1064/How the cookie crumbles

How the cookie crumbles
Date of Scene:	30 January 2024
Location:	Dorms #1
Synopsis:	Sunbreaker decided to make cookies for her favorite alicorn and his pet. But when some of her dark energy cookies find there way into Adora's cookies... well... surely everything will blow over quickly, right? ... Right?!
Cast of Characters:	Adora Rainbowfist, Hinoiri Kirara
Tinyplot:	How the Adora Crumbles

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Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
"Pet! Can you believe this girl?," Adora growls. Her roommate isn't in right now, which is probably for the best since she's another magical girl. Adora's side of the room is decorated somewhat how you'd expect. There's a Smashing Pumpkins poster beside one of a cute but spunky looking anime catgirl posing with her claws out. A very sapphic looking stack of manga sits beside her bed (It's called The Boy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Boy At All!) on the nightstand. The handmade Catra plushy is somewhat hidden under blankets, but a keen eye will certainly notice an ear and some hair sticking out. On the counter by the door is a very nice and advanced looking food processor and little dorm cooking set. It's bought seperate, as it does not come standard with the dorms, for sure.

She finishes taking out the trash before the visit and sits down on the eide of her bed. The girl is wearing battered jeans with torn knees, as well as a red and black flannel with the sleeves rolled up over a San Diego Padre's shirt. Swiftwind is about the size of a very tiny cat, and is fluttering about in the air looking rather giddy.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker had, well, baked cookies. Of course she baked cookies. It was for an ALICORN! How could she not bake cookies?! Of course, baking cookies meant that she had to make them herself. But she was a good chemist.

The big issue was that her apartment no longer had a STOVE! Thanks to Double Trouble. Ugh. And so she had to... improvise. Making them in the common area was a no go. That'd be just, well, reckless. And stupid. Making them at obsidian wasn't an option. So, her plan was simple.

Oven youma. Grab a random oven, put a youma in it, take it to the dusk zone, use it to bake cookies. Easy. Peasy. Lemon squeezy. And heck, since she was making a batch for herself, too, there was absolutely no way this could go wrong.

Her cookies, for herself? Had some dusk water in them. After her last experiment went wrong, she just had to obviously dilute the water. Boom. Good to go. Right?

No.

And then make other cookies. Good cookies. Perfect cookies. And then put frosting on them!

Those ones went in a fancy little baggy for Swiftwind and a second baggy for Double Trouble.

And the reject cookies... which tasted fine, but weren't as pretty? Those were for Adora. SHE wasn't an alicorn.

And then there were the dark cookies. She made a bunch of barely cared for ones. They didn't need to taste good or look nice, they were just for her...

Unfortunately, she failed to notice when one or two of them fell from the pile, into the ziploc baggy for Adora...

At the designated time, she appeared in the room and... "Here," she said. Just limp wrist tossing the ziploc baggy of cookies to Adora so they'd splat on her face if she didn't catch them. Still, the baggy would hold and the cookies WERE colorful, with pink and blue and green frosting that looked delicious.

Swiftwind, however... she held out the baggy to him with both hands to him. "I made these for you! They're not as good as Kirakirafantastica cookies since the ingredients are from earth, but they were Sora's favorite recipe so I think you'll love them." She would, of course, help open the bag.

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
Adora starts at the sudden appearance, and then sighs as she settles back into her spot on the edge of the bed. She reaches out to catch the bag of cookies, looking surprised. "Oh! Thanks." One other thing she's sporting is a fairly fresh faintly split lip. She got into a battle last night and it was still a bit sore. But, she could eat!

For the moment she let the bag rest in her lap as she watched the two, still wary of Sunbreaker for a million obvious reasons. Swiftwind did a few saumersalts and then swooped down to lightly flutter in front of her hands.

"Thank you, friend! They smell delicious! You are such a sweet girl!" He's all big smiles and booming voice, as usual. Well, as booming as Chibi Swiftwind can manage.

Once the bag is opened he lands in her hands and leans in, stuffing his head into the bag to sniff about and then take a bite of one of the cookies. He lets out a happy whinny and leaps into the air, circling her head a few times before landing again, and stuffing his face right back into the bag!

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker gave an internal, and external, sqwee at seeing the horse devouring from her hand. Eeeeee!

She'd then dim her flames, so as to not risk burning anything, before moving to sit on the edge of the bed, a bit away from her. Didn't even ask.

Before tossing the dog a bone.

"I talked to Catra recently. You two really did a number on each other, didn't you?" Sunbreaker asked. "She really is a cat. So scratchy and bitey. Have you tried actually seeing her recently, or still only focused on who you believe she'll become?"

"... In your little imaginary reality of her... did she ever kill anyone?"

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
She narrows her eyes a bit when Sunbreaker settles in on her bed as well and she glances warily at her. The bag of cookies are still in her lap, hands clasped around it.

"You really are the worst, you know that? You can't come here to see Swiftwind and then just be freaking terrible to me. If you hate me, you know he'll be mad too, right? At you?"

She switches it up, diverting the conversation from her rather complicated relationship. "And it's so funny to me how I grew up with her and you've known her for less then a year, and you think you've got her all figured out."

Oh, nevermind.

With an annoyed growl she unwraps the baggy. There's something a bit off about Adora since the last time Sunbreaker saw her. She seems a little more snippy and glarey, and she's a bit paler. It looks like she hasn't been sleeping well or eating right.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker glanced over and then sighed. "Yeah. I know. I mean... I don't hate you. I'm annoyed at you. Both of you, actually." Pause. "You and Catra. Not Swiftwind. Swiftwind is perfect. <3" Yes. You could actually HEAR the heart in her voice.

"And I mean... duh. Of course I know her. She practically screams who she is from the rooftops. The only one who doesn't see her is you. Well. And her. Do you wanna know why?"

"You have all these preconceived notions in your head. You just see her as this girl she 'could' be. You grew up with her. You saw her as a cute lil baby. The lil ragamuffin you'd run through the horde campus with, playing pranks or whatever it is horde kids do. But somewhere along the line? Something changed. Something between the two of you shifted. And honestly? I don't think either of you realize it."

"Now? You're chasing her because you refuse to let her go. And she's running from you because she refuses to let you catch her. It's... honestly fascinating. I think I actually pity you. Both of you. But I'm also a bit... jealous. I think."

She then glanced over to her and... "Man. You look like *shit*. I haven't even started my big plan yet and you already look like you've gone three rounds with it. What happened to you?"

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
She listened quietly to the other girl as she told her what she saw in Catra and Adora, and her personal, somewhat twisted, somewhat true theories on them. Some of that was spot on, but also seen through Sunbreaker's rather clouded lens.

You're making it all sounds so simple. It's not that simple." She didn't respond when asked what was going on with her immediatly. She picked up one of the cookies and almost took a bite, before lowering it and glancing over at the other girl again. Swiftwind, meanwhile, was perched on the stack of manga, watching them both with a worried expression.

"You'll just laugh and mock me, or pick and poke at me."

And that is when she lifted the cookie to her mouth and popped it in with one big bite, chewing as she glanced sidelong at her. "...Big Plan?"

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker gave a shrug. "Nothing ever is. But what about anything I do makes you think I normally take the simple path? Life isn't simple. Reality isn't simple. I come from a world that, here? Would likely seem like a bunch of cartoon animals running around, singing about how great things are. But it wasn't simple there, either. We had battles. Wars. We had allies, friends. Politics. Life isn't simple. It doesn't dilute into a simple, easy solution that we can solve with a bit of a determination and hard work."

"Life is complex. And the more we try to force it to be something we understand, the more it just... runs away from us..." Sunbreaker lowered her hands into her lap, slowly sliding the bag onto the bed besides her. She then glanced over.

"I mean, I'll mock you either way. And I'm certainly going to pick and poke at you regardless. You're a sparkle skirt. I'm a... whatever you lot call us. But you obviously need to talk to someone about this and like it or not?"

"I'm really the best in you've got with Catra. Who else are you going to talk with? Riventon? Please. The black beauty sisters? Not a chance. La Crima? You'd eat all her donuts. I get along somewhat with Catra and I adore Swiftwind enough to offer you advice."

"Like it or not, A-dor-a, I'm... really... the closest... oh Sora I really am your only option, aren't I?" The funny thing there was just how horrified SHE looked by this. "What in tartarus HAPPENED between you two? Cause that's bucked up. Swiftwind, are you SEEING this?" She just motioned to the disaster lesbian at her side.

Then glanced back to Adora. "Hm? Oh, you'll see soon. Don't worry about it. Well, yet. Just, like. Seriously. You look like you went three rounds with a boxer and then lived off energy drinks and no sleep for a week."

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
"The best? The BEST?" Adora laughed at that. Her laugh was...different. Less joyous and more...bitter? "Really? YOU are my best in with Catra?" There was a bite to her words that wasn't there before. She tossed the bag from her lap, causing a few cookies to spill out. A glance down might reveal to Sunbreaker that some of the cookies...are the wrong cookies!

Adora climbed to her feet and scowled, beginning to pace. Her fist opened and closed at her side. "You wanna know what's wrong with me? EVERYTHING! I'm f**king PISSED! And TIRED! And HEARTBROKEN! CAN'T I BE? IS A GOOD GUY NOT ALLOWED TO BE? Or are you bastards the only ones allowed -turmoil-?" She said the last word with an intense amount of mockery in her voice, mingled with venom and just...sadness.

Swiftwind sat up suddenly. "Wait," he said. "Something's wrong with her energy."

"Oh, shut UP, Swiftwind! Get out of here, alright? You love Sunbreaker so much just GO with her! I can handle this all on my own!"

In a fit of her growing anger and sadness and...everything boiling up, she suddenly gripped the bed Sunbreaker was sitting on and,...flipped it, sending the pillows, blankets AND the villainess likely tumbling.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker gave a nod. "Yeah. Trust me, it's as horrifying to me as it is to you. But the math doesn't lie and it spells you two being utter disasters." well, maybe it was a bit more horrifying to--

AND DOWN the cookies went! "Hey, careful with those, I worked really hard on--"

And then Adora was on her feet. Angry. Furious. Well... okay. She guess she'd just let the other girl get it out of her system. Whiole she--

"Huh?" she asked, glancing to Swiftwind. "Wrong with her energy? Wrong how?" Oh shit, was she about to get blasted?

"HEY! Don't yell at him! He's amazing! I thought you 'friendship' types were supposed to care about each other?! Don't blame him because your abyssian is--"

AND THEN THE BED WAS FLIPPED! WITH HER ON IT! She... did not expect that. She was left, under the mattress, confused and bewildered. "Okay. Right. Listen here, Adora. I'm not going to beat your ass. If you wanna throw down? Henshin and we can take this outside! Otherwise, calm your--" And then her eyes fell on the cookies. And she gulped. Oh shit. Ohhhhh shit. No no no no. CRAP! Ohhhh shit. She grabbed them. "Y-you know what?! Fine! Just... Swiftwind, come with me. Just for a bit, until she calms down." And then, if the horse refused, she'd just grab him and teleport OUT.

And, once they were out, appearing on a roof of a nearby building... she, well... "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry it was an accident I swear! Just give her a few hours, okay? She'll be okay, she just needs to work this out of her system and then it'll be fine! I uhhh... might... have gotten some of her cookies mixed up with... mine..." she said sheepishly. "P-please don't be mad..."

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
Adora balled her hand into a fist and took a swing at Sunbreaker, just as the girl was scrambling out from under the mattress to grab at Swiftwind. She's beyond words right now, just angery and hurt and letting it all spill out.

But then, just like that, Sunbreaker was gone...and so was Swiftwind. She blinked and stared at the empty spot in her dorm room where they were seconds before. Slowly her fist unballed, and she calmed. Well, calmed isn't the right word.

The Dark Energy was playing off the incredible wellspring of magical energy in her heart in a way that was a bit unusual. As if the She-Ra energy was fusing and almost serving as a battery for the Dark Energy. Normally a girl corrupted like this would burn through it quickly but...this time was going to be different.

With a grunt she leaned down to messily right her bed again, causing the cookies to spill into sight. With a huff she crouched and scooped them up.

'She thinks she knows SO much about me and Catra', she thought to herself. 'I'm so tired of everyone telling me what I should do. Everyone thinks they know so much better then I do. And that damn CAT. I need to see her. I need to talk to her and grab her and shake some f**king sense into her.'

She sat down on the bed with a grunt and stuffed another cookie into her mouth. And then another. In no time they were all gone...along with several more of those tainted ones.

Meanwhile, Swiftwind looked up at Sunbreaker with wide eyes. "...What? What's happening? She'll be okay soon, right? You promise?"

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker gave a small nod and held up the cookies she'd snagged that had fallen out of the bag. "Yeah. Some must have fallen out and uhhhh... landed in her bag. But trust me, there's not many of them. And I constantly douse myself in dark energy. It hurts a little bit, and alters your decision making a bit? But it's not that bad. It WON'T kill her. I promise. It'll likely just make her a bit testy for a bit. A few hours. A day, tops. Just..."

"... Until she's calmed down? You might wanna lay low for a bit. For her sake!" she said quickly. "while she's so upset, she's likely going to be grouchy and testy and yelly. If you're around, you'll likely be a target FOR said grouchyness. And if she screams at you and huyrts your feelings, she'll probably feel like a real jerk once she's better, you know? If you're not around, she can't get mad at you. I ummm... I know a place. I can set you up with food and stuff and come get you the moment she's calmed down. She's not one of us, she's a sparkle skirt. Worse comes to worse, the other sparkle skirts will purify her before long. And even if they don't? She can't go to the dusk zone to top up on dark energy. It'll be fine. Just trust me."

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
The tiny alicorn glanced from the rooftop to the dorms and sighed softly. The worry on his face was clear as day. "O-okay. I'll go with you. As long as it's over soon..."

It won't be over soon.

Adora is a damaged girl. She is someone who's had pressure and heartbreak building and building. Just last night when she was out with Rashmi she'd started to buckle, and she'd spent yet another night crying herself to sleep. And then this? The Dark Energy had so, so much to latch onto, and the way the Etherian energy played with the Dark Energy was new and dangerous and...possibly something to be studied. But for now it simply meant bad things for the world, and especially anyone in Adora's way.

Adora started to get ready to leave. She paused as she grabbed her Sketchers, instead glancing at the pair of steel-toed boots she'd bought but never quite felt right wearing. SDhe grabbed them and yanked them on, tying them tight and tucking her jeans into them. She then undid her ponytail, letting her hair fall free as she glanced at herself in the mirror. It's so odd how tiny things like boots, hair and a change in posture can...really change how a person feels to others. A demeanor shift. She stared for a long, quiet moment, before she turned and yanked the door open, heading out into the unsuspecting world.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker was relieved, at least. She then teleported away with Swiftwind once more.

It'd be over soon. She was sure. Nobody had to know. Adora would work it out of her system and then everything would be back to normal. How much damage could she REALLY do in a day or so with dark energy? Please.

It'd totally be fiiiiine.

Everything was under control.