2013-11-20 - Yellow Daisy - Do the Locomotion - The Highway Chase!
| Title: Yellow Daisy - Do the Locomotion - The Highway Chase! | |
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| Summary: Battle on the highway with a crazed skater - the Perfume Splash team must work together to unleash their strongest power! | |
| Who: Madobe Kuroi, Sakura Akagi, Aimi Saionji, Hisae Misumi, Erika Inagawa, Kinzo Hiroyuki, Tomomi Shizuka | |
| Where: Highway | |
| OOC - IC Date: 11/20/2013 - 10/20/2013 | |
Battle Fantasia 2 - Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 1:47 PM
Tama Outer City
Highway
The highway makes a promise to the young. Like all profound promises, it is
simple. "I will take you from this place," it says, and nothing more than
that. During the day, when the sea glitters and the mountains soar around
the winding pavement, the promise waits. And late at night, when the city's
traffic is nothing but a distant whisper, and the road stretches out black
and endless under the city's few stars, the promise is just for you.
The endless sky. The streaming wind. The sparkling ocean. That tangy, salt
scent. It's the smell of freedom. Of independence. And, of course, of the
open road. The light is somehow always perfect here, whether it's orange
sunrise, rose-pink sunset, silver midnight or golden noon. "I will take you
from this place," it says, but to where?
It's a Sunday afternoon in late October. The weather is just right: Crisp but not cold, clear and sunny, with fall colors in full bloom. It's the kind of day made for a long train ride out to the country. Some people are doing just that, getting on the road to enjoy a beautiful weekend day before getting back to being underemployed in the worst economy in generations. But hey, sunshine.
The No. 4 Shuto Expressway starts at Shinjuku and heads west out into the Tama district. Once you get out of the densely packed west side of Tokyo, things start to break up a bit. There's more greenery. The buildings get lower. The pace of things starts to slow down. It's the kind of place where there usually aren't major problems. All the chaos that happens around Tokyo Tower usually stays on the western side of the city. There's not much out here but ordinary folks, living ordinary lives under the invisible shade of the World Tree.
The expressway runs over most of the smaller cities within the greater Tokyo metro. The road is set several stories above many of the buildings next to it, with the eastbound lane and westbound lanes kept separate by concrete dividers. Occasionally the train runs nearby the expressway, but the two take slightly different routes. Even on slow Sunday afternoons, there is plenty of traffic going both ways -- trucks, buses, motorcycles and cars zipping along to get things done. The view shifts from grey metal dividers to trees planted along the side of the road depending on where you are in your journey.
The occasional car accident isn't unheard of on the expressway. Police reports come in of a Zipcar that has smashed into one of the dividers and guttered out, partially obstructing one lane. The driver of the car is slumped over the wheel, bruised but apparently not severely harmed. (People wear their seatbelts on this program.) This has obstructed traffic a bit as the police start mobilizing to retrieve the driver and clear the road. No other cars seem to be involved...
...another car goes halfway off the road further up the expressway, smacking into a lamppost. It's another unforced accident. Everyone inside is also unconscious, apparently oblivious to whatever it is knocked them off the road. No other cars seem to have been involved either.
Just ahead of that car is a figure speeding away from the car. The shot snaps in to watch rollerblades gracefully carve over the asphalt. Sparks fly from their glowing green wheels, the sigils of the Apothecary glowing over the rollerblade boots. The figure is wearing long green socks that extend up her legs to a dark purple terrycloth skirt, denying the fanboys by showing the beginning of black Spanx beneath. Life is cruel.
The figure skates harder as we pull back to a medium shot. She's an orange-skinned young lady somewhere in her middling teens. Her straight green hair is being kept down by a cute pink helmet, but otherwise flows down onto her shoulders. Her eyes glow red as she bears down on another car ahead of her. Her red and black flannel shirt flutters around her as she skates ever-harder, showing her white undershirt beneath.
The traffic ahead doesn't seem to have noticed what's happening to the cars earlier in the order. Her right hand is glowing with menacing yellow energy, trailing glitter behind it from the scents she's already extracted...
PERFUME SPLASH!
EPISODE YELLOW DAISY
DO THE LOCOMOTION! THE HIGHWAY CHASE!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has fully healed himself.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki transforms into Dark Amber!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa transforms into Forever Sunshine!
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi transforms into Winterberry!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka transforms into Youma Form Skate Youma!
Sakura Akagi is...
not old enough to drive. But she is acutely aware of the activities of the Apothecary, thanks to Mist, who keeps the team informed when activities are about to unfold. He's always certain in such situations, and his accuracy is enough that Sakura readies the team and contacts them about the emergencies on the highways. After a quick confirmation of -
"Henshin! Cherry Blossom Splash!"
- she is along the highway, standing atop a light post as traffic streaks by. The rest of the team has been alerted of danger, and she hopes the are on the way.
The skate-bound form of the youma streaks by her, and she leaps, drifting from the top of the light to the top of a car, her leap effortless enough to surprise even herself. "You there!" she shouts, screaming at the speedy monster on its way down the road. "You won't be able to disrupt traffic while we're still around!"
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi transforms into Japanese Cherry Blossom!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Hey Big Ugly on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
Erika Inagawa is also lacking a license to drive, despite her license to kill (she earned that at the arcade playing Space Commander 007, dangit; it's on her keychain). Fortunately,
"TRANNNNSFORM! Forever Sunshine Splash!"
that don't matter so much.
Forever Sunshine was posted two lamp lengths away from Cherry Blossom, and when she sees the pink-haired figure move, she lets loose - having been hanging upside down. Landing on the top of one of those elitely riced out Japanese cargo trucks, she cracks her knuckles, jabbing two fingers forwards to point at the thing.
"This is your one chance! Pull over now or you're going to get a beat down!"
Just like Grandpa said always happened when you deal with traffic cops!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has used Forever Perfect Poise on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.
"Don't forget me!" Puff demands.
Winterberry shows up with a brown bath pouf around her wrist, having 'henshin Winterberry SPLASH'D!' on her race over. She will explain this later, as for right now, she scates to a stop, her heels clicking on the highway. "Hey!" She yells, a small snowball appearing in her grip. "Hiya!"
Snowball.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has used Snowball To The Something on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has finished attacking.
Aimi Saionji blinks and looks at her phone at the text she got. "Really...? This... is going to be tough," She says. "But we can do it."
"Do what now, Aimi?" Her mother asks, looking up from what the two of them had been working on.
"Huh? Oh! Its just... Maddy-chan! She needs my help with some computer issue," Aimi says, not thinking about how Madobe might not be asking Aimi for such.
"Hmm... well okay. I'll finish this one off for you for now, but you should still do the rest," Her mother said with a smile.
"I will Mom!" Aimi says before getting up, gathering a bag and her perfume before rushing out.
She slipped off to the side after getting out of sight of her place, nodding and focusing now on the task at hand.
"HENSHIN! WARM VANILLA! SPLASH!"
She transforms and hops to work, heading out to where the battlefield was, a highway where folks were having to stand on cars to keep up with all that's going on. "Huh? Speeding through, taking people's energy and memories? How annoying can you be now? Not to mention dangerous! You're putting so many peoples' lives at risk! We can't allow that to happen now! Together, we will stop your terrorizing rampage of terror!" She says, landing on top of a car and trying to keep herself balanced on it. "For together we are the Perfume Warriors and with the power of sweet scents, warm memories, and love, we will defeat you, right girls?"
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji transforms into Warm Vanilla Sugar!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Warm Encouraging Love on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Warm Encouraging Love on Hisae Musumi.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Warm Encouraging Love on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi accepts Aimi Saionji's Warm Encouraging Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa accepts Aimi Saionji's Warm Encouraging Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi accepts Aimi Saionji's Warm Encouraging Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
Madobe Kuroi doesn't have a driver's lisence either. She isn't old enough to drive for that matter but that's neither here nor there. She dooooes have rollerskates, though, even if she's never really used them since she psyched herself out and fell and skinned her knee and cried and cried and vowed to never ever wear rollerskates ever again.
Sweet Pea on the other hand...
She gets the message from Cherry Blossom. If there's a skate-bound youma, she is gonna have to skate to keep up! When Sweet Pea finally arrives, she is wearing hot pink skates and wobbling uncertainly, with a faint demented smile on her face.
"eheheh...I came prepared...." She waggles her arms up and down a bit. "See, neechan?" Kinzo has been keep tabs on these things, ever since he started remembering things. Vauge things---but things none the less. He could feel whoever was behind this line of Youma was dangerous of the capital D variety. It worried him.
And so when one was spotted, he was running down the highway, you guys could see the streak of amber running just behind it. But he wasn't catching up, this thing was just sliiiighty faster, just enough to not catch up not on his own two feet.
Then the girls appear, this worries him more----they got here before he did too. He sort of dissapears into a blur of amber, before reappearing on a car just ahead of this specific speedster Youma, jumpping off and attempting to drive his blade down into it.
"Where is she!?" he calls out. He's not being specific. He's expecting this Youma to know exactly what he's talking about. This probably won't work, but he can hope. How much do these things know anyways? Probably not much.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Fastlane Interrogation on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly dodges Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fastlane Interrogation, taking 5 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki is Psyched! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka fails to dodge Hisae Musumi's Snowball To The Something, taking 16 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka fails to brace Sakura Akagi's Hey Big Ugly, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Tomomi Shizuka is Quipped!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly braces Erika Inagawa's Forever Perfect Poise, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
Perhaps this threat is a double D threat.
A dangerous dame.
What?
The girls can land on moving cars. The drivers are perplexed, but for now keep the cars on the road. The driver of Forever Sunshine's cargo truck, a battered-looking long-haul trucker, glances up at his roof with a strange look, but can't see anything. By contrast, Warm Vanilla Splash lands on a foreign sedan being driven by an old Russian man with a dashcam.
"Huh," he says. "Girl."
Dark Amber blazes in to shank the skating youma. She blades hard, accelerating in a burst of glittery dust to get away from his blade. The sword cuts across her stomach, but doesn't hit deeply enough to breach her enchanted orange skin. She stares back at him and is about to say something when she is clobbered upside the head with a snowball.
"RAHHHH!" she screams, flying wildly up the road. She hears the threats of Cherry Blossom and Forever Sunshine. Cherry Blossom particularly incites her for whatever reason, her red eyes glaring back at her.
But the youma doesn't stop skating. She tries to outpace the joyful radiation of Warm Vanilla Splash, carving between traffic with increasingly dangerous maneuvers. The skater is putting distance between anyone who is not car-surfing or leaping to pursue her. She's a blaze of non-stop motion.
The skate youma starts warping space around her. She accelerates forward, the universe seeming to stretch around her like mylar before she snaps forward in a thundering boom -- but she's gone --
-- until she reappears /behind/ the girls. She tries to slam against the lagging Sweet Pea as she rushes toward the supports of the other girls. She tries to clothesline Winterberry before she can turn around, following up by trying to body-check Warm Vanilla Sugar's car. The skate youma pushes harder, racing to try to run Forever Sunshine's truck off the road, before banking hard to try to clobber Dark Amber onto the road! Oh no!
Having built up a good head of speed, the skate youma bears down on Cherry Blossom. Sorcerous power glows around her skates as she tries to grab Cherry Blossom and drive her into the safety barrier! If she can, she'll try to drag Sakura along the barrier before breaking off, accelerating further up the road. There are more innocent people ahead! Stop her, Perfume Warriors!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Open Skate on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Open Skate on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Open Skate on Aimi Saionji.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Open Skate on Hisae Musumi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Open Skate on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Do The Locomotion on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa fails to dodge Tomomi Shizuka's Open Skate, taking 11 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's Do The Locomotion, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Tangle applied to Sakura Akagi!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Open Skate, taking 6 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Open Skate, taking 7 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi fails to dodge Tomomi Shizuka's Open Skate, taking 12 Fatigue damage!
Cherry Blossom heard Warm Vanilla's shout... but only vaugely, as she's already in hot pursuit! "That's right!" she shouts at her, and then she sees Sweet Pea's preparation. "Great plan!" she says, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Sweet Pea is wobbling a bit on those skates.
The youma streaks toward her, and slams her into the safety barrier. She tries to right herself, but has no skates of her own, and falls a bit clumsily, tripping over one barrier piece, righting herself, then trying to run but failing to entirely catch up.
These youma are getting faster and faster! There must be some way to slow her down! She tries a quick cast of cherry blossom brambles, thrusting out her hand to create a patch of uneven terrain full of new growth that might trip the youma up. She just hopes no cars crash into it in the process...
Mist flaps backward a little, unable to keep up with this youma for sure. It ends up hovering not too far from Hisae in the process.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Cherry Branch Bramble on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
Kinzo Hiroyuki braces as he hits the road....overall stopping him from becoming a skipping stone along pavement along the various cars and such that are probably stopping slowly behind everyone.
He gets back up as he frowns as he dissapers. He reappears on another car, the world turns into a sepia tone for him as time stops.
He throws a lot of blades, as time resumes, a torrent of blades appears to turn up out of nowhere in front of him down at the rather fast youma, each blade aimed just ahead of the other one as his own world turns back into the rush of the freeway.
He calls over to Sakura. "How did you find this one so fast!?" he calls out. It was a little inconvient from his point of view. He can't ask this things questions with EVERYONE pissing it off.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Bladestorm on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi narrowly counters Tomomi Shizuka's Open Skate, taking 3 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi's counterattack, Bonk Bonk Bonk, partially gets through, doing 6 Fatigue damage to Tomomi Shizuka!
Forever Sunshine squints. "Is that a rabbit?" she asks, rhetorically - even as she feels encouraging love. Perhaps she can't get into it super deeply. The rabbit is distracting, mystifying...
CHAOS REIGNS!
Her truck of choice swerves, the long-haul guy perhaps able to keep from veering off the road entirely due to sheer inertia. He does brush the guardrail, and the bump from that is hard enough to send Forever Sunshine bouncing in the air, still keeping her relative velocity of 'pretty fast'. As she topples in the air, she gives Sweet Pea two thumbs up for the skates, and then lands, feet first, on the windshield of a white American sedan.
Rebounding with great force forwards, she calls ahead, "You had your chance!!" As Cherry Blossom sends out a bramble patch, Forever Sunshine slaps one foot down --
And is hitting a roadway surface at 40-odd miles per hour. "Gyaahhh!!!" She rolls suddenly and violently forwards, /but maybe/ it will also hit the skater girl too! Before she turns into 100% road rash, anyway.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has used Freeman Family Secret Technique on Tomomi Shizuka. COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.
"I'm sorry, Puff!"
Hisae tosses the bath pouf gently.
The giant, fluffy white bunny pops into, well, being, his heart-shaped nose sniffing wildly. "A dark scent! Why did you throw me? Nevermind, hit her!" Winterberry doesn't bother to argue. She really, really doesn't bother to argue at all. Instead, she is too busy getting clotheslined, ending up on her rear end on the asphalt. "Ow!" She pops back up, dusting dirt out of her tights and dress.
"Hello, Mist-san." She then dashes back downs towards the skater, leaping up on to the roofs and from rooftop to rooftop. Let'
"Eheheheheh...." Sweet Pea says, waggling her arms before sensing--a presence!--behind her. She turns, probably more accidentally than not bashing her arm against the figure skater even as she's thrown to the ground!
And the rest of the cake too! Welcome to the real world, Sweet Pea! There's so many things to throw to the ground, but right now it's basically just Sweet Pea (and skates) tumbling down across the asphalt. She bashes and bounces a few times before sliding to a stop. "Rggh..." She says before looking up and noticing Kinzo. "--It's you!" THAT GUY AGAIN! GRrrr!! Is he behind this?? It doesn't actually seem to be his MO. But she dusts herself off, breathes out, and wobblles up to her feet, drawing out her Sweet Pea Shooters!
"I'm sorry, Puff!"
Hisae tosses the bath pouf gently.
The giant, fluffy white bunny pops into, well, being, his heart-shaped nose sniffing wildly. "A dark scent! Why did you throw me? Nevermind, hit her!" Winterberry doesn't bother to argue. She really, really doesn't bother to argue at all. Instead, she is too busy getting clotheslined, ending up on her rear end on the asphalt. "Ow!" She pops back up, dusting dirt out of her tights and dress.
"Hello, Mist-san." She then dashes back downs towards the skater, leaping up on to the roofs and from rooftop to rooftop. Let's see, what can stop someone on skates going at high speeds? Oh, yes. Not being able to see. Hisae points in the air, and a storm cloud rolls in.
Puff, meanwhile: "Cherry Blossom, that kimono-dress is way too short for you. I understand you've got nice legs, but please." "Eheheheheh...." Sweet Pea says, waggling her arms before sensing--a presence!--behind her. She turns, probably more accidentally than not bashing her arm against the figure skater even as she's thrown to the ground!
And the rest of the cake too! Welcome to the real world, Sweet Pea! There's so many things to throw to the ground, but right now it's basically just Sweet Pea (and skates) tumbling down across the asphalt. She bashes and bounces a few times before sliding to a stop. "Rggh..." She says before looking up and noticing Kinzo. "--It's you!" THAT GUY AGAIN! GRrrr!! Is he behind this?? It doesn't actually seem to be his MO. But she dusts herself off, breathes out, and wobblles up to her feet, drawing out her Sweet Pea Shooters! "Oh no! Those innocent bystanders!" She points both pistols forward. "I'm gonna...try to force her into a detour!" And she fires! She isn't shooting directly at the youma, rather--she is firing sweet pea flowers in the way of her path, trying to create a sudden garden to disrupt its fligh--skate path!
"This is gonna be tough... it's hard enough just trying to keep up with it!"
Warm Vanilla Sugar hangs on as best she can, not realizing that she was on one of the car of a Russian who hard seems phased by anything. She is shaken, stirred, but manages to avoid being thrown off.
At least until the car comes to a stop, causing her to go flying off. She spins around in the air, letting instinct kick in to right herself around so that she could land on the ground, skidding to a stop on the highway. Not a good place to be, especially with all the cars and trucks driving around. She might want to get out of the way.
Warm Vanilla doesn't stay there too long, hopping up towards the lightposts and looking around as she tries to focus on the speeding fight. "Okay Vanilla girl.. lets see if those dreams were right..." She mutters.
For now she ignores Winter-chan's new companion, trying to dig through her memories about what she was going to do. "Okay, it went like this... or was it this way?" She said to herself. Warm Vanilla began to gather up vanilla scented magic, starting to split it up into a series of orbs. It was a bit of a strain on her, but there wasn't much else she can do right now. Vanilla began to launch the orbs out at the skater, a large number of them in an attempt to surround and hopefully trap the skater between them. Not that it'll keep her in place for long.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Vanilla Magical Barrage on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.
Madobe Kuroi also frowns a bit. Gross bunny flirting with nee-chan.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has used Flower Shot on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has used Winter's Scorn on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka perfectly dodges Kinzo Hiroyuki's Bladestorm, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly dodges Erika Inagawa's Freeman Family Secret Technique, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Erika Inagawa is Psyched! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates! Cripple and Stun applied to Tomomi Shizuka!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly braces Hisae Musumi's Winter's Scorn, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Blind applied to Tomomi Shizuka!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka fails to counter Madobe Kuroi's Flower Shot, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Stun applied to Tomomi Shizuka!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka's counterattack, Mysterious Dust, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Madobe Kuroi!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka perfectly dodges Aimi Saionji's Vanilla Magical Barrage, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly counters Sakura Akagi's Cherry Branch Bramble, taking 16 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Tangle applied to Tomomi Shizuka!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka's counterattack, Mysterious Dust, partially gets through, doing 2 Fatigue damage to Sakura Akagi!
The big truck maintains some control over itself, though it starts braking when it rubs against the wall. If whatever that is heads away from it, well, the trucker isn't going to drive INTO it. He turns on his hazard flashers.
The Russian stops the car to avoid hitting the truck. Off Warm Vanilla Sugar goes. The Russian picks up his coffee and takes an unhurried sip. Russians just don't care.
Sweet Pea whacks at the youma as she goes by, with mixed results on the exchange for the youma. Some mysterious glittery stuff pops out of the youma when Sweet Pea whacks on her, but to no real effect.
Forever Sunshine tries to ram the youma, one guesses? The skating youma banks hard, tucking in. Forever Sunshine scrapes her side, giving her hair a good yank but not managing to derail her. This is starting to look bad!
Fortunately, time warps. The blades scream in toward the youma. Vanilla blasts start to home in around the same time, creating a storm of projectiles. But...
The youma does not decelerate when Dark Amber tries to stop time around it. The youma arcs back and away from the knives, warping through space again. The knives and vanilla blasts slam down around three after-images of the beast, but only manage to batter up the road.
It takes Cherry Blossom and Sweet Pea combining their powers to give the team a break. Cherry brambles and thorny flowers burst up in front of the skating youma! She tries to jump them, but smashes into the barrier. She wipes out across the road, tumbling a few times as she smacks against the unyielding ground. Her skates howl in protest as she skids on her face and back, finally coming to a merciful stop.
The storm rolls in. Ice batters the youma as she struggles to get up, trying to arc around to get moving again. The skate youma comes around, heedless of incoming target, and decides Dark Amber is its priority target.
The youma blazes at Dark Amber, seeming to skip several frames a second. It leaps at him, trying to drive him back into an incoming car! As she finishes the leap, she disappears, skipping a few more frames before reappearing back on the road, skating back toward the girls. It swerves back toward Cherry Blossom, trying to ricochet from her to Forever Sunshine. From Forever Sunshine, the youma goes up on the security barrier, skating along its length to build up more speed. She charges at Warm Vanilla and Winterberry, going low to try to knock their legs out, before sinking her shoulder into an old-fashioned charge on Sweet Pea.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Do The Locomotion on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Bust A Move on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Bust A Move on Aimi Saionji.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Bust A Move on Hisae Musumi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Bust A Move on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Bust A Move on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi narrowly counters Tomomi Shizuka's Bust A Move, taking 8 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi's counterattack, Blossom Wake, partially gets through, doing 3 Fatigue damage to Tomomi Shizuka! Critical Counterhit!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's Bust A Move, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Erika Inagawa's Fade ability activates! Erika Inagawa's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi fails to dodge Tomomi Shizuka's Bust A Move, taking 12 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Bust A Move, taking 1 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly counters Tomomi Shizuka's Do The Locomotion, taking 17 Fatigue damage! Stagger applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, Amber Striker, partially gets through, doing 29 Fatigue damage to Tomomi Shizuka! Critical Counterhit!
Mist blink-blinks at the bunny.
Then it charges, or, at least flutters, over to follow Puff. "Ah... you're an escapee like me!! It's so good you arrived!"
"...What?" Cherry Blossom looks over her shoulder at the sudden insult. She waves her hands defensively. "But I didn't - it's not as if I chose what the perfume would do-- oh!" She's even nervous about the part that sounded like a compliment. "Don't be rude!"
But in brighter news, her branches and brambles slowed the youma down. She shakes her head at Puff. Cherry Blossom focuses again, and charges in, dashing through a blast of dust on the road as the youma once again picks up speed. She's running... for a moment she's startled at the speed, especially when she leaps onto the hood of another passing car and the pace gets even faster. She jumps up -- her leg, indeed a bit bare in the short skirt -- collides with the youma with a spray of cherry blossom wind behind it.
She twists around, her body bending once in the middle as she backflips gracefully from the shoulder of the youma. She kicks it once more, and then strikes the ground with two bent knees. She will wonder only later how she managed to pull that off, but for the moment, she feels a surge of power rush through her. She gracefully leaps to the top of a truck, landing on the flatbed to brace herself for what might come next.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Cherry Flip Kick on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Bust A Move, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
"Well that didn't work..." Vanilla says.
She braces herself as best she can on the lightpost as the youma skates up to knock her over. It succeeds in pushing her off, but she grabs a hold of the post, doing her best to spin around and land safely on the highway barrier. Yet again she's starting to prove to be ineffective, but she can't let that get her down. She's got to connect, and not let the youma beat her like this. She can do this.
"Well then, if that's how you're going to be about it," Warm Vanilla says. She rushes forth as fast as she can at the skater, hoping that she can match its speed long enough to get some hits in. Warm Vanilla isn't bothering with going easy on the girl right now. They need to purify and stop her sooner rather than later. As such, Warm Vanilla Sugar is going forth with her vanilla scented magic wrapping around her hands as it tends to do when she's going in for melee. She throws punches and kicks, not stopping and not playing nice. She's just playing rough as it is in the end. Hopefully it'll be effective.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Play Rough on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.
The ram was more of a controlled crash - but Forever Sunshine is certainly pleased to be able to get clear of it, enough to avoid smashing face first into the pavement. Such an outcome would be most un-moe. Agility and a rebounding up onto the hood of a Toyota prevent the attack from going Full Beavis.
But it was a partial Beavis. She takes a moment, sprawled there and ignoring the feverish tootling of that motorist. She can smell the strange fragrance of the thing, mingled with the various chemical fumes of the roadway. Nothing she'd ever really paid close attention to before. She pulls herself upwards to a full seated position, preparing to kip all the way up when
SPANG!
She is knocked up into the air. "THIS IS GETTING OOOOOOOOOLD," she wails in protest even as she grabs onto the underside of a road sign, pulling herself upwards and seeing that the youma is already making its way towards the others. She rolls her neck: then says, thoughtfully, "This one isn't talking much, huh?"
And then she leaps forwards, arms crossing in front of her. "Tangerine Body WASH!" she declares, before a burst of sandalwood and citrus propels her forwards to attempt another, more deliberate, less pratfall-y bodycheck against the youma.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has used Tangerine Storm on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.
Kinzo Hiroyuki pushes back against the youma for a moment.....it does some damage, but he counters with a sudden, hard powerful strike from glowing wrist blades---it's an overpowering juggernaut of a move that seems to collide hard enough.
"You're not strong enough to beat the assembled group---" he calls out.
"Where's is she!?" he calls out again as he attempts to just get his self back in order.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Pathetic! on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
Sweet Pea is also a little angry that the rabbit didn't say anything complimentary about HER legs. She looks down for a moment and thinks, well, okay, maybe she needs to work out a bit more. Or, you know, at all. But--but-- no way! This is the springtime of youth! She doesn't have to exercise for at least a few more years!!!$
She wobbles on her sksates a bit unsteadily again. Maybe...maybe this wasn't a bright idea to skate against a skate elemental.
She manages to brace herself! And then the youma tackles into her, sending her flying back! She spins through the air, managing--thanks to magic--to land on her feet. She flails a bit more before landing on her butt.
"O..ow..." Sweet Pea whines before pushing her hand against the ground and pushing herself up--firing out a couple more shots from her sweet pea shooters. So far the skates have mostly gotten in the way.
"Maybe...with confidence...?" Sweet Pea says unconfidently.
Hisae hits the ground - more like the roof of the car she hopped onto - with another thunk, causing her nkees and palms to slide over it. She gives an angry hiss, her blue eyes sparkling as she looks back at the Skater and Dark Amber. "Amber-san, are you okay!" She shouts out, looking back at him. "She?" She asks, most softly.
However, she then focuses her attention back on the skater. "One two three four, I declare a SNOWBALL WAR!" She throws her hands up in the air.
Puff nods agreeably. "I landed in the park district where Winterberry-san was on a school trip. Her and some other familiar smelling boy. Hmm."
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has used Snowball Fight!! on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has used Sweet Pea Strike on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly dodges Aimi Saionji's Play Rough, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka fails to brace Sakura Akagi's Cherry Flip Kick, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Sakura Akagi is Psyched!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka perfectly dodges Erika Inagawa's Tangerine Storm, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly counters Kinzo Hiroyuki's Pathetic!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Tomomi Shizuka is Taunted!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka's counterattack, Mysterious Dust, partially gets through, doing 5 Fatigue damage to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly dodges Hisae Musumi's Snowball Fight!!, taking 2 Fatigue damage! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly braces Madobe Kuroi's Sweet Pea Strike, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Madobe Kuroi is Psyched!
The skate youma slams into Dark Amber, but Dark Amber's blade pierces her abdomen. She screeches, not finishing her initial charge so to break away from the strike. Getting in close to Cherry Blossom gives the skate youma another nasty knock to the side, but this youma's made for skating. The petals glance against her, but only slow her down a bit.
Cherry Blossom smashes the youma in the back of the head, making it stumble forward. This sets up Warm Vanilla to take a shot or two at the youma, but it's starting to get moving by the time she starts laying out the real chin music. She tags it a few times, but the youma is just so fast.
Forever Sunshine barrels in at it with a citrus-themed surge. The youma blurs out of the way, vanishing before Erika can connect. She might end up almost sailing off the edge of the road!! Snowballs race by, a few clipping the youma as it tries to put some more distance between it and the melee portion of the party. This lets Sweet Pea tag it in the back a few more times, though she can't get a good bead on it at this speed. The youma is almost faster than her bullets!
Dark Amber keeps drawing this thing's attention. The youma banks around again, rushing in a straight line back at him. It fully commits itself to slamming into him, trying to power him right off the side of the road. The youma aims to lock its shoulder and launch him into the oncoming eastbound lanes, which to this point have been unaffected by the battle. As it closes onto Dark Amber, glitter starts appearing around it again, acting as some kind of magical accelerant...
Explosions of glittery fire rocket up in the wake of the youma, potentially clipping the girls! Where did those come from!?
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used What Is This Hax Nonsense on Hisae Musumi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used What Is This Hax Nonsense on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used What Is This Hax Nonsense on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used What Is This Hax Nonsense on Aimi Saionji.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used What Is This Hax Nonsense on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's What Is This Hax Nonsense, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Sakura Akagi's Block ability activates!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji narrowly counters Tomomi Shizuka's What Is This Hax Nonsense, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Aimi Saionji's Reverse ability activates! Aimi Saionji's Tactician ability activates!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji's counterattack, Counterburst, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Tomomi Shizuka!
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's What Is This Hax Nonsense, taking 12 Fatigue damage! Hisae Musumi's Fade ability activates! Hisae Musumi's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi narrowly counters Tomomi Shizuka's What Is This Hax Nonsense, taking 9 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi's counterattack, Madobe Magic, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Tomomi Shizuka!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's What Is This Hax Nonsense, taking 12 Fatigue damage! Erika Inagawa's Fade ability activates! Erika Inagawa's Flash ability activates!
Fire erupts at the front of the truck. Cherry Blossom raises her hands, blocking some, but not all, of the heat. Then she braces herself as the truck continues to barrel toward the youma...
Not fast enough! It's hard to strategize in such a high-pressure situation! And she's worried that the sheer speed of the truck is taking her farther from home...
... from the real world, where she's just an ordinary person...
She has a weird, distant feeling, which she shakes off. This is really happening....
She jumps to the top of the truck cab. "...Excuse me--"
And then she leaps onto a passing motorcycle, splitting the back of the ride with a somewhat-startled driver. She locks her legs around the motorcyle as her skirt and sleeves flap in high-speed winds. "Hi! So sorry--" she quickly says, apologizing to the driver as she pulls a small chopstick out of her hair. She throws it, with good accuracy, at the base of the youma's skates. Then she helpfully says to the cyclist: "Keep following her!"
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Chopstick Throw on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
Kinzo Hiroyuki is knocked hard and fast..... towards the edge of a freeway ramp!? He almost looses conciousness...well. Almost, as he shakes it off, he recovers and time slows down again. He spins, gently to the right and a blade shoots outwards the Youma, it's attacked to a chain. If it hits, he'll use the anchor to suddenly send himself flying right towards the youma with enough force to kick it in it's stomach, and also saving him from a freefall of a highway ramp.
"EAT IT WITCH!" he yells as he hopefully collides with the Youma!
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Came in like a Wrecking Ball.... on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
Madobe tries to summon up another barrage of flower power, but the youma is just so fast, that the pure speed pushes away the magic before sending Sweet Pea flying back again. She manages to land a bit more expertly this time, though she still wobbles, and then she breathes out--relieved--and then says, "If I can't get a good bead on it..." She punches her palm with her fist. "Then I'm gonna have to skate...!"
She pulls her head up and dashes forward, rushing right at the demon. She jumps on top of a pasing car, sliding on it before leaping for a nearby guardrail which she skids alond, sparks flying as she allows inertia to carry her forward.
"You're not getting away!" She shouts, bending at the knees before jumping off and throwing herself in a SKATE KICK for the youma's head! "Take that!! MY SWEET SKATE KICK!"
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COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has used Skate Or Die on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
Vanilla falls back on her old tactics as the fire bursts out at her, firing off a counter burst of her own at it. She deals with most of it, but it still manages to scorch her just a bit. At least she's not being totally useless this time around. She's contributing SOMETHING. She really has to improve herself somehow, some way...
That is, after she's done with the fight here. She takes a deep breath to relax herself, looking around at everything so far. She can't keep up with the youma like this, so she'll have to do something else. She'll need to help her friends out, noting that Cherry Blossom and Dark Amber both look like they might need a bit of healing warmth as it is.
Vanilla moves to position herself where she is sure she can reach them both with her power, and not be in the way of any more oncoming traffic, summoning up the magic from her perfume bottle and letting it flow through and out of her in a wave of cleansing vanilla over Cherry Blossom and Dark Amber, mostly because why not?
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Vanilla Cleansing Wave on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Vanilla Cleansing Wave on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki accepts Aimi Saionji's Vanilla Cleansing Wave, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Kinzo Hiroyuki's debuffs are cleared!
"What the--"
Winterberry swiftly throws herself to the side as she gives a shout, the glittery fire eating at her, causing her to hit the ground and roll slightly. For once, her pretty white dress is'nt coming out so white at the end of this! She throws her hands together, with a big clapping noise, and yells out, spitefully down the road:
"Hehhh... I see how it is! Gotta rely on your speed because you're too scared to face us!" Composure: Cracking.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has used Words Of Ice on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has finished attacking.
"Where is who, weird guy!?" Forever Sunshine cries towards Dark Amber.
Then she hits the road. This time, at least, she bounces loose in a sandalwood puff, her legs contorting as she releases a fearsome, if dramatically poised, 'abaj'. She is about to fall off the side of the highway, and perhaps be lost to the sisterhood of the magical girls, when explosions bounce her up into the air.
Her legs bicycle in the air. The Tokyo wind brushes over her. She realizes, with astonishment, that she's been in the air most of the time here. "This - maybe this is the essence of my style... to be in the air, moving elegantly and swiftly -"
An arrow points towards her bicycling legs, which looks ridiculous. Puff may have to call this out.
But as she does this, she sweeps one arm around, saying with surprise and joy, "I think I'm remembering something!"
A tangerine-scented breeze wafts through several people - Cherry Blossom, despite her status as a bike rider. Sweet Pea for her intense skating. And even... Dark Amber, in all his mysteriosity.
Since she can't actually fly, she also lands on the cab roof of the truck JCB was perching on before. "So do you have any idea what this one's deal IS, other than liking to mess up traffic??!" she shouts at Cherry Blossom, even as the wind whips dramatically through her bangs.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has used Tangerine Breeze on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has used Tangerine Breeze on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has used Tangerine Breeze on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki accepts Erika Inagawa's Tangerine Breeze, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Surge applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly braces Kinzo Hiroyuki's Came in like a Wrecking Ball...., taking 1 Fatigue damage! Tomomi Shizuka is Quipped!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka fails to dodge Sakura Akagi's Chopstick Throw, taking 16 Fatigue damage! Sakura Akagi is Psyched!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly counters Madobe Kuroi's Skate Or Die, taking 5 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka's counterattack, Flesh Into Gear, partially gets through, doing 12 Fatigue damage to Madobe Kuroi!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka fails to dodge Hisae Musumi's Words Of Ice, taking 8 Fatigue damage!
The glittery blasts leave behind a faint honeyed odor. Where did they come from?!
The skate youma and Dark Amber get into a dangerous battle. The youma rams him, but the chained blade digs into her shoulder, anchoring securely. Dark Amber rushes up at it, swinging in at the youma as the two fly between the expressways.
The skate youma impossibly skates on air, blading to the side before Dark Amber can fully consolidate his kick. She goes back onto the road, awkwardly pinwheeling as she wrenches the blade out of her shoulder. This gives Sweet Pea an opening to slam into the back of the youma. The skate youma stumbles, but retaliates by raking at Sweet Pea's face with her hand! Ouch!
The skate youma starts to pick up speed again. She skids as Winterberry generates sass, the one thing villains cannot abide, ever.
The motorcyclist is a tough-looking goon wearing a brightly red leather jacket and a skull-faced helmet. The motorcyclist does maintain control of the ride when Sakura lands on it, actually leaning down to help build up speed while they pursue the skating youma.
The chopsticks fly at the youma before it can fully take off to pursue Winterberry, making it almost skid out. It maintains itself, swinging its arms to pick back up speed. Buffing perfume fills the air. The youma has a reflexive desire to hit medics, but is magnetically attracted to sass. It just can't help it. Winterberry talks stuff, and so gets huff. The localization team gets complaint letters.
The youma tries to hurl itself into Winterberry, leading with its knee to hit her in the gut. Planting her hands on Winterberry's shoulders, the youma aims to kick off of her in a manner similar to that of Cherry Blossom before arcing through the air, flying back at the others! The skate youma relentlessly barrels back through speeding traffic, but this time doesn't go for a direct assault.
Cars start flying all over the road! Sakura's motorcyclist struggles not to get into a wreck! The youma cuts people off, trying to make cars fishtail and swerve everywhere! The insurance companies are going to explode with horror!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Hisae Musumi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Every Little Step on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Every Little Step on Aimi Saionji.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Every Little Step on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Every Little Step on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Every Little Step on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Tomomi Shizuka's Every Little Step, taking 20 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's Every Little Step, taking 17 Fatigue damage! Erika Inagawa's Fade ability activates! Erika Inagawa's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Every Little Step, taking 3 Fatigue damage! Sakura Akagi's Block ability activates!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Every Little Step, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi accepts Erika Inagawa's Tangerine Breeze, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Surge applied to Madobe Kuroi!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's Every Little Step, taking 13 Fatigue damage! Madobe Kuroi's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 23 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi accepts Aimi Saionji's Vanilla Cleansing Wave, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cleanse! All of Sakura Akagi's debuffs are cleared!
Cherry Blossom holds up an arm as the skate youma cuts the bike off. She puts her other, free hand on the cyclist's shoulder. "...Thank you so much. So sorry for this inconvenience." It's really hard to entirely remove the 'too polite' from Sakura where civilians are involved.
She hops up, and with a half-turn, stands on the back of the bike seat, facing up at Sunshine. "Not sure. But it's definitely from the Apothecary! I recognize the sigils now! And that means only our fragrance will change it back to normal!"
She turns around again and looks at the road... "Let's just hope she doesn't get run down after..."
A cleansing wave of vanilla washes over her. She smiles, with new confidence, even as she's precariously balanced on a motorcycle seat...
"Winterberry! Vanilla! Try to surround her and we can force her to the off-ramp!"
Team strategy time: go!
Then she kicks off of the bike with a little: "Thank you!" and lands on the roof of a sportscar.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi narrowly braces Erika Inagawa's Tangerine Breeze, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Sakura Akagi's Block ability activates! Surge applied to Sakura Akagi!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Team Tactics on Hisae Musumi.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Team Tactics on Aimi Saionji.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has used Team Tactics on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa accepts Sakura Akagi's Team Tactics, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Erika Inagawa is Cheered!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji accepts Sakura Akagi's Team Tactics, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Aimi Saionji is Cheered!
Talk crap, get hit back.
But perhaps Winterberry was counting on that? She gets grabbed, and then gets kicked, curling up into a tight ball as she gets sent into the air. It is the landing that is not very pretty - she hits hard on her shoulder and goes rolling a few feet, before moving back to her feet. Her shoulders and the top half are all bruised up and she's got imbedded bits of dirts and tiny rocks, but there is a very odd glow to her blue eyes. "Okay, Blossom-san!"
She moves - albeit a bit painfully - towards the off-ramp and the Youma, trying to help corral it. She doesn't attack it directly though, instead singing a quiet song to herself, something about the beauty of snow and so forth.
Vanilla braces herself against the oncoming cars as best she can, proving that she is as tough as magical girls come, resisting being knocked around by the car. It stings though.
"Right Cherry-san!" Vanilla calls out, moving around the best she can to try and trap the youma. Of course, she's not going to try and do this from a distance, nope.
Vanilla rushes in once more, gathering up her energy and throwing out a punch at the youma once more, trying to prep herself and be ready for what's to come. She can do this. She KNOWS she can finish things off here and now like this!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has used Can't Keep Her Down on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi accepts Sakura Akagi's Team Tactics, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has used Song of Snow on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa fails to brace Hisae Musumi's Song of Snow, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Empower and Surge applied to Erika Inagawa!
As a car fishtails up, swatting against Forever Sunshine's side and sending her almost sprawling off the cab roof, Sunshine is instantly -
- OK she's hanging onto the exhaust stack. She is looking increasingly displeased with this state of affairs. She vaults forwards, moving with the other girls, muttering underneath her breath - then the back of a delivery van in front of them is ripped asunder by a bouncing moped. Supplies come flying out in a veritable snack-laced tornado - Forever Sunshine snatches something out of the air and hurls it towards the youma, even as she vaults onto the delivery van itself to get closer.
What is that something?
Why, it's a four second clip that the animation studio LOOOOOOOOOVES reusing - a wobbling slab of bacon, whirling through the air!!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has used Thrown Bacon on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.
Sweet Pea is clobbered in the face even as she tries to skate (or die). she barely manages to avoid the car thrown at her as well, largely surviving by virtue of throwing herself to the ground and bruising her arms and knees to try and avoid it--luckily she was wearing kneepads, otherwise it would have been a lot worse.
She covers her head for a bit, then looks up and then covers her head again. Looks like she's taking--a breather!--for the moment. She's a bit perturbed by her skate or die technique not working nearly as well as she hoped it would.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has used Breather on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi accepts Madobe Kuroi's Breather, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
Kinzo Hiroyuki has been counting on that phrase all night 'talk crap get hit back'---trying to draw most of aggro. It worked. It wasn't his plan when he came here though.
Also, it's lead to him feeling extraordinarily run down. It hurts a lot. He frowns as he takes a moment to gather himself, he's ended up on top of a vehicle, it's hood.....he kind of looks to the people inside and frowns before he walks up the windshield to the hood. This probably makes for an Akward pause between the passanger and the driver for a moment.
Dark Amber tries another array of thrown blades, as he breathes a little... "Ugh---you...guys better be able to finish this one on your own---" he asides.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Bladestorm on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka fails to dodge Aimi Saionji's Can't Keep Her Down, taking 25 Fatigue damage! Aimi Saionji is Psyched!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly braces Erika Inagawa's Thrown Bacon, taking 2 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka narrowly dodges Kinzo Hiroyuki's Bladestorm, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Tomomi Shizuka's Fade ability activates! Tomomi Shizuka's Flash ability activates!
The motorcyclist is protected by Cherry Blossom. He is too stunned afterward to do anything but watch Cherry Blossom climb off and rejoin the battle. He waves confusedly as Sakura keeps going up the road on another car.
Dark Amber lands on a car being driven by a group of college age girls. They squeal at him like he was a boy band lead singer, and then squeal when the knives get thrown through the air for an altogether different reason.
Magic is palpable in the air. The universe seems to be quieting down as the girls prepare their final attacks. The colors of the world become sharper. The beautiful odors of their spells overwhelm the smoke and oil of the traffic around them. Nature seems to rise up to greet them.
But this youma isn't going down without a fight. The youma is starting to look ragged, but refuses to give up. Even as the traffic rushes around it, the youma springs up and starts skating on the concrete divider around the expressway. It circumvents some of the traffic, building up more speed as it continues eastbound. Knives race by it, but only a couple manage to stick awkwardly out of its arm and back. It's about to go onto another attack run when --
A block of bacon hits the youma, slapping over its helmet comically. This is funny to someone in the animation studio.
Vanilla pursues the youma. She unleashes a brutal series of blows that knocks glittery stuff out of the youma with every hit. It struggles just to maintain upright as Vanilla hits her again and again. The relentless blows drive the youma toward an offramp, though it seems to want to resist leaving the delicious cars behind. There's less traffic down there, and less traffic = less fun for it.
The youma is clobbered onto the edge of an onramp. Its helmet falls off, her green hair spilling out around it unevenly. She hunches over, drawing in what power she has left to herself. Its red eyes focus on the girls. The youma clenches its fists, locks its jaw, and goes on one last attack run.
The youma blazes around in a gradually increasing spiral, trying to slam into the girls again and again. It is moving so fast that two or three of it are around each girl as they address its assaults. It lashes out with its hands and knees, trying to beat down the girls enough to find a way free of their herding. It can feel it is near the end of its life. It won't go quietly.
You better make it go loudly.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Kinzo Hiroyuki.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Madobe Kuroi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Erika Inagawa.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Aimi Saionji.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Hisae Musumi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has used Roller Derby on Sakura Akagi.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 15 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 17 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi narrowly dodges Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 38 Fatigue damage! Hisae Musumi's Fade ability activates! Hisae Musumi's Flash ability activates!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi fails to counter Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 47 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi's counterattack, Skate Or Die, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Tomomi Shizuka!
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji narrowly braces Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 16 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa fails to brace Tomomi Shizuka's Roller Derby, taking 42 Fatigue damage!
Japanese Cherry Blossom continues to feel a powerful surge of confidence. With the help and courage of her friends... she knows she can accomplish anything.
She leaps from one car, to another, and lands...
Next to Dark Amber, who seems tired. "...Yeah, you can leave this one to us. But thank you. For this, and the other fight. Maybe some day... you can heal your past."
She looks over her shoulder, taking one step forward. "And join us--"
A few blossom petals fall around her. They seem to come from somewhere unknown. They quickly build up in the wind, streaking back behind her as cars speed up on the freeway. Shehe leaps--
The youma passes under her. It throws her off-course, and she rolls onto the ground, dodging, but only partially. There's a squeal of tires as another car moves to avoid running her down... but she didn't get the worst of it, either. "It's getting desperate! Let's combine our strength!"
She starts to run. There's a moment of determination as she gets her feet moving... then a strange moment of joy as she bursts past a car on the highway. But she's still not fast enough to keep up with the youma... until she leaps to another car roof, touches down, and shouts again. "Let's go!"
She raises her hands above her head. The lights of the freeway, all golden, streak into pink stripes as the winds of her powers build. Cherry blossoms keep forming, carrying a scent that overpowers the exhaust of the highway. Drivers with their windows down have sudden nostalgic bursts as they catch the backdraft. A few strands of Sakura's hair come loose, her earrings billowing in speed and wind, her sleeves flapping, her eyes determined...
"CHERRY BLOSSOM--"
She draws her hands up against the wind. An aura of pink builds around them, glittering with the spinning petals of flowers...
"FRAGRANCE FUSION--"
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has started a combo targeting Tomomi Shizuka!
Warm Vanilla Sugar braces herself against its onslaught, taking blow after blow as if she knew how to take blows. You know, like she's had some kind of martial arts training (Such as Judo).
She takes her perfume bottle as Cherry Blossom make the call. With the amount of damage done here, a magical lovebeam nuke is certainly not out of the question to cure everyone and everything here.
"Your reign of terror ends here, youma. For all the damage you have caused, for all the trouble and memories you have stolen, we will not forgive you! Be purified in our wounderous scent!" She calls out.
"WARM VANILLA--"
The golden magic wraps around her, the scent on the wind, hair blowing behind her as she focuses what magic she has left, directing it to join that of her comrades' own powers, adding to the nostalga that might already be going through many people's minds now at this very moment.
"FRAGRANCE FUSION--"
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has joined the combo started by Sakura Akagi!
Forever Sunshine stands on top of the delivery van, bracing herself - and then the youma comes by. She sinks down wards and she raises one arm upwards, gritting her teeth. There is a sudden wrenching CRACK! as her wrist pops, and she grimaces at the sensation of --
Of what? She thinks... a sprain, immediately. Her expression tightens. But she says into the wind behind her, "You're getting desperate, huh? It's too bad you just lost."
SEPIA TONED EXPLANATION: As wind whips through one of Forever Sunshine's hair buns, the gold blonde hair ripples free. Where did the cloth go? Both were intact before - undamaged - and the blow was nowhere near her head. The answer is --
-- that the pink peony cloth was tied into a knot around the youma's middle finger. A pink cloth, wrapped into a long strip. Or a thin string. A string wrapped around the finger-- in other words, a reminder!!
Forever Sunshine's chin raises upwards as she lifts her un-injured hand up, resting it on her OTHER hairbun. The scent of sandalwood and pralines rises around her as she breathes in hugely, her chest swelling up like a barrel. "Whatever your memories are, we're going to break them loose. I hope you're prepared to recall! Forever Sunshine--"
Sparkling violet-pink-gold radiates out from that reminder string, joining up with the gathering aura towards Sakura's gathered power. "FRAGRANCE FUSION...!!"
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has joined the combo started by Sakura Akagi!
Kinzo Hiroyuki is slapped again in the youma's spiral. This is getting ridicolous. The girls are doing thier thing. That's not his thing. He let's it be.
"GATE OPEN!" he yells.
A mysterious, metallic round gate with steampunky gears appears from thing air and hovers, the gears begin to turn and a bar opens the gate, inside is a swirling like pattern of various translucent amber hues.
"AMBER GATE!" he yells as an Amber Beam flies out, aimed at the Youma precisely enough to hopefully hit it head on and weaken it more for the girl's fusion.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Amber Gate on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.
Madobe's player totes forgot to heal up before this fight so we're going to pretend she has the mana to use the team finisher and instead use the lower level one. After her flailing about this episode, she used up plenty of camera time as is. She gives a very deadpan look at the thrown bacon. It's such a nonsequitor to her. The animators tried to give her this look in order to make the thrown bacon seem funny(ier).
Madobe is still, nevertheless, trying to catch a bit of a break here, and as such she's slow to move when Chicanery happens. She raises her arms to try and block but instead gets clobbered up the chin and cheek which gets BRUISED from so much struck cheekage! "Uguu!!"
She's finding herself sort of breath. It took everything she had just to keep up with the youma, but it seems that Sakura is ready to take it down.
She nods once and pushes herself up into an unsteady standing position.
"SWEET PEA--"
The pink magic ripples around Sweet Pea, dropping flower petals around her as she closes her eyes before she guides her arms forward and sends the magical aura rippling to join the rest of the Perfumer's.
"FRAGRANCE FUSION--"
If it could beat ... uh ... Fusion, it could probably beat skaters, right? Sweet Pea sure hopes so! Even if she walks to school she doesn't want cars crashing all the time!
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has joined the combo started by Sakura Akagi!
Hisae takes another rolling derby. No, literally. Winterberry takes the hit and once again goes flying, this time not crashing on the ground but crashlanding heavily against the rail, the stone cracking underneath her weight. Winterberry lays there for awhile. It hurts to get back up. However, the tall girl eventually lurches to her feet, her hands groping for her perfume bottle. She lifts it up.
"Winterberry!"
The blue magic ripples around her, this time being more red-berries and snowflakes more than petals or anything like that. She takes a deep breath, then sends the aura forward.
"FRAGRANCE FUSION!"
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has joined the combo started by Sakura Akagi!
COMBAT: COMBO! FINISHER! Sakura Akagi, Aimi Saionji, Erika Inagawa, Madobe Kuroi, and Hisae Musumi have used Fragrance Fusion Golden Sugar Scrub, Sweet Pea Shotgun Sojourn, and Fragrance Fusion Golden Sugar Scrub on Tomomi Shizuka.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Hisae Musumi has finished attacking.
The perfume scents all combine, even on the speed of the freeway, creating a great cloud of light in the air that the wind twists and swirls! Every girl shouts at once:
"GOLDEN SUGAR -- SCRUB!"
The power of fragrance becomes a blazing light. The light then splinters into a million shards of glitter, glowing with brilliant light. The blast can be seen from far away, sparkling within the lights of the highway. No civilian in it is harmed, but the youma....
The freeway night...
Is purified with a glittering golden rain.
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka accepts Kinzo Hiroyuki's Finisher, Amber Gate, taking 38 Fatigue damage!
COMBAT: Tomomi Shizuka accepts Sakura Akagi, Aimi Saionji, Erika Inagawa, Madobe Kuroi, and Hisae Musumi's Finisher, Combo: Fragrance Fusion Golden Sugar Scrub, taking 854 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Tomomi Shizuka is unable to keep fighting!
The youma skids to a stop near the off-ramp. It looks down at its hand, seeing the ribbon tied around its middle finger. She lifts her hand uncomprehendingly, looking back at the growing swell of magic.
The amber beam powers through the youma. The magic shears through it, sparkles exploding up from its body with the distinct odor of honey. The youma starts to collapse, falling backward in slow motion. Its rollerblades are starting to crumble. It speaks for the first time this fight: "I --"
But that's as much as you're going to get out of the youma, because the Perfume Kingdom has judged it wanting.
The million shards of glitter slam down around the youma like all the stars in the sky falling at once. A silhouette is there, at least for some fraction of a second, but soon disappears. It's like a piece of flash paper touching the edge of a lit match, or the brilliant glimmer of a man-made element that lasts for some tiny fraction of a second before degrading into something else. There is magic, and then there is Magic, and the Perfume Warriors are strong in the latter.
The shadows scatter away for a mile. There is no darkness for several long seconds. There isn't a roar, because this is not an explosion of heat. There is only the energy of love and justice powering into the world, radiating out across the countryside like the early days of the universe. For a moment, the universe is once again a place of boundless possibility.
When the light finally dims, there is a young girl lying on the side of the road, safely away from the traffic. Her garments are tattered, but she is whole and intact. She's a pretty girl with long brown hair.
There is a yellow dahlia tucked behind her ear. It lingers for a few seconds before collapsing into sparkly dust.
Kinzo Hiroyuki jumps to the side of the road...the girl is unconcious...as much as he WANTS to ask her questions---that isn't right. It's just enough to...make him punch a sign. He does. It kind of dents a little to the right.
"Dammit....!" he suddenly yells as he begins to walk off down the road.
He'll need to wait till another one of these things show up.
Sakura leaps from the car she was on. She dashes to the roadside... slightly slower now, as she's a bit worn out from the effort of the team-up attack. She almost stumbles...
And sees the young woman is safe.
She almost collapses, as she kneels down to check the victim, and sees she'll be all right.
Mist flutters over, and looks down at the flower, just before it flutters away into dust. "...She's safe now."
Sakura stands up again as Kinzo starts to walk away. But he's already on his way out.
She faces the team. "...Good work. This was... one of their attacks for sure. They're getting creative, too."
Forever Sunshine lands, wobbling - cradling her wrist, in fact.
She exhales with great force, shoulders slumping. "Man, these are just getting crazier... it wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep messing up other people, too!" she says, almost complains.
Warm Vanilla Sugar smiles and starts to relax, her magic almost completely drained now, but with the youma defeated, there is no worries about things.
Well, save for Dark Amber's yelling and punching of things. This causes Vanilla to frown and go after him. The look in her eyes is a familiar one to most. Determination is part of it. Stubborness as well.
Unless Dark Amber decides to leave via magically enhanced jumping or the like, he might find himself a victim of the Warm Vanilla Hug. And Vanilla... she won't let go of him just yet.
Winterberry's temper, which so very rarely flares, does at the language, and she wheels on Amber as Puff comes hopping up to the girls where they're all scattered nearby. The rabbit is quiet, which is a first all night. Winterberry snaps, "Amber, I know we had that talk, but seriously? I KNOW something is up, but this is not the way to resolve it!" Her ice blue eyes would be shooting fire if she wansn't icy-berry-winter scented.
She runs a hand through her hair, angrily.
"I'm glad the victim is oikay." Hisae says, quietly, reigning it back under control.
"Nice work, girls!" Puff finally comments. "My everything hurts." Sweet Pea says. "I don't think the skates worked out too well this time." She looks to Sunshine, noticing she's ESPECIALLY hurt because of her wrist. She frowns worriedly. "You okay....?"
Sakura leans against the freeway railing. The light of perfume power is fading from the sky, leaving only highway lights....
Her power flickers, beginning to fade. "...Are we... going to have to get a cab home?" she asks.
It's kind of embarrassing.
Kinzo Hiroyuki is suddenly besiged by a hug, and Hisae says something. He frowns a little heavily.
- (.
He finally looks over his shoulder. "I appreciate the sentiments....but I have a trail to try to pickup again." he says gently as he can.
"It's just kinda sore," Forever Sunshine reassures Sweet Pea, while cradling it still. "Just got to take it easy for a while."
"... Does anyone have their rail pa-"
Forever Sunshine then squints at Puff, suspiciously.
Vanilla nods a bit. "We're here for you though, Amber-san. If anything, if you stick with us, you're bound to find what you're after," she says.
"But do take care of yourself. Go home instead and rest up first. Don't worry about things and just enjoy your life and family. You know... if you have one." Its not meant to sound bad but... it just might come off that way.
She lets go of Dark Amber before turning back to go to the others, smiling. "Come on now girls! Lets get going before anything else bad can happen."
"... we'll talk, Amber-kun." Hisae says, softly.
"Oh, um." She leans down and picks up Puff, carefully, grimacing in pain. "Ow. Um. This is Puff."
Cherry Blossom bows to Puff.
Mist bows too, but then hops off her shoulder to flutter over to him. "Hi! Official greetings. Did you escape too?"
Forever Sunshine bows too, but still dubiously.
"I guess the name fits..."
She wishes abruptly that she didn't hurt her wrist, because even if he's suspicious and sassy, she kind of... wants to pet the rabbit.
Warm Vanilla Sugar looks at Puff for a bit.
Well okay, more like stares.
She's still staring.
Still.
Okay now she's hugging Puff.
Madobe Kuroi doesn't bow to Puff beccause she feels like Puff is judging her.
Winterberry just hands Puff off to Aimi. If she wants to hug him, then go right ahead. The bunny nods, his teeth chittering. "Yes, I landed in the park district nearby and I was trying to find Winterberry, I could smell her. "
"School trip." Hisae explains. Puff is judging everyone, Madobe.
Warm Vanilla Sugar will hug Puff until the girls part ways at this point. She's not that weakened like her friends. "So... now what?"
"I like the rail pass option?" Sakura says, looking at everyone. "... At least if we want to get home before... we all get in trouble." She smiles softly. "You all did great. Let's go before... she wakes up, okay?"
Maybe the girl will think it was just a strange dream.
Madobe Kuroi still frowning at Puff. "Y--yeah sure!"
"Rail passes work. WE should probably transform back and then go home. I'll make sure you all get home safely, as the oldest." Hisae says. "Plus my parents don't tend to yell at me." She comments. Puff eventually gets passed back to her, continuing to judge Madobe.
