2013-09-25 - Battle in the Arcade! What Is Our Secret Past Together?
| Battle in the Arcade! What Is Our Secret Past Together? | |
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| Summary: In Episode Two of the Perfume Splash! anime the Magical Girls fight Dark Amber in the arcade! | |
| Who: Sakura Akagi, Madobe Kuroi, Tokiko Amagawa, Kinzo Hiroyuki, Fuu Hououji, Midori Sugiura, Nanoha Takamachi, Minako Aino, Alyce Ducati, Nadeshiko Fujisaki, Raikari Shinkyou | |
| Where: Shitimachi Low City - Game Center Crown | |
| OOC - IC Date: 9/25/2013 / 9/29/2013 | |
(Battle Fantasia - Thursday, September 26, 2013)
It was a totally ordinary day at school today.
Totally Ordinary Day!
Sakura waved to Madobe like normal. They both went to their seperate classes. They sat in the backs like they do.
At lunchtime, Sakura usually has a very cute lunch. She's taking it outside to sit under a tree to sit. She thinks though it's very likely Madobe will seek her out.
Totally. Ordinary. Day!
Madobe waved to Sakura alike normal. They went to their classes. They sat in the backs. Why, it's like nothing even happened! And really, seeking Sakura out at lunch isn't very unusual for her either. So when Madobe shows up at the tree, carrying her own boxed lunch (she put a little too much rice in there), it's not really a surprise persay.
"H...hey Sakura-Chan." Madobe says, smiling at her. "Um. Can I join you?" She glances aside a bit.
"Mm-hm," says Sakura. She looks serious for a moment... but when she looks up, her eyes beam.
She has little slices of pepper cut into the shapes of flowers in her lunch, and strawberry hearts, along with pickles and rice balls. "How are you feeling today, is everything going all right now?"
This is actually the first time in a while where Madobe has been having a private chat with Sakura. The other times Sakura was around, sure, but there was always at least a couple other people present. Or monsters. "Um. The bite didn't seem poisonous after all. I'm okay." There is a small pause after. "Ah!--That is...You're...Japanese Cherry Blossom, right? And I'm...I'm 'Sweet Pea'? And magic is real? Actual magic is actually real?" She can't help but sound a bit excited. The idea of the Apothecary hasn't really settled. She hasn't recovered much of her memory as of yet.
Sakura blushes.
She glances at her lunch and at Madobe, but smiles again, a bit more weakly. "I don't think we can talk about this in public too much. The magic is a big secret. But yes. When you mentioned the magical play that you saw, that's why I was so embarassed. I've been fighting... those creatures, but that was the first time one of them was so bold. It must have smelled your perfume too."
"It was pretty scary.." Madobe admits. Though of course it might be strange she only says 'pretty' scary, Madobe doesn't find 'being killed' or 'assaulted by snakes' to be the most frightening things that could happen. She could be ostracized by her class! Now /that's/ scary.
"Oh--oh about that. The 'Soldier Angel'..? I met her again. She mentioned um--'The Tuners'...? She says she can help new--"
It hits her. "...How long have you been doing this?" She frowns, worried. This secret life of hers--has Sakura really been that amazing all the while?
Sakura says, "Since late spring. During the festival. When the trees were in bloom. I found the perfume..." She swallows, looking down and picking at her food. "It was bought for me, actually. I couldn't believe it really happened, so I've kept it a secret. I hope you don't think that I was lying to you about something. I just didn't want my friends to be in danger from this."
Sakura's words, in a way, shame Madobe. She's thinking about how cool it is to have magic. Especially perfume magic which, notably, now people say she smells nice. Or they do when she's Sweet Pea anyway. And even if that's like not saying Madobe smells nice, it's almost as good. Sakura is just worrying about her safety. And yeah, okay, she actually was feeling like SAkura was keeping this amazing life away from her but thinking it over, really, she was just trying to keep her safe. And she did come to help her and told her to watch out and--
"I wasn't thinking anything like that." She lies. "W..well... I mean, um..." She looks down at her hands. "...Um... well, maybe a little." She can't lie too easily to Sakura. And after thinking over it, she'd rather be a lot more like the nice, understanding Sweet Pea than, well, what she is. Maybe she can take a small step in that direction right now. "T-that is okay though. It was a lie to protect me right? Eheh.... I mean, that's the worst it could be, so it's not bad. Um. Maybe it's why I can talk to you so easily." Yep! This is the easy talking Madobe.
"So...we can do this together, now, right? I'm okay with being in danger." But not okay with being left behind, is unspoken.
Sakura nods. "Okay! I believe in you, little sis. If you were chosen by the perfume it must be our destiny to fight. So we'll do .... our best."
She pauses. "There will be others though. Other monsters and other girls too. Who is the Solider Angel that you met?"
Madobe hadn't mentioned the 'sister' part. Maybe she didn't remember it yet. Or, more likely, she didn't know if /Sakura/ remembered it and didn't want to make things awkward. Unsurprisingly, she doesn't go in for a squoz either way, though she does scooch a little closer when it's mentioned. It might even be a bit unconscious (definitely kind of adorable though).
"Um, she's like--a member of the military, I guess? She had a howitzer. She was looking for a star that was locked in a crate." Madobe makes a face as if this is rather a strange idea to her.
Not as straightforward and easy to comprehend as a Perfume Kingdom.
"She seems...nice... And experienced. I have her cellphone number. Do you want it?" It's cool her magical cellphone is her normal cellphone just magicked up so it still has the numbers. The producers thought ahead about this!
"Okay. That... might be good. I guess... Japanese Cherry Blossom should be the one who calls her." Sakura lowers her voice a little.
Madobe nods a bit. "She doesn't know who I am either. She didn't recognize me. She..."
She takes in a sharp breath and leans in, very quietly.
"She mentioned wanting to set up a 'snack time'..."
"Oh, she saw you in your changed form. Okay. Snack time." Sakura stabs a piece of pepper in her lunch, grabbing it almost forcefully with the chopsticks, then chewing thoughtfully as she eats it.
"Snack...time..." Madobe whispers. "And she said there wouldn't be too many people." Well not precisely, she said she 'tried' to get people to come and Madobe inferred there wouldn't be too many people. Some tuners are /above/ snack time but Madobe is not above snack time.
There are levels of irony in Madobe /trying/ to go to a social event but it's probably because she can go as Sweet Pea and not as, say, Madobe.
Sakura nods. "Okay. Cherry Blossom will give her a call. We'll see what they have to say-- and ... if they're good cooks. Let's not be afraid --"
Sakura says this because it's obviously scary.
Madobe presumes Sakura means the snack meeting might be scary. She swallows nervously and then says, "Right, Um. I won't. Um." She says. "Big...sister?"
It really isn't so much the snack meeting, as the-- fighting horrible creatures thing.
But that makes her smile. She nods.
She then gives Madobe a small hug - one arm. The slightly rarer Sakura hug.
Then she realizes that it's almost time for class again!
And so the day...was kept cute.
Thanks to...THE PERFUME SPLASH GIRLS!
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(Battle Fantasia - Sunday, September 29, 2013)
It's sunday, late in the day. the Game Center Crown is bustling with Activity, as kids try to get those last arcade games and vs. battles in before the horribleness of school tommrow, looming like some sort of shadow beast in the future, rawr!
There's some Street Fighter-styled Toruney going on, some folks trying to beat each other in a DDR match, and some kids playing some sort of skeeball styled game. There's quite a few people in the wings, eating sweety, sticky desserts and drinks from the attached 'Fruits Parlor Crown'.
Kinzo knows that this is the busiest time of the week, a bunch of young peoples, little adult supervision, it's perfect, he considers, as a 'test' of sorts. What bad memories he may aquire aren't important, just that it works. He can perfect it later.
He arrives, initally, into the back alley, away from prying eyes. He pulls out a bottle of dark brown colonge from his pocket and looks at it for a good few moments as he considers.... No regrets! This is important.
"Henshin! Dark Amber Spritz!" he exlciams as there's a large, flowerly cloud of deep, heady scent, and then a wind blowing it all out as 'Dark Amber' takes Kinzo's place. He looks up a moment as he jumps up, and into the air and opens an upper window.
He walks along the upper rafters of the Arcade, he can se below--- hidden by various toys and hangings in the air and the lack of lighting above. He takes a deep breath as he jumps down from the rafters onto the top of some older arcade machine. This may turn the heads of a few folks who are not immediatly buried into a video game.
"DARK AMBER DREAM!" he exclaims out as two billowing clouds flow from his hands, filling the room. Time begins to slow down. Considerably for a lot of the NPCS in the room, and outright stops. For the magically inclinded, or otherwise powered PCs, things just seem to slow down a lot for a bit before returning to normal....besides the layer of brown haze that's filled the room giving everything around it a deep sepia tone.
This is probably not the act of someone intending to help anyone.
Madobe Kuroi goes to the arcade, like, all the time. It's not really unexpected for her to be there for no reason related to Kinzo's NEFARIOUS scheme. In fact, she's lining up to go do a DDR match, naturally avoiding looking at anybody in particular. She has used up a lot of her conversation slots for today.
She sniffs faintly. That scent--that's familiar. It's...Dark Amber!
She draws out her cellphone quickly. She sends a quick pair of texts to Sakura and Tokiko.
MADOBE KUROI: Possible danger at the arcade!
And of course once the dark clouds fill out the room she ducks behind an arcade machine to add the following message: 'It's an attack!'.
She puts her cellphone away quickly, though, to draw out her own perfume bottle--a bright multicolored bottle of Sweet Pea Perfume!
"Henshin! Sweet Pea! Splash!" She's only shouting because it's part of her transformation sequence. She was actually trying to be quiet.
One stock footage later, Madobe is pinked up and ready for battle, her own perfume protecting her from the brown haze.
She stands herself up and points a finger at Dark Amber.
"Dark Amber! What are you doing here?"
She's making demands in an attempt to stall.
TOKIKO AMAGAWA (@yamato1gou): i'm on my way! hold on
Tokiko Amagawa does not, in fact, go to the arcade often at all. She does, however, happen to live relatively close by, and the power she is able to call upon does the rest. She leaps out of her bedroom window, shimmering with golden light as she falls. "Fall in!" she calls out, and the Soldier Angel is on the march.
Sweet Pea is stalling - she'll need that. Hopefully this Dark Amber fellow responds with a good, long declaration of intention, because that's about as much time as it will take before a golden rifle-butt smashes in the window of the entrance door, and a middle-school girl in a white military officer's uniform sweeps in over the broken glass, levelling her battle rifle at whoever Sweet Pea seems to be staring down. "Entering the situation zone, Starry Soldier Angel! Abort this operation or I /will/ open fire!"
Midori Sugiura did like game she loved video games and did come here once and a while to play, she'd even drag some of her friends from university with her. Today she'd come alone just come to relax after a busy week and have some fun right? That's what the games were about. This was not to be and she actually gets this look on her face it's not discounting the danger it's more of a, Im never going to get a break look. SO here she goes again she looks normal enough just an adult here for some gaming perhaps. She wonders why things had slow down for a moment then get back to normal. then the strange haze gets her attention she stares for a moment holds out her hand and a ball of light bursts out of the ground and forms into her Labrys forms in her hand.
"I am the HiME of Wind, state your intent!"
Nanoha Takamachi isn't exactly an 'arcade' kind of girl. But it's a Sunday, there's no school, and after some fun time spent with friends, the little redhead was about to call it a day and head home, deal with chores and homework- and then get in some magic practice. All in all a good day, and she was actually on her way OUT of the arcade when something started to seem amiss. It might have been the odd way everything slowed down, just then, motions left hanging and eventually set on pause entirely, as everything turns the amber-white tones of Old Time photos. "H-huh?" <WARNING. MAGICAL DISTURBANCE.> the red gem on her necklace suddenly chimes. Well that has her attention instantly. Glancing about quickly, and-- spots Tokiko. Or Soldier Angel, that is, smashing in through the door Nanoha was just about to leave from. "Awuh..." <DON'T FORGET TO PUT ON THE BARRIER JACKET.> "--Oh right! Um. Set up!" <BARRIER JACKET: SETUP.> A flash of pink and Nanoha is clad in the white-blue and gold of her armored dress, Raising Heart clasped in hand. Looks like she's gonna help! "Aheheh... Hi again." Awkward. Well. May as well try and make sense of all this. "Excuuuuuse meeeee!" Nanoha calls up to 'Dark Amber', to whom the others are directing their attention- ans threats. "You're kind of causing a disturbance... Is there a reason you're doing this?" She may as well start by asking nicely.
Minako Aino is having a rough day in her opinion. She's trying to recover from it while slouched down in a booth upstairs in the snack parlor. She's been playing games and drinking strawberry cheesecake shakes ('cheeseshakes') pretty much non-stop on her day off and is now paying the consequences.
Eventually, she hears the commotion downstairs and ignores it as the few other patrons do, occasionally commenting sardonically about how the silly tournament boys can't behave once she hears what she thinks is glass breaking, she does stomp to the top of the stairs and shouts something down (mostly so she has a presence amongst the popular kids down there) but only now realizes something funny is going down when she takes a sniff and realizes it's not the semi-pleasant smell of snacks, sweets, and electricity.
The concept of an arcade-- a game center-- is nothing new to Alyce, even if she's quite literally from another planet. What does boggle her is how the games seem to be so... manual. Direct. And of course, as much as she would never outright admit it, she ... likes them. Or, at least, the games that fetch rewards and prizes, such as crane games and the like. Hands in her pockets as she looks up at the sky, she thinks about what would happen if anyone she knew caught her holding a fuzzy toy prize from a catcher.
If anyone asks, she can just say she won them for Nanoha.
The Master Sergeant has yet to make it to the entrance before she hears the familiar voice of her Intelligent Device, the crystal shining brightly.
<SITUATION.>
Not even aware that the baker's daughter and trainee mage is at the gaming center, she makes quick time to the arcade as someone with a rifle goes busting inside and as it becomes clear that there are a /lot/ of people here with magical ability.
"Silver Wind, set up!"
<STERLING COAT.>
Alyce's body is surrounded by a rippling silver-blue pattern that runs down over her body from head to toe. Clad in her Barrier Jacket in a matter of seconds, her hand extends to her side with a stout mechanical wand extending to the full shape of a staff. Lunging around the corner and into the entrance, she catches sight of the scene, of the perpetrator, and of--
"-- Nanoha?!"
Nadeshiko Fujisaki is not...actually, a regular here, despite the fact that she's been here twice in a week. The reasons are somewhat complicated and mostly come down to 'Yaya Yuiki.' Nadeshiko was actually a few shops down, looking over some flower arrangements for an upcoming Ohtori event, when...Temari whispered into her ear that something was Amiss. Something was wrong nearby, and it felt a few stores down. X-Egg? No, nothing like that...probably worse?
Another demon...? Also probably not. Hopefully.
That important exchange established, Nadeshiko offered a smile to the shopkeeper, excused herself quickly ("I have to go fetch something, I just remembered; I'll be back!") and then jogs down the street. Already, there's people showing up; magical girls, she reasons. She doesn't /have/ to act on this, and yet...
It would be unbecoming of a Guardian to shy away from evil!
"Temari!" she hisses. "Chara Change!"
"Of course!" Temari chimes back, and produces her elegant little fan, waving it delicately over Nadeshiko's head. "Chin~! Ton~! Shan~!"
And that's why an 11 year old girl in a fancy plaid cloak, black hair up in a long ponytail and wielding a naginata, suddenly smashes down one of the few surviving windows, and stomps in with her teeth grit and her eyes wide, slamming the heel of her naginata into the tile enough to crack it.
"A'right what the heck is this about!? You mugs better not be hurtin' nobody! And where'd all the color go!? You aren't stealing color, are ya?! We're usin' that, put it back where ya found it 'fore I slice ya real fine!!"
Reminders: This person is a delicate-looking 11 year old girl, other than the slightly terrifying grin.
Dark Amber was expecting to be taking out a few magical, memory stealing colonge bottles and start stealing memories.
INSTEAD, a few of these people are not affected, and not running away scared. This is a problem. It's a major problem. Sweet Pea directly addresses him. He frowns as he looks down upon his Arcade unit perch. Then a few others start making demands. He says pointedly to the Soilder Angel. "I will not." it's very curt sounding.
He looks back down to Sweet Pea and Nanoha. "Bad memories should not be allowed to thrive. I will take them. By force. You would wish to stop this?" he asks. He listens to Nadeshiko ranting. He ignores it.
"Very well." he says as he brings his arms up, translucent Amber blades slide out of thier wrist mounts as he swings them downwards...they seek around the frozen children in the arcade and they hone in on Sweet Pea, attempting to strike her with the blades. Those chains the blades at attached to seem extraordinarly long!
"I'm afraid I can't allow that either," declares the Magic Knight of Wind as Fuu slides back out from the corner she concealed herself in to transform. "Good or bad, memories are part of us, shaping who we were yesterday into who we are today. A traumatic memory can spur someone on to do greater good in the future, so nobody suffers the same harm that someone who endured it did." She glances around briefly; confined spaces like the interior of the arcade aren't good for her methods of combat.
But then, she's also a very versatile fighter when it comes to her wind magic, and if mobility is going to be the problem ...
"Imashime no Kaze!!" (Winds of Admonishment)
A swirling gust of wind leaves Fuu's outstretched hands, flying at Dark Amber and trying to wrap around him - to severely impede his movements. Ideally it would immobilize him completely ... but as long as it at least slows him down, Fuu won't complain.
And here comes the calvary. It didn't take long for other people to show up now did it? Raikari grips the Virtualizer tightly as she pushes herself back to her feet, thumbs the main button and holds it over her head. Everyone is either slowed to a stop or already moving in on the monster, so no one is going to see this as long as she stays in the corner, right?"POWER ON!"
A flash of the same code energy briefly illuminates in the dark fog, but thankfully obscuring the actual transformation. Then Reflective Sentry Kagami jumps out into the open, leveling her polearm at the ready in front of her. "Okay, where's the monster trying to ruin the day of relaxing at the arcade?!" Her visor pulses a few times with a faint glow, trying to accomidate for the obscuring smokiness.
Under normal conditions, Soldier Angel might say something about how memories are precious things, or maybe something about galactic law. But that side of thing seems to be pretty well covered, and besides, she notices - Nanoha Takamachi is here, she just passed by her! Soldier Angel reaches back and pulls an arm around the younger girl's shoulder, and leads her forward in a defensive strafe, her right hand on the trigger of her battle rifle. A wide spray of golden fire erupts from the rifle's barrel, and fortunately enough, it doesn't seem to hurt any of the patrons or damage any of the machines it passes through - though some of the latter do glitch out a bit. Good time for a high score?
Soldier Angel leads Nanoha behind a wide driving game booth, dropping to a crouch and loading a new clip into her rifle. "Hi again," she whispers back with a smile. "Always claim a strong defensive position. Do you want me to call you something besides your name here, did you decide to use a magical girl name?"
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has used Angel Arms on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Tokiko Amagawa's Angel Arms, taking 17 Fatigue damage!
Sakura Akagi is on her way home when she hears her phone buzz.
She sees a message, from Madobe. It looks like this probably isn't a job for Sakura, though. It's probably a job for...
She goes to a secluded alley, reaches into her little pocketbook, and pulls out a red vial of perfume. Sakura takes a big breath.
"Henshin! Cherry Blossom! Splash!"
The cap flies off the vial, spinning away. Her hand grips around the perfume bottle, and she sprays it toward herself as her body begins to glow in white and gold. First she sprays downward, in a diagonal stroke from shoulder to hip; the spray becomes the collar of a dress. Then she sprays across her waist, which creates an obi sash in brilliant gold. The sash ties itself around her back, in a perfect bow. A short skirt appears under the sash, silk and decorated with cherry blossoms. The dress sprouts sleeves, long and elegant. Then shoes appear on her feet: sandals, with long socks underneath that ride up her legs and stop below the knee.
She spritzes the perfume toward her hair, and her hair changes from dark to light pink. Teardrop earrings appear on her ears, and, finally, the cap of the perfume reappears, spinning into place, returning now as a flower clip that holds her hairstyle.
She slips the perfume into a pocket on her sash, and races toward the Game Center.
She just hopes she can make it in time!
Sweet Pea stares Dark Amber dead on! Okay her knees are shaking a little, but she is actually looking at him which is about 1,000 times more confidence than Madobe usually exhibits. "Bad memories--" She does some posing. "--Make us who we are! All memories are precious!"
Off to the side naginata girl shows up, talking like a virtuous mobster.
Sweet Pea looks at her for a few moments, distracted--and--that girl!? That's that other girl who was with--
Before she can say anything to Nanoha, Dark Amber is attacking! She steps forward, thinking Dark Amber is attacking teh chilluns before they suddenly swerve to slam into her. She fires off a quick pistol shot at Dark Amber in retaliation, a flower erupting where the pink blast hits!
She stumbles back, though, having taken a hit from the exchange. She breathes out, noticing that Tokiko has arrived! She breathes a sigh of relief. With Tokiko here, this might not be too tough! Of course, she hadn't really thought about the possibility of her howitzer hurting the arcade games. She'll--worr about that when it happens, it seems. Hopefully Cherry Blossom will be here soon. It is always a little tough going into battle without the Cherry Blossom Sorceress!
"I won't make it easy on you!" She shouts back, swinging both pistols forward and firing a quick barrage of shots for Kinzo!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has used Sweet Pea Strike on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki perfectly counters Madobe Kuroi's Sweet Pea Strike, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, Amber Blade Toss, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Madobe Kuroi!
Oh.
He ignored her.
Most people who have seen Temari would expect the little shoulder fairy to, at this point, offer delicate advice, like perhaps how to properly not break windows with your sword on a stick please.
What actually happens is Temari, eyes narrowed threateningly, looms over Nadeshiko's shoulder, and rolls up her sleeves. "That guy's not even listening! You gonna take that!? Of course you're not gonna! YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!"
Temari then makes herself scarce while the fighting happens because she is a delicate flower who abhors violence.
Nadeshiko, then, steps back with one leg and sets her naginata, and...
"People need their memories, fool!" she declares, and adds, "OOOORRYAAAAA!" and--are Naginata supposed to be throwing weapons? Because she pitches it so hard there's a visible shockwave of air around its passing, blade gleaming maliciously.
If it does not actually hit Dark Amber what it is going to do is crater the far wall inward, and stick out comically. If it does hit him it will probably hurt a whole lot, but not eviscerate him, because sharp objects are very blunt around here.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi transforms into Japanese Cherry Blossom!
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki has used Naginata Throw on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki has finished attacking.
Midori Sugiura should not call her Child in a place like this, there would be too much risk for somthing to go wrong, so here she goes. She frowns a bit at his reply to her and she shakes her ehad.
"If this how you wish to do it then I will not hold back."
Midori is now already moving in ziping in and about the frozen arcade goers. Even as she does so she notices Rakari's transformed form again.
"So we meet again, and no we can't seem to get a day off can we?"
Away she goes trying to get in close to the one who cause this? What was his deal? She had no idea but she had a feeling she might find out sooner or later. She makes a quick strike with her element as she attemps to dash by him.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly dodges Nadeshiko Fujisaki's Naginata Throw, taking 21 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Kinzo Hiroyuki is Quipped! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has used Element Swipe on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.
Yet again, Nanoha finds herself in a situation that is completely over her head. Clutching her Device in both hands, her attention is nabbed by the call of her name and. "--Ah. Eheh heeeh...~ Um! Hi again!"
Well yes, hello Alyce, Nanoha is here. But the child's lips purse. The clink of gauntlets against the metal haft of her Device sounds off lightly as she grips Raising Heart tighter. He's... Doing what?
"But... You can't just take away people's memories. Even the bad ones, without them th- awawawawa!"
That is the sound of Soldier Angel nabbing Nanoha along. "Uwah!"
Finding herself scootched behind a game for cover, she's left with her hands on her kneess, puffing a quick breath or two as the more experienced Magical Girl imparts a tidbit of wisdom and tactics. "Hi! Um! I haven't thought of one yet!"
She most certainly has been doing her homework. But the staff in her hand chimes, the red gem glowing with a pink light as it speaks up.
<HE IS HOSTILE. MAY I SUGGEST A COURSE OF ACTION?>
"Sure?"
<SHOOT HIM.>
"..."
<IN STUN SETTING.>
"-Oh right! Uh... Magical... Lyrical... ..." ... "Umm." How did tha incantation g-
<SHOOT THE BULLET!>
It would seem that the Device is fine with eschewing an incantation in favor of summoning a pink sphere of light, swerving itself out from behind cover and launching at Dark Amber . COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi has used Shoot Barret on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly dodges Midori Sugiura's Element Swipe, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!
COMBAT: Minako Aino transforms into Sailor V!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to counter Nanoha Takamachi's Shoot Barret, taking 12 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, Binding Amber Chain, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Nanoha Takamachi!
Tokiko swings an arm around Nanoha. Before she can say much or do much, the girl is off to one side while others start the bombardment on Dark Amber. Blasts, chains, and gunfire seem a little excessive to her within an enclosed space, but... ghh. If only she had more jurisdiction in this town, more say-so without having to go through the Association!
And Nadeshiko proves herself to be the most insane girl she has met in Japan, so far.
Hefting her staff and giving it a quick whirl, lettering that resembles English scrawls across the surface of the crystal. "Lock him down!" Alyce cries by the time the Device is held in a ready position, the length in both arms.
The Device's voice, deep, male, and with a thick accent resembling English, replies, <SILVER BIND.>
Motes of light shimmer into being to either side of Dark Amber-- high and low-- before they flicker and attempt to strike the villain along the arms and legs. Should they strike, they form arcane shackles that attempt to slow him down with each movement he makes!
COMBAT: Alyce Ducati has used Silver Bind on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Alyce Ducati has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki perfectly dodges Alyce Ducati's Silver Bind, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!
Sailor V has spent a good minute or two just spying from up the stairs, trying to figure out what all the racket is. While the usual arcade activities involve a sort of dull excitement spread about everybody, the current situation has a bunch of passive, almost motionless patrons lazing about with a few overly excited individuals duking it out - definitely not your usual night out.
Minako's rush upstairs to henshin is interrupted by patrons unaware of the nonsense downstairs, which she is careful not to give away so as to not draw anybody down there. She then dashes outside. Still too many people. Then around back.
Perfect!
A quick henshin later and she's inside (courteous Sailor V-chan always uses pre-broken windows, even if it's awkward climbing in while holding a drink).
"How dare you....... do whatever it is you're doing!" she announces, guessing and praying that Dark Amber is the one causing the trouble (or it's some weird magical girl gang beatdown, which seems unlikely) and chucking her drink in his general direction.
COMBAT: Minako Aino has used a strawberry cheeseshake on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Minako Aino has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly dodges Minako Aino's a strawberry cheeseshake, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!
Kinzo Hiroyuki eyes light up as someone spouts some magical speech---he's no magician, but he knows 'a spell' when he hears it and he attempts to lean up and fling a chain in it's caster's direction, but is heavily way too impaired at the moment now...
Which opens him easily for the Solider Angel to open fire with her rifle. shots impacting Dark Amber's impecable suit. It seems to act as some sort of weird armor of sorts. As Sweet Pea fires, he raises his blades to ward off the shots, they ricochet off the blades, before he throws them from thier mounts at Sweet Pea!--- they probably imbed into Arcade machines behind her. Nothing happens, yet, due to the effects of that weird sepia mist.
He attempts to move out of the way of Nadehiko's Kunai, but all the ...slowdown on him is making him less speedy than he normally is and those blades sort of force themselves into his suit. That hurts. /a lot/.
Which sets him up for Nanhona's blasts easily, and managing to roll to the right, to....get covered in Cheesecake Milkshake?
He hrmphs as he blasts off towards the ceiling. He hangs there for a moment, on his two feet, looking down at the crowd. He speaks directly to Nadeshiko, Nanoha and Madobe. "Bad memories make so much pain in this world." he says motioning to two kids, who are frozen in the middle of an argument. "That friendship will not last...over a simple game." he asides. He motions to a sad girl sitting with a melting milkshake looking bad. "Her father is sick. She's withdrawn from her friends.." he says.
He can smell JCB coming---he knows Sweet Pea can too. He launches down at the Mage. "That will be enough of that, Wizard." he snaps. Before throwing an array of blades in the Soilder Angel's direction.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Forget The Darkness! on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Forget The Darkness! on Nadeshiko Fujisaki.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Forget The Darkness! on Nanoha Takamachi.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Amber Slice on Fuu Hououji.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Amber Blade Toss on Tokiko Amagawa.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Raikari Shinkyou transforms into Sentry Kagami!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi fails to dodge Kinzo Hiroyuki's Forget The Darkness!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Madobe Kuroi is Quipped!
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji narrowly braces Kinzo Hiroyuki's Amber Slice, taking 8 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki narrowly dodges Kinzo Hiroyuki's Forget The Darkness!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Nadeshiko Fujisaki is Quipped! Nadeshiko Fujisaki's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa narrowly braces Kinzo Hiroyuki's Amber Blade Toss, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Tokiko Amagawa's Block ability activates! Tokiko Amagawa's Parry ability activates!
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa covers Nanoha Takamachi for Kinzo Hiroyuki's attack, Forget The Darkness!, taking it upon themselves instead!
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa fails to counter Kinzo Hiroyuki's Forget The Darkness!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Tokiko Amagawa is Quipped!
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa's counterattack, Remember the Light, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
Tracking.. tracking... Ahah, there he is! Finally her visor manages to pierce the weirdness enough to lock onto the guy everyone else is bearing down on. Including a few familiar faces.
Now she just needs to not screw up like she did last night, and everything will be ace.
"Reflective Sentry Kagami, here to lend a hand!" At least for someone like her a mistake like that is just more motivation to try harder, because she's not really the sort to give up easily. "We cross paths again," she adds as she darts past Midori, then plants her feet and spreads her virtual wings to launch herself off the ground, in order to clear the rest of the fighters on the ground and try to come down on top of the monster with her reinforced boots, much like a certain famous plumber would do.
Swords, is it? Fuu's blade materializes in a flash and she brings it up to parry Dark Amber's slash at her, straining a little against the slash - but managing, with some effort, to repel the attack. "Yes, they do make pain for people," she agrees. "But humans are strong enough to overcome that pain, recover from it, and grow past it. Those two may be angry with each other, but they'll remember how well they got along and they'll forgive each other. The girl who's sad will continue to cherish her father, and when he gets better, she'll be all the happier - and the friends she's withdrawn from will reach out to her."
Fuu advances after Dark Amber, launching a slash of her own. "And I'm not a wizard ... the correct term, in my case, is Magic Knight!"
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Sword Strike on Kinzo Hiroyuki. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking.
Yipes! Sweet Pea ducks, the amber slicers crashing into the machine behind her. She takes in a sharp breath--those poor arcade machines! Sob sob.The lecture, well, she listens to it, and she stalls for a moment. Maybe...he has...a...
WAIT IS THAT SAILOR V?!
Sweet Pea turns her back on Kinzo, eyes wide. "Wh--wh--It's Sailor V!" She points at her. "Oh my god!!" She says oh my god in english because the voice actors thought that would be funnier.
Rather than counter Kinzo's lecture, she jogs on over to Sailor V, eyes wide.
"Oh my gosh..." She says to her. "Are you really Sailor V? The /real/ Sailor V?" A blush ripples across Sweet Pea's features as she fishes into her pocket and withdraws...
A nintendo 3ds?
She flicks it open and holds it up so Minako can see. "I'm a big fan! I've gotten all your games! This is Sailor V-Valentine, it's a dating sim fangame... It took a really long time...but I managed to get the SECRET Perfect Ending which is different from the Decoy Perfect Ending the game tries to trick you into picking up and being satisfied with..."
She pushes a few buttons hastily and then shows Sailor V the screen again.
On it there is a picture from the CG GALLERY of the SECRET PERFECT ENDING. It has Sailor V sitting in a heart shaped chair surrounded by a reverse harem. There's the nerdy pretty guy, the SUAVE pretty boy with a flower in his school uniform, the BAD BOY Youma Pretty boy who doesn't--notably--have a shirt on, a childhood friend on the other side, and of course a nice girl sitting up out in front.
"Eheheh.....I never thought I'd actually meet you... And oh my gosh, I get to team up with you too..."
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
COMBAT: Raikari Shinkyou has used Goomba Stomp on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Raikari Shinkyou has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has used PERFECT SCORE SAILOR V HAREM ENDING on Sailor V.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Sailor V accepts Madobe Kuroi's PERFECT SCORE SAILOR V HAREM ENDING, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Sailor V is Cheered!
Another magical girl appears at the entrance to the arcade. As the door is staying open for her, streetlights silhouette her in a dramatic way.
She points directly at Dark Amber, her sleeves billowing in a sweet-smelling breeze.
"Dark Amber! If you're here to steal people's memories, then you know that I can't stand for it! To harm these thoughts, good or bad, is still unthinkable! You'll leave us no choice but to stop you... with the power of sweet memories!"
Japanese Cherry Blossom sometimes wonders where all this stuff comes from. It sounded okay, though, at least a little bit. Maybe.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used For Sweet Memories on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
The Soldier Angel nods her head, patting Nanoha on the shoulder with approval. She rises back to her feet, still training her battle rifle on Dark Amber; when his amber blades come inward, she pushes the rifle forward sideways, deflecting the force of the weapons, though they push her backward. She waves a dismissive hand to the side before Nanoha. "They all talk a big game," she says. "Memories are what build us and make us strong. The hard times push us to keep walking forward..." Though she says these words to keep Nanoha's spirits up, she herself drifts off in her mind to the hardships that her own friend has faced. When she thinks about it, she can't think of anything good that's really come of Yoshirou's loss...
She furrows her brow, scowling at the villain who's indirectly attacked her friend in this way. Gloves are off. She throws her arm out to the side, and when she draws it back, she's carrying a long white weapon with a golden warhead sticking out the end. "Sometimes," she begins quietly, "we're all weak. Sometimes I'm weak too." She raises her voice now, as she raises the weapon towards the ceiling where Dark Amber hovers. "That's life! That's what it means to live. Weakness is no reason to back away from life. Weakness is precious too!"
"Angel Heavy Arms!" she shouts, discharging the rocket-propelled warhead up into the ceiling of the arcade. The ensuing explosion of golden starlight is indiscriminate, blowing a hole clean through the roof of the arcade.
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has used Angel Heavy Arms on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Sakura Akagi's For Sweet Memories, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki is Quipped!
Kunai would be so much less murderous. It was, in fact, a naginata, which is a few feet of sword on top of a few more feet of stick, which is currently stuck into an arcade machine after having ripped into Kinzo.
It isn't bloody because again, this is a child-friendly environment.
Nadeshiko, meanwhile, has to charge across open ground ("ARARARARA--") and then action-movie slide over a bank of arcade machines to retrieve her spear, then whips it up into attack position...though, her eyes do track to the people he's pointing out, eyes dimming. Of course, he's not...wrong, that memories make us who we are, but...hmph!!
"You'd just have 'em run away, then!? No! You won't even let them be their own coward! AAARYAAAAAAA!"
That would be the sound of running at Dark Amber and leaping up at him with a powerful sweep of her naginata!
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki has used Naginata Flourish on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Tokiko Amagawa's Angel Heavy Arms, taking 39 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Nadeshiko Fujisaki's Naginata Flourish, taking 8 Fatigue damage!
Alyce frowns. He's moving... faster than she had thought. He's also more resistant than she had anticipated to her magic!
Fortunate enough to not yet earn the ire of Kinzo, she stands her ground-- even when the well-known Sailor V makes her appearance! Alyce's eyes tic toward the girl, trying to take in details to memorize later; images are snapped and tagged quickly by Silver Wind of as much of the game center as possible.
"Track him!"
<SILVER BULLET.>
Shifting her stance and holding the staff lower, a swell of light forms at the tip of the Device before it lets loose with a brisque popping noise not unlike the sound of a small hold-out pistol going off. Hooking between machines and jetting about at odd angles, the bolt of magical force comes in and attempts to strike him from high and behind!
COMBAT: Alyce Ducati has used Silver Bullet on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Alyce Ducati has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly counters Alyce Ducati's Silver Bullet, taking 12 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, Amber Seeker, partially gets through, doing 3 Fatigue damage to Alyce Ducati!
Sailor V claps her hands and turns her eyes away from the action to Sweet Pea, suddenly all smiles. "The secretest ending is the kissiest ending. I get to be, uh, special friends with everybody I should be friends with and even the people I -shouldn't- be, heee," she says, grinning cheesily. "It's really a positive message for today's youth in an increasingly multi-cultural world!"
"The friendship, not the kissing. Pay attention to the ratings! Anyways, did you want me to sign that your game for you? I mean, not now, but in a little bit? I mean, too much risk of friendly fire for the eminent Sailor V-chan to jump into the middle of things right now-- oh gawwd, rocket! Take cover!"
COMBAT: Sailor V has used AUTOGRAPHS! on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Sailor V has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi accepts Sailor V's AUTOGRAPHS!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Madobe Kuroi is Cheered!
Midori Sugiura makes notes of the name Reflective Sentry Kagami. She's been running into her lately from the looks of it, as they seem quite focused on stopping evil be it something they gained their powers to fight or not. Also wait did she totally Mario stomp? She totally did! Midori smiles inwardly at that. "That's the way to do it!" Sentry! Nanoha, we keep running into each other at this rate we may want to team up!"
Midori avoids using Nanoha's family name at least, she may have to drop the suggestion later she needs to get an alias. Also wait holy cow it's Sailor V? Really? She wasn't just a rumour she's really here. Then she frowns.
"You can not have the good without the bad, without knowing bad times how can you tell the good from the bad and how much to value such! To take away part of someone's life like that is something I will not forgive!"
She's not in a good spot to attack so she does not but clearly Midori is quite passionate about stopping this guy.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has used Fires of Passion on Nanoha Takamachi.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has used Fires of Passion on Raikari Shinkyou.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has used Fires of Passion on Nadeshiko Fujisaki.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki accepts Midori Sugiura's Fires of Passion, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Nadeshiko Fujisaki is Cheered!
COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi accepts Midori Sugiura's Fires of Passion, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
For a moment. Blue eyes follow the guidance towards the arguing friends. Then towards the sad girl. Nanoha is halted, brow knotting as her grip in Raising Heart loosens. Those are some pretty sad sights. And they sort of strike home with the girl, leaving her halted as thoughts stream through her head in a blur. But... It's true. She finds herself glancing up- at Soldier Angel as the other girl snaps back her retort. And memories flood the girl.
A hard slap. A stinging palm. A hair pulling arguement and the apology afterward. The friendship that bloomed as a result.
Bandages and gauze. The disinfectant smell of a hospital room. A tiny girl alone at home. ... A bakery opening. A family reunited.
"Mm... I'm sorry but... There isn't any good without bad. For every bad memory, there are always going to be so many good ones that came from it. If they're really friends, then they'll make up. Maybe her father will get bett-"
<JUST SHOOT HIM ALREADY.>
Well that IS one way of solving it.
"Oh- right yeah."
See? She totally agrees with both Soldier Angel and Midori. And that spurs her decision.
"Something a little more powerful, please?"
<ALRIGHT! CANNON MODE!>
That's when the sphere and semi-circular golden setting shift to a more spear-likg point, pink wings of light fanning out from behind the Device's head.
This is when Nanoha climbs on top of an arcade game. Small fingers grasp the rifle-grip that snaps into place on the Device's shaft and depress the trigger. "Shoooot!"
<FIRING>
The recoil flings her clean off the game case with a squeak as a bright pink beam lances from her Device. "Eeep!"
COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi has used Heavy Laser on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly dodges Nanoha Takamachi's Heavy Laser, taking 19 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!
Kinzo Hiroyuki doesn't seem to care the differintating of what Fuu is, just that it's now striking him with a sword, he lifts up one of his blades to ward off the sword as it strikes, while his other comes in for a lower blow, trying to strike across Fuu's midsection......
Then he's stomped on like some minor enemy. He attempts to throw Raikari off him, rolling out , regardless, from that attack. Cherry Blossom shows up. he fails his will check, so all he can spout off is..."No! You're wrong!". He'd probably had something better to say otherwise.
AHe takes a hit to his upper back, and he seems frustrated---he expected maybe one or two possible contacts here, if he was unlucky. This...this is something else.
He flicks his Amber blade into the direction of where the bullet hit him and follows the trail of the bullet, as if following it's scent-----ending up right at it's origin point, probably striking into Alyce for a moment.
Before he gets blased by Nanoha. He picks himself up from the Arcade machine he just got blasted into.
"Ha....!" he says as he looks. "Some memories are good....but the bad ones----they drive people to kill....seek revenge....all the bad things in this world." he says. He watches Sailor V and Sweet Pea exchange pleastries...he goes ahead and attempts to jump into the area and slam down into Sweet Pea, and Sailor V with a series of sweeping strikes with wide, desperate eyes!
He showers a flurry of blades into Naeshiko's, Nanoha's, Tokiko's Sakura's, and Fuu's directions, everyone else gets a pass this turn.
Kinzo Hiroyuki doesn't seem to care the differintating of what Fuu is, just that it's now striking him with a sword, he lifts up one of his blades to ward off the sword as it strikes, while his other comes in for a lower blow, trying to strike across Fuu's midsection......
Then he's stomped on like some minor enemy. He attempts to throw Raikari off him, rolling out , regardless, from that attack. Cherry Blossom shows up. he fails his will check, so all he can spout off is..."No! You're wrong!". He'd probably had something better to say otherwise.
He takes a hit to his upper back, and he seems frustrated---he expected maybe one or two possible contacts here, if he was unlucky. This...this is something else.
He flicks his Amber blade into the direction of where the bullet hit him and follows the trail of the bullet, as if following it's scent-----ending up right at it's origin point, probably striking into Alyce for a moment.
MEANWILE, There's a big hole in the ceiling--oddly, that Amber mist doesn't go anywhere. and the Sepia tone remains the same. That entire attack made Dark Amber's eyes light up, and get blaseted into the ground, with a follow up by Nanoha. He picks himself up from the Arcade machine he just got blasted into.
"Ha....!" he says as he looks. "Some memories are good....but the bad ones----they drive people to kill....seek revenge....all the bad things in this world." he says. He watches Sailor V and Sweet Pea exchange pleastries...he goes ahead and attempts to jump into the area and slam down into Sweet Pea, and Sailor V with a series of sweeping strikes with wide, desperate eyes!
He showers a flurry of blades into Naeshiko's, Nanoha's, Tokiko's Sakura's, and Fuu's directions, everyone else gets a pass this turn.
Oddly, the Amber Mist and the Sepia tone remains the same in the room despite the big hole. Magic. Deal with it.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Blade Swipes on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Blade Swipes on Sailor V.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Bladestorm on Nadeshiko Fujisaki.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Bladestorm on Nanoha Takamachi.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Bladestorm on Tokiko Amagawa.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi fails to counter Kinzo Hiroyuki's Blade Swipes, taking 8 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi's counterattack, Flower Shot, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi fails to brace Kinzo Hiroyuki's Bladestorm, taking 9 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki narrowly braces Kinzo Hiroyuki's Bladestorm, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa fails to dodge Kinzo Hiroyuki's Bladestorm, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
COMBAT: Sailor V narrowly counters Kinzo Hiroyuki's Blade Swipes, taking 5 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Sailor V's counterattack, Crescent Beam, partially gets through, doing 9 Fatigue damage to Kinzo Hiroyuki! Trap applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
Raikari Shinkyou gets tossed off, but she lands in a roll and comes to a stop in a crouch, taking stock of the situation -- Wait was that Sailor V? She's real?! Yes, that's a bit of a surprise, even for someone that's become a magical girl themselves. All that publicity and merchandizing really was larger than life! Coooool.
But there will be time to worry about that, later. First they need to beat this punk and his weird attempt at justifying being a jerk. And trying to chop up some of the other fighters. With a grunt she braces herself in a three-point stance, lifting one arm to dismiss her polearm and clench her hand into a fist. As she does so the gloves trace lines light up, encasing her fist in a corona of code energy. "You want bad memories?"
She pushes herself into a dash, aiming to bumrush Amber while he's trying to ginsu the others and catch him off-guard, and slam the now glowing fist into his back "Let me give you some of your own!"
COMBAT: Raikari Shinkyou has used Gaming The System on Kinzo Hiroyuki. COMBAT: Raikari Shinkyou has finished attacking.
The secretest ending is the kissiest ending. Sailor V's a pro, Madobe thinks happily. She's even offering to sign her game! Eeee. The roof explodes in the background. Madobe's face remains frozen in :D format. Sailor V will have no trouble moving her into cover, but she might have to pull her a bit. She's so happy~~. "Y...yeah..." She manages on cloud nine.
Speaking of clouds, that amber mist is sticking around here. She is so happy happy happy.
But Dark Amber is determined to ruin this happy memory by slamming down into her and V with sweeping strikes!
It doesn't work though because even getting stabbed while in Sailor V's proximity is a happy memory. She doesn't have a lot of self esteem. She is thrown back into an arcade machine and she sighs happily.
She shakes her head back into the game after a moment's thought. "Ah...right. Well... even if that's so...it's not really your place to seal them away. You didn't even ask them first!"
She dives out dynamically from out behind her cover, firing both pistols as she rolls. COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has used Viewtiful Pea on Kinzo Hiroyuki. COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
Japanese Cherry Blossom takes a breath through the sepia-toned mist, but she's not in any danger from it apparently.
She'll have to help Sweet Pea out, but... one thing at a time.
Amber's last comment makes her wonder about his crusade. If she could remember what he was talking about... maybe there's a way to talk him through this. But it isn't something that she can immediately recall. She wonders why.
She shuts her eyes, and summons up a memory of her own. She puts her hands together in front of her. Pink petals start to appear in front of her, turning into larger flowers, then forming into a wave of pink light and flowers. The wind turns into a gust as it streaks its floral payload toward Dark Amber. "Cherry Blossom Breeze!"
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Cherry Blossom Breeze on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki perfectly counters Raikari Shinkyou's Gaming The System, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Counter!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, The System Games Back, bursts all the way through, doing 21 Fatigue damage to Raikari Shinkyou!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly counters Madobe Kuroi's Viewtiful Pea, taking 13 Fatigue damage! Madobe Kuroi is Psyched!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, Cross Counter, partially gets through, doing 3 Fatigue damage to Madobe Kuroi!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly counters Sakura Akagi's Cherry Blossom Breeze, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Tangle applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, Cross Counter, partially gets through, doing 10 Fatigue damage to Sakura Akagi! Critical Counterhit!
It's the first time Fuu has had occasion to really test Clef's 'armor,' but it seems to pay off; while her visible chest armor is just a band across her upper chest, about where a two-piece swimsuit would need to cover, the cloth below it is somewhat more durable than the typical school uniform that it seems to have been derived from, and Fuu gets off with little more than a shallow cut on her belly - easy enough to heal with Iyashi no Kaze, when she has a chance.
For now, she can endure it - and as the fight is shifting away from her for the moment, she takes stock of the situation. This really *is* a difficult fight for her, in such close quarters ... and Imashime no Kaze wasn't as effective as she'd hoped it would be; she'll need to work on that. What else can she do ...
She picks her way around and over the game machines, and tries to stab into Dark Amber's shoulder while he's focused on another opponent.
Chivalrous? Absolutely not.
Sneaky? Yep. Well, maybe.
Pragmatic? ... yeah, let's go with that.
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Sword Strike on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to counter Fuu Hououji's Sword Strike, taking 8 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, I Remember, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Fuu Hououji!
"Yes," Soldier Angel says, with a pump of her fist. "Direct hit on hostile!" She gets all excited about rocket launchers. So excited, in fact, that she's caught flatfooted in Dark Amber's counterattack, pinned against the wall by amber blades! She attempts to pull an arm out from the wall, but the blades are embedded deeply, and she's going to need a little help getting down. Drew a little blood, too.
"Good shot," she mutters grudgingly to Dark Amber. "But is that what you really believe? Seriously?? Are you that dumb? Bad memories drive people to kill? Can you imagine what you're saying about people, good people who've suffered through much? What do you say to the boy who's lost everything and decided to keep on walking and pursue his dream? Would you take those bittersweet memories away from him, remove the reminder he has of that past he loved, because you're afraid he's going to snap? You're the one who's snapped!"
"Can somebody help me down from here, these are wedged in pretty tight," she adds.
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has used I Believe in Yoshirou on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Tokiko Amagawa's I Believe in Yoshirou, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Tokiko Amagawa is Psyched!
Dark Amber...this guy, who even is he!? Also, who carries a giant bazooka around!? Honestly! These lower districts are so much more chaotic than Ohtori. She'll need to talk to Tadase about taming them when they take over the world.
Ther's a harsh exchange of blows; Nadeshiko escapes without serious injury, although she can feel how close some of those strokes came before she battered them aside with her naginata's weight. She isn't the type of highly-acrobatic magical girl who does a thousand backflips between every exchange; she jerks back, re-establishing her guard and trying to sense where Kinzo's going, but...that mist isn't receding! These people are in danger...!
So his plan is to take all their bad memories...that's crazy!? And yet...! She stares up, eyes wild. He's bigger, stronger, but she has - more heart!! She doesn't actually say anything, just sort of, well.
Emits a horrible animal roar and starts flailing her naginata at him with rapid, punishing stroke! "C'MERE, I'LL GUT YOUR GIZZARD 'FORE I EVEN LOOK UP ONE OF THOSE IS!! HAAAA!"
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki has used Naginata Flurry on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Nadeshiko Fujisaki has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki perfectly dodges Nadeshiko Fujisaki's Naginata Flurry, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!
Midori Sugiura :has to admit that Nanoha's got quite a bit of power there, that's one heck of a magical laser staff she's got there. Though the recoil makes her cringe a bit. Hopefully Nanoha is all right.
"She totally real Sentry, as much as i want to get her autograph myself let's focus on the matter at hand."
Midori has controlled her inner fan girl today, somehow. After all and she looks at Kinzo for a moment.
"That may be true but they are a part of what we are. Bad memories can also drive someone to prevent such from happening to others, motivate someone to stop something horrible."
Midori's moving in with her element and makes a far more forceful strike at Kinzo before flipping away again. Seriously things are coming out of the wood work this week, Midori might end up having to miss a shift at this rate from being tired out.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has used Element Slice and Dice on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki perfectly dodges Midori Sugiura's Element Slice and Dice, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!
Sailor V was originally content to stay in the background and talk to her newest fan but quickly found that agenda interrupted by jumping Dark Amber's significantly less friendly blades. All of her effort to drag her new friend into cover away from fights and blades and RPGs and now he's got to come over here and ruin it.
She raises a single hand like a knife and creates a single yellow beam of light that glances off of Amber's weapon; it works so well, Sailor V does it again. And again. And again. She retreats a step or two with each exchange but considering new-friend isn't skewered and she's barely touched, it's a fair exchange.
Then, she waves her hands about as a distraction and shines her compact (also as a distraction) which flashes all brightly around her! Less impressively, she jumps away, creating an opening from D.A. (maybe) and landing on Soldier Angel (definitely), intending to try and dislodge the poor girl from a wall.
"Don't just hang around! Come on down!"
COMBAT: Sailor V has used Moonlight Shower on Sailor V.
COMBAT: Sailor V has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Sailor V accepts Sailor V's Moonlight Shower, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Empower and Withstand applied to Sailor V!
COMBAT: Miyu Oyanagi has fully healed herself.
H-huff.
Okay Nanoha is really going to have to get a hang on keeping her balance and bracing for that ridiculous recoil. Because she's only now just picking herself up from where she's left a tiny Nanoha-shaped hole in a nearby video game. "Ah... Ow, geeze."
<NICE SHOT.> Raising Heart compliments, at least. Before calling out the warning. <LOOK OUT.>
"Huh?" Blue eyes glance up. And they shoot wide open when Nanoha sees the flurry of blades streaking right for her. At least she's up on her feet now, just in time to hold up her staff.
<PROTECTION.> Raising Heart proclaims, erecting a shimmering wall of pink light in front of the child. The blades dig into the barrier spell, and for a moment it seems like it might hold. Before thin cracks and fractures begin to form- and then it shatters like glass. And the girl's yelp of pain is followed by a backwards slump as several of the sharp implements embed themselves in the girl's Barrier Jacket- and then into the girl beneath, soaking the white fabric a slick red.
"Nnh..." She's staggering to her feet a few beats later, going so far as to pull one blade out of her shoulder with a gasp.
<ARE YOU ALRIGHT?>
"I'm... I'm okay."
<GOOD. BIND HIM SO THAT THE OTHERS CAN HIT HIM HARDER.>
"Right."
Swapping the staff to her left hand she gives it a wave, text begins to flow across the gem of her staff in a flowing white font as the Device calls out: <RESTRICT LOCK!>
Bands of pink light bear down, attempting to wrap Dark Amber's wrists and legs and slow him.
COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi has used Restrict Lock on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Nanoha Takamachi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Nanoha Takamachi's Restrict Lock, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Nanoha Takamachi is Psyched! Tangle and Trap applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
"Tch!"
Alyce shifts her staff into a defensive position; the blade deflects along the edge of the mage's weapon before a glancing blow to her shoulder. The magical fabrics withstand the blow quite well, but it still leaves a slice through the blue accents of the silvery-white coat.
Ducking low, running between cabinets and crane games, the TSAB Sergeant's legs swing out low and she slides behind a classic dual-seat racing game-- she's circling, trying to get a bit closer to Nanoha before she steps out alongside the girl in the midst of her spell.
"Good job! Now, to shoot him down!"
<STARFALL!>
Six orbs of silvery-white light, small spheres of mana, form in a flanking formation behind Alyce. One hand held forward, staff extended, her eyes close with a degree of concentration.
<FIRE.>
Much like the single shot before, the six orbs blast ahead like high speed projectiles... but curve outward to odd angles, homing in and attempting to collide on Dark Amber all at once with impressive force!
COMBAT: Alyce Ducati has used Silver Starfall on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Alyce Ducati has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to brace Alyce Ducati's Silver Starfall, taking 35 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Stun applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
Kinzo Hiroyuki listens to Raikai.... the rage on his eyes in /incomprehensible/ as Raikari insists he's going to give him more bad memories, he responds with this with such a strong, overpowering attack that it just outright cuts through that fist with those blades, slicing both out. "You cannot possibly comprehend a thing!" he says.
He listens to Tokkio but does so only as he leaps onto a series of Arcade units. He continues to run----fast. You can't see him do it as other attacks chime in and he stops, to slice through the air with a series of cross shaped armber energy slices, into Madobe and Sakura's attacks. He then gets to running again, to avoid Element slices coming in.
Though that strong binding strike comes in strong., which more or less paves the way for Alyce's attack to hit him head on, quite strongly.
This causes him to slide into the wall, and shake that specfiic wall a bit. He gets up, he's panting now.....
"I can't...." he jumps onto the Arcade machine, he's making a run for the upper levels---he's gonna try to escape out that hole in the roof.
Cherry Blossom raises her own hands to block Dark Amber's counter, but this distraction allows him to try to slip away.
She isn't casting another spell, but she does try to follow up, leaping onto one of the machines and then up to the stairs. Maybe she can catch up, but, he's pretty fast!
She would rather talk to him about this than finish him off, but some girls probably have other ideas.
Truth be told, visibly pissing the guy off was almost as good as hitting him. Because pissed off enemies tend to get careless in their anger. That or the other people fighting are really good, as Sentry Kagami got intercepted and tossed off again, but everyone else piled in on Amber bad enough to make him retreat after she got her verbal barb in.
The unicorn-girl smacks into the side of a game cabinent, groaning and shaking her head a bit to try and clear it. Hfff. Well at least she didn't get blasted entirely out of the battle this time.
Looks like Amber is trying to make a run for it. "Not so fast, not after causing that much trouble are you gonna just hit and run!" She springs to her feet fully, the trace lines marking her horn starting to glow in the same manner as her gauntlet did a few moments ago. "Purging... Unicorn..." The energy aura spikes, crackles, and then blasts a bolt of it hissing with purifying energy after the fleeing feind. "Pulse!"
COMBAT: Raikari Shinkyou has used Purging Unicorn Pulse on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Raikari Shinkyou has finished attacking.
Okay, Nanoha's caught her breath again but... "Ah...?" He's trying to get away? Glancing up just in time to see Kinzo start leaping for higher levels, Nanoha is left frowning. "He's getting away..." And then Alyce says to shoot him down.
"Raising Heart?"
<YES?>
"Can you make it go even farther?"
<IF THAT IS WHAT YOU DESIRE.> The Device replies.
If he gets away, he could try doing this to more people. That would be pretty bad. And this time, Nanoha braces herself. Propping against a nearby wall, she plants her feet and takes aim. A magic circle forms beneath her in pink light. Wings of pink spread from the neck of her Device as the trigger clicks into place again. <FIRE WHEN TARGET LOCK IS ACHIEVED.>
She aims. "Maybe we can try talking to him?"
<IF HE IS SHOT DOWN.>
She aims. And... Click.
She pulls the trigger.
<DIVINE BUSTER... EXTENSION.>
The resultant pillar of pink light that fires off from the staff is... Pretty huge. Also with a squeak, Nanoha is flun back again. ... Smashing a tiny Nanoha-shaped hole through the wall and flinging her clean through it. She'll... ... She'll get it, eventually.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Raikari Shinkyou's Purging Unicorn Pulse, taking 48 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cripple applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
"Whumph!!" Soldier Angel is knocked down from the wall by Sailor V's graceful landing. She tumbles onto the floor and recovers, looking up at her co-Tuner with mixed gratitude. "Thanks, I guess..." she says. Could you make it a little lighter next time?? She narrows her eyes, though, as from her floor vantage point she sees Dark Amber trying to escape. "He's getting away," she calls out, and reaches over her back, drawing out a white canister which she hurls into the air. Drawing a magical handgun to level upon the canister, she waits until its arc passes over where Dark Amber is, and fires, igniting the canister in a disorienting shower of light. "NOW!" she barks out.
COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has used Starry Flashbang on Kinzo Hiroyuki. COMBAT: Tokiko Amagawa has finished attacking. Sweet Pea whews faintly faintly, seeing her shots take purchase on Kinzo. She's hurt back, but not majorly. This is honestly the best fight she's had so far in terms of capability.
She turns to go help Tokiko but as expected, Sailor V already has it handled.
She turns, seeing Sakura rushing after Kinzo. "I'll be right back!" She yells at Sailor V, intending to rush after Sakura. She doesn't open fire, intent on following the team leader's lead. So to speak. Even if that's a team of 'two'.
Aheh...heh. "Blossom-Chan! Wait up!" COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to brace Tokiko Amagawa's Starry Flashbang, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Stagger applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
Fuu rises to her feet, perching semi-precariously across the tops of two arcade machines, and lets her sword disappear back into her glove-jewel as she looks at Dark Amber trying to escape. And there's a nice big hole up there in the ceiling/roof ...
The wind kicks up around Fuu, tugging at her clothes and hair as she gathers her magic. "Dark Amber-san, wasn't it?" Fuu asks with a relatively friendly smile - considering she's revving up to send him flying. "Keep this in mind ... we won't let you do as you please to anyone's memories, not here, not in this city - not in this *world* if we catch you at it! Think about that on your trip home ... Midori no Shippuu!"
She unleashes the Emerald Typhoon, and the gusting winds reach out to grab hold of Dark Amber, buffet him with gale force ...
And maneuver him under that hole he was trying to get to before launching him out into the open sky.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Fuu Hououji has used Midori no Shippu: Full on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Fuu Hououji's Finisher, Midori no Shippu: Full, taking 42 Fatigue damage!
Nadeshiko's rampage of naginata swordings doesn't really work. He just kind of moves! She keeps screaming and slicing because that's really all she's actually good at during a Chara Change, honestly.
If we're being legit, her chara change is a little less 'yakuza thug' than it is 'axe murderer'.
"OH YEAH!? WHERE YOU GOIN', SPARKY!?" Nadeshiko yells after the retreating Dark Amber, waving her naginata around one-handed in total defiance of all safety concerns. "YOU THINK I'M LETTIN' YOU GO!? I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED TO CUT YOU YET!"
And then Alyce does some magical bomb thing.
And then Nanoha sends herself flying through a wall with a magnificent pink blast.
She looks down at her naginata, then at the hole Nanoha left, and then...laughs like an insane pirate. "THAT'S THE SPIRIT! AAHAHAHA! TAKE ONE O' THESE WITH YA!!"
And then she hurls her naginata up through the hole in the roof again.
She has a hell of an arm on her, it leaps like a bullet. Look she only actually has this one ranged option, ok...
Her spell strikes home; Kinzo hits the wall and slides. And then, with a few deft moves, he's attempting to make his escape. Her eyes opening, Alyce makes a few quick steps as though she intended to follow him, but then...
<WATCH YOUR HEAD.>
Turning a bit, she sees Nanoha, Raising Heart, and... well, a /really big blast/. Given, others are throwing their own assaults, but the small girl is then quickly thrown by the recoil of the mana release and the explosive power behind the Divine Buster. Wait. Nanoha's just a kid. She has /that/ kind of power?
The Sergeant looks briefly chilled by that notion before she snaps her wrist. "Standby mode!" By the end of the motion, the staff collapses into a length more equal to the length of her forearm and hand, the complex paneling made much more simplistic. Hurrying to the hole, she sticks her head through.
"Nanoha? Nanoha!"
Midori Sugiura agrees with Raikari's thoughts on bad memories but she also sees the young man is running. She's not intending to kill him. No she wants to bring him down and prehaps AHEM have a rather stern talking to him. She won't let someone like this just run around sucking out people's memories after all. She has bad memories but the events had lead to good things. She'd not have awoken a HiME otherwise.
She readies her element and line up to throw it like a boomerang even as the other heroes of the day attempt to keep Kinzo from fleeing.
Nanoha was a good kid, and wait what the heck a death laser? Her staff has a death laser, she's also noticed the woman who has a staff much like Nanoha's and Fate's odd that's becoming something of a trend it seems. She'll have to ask about it later, right now she's concerned for Nanoha but the other woman with the staff is going to help her. She'll follow it up soon as the villain is handled. Hit or miss her element would return to her and Midori would catch it. Then banish the weapon from which it came.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has used Element Toss on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to brace Midori Sugiura's Element Toss, taking 23 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Sailor V gives Soldier Angel a thumbs-up in celebration of being the ever-helpful sisterly soldier, her other thumb and hand in the air to brace herself against all the bright lights. She goes to tisk at Soldier but just shrugs and points a finger to the sky at the fleeing enemy. "Well, if you can't beat them, warn them," she mutters, contributing to the flash and the bang and the general mayhem with her own bright, all-encompassing flash of light centered... somewhere vaguely 'above the building'.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Sailor V has used Love Crescent Shower on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Sailor V has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Sailor V's Finisher, Love Crescent Shower, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
After unleashing her final attack at Dark Amber, Fuu hears a name which catches her attention - and while she's trying to keep an eye out for signs that the villain isn't as fleeing as he seemed to be, she does go over to help the woman (Soldier Angel?) who's calling Nanoha's name. "Excuse me, miss - I have healing magic, so I may be able to help ... in fact, should we gather inside for a little bit? My Healing Wind might also purge the miasma that individual saturated the area with ... but I'm more interested in making sure everyone's wounds are healed before we go our separate ways."
She'd also sort of like to start *networking* properly with her fellow magical girls, and that's kind of hard when everyone splits up and heads home without revealing their identities.
Kinzo Hiroyuki is frantically jumping up and out...he makes it to the hole as everyone unleashes powerful attacks, impacting his form, the structure, among other things----but what really blasts him away, is that one girl with the staff that fires a 'Death Beam' at him, his eyes only go wide as his forms engulfed in the blast----completely enompassed, there's some sort of yell---
In the newspapers, there's a Gazebo in a nearby park that some crazy guy swears was obliterated by a guy coming down from the sky! Who ran off in a hurry into the east....but the actual reason will be blamed on some nearby piece of rubble.
For now, that Sepia hue, and mist is begining to ligten up, times begining to slowly return to normal.....
Soldier Angel climbs back to her feet, hearing a name called out in the confusion. "N-chan, are you okay?" she calls out - Nanoha didn't seem like she'd decided yet on whether she wants folks to know who she really is. She holsters her weapon (which dissolves into the air, so what's the point anyway), and while time is still wonky, calls out, "Area is returning to green zone! Report to the rooftops for medical attention." With that said, she draws out and fires a grappling hook, sweeping herself up through the hole in the roof to touch base with any magical girls who want to stay. Better up here than down in front of the gamers who are returning to normal.
