2126/Got My Flash On It's True
From Radiant Heart MUSH
| Got My Flash On It's True | |
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| Date of Scene: | 01 December 2024 |
| Location: | Mitakihara Ward |
| Synopsis: | Mimete is on the scene! There's one last member of the Witches |
| Cast of Characters: | Mamoru Chiba, Koji Silvia, Nanoha Takamachi, Kazuo Saitou, Adrien Agreste, Sugata Shindo, Wako Agemaki |
- Mamoru Chiba has posed:
The day is bright and sunny and chilly in Tokyo-- in Mitakihara, and Mimete, level 40 member of the Witches <s>5</s> 3, has a big red scarf over her head and draped around her neck, over an honestly cute bright yellow dress-peacoat, designed to be worn over the kind of dress that might be called a frock. She has big round tinted glasses over her red-orange eyes, and she's carrying a metal briefcase with a black star on it in one hand delicately white-gloved hand, and a shy, almost coy look on her face...
...as she watches Koji Silvia, young and positively beautiful student at that damned Radiant Heart Academy, who has such wonderful potential, who made such delicious ramen that one sniff of his leftover bowl at his temporary job? One sniff is all it took for Mimete to decide to just... finish that unfinished bowl. And get a secondhand kissu in the process~
And steal its maker's pure heart, of course.
This is how she rolls. u_u;;
He comes around her corner and Mimete walks into him on purpose, fumbling her black-starred metal briefcase, her glasses going askew and her red scarf coming undone, and she starts looking very upset and like she might cry, but then she looks up and gets metaphorical stars in her suddenly very wide bright shining eyes. "You! Koji Silvia-- your ramen is amazing, it fills you up and tastes so good!" She holds a hand out to be helped up. "You would make some for me, right?"
- Koji Silvia has posed:
On the weekends, the aforementioned Koji Silvia does some temp work at Fam-marT riding in trucks and delivering boxes. It's fast work, helps him keep in physical shape, and gets him out of the dorms to keep from going stir-crazy, especially after some recent... things.
It's those things in particular that have him distracted and unaware of this situation as he comes around the corner, his hair currently bunned up behind a baseball cap with the company logo on it, and wearing a set of prescription plastic work-glasses instead of normal ones.
It's why the bump is so... situationally perfect. He bounces back from it, and his head turns, and for reasons beyond any real comprehension, the eyewear is knocked loose and fly slowly away, and the hat falls. His head turns back, causing his hair to free itself in a bishi-ful and slow-motion glittery swish... followed by his slender and smoldering eyes looking down at Mimette as he smiles to her...
Or at least that's how it looks from Mimette-O-Vision.
For Koji, his head got snapped back by her's bumping his chin and tossing his hat and work-glasses off, but he recovers well enough.
Reflexively, he does reach down to take her hand until she starts in on that and his name, and suddenly his hand is sliding from her's as he takes a half-step back and assumes a casual fighting stance, "Excuse me... but I don't believe we've met. Seriously... who are you..."
- Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
It's a random street corner and Nanoha Takamachi is holding the hand of her farther, a man in a blue jacket with green pants and a kind face, Shiro Takamachi. Nanoha Takamachi in her green hoodie, with Yuuno sleeping in the head part behind her back like a hammock. The two are spending a farther/daughter day together.
She looks away from her father as they exit the restaurant they we're just in to look ahead, to see Koji Silva, someone she knows, speaking to someone with a briefcase with a star on it.
Something about that feels familiar.
"Hey Dad, a moment, I see a friend!" she says as her father says. "Go talk to your friend, I'll wait right here!" he says as Nanoha Takamachi starts running ahead and says.
"Koji-kun...!" she says. "Koji-kun...! Is everything okay!?" calls out Nanoha, ignoring the strange woman for now!
- Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Koji-kun?
Means nothing. It's a common name. Kazuo shifts the bag he's carrying from right hand to left, though, as he sidesteps out of the way of foot traffic to slow and look around. It's the running girl who called out - he doesn't recognize her, so it probably won't be who he's thinking of --
-- he tracks the fallen glasses back up to their owner. Oh.
Well. If nothing else, if he can get there fast enough, he can keep anyone else from stepping on them and cracking a lens before Koji can reclaim his property. Time to move.
- Adrien Agreste has posed:
Adrien Agreste was out enjoying the day as much as he could. Soon he would find himself with another slew of meet and greets, photoshoots, and who-knew-what-else coming up. For now he had a bit of a break and was fully intending to enjoy it. Even if that meant just being out doing some early shopping for gifts for people because his time would soon be too busy to do so.
It never hurt being around friends while doing that.
A few bags are carried in one hand as he walks along wearing actually warm clothes for once. A white long peacoat buttoned up just high enough that it keeps him warm while still showing off the hint of the blue shirt beneath so that it would pick up the striking blue of his eyes as well. The sleek attire is matched with the semi-casual flare of dark blue jeans, and spotless sneakers that likely hadn't seen a speck of mud in their lives.
Just as the cries of collision come from across the street he glances over to see Koji, and an unknown girl with very Naru-like hair, causing his eyebrows to jaunt upward in momentary surprise. Without even thinking of it he jogs over keeping his distance a bit as he asks them both, "Koji? Are you alright? And you too, miss? You didn't hurt yourself, I hope?" the model ask with soft, genuine concern toward them both.
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
There's something surprisingly comfortable about going out with a group of friends, all of them in the loop and none of them involved in a secret counter-conspiracy, and also none of them being dragged into exercise for kendo club.
Not that Sugata's going to admit the latter out loud, not with how often Takuto and Wako pushed for that exact thing. Still, it's nice - Wako had been the one to push for this outing, but now that that it's underway... well, it's nice, to wander around the city with friends and a few shops to meander to and from. "So, what are we doing now?"
He's across the street from Koji, with Wako and anyone else who wants to be with the friend group, and raises a brow as he sees Koji and the girl collide, only for Koji to slide back in a cautious stance.
"Is that what you'd call a meet cute?" This is addressed to Wako, who has been recommending romance after a certain disastrous talk.
- Wako Agemaki has posed:
"--I'm just saying," Wako is telling Sugata as they walk along, with a quick sidelong grin at Adrien. "You could learn a thing or two from Adrien-kun! Not just about sword fighting, either."
She pauses when the others do, tracking the direction of attention over to Koji and the two young ladies near him. "Maybe?" she says. "That's Silvia-san, though. I'm not sure if--"
Adrien and Kazuo are both already heading over. She tugs Sugata's arm, trailing after them at something more of a distance - just in case it is a meet cute, and the meet cute is a welcome one.
- Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"You won't even help a girl up?" the redheaded girl asks Koji in scandalized offense before scrambling to her feet and kicking her briefcase open with a clatter. She lets it drop to the concrete; people on the sidewalk are starting to turn and look, to stop walking.
She takes a step back from the open briefcase, which is expelling a pink cloud of smoke, and she reaches down to her hem and rips her disguise away, flinging it into the air above her and declaiming proudly, "I am Mimete, Level 40 member of the Witches 3! I will be the next executive promoted, and I will-- HEY! Where do you think you're going, Silvia? Don't get in the way, prettyboy, there's plenty of time for you later~~" she finishes in Adrien's direction, ignoring Nanoha, but catching sight of another two pretty boys, one of them starting to rush this way.
All this while the cloud of pink smoke is resolving, has resolved... into a seven-foot-tall green girl with pointed ears and a giant pair of chopsticks in one hand. Her midsection is a really big bowl of ramen, and she shouts joyously, "Marutan! MARUTAN!"
Mimete points at Koji with her witch staff and yells, her black-and-yellow skirts flouncing along with her hair as she spins on her heel, "Marutan! AFTER HIM! Get his pure heart, NOW!"
Now the blue-haired prettyboy is looking this way, too? Mimete laughs, heady on her foreseen success and the amount of attention she's getting. "None of you can stop me!"
Marutan slings out a set of ramen-and-egg bolas from out of her bowl at Koji's legs using the chopsticks, then springs forward as he's falling and grabs for his shirt, yanking him around and getting all up in his face. She starts inhaling-- more and more and more-- and oop! Out pops Koji's heart crystal from his mouth, and the daimon nomfs it out of the air and swallows, looking immensely pleased with herself.
- Koji Silvia has posed:
Sometimes it can be easy to forget what people can do outside of their magical personae can be forgotten... usually because they're too busy fighting the next apocalypse that decides to descend on Tokyo without notice (Also... hey Wapurgisnacht... RUDE MUCH?!).
When Mimete is in the middle of her declaration and the summoning of Marutan, Koji Silvia has done a pair of graceful backflips to buy himself some space and is passing right by Kazuo with a determined look in his eyes as he yells, "NANOHA! GET SAFE!"
Not 'Get to Safety' but 'Get Safe'.
His hand is already in his pocket, Hanzo is flipped open, and as he turns to get out of view and does a backward leap, the classic one-leg-out, one-leg-tucked, hair fluttering forward pose, he brings the phone up close to the side of his head and begins to yell "SE-"
But the bolas, hit, and just 3 meters from Sugata and Wako, right across from Adrien, they see the Daimon catch him by his uniform top as he falls backwards, then pull him up, and suddenly... his body seems to grey slightly, and his limp hand falls... Hanzo dropping and bouncing on the pavement... the screen showing a message repeating...
<<SET UP. ERROR.>>
<<SET UP. ERROR.>>
A blue white-crystal, almost snowflake-like floats there where he was a moment ago as he falls, just before being swallowed out of the air by the ramanic demon...
*GULP!* 'AAAH'
- Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
shiro Takamachi watches this happen and... what's going on!? There's smoke!? A woman who's also half bowl of ramen!? and Nanoha Takamachi stops midway and looks to Yuuno over her shoulder who's now peeked out. "Barrier?" asks Yuuno. "Barrier...!" says Nanoha Takamachi as Yuuno casts his magic circle, a barrier forming, the world going black and white and the civilians disappear.
Shiro will remember this later as he lost Nanoha in a small crowd, rather than there being a monster.
"Raising Heart, setup!" demands Nanoha. "Get set!" < Get Set! > repeats Raising Heart as Nanoha Takamachi transforms into her white and blue barrier jacket.
She starts as she normally does, firing a barrage of Shot Barrets... orbs of light that turn into quick small lasers... at the strange ramen woman.
"Ramen is delicious and nutritious. But you, are ugly and revolting...!"
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
"Not so much a meet cute then," Sugata says dryly, watching as Koji backflips away for his life and a ramen-woman monster goes after him. Wako had been pulling him along at first, but at that sight, he's hurrying over under his own power. "The backflips are working well for distance, but it'd be better to carry a weapon; there's only so long you can hope to outrun an enemy."
The words are unfortunately prescient, as the monster snatches Koji and draws a crystal from his chest, through his mouth. A shudder of disgust runs through Sugata's whole body.
"Apprivoiser!"
There's a rush of shining light, and Sugata Shindo is replaced by Ginga Kingu, stern and unamused. He glances at Wako - "That's not what happened to you and Takuto, is it?"
A fist goes to his chest, and Diamante is drawn out, the glowing cross-shaped energy sword blazing bright in the sepia-toned world of Nanoha's barrier.
"Star Swordo - Diamante!"
And with Nanoha attacking the monster, he goes for Mimete directly, swinging Diamante for her.
"Mimete of the Witches 3, why are you after him?"
- Wako Agemaki has posed:
Several things happen in quick succession, and Wako's grip tightens on Sugata's arm. "Definitely not a meet cute," she says. "Appri-- Vice President, stop!"
A streak of yellow flashes across the pavement, darting between people's feet. The barrier going up does nothing to impede it; as it nears Koji and the daimon it launches itself at Marutan's face, a split second too late to intercept the crystal. Instead, there is a small yellow fox scrabbling at the daimon's face, fluffed up in outrage.
Wako recovers from her alarm and calls out again, this time uninterrupted: "Apprivoiser!"
Immediately she's haloed in glittering pink light, her white and gold uniform replacing her street clothes. "At least with us, there wasn't a youma that ate the crystal. We need to get that back!"
- Kazuo Saitou has posed:
-- okay, pulling a monster out of one's briefcase is one thing, but that name is an absolute insult to Koji's ramen and will not be borne.
Unfortunately, Kazuo is (a) right next to everything and (b) not transformed himself, so there's relatively little he can do about it in this instant. What he can do, and does, is shift his lean down to snatch up Koji's fallen glasses (done, and slid into his pocket as he moves) and turn it into a dart further forward.
Which puts him in place to snatch Hanzo out of the air just before contact with the pavement. And then 'dart further forward' and --
-- Barrier. Thankfully.
Still moving, though. A couple of steps as the barrier tries to figure out what to do with him. And then one of his earrings catches a stray glint of light from Nanoha's barrage, and in the distraction of that and Sugata no-one's going to notice a little more light.
Kunzite turns, still a little too close for comfort to that ramen bowl, but at least they're distributing targets now ... and at least Hanzo is safe.
Besides, he might have to catch Vice President too in a minute.
- Adrien Agreste has posed:
Adrien Agreste comes to a rather abrupt halt once everything starts to happen. Kazuo converges in on Koji as well clearly intent on the glasses but Koji is backflipping away. The woman gets up, flips open a breifcase, and then there's pink smoke and a youma.
His expression of worry turns to one of 'oh crap' as he alters his own course just a bit to veery away from the chaos. He hopes.
While he'd been given the 'okay' to share his identity he hadn't really done that yet. The ingraned urge was to just hide, hide fast, and change.
"I'm going to just--" he begins gesturing off to the side, and turning to flash a sincerely apologetic look over toward Sugata and Wako that he had been walking with until his unfortunate urge to be a good samaritan struck. The bags he carries sway with the gesture creating a sizable rustle that hides anything he might say further as he just does the very cowardly thing and *bolts* for the door to the nearest shop. Right into Fam-mart. Out of sight. Probably safe. Right? Right.
The jiggle of the door bell as it slams shut behind him and quickly looks around for cover is all that can be heard. No one can hear as he hisses out, "So much for a nice day out. Plagg, Claws Out!" to transform into Cat Noir.
A few moments later there's a dark clad figure perched ontop of the shop, crouched down to grip the edge as he peers below. "I'm not usually one to talk, but this is *not* the way to pick up a dinner date!"
- Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Marut-- what? Now that's just getting personal!" the Ramen Demon retorts at Nanoha, wildly indignant. The lasers hit whenever the Daimon can't actually dodge, leaving little black scorch marks on the bowl and the Daimon's leg and one arm. "Ow ow ow! Mimete-sama--!"
Mimete gasps as the girl she was ignoring turns out to be one of those sparkle squad kids that everyone's always complaining about. "Pests, getting in the way!" she yells at Nanoha, at Ginga Kingu... oh he's hot, and so is the guy who was running towards them earlier, but... her job is on the line if she gets too distracted. "Get rid of them, jeez! Then we leave with the pure heart! That's the plan, don't mess up the plan, it's--"
But then Ginga Kingu's got a sword and he drew it out of his chest and Mimete almost forgets to block with her cane. "Hello there," she says, checking Sugata out. She SHOVES at his sword, and is certainly stronger than she looks. "I need his pure heart crystal," she says then, "didn't you see how bright it was? It'll get me a promotion for sure! And fortunately for me, the new design for pure heart collection is working MUCH better than Eudial's nonsense!"
Meanwhile, the Daimon gets a fox to her face, and she flips out. "GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!" she screeches as the barrier solidifies into place around everyone, and she finally manages to wing VP through the air. Now she's mad, there are fox claw scratches all over her otherwise pristine green face.
"Hurled Peas!!!" Marutan cries out, and flips one of the chopsticks into the air to start banging on the squishy ramen and popping out a veritable army of dried peas, which scatter across the sidewalk and street, some of them falling into the gutter, all of them making a walking hazard.
Then there's a long splat! string of ramen that gets flung at Sugata to try and draw his aggro, and at Wako, close by, mostly because they match, kind of. But then there's more and more, and soon it's like Strega Nona practically, with noodles curling and stretching everywhere, and Marutan laughs and laughs.
"That's not getting rid of them!!" Mimete cries out angrily at Marutan. "That's just... OOH. Just run away, we'll just retreat--"
- Koji Silvia has posed:
When Kunzite catches and secures Hanzo, there's a glow from the smartphone shaped as it seems to collapse in on itself until it becomes nothing more than a round blue gem that is cupped half-inside of some kind of silvery metal. If one looks close, there 's a small ring for a chain to be put through, and someone very faintly and carefully engraved a word in it.
'mein Fruend'
Koji tries to sit up, one shaky hand reaching out towards the Ramen Girl Marutan, fingers caught in a claw and even in this kind of state his first concern seems to be for the youngest mahou here.
"N-nan-oha... C-careful... your f-father..."
Without his magic, he couldn't feel the Barrier going up, nor that little tingle that comes when someone else has a transformatio... and is here by reason of his being the target of the attack. He falls back, that hand over his heart as he tries to crawl himself slowly backwards away from the fight, just barely able to move, his whole body trembling as his eyes are flat and almost dead-looking, "G-got t-to... Hanzo... where's... H-..."
- Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Fox flung! Fox caught in a swirl of cape, and gathered carefully in to where he can scramble up to Kunzite's shoulder. He backs away in turn, boots scraping against the ground as he shoves and kicks dried peas out of the way, sending them skittering further. And then --
No. No, he is not letting Koji get smacked with wandering ramen tendrils. He closes the rest of the distance, and another dark bubble pops into existence inside the barrier, keeping noodly appendages away from the fallen. And away from Vice President, if the fox hasn't already used him as another launching pad. "Hanzo's safe," he says to Koji. "I've got him. Conserve your energy."
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
"My eyes are up here, and so is my sword," Ginga Kingu points out as Mimete checks him out to his face - come on, where's the shame - while his sword meets her cane, pushing back against her but she's surprisingly strong, and when she shoves to make distance, he leaps clear, preparing another swing.
"Are we supposed to care about your promotion? And further more, are we supposed to be impressed that you've gone from shooting people to harassing them?"
Unfortunately, there's dried peas underfoot, at that moment, and avoiding tripping over those gives Mimete time to get away, and then there are noodles everywhere, and Sugata has to focus on slice-and-dicing noodles to short strands over doing the same to the monster, before they're buried in noodle hell.
"It's going to take more than your cheap noodles to stop us from killing you," Ginga Kingu snaps, before shifting stance and launching Diamante.
"Star Crash!"
It's an overhand throw, speeding up to crash down on Marutan from above, business end first.
- Adrien Agreste has posed:
Peas! And noodles! Cat Noir leaps off the edge of the building while the daimon is distracted attacking the others with such noodly things. His attacks weren't energy based or distant. Instead he comes down swinging his staff overhead aiming to try and crack that ramen bowl.
"No no, it's 'World Peace' we're trying for, not 'hurled peas'!" He quips, unable to help himself in the moment.
Just as cheerily he sing-songs out, "Hello Kunzite! Looking good, Kingu and ah... I'm going to get in trouble if I say more!"
He hadn't met Nanoha, so for her he adds in, "Thanks for the barrier! Seriously these things come in handy so often."
Even though he's babbling away he still has enough energy to leap back and away whether his attack hit or not--Because there comes Kingu right after and he was not going to get in the way of that sword.
- Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi, who is on the ground, suddenly flails into the air almost comically when she slips on the peas like a bag of marbles scattered around. Yuuno frowns and casts a magic circle..."Starfall...!" he calls out. Nanoha Takamachi lands softly on her butt thanks to the starfall but still is incapacitated for a moment.
"My Dad is fine. But you're not Koji-kun, hold on!" she says.
She gets to her feet and points Raising Heart at the Ramen creature and calls out. "HYPERION SMASHER!" she says.
< Hyperion Smasher! > goes Raising Heart as magic circles appear around Nanoha and from Raising Heart's tip as a barrage of strong magical energy lunges forward from them in a powerful, artillerist barrage!
"Try this on for size!" she calls out. "Always plan for me!"
- Wako Agemaki has posed:
The fox is caught safely in Kunzite's cape; he hops down immediately, but only to land on Koji's chest. He stays there, still fluffed up as far as he can go, bristling at Mimete and the youma.
"Oh no you don't!" Ginga Otome fires off at Mimete, and it's hard to tell if she's more offended by the plan to escape with Koji's heart crystal or the fact that Mimete is obviously hitting on Sugata. She escapes the hazard of dried peas by floating into the air, throwing out both hands against the nearly endless blast of noodles: "Aurore Australe!"
The shield surges outward, a curtain of rosy energy that rushes against the noodles to try to bash into Marutan full-force. "You're not going anywhere, and stop leering at my fiance!"
- Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Do you think I care about what you think?" Mimete asks Sugata, looking and sounding astonished. "Ohohoho~~" she laughs, covering her hand with her mouth briefly-- but then Wako's demanding she stop leering at Sugata, and the witch ROLLS HER EYES, skittering back behind Marutan. "FINE! I'll just take his heart crystal later! Though I doubt it's pure, we can still use it," she tells Wako and sticks her tongue out.
Meanwhile, Marutan is still slinging noodles, and they splash against the outside of Kunzite's shield bubble unpleasantly, and apparently it's unpleasant for both of them because Marutan starts just leaving the bubble alone.
Instead, she jams her giant chopsticks into the bowl and lifts her hands, which turn -- right in front of their eyes -- to razor-sharp seasoning packets.
"Don't worry, Mimete-sama, you go and I'll keep them back," she says bravely as she takes a stand, and her eyes widen as Cat Noir drops down and cracks her bowl; she slices at him peevishly with her left packet-hand, then uses her right packet-hand to--- absolutely get nowhere against the rainbow-sparkling BATTERING RAM(EN) getting shoved her way! In no time, the daimon is teetering and wobbling toward the wall (and Mimete behind her) and Mimete, cringing behind her, yells out, "DON'T BE STUPID, MARUTAN you have the heart crystal! You need to run away too!! UGH!"
And that's when Ginga Kingu's sword comes down on the youma's head, and that cracks, and there's a big crack all the way down her body but she hasn't-- quite-- come apart yet.
And that's when Mimete opens a Door behind Marutan.
And then what wasn't planned for -- an artillery barrage of energy, and Marutan shrieks and tries to run through the Door but it is way too short for a seven foot tall wide load youma. ("Stop that! STOP THAT! Out of my way!" yells Mimete, flailing at Marutan.)
The barrage whacks into Marutan, creating more cracks and more and more, and the daimon whimpers, "Mimete-sama...!"
"Bye!" says Mimete, waving from behind Marutan and slipping through to duskport back to Obsidian Tower.
- Koji Silvia has posed:
Koji is not here right now. Not unconscious... just kinda... STARING... at Kunzite for a bit.
But a timely nosing from Mister Vice President deftly cuts off any potential cute-meet moment, because THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS RIGHT NOW.
Petting the small form slowly with one hand, smoothing down the little fox-creature's fur, he whispers out, "I'm... f-fine... got the best... guardian... in Tokyo here... give her a pu-" He's cut off with a cough, "...punch for me..."
He rests his head on the pavement, and continues to pet the warm fur, who he whispers to, unfortunately right where Kunzite can hear, "Thanks... I was gonna ask him to coffee..."
- Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi is unaware of the romance in the air. She's probably too young to pick up on it easily. She however, has to contend with noodles now. Which she does this time by taking skyward and away as she shifts downwards and hefts Raising Heart. "I've had enough of your instant butt, jerk." she says with narrowed eyes.
"Give that back to Koji-kun!" she calls out as she points down at the ramen creature, before she follows up with her threat. "Divine...!"
< Divine...! >. "Buster...!" < Buster...! > calls out Raising Heart after her, before a tremendously strong and large lance of magenta energy launches from Raising Heart, a giany laser that continuously pours energy towards the instant creature!
"Nrg...!" she grunts as she keeps the energy lance going just pouring her own copious Linker Core into it.
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
"No, but I promised my fiancé I'd at least try before resorting to lethal force," there's a sunny smile on his face, that doesn't reach his eyes. "I'd say this was trying, wouldn't you?"
It's a good thing Mimete is running for the door. Good for her, anyway, Sugata would have absolutely enjoyed getting rid of one more enemy. Given all the flirting, Wako might not even mind!
The bowl is cracked, the youma herself is cracked, and Ginga Kingu draws Diamante from his chest again, and hurls it through the Door, after Mimete.
"Star Crash!"
Honestly, it probably won't work. But given the scale of beam war coming down, he doesn't think he needs to add his own.
(You know what that is? Growth.)
- Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Punch the munchie. Got it. Kunzite bows his head solemnly toward Koji, and ... keeps his shield up, if only to keep Koji from being disturbed by any stray energy that might be deflected off an unfortunately placed noodle or slice of fish cake. He lifts his hands, as he did at Walpurgisnacht, and brings them together at a precise angle; and cool pink energy joins the magenta, a far smaller and narrower beam placed to provide a counterstress. To crack the bowl of instant apart instead of outright boiling it dry.
... or, honestly, let's face it: not instead of, but as well as.
- Wako Agemaki has posed:
If looks could kill, Sugata wouldn't even have to drop a King's Pillar on Mimete. "Try it!" Wako snaps back in response to Mimete's threat toward his heart crystal. "I'll blast you into orbit!"
Under the circumstances, she has no complaints about Sugata's parting shot through the door - but with Mimete escaping, the Galactic Maiden turns her full attention back to the daimon. Nano unleashes her massive beam, Kunzite adds his own--
And the Ginga Otome? She waits, poised and watchful for the first glint of that crystal being freed from Marutan's soon-to-be-disintegrated body. Ready to catch it, ever so gently, in its own little shield bubble of pale pink light, the better to deliver it safely back where it belongs.
- Adrien Agreste has posed:
Cat Noir skids back on some of those dry peas that he had been quipping about, but he lands like a cat: On his feet. With one arm stretched forward to drag his claws into the concrete as he skids with his other arm swung back so the staff is out of the way. All the while facing the target.
Everyone else has delivered their numerous attacks yet Mimete has managed to make her escape. Lucky for her it would seem. With the sudden surge of attacks that are crashing down on the youma, the witch may not have survived at all!
"That crystal is still inside her, isn't it?" He calls out though he knew the answer. For a moment the blonde hesitates grinding his teeth together. This wasn't an Akuma that he was about to attack so it was alright--Right? He had to get that crystal OUT of it so that Koji could recover. Seeing Ginga Otome line up to catch the crystal after this youma is finished, he swallows his unease and moves.
At the last possible moment he leaps forward again swinging his staff around to slam into the ground. It sends him higher into a leap that brings him down in a graceful arc toward the cracked-ramen-bowl youma. "Otome--- Catch!"
For once it's not the staff that is swung around. It's his own hand, claws beared, with a cry of, "CATACLYSM!"
A green miasma sworls around his hand suddenly as the power activates and he slashes at the 'stomach' of the creature with the Destructive power of the Miraculous behind his attack.
- Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Star Swordo Diamante vanishes into the darkness-- whether it discorporates as it hits the duskport door or not, only Sugata will know. Either way, Mimete is not coming out again, but this will definitely not be the last time she's seen, orbital death threats from Wako aside.
(Mimete didn't have the chance to say Sugata was very trying and that will eat at her.)
The sound from Divine Buster, against the porcelain youma, going and going and going-- it sounds like a blowtorch through an amplifier, or feels like it should, and it's magenta light absolutely everywhere, and--
--and Kunzite's attack is added to the energy--
--and Marutan is bracing as hard as she can and she knows there's nowhere to go, but Mimete already abandoned her. She knows this is it. So, with bits of bowl cracking off and spilling internal ramen out onto the sidewalk, Marutan yells in a cracking voice, "MA RU TAN! IN STANT BRUNCH!"... but she can't keep bracing like that. Any second, Divine Buster's gonna make her into Divine Mustard.
And then... then there's Chat Noir, who hurls himself in to add his own phenomenal destruction event, and cat claws draw against the cracking ceramic 'belly' of the monster and everything is absolutely breathtakingly silent for a split second--
--and then there's the KRAK-THOOM of an explosion at the same time as Divine Buster bursts through the wall behind Marutan, and then there's an exploding ramen bowl on fire that's four city blocks away through multiple buildings, and if everyone looks through the hole that got made, there's a bright fire going on at the other end, ash and cinders floating on the air.
Right here, though, there's a regular-sized empty ramen bowl that's still ringing itself to a halt on the concrete, and a little white egg that rolls out and cracks, releasing a cloud of black smoke that looks like a cormorant.
Above those, of course, is a snowflake-like blue-white pure heart crystal, hovering in the air-- then hovering in Wako's beautiful little shield bubble.
- Koji Silvia has posed:
Koji just rests back on the pavement, breathing slowly, with a foxy little weight on his chest that he continues to pet slowly. His head turns slightly to one side, and he adds with a faint smile, "Oh... yeah..."
Sitting up enough to wedge an elbow under him, he fishes into a pocket of the uniform pants and manages to get a little bit of leftover halloween candy he got at his last stop. A fruit jelly. Getting it to his teeth, he tugs and rips the plastic open, and offers it to Mister Vice President.
It's Pineapple.
"Thanks... for... coming to... my rescue... little guy..."
- Wako Agemaki has posed:
There. The instant Wako spots the clear blue-white light of the heart crystal, a small sphere of dawn-pink light forms around it, holding it suspended in midair as the bowl falls to the pavement and the egg releases its black smoke.
Nearly holding her breath, Wako guides it carefully over to Koji. Vice President hops lightly off his chest as it approaches, scurrying up over Koji's shoulder to nip the pineapple candy from his fingers as the bubble of light fades and lets the crystal sink down to Koji's chest.
"Good job, everyone." Wako sounds a bit breathless as she looks up.
- Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kunzite is taking his own turn to stare. At Cat Noir. Because what the hell did he just --
Okay, better not to ask that.
He glances over to be certain Nanoha's all right after that blast of energy, and keeps a wary eye on the cormorant-smoke; but the Galactic Maiden has the most important item on the agenda, and he dissolves his shield to let her in. The moment he hears her voice, he exhales in relief and turns to crouch down on Koji's other side. His hand covers Koji's for a moment, placing the blue gem into Koji's palm almost as carefully as Wako had moved the crystal.
"It's a sad day when I could wish they had been using the rifles," he says ruefully. "Everyone else all right?"
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
"That was impressive," Ginga Kingu informs Cat Noir, and he's looking at the claws, but also thinking of the stick weapon. He brushes past him on the way to Wako's side, and looks at Kunzite with keen interest for a moment.
"So it was the rifles, before then, and not this new... kissing themed method?"
Just confirming, because Wako and Takuto are Noted Secret Keepers when they think it will keep him from getting stressed out and or committing homicide.
"Silva-san, do you want assistance getting back to the school?"
- Adrien Agreste has posed:
"Thanks. I haven't done that in awhile." At least not against a person. Never against a person. Or a youma. Objects, yes, many a time. This was a first and seeing that bowl clattering off empty was almost a relief. Not a person.
As everyone gathers around the shielded form of Koji to replace the crystal that was his heart, soul, or what-have-you, he steps forward to join the group watching with concern. "Sorry we didn't get here sooner, I guess. You'll be okay though. Naru-chan's had this happen to her a lot and... I'm sorry." Reaching up he rubs at the back of his neck. "It hurts a lot but she recovered so I'm sure you will, too."
After he attempts this awkward reassurance there's a beep-beep-beep like a quiet alarm. His hand jerks down from his neck to glance at the ring on his hand with a rather hesitant expression. Green eyes dart up toward Kunzite, Koji, Otome and Kingu as he rocks his weight back onto his heels. "I should... If I want to keep my identity..."
He hesitates.
- Koji Silvia has posed:
The floaty snowflake glowing blue-white in front of all sinks back into Koji with a bit of a black-light effect around it before it sort of... falls back in.
With a heavy gasp and his eyes going wide and clear once more, Koji sits up and grips at the spot where it went, his other hand holding onto the form of Hanzo that glows and changes back into a flip-open smart phone. Looking up and around at everyone here, he looks... a little chagrined. Rubbing the back of his neck, he ducks his eyes a bit and says, "Thanks... everyone. I... yeah... I'm not used to being saved."
His eyes flick up to Kunzite, and for some reason he suddenly has to find anyplace else, and suddenly Mister Vice President is just picked up and SQUEEEEZED by him using foxfluff to hide a faint blush as he mutters into the fur, "Did anyone see where my glasses went? And... like... once my shift is done, if anyone really wants a thank you, I can... uhhh... well... I mean secret identities are that. No need to tell me who anyone is who I don't know."
Pot and Kettle.
- Wako Agemaki has posed:
"I haven't seen this version before," Wako confirms - just a touch defensively, perhaps.
Kunzite and Sugata are checking on Koji, with Vice President's assistance. (Which soon involves extra-big eyes and some wriggling when Koji buries his face in fox fluff, though if the fox really wanted to squirm free he no doubt could.) The Galactic Maiden hangs back a bit, looking to Cat Noir instead.
"It's okay," she tells him, quiet but earnest. "There's reasons it's important for you to keep it a secret, right? We'll take care of things here, so don't worry about it if you need to go." She flashes him a quick, encouraging smile that holds no judgment, despite her own carelessness with both sides of her identity.
"Hey," she adds lightly, looking back to Koji and smothering a laugh at Vice President's present travails, "I think a lot of us have been there at least once. I'm just glad you're okay." She begins looking around a bit, presumably for his glasses, not having caught what happened to them earlier.
- Kazuo Saitou has posed:
The glasses are not magical.
Which means that Kunzite lets himself settle back out of uniform, out of henshin. Not that the sweep of hair changes, or the eyes - faintly tarnished, but still silvered with better humor. "Here," Kazuo says, and reaches to put those in Koji's other hand.
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
They haven't seen this version before. Good. Sugata would have absolutely judged both his fiancée and his boyfriend if they had and hadn't mentioned it.
"You're going to finish out your shift after this?" An eyebrow is raised. "You just had your heart literally sucked out of your mouth. You should call in sick for the rest of the shift."
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Self-preservation, you should have some!
As far as Cat is concerned - "If you need to go, you should. Some of you care a good deal about that, so you should take care of it. If you see Adrien, let him know it's safe to duck out again."
- Adrien Agreste has posed:
Cat Noir turns to regard Ginga Otome at her encouragement to go. Yet he flexes his hands, taking a deep breath. "No. No... Things have changed. Even Ladybug has realized that we can't afford to keep secrets here the way we did before. Not after she lost her Miraculous and no one knew how to get it back to her."
Another insistent beep that he ignores.
Nervous though he may be he remains resolute. "Besides, I feel as if I've been lying to many of you for too long as it is. I guess it's time to 'let the cat out of the bag!'" He jokes with a laugh that tapers off into a wry grin instead.
"Plagg, Claws In."
Similar to that power that had enveloped his hand before his attack on Ramen of the Day. The ears go. The eyes return to normal. His attire does as well leaving Adrien standing there with a tired looking black cat Kwami floating down to rest on his shoulder with a groan.
"Well it's *about time* you all," Plagg bemoans. "Seriously, do you know how hard it is to keep hiding from you? Adrien's always like 'Plagg, hide in my bag', 'Plagg, quit snoring they'll hear you', blah blah blah--"
Adrien lifts his hand to offer a little square of cheese still wrapped in the tiny foil covering to Plagg who quickly grabs hold of it deciding CHEESE is of far more interest.
"This is Plagg, by the way," he offers with a chuckle. At least now no one here would think he was dating Cat Noir and Naru all together!
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
"...ah, Adrien," Sugata blinks, as the veil's effects fade away and it becomes obvious in retrospect that the French-accented cat hero and the french-accented model are one and the same. "Then you know it was safe to duck out again. Good job with that Cataclysm of yours; it was obviously quite effective."
- Koji Silvia has posed:
After putting his glasses on...
Koji looks up and around and some of his hair *PWINKS* out at angles and his face goes a little 2D as he looks back and forth between Kazuo and Adrien, and back to Kazuo... eyes shielded by glare off the worklenses.
'Oh.'
That's really all he can get out before Sugata speaks SENSE at the normally sensible young man, who is still recovering from both barrels, and then shakes his head several times to clear the shock from his fuzzy skull, and then winces at the headache it causes.
He puts Mister Vice President down on the ground and then slowly works his way to his feet, and just... looks around at the four as the Barrier seems to fade into the background. Noting it, Koji reaches down and picks up the Fam-marT work cap and puts it back on, and he recovers a little by saying, "Hello Plagg. I -think- you're the only one here I haven't met?"
With the Veil well and truly just throwing up it's hands and stalking off in a muttering huff, he gulps once and then asks, "So... I've got a coupon for hot pot? My treat?"
And for once his eyes GO to Kazuo with this sort of... 'PLEASE?!' expression, which he shakes off and wipes away with a deep breath, "It would be my honor to treat my heroes to a victory meal."
- Wako Agemaki has posed:
"I knew it!" Wako exclaims. Then immediately self-edits: "Well. I didn't know you were Cat Noir... though honestly this explains a lot. I did figure you pretty much had to be magical, though." She's looking very pleased with herself. "To think, we all just figured Naru-chan was dating you both."
Vice President, freed of being used as a shield, looks Very Interested in Plagg... but mercifully, not quite interested enough to try to occupy Adrien's shoulder. Instead he squirrels his way up onto Wako's shoulder, there to begin nosing at her hair like he's totally not trying to figure out if Plagg is edible.
Wako accepts this with the tolerance of one very much used to it. Her eyes immediately sparkle at the offer of hot pot, and she glances quickly to Sugata. "That sounds great to me!" she says brightly, letting her own transformation dissolve back to her street clothes. "That is, if you're sure you feel up to it."
- Koji Silvia has posed:
Koji Silvia coughs politely... then politely again... and then finally he just looks at Kazuo, rolls his eyes, and then turns to address Ginga Kingu and Otome as they are now completely in public, "Ummmm... Can you two please... well... you know..." Looking them up and down, trying not to just say it out loud!
- Adrien Agreste has posed:
Adrien Agreste can only spread his hands in a helpless sort of shrug at Sugata and Wako as if to say 'guilty as charged.' "Honestly I think Naru was rather delighted with everyone thinking that. She got a kick out of teasing me over it." Ah yes, that sounded about right.
Noticing the look that Koji gives Kazuo, and then the odd remarks toward the other two, he clears his throat. "I think he's suggesting you two are a bit over-dressed at the moment for hot pot. I'm game for it though if everyone else is."
Plagg looks over at VP with narrowing cat eyes. "Don't even think about it, buddy."
- Sugata Shindo has posed:
"Hot pot does sound nice, though I can treat. You were just rescued, after all. Might as well get something out of it, right?"
Also it's not like he would even notice the cost of treating everyone, so why not take advantage? And then there are meaningful glances, and Adrien is offering a translation -
"Hm? Oh, right," and then there's a shimmer, and Sugata drops the transformation entirely, shaking his head. It's a little colder, without the large coat that comes with the henshin, but, he doesn't mind. "It's still odd how quiet you all are about it here in Tokyo."
