2014-07-03 - Tonight's Feature: Cry and Wail!
| Title: Tonight's Feature: Cry and Wail! | |
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| Summary: Westar has concocted a scheme, involving a movie projector turned into a Nakewameke. Can the heroes find the real one among a horde of projections? | |
| Who: Westar, Cure Berry, Cure Peace, Cure Beauty, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Vega | |
| Where: Akihabara Electric Town | |
| OOC - IC Date: 7 February 2014 - 7/4/2014 | |
<Pose Tracker> Westar [None] has posed.
Akihabara, land of technology. For several days, now, Hayato Nishi has been taking in the sights in order to find the item he needs for his scheme. It might have gone more quickly, if the place weren't so distracting. So many disorganized shops, with so many things - one could spend years trying to understand everything! Today, however, might be the day he finds what he's seeking - and then he overhears a conversation near a pawn shop.
"...seriously, this thing belongs in an antique store - but in this condition, I don't think you'd get much for it."
"Look, it's a perfectly functional projector. Who wouldn't want one?"
"Anyone who's transitioned from film reels. Which is everyone."
A 'projector'? Excellent. The human world does have an appropriate device after all - the blond-haired man claps his hands together, because the time for subtle investigations is over.
"SWITCH! OVER!"
There's a sudden disconnect, and a mint-haired Executive of Labyrinth is striding forward to pick up the decades-old device, in spite of its size and weight. "I'll be taking this."
Flustered exclamations turn to anger in his wake, as he finds a place in the middle of the street to set the machine down. He focuses a moment, summoning a yellow diamond, and slapping it on the old projector with a grin. "Nakewameke! Obey my command!" In a massive blast of smoke, the monstrous creation comes to life. Easily a dozen meters tall, heavy metal feet supporting a hunched body. Its eyes gleam, positioned above a nose formed from a massive projector lens, and giant film reels make up its shoulders. Instead of bulky metal limbs, however, it has sinuous ones - broad lengths of old-school film, coming to a sharp-looking tip.
A whirring can be heard, and the great projector lights up. In an instant, there's a second towering creation. Then a third, and more - over a dozen, scattered through busy streets. In unison, the machines stomp, dust clouds arising from every location in perfect synchronization. Not just one monster, but a force of them? The panic begins immediately, civilians screaming and fleeing in terror as every one of the mechanical foes booms out a warcry at once.
"SURROUND SOUND!"
COMBAT: Westar transforms into Nakewameke! COMBAT: Westar has fully healed himself. He is now ready to take on 4 opponents!
<Pose Tracker> Yayoi Kise [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Akihabara is on top of the list Yayoi's favorite places. Anime and Manga, abound! Usually she comes alone. But today she's dragged Reika with her, because she got to pick out where they went last time. She looks particularly more happy and outgoing at the moment than she usually does! She's looking behind herself to make sure Reika is following however. There's no particular mascot prescene today, thankfully. She's probably off bugging one of the other Smile! Cures with requests for giant strawberries.
"Okay..." she says to Reika. "So this Zeon place declared independence from the Earth Federation then started this war, and they use these giant robots to bring this war to a stop, and they stalemate, okay, and these are called /GUNDUMS!/..." she says. "But then the Federation comes back like a few months later with thier own Gundum finally and there's lots of GIANT ROBOT fighting, and it is pretty great.... we should watch it later!" she says excitedly to Reika. "Maybe you'd like it! I mean, it's pretty old so it's not flashy or anything..." she admits. "and my tape of it is pretty old... maybe I should buy a DVD of it while I'm here... it can't be that much..." she muses at Reika and to herself. As she's lost in thought about this thinking about older formats, older formats attack suddenly in the form of multiple projections of some sort of projection monster.
"Eeeeee! W..What's going on!? Here!?...." she looks at Reika... "We should. Go?" she asks meekly.
She moves into a nearby alley and transform. "Pretty Cure.. Smile! Charge!...."
There's no introduction phrase this time because Cure Peace is filled with frevor- well as much frevor as she can muster. This is till pretty frightening.
"You can't.... attack such an awesome place like this! I'll never forgive you!..." she says, angrily balling her fists up. There's not much that can set Peace off--much of it infact, makes her shy away. But attacking her one love in the world!? UNFORGIVEABLE!
"Face my.. Sparkling, Glittering, Scissors of Justice!... ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS--- go!" she says, throwing scissors.
COMBAT: Yayoi Kise transforms into Cure Peace! COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Pikarin Janken! on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to dodge Cure Peace's Pikarin Janken!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Westar is Cheered!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Berry [Infinity Institute (8)] has posed.
For Miki Aono - it was a fairly typical day overall. Go to school, hang out with her friends - then go home and help her mother out a little bit with her salon. Some days more than others, that meant cooking for her as she handles a late client or two - but today, it was different. Today, one of her hair dryers was on the fritz, and she wanted a replacement. She had absolutely every intention of going herself, but something had come up, and this, and that...
And besides, Miki wanted to go out into town anyways today!
If only 'buki or Love had time to come with her. Regardless!
Miki was here, dressed in something a little light for the chill - lavendar leggings, matching flats - (designer, of course) - a cream long-sleeved sort of blouse and a stitched lavender vest. The others might not be able to come, but that didn't mean she couldn't chat with them via texts! So Miki had her old-school looking cell phone out, her thumb dancing over the keys. It was the sound of screaming that draws her attention away from her phone proper.
"Nakewameke?" she says, her eyes flickering to the others. "Nakewameke/s/!" Clearly, this was serious. Clearly, well...
With a step to one side, just barely getting out of the way of normal line of sight, Miki snaps her key into her phone, and moments later...! ~cure Berry~ appears!
Stepping forward - the magnitude of the problem becomes clearer - and her eyes flicker across and spot Cure Peace. "PreCure!" she calls out to the other - even if she wasn't altogether certain if the other magical girl was one or not. And so - Berry leaps up with a mighty leap against the same one that Cure Peace attacked, ponytail bobbing once as she spins quickly enough to bury her kick into the body of the monster. Or try, anyways.
"Let me help!"
COMBAT: Cure Berry has used Perfect Dart on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Berry has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly braces Cure Berry's Perfect Dart, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Stagger applied to Westar!
<Pose Tracker> Reika Aoki [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Akihabara was a new experience entirely. The shops were tightly packed, and towered higher than Reika was used to. She recognized none of the faces on the advertisements, done up in the moe style. She would be well and truly lost without Yayoi. You see.. Reika Aoki didn't watch really watch much television, and definitely didn't read manga or play video games. That didn't mean she found them childish, quite the contrary, it's just that she knew what she focused her free time upon.
She was here for the first time to spend some time with one of her friends, walking just beside and slightly behind her as she listened in rapt attention. Mid-speech, she puts a finger up to her chin, gaze lifted slightly upright as she replied, "With giant robots like that, there could be so many applications outside of times of war. Do they ever settle their differences?"
She never hears the answer to her question, as Yayoi lets off a half-shriek, and she looks ahead at the multiple incarnations of a projection monster amidst the screaming people. She doesn't attack move right away, she just.. observes it with thoughtful cerulean eyes, trying to pick out important details, weaknesses, strengths. She recognizes the gem like protrusion adorning it, and had some suspicions on who was behind this..
Eventually she calmly replies, "Yes, Yayoi-san. We should." She walks in the alley right beside her, gripping a compact of pink and white. "Pretty Cure.. Smile Charge!"
Her transformation is swift, a column of azure light and swirling motes of snow. Stepping behind Cure Peace, she's so surprised by the anger from her that she doesn't give her own usual catch phrase. She just states in wonder, "This place means so much to you."
Turning to face the projection monsters, her hair swirling in the breeze, she calls out, "As Pretty Cure, we won't allow your violent behavior any longer."
Which is when Cure Berry appears, and Cure Beauty turns to regard her, her gaze weighing her for a time, before she nods. "Take the lead, we'll support your efforts to stop this!"
COMBAT: Reika Aoki performs an analysis on Westar! COMBAT: Reika Aoki has finished attacking. COMBAT: Reika Aoki transforms into Cure Beauty!
<Pose Tracker> Asagao Uekawa [Ohtori Academy (8)] has posed.
Asagao Uekawa, Ohtori 8th Grader from Outer Space, generally goes along with high technology and electronic stimuli like a 50's libarian at a punk show. But her stereo has finally worn itself out and she went looking for a *new* one so she could listen to them rather than just point and click on the internet...
"All I wanted was a new boom box, Universe," Asagao says to no on in particular with a bit of a sigh - even as she reaches beneath the collar of her blouse to retrieve and flip open her locket.
"Why is it always *monster*? VEGA POWER, MAAAAAAAKE UP!"
Luckily the light-and-ribbon show is just another distraction amongst the throng; Sailor Vega is on the scene! "Why do you have to interrupt peaceful consumers? All they want to do is follow the music of their hearts to the high-end electronic device of their dreams! I am Sailor Vega, and for daring to disrupt the simple wishes of weeknight consumers I will punish you!"
COMBAT: Asagao Uekawa transforms into Sailor Vega! COMBAT: Sailor Vega has used Space Princess Gonna Punish on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Vega has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly dodges Sailor Vega's Space Princess Gonna Punish, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Westar is Quipped!
<Pose Tracker> Makoto Kino [Juuban Public School (8)] has posed.
All that was on Makoto's mind as she stepped out onto the sidewalk was the brand new manga she'd just bought - it's the latest in her favorite shoujo series, just out today, and she can't *wait* to lose herself in it.
She's going to have to, though, because the moment she steps outside she realizes that the streets of Akihabara are in chaos.
Without a second thought, Mako bolts for the nearest out-of-the-way nook between buildings, grabbing for her transformation pen.
"Jupiter power, MAKE UP!"
Electricity scorches the air, and when her transformation is complete, Sailor Jupiter rushes out into the fray just in time to catch Vega's entrance. "Sailor Vega!" she calls out, and then to the Pretty Cures-- "Everyone! I'll help, too!"
No fancy speeches from Jupiter - this is one sailor guardian who won't waste words where action will do. Instead she spreads her arms wide, hands open in the air to call up a blast of wind-driven pink flower petals around the nearest monster.
COMBAT: Makoto Kino transforms into Sailor Jupiter! COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has used Flower Hurricane on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly braces Sailor Jupiter's Flower Hurricane, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Blind, Stun, and Trap applied to Westar!
<Pose Tracker> Westar [None] has posed.
Whirr, whirr - the sounds of spinning gears, from each of the menacing machines. They've started to spread out, loudly stomping their way down the street. The nearest of the giant projectors to Cure Peace turns at her challenge, curling up a stray end of one reel into a rock-like roll. It raises it high, preparing to smash it down on the one who challenged it- when a swift kick from Cure Berry slams into its casing, sending it back to slam into a lamppost. It flickers, once, and then vanishes in a glimmer of light.
A second projector-monster is the target of Vega's speech, and it actually staggers back a moment. The respite doesn't last long - but long enough for a storm of flower petals to fill the area, causing all the Nakewameke to flicker for a moment.
...or did all of them flicker?
Abruptly, laughter resounds abruptly from atop a nearby building. "Pretty Cure! And Sailors! I am Westar - Denizen of Labyrinth, and faithful servant of Supreme Ruler Mobius!" The muscled man slams one fist against his chest, then sweeps his arm to encompass the area. "Look around you - what hope do you have of finding the true Nakewameke in this chaos? Panic and terror shall reign in this district until you do!"
More projections appear near Westar, and begin to make their way out into the streets, screams of fright acting as their vanguard. Above the chaos, Westar grins as he takes in enemies old and new - this is working! "Cry more! Wail more! Your fear and panic will become Misery Energy to fill the Sorrow Gauge!"
The Nakewameke, all at once, bellow their own challenge. "WITH THX!"
COMBAT: Westar has adjusted his boss levels. He is now ready to take on 5 opponents! COMBAT: Westar has used Cry More! Wail More! on Cure Peace. COMBAT: Westar has used Cry More! Wail More! on Cure Beauty. COMBAT: Westar has used Cry More! Wail More! on Cure Berry. COMBAT: Westar has used Cry More! Wail More! on Sailor Jupiter. COMBAT: Westar has used Cry More! Wail More! on Sailor Vega. COMBAT: Westar has finished attacking. COMBAT: Cure Berry fails to dodge Westar's Cry More! Wail More!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cripple, Diversion, and Exhausted applied to Cure Berry! COMBAT: Cure Beauty fails to dodge Westar's Cry More! Wail More!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cripple and Exhausted applied to Cure Beauty! COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter narrowly braces Westar's Cry More! Wail More!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Sailor Jupiter's Block ability activates! Sailor Jupiter's Parry ability activates! Cripple and Diversion applied to Sailor Jupiter! COMBAT: Sailor Vega narrowly dodges Westar's Cry More! Wail More!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Sailor Vega's Fade ability activates! Sailor Vega's Flash ability activates! Diversion and Exhausted applied to Sailor Vega! COMBAT: Cure Peace fails to dodge Westar's Cry More! Wail More!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cripple and Exhausted applied to Cure Peace!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Peace [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Cure Peace makes a surprised expression, !!! did she just loose again!? She lost again. This isn't good. She's not supposed to loose. Then Cure Berry arrives on the scene. Her eyes go wide. "Wow... another one!..." she says with wide sparkly eyes at Berry. "Are...you Pretty Cure, too then..?" she asks, despite her completely loss a moment ago.
This small boost of morale lasts only just a moment because the creature yells out WITH THX! and she's suddenly feels a lot less sure about this all. Is she contributing to the Sorrow Gauge this way!? Probably, Cure Peace is easily sorrowed. She closes her eyes...
"I...I won't.... Cry!" she calls out. That's all she really cares about right now. She calls out as she blasts into the fray with a bolt of lightning. It cracks along some of the projections as it hits each one, trying to eliminate a lot of them at once as she holds her fingers out in the peace sign they eminate from in front of her...
"I.. won't!" she says with gritted teeth. She knows Beauty is there. But she hopes she joins in proper soon.
She'll say hello to the other Cure she doesn't know after this.
COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Chain Lightning on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Cure Peace's Chain Lightning, taking 14 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Berry [Infinity Institute (8)] has posed.
Cure Berry - after her kick finds a home in one of the nakewameke's - dismounts with a backwards flip, her eyes snapping across the creature as if to watch for a counter - one that never came. What came instead was a flickering, her eyes snapping open wider briefly. Landing, Berry brings up a hand to brush her ponytail over her shoulder, her eyes traveling from nakewameke to Cure Beauty - and then from her to Cure Peace. "That's right!" she says happily. "I'm Cure Berry - and it is nice to meet you all."
There was a smile on her lips, warm and wide. "Right!" she calls. Immeadiately resolve snaps onto her face, her eyes lifting up towards Westar. Normally - normally she would back up Love - um, she means Peach at this point. But Berry wasn't one to dwadle on maybes. "Look!" she calls to the other PreCures - including the Sailors in her estimation, even if there was something... well... something different about them.
"They aren't all real. We should split up, and try to find the real nakewameke - call out if you do!" With that said, she straightens up - and begins to speak - when the bellowing, resonant (and very clear) voices of the nakewameke call out so brightly, nearly knocking her off of her feet with that noise.
"Let's go!"
With that, Berry grits her teeth, and starts to dash down the sidewalk in her heels. She doesn't pick the /closest/ projection, assuming the others to be there, but she tries to pick a grouping of at least two. At least two that she can whip her foot through one, and preferably follow through to level a ~powerful~ punch at the other.
COMBAT: Cure Berry has used Beautiful Battler on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Berry has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Cure Berry's Beautiful Battler, taking 33 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Beauty [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Iron weights of sorrow bear down upon her to try to make her bow, and yet she stands still, straight-backed, dignified, elegant. The pressure of the suffering, the misery, and the despair on the inside are almost unbearable, but she reminds herself who she is, what her duties are.
A place like Akihabara sells so many different stories, in so many different mediums. She can't allow this to continue. She watches Jupiter's Flower Petal storm to fill the area.
Cure Berry offers her advice, and Beauty nods, she'd drawn the same conclusions herself, but it was nice to hear the one taking the lead affirming her own inward thoughts. "Right!" Beauty puts a calming hand upon Peace's shoulder, allowing that gesture to speak more than any words could before she acts.
The air grows notably more chill, as Cure Beauty begins to rush forward gracefully even in her charge, gliding across the concrete streets quite naturally. A snap freeze causes a hilt of sparkling ice to form into her hand. "You ask what hope we have?" It continues to form, a bright blade of sharp edges.
She aims for the Nakewameke which she 'thinks' she didn't see flicker, she might be very wrong. Stoppining short of the Nakewameke, her blade lashes out in a flurry of spinning strikes, each one more ferocious than the last. She'll find out rather quickly if she's hitting an illusion or not. "...all the hopes and dreams of everyone here, will be more than enough."
COMBAT: Cure Beauty has used Precure Beauty Hailstorm on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Beauty has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to dodge Cure Beauty's Precure Beauty Hailstorm, taking 28 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Vega [Ohtori Academy (8)] has posed.
"Jupiter!" Vega calls over to the other Senshi, a small smile on her face before everything really starts to open up. The deafening noise and crashing sounds make it difficult, but not impossible to focus and move - did he say he wants them to despair and cry?
"You fiend!" Vega shouts, even as she manuevers into position. Running along one 'aisle' of projection and debris, she tries to keep half an eye on Westar - wand and ribbon materializing in her hand as she moves.
"Your scheme will not go according to plan! You have picked a POOR NIGHT FOR ENERGY THEFT!"
Leaping into the air, Vega intends to clear a path through the projections with her ribbon to clear the way to Westar himself!
COMBAT: Sailor Vega has used Ribbon Dance on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Vega has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to counter Sailor Vega's Ribbon Dance, taking 15 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Westar's counterattack, Critical Film, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Sailor Vega!
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Jupiter [Juuban Public School (8)] has posed.
So much noise, so much confusion, so many people panicking. It takes a lot to make the Senshi of Courage hesitate, but for just a couple of precious seconds, under the onslaught of bellowing from the projector monsters, Sailor Jupiter stands still and uncertain - there are so many *targets,* and she has no idea which one is the right one and which would just be wasting her power to attack. It's the other girls who snap her out of it - Peace's lightning, Berry's practical appraisal of the situation, Beauty and Vega's determination. They're all in this together, and Jupiter absolutely will not let them down.
In an instant, the will to quick action that so defines Sailor Jupiter snaps back in full force. Following the others' examples she zeroes in swiftly on another one of the projectors, electricity crackling along her fingertips as she brings her hand up before her. "We've got this!" she shouts out defiantly. "You'll never make us back down!"
With a snap of her fingers, lightning leaps out at the projector in a brilliant quicksilver streak.
COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has used Jupiter Thunderbolt on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Sailor Jupiter's Jupiter Thunderbolt, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Westar is Quipped!
<Pose Tracker> Westar [None] has posed.
They aren't all real - those courageous enough to face the horde can see that in spite of the dust clouds, the vast majority of the projections aren't doing much damage. There's a bit of solidity, but they're for intimidation value as much as anything. For the majority of Akihabara, however, this is more than enough reason to run.
Cure Peace and Sailor Jupiter bring the storm, causing lightning to arc through several of the projections. The metallic groan from the Nakewameke resounds, but was one of those the real one? Many of them flicker like shadows, and several among them go out. Moments later, the sounds of shutters and a flash of light bring another three projections into existence where they had stood - but these, at least, are known to be false.
Cure Berry's charge finds a grouping of five intact projections, her kick scything through one and her fist sending a second to collide with the others. The force causes the set to wink out with a brief flash of light, their replacements slow enough to appear that the advance can continue.
The path is getting clearer now - even as new projections materialize in the streets, there aren't many left that can be the real target. Cure Beauty's spinning swordplay is effective - but a pair projections interrupt, allowing themselves to be cleaved in flashes of light. Still, for a moment, there was a ring of ice striking metal...
And pushing past the projections, Sailor Vega rushes for Westar directly. There's only a handful of projections left in the area - her ribbon passes through three cleanly, but the fourth swipes a ribbon of film back at her in turn - and the wind, at least, makes it clear that the real one has been found at last.
"W-what?! You're not supposed-" Westar looks around, and realizes the situation - Tokyo's defenders have gotten close enough to the real one that the jig may be up. Is this really as far as this scheme will go?...
"Nakewameke! Keep the show going - let this district know fear and terror for Mobius!" The real Nakewameke's bulb flickers rapidly, more projections beginning to advance into the streets - and then it begins its assault. A ribbon-arm apiece for those that got close enough for it to strike directly, a bright projector bulb flashing at the rest.
"PLAYING ON MULTIPLE SCREENS!"
COMBAT: Westar has used Brilliant Direction on Sailor Jupiter. COMBAT: Westar has used Brilliant Direction on Cure Peace. COMBAT: Westar has used Brilliant Direction on Cure Berry. COMBAT: Westar has used Hands Full Of Misery on Sailor Vega. COMBAT: Westar has used Hands Full Of Misery on Cure Beauty. COMBAT: Westar has finished attacking. COMBAT: Cure Berry narrowly braces Westar's Brilliant Direction, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Cure Berry's Parry ability activates! COMBAT: Cure Beauty narrowly counters Westar's Hands Full Of Misery, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Cure Beauty's Tactician ability activates! Trap applied to Cure Beauty! COMBAT: Cure Beauty's counterattack, Precure Beauty Snowburst, partially gets through, doing 12 Fatigue damage to Westar! Diversion applied to Westar! COMBAT: Sailor Vega fails to brace Westar's Hands Full Of Misery, taking 35 Fatigue damage! Trap applied to Sailor Vega! COMBAT: Cure Peace fails to brace Westar's Brilliant Direction, taking 17 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter fails to dodge Westar's Brilliant Direction, taking 20 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Peace [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Cure Peace manages to get a look at Jupiter with awe.... she's so cool, she has determination!... Peace has that too, it's just. Small. and less visible. Because right now, she's trying to hunker down but is struck with a flashbulb of light- which in retrospect, is really hard to defend against as she short of winces at it. She watches Beauty , sword in hand, make for the creature, as it tries to lash out at her. She frowns a bit as she raises her hand skyward... "Pretty Cure...." a bolt of lightning comes down and strikes her fingers as they charge---jumping forward. "Peace Lightning!"
A bolt of lightning flies from her combined fingers, looking to rake through what is going to hopefully be the real deal.
She takes a deep breath, as she tries to collect herself after.
"You can't just... scaring people from thier dreams like this!..." she calls out. "People....can't...." she says. "Most people can't be superheroes! So they dream they can!. I won't let you take that because... you.. you..."
She actually doesn't know why they're doing this, beyond some sort of 'Sorrow Gauge' the man was yelling about. What's a Sorrow Gauge? She kind of imagines something like a rain measurement gauge, but instead it's filled with blue sorrowful liquid. She wonders if that's what this is.
"....what's a Sorrow Gauge anyways?" she asks with a frown. She wonders if the other Cure that shows up knows what this is about.
COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Peace Lightning on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly braces Cure Peace's Peace Lightning, taking 9 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Berry [Infinity Institute (8)] has posed.
There was a little smile that dances upon Berry's lips at the exhuberance she detects in Beauty.
There was always something pleasant about being a part of a team. "YAAAA!" she cries out, kicking through the first projection. "HAAAAA!" accompanies her punch to knock the second into a group of others. But they all flicker out. Right when that flashbulb catches her in the side of the face. It was hot, nigh-searing - and she lifts her hand to shade her eyes, wincing into the grasp of things.
"Ow! Bright!" she says then, her mind flashing a bit. Could that be...?! "I think the real one is here!" she calls out to those who might listen then, ducking her head low. Keeping her arms crossed before herself to protect a little against future flashes, she charges - charges and sends little punches at any projections that might be in her way - all along the path to placing a large /punch/ against the one flickering.
COMBAT: Cure Berry has used Bonzanza Spiral on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Berry has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to counter Cure Berry's Bonzanza Spiral, taking 24 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Westar's counterattack, Critical Film, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Cure Berry!
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Vega [Ohtori Academy (8)] has posed.
When her ribbon comes back on the recoil, Sailor Vega does *not* expect it to come with the addition of a half a can of film.
A brief, sharp shriek of frustration reveals her to be almost helplessly tangled up. She does, however, have one arm free. And she *KNOWS* her ribbon made purchase earlier.
The gleam in Vega's eyes looks more akin to the one so often in the Outer Senshi's, rather than one of hope and promise or unshed tears.
"Jupiter! Cures! WE HAVE IT!"
Her free arm thrusting towards the sky, "Come on, let's get this monster down! VEGA BOLIDE!"
Love and Devotion, in Fiery Comet Form! Tangle of film be damned!
COMBAT: Sailor Vega has used Vega Bolide on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Vega has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly braces Sailor Vega's Vega Bolide, taking 16 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Beauty [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
The ring of ice on metal is distinctive, and echoes through the district. She doesn't have much time to capitalize on it though, as several projections interject, once again causing her to lose track of the real one in the midst of the chaotic battle.
A film extremity descends upon her, sharp with a point, but she stands her ground, even in the wake of the powerful monster. It isn't that she feels that she can withstand it, Cure Beauty understands full well the strength of Westar's Nakewameke. She just doesn't think she can get out of the way in time. Spinning into a half-turn, she shouts her Kiai as an enthusiastic battle cry, "HYAH!" The strike of her blade causes the wind to pick up, obfuscating snow billowing about, and an audible crack is heard as the integrity of the blade is compromised.
As the blade strikes however, the extremity snakes around her, suddenly wrapping about like she's the plastic center in a roll of film, and making it hard to move. "I'll try my best to get to it Cure Berry! I'm a little wrapped up." Cure Beauty says that entirely seriously, which may indicate the pun is completely unintentional. "It's fine Peace, we'll protect their stories."
There's only one response being wrapped up. Retaliation before it can take advantage of her vulnerable position. Raising the remains of her blade in a double handed overhand grip, she tries to stab it downward into the film wrapped about her body, to try and freeze it in rime and hoarfrost.
COMBAT: Cure Beauty has used Precure Beauty Frostbite on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Beauty has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly counters Cure Beauty's Precure Beauty Frostbite, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cure Beauty is Psyched! Trap applied to Westar! COMBAT: Westar's counterattack, Film-Reel Frenzy, partially gets through, doing 9 Fatigue damage to Cure Beauty!
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Jupiter [Juuban Public School (8)] has posed.
Breath hisses sharply through Sailor Jupiter's teeth as the flash-bulb sears her, but this time she doesn't hesitate. Now, for sure, Jupiter has her target - that's all she needed.
And her target has a couple of her allies tangled up in film, which just won't stand at all. "HEY!" Sailor Jupiter shouts, bolting headlong at the nakewameke with her hands clenched into fists. "Let go of my friends!"
There's no electrivity this time - not and risk catching Vega or Cure Beauty in it by accident through that entangling film - but lightning is hardly Jupiter's only strength. Rather than even bother with magic right now, she simply hauls back and aims a punch at the monster's mechanical body.
COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has used Jupiter Smash! on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Sailor Jupiter's Jupiter Smash!, taking 35 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Stagger applied to Westar!
<Pose Tracker> Westar [None] has posed.
From atop his rooftop perch, Westar watches the battle. One could almost hear his teeth grinding in frustration - after spending so long finding something that could become a projection-making Nakewameke, Tokyo's defenders still managed to find the real one so quickly! Still, the idea is working somewhat - the other projections are still allowing more Misery to be gathered while the Nakewameke fights. This just wasn't the plan....
Lightning strikes, but the film-arm that takes the hit seems to be non-conductive - plastic melts, but the robot doesn't shudder in pain this time. A comet comes screaming in out of the blue, slamming into the monster's head, and disorienting it for a moment. Cure Beauty's attempt to stab the film is met by the arm flailing her around - but eventually the ice takes hold, making it freeze up for a moment.
And then Cure Berry and Sailor Jupiter charge in like a pair of vengeful storms, slamming the Nakewameke's body with full-force punches. The metal dents visibly, the robot staggers back, and the tangles of film come loose enough for imprisoned targets to get free!
"Nakewameke!" Westar shouts out, nearly in a panic. "What are you - no, don't let them go! Fight back, buy time - Mobius-sama has decreed that the Sorrow Gauge be filled, and this is the day we do it!" The monster turns for a moment, giving a nod - and then the reel on its non-frozen shoulder begins to spin rapidly, film whipped to a dangerous velocity. It lashes out repeatedly-
-and the great metal feet come stomping down near the pair who punched it!
COMBAT: Westar has used Blockbuster Hit on Sailor Jupiter. COMBAT: Westar has used Blockbuster Hit on Cure Berry. COMBAT: Westar has used Critical Film on Sailor Vega. COMBAT: Westar has used Critical Film on Cure Beauty. COMBAT: Westar has used Critical Film on Cure Peace. COMBAT: Westar has finished attacking. COMBAT: Cure Berry narrowly dodges Westar's Blockbuster Hit, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Westar is Psyched! Cure Berry's Flash ability activates! COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter fails to counter Westar's Blockbuster Hit, taking 41 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter's counterattack, Supreme Suplex, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Westar! COMBAT: Sailor Vega fails to dodge Westar's Critical Film, taking 17 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Cure Beauty fails to brace Westar's Critical Film, taking 18 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Cure Peace narrowly dodges Westar's Critical Film, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Cure Peace's Fade ability activates! Cure Peace's Flash ability activates!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Peace [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Cure Peace Manages to jump out of the way of the of a film strike, jumping to the right as she looks at Beauty..."Right....we'll... stop it... other people can't be superheroes..." she says softly. "But..I can! I am.. Cure Peace! Defender of Justice! and Dreams and.. Manga!" she exclaims, trying to pump herself up as she lashes out with a lightning bolt at the film reel that just tried to strike her.
"My Sparkling, Glittering.......um...." she begins to fumble.. she doesn't know how to finish it. As always, starting strong and puttering out the end! Luckily, she already threw her attack. She supposes that's what matters most at the moment, trying to stop this thing then how to end a mini hero speech.
COMBAT: Cure Peace has used Morale Defibulator on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar perfectly dodges Cure Peace's Morale Defibulator, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Berry [Infinity Institute (8)] has posed.
Briefly, so briefly, Berry draws her eyes up towards Westar. There was a fierceness in them, in those eyes of the young woman. At least, until the shadow of the nawakameke's leg comes stomping down as if to aim at her. "Cure...!" she begins to call out in warning to Jupiter, kinda blinking over at the other magical girl. "Dodge!" she finally settles on, trying to lunge out of the way.
But Berry's lunge to one side would not save her from the stomp of the creature. It was too slow, or the creature just too fast. It saves her from being squashed, but in the moment, she is kicked, tumbling end over end, striking head, striking shoulder, and striking arm before she stops. So it takes her a moment to gather herself up again, to look up towards the nawakameke, pursing her lips after a moment's consideration.
"I'm... not done yet!" she calls out. Right when she recalls what Beauty had said. "Eh?!" she says, kinda glancing towards her - and those struggles with the film that grasp her. A moment, and her features kinda get all puzzled. It was Peace's speech that kinda brings her out of it. To the end of that speech that the other young woman fumbles, sparkling, glittering... um...' Berry calls out... "...Hope for the future! You want to steal all of these things with your... sorrow and crying!" she calls.
"YAAA!" There was a little less fervour in her punch that she delivers to the creature, the stamping having taken a bit out of her. For now.
COMBAT: Cure Berry has used Twisting Strike on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Berry has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Cure Berry's Twisting Strike, taking 7 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Vega [Ohtori Academy (8)] has posed.
Just as she's pulling herself free of the tangle of film, Sailor Vega is then being *whipped* by it! Rather unceremoniously at that; closing her eyes tightly and bracing herself against it as best she can, she just sort of screams right through it until it stops.
Covered with bruises, and a little unsteady on her feet, but angry. "We can take anything you dish out, Westar! We won't let you get away with this!" Another thrust of an arm, another bolt of magic - a brilliant multicolored flare this time; she doesn't even bother calling it.
COMBAT: Sailor Vega has used Aurora Flash on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Vega has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly braces Sailor Vega's Aurora Flash, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Sailor Vega is Psyched! Diversion and Exhausted applied to Westar!
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Jupiter [Juuban Public School (8)] has posed.
As the projector monster's metal feet come smashing down, in that one split second before impact Sailor Jupiter looks up - and shifts her stance, making no attempt to dodge, but looking instead more like she thinks she's going to... *catch* it?
Whatever the heck she thought she was doing, it works exactly as well as anyone might have expected - Jupiter goes down *hard*, slammed into the unforgiving pavement with a very unpleasant CRUNCH.
"...ouuwwwgh..." It comes out as a mostly unintelligible wheeze as she struggles to make her lungs remember how to take in air. Stiffly, painfully, she begins to pick herself up from the pavement, half bent over and holding her ribs. That really, really hurt.
But Sailor Jupiter is back on her feet, and though pain slows her movement at first, she soon straightens, green eyes narrow and fierce.
"...like I said..." As she speaks in a low voice, lightning begins to spark and snap around her hands - she didn't miss how the film failed to carry a charge, and this time she's not holding back when she drives her now-electrified fist at the nakewameke with her full weight behind it. "--we won't lose!"
COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has used Lightning Fist on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar narrowly dodges Sailor Jupiter's Lightning Fist, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Sailor Jupiter is Psyched!
<Pose Tracker> Cure Beauty [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
While free, her movements are slightly languorous. As she heaves in a deep breath to recover, a film arm is whipped at her with high velocity. It slaps her into a nearby shop window, glass shattering around her as she falls onto a display of statuesque anime figurines of giant robots.
Pushing herself up from the numerous cuts and scrapes, she looks at several of the giant robots that Peace was talking to her about so enthusiastically. Her expression grows more somber when she notes they're broken. While Recognition Inhibition would certainly fix it.. it certainly made her unhappy to see them in this state. It wasn't that she was an enthusiast herself, but that she recognized that people enjoyed these stories, enjoyed shopping for this merchandise to show their pride in these stories. Beauty didn't have a tendency towards heroic speeches to voice her feelings and even when she did, she usually tried to say that she represented a group condemning someone for behavior rather than expressing personal condemnation. It was easier, than trying to comprehend her own feelings.
Rushing forward suddenly, instead of using a blade, she instead makes a series of knife hand strikes down low upon what passes for it's leg joints as Berry punches high, using Peace and Vega's distractions from a distance to try to give her an opening. "Why should we care for the decrees of anyone who would treat people and their stories as such?"
COMBAT: Cure Beauty has used Whiteout Flurry on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Beauty has finished attacking. COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Cure Beauty's Whiteout Flurry, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cure Beauty is Psyched!
<Pose Tracker> Westar [None] has posed.
They're making speeches. Why are they making speeches? Briefly, Westar wonders what Soular or Eas might say in this situation - there'd surely be some cutting remark - but that isn't his style. He folds his arms, nodding in approval as the Nakewameke leans to one side to narrowly dodge Peace's lightning bolt - but that seems as far as the machine's luck seems to take it.
A blinding flash interrupts the Nakewameke's own lamp for a moment, dazzling it for a few crucial moments - and three heroes' martial arts skills ring loudly against the metal, forcing it back step after step. Pavement crunches, and gears whirr as the Nakewameke winds film around the reels once more.
"EXTRA-LATE SHOWING!" The monster retreats one step, then another - and then the spinning reels pop open, unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of film strikes! Still, it's on the ropes, and the bulb is flickering.
In the distance, projections begin to vanish.
COMBAT: Westar has used Film-Reel Frenzy on Sailor Jupiter. COMBAT: Westar has used Film-Reel Frenzy on Cure Beauty. COMBAT: Westar has used Film-Reel Frenzy on Sailor Vega. COMBAT: Westar has used Film-Reel Frenzy on Cure Berry. COMBAT: Westar has used Film-Reel Frenzy on Cure Peace. COMBAT: Westar has finished attacking. COMBAT: Cure Berry fails to brace Westar's Film-Reel Frenzy, taking 49 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Cure Peace fails to dodge Westar's Film-Reel Frenzy, taking 27 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Cure Beauty fails to dodge Westar's Film-Reel Frenzy, taking 47 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter fails to brace Westar's Film-Reel Frenzy, taking 30 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Sailor Vega fails to brace Westar's Film-Reel Frenzy, taking 33 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Vega [Ohtori Academy (8)] has posed.
It hasn't been her night - and in the midst of another flurry of film strikes that she fails to cope with adequately, Sailor Vega's mind flashes back to what brought her in the neighborhood to begin with.
I just wanted a new boom box!
While she struggles to collect herself, it occurs to her that maybe... maybe she's underestimated this Westar. His monsters have all the trappings of someone not really trying very hard, but his motives are sinister and apparently his conviction is strong.
"Everyone," Sailor Vega looks to the other girls as she pulls herself to a crouch. "We can do this!" Slowly, on unstead legs, she stands.
"We can beat him!"
Have to - she doesn't have much left in her, but Vega closes her eyes and lifts both arms. The sky around her seems to darken, "TWILIGHT..." Far above, a fiery twinkling resolves into an outright fireball - "BOLIDE..." a massive comet of love moving at terminal velocity. "CRESCENDO!"
COMBAT: FINISHER! Sailor Vega has used Twilight Bolide Crescendo on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Vega has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Cure Peace [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Cure Peace beams as Berry finds an awesome end phrase for her small speech.. "Right... the Sparkling , Glittering Hope for the Future! You won't....fill whatever thing it is you're trying to fill today!" she says with as much determination as she can!
Of course, then she tries to dodge the next assault of runaway film reels and fails spectacularly, ending up under a parade of them within moments, making various noises like 'ow!' 'ack!', when it subsides, she gets up and staggers just a bit, grabbing her arm. "You won't succeed today!" she says. She gathers up as much power as she can into her hands, before taking a deep breath. She aims to unleash a torrent of lightning that dances out from her form as she gives a sort of pained yelp, as she hunkers down, just a bit--- exploding forth with lightning isn't super easy to control in a lot of ways in this fashion, she's also probably going to take out some of those projections in this burst.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Cure Peace has used Lightning Bug on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Peace has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Cure Berry [Infinity Institute (8)] has posed.
"Everyone! Be...!"
Berry had started to call out a warning. She probably should have heeded it better herself. THWACK! WHACK! OOF! "OW! EEEE!" Turning on her heels and fleeing a bit, Berry brings her arms up, kinda trying to protect her head at least from the barrage of strikes as she flees. But the rapid-fire strikes continue to lash against her. "OW OW OW OW!" Berry calls out.
Apparently, running was not working. Berry spins on a heel, and kicks away one of the battering strikes, the woman crouching low - adreneline keeping her from really feeling the bruises... right now. Even if her motions were going a little slowly. Another whack and guarding punch, and Berry /leaps/ up into the air, bypassing any further beating, twisting about in the air, so that her foot leads first. "PRECURE KICK!" she calls out, hoping to land a flying kick directly upon the chest of the nawekameke!
COMBAT: FINISHER! Cure Berry has used Precure Kick! on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Berry has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Cure Beauty [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Trying to leap out of the way of so many film strikes is difficult. Beauty tries anyhow, attempting to flip over the first, only to be knocked out of the air, and repeatedly pelted. Hit over and over again while she's down, she can do little but cover herself with crossed arms, hoping that it will be enough to ward off the worst of it. It's still agonizing, almost knocking her unconscious outright as a reel strikes her square on the forehead, just below her tiara.
When it finishes, she looks like she has neither the strength nor the conviction to stand against the powerful Nakewameke and it's Labyrinth master. Hearing Vega's words of confidence that they can beat it sparks a fire within her. Only barely, does she manage to push herself up by both hands, trembling, to her bare knees. And then from her knees, to one leg, almost stumbling over into a topple. She waits for Berry's signal, waits for her to get clear, before she acts. Pressing her smile compact to her chest, like a lifeline in a sea of misery, she states in a pained voice, "So long as your path is to cause sorrow and misery wherever you go..." Imbuing it with her spirit, cerulean snow billows about, "....then you cannot be permitted to continue down it."
She raises it to her right hand, as a globe of sky-blue. "Pretty Cure!" Drawing an X with her left, "Beauty..." She then draws a | before the symbol's lines expand into a colossal snow flake. "...Blizzard!"
It dissolves into a storm of sparkling ice and billowing snow, that moves towards the Nakewameke.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Cure Beauty has used Beauty Blizzard on Westar. COMBAT: Cure Beauty has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Jupiter [Juuban Public School (8)] has posed.
The onslaught of film is overpowering, and although Sailor Jupiter fights to brace herself against it, she's lashed again and again by that spinning reel, a barrage that knocks her off her feet entirely and leaves her once again gasping for breath, just barely hanging onto consciousness.
Through the pain, lying on the ground, she hears Sailor Vega's voice, and mustering all the effort that she can, Jupiter responds. "...right... behind you, Vega..."
She picks herself up laboriously off the ground, not making it back onto her feet this time, but at least managing to brace herself up into her knees. From the center of her tiara, a miniature lightning rod extends upwards. "Supreme--"
All around the air suddenly tingles, a skin-prickling feeling like hair standing on end from a static charge. As it continues to build stronger and stronger, Jupiter herself begins to sizzle with it, bright thin arcs of energy crawling and crackling around her until in a final shout she releases it all, calling down a bolt of lightning onto the metal monster. "--THUNDER!"
COMBAT: FINISHER! Sailor Jupiter has used Supreme Thunder on Westar. COMBAT: Sailor Jupiter has finished attacking.
COMBAT: Westar narrowly braces Cure Berry's Finisher, Precure Kick!, taking 17 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Cure Peace's Finisher, Lightning Bug, taking 72 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Westar narrowly braces Cure Beauty's Finisher, Beauty Blizzard, taking 32 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Sailor Jupiter's Finisher, Supreme Thunder, taking 68 Fatigue damage! Westar is unable to keep fighting! COMBAT: Westar fails to brace Sailor Vega's Finisher, Twilight Bolide Crescendo, taking 72 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Westar is unable to keep fighting!
<Pose Tracker> Westar [None] has posed.
Will the show go on?
Cure Peace's lightning runs wild, disrupting every nearby projection and thoroughly electrocuting the Nakewameke as a bonus - Westar is forced to leap back from the edge of the roof to avoid some of the lightning himself. Cure Berry's high-heeled shoe slams directly into the Nakewameke's yellow diamond as a followup - a sharp crack resounding as the core of the monster takes a severe blow.
Cure Beauty's snowflake becomes a blizzard, enveloping the Nakewameke in ice, and causing an even louder crack - one echoed by the skies themselves, as Sailor Jupiter's lightning hammers down on the mechanical monstrosity.
And then it's hit by a comet.
From the combined elemental forces, light erupts - light accompanied by a loud 'FIZZZZZZ' as the Nakewameke's evil bubbles away for good. When the dust clears, an old movie projector lies abandoned in the Akihabara street. It looks like that's the end of the show.
Having retreated to a safe distance, Westar grumbles. "Okay. Whatever 'Sailors' are, they're tough. And that's 'Cure Berry'..." He hangs his head. "I really thought this one would last longer, too." Dejected, he steps off the edge of the building he's on - switching back to a civilian identity, and vanishing into the crowd.
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Vega [Ohtori Academy (8)] has posed.
The monster is vanquished, the bad guy has wandered off somewhere... and Vega is *pooped* - not too pooped, however, to offer high fives to the cures and to Jupiter. "We did it!" Which is great, right? "Is everyone okay?" It was awfully close.
<Pose Tracker> Cure Peace [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Cure Peace watches as the youma dissapates and she sighs and manages a slight smile, besides looking just a little more than scuffed up. "Yay! We did it." she says happily.... "But....I'm not going to be able to get a new copy of the movie here tonight now..." she glumly says. However, she looks over to Cure Berry. "Hello...!" she says with a smile. "I'm Cure Peace!" she says. "Um... do you know what was going on here?... that man talked about filling... something?" she asks. Usually different Cures seem to have thier respective problems and trials. She wonders if this was one of Berry's.
She smiles, high five! Superheroic High Fives! "We did!..." she smiles. "Um...I am." she says softly. "
<Pose Tracker> Cure Beauty [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Vega high fives the others. Cure Beauty looks unsteady on her feet. When Vega comes over to her, she looks a little surprised. "Ah! You want me to..?" Lightly she claps her hand against hers in a high five. It is lighter, but no less enthusiastic once she realizes the intent. "I'll be fine. Fortunately it's only a half day of school tomorrow." Though a half day of school could easily turn into a full day for her, with all of her clubs and Council duties.
Limping towards Peace, she states softly, "It's alright, we'll come back sometime since it means so much to you."
She then looks over Cure Berry, with a thoughtful, albeit pained expression, noting the similarity of a certain emblem on her henshin. "Do you know a Cure Peach?"
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Jupiter [Juuban Public School (8)] has posed.
Jupiter is not quite up to returning a high-five, considering that she's only really holding herself upright with one hand braced on the ground, but she answers Vega and Cure Peace with a weary but genuine smile. "Good work, everyone."
She tries to stand, then wobbles and seems to reconsider. "That was a little bit tough, huh? I'm okay, but... oof, I might need to just... sit here a minute."
<Pose Tracker> Cure Berry [Infinity Institute (8)] has posed.
The kick lands - the nawekameke fading away to nothing. And Westar vanished. That was... absolutely fine by Berry.
Falling onto her knees upon the chilly sidewalk, she just... takes a moment. A hand lifts up - tenderly touching her side to bring about a wince where she had caught a sharper than normal whip from that last assault. And she just... breathes out, "Thank goodness," she says, starting to kinda pull herself to her feet.
Breathing heavily, she glances over her shoulder towards the others, a gentle smile springing up onto her cheeks.
"Oh? Cure Peach?" she asks, kinda giving a smile then. "Yes - she is my teammate," she says then, glancing between the others. "And my friend," as for what was going on here? Berry kinda pushes to her feet, brushing off the front of her skirt. Another pause, another beat, and she brushes off the shoulder of her outfit, before giving her hair a bit of a flick. "But to be honest... I just know that whatever they are up to here - it's bad. So we protect the city from the nawekamekes, that they bring," she says.
<Pose Tracker> Sailor Vega [Ohtori Academy (8)] has posed.
Vega just grins at the Cures while they meet and greet, interjecting with the old 'Sailor Vega, nice to work with you' quick intro, before - really, Jupiter can barely stand? Bad news bears!
"I don't have *much* healing magic," Vega says quietly, moving over to the other Senshi and kneeling down, removing pearls from hear earrings and pressing them - suddenly all light and sparkles - into Jupiter's hands, "but this should help until your reserves build back up."
<Pose Tracker> Cure Peace [Infinity Institute (7)] has posed.
Cure Peace looks to Jupiter. "You're... cool.." she says at her with wide eyes, even as she's barely keeping herself up. "I...hope I can do lightning like that someday..." she says, thoughtfully, afterall, she still kinda shocks herself continually when she uses her finisher. It's kind of silly, really. "You don't even shock yourself like I do." she says. She then kind of remembers that she's hurt. "Oh!...do you need help...?" she asks tapping her fingers in front of her. Tap, Tap, Bashful tap.
She looks to Cure Berry and gives a thoughtful look. "I dunno if I like the sound of a 'sorrow gauge'... though..." she says. "It sounds... so lame." shes a scrunched up bleeeh face. "Oh! We met Peach..!" she says softly. "She's cool, too!"
<Pose Tracker> Westar [None] has posed.
For a short time, fear and panic reigned in Akihabara - projected monsters making their way down the streets. But as they faded with the Nakewameke's defeat, and the lack of damage became apparent... People can be so quick to forget such things, justifying them as a publicity stunt or just ignoring them entirely.
The misery happened, but day-to-day life goes on in spite of such things - and soon, the bustling Akihabara district has returned to normal.
