2013-10-13 - Known Enemy 1

Known Enemy I
Summary: The Silver Monster Threat Isn't Done Yet...
Who: Sakura Akagi, Madobe Kuroi, Rei Fushigiyo, Erika Inagawa, Hisae Misumi, Miyu Oyanagi, Aimi Saionji, Midori Sugiura, Syaoran Li, Kinzo Hiroyuki, with Amu Hinamori as Fast Dessert Youma, Dark Precure as Blaster X-Chara, and Love Guitar Rod as Tough Hammer Youma!
Where: Tama Outer City - Nishitama Park District
OOC - IC Date: 10/13/2013 - 10/02/2013

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

Over the last week or so, a silver creature has appeared at all three of the major schools across the district; changing its form with each attack received, assaulting people with a violent power...and their own strength turned against them! Always, it whispered, power, more power, more power--

It's after school. Most students are at their clubs or other duties around town; far away from Nishitama Park District.

And then sky parts, and a great silver orb SHOOTS out of the heavens, smashes into the park district's center. People scramble for cover. The news is slow to react, but Dark Twitter and Standardbook immediately light up with reports of a meteor.

The mass in the center slowly, centimeter by centimeter, contracts into itself. And five seconds into this process, the ground around it RIPS upward, torn asunder by the emergence of youma! They stomp away from the sphere, sending bystanders scattering.

And then the sphere rumbles, a deep, resonant thunder, "Join with me...become one...IN FUSION!!"

There is a sudden wash of terrible light, a tremendous shockwave ripping away from the sphere, kicking up dirt, debris, sending people flying and trees toppling. And in its wake, a wave of inky darkness seeps away from the ball - a thick, molasses-like soup that still travels at alarmingly good speed. Anything caught in it, be it a food cart, a car, or a person, slowly vanishes beneath it, like an ancient dinosaur sinking into tar.

It has been 70 minutes since this began. The streets throughout the district have cleared of people - fleeing or taken by the ink, who can say. But the task, for those arriving to fight, is clear:

The streets are full of monsters. You'll have to get through them to face the mastermind!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori transforms into Youma Form Fast Dessert Youma!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure transforms into Youma Form Blaster X-Chara!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod transforms into Youma Form Tough Hammer Youma!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has fully healed herself. She is now ready to take on 5 opponents!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has fully healed herself. She is now ready to take on 5 opponents!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has fully healed itself. It is now ready to take on 4 opponents!

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

Stomping down one street, the size of a house, there looms a tremendous purple creature, with a peculiar pinch to its forehead. It appears to be made of formless malevolence, a purple creature with red eyes and a red mouth. Its fists like hammers, it smashes the street, fracturing concrete, and roars:

"ZAKENNNAAAAAAAAA!!"

Amu Hinamori [Ohtori Academy (5)] has posed:

One of the creatures that has come up from the ground appears to be... a tarot card. It rises into the air, slowly spinning around, before a small pink sprite, wearing clothes of pleated paper and a cherry atop her head, flies out from the card. It lifts what appears to be a wand and waves it at a bush, which immediately transforms into a giant cupcake.

Dark Precure [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

And yet another, just as small, is a black egg with a red X on it. It shakes, cracks... and shatters, hatching a small black figure with the same red X on its forehead. "Muuuuuuriiiiiii~"

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Sakura Akagi has already become Japanese Cherry Blossom when she arrives on the scene of this disaster. She's called up every other member of her team that she could find, and alerted them to the position of the creature.

They've talked about this. The stakes are high. But they need to develop a better strategy to attack the creature and to do that, they must learn more about its methods.

They were not expecting for it to bring friends. "All right, Perfume Warriors, let's team up and fight one of these monsters together!" None of them seem to be Dark Scents, so she's not sure which of them would be most likely to be vulnerable to their attacks. The big one has a few Magical Girls around it already, so she gestures to that one that looks like a giant cupcake. Just because it looks sweet doesn't mean it might not be trouble.

"All right, let's go - everyone on that one, surround it!"

She stands her ground and looks at Sunshine. "You'll have to take point, the rest of us will be right with you!"

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has used Battle Strategy on Erika Inagawa.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa accepts Sakura Akagi's Battle Strategy, taking 0 Fatigue damage!

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

Madobe has also become Sweet Pea by the time SHE arrives. She comes along with the other Perfumers and takes a moment to survey the situation. She frowns at the cupcake monster. That seems to be... THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL! Because it's so tempting, you see, she just wants to put--ARRGHGH NO IT IS PROBABLY AN EVIL CUPCAKE but she must BUT SHE MUST NOT!

Sweet Pea smacks her cheeks a couple times to clear her mind. "Right!" She says. "We'll follow your lead, Sunshine--and to your advice!" That last bit is to her undercover sister under another mother.

She draws out her pistols, heading another way to try and cut off its avenue of escape.

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi has used Go Hero Protaganist on Sakura Akagi.

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.

Diva Heart [Juuban (8)] has posed:

o/` Kaware! o/`

o/` Kami ni nare~e~ o/`

As the smoke from the enormous rainbow heart fireworks display fades, a spotlight splits the sky, shining down on the edge of a rooftop overlooking the street down which the enormous hammer monster rages. After a beat, onto the ledge leaps one Diva Heart, the Earth Championship held above her head in her right hand, as her music blares from every building on the street, filling the air with the delightful strains of JAM Project. She lifts her other hand to slap the belt's surface happily, and then drops it back onto the rooftop behind her, bends her knees, and...

... springs off the rooftop, right at the enormous monster's head, more or less crotch-first.

She lands heavily on the thing's shoulders, facing behind it, wraps her legs around its neck, and then whips all of her weight backwards. The goal here is to send it flipping forwards to land on its back, with Diva Heart dropping to the ground to land casually on her feet.

... that said, this is her first time trying this move, and this thing is awfully... ... big.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has used Hurricanrana on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has finished attacking.

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Forever Sunshine is rested. She's tanned. She's ready, like Dick N-

Well, anyway: Immaculately re-garbed and distinctly less exploded, she has been hopping up and down and preparing herself for action since the team got together, transformed, and rolled out. This mostly involved stretching. When Cherry Blossom gives the word, she straightens up, nods once with a hand raised and curled into a loose fist, and says, "Right! I'll bust through that sugary shell!"

Of course, the real problem facing her is simple: there's all that tarry glop on the ground. Running forwards, she tacks abruptly left, towards a toppled-over takoyaki cart, leaping up onto it. Then past it, onto the roof of a car. As she passes a stall full of novelty T-shirts and other touristy things, she collects an armful, saying to the stuck kiosk attendant, "Sorry!" as she runs past, and strewing them around like flower petals.

Which, of course, provides an improved footstep situation. (The clerk spreads his arms and declares to Sunshine's fragrant afterwake, "Oh come on!")

At her last vault, Sunshine can see that the only final landing point possible is on the cupcake itself. Left with only a chintzy paper fan for support, she bends backwards, hurling it between her legs as she leaps - and places her left foot onto it, heel arching to stand on the ball of her feet. The fan lands into the transformed bush with an audible "glop." Sunshine, still half bent backwards, extends her hand towards the pink sprite, index and middle finger extended in an accusing inverted point.

"A park is a place where people go to form cheerful and everyday memories. If you're going to mess it up like this, you'd better be prepared for battle. I and my friends will be your opponent, you - you demoisselle of diminutive desserts!!"

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has used Forever Perfect Poise on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi accepts Madobe Kuroi's Go Hero Protaganist, taking 0 Fatigue damage!

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

Hisae Misumi ditches her violin case in an empty classroom. With the blinds drawn, she also takes advantage of the space to henshin, before she promptly ducks back out of the room and starts running for the hills --

Or, in this case, the park district.

She meets up with the rest of the girls, aiming to be up higher than down on the ground, mainly due to wanting to see, well, everything.

She lifts her hands up, forms her TV screen made of ice and snowflakes, and calls out, "Winterberry Analyze!"

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry performs an analysis on Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry has finished attacking.

Miyu Oyanagi [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

"Mom, don't worry! I'm almost to the nearest disaster shelter now! Don't worry, I'll be safe! I'm nowhere near that area of the city! I promise I'll be careful, really. Just focus on getting yourself and dad somewhere safe..." 'Miyu' Oyanagi says into her touchscreen phone as she rushes towards the scene of the Youma attack, contrary to what she just said on the phone, "Mom, seriously! Nothing is going to happen! I'll see you as soon as I can! I... I love you too... b-bye..."

As she hangs up, she ducks into a nearby alley way and looks around, then sighs, "I'm sorry mom..." Then she holds out her phone and sweeps it around in a wide circle, "POWER ON!"

The alleyway is briefly engulfed in light which quickly fades, and out leaps Distortion Warrior Errata, disappearing in mid-jump in a flash of code.

Two blocks down, she reappears on the top of s street lamp, her eyes scanning the scene, "S-so many Youma. I've never seen an attack on such a scale... gotta take them out fast." Her eyes turn to the large purple creature with the hammerfists, "That looks like the biggest threat. Let's start there..."

Standing up fully, Errata summons a magical circle in front of her, from which emerges a swirling, twitching ball of code. Then with a thrust of her arm, she calls out, "SEEKER PROGRAM, IKE!"

The ball responds, launching forth like an erratically swirling missile towrards the Youma.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has used Seeker Program on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has finished attacking.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Warm Vanilla Sugar nods, having shown up with the rest of the Perfume Warriors, having some how found a way out of Ohtori's library from earlier (don't ask.)

For now she follows her friends and allies, smiling and ready to help deal with this cupcake monster. This she can deal with for now. She doesn't have to worry about jerks and things.

She looks at her friends nodding and smiling at what Japanese Cherry Blossom says. "I think we can do it Cherry. Lead us and tell us what to do, even if you do suggest others to lead. We're in this together, and we'll handle this beast like we did all the rest so far. Our friendship, our love, it will combine and together will deal with the toughest of monsters!"

Her words radiated out over to Cherry, Sweet Pea, and Forever Sunshine, hopefully to give them the power and drive to fight on and help finish things off sooner rather than later. When there's massive property damage that is.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has used Warm Encouraging Love on Sakura Akagi.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has used Warm Encouraging Love on Erika Inagawa.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has used Warm Encouraging Love on Madobe Kuroi.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa accepts Aimi Saionji's Warm Encouraging Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Erika Inagawa is Cheered!

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi accepts Aimi Saionji's Warm Encouraging Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Madobe Kuroi is Cheered!

Midori Sugiura [Ohtori Academy (S)] has posed:

Midori Sugiura had had her concerns, but between balancing her job and looking for some employment opportunities that might be better suited to the state of things? She's not had as much time to patrol and look for trouble as she normally did. It seems she was right there would be trouble today however.

"So here it is again. ..."

Midori wastes no time in summoning her element and prepares to fight. Her weapon bursts out of the ground and appears in her hand and she stares at the horror for a moment. She can't let this go on she does not want know how many monsters there are. She may have to call her child at this rate, but she still holds him back knowing he's a trump card that once he's used awareness of the nature of what he can do will simply spread. Still it may be time to let the Iron Claw out.

"Hold it right there, your rampage is over. I am the HiME of Wind and I will not allow this to go on any further!"

Midori does not waste a moment as she throws her element at the huge Youma just a moment after a certain Distortion warrior has arrived.

"It seems we have a good sense of timing don't we Errata?"

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has used Element Toss on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.

Syaoran Li [Juuban (4)] has posed:

For the Kanto Magic Association, it has been a long 70 minutes. They have deployed in force to this latest emergence of dark powers within Tokyo, but there is simply too much to be done. Apprentices are helping bystanders flee the area, tending the wounded, and diverting local law enforcement as best they can. Magi and demon hunters are striving to check the spread of the youma, keep them contained within a relatively confined space...even if that space is an entire district. But only a few mages are powerful and experienced enough to do more than stall the spread, and from the start of the battle, they have not managed to deploy anyone to attack it at the source. Until now.

Syaoran Li touches down atop a water tower and surveys the district. The young magus leans forward onto his sword, chest and shoulders rising and falling as he tries to catch his breath, his expression tight with fatigue. It has been a long evening, and it shows no signs of growing any shorter - not with three massive youma stomping through the town. Syaoran reaches under his cloak and pulls out a bottle of orange juice. He drinks deeply from it, his mind racing. Three monsters. One weary magus. Only one thing can make this any worse, and it is...

o/~ Kami ni nare~e~

o/~ All right, Perfume Warriors!

o/~We'll follow your lead, Sunshine!~

o/~ I'll bust through that sugary shell~

o/~ "Winterberry Analyze!"

o/~ POWER ON!

>:|

"Perfect," Syaoran sighs and tosses the empty bottle off the side of the building, watching it tumble into the goop below. Resolving not to follow it, the young man draws a long slip of paper from his pocket and then rushes forward, leaping onto a power line. He slides down the cable, electricity flowing upward, drawn into the paper charm by the slow, steady pulse of Eastern magic, filling the charm with stored energy. Syaoran places the blade of his sword against the charm, focusing his will. "Raitei--" he calls, then thrusts his hand forward toward the X-Chara. "SHOURAI!"

The energy of the district power grid rips out toward it.

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li has used Coming of the Thunder Emperor on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li has finished attacking.

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki was here on an unrelated thing that what's going on. He had caught another whiff of a Dark Scent, so to speak and was out hunting again----maybe he figured, if he kept stabbing these things, someone would need to come out and handle him! Then maybe he'd get answers.

BUT, then there is a giant cupcake. and it's friends, and the Perfume Warriors coming out to battle it.

He frowns. "That...isn't a even a Dark Scent!" he mumbles to himself as Kinzo ducks behind into a convient alley----and out the top comes, Dark Amber.

The Perfume Warriors will need his help tonight, so no passive aggressivly standing on lamposts while armcrossed tonight! He flicks out a few Amber looking balls that crack into some sort of weird mist at the Cupcake's feet.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Amber Mist on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod perfectly counters Diva Heart's Hurricanrana, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod's counterattack, Hammer In The Morning, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Diva Heart!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod fails to brace Midori Sugiura's Element Toss, taking 21 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod fails to dodge Miyu Oyanagi's Seeker Program, taking 7 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly dodges Erika Inagawa's Forever Perfect Poise, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Amu Hinamori's Fade ability activates! Amu Hinamori's Flash ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure perfectly braces Syaoran Li's Coming of the Thunder Emperor, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Brace! Dark Precure's Block ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori fails to brace Kinzo Hiroyuki's Amber Mist, taking 13 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Diversion applied to Amu Hinamori!

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

Diva Heart's inexperience with hurricanas on things with necks bigger than the width of her legs fails her, because it literally punches her feet. Net result: Tie. She bounces off down the street. "ZAKENNA!" it thunders at her, spitefully. It turns around, apparently aggravated and intending to hammer her into pavement - when Miyu blasts into it. Good news! This is not that horrible silver thing. Or it is, and it's not doing that thing it did anymore. Whatever: Blasts actually hurt it. It staggers forward under that hit, then slowly turns to regard who threw an AXE AT IT.

It doesn't frown, per se, so much as it opens its mouth wider and roars, "ZAKENNAAA!!"

It spins around, slamming a hammer through a chunk of office building; it sends debris flying in the direction of Miyu and Midori, then spins its whole weight around, its hammerfist flying high, and then SLAMS down toward Diva Heart, and then brings the other hand up to do it again! And again! The concrete buckles under the onslaught - can Diva Heart make a comeback from such savagery!?

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used Breaking The Scenery on Miyu Oyanagi.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used Breaking The Scenery on Midori Sugiura.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used Hammer In The Evening on Diva Heart.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has finished attacking.

Dark Precure [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

The >:| seems to have no effect on the X-chara! Nor does the lightning, as the X on its forehead suddenly becomes bigger than the rest of its body (which still isn't all that big). The bolt of magic fizzles against the X, leaving only a smudge behind.

The X shrinks back down again, and the X-chara gives the BIGGEST GRIN right back at Li. "Muri~!" It rubs its stubby arms together, causing sparks to fly... then points both right back at Syaoran. A CRACK sounds, and a bolt of black lightning fires right back at him!

Now is the time to see if :D beats >:|

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used Futility Wave on Syaoran Li.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi perfectly dodges Love Guitar Rod's Breaking The Scenery, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Miyu Oyanagi's Fade ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart narrowly counters Love Guitar Rod's Hammer In The Evening, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Diva Heart's Reverse ability activates! Diva Heart's Tactician ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart's counterattack, Punch Trading Spot, partially gets through, doing 6 Fatigue damage to Love Guitar Rod! Critical Counterhit! Exhausted applied to Love Guitar Rod!

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura narrowly dodges Love Guitar Rod's Breaking The Scenery, taking 20 Fatigue damage! Midori Sugiura's Fade ability activates! Midori Sugiura's Flash ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li fails to dodge Dark Precure's Futility Wave, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Syaoran Li is Quipped! Stun applied to Syaoran Li!

Amu Hinamori [Ohtori Academy (5)] has posed:

The pink pixie looks at Erika and.... just... sort of blinks. She isn't sure what to make of what just happened! But as she flits away, she flies right into the cloud of smoke let up by the amber orbs. Cough cough, cough cough, comes the tiny voice as she covers her mouth. That wasn't very nice. -Or- very tasty!

"Nnnnn!" Puffing out her cheeks, she balls her hands into fists and waves her wand toward Winterberry and Erika. If they don't move fast enough, they may find a large pastry forming -right around them-! Delicious magical girl cupcakes! And then, another sweep of the wand toward Kinzou, sending smaller mini-cupcakes flying at him!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used Tiramisu of Terror on Winterberry.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used Tiramisu of Terror on Erika Inagawa.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used Chocolate Murder Cookies on Kinzo Hiroyuki.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry narrowly dodges Amu Hinamori's Tiramisu of Terror, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Amu Hinamori is Psyched! Winterberry's Fade ability activates! Winterberry's Flash ability activates! Blind applied to Winterberry!

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa fails to dodge Amu Hinamori's Tiramisu of Terror, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Trap applied to Erika Inagawa!

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly counters Amu Hinamori's Chocolate Murder Cookies, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Bind Break! All of Amu Hinamori's debuffs are cleared!

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki's counterattack, No Thanks, I'm on a Diet, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Amu Hinamori!

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"Nice work everyone--"

Japanese Cherry Blossom stops, when she sees Dark Amber has joined the battle. But why is he here? Now? "Dark Amber. You're on our side this time." It's more of a confirmation statement than a question.

Cherry Blossom catches sight of the little pixie, the one responsible for those cupcakes. She pulls out a rod from her hair, which begins to glow with a golden hue as soon as it's in her hand. She takes a deep breath. "Well, I'll have to trust you for now..."

"En garde--"

She starts slashing with her chopstick, at the incoming cupcake flood. She's pretty quick with this small weapon and throwing off frosting left and right.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi accepts Aimi Saionji's Warm Encouraging Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has used Cherry Wood Chopstick on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.

Miyu Oyanagi [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

"Sure looks that way," Miyu replies to Midori, "One of these days we're gonna have to actually meet when we're not fighting monsters-- Whoops! Heads up!"

The huge chunk of concrete goes hurtling through the air, but Errata leans forward as she brandishes her scythe. Green strings of code run up her arm and into the shaft of the weapon, traveling all the way up to the blade before infusing it with power, "Port...!"

And then just as the chunk of concrete is about to strike her, Errata vanishes from site with an audible BLIP!

Mere moments later, she reappears behind the beast, her blade sweeping out to carve into it's back. Then again she BLIP!s out of existence, only to reappear to the beast's flank with a second telling blow.

Again and again, she teleports away, only to appear from some new angle to slice into the Youma, and every time she does, the sequence becomes faster and faster until she is little more than a blur of rapidly blinking images cutting away at her foe.

Then with one final strike as she sweeps by, Errata spins her scythe around with a florish, "DRIVER!"

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has used Port Driver on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has finished attacking.

Syaoran Li [Juuban (4)] has posed:

>:|

Okay, so lightning is a big old no, Syaoran thinks, his hand diving into his pockets again. Maybe some--

The young man leaps into the air as black thunder rips toward him, not wanting to find out what happens if he gets electrocuted while standing atop a live power line. The bolt slams into his shields and sends him flying backward, crashing into a rooftop garden. He bounces once and comes to a stop against a large pot of flowers, which tips over and dumps loam onto his head.

>:|

Syaoran comes to his feet spitting earth to one side, roughly brushing it out of the tangled mass of his hair. He grounds his sword and pulls his phone out of his pocket, and - grateful for his butler's lessons in the use of the text function - begins stabbing keys with considerable irritation. He thumbs send, spits mud again, and then reverts to Magic Association Tactical Doctrine #001.

'When in doubt, kill it with fire.'

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li has used Invitation of the Fire God on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li has finished attacking.

Midori Sugiura [Ohtori Academy (S)] has posed:

Midori Sugiura is fast that is her thing but she cna not dodge everything as the creatuer she's mentally dubbed Zakenna for lack of a better term. She catches her weapon as it reutrns but damn there's a lot of thigns going everywhere and Midori can not evade everything. Someone slower? They might have ended up a smear, as it is she's still roughed up and is having to think abit differently.

"... This thing's a whole new sort of monster."

Midori now again is makcing for it trying to make use of the terrain to get closer, she leaps bound on wreckage and what is intact as she makes a striker with her element before she tries to fade away.

"Errata I'll try to keep it busy for you and the others!"

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has used Element Slice and Dice on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Warm and sugary love!! It's sweet. Sweet and empowering. Basking in it, Forever Sunshine's already kind of sassy nature is magnified several times.

"Nothing to say? Hah!" Forever Sunshine says. "I thought you would be bellowing about power and everything before-"

WHOM

Encased in tiramisu, Forever Sunshine lets out a statement of pure disgust: "This is just... sticky... getting... Wahh!! This is how you get ants!" She undulates vigorously in the pastry shell, before ducking her head down, immersing herself fully in the tiramisu.

There is a fragrance in the air of tangerine citrus sweetness mixed with a sort of coffee aroma.

THEN THE PASTRY ERUPTS, disgorging Forever Sunshine towards the creature foot first. That tangerine scent swells as she screams, "HOAAAAAA--!" Hopefully, landing one sandaled foot right square on the patissiere of perfidy.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has used Sunshine Intensity on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.

Diva Heart [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Well, that didn't go well.

Diva Heart goes flopping away across the pavement, sliding across half the street on her face (metaphorically more than literally) until she comes to a stop at an intersection, curled into the fetal position. After a few beats, she rolls onto all fours and drags herself dizzily to her feet, rounding on the enormous monster... just in time to eat a huge right from the thing's hammerhand. She recoils in an almost exaggerated fashion, her entire body swaying backward as if she were going to topple... and then as the left hammer arm comes in, she snaps her entire body forwards, arm flashing out like a whip to crash her open-palmed right hand into the incoming left arm.

This exact exchange of blows happens about three times before, on the fourth, Rei throws her left arm up, the enormous hammer limb coming to a sudden stop on it. Her right hand flashes across to grip the thing's wrist (as much as a hammer has a wrist), and she plants her feet and pivots, pulling the youma several steps towards her and then whipping it on its way past her, at a run down the street, right towards the intersection she almost went rolling into herself.

Just as it's about to blast into the intersection, however, an enormous - or, well, in this case appropriately sized - set of three taut ring ropes made out of rainbow light appears; they go taut when the youma slams into them, helpfully automagically turning its back into the ropes as it does, and then slingshot it back down the street the other direction.

Diva Heart, meanwhile, has taken off down the street the other direction, towards Miyu and Midori; she, too, bounces off a set of rainbow ropes that appear out of nowhere, and sprints right back at the oncoming monster. When they're still about twenty feet apart, she springs into the air, thrusting her arm straight out to the side, and crashes into the huge monster with the rigid limb, hoping to take it straight down to the ground.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has used Clothesline on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has finished attacking.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Oh wait. There's the jerk himself now. Warm Vanilla Sugar doesn't let Dark Amber's presence deter her from focusing on the task at hand, which is beating down a cupcake monster. This... actually is the strangest thing she's done so far as a Magical Girl. She needs to get out more.

She turns to look at the cupcake now, deciding that if Dark Amber's going to be helping them for now, then she shouldn't worry about things. She'll fill him with love and warmth later. There are other things to do.

"HEY! CUPCAKE! I BET YOU'RE A LOW FAT, NON-SUGAR FILLED, TASTELESS PILE OF GARBAGE!" Warm Vanilla Sugar yells out, trying to... make the Cupcake feel bad. She isn't really good at put downs. She's more the girl that supports and makes people feel better. But she saw Sweet Pea doing something similar in the last battle, so it's got to be a valid tactic now, right?

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has used Not So Good Put Down on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

Winterberry is turned into tiramisu.

She does /not/ appreciate this.

After a few minutes, she manages to get her arms free, waving them around as she yells out, "So you like to bake things, huh?! I guess you just think we're easy tarts, but you're HALF BAKED if you think it's going to be that easy!"

Bad puns, Winterberry takes self inflicted 0.000000000001 damage.

She then clicks her fingers together, a large snowball appearing in her hand as she promptly flings it at the cupcake.

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry has used Icy Blast on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry has finished attacking.

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

High up in the sky, overlooking the battlefield, is a senshi, who appears to be levitating. She descends slowly - upside down. (Though her hair and skirt don't seem to have noticed and are in their normal positions as if up and down dont' have any meaning for her.) She studies the situatino, frowning. She sees an obvious monster that other girls are attacking. Remaining in midair, staying upside down, she sees a chunk of concrete that was flung around. Thinking it's an excellent idea, she points at it as it just rises up, shimmering with a dark-purple gravity aura like Sagi's own. Not sure of the best target to attack, she chooses the large monster-looking thing as the large chunk of concrete orbits her for a moment. "Well, let me make a first impression. Sagittarius Shooter!" she cries out, as the large concrete chunk fires down at the monster from above at high speeds.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has used Sagittarius Shooter on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has finished attacking.

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

Sweet Pea is always happy to be encouraged! Well okay maybe not ALWAYS, but she is right now! She grins at Aimi and says, "Sure thing!" Though frankly, with time, it seems like Sweet Pea is becoming less and less like the Madobe you all know and (maybe) love. She waits for Cherry Bossom to move in before carefully aiming with her Sweet Pea shooters, firing off a quick flurry of pink blasts for the monster--nothing major, she's just trying to get accustomed to its movements. It seems to be andgerous--and faster than she thought. She tries to guide her pistol to catch the pixie and--

--fires a quick couple shots. "Stop turning my friends into pastries!!"

It's a legitimate concern.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod perfectly braces Diva Heart's Clothesline, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Brace! Love Guitar Rod's Block ability activates! Love Guitar Rod's Parry ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori fails to brace Erika Inagawa's Sunshine Intensity, taking 25 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod perfectly dodges Midori Sugiura's Element Slice and Dice, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly dodges Winterberry's Icy Blast, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Amu Hinamori's Fade ability activates! Amu Hinamori's Flash ability activates! Diversion and Stagger applied to Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod perfectly counters Miyu Oyanagi's Port Driver, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod's counterattack, Hammer In The Morning, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Miyu Oyanagi!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod perfectly dodges Sailor Sagittarius's Sagittarius Shooter, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Dodge!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly counters Sakura Akagi's Cherry Wood Chopstick, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Sakura Akagi is Psyched! Cripple applied to Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori's counterattack, Parfait Punishment, partially gets through, doing 6 Fatigue damage to Sakura Akagi!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly dodges Madobe Kuroi's Sweet Pea Strike, taking 2 Fatigue damage! Madobe Kuroi is Psyched! Amu Hinamori's Fade ability activates! Amu Hinamori's Flash ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly dodges Aimi Saionji's Not So Good Put Down, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Amu Hinamori is Quipped! Amu Hinamori's Fade ability activates! Amu Hinamori's Flash ability activates!

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki tries to fling out chains to bash through cookies, but his crystal blades are just no match for some fricken cookies. What's up with that?

He frowns as he tosses a chain out to try to slow this thing down a little.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Binding Amber Chain on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori perfectly dodges Kinzo Hiroyuki's Binding Amber Chain, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Amu Hinamori's Fade ability activates! Amu Hinamori's Flash ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure fails to counter Syaoran Li's Invitation of the Fire God, taking 30 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Cripple applied to Dark Precure!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure's counterattack, Spite, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Syaoran Li!

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

Hammerhands Zakenna slams on Diva a few times before she manages to fling it! Oh no! It...is it playing along or just out of control!? Perhaps both!? Regardless, when Diva Heart comes in at it - it swings up its arm, letting her splat comically against its fist!

And then it swings around, with her still attached, and then when Miyu comes in for the Port Driver, SLAMS that same fist down onto her. It moves, swinging seemingly wildly, and yet each swing of its fist easily parries a slash from Errata . How can it be so fast!? As if to prove that was no fluke, it then suddenly BOUNDS out of the way of Midori's Element assault and even Sailor Sagittarius' rebounded concrete! It's so FAST...!

And then it proves just how fast it is, because it spins in midair, sweeping out with one huge arm to slam into Sailor Sagittarius and force her to the ground, and then spins around, and just...goes ape on the ground, sending a terrible shockwave throughout the area. Building faces begin to crumble, trees fall over - and footing is very hard to keep!

Especially when it moves to try and hit its enemies on the way!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used If I Had A Hammer Oh Wait I Do on Sailor Sagittarius.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used All Over This Land on Diva Heart.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used All Over This Land on Miyu Oyanagi.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used All Over This Land on Midori Sugiura.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has finished attacking.

Dark Precure [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

And then a flowerpot falls onto Li's head. The X-chara pauses.... then falls over in midair and rolls around on the....air, laughing its fool head off. "Muuuririririririririri~!" So busy is it in its laughing that it doesn't even notice the plume of fire until it's completely engulfed.

The X-chara blinks several times, blowing out a puff of smoke. "Mu... ri." It pauses and blinks again, puffing another small cloud of smoke. "Muri? Muri!" With its arms moving in a circle, it pulls out a blue and white striped hat and puts it on its head, then begins to chug around the area, spewing small clouds of black smoke in its wake! "Mu~ ri~ mu~ ri~ mu~ ri~ mu~ ri~ Muuuuuu~ Riiiiiiii~"

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used Roiling Cloud of Darkness on Madobe Kuroi.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used Roiling Cloud of Darkness on Kinzo Hiroyuki.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used Roiling Cloud of Darkness on Aimi Saionji.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used Roiling Cloud of Darkness on Winterberry.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi fails to brace Love Guitar Rod's All Over This Land, taking 35 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius fails to dodge Love Guitar Rod's If I Had A Hammer Oh Wait I Do, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to Sailor Sagittarius!

Amu Hinamori [Ohtori Academy (5)] has posed:

The poor little The Cupcake is just lit up from every direction. It lets out a shrill cry as it's struck by chains, by peas, by ice, by feet, by chopsticks, by insults, and by terrible, terrible puns. What cruel Magical Girls (and Boy)! "Nnnn... n.....!" The pixie looks up with big eyes, filled with tears! All it wanted was a world made of desserts! How is that so bad?!

Sniff! Floating back up, The Cupcake raises its wand. "Nyeee!" A rain of desserts begins to materialize, some fired as projectiles, others are just baked into existance right around the battlefield! She seems to be firing them off fairly indiscriminantly, too!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used Parfait Punishment on Sakura Akagi.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used Chocolate Murder Cookies on Erika Inagawa.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used Lemon Meringue Death Ray on Syaoran Li.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart fails to counter Love Guitar Rod's All Over This Land, taking 36 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart's counterattack, Powerslam, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Love Guitar Rod!

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi narrowly dodges Amu Hinamori's Parfait Punishment, taking 11 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry fails to dodge Dark Precure's Roiling Cloud of Darkness, taking 17 Fatigue damage! Blind applied to Winterberry!

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li fails to counter Amu Hinamori's Lemon Meringue Death Ray, taking 34 Fatigue damage! Cripple applied to Syaoran Li!

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li's counterattack, Wind Flower Invocation, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi fails to dodge Dark Precure's Roiling Cloud of Darkness, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Blind applied to Madobe Kuroi!

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji fails to dodge Dark Precure's Roiling Cloud of Darkness, taking 16 Fatigue damage! Blind applied to Aimi Saionji!

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki fails to dodge Dark Precure's Roiling Cloud of Darkness, taking 22 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa fails to dodge Amu Hinamori's Chocolate Murder Cookies, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Bind Break! All of Amu Hinamori's debuffs are cleared!

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius widens her eyes in shock as that demon-thing just outright moves so fast as to dodge the concreate - and before she can react - a hand swings out of nowhere and slams her to the ground. Shaking her head, whimpering, she sits up, brushing herself off. Swaying dizzily, she raises up off the ground, returning to her previous altitude, remainig rightside up. "Alright... let's... *cough*... slow you down a bit. Sagittarius Bubble!" she gasps, as a shimmering bubble forms around the giant youma, attempting to raise it up in a zero-G bubble, in an attempt to disorient the foe to get a better chance at it.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has used Sagittarius Bubble on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has finished attacking.

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Cherry Blossom is staying focused on the battle, so the words of encouragement, while they are important, don't seem to have a powerful effect. She's still trying to get used to working on a team... heck, trying to lead a team, it's completely foreign to her. She studies the movements of the cupcake youma, but they're awfully erratic! Cupcakes fall on her from the sky, all around. She tries to move aside, dancing away, but one of them strikes her regardless, splattering frosting all over her gown.

"...Let's try and slow you down. Cherry trees!"

She clasps her hands in front of her chest, and light builds around her, glowing a pale pink. "Hear my prayer!"

Branches suddenly burst up from the ground, studded with flowers. They twist around and try to hold the cupcake creator down!

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has used Cherry Branch Bramble on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki eyes go wide as the other beast begins to join in with the cupcake, he looks to the perfumers and snaps. "WATCH YOUR SIDES!" in doing this, he himself, gets completely blindsided, depiste his best attempt to get out of the way, he ends up, smack face down on the ground a moment from his lamppost perch.

That is totally supposed to happen. He forces himself up and attempts to jump stab forward into the new challenger.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Futility on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.

Miyu Oyanagi [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

The ground quakes and heaves as th Youma slams it, sending Miyu to the ground as the world trembles. Heavy pieces of debris break away from a nearby building, but amidst the chaos, she doesn't see it until it's already falling towards her. With a startled cry, she unleashes a blast that shatters the wall colapsing towards her, but the broken pieces still fall atop her.

Once the earthquake ceases, the rumble shifts and Miyu pulls herslf free, obviously injured, "S-so strong... we need to weaken it or else it'll just steamroll us..." She straightens up and focuses, summoning a code circle at her feet. Moments later, a similar circle appears beneath the Youma.

"FORCED ACCESS!"

And then she pours her power through the magic circles, seeking to disrupt and weaken Zakenna.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has used Forced Access on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has finished attacking.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

The little... X-chara thing, runs around spewing black smoke around. Warm Vanilla Sugar isn't paying much attention to that fight, but when it starts to come at her, she realizes she should in some cases. She tries to dodge, but its too fast and the smoke gets into her eyes. "Ugh... nasty..." She mutters, trying to wave the dark smoke away now.

She manages to do so, but her eyes are still watery from it, making it hard for her to see. She faces the cupcake as best she can, frowning as she... understands what its trying to do?

"I know you want a world made entirely of one thing, of the thing that you love and want the most. But it just can't be! The world is so much more than just a single thing; it is everyone, in their diversity working together, to make this world a better place, one where everyone of all shapes, sizes, forms, and even baked goods can lived in! You're trying to harm this, to destroy it, when you should be embracing it and working together with it! I know that you can understand what I'm saying! You just have to belive in it!" Warm Vanilla Sugar says, letting the warmth of her love radiate out towards it, hoping that maybe, just maybe, it will understand and stop its actions.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has used The Power of Love on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura narrowly braces Love Guitar Rod's All Over This Land, taking 5 Fatigue damage!

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

"Oh..." Sweet Pea notices as an X-Chara passes by. "You're... a different egg right?" She thinks for a few moments. "W..well I'm not gonna shoot you, that pink haired girl said I wasn't supposed to and uh--"

POOF! Sweet Pea's face is covered in black soot. MORE IMPORTANTLY THOUGH--her Sweet Pea perfumey smell is being SURPRESSED by the cloud of smoke.

"Ahhhh!!!" Sweet Pea shouts, getting thrown back (though one might swear there is like a couple seconds of delayed reaction).

She hits the ground, shoulder first, and hisses in pain.

She blinks at Aimi who--apparently--speaks fairy. She scratches at her head for a few moments. And then back to the pixie. It...It looks so sad.

"Ah...um..."

"W..well... I like cake too!" She points her sweet pea shooters at the creature. "But I also like flowers! HERE! Have some!!"

In her head she wonders why these peeps always insist on making her feel bad!! SHE HAS FEELINGS TOO YOU KNOW.

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi has used Sweet Pea Shooters on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.

Diva Heart [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Diva Heart slams into the monster's hammerhand face-first, dropping to the ground-- well, technically, she drops onto the hood of a car, the metal crumpling beneath her and spraying glass in every direction. She rolls off the top of the ruined car and onto the ground, rising uncertainly to her feet, legs shaking. She turns to stagger towards the spinning monster, a plan to take advantage of an opening in her head--

-- and then gets blasted by its fist and goes flying across the street to crash into another car, the door caving inwards with another spray of glass, Diva Heart crumpling to the ground once again.

It takes her a good ten second to get up this time; she spends most of it rolling around on the ground in apparent agony, clutching at her chest. Slowly, however, she drags herself to her feet, takes a few staggering steps away from the monster--

-- and then whirls, dropping heavily onto all fours, slamming her knuckles into the pavement hard enough to leave little cracks. She stretches out, like some kind of weird predator, and begins raising her fists and then punching them back into the ground in a steady rhythm that slowly builds in tempo, just glaring daggers at hammer-hands over there.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has used Wakeup Taunt on Diva Heart.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart accepts Diva Heart's Wakeup Taunt, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Empower and Surge applied to Diva Heart!

Syaoran Li [Juuban (4)] has posed:

"Tactical Doctrine #001," Syaoran Li says smugly. "Never fai--"

• MERINGUE'D*
  

The worst part about these youma is not the fact that they are kicking the crap out of him, the young magus thinks. The worst part about them is that they are kicking the crap out of him with depression and sweet treats. The magus rubs delicious blown sugar off his face and slowly pushes himself to his feet, knees shaking. He's low on energy and charms both. His mana barrier is flickering. He...he.... The magus's sword tip droops.

/I...don't think I can do this./

The words don't escape his mouth - Yelan Li had long lectured her son and heir on the importance of maintaining calm and composure on the battlefield. A magus is the guardian of humanity, she was fond of saying, and not a sniveling child. Even in the darkest of moments, solutions present themselves to those who stand and fight.

>:|

Light gleams out from the blade in Syaoran's hands, the sugary remnants burning away as he concentrates. He takes two steps forward and leaps off the rooftop, the sword of his great-gransfather blazing in his hands as he drops toward the giant walking cupcake. Syaoran Li may be tired, lonely, and weary. But the heir of Clow Reed can afford no such weakness.

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li has used Sword of Jinglin Li on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li has finished attacking.

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

Not /blindness/ again!

Winterberry takes a seat, hard, as she gets mauled and abused by... a ... cloud of darkness? She doesn't even want to /think/ about that. At all. AT ALL. So instead, she does what she does best when she wants too - she starts a snowball war.

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry has used Snowball Fight!! on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry has finished attacking.

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Forever Sunshine lands on top of a fallen tree branch, pausing.

"You - What are you crying over?" she asks The Cupcake, curiously. "Is this all some kind of misunderstanding? Are you being forced into batt-"

splut

A huge warm cookie, oozing semi-molten chocolate, wraps around Forever Sunshine's right arm. She looks there, feeling the chocolate ooze, the dough clinging like somewhat less caustic concrete. Another one spluts against her left shoulder, and then a third at her abdomen. A fourth one knocks her off her perch - or almost so. Her leg brushes that strange black ooze, and she curls her fists...

"This is stupid!!" she declares. "People are being hurt! Livelihoods are in danger! I love sweet treats and hope we can all get along as much as the next girl, but--" Sandalwood smoke rises from her cookie-doughed regions as the pastry is flash-baked to the point of being overcrisp -- and therefore, brittle! She bursts free with a brief snap of legs and arms, and then strikes a pose atop a piece of playground equipment that had been dislodged by other forms of mayhem.

"I can't forgive this. Rise, my passion!" Forever Sunshine says, sinking into a preparatory horse-stance. "The memories of the distant past come to me and guide my hand! For the sake of everyone's hopes, I have to reveal my true power--" This is about where Li hops off a building, sword first. Forever Sunshine advances to the far end of the see-saw, wind whipping and gathering in a flowery storm around her right hand. "Pinkkkkk-- PEONYYYYYYY---"

A sudden leap forwards. She jabs her hand out in a surprisingly modest little feint. Why, it might not even raise a bruise on a delicate flower such as Madobe! This one inch punch, of course, is deceptive. It /would/ raise a bruise on Madobe. But the physical force is the merest fraction of her gathered, surging energy. "Overrrrrrrrrrrr-"

It bursts out, crackling through the air like the lightning of a summer storm and leaving the scent of peony blossoms in its wake, rather than ozone or burnt rope. "DRIVE!" Forever Sunshine declares, even as she swings down one sandal for the nearest durable object to backflip back onto a concrete turtle, as yet unconsumed by the goop.

That durable object... was Syaoran Li.

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Erika Inagawa has used Pink Peony Overdrive on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure fails to brace Kinzo Hiroyuki's Futility, taking 9 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki is Psyched!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori fails to brace Madobe Kuroi's Sweet Pea Shooters, taking 22 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Tangle and Trap applied to Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori fails to brace Syaoran Li's Sword of Jinglin Li, taking 15 Fatigue damage! Syaoran Li is Psyched!

Midori Sugiura [Ohtori Academy (S)] has posed:

Midori Sugiura is quite quick and she has no time to dodge even one so fast as she is, however she spins her element using it to deflect the incoming attck for the most part but there's some strain, still she's endured it prety well and she tilts her head for a brief moment before she ruishes for it and then stirks out. It's just a quick strike it seems Midori is preparing for something bigger.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has used Element Swipe on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori perfectly counters Aimi Saionji's The Power of Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori's counterattack, Chocolate Murder Cookies, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Aimi Saionji! Bind Break! All of Amu Hinamori's debuffs are cleared!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori fails to dodge Sakura Akagi's Cherry Branch Bramble, taking 18 Fatigue damage! Tangle applied to Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly braces Erika Inagawa's Finisher, Pink Peony Overdrive, taking 31 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly counters Winterberry's Snowball Fight!!, taking 4 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori's counterattack, Christmas Cake, partially gets through, doing 9 Fatigue damage to Winterberry!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod perfectly dodges Sailor Sagittarius's Sagittarius Bubble, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod narrowly braces Miyu Oyanagi's Forced Access, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Love Guitar Rod is Quipped! Love Guitar Rod's Block ability activates! Love Guitar Rod's Parry ability activates! Blind applied to Love Guitar Rod!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod narrowly braces Midori Sugiura's Element Swipe, taking 3 Fatigue damage! Love Guitar Rod's Block ability activates! Love Guitar Rod's Parry ability activates!

Dark Precure [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

"Mu~ ri~ mu~ ri~ mu~ ri?" The X-chara just keeps chugging along, until Kinzo stabs it. "Murriiiiiii!" The little black thing falls to the ground, but soon rises back up, puffing out clouds of smoke. "Muri!"

It pulls a set of train tracks out of nowhere and sets a piece down in front of it. As soon as it reaches the end, another piece of track is laid down. If the Chara couldn't already float, it would be defying gravity in some strange, Lemming-like way! As it is, though, it seems to be able to move quite quickly, picking up speed and barreling right at Kinzo, through him, and toward Cherry Blossom!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used This Train Don't Stop! on Kinzo Hiroyuki.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used This Train Don't Stop! on Sakura Akagi.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi fails to brace Dark Precure's This Train Don't Stop!, taking 21 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki narrowly dodges Dark Precure's This Train Don't Stop!, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Kinzo Hiroyuki's Fade ability activates!

Amu Hinamori [Ohtori Academy (5)] has posed:

The words... do not reach the pixie. However, the branches do, the sword does, the snowballs do, and just about everything else! It seems that it will not be placated, though, until the entire world is sweet and delicious. "Neeeeiiii!"

And then it gets blasted by a torrent of flower petals and sent tumbling!

"W...w..." The wand is raised high, and the pink pixie points it toward the ground. "Waaaaaaa!" The ground begins to waver slightly... and then grows soft, as everything turns to soft, delicious, whipped cream and frosting!

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Amu Hinamori has used Inescapable Pit of Whipped Cream on Syaoran Li.

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Amu Hinamori has used Inescapable Pit of Whipped Cream on Winterberry.

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Amu Hinamori has used Inescapable Pit of Whipped Cream on Erika Inagawa.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used The Cake Is A Lie on Madobe Kuroi.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has used The Cake Is A Lie on Aimi Saionji.

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Syaoran Li fails to dodge Amu Hinamori's Finisher, Inescapable Pit of Whipped Cream, taking 59 Fatigue damage! Syaoran Li is unable to keep fighting!

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa narrowly dodges Amu Hinamori's Finisher, Inescapable Pit of Whipped Cream, taking 23 Fatigue damage! Erika Inagawa's Fade ability activates! Erika Inagawa's Flash ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi narrowly counters Amu Hinamori's The Cake Is A Lie, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Madobe Kuroi is Quipped!

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi's counterattack, Madobe Magic, partially gets through, doing 3 Fatigue damage to Amu Hinamori! Critical Counterhit! Amu Hinamori is Quipped!

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji narrowly counters Amu Hinamori's The Cake Is A Lie, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Aimi Saionji is Quipped! 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 Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry narrowly braces Amu Hinamori's Finisher, Inescapable Pit of Whipped Cream, taking 15 Fatigue damage!

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki ahs! This thing is going hardcore after Cherry Blossom-----and so he leaps to the other side of the area, with a cool, teleportation effect to go along with 'being really fast', which barely prevents him from being just clipped by this thing.

He reappears, and begins to taunt and sass this thing. "HEY!" he yells. "NO TICKET!", because, that has to do with trains.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has used Ha Ha Ha! on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Japanese Cherry Blossom is blindsided by a surprise attack from the other monster. It barrels over her... and Dark Amber, as well, and she finds herself surprisingly close to the strange young man when she stands up again.

She eyes him for a moment, looking uncertain once more. She can almost remember... something bad. But there's no time to contemplate it now.

Forever Sunshine uses a big attack. Cherry Blossom smiles just a little, but then sets her mouth. It's not going to be enough.

"All of you. Monsters from the darkness. You won't get away with hurting my friends."

"Springtime summons... Cherry Tree Magic--!!"

She lets out a little gasp of effort, and the brambles of cherry branches begin to grow further under her control. They twine toward the pixie. They reach out for the X-chara. They grasp like white fingers glowing with pure pink light... and the park around their wake smells terrific, too.

Japanese Cherry Blossom stands her ground, her sleeves billowing, but this much use of her magic will drain her in due time.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has used Cherry Tree Magic on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has used Cherry Tree Magic on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

"ZAAAKENNAAAA!!" the big purple monster screams, stomping up and down briefly. Diva steps away for a while, and it seems content to let her. Sailor Sagittarius' attempt to slow it down only serves to make it move again, throwing /itself/ forward and out of the way of that slowing light. It skids to a halt, just in time to get trapped in /Miyu's/ Forced Access attempt, which doesn't do much but does seem to slow down its assault; and then Midori goes in with her Element, slashes at it, and...doesn't really cut terribly deep through its arm, unfortunately. It roars again, "ZAKENNA!!!" and thrashes with both arms - it slams them down on Errata and Midori, and then takes aim at Sailor Sagittarius, who does not seem to get the hint that it wants her on the ground.

So it jumps up there and smashes her back down again, screaming a defiant, "ZAKENNA!!!"

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used If I Had A Hammer Oh Wait I Do on Miyu Oyanagi.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used If I Had A Hammer Oh Wait I Do on Midori Sugiura.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used I Am An Invincible Smashing Purple Thing on Sailor Sagittarius.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used That Dude Totally Just Ignored You on Diva Heart.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi narrowly counters Love Guitar Rod's If I Had A Hammer Oh Wait I Do, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Stun applied to Miyu Oyanagi!

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi's counterattack, Code Scythe, partially gets through, doing 4 Fatigue damage to Love Guitar Rod!

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius narrowly dodges Love Guitar Rod's I Am An Invincible Smashing Purple Thing, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Sailor Sagittarius's Fade ability activates! Sailor Sagittarius's Flash ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart accepts Love Guitar Rod's That Dude Totally Just Ignored You, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Diva Heart is Cheered!

Miyu Oyanagi [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

The hammering fists swing down, but this time Miyu is ready with her scythe and brings it up to block. Blade meets brute force with enough impact to drive Miyu to her knees, but she grits her teeth and pushes back before deflecting the arm to the side and racking the beast with her scythe.

Then with a loud, furious yell, she sweeps her blade back around once more from shoulder to opposing hip!

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has used Furious Slash on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has finished attacking.

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

"No no--" Sweet Pea says, waggling her arms at Sakura. "The egg isn't bad. You need to hit it with a heart beam so that it can go back to the person it belongs and hatch into an airline stewardess! I ran into one before!"

Wait, she wonders, is it...ALWAYS...a stewardess? She scratches her head, confused--but the ground gets a little difficult to deal with, and more importantly--the pixie is crying!

Sweet Pea sheds a single tear for the innocenty creature who is, really, pretty sweet...

"Sorry!!" Sweet Pea points both pistols at the creature. "But if you turn everything into candy, we'll all get diabetes! And that's no joke! It's a serious medical condition... Even I... Sweet Pea--"

She raises her head up, tears in her eyes. "--EAT MY VEGETABLES SOMETIMES!"

And she unleashes a pink flowery wave from both pistols for, well, 'The Sweet' apparently! TWO SWEETS ENTER, ONE SWEET LEAVES!

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Madobe Kuroi has used Sweet Pea Shotgun Sojourn on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Warm Vanilla Sugar acks as the cupcake pixie throws... some kind of magical dessert making magic at her. She reacts, throwing out a quick burst of vanilla scented magic at it. Its not exactly something she was expecting, and she feels a bit sadden that she had to use such a powerful burst, but it kept her from being dessertified, and as it stands now, she's... well... still Warm Vanilla Sugar.

She looks over at Dark Amber for a bit, unable to help but think back to the talk she and him had the other day. Sure he was after something slightly different in the long run than she and the others, but here he was, helping them none the less. He says that he did bad, and that he is evil...

Vanilla doesn't think so though, letting her magic and warmth gather up, directing it now towards Dark Amber. "Just remember that you're not alone out here..." She says softly, knowing that he would hear it none the less through the power of magic and friendly love.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has used The Power of Love on Kinzo Hiroyuki.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki accepts Aimi Saionji's The Power of Love, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Empower and Withstand applied to Kinzo Hiroyuki!

Syaoran Li [Juuban (4)] has posed:

A pleased grin flashes across Syaoran Li's face as his sword drives deep into the monster, and he skips back, the blade still glowing brilliantly. He /can/ do this, he thinks, greatly heartened by the success of his strike. He may be out of charms, nearly out of mana, but that doesn't mean he is out of the fi---

And then Forever Sunshine jumps on his head.

For all that he is a walking beacon of magical power, driven by the convergence of bloodlines that produced the greatest magician in history, Syaoran Li is also a ten-year-old boy, and weighs something like 60 pounds. When an eighth-grader's weight of magical girl stomps on his head, it drives him down into the ground, his chin bouncing off the pavement. A universe explodes in front of the young magus's eyes, his sword clattering as it leaves his hands. "Wh--" is all he manages to get out before the giant cupcake's confectionary storm engulfs him.

After it passes, he lies facedown, and unmoving.

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"Man don't go crying at me because you're doing pastry crime and acting like you're innocent and stuff! You're throwing this stuff around and hanging out with some kind of skeeze monster!" Forever Sunshine protests to the creature as it continues being adorbs as hell.

Then the ground beneath the concrete turtle becomes whipped cream. Tumbling downwards, Forever Sunshine bounces off the stone, feeling herself sink into the diaphonous material as a distracting throb runs through her head. The ground is growing nearer. What can she do? Her calves tighten!!

BUT...

Memories surge through Forever Sunshine. Memories of the shipboard candy cookouts. Memories of sugar and cream being heated, watching them caramelize, change, metamorphize, turn into -

"PRALINE PULSE PRANA!" Forever Sunshine cries out, raising up a hand to the air. The scent of freshly cooked candy radiates out from her feet in a flowering ripple, the whipped cream converting into a compact and groundlike form. A particularly thick lotuslike construction blossoms beneath the collapsed Li, even as Forever Sunshine leans back and points dynamically towards the creature.

A series of brown praline shapes compact outwards through the sea of whipped cream and frosting. Forever Sunshine breathes in deep, exhales again, before calling, "Sweet Pea!! I'll tangle it up!!" And with that note, one of the candylike eruptions suddenly bulges upwards, before volcanically tangerine-flavored goop issues outwards, trying to glop down on that pixie's wings!

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has used Tangerine Storm on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura narrowly dodges Love Guitar Rod's If I Had A Hammer Oh Wait I Do, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Midori Sugiura's Fade ability activates! Midori Sugiura's Flash ability activates! Stagger and Stun applied to Midori Sugiura!

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius frowns as the monster just steps out of her gravity bubble... and takes ANOTHER swing at her. Darting to the side, it clips her arm, making her spin out of control, but she stays up and off the ground, shaking her head. "Damn, I don't like this..." She frowns. "Alright..." She raises up higher. "It's time to slow things down." She focuses on the three bad guys and calls out, "Sagittarius Entrapment!" A glowing circle forms around all three foes, intense gravity forces intending to impede all three of her foes at once by making them many times their weight.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has used Sagittarius Entrapment on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has used Sagittarius Entrapment on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has used Sagittarius Entrapment on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has finished attacking.

Diva Heart [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Diva Heart keeps on punching the ground, psyching herself up bit by bit, while the giant purple monster continues its battle with the other three magical girls haranguing it. Eventually, she builds up enough mental momentum and charges, taking off into a sprint like a runner leaving the block. She charges right towards the monster--

-- and then right past it, ducking under one of its flailng blows. About thirty feet behind it, the rainbow ropes appear in a flash again, and Rei bounces off them, turning to sprint back towards the monster. A few steps away, she springs into the air and rockets towards the monster, curling her legs up under her and then pistoning them into the thing's back.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has used Dropkick on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has finished attacking.

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

Everyone is now very tasty.

Including Winterberry. She stands up, her lovely fragrance marred by the taste of whipped cream, even as she shifts her weight, her blue eyes narrowing. She brushes off some whipped cream, even as she lifts her hands into the sky. "Winterberry..."

"FINALE!"

It pretty much results into a ultra-version of a snowball war, complete with a snowstorm and white /everywhere/.

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Winterberry has used Winterberry Finale on Amu Hinamori.

<<COMBAT>> Winterberry has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod narrowly braces Diva Heart's Dropkick, taking 3 Fatigue damage! Love Guitar Rod's Block ability activates! Love Guitar Rod's Parry ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure fails to dodge Kinzo Hiroyuki's Ha Ha Ha!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Dark Precure is Taunted!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure fails to counter Sakura Akagi's Cherry Tree Magic, taking 21 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure's counterattack, Spite, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Sakura Akagi!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure perfectly counters Sailor Sagittarius's Sagittarius Entrapment, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Counter!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure's counterattack, Spite, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Sailor Sagittarius!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod perfectly dodges Sailor Sagittarius's Sagittarius Entrapment, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Dodge!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly counters Sakura Akagi's Cherry Tree Magic, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori's counterattack, Parfait Punishment, partially gets through, doing 10 Fatigue damage to Sakura Akagi! Critical Counterhit!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod narrowly braces Miyu Oyanagi's Furious Slash, taking 1 Fatigue damage! Miyu Oyanagi is Psyched! Love Guitar Rod's Block ability activates! Love Guitar Rod's Parry ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori fails to brace Erika Inagawa's Tangerine Storm, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Trap applied to Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly counters Sailor Sagittarius's Sagittarius Entrapment, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Tangle applied to Amu Hinamori!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori's counterattack, Chocolate Murder Cookies, partially gets through, doing 2 Fatigue damage to Sailor Sagittarius! Bind Break! All of Amu Hinamori's debuffs are cleared!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori fails to brace Madobe Kuroi's Finisher, Sweet Pea Shotgun Sojourn, taking 74 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Amu Hinamori narrowly braces Winterberry's Finisher, Winterberry Finale, taking 17 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Amu Hinamori is unable to keep fighting! Cripple and Stun applied to Amu Hinamori!

Amu Hinamori [Ohtori Academy (5)] has posed:

Baked goods fly left and right as the dessert pixie frantically swings her wand! But then a barrage of peas just pastes the poor creature back against a wall. One million peas?! And just as it's coming back to its senses, snowballs begin slamming into it again and again! She tries to withstand the attack, but... it is not to be, and soon she will be a dessert from the frozen foods aisle!

As the barrage finally lets up, The Cupcake begins to fade away into sparkles, shimmering and returning to the form of a card. The card floats down, swish, swish, swish, and lands right next to Syaoran Li's head.

And then, slowly, it begins to fade away. Perhaps Clow had the sense to not make something like The Cupcake after all!

Dark Precure [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

Branches come out, and gravity weighs down! For a moment, the hat-wearing X-Chara slows down. It turns its glare toward Sakura and Sailor Sagittarius... and then flexes mightily! At least it probably does. Hard to tell with those stubby little arms. "Mumumumumumumumu...."

"MURIIIIIIII!"

The Chara takes a deep breath and suddenly doubles in size, making it... still only like a foot tall. Several more eggs pop into being, all black, and fall into a line behind it. Now that it has more cars, it resumes its zooming course, slamming first toward the ones that attacked it! After the first few are struck, the X-eggs fly out, slamming toward several of the others!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used The Pain Train on Sakura Akagi.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used The Pain Train on Sailor Sagittarius.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used This Train Don't Stop! on Madobe Kuroi.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used X-Egg Bash! on Aimi Saionji.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has used X-Egg Bash! on Erika Inagawa.

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi fails to dodge Dark Precure's The Pain Train, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Dark Precure is Psyched!

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi fails to brace Dark Precure's This Train Don't Stop!, taking 31 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa perfectly dodges Dark Precure's X-Egg Bash!, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Erika Inagawa's Fade ability activates! Erika Inagawa's Flash ability activates!

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji narrowly dodges Dark Precure's X-Egg Bash!, taking 19 Fatigue damage! Aimi Saionji's Flash ability activates!

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Japanese Cherry Blossom shuts her eyes, and places her hands together, palms flat. Pink light begins to build at her feet... then becomes white. From behind her, a great orb of energy starts to rise. It begins red, like the rising sun of Japan's flag, the ball of light perfectly circular. But as it crests to above her head, forming an aura like a halo, it starts to turn orange, and, then, one more shift into a shimmering gold.

The light of the power reflects in her eyes. The golden light of a lifetime ago, in a faraway place. The sweet smell of springtime, of the magical palaces of a far away home. She can almost see them in the distance, beckoning.

Cherry Blossom petals scatter at her feet, forming a spiral.

Her eyes look sideways, at Dark Amber. "I am going to trust you right now. Join your powers with mine, Dark Amber..."

Her voice echoes, somehow. "And we can drive this creature back into the darkness."

"Cherry Blossom--"

She raises her hands. The golden light transforms, from a halo, into a wave, golden glitter flying up above her! The petals at her feet fly up to join it, transforming as they join the light...

"GOLDEN"

"SUNSET!"

A shower of golden light and sweet petals form, to join with the other perfume powers!

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has started a combo targeting Dark Precure!

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius narrowly counters Dark Precure's The Pain Train, taking 6 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius's counterattack, Double Power Punch, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Dark Precure!

Midori Sugiura [Ohtori Academy (S)] has posed:

Midori Sugiura is bring pressed hard, she's very presed but thanks to Miyu's attempt she's been got a moment to catch her breath and prepare fo another move but here coems the bneast with it's arms. Midori's forced to leap clear but it is more thasn a bit of a strain to do so. She comes in for a landing and looks over to Miyu for a moment.

"We really need to talk later."

She holds her ground for a moment and slams her element into what was once the street and send a shock wayve tha tears up the ground between her and the monster.

"HIME DRIVER!"

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has used HiME Driver on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod narrowly dodges Midori Sugiura's HiME Driver, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Stun and Tangle applied to Love Guitar Rod!

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

ZAKENNA!!! appears to be some kind of ridiculous unstoppable wall! The huge lumbering purple beast keeps on moving! It surges forward once again, tearing free of those bindings to lurge away from Sagittarius' binding light! But that puts it out of position, and raises its arm up to catch Diva Heart's kick! She slams into its hammer fist, but it doesn't seem to do much, and much the same happens when Miyu takes her attempt! When it tries to dodge Hime, though, it's knocked off its feet for a few seconds!

"ZAKENNA!!" it thunders, and then...does a stupid little taunting dance, shuffling back and forth for a few seconds. "Zak~ en~ na~ ha ha~~!"

And then it just slams down its arm on Miyu, Midori, and Diva Heart, one, two, three hits, and then SLAMS the ground.

Because of magic, this makes a chunk of concrete shoot up and try to knock Sailor Sagittarius out of the sky again.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used I Am An Invincible Smashing Purple Thing on Miyu Oyanagi.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used Hammer In The Evening on Midori Sugiura.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used BIG HAMMER on Diva Heart.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has used Breaking The Scenery on Sailor Sagittarius.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi fails to dodge Love Guitar Rod's I Am An Invincible Smashing Purple Thing, taking 21 Fatigue damage! Love Guitar Rod is Psyched!

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura fails to dodge Love Guitar Rod's Hammer In The Evening, taking 25 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius fails to dodge Love Guitar Rod's Breaking The Scenery, taking 28 Fatigue damage!

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki ughs, the trust these warriors are putting in him, it makes him downright sick inside, not because of the temporary trust, or the help---

It's because he knows they'll remember. and then what? He might not be able to /help/ them past that point, they might not WANT it.

"Right.....!" he manages to steel himself as he clasps his hands together suddenly....with a loud 'clap' noise. "Be lost in time!" he yells out as his blades begin to extend and intertwine, and various bits of amber specks flake out, joining with the shower of light and petals.

"And awake in the Present!.... DARK AMBER CRUSH!" he yells out as he attempts to smash a rather large, double handed blade into the X-creature.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has joined the combo started by Sakura Akagi!

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart narrowly dodges Love Guitar Rod's BIG HAMMER, taking 8 Fatigue damage!

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

Sweet Pea spins her pistols around and starts to do a victory magical girl V-Sign pose with her pistols. She's about to say a one liner when there's suddenly like... The egg. She sloooowly turns her head towards the egg. "AH.." She begins. And then-- "Kiyaaahh!!!"

The Kiyaaaah is because she just got hit by a car. She spins through the air once before landing on the hood, her vest swooshing through the breeze as the car drives her around.

"Ah...how electrifying..." She blushes faintly--of course she is, because this is a car from Ohtori. But then she shakes her head before adding. "This isn't electrifying at all!!"

She spins around on the hood and points her pistols, guiding them towards the X-Chara. "You need to give the dreams of your owner another chance!" She fires another quick shot, threatening to FLOWER the Chara Egg. "I don't know if he wants to become a racer or not, but cars--are made for drii--iiiiiiii---iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii---"

The iiiiiiiiiiiiiii is because the car she was standing on suddenly stopped and she got thrown into some nearby bushes comedicallyy.

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi has used Flower Shot on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Madobe Kuroi has finished attacking.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

The X-Chara dashes around, Warm Vanilla Sugar actually keeping an eye on it this time while The Cupcake vanishes. She does her best to dodge and get out of the way, but still gets struck by it as it passes by, just barely though. It hurts, but she's still able to move and keep going. She's not giving up just yet.

She gathers up her own magical scent, the power she had back in the past, the warmth of love, of the friendships she had; of what she has now as well. She gathers it up into another golden, vanilla scented blast of magic, concentrating it into a more focused blast this time.

She sees Japanese Cherry Blossom, nodding lightly as if understanding what she is doing. She moves quickly, positioning herself to assist, unleashing her concentrated blast towards the X-Chara monster to join up with Cherry's own attack. She looks over at Dark Amber, nodding lightly at him, knowing that she can trust him.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has joined the combo started by Sakura Akagi!

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

The enemy has become a magic card and landed near the fallen boy.

"Well I guess that works out," Forever Sunshine muses.

She then turns her head around, seeing an X-egg slam through the air towards her. Her eyes widen and she leans backwards, arcing one leg up for counterbalance - the X-Egg stirs her hair as it passes, nearly glancing against one of the mouse-ear-style hair buns she wears.

Straightening up, she says to herself, "The Praline Prana - I can't manage it yet... how can I take the fight to this... other stupid little cute thing. Sheesh!" She stamps her foot. "Cherry! What sh-"

The stomp resonates out through her praline interlock system. A ramen stall collapses, spilling its contents out through the immediate area, and Forever Sunshine looks -- and then when the fatty belly-cut of pork spills out at her feet, pre-sliced for inclusion, she says, "Perfect!!"

She slips a toe underneath the sliced pork, tosses it up, snatches it out of the air and then cries towards the X-Chara, "You forgot the perfect complement to eggs!"

And then... she throws what, in America, would be called bacon.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has used Thrown Bacon on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Erika Inagawa has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> COMBO! FINISHER! Sakura Akagi, Kinzo Hiroyuki, and Aimi Saionji have used Cherry Blossom Golden Sunset, Dark Amber Crush, and Concentrated Vanilla Blast on Dark Precure.

<<COMBAT>> Sakura Akagi has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Kinzo Hiroyuki has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Aimi Saionji has finished attacking.

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

In the few moments in the air before she crashes into a bush, Sweet Pea frowns at Sunshine, strongly.

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"What!?" Forever Sunshine cries after the frowning Sweet Pea.

Miyu Oyanagi [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

Damnit, why is this beast so /tough/?! It really shouldn't be shrugging off attacks like this! not from so many assailants at once!

Out of frustration, Miyu gets ready to strike again, but before she can, the fist comes rocketting out and slams her head on, sending her careening back. She bounces once, twise, and then slams into a wall before slumping off and collapsing to one knee.

"D-damnit... we're gonna have to go all out if we're going to beat this thing..."

Using her scythe to force herself back to her feet, Miyu begins to focus and summons forth a magic circle in front of her. Power starts to arc across the code withing the circle and concentrates at the center, forming a sphere of light that rumbles and quakes with power. Gritting her teeth, she focuses more and more power into it, then throws her arms out.

"FATAL ERROR!"

And then the magic circle pulses, before erupting with a large beam of code energy.

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Miyu Oyanagi has used Fatal Error on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Miyu Oyanagi has finished attacking.

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

"Isn't that kind of--" Sweet Pea crashes.

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius sees some tiny foot-tall... thing... turn into a train and charge right at her. She extends both fists and flies right at it - it didn't go well and Sagittarius was knocked away, a bit worse for the wear from the expereince. She shakes her head... only to get slammed by a piece of concreate - the same chunk that's been flung around a few times. Sagittarius screams as she falls to the ground once more, instinctively blunting her fall as she remains down. She whimpers. "Is... that... the best you can do?" she gasps sharply to the big guy. "It takes more than that... to keep me down..." She unsteadily rises up once more, but doesn't go too far up. Falling still hurts. "Sagittarius... Barrier..." she whispers softly as her gravity aura thickens, becoming a rippling curtain of force, magical armor to keep her safe as she shivers, trying to figure out how to breach the monster's defenses.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has used Sagittarius Barrier on Sailor Sagittarius.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Sailor Sagittarius accepts Sailor Sagittarius's Sagittarius Barrier, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Accelerate and Withstand applied to Sailor Sagittarius!

Midori Sugiura [Ohtori Academy (S)] has posed:

Midori Sugiura has has to wonder aout why that beast is just so durable? It's been able to take so manty and it's still going. She's still got a bit left in the tank and it's time to make use of that before something else puts her out of the fight. She readies her element as Miyu launches one heck of an attack. She follows up the beam of code energy with her element in nand and she is clearling not going to stop! She pulls the weapon back and swings powerfuly as she passes by trying to bisect or at least cut through a huge part of it as she passes.

"FINAL BLOW!"

She'll not even look back should the creature somehow explode from the mass assault it's now falling under.

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Midori Sugiura has used Final Blow on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Midori Sugiura has finished attacking.

Diva Heart [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Diva Heart barely has time to scramble to her feet in the wake of her dropkick before the monster rounds on her; she's only half up, and is forced to dive out of the way, the shockwave of the attack sending her tumbling across the ground.

She stays down, and out of sight, until after Midori and Miyu have unloaded on the monster. And then, just as it's recovering from the two tremendous attacks, Diva Heart comes sprinting up from behind the monster; she slides between its legs (despite that being, of course, totally unnecessary), turns, and grips one of its tremendous ankles, yanking hard enough to send the thing toppling onto its back. Uhh... hm. She didn't think this through past this part.

So she relies on instinct, instead; she darts up to in between the thing's legs, reaches out to grab the horrible monster flesh of its thighs, and shoves them into the air, bounding up to stand on it monster-crotch as she does so... and, in fact, pushing the thing's legs so far back its toes are in danger of touching its face. It isn't comfortable.

With a grunt, Diva Heart puts her right leg forwards, and crosses the thing's legs at the shins, making an 'X' in front of her own... ... well, entire body, really, but theoretically her right thigh.

And then with another grunt, she leaps into the air, spinning as she does to flop the monster onto its stomach, and - pretty impossibly - lands on the small of the thing's back, its legs still crossed over hers, and her own shoulders pressed into its body.

Diva Heart has now, effectively, folded the giant purple monster in half, backwards. The animators become very confused, because they're not sure this is physically possible.

<<COMBAT>> FINISHER! Diva Heart has used Sharpshooter on Love Guitar Rod.

<<COMBAT>> Diva Heart has finished attacking.

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod accepts Miyu Oyanagi's Finisher, Fatal Error, taking 55 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod accepts Midori Sugiura's Finisher, Final Blow, taking 66 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Love Guitar Rod accepts Diva Heart's Finisher, Sharpshooter, taking 7 Mana damage! Love Guitar Rod is Quipped!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure accepts Erika Inagawa's Thrown Bacon, taking 7 Fatigue damage!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure narrowly counters Madobe Kuroi's Flower Shot, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Diversion and Stun applied to Dark Precure!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure's counterattack, Spite, partially gets through, doing 5 Fatigue damage to Madobe Kuroi! Madobe Kuroi is Quipped!

<<COMBAT>> Dark Precure fails to brace Sakura Akagi, Kinzo Hiroyuki, and Aimi Saionji's Finisher, Combo: Cherry Blossom Golden Sunset, taking 213 Fatigue damage! Dark Precure is unable to keep fighting!

Dark Precure [Infinity Institute (10)] has posed:

The X-Chara takes a few flowers to the face, but fights back with a deadly glare that blasts some of the others out of the sky! Except some of those flowers are -sticking- to it... and then there's bacon, which the X-Chara eyes suspiciously before nibbling at.

While it is thus distracted, the combined power of three splashes of complementary perfumes slams into it! The big red X begins to shudder, then crack, then shatter!

But rather than the rest of the darkness flying off the X-Chara, it just...completely fades away. "Murrrriiiiii~!"

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

"ZAKENNNAAAA!!" the big purple horrible thing roars.

And then Miyu blasts it with a horrifying wave of annihilating light. It staggers forward, attempting to charge through the beam to tear into Errata.

But that falls short, as Midori hacks, slashes, and goes overall bonkers on the Zakenna. It staggers, startles; it tries to move, but it just can't.

And then Diva Heart, with some effort, bends the thing in half.

The animation team gives up halfway, and the thing just kind of pops - exploding apart into a mass of evil energy, that then dissolves into silver goop, that falls to the ground and sinks too-fast into the concrete.

The way to the Silver Creature's den in Nishitama is now clear. But what horrors await there...!?

Diva Heart [Juuban (8)] has posed:

o/` Furikazashita! o/`

o/` Sono yaiba de~ o/`

Well, it isn't a submission, but it'll have to do. Diva Heart lands heavily on the ground when the monster explodes, slumping forwards onto all fours and sucking in a few deep, ragged breaths while her distressingly loud music pounds throughout the street. Eventually, she stumbles to her feet and thrusts her fist into the air in victory, turning and climbing uncertainly onto the middle rope of a rainbow turnbuckle that appears out of thin air.

After a few seconds, she plants one hand on the top rope and vaults over it, landing in a kneel on the other side; when she rises to her feet and begins walking, she has a gaudy, rainbow-colored microphone in her hand, as her music fades into silence.

"Now listen here, you weird monster darkness meteor," she calls, her voice echoing through the street and, indeed, all of the streets, as she draws closer to the impact site and the expanding shadow hell. "I don't know what you are, and I don't know where you came from, but if you can hear me, I want you to come out here the hell right now, because you and I are gonna have a little Heart to Heart!!"

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki seems to remember something........he looks over to Sweet Pea who may be in a bush still.

"Is that John Cena?" he asks in a weird aside.

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

"Really?" Winterberry asks Kinzo.

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki seems to look at Winterberry, he's still Dark Amber. Dark Amber is asking this. "I dunno?" he asks, he looks confused, wrestling isn't a thing here like it is in America!

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Japanese Cherry Blossom seems to take a moment to come out of the fugue from using that attack. She looks a little tired, but she's still on her feet.

She turns to the others and smiles..... even to Dark Amber. "Thanks for your help. Well done, every one."

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Forever Sunshine almost says something, but decides she should, perhaps, be more careful about her secret identity. She gives Kinzo - Dark Amber - a fierce look as she comes up behind Cherry Blossom, but does offer a bow of respect afterward. (If not a super deep one.)

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Warm Vanilla Sugar smiles softly at everyone, nodding. Even Dark Amber gets one. She knows he won't really accept it, but that's his problem right now. "I think... though... should we try to follow... or leave it for others?"

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius just shivers softly as she just floats there, seeing the foes fall. She stays in her protective gravity bubble, whimpering faintly, rubbing her back. She sways slowly. "Did... we win? I feel useless today..."

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

Madobe gets out of the buss. A scary egg is glowering at her.

Sweet Pea flinches, as if hurt.

"Someone's dream..." She frowns. "...I... really need to find that pink haired girl again." She stands herself up and then glances to Dark Amber, frowning.

But she looks away. The others want to work with him, so she'll...just not comment.

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki finally turns away, the battle is over, he's suddenly on a lamppost.

again.

Distance! "You need to be more careful!" he snaps in almost a scolding manner.

Back to business and not at all being receptive to lovebeams.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"AND YOU HAVE TO BE LESS OF A JERK!" Warm Vanilla Sugar finally replies.

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

"CALL ME!" Winterberry yells at Dark Amber.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"You have his number?" Vanilla asks, looking at Winterberry. "You mean I went hunting him down to ask him questions and you had his number?"

She starts to pout a bit. "Why didn't you tell me that?"

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

"Wh-what!! Are you guys serious??" Sweet Pea asks, gaping at WInterberry. "ugh...!! I'm playing Plants Vs Zombies II!"

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

"I don't have HIS number!" Winterberry proclaims, going slightly pink. "Gosh!"

Midori Sugiura [Ohtori Academy (S)] has posed:

Midori Sugiura has had about all she can muster at this point. She's just about out of teh ability to keep her weapon materalized and she knows it's time to go. With one last look at the others. The HiME of the wind is gone, WOOSH.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"Oh... okay then," Vanilla says, feeling better. "Speaking of which! We need to get together and talk again! You know, when in private and all."

Erika Inagawa [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"Totes," Forever Sunshine agrees.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Smiling still, as she does more often than not, Vanilla eventually sees the bummed out Sailor Scout. "Hey! Weren't you the one at that incident with the plushies and the monster? The one that was floating upside down and all. How do you do that? I mean, defying gravity in so many ways... that has to be useful now."

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"Your place next time, Vanilla?" asks Cherry Blossom.

They need a more formal base. If only...

She looks distant for a moment. When Vanilla points out the other girl, she realizes she is dressed a bit like Sailor Moon. She offers her a bow.

Kinzo Hiroyuki [Juuban (11)] has posed:

Kinzo Hiroyuki rolls his eyes at the back sass. "You weren't even prepard for a cupcake!" he says. Though really...who..who is? He'd kinda like to meet that person. Winterberry asks for his number...he chuckles..."Maybe another time....." he says as he leaps to another lamppost. Then another. Then anaother. Hey he's leaving.

Madobe Kuroi [Juuban (7)] has posed:

Sweet Pea glances over as well upon seeing Cherry Blossom look over. "--Oh hey...you're not...really. Everybody's got bad da--"

She turns and glowers at Kinzo. "HEY! HEY!! HEY!!! GET BACK HERE!!!! WE WERE TOTALLY PREPARED FOR CUPCAKES!! I KICKED THAT CUPAKE'S BUTT YOU HEAR ME?!"

She hops up and down angrilly. "Ooooh!! THAT GUY. CAKE US ANY TIME YOU WANT, WE'LL BE READY!!"

She turns and says, "HMPH!"

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius smiles wryly. "My powers ARE gravity," she murmurs. "But I don't feel that heroic today... that monster just... shrugged off all my attacks..." Sagi is still floating a couple of inches off the ground. She sniff-sniffs a bit. "Wow - you smell nice," she murmurs, floating a bot towards the one who is addressing Vanilla. "Yeah. I'm Sailor Sagittarius. Not sure we had a chance to properly introduce each other." She moves close enough, still just floating along in a shimmering dark-purple gravity aura that limns her body, as she extends her hand toards Vanilla Sugar. "Who's your friend?" she asks, glancing over to Cherry Blossom.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Vanilla nods, and raises a hand for just a minute to Sailor Sagittarius.

She takes a pebble... and then launches the thing at the departing Dark Amber. It... most likely won't hit him, but the jerk deserves it.

"Okay now, let me introduce you around!" She says, smiling. "This is Japanese Cherry Blossom, the leader of the Perfume Warriors! That's what we are!" She drags Winterberry over next. "This is our senpai, Winterberry! And this is Forever Sunshine!" She continues, pulling the corresponding person over. "And you've met Sweet Pea. She was at the incident as well," She says, waving Sweet Pea over.

"But yeah, I can have everyone over to my place next time Cherry. Don't worry about it." Sure it... might... just be a bit... maybe tight. They can deal with it.

"So you control gravity? Wow. That really is a useful power to have. Maybe you should try to use it to hold monsters down to be beat up on, or keep them up in the air unable to move!"

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"Pleased to meet you," says Cherry Blossom, bowing as Vanilla Sugar introduces her. She does blink for a moment as Vanilla confirms she's the leader. Well, so it is, then. "I hope our teams can work together."

Winterberry [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed:

Winterberry is yoinked as she goes to yell back at Dark Amber. "I was /talking/ to him!" She informs Vanilla, before waving at the Gravity Shenshi. "Uh, look, we can always meet at my place, mama won't mind, I just have siblings.."

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius shrugs. "I tried both things. But the youma's magicks can counter my gravity castings - I mean, you would think that a giant chunk of concrete shot at high speeds would be enough to stop a fight - not onlyd id it just shrug it off... it... fired it right back at me," she mutters, rubbing her lower back where that slab pounded into her. "I don't really have a team... I've met three other senshi. None of them seem to be... cohesive. There was the klutzy Moon, the enigmatic Neptune, and the hyper attention-seeker V.... all I've met. V seems like she'd be a good partner - apparently though we have similar powers and uniforms... it's not like we're cohesive... I dunno..."

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"But he wasn't even talking back. I think he was just leaving after telling us to be careful. I think he cares more than he lets on," Vanilla said.

"Sailor V is just strange really. I mean, she seems like she's just in it for something more than what we got here. Like money and fame and all," She says, frowning a bit. "But the only other one I've met, aside from you, is Neptune. She seems nice though. I hope you all can get together and be cohesive. It would be nice to have another team around that we know and can rely on. Then again there are so many girls and all... I think we might not need to worry too much, right?"

Sakura Akagi [Juuban (8)] has posed:

"I thought Sailor Moon -- was very nice. I wonder if I should get an account to talk to her--" Cherry Blossom means Twitter probably but seems a little unsure, or perhaps unfocused.

She bows again to Saggitarius. "I am sorry, but the fight did take a lot out of me. I hope you will all be all right."

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius nods. "Yeah - I'm going to limp home and take a long bath to soak... I feel so sore..." She starts to slowly drift off, but hesitates in case somene needs to talk to her.

Aimi Saionji [Juuban (8)] has posed:

Vanilla's going to let Sagittarius float off for now. "That sounds like a good idea to me. You take care now, Sagi-san!" She says with a smile, waving at her.

Sailor Sagittarius [Juuban (9)] has posed:

Sailor Sagittarius smiles as she spins back around to face Vanilla. "And you, Vanilla-san." She then slowly raises up and fly off.

Love Guitar Rod [Admin (S)] has posed:

Diva Heart's defiant challenge echoes through empty streets. Come out. Face me. Face us.

"I would like that. Your heart."

The silver orb compresses, a man-sized skin of tightly-packed silver goop. And then from amid the mass, a slender arm erupts, fist clenching with a powerful creak of muscles that don't exist. A second hand, the fingers flexing. Bones that aren't present pop loudly.

A leg, and then another, each eerily slender as it emerges, stomping into the ground. The central mass compresses again, forming a defined shape - a torso, bulky and with the vague shapes of powerful muscles at its center. A thin neck rising up to a slender head, with bulges to suggest the location of ears. A sharp nose, a harsh mouth; eyes like slits, exposing nothing but red.

The figure rises easily to its feet, and then bounds into the air, slamming down on the grass before its crater. It rumbles, stretching out its fist and clenching it tightly in silent threat. Its voice thunders in the heart as much as in the air.

"I am Fusion. Your heart...your power, your self, and your world. They will all become one in me."

TO BE CONCLUDED...