy? What's rocket in Italian? Rocket Girl Amy is holding her launcher again and rocket jumps high over the terribad, sparing her the wind attack Scorn does next. Amy... tries not to think about what her family would think about what she's doing now. "Locking away small animals to make monsters... does that make her like Robotnik?" She fires a rocket down at the fallen Terribad from above as she arcs over it.

    "Shoot, Wukong!" Amy reaches out a hand towards her friend being blown away, but then has to focus on her own landing.

Iona Hikawa has posed:
Iona takes Scorn denying any relationship pretty badly, wincing, her first instinct being imagining what if that was Maria. It's probably a good think Aki isn't here. How many times has she had to hear that? Is that really what she think, now that Dark Energy has affected her so deeply?

She tries to imagine herself in Scorn's position with all that corruption outright changing her and how warped things must be for her. And now, she has lost her only comfort, Corvus... Gully-chan, hers and Aki's mascot, right?

With a direct flight to Scorn, Iona does a tacklehug, holding her in her arms. "Please, don't deny that, Scorn. This won't do you any good. I think that's why you came here today, right? Because the only familiarity you have had ever since you were corrupted has been Gully-chan, right?'

She starts moving her right hand up and down Scorn's back, trying to reassure her. "And now you don't even have that. That's so unfair, isn't it? We took that from you, and now we are taking this second Corvus too. You must feel so angry and lonely. But you aren't alone, Haruna. We want to help you. Aki wants to help you. She misses you a great deal. Please stop denying being her sister. It only hurts both you and her."

Mio Morita has posed:
Daybreak gets blown back hard. She goes flying but instead of freaking out, She is LAUGHING! "WOO HOO! That got her attention!" Her back bow turns from a bow to wings and she takes off into the wind. At the comment from the King, Daybreak smirks. "On it!" She takes off using all the strength within her to fight against Scorn's buffeting.

As soon as Fortune slams into Scorn, Daybreak jumps at the opportunity to attack the terribird. She attacks the creature with a barrage of punches and kicks. Every attack is done with every bit of strength she has. She backs off and smiles, "Its on." SHe smiles "LIGHT OF HOPE, BECOME SACRED POWER!" She turns the dial on her prebrace. "Pretty Cure! FIRST LIGHT SHOOT!" A mini sun drops in front of her. She quickly punches it and sends it flying at the terribird.

Scorn has posed:
Cure Wukong gets blown away... good, Scorn thinks.

Amy fires a rocket at the downed Terribad, keeping it down and from getting back up as it flaps and squaks about angrily. As Daybreak uses first light shoot, no doubt protected from the wind by that Holy Crown. The Terribad gets lifted, suspended in the air as it squaks out "So Relaxing!" before energy is dissipated back to where it came from, the Crow in the mirror, who squaks, upon being freed and flies off to join the other crows that escaped when Scorn shook the tree earlier. The park is free from the misfortune as it stops raining feathers, and all the feathers everywhere dissapear.

Cure Fortune tackles Scorn into a hug, and gets two speeches. Platinum Royale talks about how family might feel about her actions.... and Fortune talks about being alone because of... Gully-chan? And it's the hug that makes her vision go blurry and her eyes glazed over.... before they sharpen again and she just explodes forth with ark energy.

"I DON'T NEED GULLY-CHAN!" not Corvus? "OR MY FAMILY OR ANYONE!" she yells angrily, throwing Cure Fortune free of her before she disappears into a duskport, away before anyone else can tackle her, or hug her, or ruin her day.

But at least. It was a step?

Cho Konishi has posed:
Cure Wukong came flying back in, covered in leaves and some garbage from the alleyway she'd ended up in. "Okay! I'm back to... to..."

And... and it was done. She blinked a few times, glancing around. No crow. No monster. No black feathers. No really tough and admittedly terrifying general even if she pretended she wasn't. Everyone was... okay!

"Well... uhhh... Good job, everybody!" she said, making a thumbs up. "We kicked their butt, I knew we could do it!" she said proudly. "Hey, Platinum Royale, how you liking the new role? You're looking a lot better as a king!"

Maybe it was playful, or maybe it was her way of showing support, no longer calling him prince.

She trotted towards Fortune, holding a hand out to her and the other rubbing the back of her head. "Eh... sorry about that. I uhhhh. Guess I kind of let my guard down. She really blew me... away... wait. WAS THAT A PUN?! Ugh! I can't believe I missed it!"

Iona Hikawa has posed:
Cure Fortune gets thrown off by the dark energy, being blasted several meters away from Scorn, and several purple formations forming on various part of her body.

She looks at the point Scorn had been sadly. She couldn't get through to her, and the Crow Witch is still left alone with her own thoughts. Only Aki can actually get through to her, even if it managed to touch her. She did stop denying being family in the end. And she didn't use the name Corvus.

"Thanks, Cure Wukong", Iona says, accepting the hand she is giving her, causing her to wince a bit because of the bruises. If only Guardian Daifuku were here. She would appreciate having some of her food right about now.

"You have been airing your opinions via puns the whole time", Iona smiles. "It's only fair she throws some of that back."

Tadase Hotori has posed:
    Platinum Royale watches the glorious finale of Daybreak's shoot, watches the Terribad get cleansed, the poor crow get out of the mirror... and the poor Scorn seem to have a tiny breakdown as she Duskports home.

    "So, I'm going to guess..." Platinum begins, as his scepter vanishes "... that there's more going on with Scorn than I know." he says. "Oh, also. Um. Hi. I'm Platinum Royale. I don't know most of you. Except Cure Wukong." he says, walking over and patting the monkey girl on the one clean shoulder.

    And then he leans in to Wukong. "Is there something specific I'm supposed to do to introduce myself or something?" he whispers. It's one of the few times where someone else knows more than he does, Tadase having not had the cover of Henshin Identity for long at all.

Mio Morita has posed:
Daybreak smiles and lets out a sigh. "Hope return to the heavens." She smiles to the rest of the group. "Good going yall! Everyone did great!" She turns her attention to Platinum Royale, "Oh nice to meet you Platinum Royale. My name is..."

"Cure Daybreak!" A fairy wearing a hair pin comes flying up to Daybreak. "I feel the Authority of a police officer." She starts to sneeze and pokes her nose forward. "Rub it please!!" Daybreak laughs and rubs her nose. The fairy laughs and then sneezes. Out pop a pair of cards. "Look Daybreak! You are one step closer to your goal!"

"As my fairy, Pin said. I'm Cure Daybreak. Nice to meet you." She gives a polite bow to the young king. Then after a moment she looks at the cards as they are placed into her precard decor. "One step closer." She smiles wishing she were further along. "Sorry about that, Platinum Royale. Us Pretty Cures who are to fight the phantom empire get cards when we take down spirits of darkness like the terribad. when we collect all the cards, we get to make a single wish." She smiles at the thought.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    There has been a lot of craziness in Amy's life lately. Learning about Soul Gems, the Silver Crystal, an assasination attempt on her girlfriend, sailor Moon turning evil and turning people into dolls...

    This straightforward youma fight has been kind of refreshing, almost. And Scorn is the very first dark general she faced.

    So she never thought about what it's like for Scorn. She tried to talk to some of the people fighting for Darkness, but she never thought about what they're going through like this. Cure Fortune's speech gives her pause.

    Although, she has to remember: Others fighting for darkness are doing things like trying to merge the world with a place that will kill everyone.

    Fortunately, the fight is over. Crowibad is purified, and Scorn disappears in a huff, so this moment of being lost in thought doesn't get her attacked. "We did it, everyone!" Amy poofs away her weapon and runs up to give Daybreak a hug. "We did it!" She lets go and looks between the two she's known the longest, "Cure Daybreak, Cure Wukong... We really gotta catch up sometime soon."

    She looks between Fortune and Platinum. "Do you think you got through to her at all...?"

    She blinks. Oh right, did she and King guy ever get introduced? She smiles and curtseys to him, "I'm a Puella Magi... I was using 'Red' as a placeholder, but I kind of like the sound of 'Rocket Girl' or something like that now that she said it... Pleased to meet you!"

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Cure Wukong shook her head to Platinum Royale. "Nope, nothing special. Though, I won't lie, having a friend do it with you is always better. This is Red, now Rocket Girl, as you heard. Cure Fortune and Cure Daybreak are two of the pretty cures I mentioned. And, well... Platinum Royale. No, no, that's not enough! Ahem! Ladies! And! Gentlemen!" she said in a boisterous yell, her hands on his shoulders. "This is Platinum Royale, the boy who will, one day, become King of the World!" she said, the wide grin on his face showing just how much of an actual 'joke' this concept was.

"Now that introductions are done and the world is saved, well. Crows have been saved, lets go get a snack! Cure Fortune showed me a place with amazing crepes. We can talk more there!"