2061/The Best Kind Of Quest III

The Best Kind Of Quest III
Date of Scene:	12 November 2024
Location:	Yumegahama Ward
Synopsis:	Having been attacked twice, the mysterious group moving pieces of a defense system to the Academy decide to go it alone - and their disguise of a donut truck tricks Riventon and La Crima into chasing after them. Luckily, despite the late (or early) hour, Rashmi, Amy, Laura, and Usagi are around to save Cure Break (and the object).
Cast of Characters:	Takashi Agera, Norie Okana, Rashmi Terios, Laura La Mer, Amanda Faust, Usagi Tsukino

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Takashi Agera has posed:
        FAR OUTSIDE TOKYO, TWO HOURS AGO

    "You know, I really would be more comfortable with this plan if we'd told the people we're bringing it to that we were coming tonight." says a boy in a colorful purple hoodie that matches his purple hair as the older man he's next to pulls a carved wooden case from the trees and disconnects it from what appears to be a crude parachute.

    The man shakes his head. "Twice we've told them and twice we've been attacked." he says. "I don't want to end up involved. Besides, we've got a cover. We just drive this van to the Academy in secret and then call the aide. Easier."

        NOW

    Sitting outside of a conbennie, the same purple haired boy leans against the outside of a donut delivery van in the early hours of the morning, waiting for the driver to return. It had, admittedly, been a pretty quiet ride into the city proper and through the streets. So quiet that the driver had decided to stop for a bio break and to get some snacks. But, overhead, two Obsidian Employees had been looking for a different type of late night/early morning snack - energy. Although the idea of fresh baked donuts, being brought to a conveince store in the early hours of the morning, had an appeal for one of them too. And so Riventon and Norie landed in front of the driver when he was returning with chips - and when Cure Break saw the man go down, 'dead' (energy drained) and the scientist and the vampiress walking towards the vehicle in the side mirror, he climbed into the van and turned it on while slamming down on the accelerator, sending the tires screeching.

    This is how Cure Break ended up frantically trying to control a vehicle he was in no way aware of how to drive while smashing out a text message to the Headmistress of RHA's number.

    "I sensed something magic before that truck took off! Let's go get the donuts -and- whatever the hell is in there!" Riventon calls to Lacrima, as he flies off after it. Between the call back to the Academy and the general magical disruption of Riventon and Norie chasing after a donut truck, it's probably not hard for anyone to appear soon.

Norie Okana has posed:
La Crima landed as she walked towards the truck.

"The fiends..."

"The GALL..."

"The insidiousness!"

"Using a donut truck as a cover! I, Lacrima, will not let this stand!" she yells as she takes off after the trick, floating a few feet off the ground. What does she do?

She starts shooting unaimed, flaky blasts of dark energy after the truck, bolts striking around the truck but not directly into it yet as she frowns.

"If you make me hurt donuts while trying to stop you jerks...!" she yells out after the truck. Yes. Won't someone think of the donuts!?

Rashmi Terios has posed:
Texts from the school have, occasionally, happened at all hours of the night. Alerts, Lost Items, Lost Pets, and more. Most of them are for the people who for some insane reason happen to be up. Few of them are really of a magnitude that requires getting up out of bed before dawn breaks. But when the text is addressed to *Nicomachea,* the Device believes it to be worth the brief annoyance.

    << *BONG!* >> << ALERT. MASTER. ALERT. ESCORT UNDER ATTACK. DARK ENERGY PROXIMATE. ALERT. >>

With a 'WAAAUGH!' that really should have woken up both of her roommates, Rashmi catapults out of bed, hovering in midair when Nicomachea activates a Flier Fin before she can hit the ground. Thus it's in a long nightshirt that she attempts to pull enough brain together to attempt speech.

"...Set Up...?"

The flash of light accompanying her Barrier Jacket doesn't help her orient *much,* but she finds the window and makes her way out, the chill night air doing a lot more to wake her up than the adrenaline.

And as she gets closer, she can spot a donut truck screaming down the city streets, pelted by Dark Energy-lobbing people-- oh.

It's Riventon and *Norie.* Well... this is gonna be awkward.

"Seriously?" She calls as she banks down closer to street level, tossing a few Barrets into the street in front of the van's pursuers in the hopes that it'll make them lose at least a bit of ground. "Why can't you just buy breakfast? Is it really worth the hassle to knock over an entire truck?"

Laura La Mer has posed:
It was not hard indeed, though coincidence also had her place in sending the truck that much needed help when Laura was on the sidewalk directed in the opposite direction as the truck, having just gotten a swim in the very early morning when few people were going to be around, and especially not on the beach, so she could be back to her mermaid form all she wanted.

Of course, now she was feeling super rested and charged, so she is definitely raring to go when she feels the dark energy from Riventon and La Crima. "The Shimmering Ocean! Cure La Mer!" she exclaims, not wasting any time in her transformation.

"How dare you assault honest workers trying to make a living!", La Mer exclaims running towards them. "Whatever you are after, you are not going to take it."

Amanda Faust has posed:
Yumegahama Ward - Pear Pier Hotel, Last night
    Amanda settles in at her desk. Every now and then, she comes here, does some IT stuff, and maybe gets a break and a rest in secluded privacy; it's a pretty sweet deal! The plan today is simple: Work, get dinner (free) at the hotel's restaurant, have a night to herself, sleep, get up early, train back to school.

Minutes ago
    Unfortunately, she kinda fucked up her sleep schedule watching movies until the wee hours of the morning with Emi. And so she kept saying 'eh, I'll go to bed in a bit' and that's how it is that it is way past too late o'clock in the morning when she gets a text on her phone. She looks at it tiredly. "Ohhhh no. Now?" Of course, she only has herself to blame for falling into old habits.

    Can... can she blame being a teenager again? Maybe? Please?

    At least her henshin makes sure she doesn't look like she hasn't rolled in to bed yet. She strides out of the hotel in henshin -- no one's up this early anyway -- looks at the hotel sign, laughs for some reason, sips her thermos of coffee, sips some more, sips maybe she'd better sip some more, and then takes off running, waking up as she gets more moving.

    Once she's close enough she need only follow the screech of tires on road, be they from the teenager driving or the early-early-morning commuters screeching to a halt to not run into him.

    A mini-missile streaks out from a side-street and drops itself to the pavement just behind the donut truck, spewing smoke. "WHY." Amy shouts, irritated, picking up from Rashmi's words. "WHY IS IT DONUTS. WHY SO EARLY. ARE THEY MAGIC DONUTS?" Amy strides around the edge of the smoke, making her way towards the Dark Energy-users. "Like is this the... I forgot what I was going to say, it's too damn early. You..." Amy points, half-concealed by smoke, then holds her hand to her forehead. "Ugh... Look if the donuts are magic why don't you just. Order them yourself. Or just smash and grab from the back of the truck? Gank the driver?" She gesticulates wildly in the vague direction of the truck. "WHY IS IT A CHASE AT ASS'O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING OVER DONUTS?!"

Takashi Agera has posed:
    "It's not about the donuts!" Riventon yells, to anyone who might be able to listen. "The donuts are a cover. I wonder if there even ARE any donuts. THAT PISSES ME OFF MORE THERE HAD BETTER BE DONUTS." Look, it's way too early in the morning for there not to be donuts for him, too, and he's BOTH kinds of hungry right now; both calorie and energy drain.

    A round shield and a triangular belkan shield erupt as Riventon is assailed by Rashmi's early shots - one for each orb, trying to avoid it from getting him OR Lacrima.

    "It's not about the DONUTS though!" he yells, though Lacrima will probably deny that as boldly as he announced it. But he also doesn't know what it IS about. Just 'magic stuff and he wants it'. And whoever is in the donut truck clearly does not know how to drive, much less when Lacrima's blasts start flying by - the already questionable driving turns into a swerve and then a spin out, tires screeching and smoke filling the early morning roadway, spinning out (though relatively safely, into the center median rather than a building) before Cure Break opens the driver's side door - clearly too young to drive - before spinning and hitting the pavement, spirals in his eyes.

    "Whatever, Lacrima, let's get the donuts AND the thing." Yes. The thing. The thing they're after. The thing with the stuff. "Just go back to bed before I have to start blasting."

Norie Okana has posed:
Oh. Rashmi.

Oh. Amy.

Oh... uh. Strange Pretty Cure she doesn't know.

She frowns as huffs. "You think it's about the donuts!? NO, THEY'RE USING IT AS A COVER. I. LA CRIMA. WILL MAKE THEM PAY FOR THIS!" she says. "WITH. THIER. LI---" she pauses. "...right. Not doing that anymore. WITH. THIER. BUTTS." she says dramatically.

She summons up a tornado of dark energy and sends it spiraling out towards Amy, frowning at the others.

"If you're smart, you'll let us just take the things and leave." she says.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Moonlight shines improbably on the roof of a two-story building near the crash, illuminating the pretty sailor-suited soldier standing at the edge. She strikes a pose and calls out -

"Evil-doers who strike in the night, know that I am Sailor Moon, soldier of mystery! How dare you wicked fiends," Riventon and La Crima are probably starting to tune this out, until - "Pretend to be donut truckers! I was so excited for a different late night snack, what's wrong with you?! This injustice will NOT go unpunished!"

And then she leaps down from the roof, heading straight for the crash site and the boy with spirals in his eyes.

"DO YOU EVEN HAVE DONUTS, PRETTY BOY?!"

Rashmi Terios has posed:
The sound of screeching tires turns into a *much worse* sound of screeching tires, and as the van fetches up against the median, Rashmi's attention is diverted.

    << *BONG!* >> << SOLAR SHIELD -- BLAZE SHIFT >>

As Cure Break clambers out and falls to the pavement, a dome of golden, swirling fire forms in the street, interposing itself between the van, Sailor Moon, and the two would-be attackers.

"Do you two even know *what* is in that van? Or is this just 'It's a thing, therefore it must be *my* thing?! Because I will *buy* you donuts if you call this attack off, I'm serious!"

And you can tell she's serious; not because she's got hands on her hips and Disapproving Big Sis Stare ten meters aboveground, but because of the half-dozen Barrets that are resolving into being around her.

Laura La Mer has posed:
"You are really making it sound about donuts if you demand them like that", La Mer remarks at Riventon. How much he might be invested into whatever might be in the truck, he seems to focus on it quite a bit. "Stop being so angry! Hungry? Hangry?" Laura starts trying out. "Anyway, if you want, I know a good donut shop, but you are not getting anything else today, so just settle for that!"

"Are you alright?" Laura asks the improvised pilot, standing next to him in the Obsidian duo's direction. "With their... butts? How does someone pay with their butts?", she squints at the sentence. She can't make head or tail of it.

She waves at the other three mahous and is about to attack La Crima when she just stares at Usagi. "It's the driver's fault they got the attention of two donut lovers!" she points at Riventon and La Crima, still turned towards Usagi.

"But we can go to a donut shop later and make It their treat, Moon. Let's just save whatever is in the truck first", the Pretty Cure exclaims.

"Perfume Shiny Ring - Bubble Form!" she declares as she inserts her pen under the Aqua Pact and the ring above it, the cover splitting open again. Grasping it by the now attached pen, Cure La Mer shouts "Aqua Charge!" and rotates the disk, a vortex of bubbles entering her Aqua Pact

The mermaid spins around, a trail of glowing pink energy following around her. "Pretty Cure Ocean Bubble Shower!" she shouts, pointing the Mermaid Aqua Pact at La Crima, the magical item briefly glowing yellow before it rapidly fires an uncountable torrent of bubbles.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    What the heck is Riventon even ranting about. It is too late for this. It is too early for this. it is TOO LATE AND EARLY for this!

    Somewhere through the smoke Amy can't see through, the van crashes. Amy winces. "Rashmi, hold them off I'll-- Nevermind, you go ahead!"

    Amy just stares as La Crima gives a dialogue line that were it in a manga she would clip it and share it on Datcord for being so ridiculous. At least, in her way-too-late-o'clock mindset. "Phrasing! No one is paying for anything with their butts! --WOAH!" Amy makes a horizontal chopping gesture, then realizes the tornado is coming right for her, dodges a bit late and while not hit by the dark energy portion, the wind makes her trip on the curb and stumble-slam into a newsstand. "Urgh... If I was smart I wouldn't be up this early fighting bad guys!"

    She fires micromissiles from a tiny launcher she's suddenly holding, warning shots which zip by in front of La Crima to discourage her from moving forward.

    Amy pulls herself off the newsstand and stands up. "I mean, not that you're that bad or a guy... you know what I mean!"

    And then Sailor Moon is also shouting about donuts and Amy's starting to wonder if this is a dream. Did she fall asleep? She doesn't remember going to bed...

    She's brought out of this reverie by hearing Laura echo La Crima's line and Amy just doubles over laughing.

    She's not incapacitated, she'll still shoot micromissiles at La Crima if she moves toward Amy or attacks her, but she has had. Not enough sleep. Today.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    "CAN WE STOP TALKING ABOUT DONUTS AND ALSO BUTTS?!" Riventon shouts, frustrated about... all of this. About the magical girls being here, about the van crashing, about the donuts that he has asked everyone else to stop talking about - all of it. And now Sailor Moon is here too.

    "Okay fine I guess we're fighting over whatever's in that van. Sure. Whatever." He doesn't say the word. "There's another peice of the magic thing you keep trying to get past me, alright? There. Now I know what it is. Now... BACK OFF."

    Even with Rashmi's prepared barrets, Riventon isn't going to stop trying to attack.<DAMMERUNGSFEUER> (Dusk Barrage) calls his device, and a similarly large number of black spheres resolve into space around him. But he doesn't wait for high noon (because that's like way too many hours away why is it so early) - and instead immediately thrusts his open hand out at Rashmi. "FIRE." He yells, and the spheres do just that.

    Back at the truck, the spiral eyed boycure looks up and is just. So confused. "Donuts? Boxes... empty... just couriers."

Norie Okana has posed:
Oh... Sailor Moon is here. That's...gonna be a problem for her and Riventon maybe.

Bubbles Pepper her and the area around her and she gasps and retreats away backwards as she takes hits, being forced backwards along with Amy's missiles striking around her as warning shots as she scowls and just erupts into an aura of dark energy, burning away the rest of the bubble attacks as she screams "ENOUGGH!"

She starts throwing bolts of dark energy towards Cure La Mer and Amy now, keeping up the attack as she screeches. "GIVE US WHAT'S IN THE TRUCK. IT BELONGS TO US ANYWAYS, YOU GUYS STROLE OR SOMETHING BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT GUYS LIKE YOU DO!" she yells.

"GIVE IT TO US!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"No!" Sailor Moon shouts back at Riventon, "I was following this truck for donuts when you made it crash! And now there aren't even any donuts!"

Because of course that's the important part, though the fact that Riventon is after something magic is of course, a useful thing to note and probably something she should... prevent... courier...

"You tried to move another piece without us?!" She hisses this at the boy in disbelief, before crouching and pulling him up to his feet (only belatedly remembering that if he has injuries that would be a bad idea, whoops!) "Why on Earth would you do that?"

Riventon is throwing spheres at Rashmi. Amy is shooting at La Crima. Only Cure La Mer is worrying about the important things.

"You're right, La Mer-chan. They have those Obsidian credit cards, they can pay for the donuts for all of us. If they're still feeling charitable after we finish the job this dummy started." She gives Cure Break(er of Donut Dreams) a stern look. "Where's the thing you're transporting? We need to get it out of here and you toasted your truck."

Behind her, La Crima starts screaming, and Sailor Moon winces a bit. "Yeah, and just, hurry up on that, okay?"

Rashmi Terios has posed:
    << *BONG!* >> << SOLAR SHIELD >>

A second, more standard bubble of light surrounds Rashmi as her own Barrets fire off, gold and black crossing each other in the air, and the Page Mage summons another half-dozen and launches, then another... but these are held back, for a moment.

    << *BONG!* >> << SOLAR BARRET -- GLACE SHIFT >>

With a screeching *crack,* these balls of light transform into chunks of golden ice, and *these* are launched to come in on Norie from an odd angle.

The Ice Barrets, should they impact, don't really hurt much more than a thrown snowball. But they *do* stick to what they hit, and cling there in space, making movement just that much more awkward.

"Riventon, c'mon! Stop trying to take stuff just because you want it! That's what I mean about fighting your methods! And La Crima, I *promise* that the thing Riventon wants *isn't* stolen!"

"...You can tell by how he isn't currently touching it," she mutters under her breath.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Riventon shouts that just as Amy is trying to pull herself together and she breaks down laughing again, her shots at La Crima going wide as dark bolts start flying!

    "AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" the laughter sounds like a deranged cackle, it wouldn't be bad for a villain, "*Wheeze* No one is going to pay with-- OW!"

    A couple of darkbolts slam into her, making her reel backward.

    And that woke her up and focused her. She aims steadily with two hands, now firing at Norie's center of mass when she's not weaving to try and dodge the darkbolts. "IF IT'S YOUR THING WHY DON'T YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS?!" she yells back!?

Laura La Mer has posed:
"Wasn't me that started it", Laura replies disinterested to Riventon. Why doesn't he just keep that colleague of his in check? Oh, and himself too while he is at it. "Anyone could have told you there was something magical in there, that doesn't mean it was yours first. You aren't getting it. Case closed."

"We are the thieves!?" La Mer exclaims indignant. "Is this some sort of Bizzarro Day where you people aren't the one stealing energy and more from people while making their lives actively worse?"

Then she is being fired on with dark energy in retaliation, her air being knocked out of her lungs as she crashes against the truck. She holds onto the truck's door as she recovers from the impact. They are really going to do this then.

The Pretty Cure stirs with her pen the disk at the center of her Compact, causing water to gather and move in a pattern of recurve spinning lines as it concentrates inside the Mermaid Aqua Pact.

"Pretty Cure Swirling La Mer Stream!", she shouts, a huge rotating beam of water erupting out of the Pact as she points the pen at La Crima.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    The boy, as he's pulled up by Sailor Moon, makes a bit of a wince but otherwise doesn't grumble too much. "Well, they drained the driver! I did the best I could!" he protests, before trying to move to the back of the truck. "I didn't tell them to go without you. It's in the back. Wooden box. Hidden In the donut boxes!" he says, trying to open it. "Oh no, the crash jammed the door." Then he pauses. Right. Pretty Cure. "Pardon me." he says with a smile as he gently moves La Mer's hand... before he just pulls the door off its hinges. "...fixed."

    "I'M NOT PAYING FOR ANYTHING." Riventon yells before he notices the sound of metal grinding as Cure Break finds an alternative to the jaws of life. "Oh no you don't." he shouts, before Axion flares to life again.

    <PEITSCHENKABEL FORM.> it notes before Riventon's throwing a line of ink-black energy that lashes through the air like a dangerous ribbon towards Cures La Mer and Break.

    Break steps in front of the mercure, throwing up his hand and calling out "Lightning...." before the energy line grabs onto his hand, causing him to cry out in pained shock - before Riventon wrenches the gauntlet back and the whipline HURLS Cure Break away from the truck and into the side of a nearby building with rather vicious results.

    "ONE DOWN, WHO'S NEXT. Get away from MY TRUCK." Yes, he's moved past the donuts and the magic item to also claim onwership of the truck itself. Cure LaMer and Sailor Moon both will probably need to avoid or stop the lashing whipline of energy unless they want to join the same sudden airlift club as Cure Break.

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima is angry.

"It belongs to us. We won't let you keep it!" she yells as she gets shot at by Amy and Cure La Mer, tanking and distracting for Riventon. This is her job, right? Right. So that's what she's gonna do. Be a big loud mean angry dangerous distraction.

Taking the hits she starts to look ragged as she seethes a little under the skin, getting angry enough now as he LUNGES for Cure La Mer and what is she trying to do?

Just grab her. and energy drain, Just hold on for dear life and drain her of her life energy as she screeches.

"GO AWAY!" she yells.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    The smoke has blown away at this point. Amy hears someone get slammed, glances over, sees Cure Break, her eyes follow the ribbon back to Riventon. "Hey!" She's suddenly holding a larger, two-handed launcher which fires a minimissile at him, no explosive, it just tries to push him away, but before she can add more, Norie is tackling La Mer and Amy divides her attention, ineffectually trying to attack both of them as turns again and runs over to La Mer and Norie, swinging the launcher at her like a club to try and get her to turn into smoke. "Hey! Hey! No! Bad vampire, bad! Let her go! How can she go away when you're grabbing her?!"

Laura La Mer has posed:
"I... Eh?" La Mer murmurs when her hand is gently removed. That is really somewhat weird. Were they not fighting each other? What is this about? "Pardon you? Sure. Do a handstand. Then walk back to Obsidian that way", she shakes herself off the surprise, scoffing at his out of place politeness.

She does manage to dodge the energy whip when it comes hurling at her moving below it, then going back upright to throw Riventon a punch. "We have good odds to get them to use those credit cards for us then", Laura smiles at Sailor Moon jokingly.

Of course, the attempt at a punch doesn't go very well with La Crima lunging at her just trying to do nothing but hold onto her, the effects of which Laura doesn't know. Still nothing good, obviously, as she gives up on the punch and dodges by jumping onto the truck.

"Marine Heart Swirl Ring! Charm Up!", she smiles, as she stretches her arm upwards, a blue sphere engulfing her from the ring on her arm and making her change form. "Five powers, roar through the seas!", she shouts, the ring creating a blue heart above her from which a bioluminescent whale comes out. Jumping inside of its mouth, La Mer swims in it, sending the purifying whale crashing against La Crima. "Pretty Cure Marine Beat Dynamic!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Okay, well, I won't blame you then," Sailor Moon says, in a tone that promises someone is getting blamed. She gives the boy a once over, and adds, "Hey, my fiancé is a healer, I'll introduce you to him when this is over!"

Right then, Laura smacks into the side of the truck, and Sailor Moon rushes to help her up -

"Cure La Mer! Are you okay?!" Right as Cure Break tears the door off the hinges and steps in front to protect the two of them, and gets instantly whipped away and into a building. Yeowwwwch.

There's not many places to go, except into the truck, so Sailor Moon dives into the truck itself, crashing into the pile of boxes and the other side of the truck. The whipline of energy crackles and sizzles behind her, and she yelps from the collision, feeling around frantically until she feels it - a wooden box. Hugging it to her chest, she turns to tell La Mer to get in and when she sees La Crima lunging for her, she worries - but Laura is able to get herself out of the way, so Sailor Moon focuses on scrambling for the passenger side of the truck, hoping to get out before Riventon decides to come in after her.

"La Mer-chan, if you can get Riventon to pay for donuts, I'll buy you the best ice cream in Tokyo," and consider that a promise!

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"On *no you don't!*" Rashmi shouts, as Sailor Moon dives into the truck.

    << *BONG!* >> << SOLAR SHIELD >>

Right on Sailor Moon's heels, a disc of golden light forms, blocking off the back of the van. "Riventon *seriously why are you like this?!*"

    << *BONG!* >> << SOLAR BARRAGE -- BLAZE SHIFT >>

Eight Barrets form around her, then are fired and resummoned one after the other after the other, turning into a machine-gun of golden, non-lethal mana. "ALSO YOU REALLY WANT TO BACK UP BECAUSE IT'S JUST ME AND A *CURE,* AND THEY CAN'T NOT PURIFY!"

Takashi Agera has posed:
    The box itself isn't hard to find - it's not like they even bothered to hide it -in- a donut box, just threw it in with a bunch of empty ones. So Sailor Moon has no problem clutching the wooden box to her chest as she crawls up to the passenger seat.

    Outside some of Riventon's attempts to repeat the yeet are disrupted by Sailor Moon diving in the truck, with a shield up behind her, and La Mer jumping inside a giant whale of purification. Oh, Riventon does not like purification magic. Even if it's in cute whale form. And while he's processing that he gets blown somewhat clear out of the area by Amy's rocket blast.

     It also doesn't help when he's also having to put up several shields to block Rashmi's incessant barret barrage. "You have something I want." he says, like that is enough to explain literally everything he's ever done, as he continues trying to move forward despite being blocked off by the barrets - but the whale does make him take a bigger jump BACK."Why are YOU like this? It's not your donuts, it's not your van, it's not your magic stuff. It's something you have as much claim to as I do." he yells. "You've been hanging out with Chrono too much, you think everything's your problem, your jurisidiction."

    Admittedly, the fact that there are no donuts in the truck does slightly taper his enthusiasm, particularly as his stomach grumbles. "Give me the thing in the wooden box and I'll treat us all to donuts. It'll be the wildest cosplay crew wherever we go has ever seen." he offers, rising higher up into the air to try to get a better angle on things. It's not working, partly because things keep disrupting his focus. hings like being hungry.

Norie Okana has posed:
Lacrima is trying to find purchase on Cure La Mer, trying to grab her, but Cure La Mer dodges away, meaning she swipes air, and her hands turn into misty dark claws as she suddenly RAKES it through the ground, flinging dirt and debris through the air. "I'll swallow your soul...!" she yells at Cure La Mer.

But suddenly... giant, purifying air whale!?

This impacts Lacrima, who is sent SCREEEEEECHING animalistically away as her form dissipates and turns into black mist, as she groans and flats there in the air, slack a bit as she shakes it off.

"//UGH I HATE IT HERE!//" she says angrily as she yells. "RIVENTON I'M SORRY BUT I'M USELESS NOW. I'M TACTICALLY RETREATING!" she yells as she dusk ports away.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Making it out of the truck, Sailor Moon looks around, grimacing when she realizes her best bet for getting away with The Box is going to be to just flat out run. Great.

She might have spent a year and change as a Mahou, but a runner she is not. That's Naru's thing. Why isn't Naru here to do this when she needs her, huh?

"I'd take you on that," she calls from the other side of the truck, slightly hidden from sight. "But that pretty boy died for this, so I've gotta fulfill his last wish!"

(Author's Note: Dear Reader, Cure Break is not dead. The side of good just has jokes too.)

Words given, she takes a running start, and leaps up to the nearest two story building, trying to get a head start on a breakneck run away from here.

She brings her wrist communicator to her lips, <<I've got the thing, I'm booking it! Don't waste energy if you don't have to, hit the bricks!>>

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Okay, La Mer dodged and Amy was able to focus on pushing Riventon away after all, although she does stop and stare as Cure La Mer just freaking does a Final Fantasy (7-10)-era summon animation in real life. (Wasn't there even an obscure whale one in 9?)

    Amy is slightly less sure this isn't a dream.

    She winces as Norie gets misted though. Poor girl. Hopefully they can find a way to help her not be made of dark energy someday!

    Amy re-aims her weapon at Riventon. "It's not YOUR stuff either! And being heroes does kinda make it our business when magic stuff happens! There isn't some... magic authority in charge of any of this!"

    "You don't even know what the thing is!" She screams, a bit more exasperated than she means to sound due to lack of sleep. "You're just like! There's a thing! I want the thing! And it is way too early for me to come up with a justice speech, but as a villain you've got to at least understand: We outnumber you right now! Doesn't us having more strength mean its ours by right by villain logic???"

    Amy doesn't book it until the others -- including Cure Break! -- are all clearing out too, only then leaping up to rooftops and running after Sailor Moon. She does shout to Rashmi though: "Can't you make her fly?!"

Rashmi Terios has posed:
Watching La Crima eat a purifying whale, Rashmi cringes, knowing well *what* that will do to the poor vampire. Indeed, it's purely a *relief* that she decides to back off now. And as Riventon rises to get a better angle on the van, Rashmi rises to match, to hold his fragmented attention. "Maybe," she says, managing a crooked smile. "But somethings *are* my jurisdiction. Like the person I swore I'd help... that *you* need to help, too. Which won't happen if you're not able to *finish what you started,* Riventon. C'mon. Just this once, look to a farther goal than 'the thing.'"

And then Amy reminds Rashmi about flight spells, and she looks over her shoulder, breaking focus for a moment. "Yeah, but they're also really bad for hiding! And I've seen her jump!"

Hey, if Riventon wants to vent frustration, this would be a good time to do so.

Laura La Mer has posed:
Well, maybe not really a thing she can achieve, but Sailor Moon's promise certainly makes it more enticing. Maybe she could threaten him with her whale? It's not Riventon's first rodeo with purification, but that's a big whale still. And there are 4 mahous in total here.

"Difference is we aren't trying to claim it for ourselves, but I am sure you are smart enough to know that already", La Mer smiles after the whale does its job and disappear, leaving her back on solid ground.

Plus, Rashmi's affirmation about Cure purification would have stressed the fact he is by himself, so he doesn't have much choice unless he feels up to task. Even if for some reason, it seems he is ruining his own job. That's what Laura has gotten from the Page Mage's observation, at least.

"Well, see you when you are trying to steal again then", Laura says, jumping after the others in random zigzag movements to reduce the risks of getting struck from afar.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Riventon -does- want to vent frustration, but it's not of the blasting kind. He winces, visibly, when the attack hits Lacrima, and she backs off, and Riventon can count - especially with Sailor Moon running off with the box - and knows this one probably isn't coming up a win for him. Especially not when he's still hungry, which is a statement his stomach makes loudly enough Rashmi can har it.

    "You know, I bet you don't know what they're transporting either, and I promise, nothing that they move this secretly in this many parts is good news for me." he notes. "Or Lacrima. We're doing our best to survive surrounded by crazies on both sides." he adds. As though he is not a crazy on any side. "You don't break something into peices and ship it in parts because it's the happy sounds boombox of friendship... I guarantee you that thing's a weapon." he continues. "You can wear all the bright clothes and make all of the happy speeches and everything, but if we were transporting something that you thought was dangerous magic back to Obsidian Tower, you'd interrupt us too." he adds.

    Then his stomach grumbles mid-monologue. "Apparently, though, I have to go find some donuts." This is his declaration of leaving, as the Mahou jump off into the sunrise and Riventon duskports back out to go find donuts (as opposed to It's Donut!)

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon is indeed better able to hide while running and jumping than she would be while flying. Sure, she's clumsy - she nearly stumbles and trips and pinwheels multiple times on her race away - but she's also able to duck behind billboards and air conditioning units, putting space and distance between herself.

<<Is Riventon still talking about this being his thing? Because I can't hear him from this far away but this is definitely not his thing, it's another one of those things 'Suna and Kyouka-sensei asked us to help escort, the dummy in charge decided to move this one without help. That's what the maybe dead boy said anyway.>>

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Cure Break staggers slowly out of a building to protest to... basically nobody. "I'M NOT DEAD." he says, kicking a chunk of rock. Well, at least the girls had the goods and the jerk was floating away. "Told them we shouldn't have tried to do this alone anyways."

Rashmi Terios has posed:
Loosing a long, relieved sigh as Riventon duskports away, Rashmi sags in the air for a moment... then jerks toward the sound of shifting rubble, and soars to aid the purple-haired magical breakdancer! "Hi! Need a lift back? Also a little healing? Because *wow* I don't know if you noticed but you got some *distance.*"

Laura La Mer has posed:
With no wrist communicator, Laura only knows that package was headed towards the Academy, and that's the mermaid's own direction to conclude this out of nowhere mail expedition in case she loses Sailor Moon's trail. That was all she knew about the whole situation, too. At least she doesn't have to worry about getting hit from behind with Riventon no longer there.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Rashmi's heading over to get the guy, so Amy runs off after Sailor Moon. <<"Who is Suna? What is this all about? What is even going on?! ...Sorry, I'm cranky, I uh, didn't get any sleep last night... are you running to Radiant Heart from here? Would it make more sense to go to Pearl Pier? It's closer.">> Beat. <<"Did anyone tell you we have a hotel as an additional base of operations in Yumegahama? Or at least an outpost of operations.">>

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
<<Setsuna! Setsuna Meiou, the nurse. I mean no one told me about this one, I was just doing a patrol and wanted donuts, but this wooden box looks just like the one Mamochan snatched for us when Kyouka-sensei sent us to move a piece at an airport a while back. And I know Suna told me she'd be gathering a team too, so ->>

She's abotu to ask what Pearl Pier is, but Amy explains. <<Nope, no one told me about that! But yeah I'm running to the school. It's fine! It's pretty fast by rooftop and I want this thing in the Principal's hands and not mine as soon as possible. What is it with me ending up with crazy powerful things lately...>>

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Morning, why must you be so looong? Especially when you are kind of part of the last night. Amy continues the communicator conversation, <<"Why were you on patrol this early, in Yumegahama...? No, nevermind, so wait, the Principal? She knows about magic? ...Does this mean we're going to get to meet her and talk to her about... I don't know, it seems like there is probably something we should talk about but I can barely think right now.">>

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Cure Break shakes his head. "Nah, I'm going to be okay. I'm a Pretty Cure, I'm kind of used to it." he admits. And then rubs the back of his head. "I need to go back and pick up the guy who was with me. He's probably having a heart attack about it. As long as the box gets to the school we're good. I'll... have to explain some stuff anyways. But thank you." the boy says. And he gives Rashmi a sort of salute and smile before he starts jumping off in the direction he came from.