2836/Blackest of Fridays

Blackest of Fridays
Date of Scene:	14 November 2025
Location:	Four Clover Mall
Synopsis:	Scorn attacks a Black Friday sale, the heart of capitalism! Sayaka and Amy show up to... defend the people. And not capitalism.
Cast of Characters:	Scorn, Sayaka Miki, Amanda Faust

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Scorn has posed:
Scorn hates Fridays. People are so happy for the weekend! People should be miserable working and having full school days and all sorts of miserable things. So she's chosen this Friday, of all Fridays, to cause issues. Primarily by attacking a special sale.

A Black Friday sale. Now. Scorn arrives and crosses her arms and looks around. She looks up to the blue sky. The sun is shining. It's a little cold but the sun cuts through and warms up. "How is this a Black Friday at all!?" Scorn splutters out.

Let's make this a real Black Friday!

The store itself is a larger size outlet and is busy as all get out when Scorn arrives. The owner is barking new deals every fifteen minutes over a megaphone speaker. Half off on food processors! Half off on tvs! It's Black Friday madness!

It's a perfect opportunity to farm some human energy!

Scorn leaps from the crowd and lands near the man. "Let the future reflected in the mirror turn terrible!"

That was moments ago. Now there is a Terribad in a business suit spreading energy draining coupons everywhere labeled '100% off your energy!'. What a deal! Also a load of energy drained people everywhere. Whoops!

Sayaka Miki has posed:
Black Friday is certainly an advantageous day, even if Sayaka would really like not to acknowledge the entire spending culture underneath. But there are lot of good occasions for CDs she has long since had her eye on. She just has to keep her head in the game and ignore everything else.

"Hey, Sayaka, look at door chime? Isn't it pretty!?", Ula asks, pointing behind Sayaka's neck.

Not just her, apparently.

"C'mon, Ula, you know what we said! CDs for me, and a mountable handmirror for you", Sayaka reminds her fairy. "Right, right, I was just saying...", Ula comments with a nod, albeit still sneaking a glance to the chime.

"Sayaka, do you feel that?" Ula sits up with wider eyes when the dark energy caused by bursts. "Yeah! Let's get into action!", the bluenette replies resolutely.

The Pretty Change Mirror comes out, and at a press of a button starts radiating yellow, green and blue light.

"Time to change!", it exclaims, opening to reveal Sayaka's face and releasing watery musical notes, surrounding the Precure.

"The melody of justice that rises from the sea depths", Sayaka recites, the blue shape of an armored mermaid wearing a wide heart-shaped collar appearing in front of her before the figure dives into the bluenette and spreads bubbles all around her. "Cure Sharpsong!"

Her eyes quickly lock on the source, and the Pretty Cure sighs at the Crow Witch's sight. Well, one more chance, let's not waste it! "Scorn, hold it!", Cure Sharpsong yells, leaping over. "If you want to fight someone, take me on!" She draws her sword. She is not going to say in the defense of Black Friday.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy doesn't come to big stores like this, mostly. They used to have reasonably-priced clothes, back before she got friends that could show her all the specialty places. But sometimes, your computer power supply breaks and you need a new one, right now, from anywhere that sells computer parts, until you can get one for longer-term from somewhere.

    A PA announcement makes her look around at how crowded the store is. "It's BLACK FRIDAY?!" Oh no.

How is this a Black Friday at all?!
    "Oh, I dunno, a crowd of people and long lines seems pretty bleak to me, I wanna get out of--" And then Amy realizes she recognizes that voice, and looks over. Oh shit. "--here."

    She runs into an aisle, waits several seconds just to be sure she's not too obvious, then henshins and leaps out over the shelf.

    "Scorn!" the Puella Magi points. "It's because they use black ink to record positive numbers in the company books, and red negative! The black refers to an economic opportunity for retailers!"

    "But that means unbridled commercialism and greed from those at the top, crushing underpaid and overworked employees, making customers wait in long lines and spend hours searching for deals, and inflicting everyone who doesn't want a part of this with fear of missing out because what if you could have used something that went on sale?"

    "So that seems like quite a black Friday to me!"

    Of course, as she's speeching about the evils of unbridled capitalist greed, there's also a Terribad so uh, she should probably do something about that.

    "Hey you! 100% off implies you're giving away free energy, not taking it! If you're gonna do a bit and spout lines at least make them make sense!"

    No Amy we meant you should shoot them!

    *Boom!* Oh there she goes, firing her rocket launcher at the terribad's upper body from her perch atop one of the shelves. "You're just making a bad day worse!"

Scorn has posed:
Scorn places her hands on her hips as she leans forward. "Oh. It's you." she says at Sayaka. "Don't you have some goody two shoes coffee shop to help run?" she says as she places a hand out, letting black feathers fall from the sky that comes with her phantom zone.

Then a rocket launches from Amy, who sputters on about the commercialism of the holiday. She frowns and says. "That's dumb. Call it Black Ink Friday. Maybe that'll summon different badguys next time!" she says.

Like the Bad End Kingdom.

Still, Scorn watches as her Terribad, taking a hit in the chest, gets staggered back, but doesn't fall. Is that business suit... armor!? It is!

"My Terribad's perfectly tailored suit makes him impervious to your attacks! So shut up about whether it makes sense or not!" she says. "TERRIBAD!" agrees the Terribad as it throws Coupons for 'Half Off your Life' at the two, they don't actually do that, but they're sharp like knives as they launch through the air at the two.

"Make like a tree and die miserably when I cut you down!" she yells.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
"Yes, it's me. And I can't really run a coffee shop if the Phantom Empire keeps harming people, so I have a double shift today", Sayaka wastes no time in quipping back.

The bluenette spins the dial on her Love PreBrace, and water starts gathering around her sword, forming a bigger, bigger and bigger blade. "There was once a person, a friend, by the name of Haruka, who wanted the same thing, but she doesn't really remember, and I want to help her", she tells Scorn.

"Sharpsong Bar!", she shouts, and the water propels itself in the air on the wave of strength Sayaka has given to the strike, cutting towards the Terribad at incredibly fast speed.

Well, at least she is not alone at this, in more ways than one, by Amy's extensive speech about the commercialism of the day. "Red is right, why don't do you give some free energy? That's what you would have wanted too, Haruka", she addresses her. "Right? Filling people's days with energy, Gully and Aki at your side, putting a stop to Terribads everywhere, and offering the future smiles."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy doesn't want to summon the Bad End Kingdom. They keep using those words, and Amy's not sure if they mean anything special or if they're just words, and she's afraid to ask.

    Sayaka has to work a double shift! "Truly a black friday." Amy nods somberly, then leaps between the coupons, using an explosion to change her trajectory in midair and send herself over the terribad. "Tch. The suit stops anti-tank weaponry? Magic is bullshit sometimes. Hey business guy, will utilizing synergy keep you AHEAD of my grenades?" She drops some grenades down at its head as she goes sailing over.

    She didn't know Haruka, and so far, every attempt to remind Scorn of her has only made her angry, so Amy leaves the 'remember who you are!' gambit to Sayaka.

Scorn has posed:
The blade of water strikes towards the Terribad, mussing up it's suit, but the Terribad keeps strong, adjusting it's tie. "Terribad." it says as it staggers a little. The suit needs worn down is all, it's strong, but not invincible. It then summons a massive billboard axe that reads Phantom Empire Inc, for all your hateful needs!.

It swings it down at Cure Sharpsong as Sharpsong explains about Haruka. Scorn gives a scowl. "-and this again. With this 'Haruka' and 'Aki'." she says angrily. "Why do you keep telling me about this!? I DON'T GET IT!" she yells as the Terribad suddenly takes a hit to the head from grenades... just because the head looks unprotected doesn't mean the suit won't protect the Terribad. Because magic. Just like the anti-tank weaponry and grenades are magic.

"ENOUGH!" yells Scorn. "TERRIBAD! BIIIIG CUTS ALL AROUND!" she yells as the Terribad starts spinning with the axe like a top, aiming to cut the two down to size!

Sayaka Miki has posed:
Sayaka wasn't being literal about the double shift, but it's true it feels darkly in theme with the day, so it does have that going for it.

"You know, if you wanted a bit of our time, this is not the way to axe us", Sayaka jokes at the appearance of the weapon. "Is it part of your 'Fully off' discount, Haruna? That's how I would like it", Sharpsong declares, making a second sword alongside the first. She feels like she is going to need it soon, just by sheer size of the enemy's new blade.

And true enough, blade clashes against blade when the Terribad brings it down on her and Red. Each strike drives Sayaka further back, barely able to parry the monumental swings. Even so, the vibrations reach all the way up her arms, and her muscles start protesting at the passive defense.

A bad cut is made on her skin as Sayaka rotates in turn to get away from the Terribad's rapid offense, and she grits her teeth. "Sharpsong Legato!", she shouts, and water tendrils form from thin air, reaching for the handle of the axe, and trying to keep it still.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    The terribad tries to chop Amy out of the air. It's not a clean hit, but it clips her foot and she tumbles to the floor "Oof!" in a way that almost certainly would have been very bad were she not mahou.

    If Sharpsong's spell is working, she fires on the Terribad immediately, otherwise she leaps out of range first; either way bringing the gyrojet rifle and its heavy-caliber homing bullets to bear on the Terribad's arm and hand, trying to help Sayaka get the axe away from it!

    "Haruka this, sister that, we keep saying it and you never listen. So how about this, Scorn:"

    "Is this who you want to be? Are you happy now? Do you like your life? Or would you like to be, maybe, someone else, if only there were a way to?"

Scorn has posed:
'Is this who I want to be?' is a question that makes Scorn pause for a moment.

"YES!" she screams, lying.

"I'M NOT HAPPY and it's because YOU TWO won't let me DRAIN THIS ENERGY AND CAUSE MISERY AND HATE! LOVE IS AN ILLUSION!" she screams.

She looks to Sayaka and says. "That is NOT MY NAME! QUIT CALLING ME THAT!" she yells as she stamps her foot. "WHYYYYYYY.."

And then her Terribad's rapid offense is stopped in it's tracks by water tendrils as hits come for the arms, knocking the arms off course and causing the Terribad to swing out of control out of the way into a pile of TVs, causing it to be buried. It pokes it's head out. "Terribad?"

"TERRIBAD END IT!" it screams as it jumps from the pile. But it's suit! It's destroyed! Rags now! It shrieks in anger. "Terribad!?" as it starts throwing discount TVs at the two, charging them up with it's DEEP DARK DISCOUNT power, giving each a black aura that leaves tracers through the air.

With it's suit destroyed, it may be time to end it, finally! Finish it!

Sayaka Miki has posed:
Not even 30 seconds later, glyphs have started appearing over Sayaka's wounds, and by the time they are done, her skin is the same as it ever was, and the only sign it gives before it's gone completely like it was never there. With the exception of her gloves, still torn where the cut had been.

"Love is not an illusion! The love for your family is still there, you just have to remember it! We and Red have people we love too, and I think I have found actual romantic love too", Sayaka states calmly, a red veneer sprinkled on her face at the last declaration.

"That's what I have been trying to convince Blue of, and if I need to convince you and the Phantom Empire too, I will." But the Terribad is ready for the end, and Sharpsong raises her right arm high up.

"Symphony of Justice, turn into sacred power!", she shouts. With her left hand, she spins the dial on her right wrist, and currents of waters start floating in the air all around Sayaka, momentarily obscuring her body. Only her silhouette is visible through the azure mass.

"Love PreBrace!" Her voice resounds distorted from within the currents, and they start parting into 10 spheres, gradually becoming more and more defined with each passing moment.

"Pretty Cure Rondo con Toccata! Justice, return to the Heavens!" 10 airborne wheels rotate now in place of the spheres, and Cure Sharpsong points at the Terribad.

Obeying the unsposken order, the wheels speed up, crashing into the youma, and then separating again, forming a circle around It that releases purifying energy.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Would you really be happy if you won here? If the mirage kingdom spread misery far and wide, what would you do in the world you're fighting so hard for?" Amy frowns at a thought. Wait, shit, one could say the same of her defending Earth... well, she's defending an Earth with pockets of goodness in it. The Mirage Kingdom would make everything worse.

    Amy's eyes widen as Sayaka heals. "You can do that?! Cool!"

    "End it? Good idea!" Amy turns, fires a suddenly-on-her-shoulder artillery cannon at the Terribad, then barely steps out of the way as a TV smashes the cannon, missing her by centimeters.

    This repeats a couple more times, as Amy gets a couple more shots off at the Terribad while frantically dodging TVs. "This isn't your future, person she put in the mirror! Didn't you hear her, 'let the future in the mirror turn terrible'? Your path will lead to only suffering, this way!"

Scorn has posed:
"YES I WOULD BE HAPPY!" she lies again. "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU!" she yells as angrily and she starts throwing a mini tantrum. She places her hands on her ears and starts 'la-laing loudly' like a petulant child.

She even continues to stamp her feet.

Meanwhile, the Terribad gets smacked with a giant cannon, causing it to be thrown back and finally causing it to topple onto it's back, for it to be picked up by Cure Sharpsong's Rondo con Toccata! The purifying light sending the bad energy towards the heavens and causing the world to return back to normal from it's dreary feather laden landscape.

Scorn opens an eye and then the other and frowns. "Ugh you've defeated me, again!" she says angrily. "Mark my words Sharpsong and Rocket Girl Red, I'll have my revenge, just. you. watch." she says as she duskports away, finally, before there can be retribution onto her location.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
Sayaka blinks. It's true Scorn has been particularly stubborn about resisting their attempts to reach out, but she didn't expect her to go through with an actual la-la-la-and-stomp-routine.

She even almost misses the purifying of the Terribad by her own attack, but Ula flies away from her shoulder, asking for her attention with the usual sneeze-and-release of PreCards.

"Well, that's two more", Sayaka says as she pats the Cure Decor shut with a quiet thud. It's some progress, even if the bluenette would like to be making progress with Scorn too. "I guess we will see her soon. I hope we find a clue for her situation next time."

She slightly pats Ula's head, and looks at Red. "How are you? Everything attached?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    The monster is down and purified! And Scorn swears revenge. Amy sighs. "['Next time, Gadget, next time.']" she echoes, tiredly.

    She pulls out her grief seed to top off and looks to Sayaka. "Yeah. I'm all in one piece. D'you think we should be worried, though? She was so... powerful, not long ago, when she took Phantom's power. She almost got Rashmi."

    She looks at the Cure Decor curiously. "...So... what powers did you get from that?"