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| Summary: It's too obvious, that can't be what's happening... can it? With this many magical girls in one place, of course there's a business that's a front for some energy draining operation. Who: Gundham, Hisako, La_Pucelle, Marion_Whicker, Rainbow_Dash, Robin_C When: June 30th, 2017 Where: Gingakei Mall     |
Hisako glances over Robin's shoulder as she overhears his wondering (although not recognizing him yet). "I think that's what they call 'goth'? Not to be confused with 'Gothic Lolita'." Souta-kun is walking through the mall carrying a bag with him. He looks pretty please as he pulls out a manga from the bag. "I'm glad I was able to get this! It was the last copy!" "Mommy!! MOMMMY!! I want THAT Pony! I wanna PONY LIKE THAT!!!" A little girl is suddenly disinterested in her brand new large Pony Plushie when she sees Rainbow Dash emereging from the food court! "I WANT THAT KIND OF PONY!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Rainbow sweatdrops. "Here we go again...." she puff-sighs. Robin darn near jumps in place as the voice comes right over his shoulder. "Hisako?" he asks as he turns around. "Yeesh. Don't sneak up on me like that!" He rubs the back of his head slightly in embarrasment of his jump. "Goth? Okay... but then what is Gothic Lolita?" He does spot the familiar middle schooler nearby, and offers Souta a wave before cringing slightly at the sound of the screaming child. Rainbow_Dash walks up to the Little Girl, explains to her that she's not a doll, but the really-real Rainbow Dash! Yup it's true! She fishes a Sticker of her own cutie-mark from inside her wing, puts the sticker on the girl's shoulder. "There, now you're part of the Rainbow Dash club!" This seems to have the desired effect, and the girl and mother walk happily away. Dash tucks the stickers back under her wing. "Totally handy, these things." she grins. Souta-kun ohs spotting Robin and gives a slight waves back to her walking over. "Hello!", she looks into the shop. "That doesn't seem like a place you would shop Hiskao." Hisako ehehs, "Sorry ... How've you been, Robin?" She glances at Souta (not recognizing him off-hand), then waves to Rainbow Dash before looking at Robin again. "Gothic Lolita is .... um. I think it's 'gothic' like the European architecture, sort of? Not sure about the 'lolita' part, but gothloli is basically elegant and frilly. If you can imagine how those two intersect." Hey, she's from Touhoku, she hasn't been around the high-intensity fashion districts of Harajuku or the like. Souta-kun ohs spotting Robin and gives a slight waves back to walking to her. "Hi Robin.", he looks into the store. "That doesn't looks like the kind of place you would shop at. Trying a new look?" Marion was strolling by, hands in her hoodie pockets and no real destination in mind as she wandered the mall, looking for interesting stores. She notices Robin and picks up her pace, giving a wave as she changes course to meet up. "Hey Robin, how's it going?" Rainbow_Dash is suddenly surrounded by other little girls and boys that all want to meet her and get a sticker! She burns through those things fast, and she does her best to keep her fans happy! Things could be worse and a little adulation is never lost on the blue pegasus! When she runs out of stickers, she's busy signing things! Robin nods slowly to Hisako, clearly not understanding. "...European. Right. I have no idea what that means. But... elegant and frilly?" He pauses, then sweatdrops, looking at Souta for a moment, then nodding. "Yeah, I think I can have a vague imagining? How're you doing today, Souta? Well, both of you, really... have the two of you met? Souta, Hisako, Hisako, Souta." He then shakes his head. "I'm thinking of trying a new look... but I don't think that's the one for me." He then blinks and looks over as a he's greeted by another person! "Marion? Hey! Haven't seen you in a while!" He then looks to the others, then back to Marion again. "Okay, more introductions... Guys, this is Marion, I ran into her a couple of times a few weeks back. Marion, this is Souta and Hisako, some other friends of mine..." He pauses, then looks at Souta again. "I think I might have mentioned Marion to you once?" Meanwhile, near the food court, a cheerful red-haired woman with a ponytail and brown eyes tries to wave down Rainbow Dash. "Hello! We're having a special deal this week on our in-mall massages! I'm sure my co-worker would love the challange of working on someone with an unusual body such as yours!" Though, looking back at her blond coworker, who has just finished with another customer, it really doesn't look like they're looking forward to the challange. On the other hand, the previous customer does look very relaxed, to the point where he looks sleepy. Hisako smiles, bowing politely to Souta and Marion. "It's a pleasure to meet you! I'm Hisako Ichiki." Souta-kun nods to Robin. "I think you did Robin.", he looks over at Marion. "Hello", he looks over at Hisako. "Nice to meet you too Hisako. I'm Souta Kishibe. Marion gives a small wave back. "Nice to meet you guys. Name's Marion Whicker, though you can just call me Mari, all my friends do." She turns back to Robin. "So how've ya been?" Rainbow_Dash hmmms? To the girl talking massage. She blinks. She hasn't had a massage since Ponyville! She manages to get free from her admirers after a few moments of quick gabbing and signing. She can't ta;l when she signs though...as she holds the pen in her mouth. She floats up and over to the girl. "Really? that sounds great..I usaed to go to this place back home all the time, but..I'm not home," she grins. 'So..what's this special all about? Souta-kun looks over at the lady giving massages. Things like this are always traps in Magical girl shows... "Nothing much Marion. I was just picking up a few manga I wanted to read.", he hold up the shopping bag he holding on one had. He was really tempted to by the book he's in... But he didn't. He was happy to see Snow White on the cover.. Technically, they're not *just* traps in magical girl shows - Hisako can think of a Super Sentai episode or two which used similar set-ups by the bad guys, or she would if she knew what Souta was thinking about. "I hope we get along well, Souta, Mari," she replies to the introductions. The red-haired woman nods cheerfully to Rainbow Dash. "Well then, today's your lucky day! We're trying to drum up more business lately and so we're having a special half-off deal this week to help spread word around! I'm betting your wing muscles get really tight from all that flying around, don't they? So what do you say?" She motions towards her co-worker, who manages to summon up a fake-looking smile. Not everyone can be naturally so cheerful, it seems. Robin shrugs lightly to Marion. "I've... been. Honestly, I feel like I've been in a rut lately. I'm thinking of hitting the Badlands here and there, to be honest... Maybe see if I can get some supplemental income while using the old adventuring skills, yeah?" He then glances at Souta's bag and ventures a wary guess, "Magical girl series?" "I hope so too Hisakio. Souta erks as Robin knows him too well! "Yes.", he sighs hanging his head. Guys shouldn't be reading magical girl managa! He got called out about it a few times in school. Hisako blinks at Souta. "What's wrong with that? I mean, if girls can like boys' shows like Super Sentai or Ultraman, why can't boys like girls' manga?" Rainbow_Dash isn't even considering the whole trap thing. Secretly, she loves to be pampered as much as Rarity. "Okay, why not?" she either doesn't catch the fakey smile or doesn't care, she trots over into the parlour. 'Yeah, well, my wings are really high performance, so it pays to keep 'em in prime condition!" Marion blinked. "Ehh, I didn't even really consider magical girl manga as specifically targeted towards girls...then again, maybe that's just back home." She shrugged. Souta-kun says, "You do have a point there. It just not something that you let everyone know. I got teased about it at school a few times." Robin chuckles and ruffles Souta's hair. "You be you, man." He then nods to the other two. "See? Don't be guilty about it!" The blonde woman, meanwhile, looks a bit lost as to how to actually accomodate Rainbow Dash. "Um," she says with a voice that suggests she doesn't talk very much. "Why don't you, um... just lie down on the table... it might be awkward, but I'll... figure this out..." She steals a glare at her red-haired coworker. "...Somehow." Assuming Rainbow Dash does as asked, she begins massaging Rainbow Dash's wing muscles and shoulders, primarily, occaisionally going up her neck some and back down her back. She's very strong, but somehow the massaging seems very very relaxing, like it's just taking all the pent up energy away... and a little more than that, too. . o O ( There's a /lot/ of energy in this one. ) The blonde woman continues, then glances over at what looks to be a lava lamp nearby, raising an eyebrow as it starts to glow a little brighter. Rainbow_Dash isn't quite aware of being drained...yet. The Ponies back home could get her into that state and be honest about it! And when she's on, she's on, when she's lazy, she's lazy. SO she gets sucked into it pretty easily! Souta-kun smiles at the hair ruffling. "Okay Thanks.", of course he also one of the those magical girls too.. He watches at the pony get a back and wing rub! That lava lamp looks a bit brighter now. Hmm... Marion glances over in the direction of the massage, feeling that something was off. "Hey uh, this might sound weird but...anyone else get a chill running down their back?" The blonde woman does actually smile slightly behind Rainbow Dash now. . o O ( Enough to draw more! ) she descides, then she starts to draw a bit faster from the pony, taking from the direction of the magic within her, the inherant magic within all ponies of Equestria. Without realizing it, she's starting to draw power from Rainbow Dash's cutie mark! The color from it begins to fade... Robin blinks at what Marion says. "No, I'm wearing this hoodie, so... well, you're wearing one too, I guess..." He then frowns and follows the gaze of the other two. "...You think something's fishy down there?" Souta-kun nods to Robin. "Very fishy..." Marion nods before arching a brow. "Yeah...wait...is that mark on Rainbow supposed to look that washed out?" Hisako shakes her head at Marion, "Not especially ... then again, they do keep the air conditioning pretty active in here, don't they?" She looks between Marion and Souta, then looks over/down at the massage demonstration. ".... huh? Isn't her flank mark usually ..." She frowns, actually squinting, then jogs over for a closer look. She hasn't felt the same vibes the others have ... Rainbow_Dash says, "Wha..what the...hay?! Hey!" That seems to snap her out of it! She spreads her wings...but she has little energy left at this point! She manages to slam into the wall, though! *Crash!* which sends her tumbling back towards her evil masseuses!" Marion rolled her shoulders, getting ready for a fight. "Welp, guess it's time to step in and do hero stuff." Marion Whicker grasps her necklace while muttering something under her breath before becoming engulfed in a flash of warm sunlight. Standing in her place is Sunlight Ranger White. Souta-kun blinks at Marion, she a magical girl??? "Oh that's so cool!!", he squees just a bit. Robin's eyes widen at the commotion within the massage parlor, then winces slightly and at first shades his eyes from the flash of sunlight next to him. Seeing Marion transform right there, he proceeds to... facepalm. "...Right in the middle of the mall?" he mumbles under his breath. Marion turns to the others, shrugging. "I never got the whole secret identity thing anyways, I mean, I just change clothes. Literally no one could look at me like this and be like, 'Yeah, no, that's not Marion, not at all.'." As luck would have it, Hisako may be the one person who DOESN'T see Marion transform; she's too focused on Rainbow Dash. And as the rainbow-maned pegasus manages to careen off (and back), Hisako just takes a deep breath and armors up. No transformation, no change of clothes, just a schoolgirl surrounded by an armor-shaped field of psychokinetic energy. "This isn't just massage, is it? What *are* you people trying to do here? - Rainbow Dash, are you okay?" The blonde woman snarls slightly as Rainbow Dash suddenly makes a break for it. "What? What? Did I press something too hard?" she says, trying to cover for herself just before getting bowled into again. "That's it, I'm sick of this!" she shouts out, reaching for Rainbow Dash with a hand coated in electricity. Meanwhile, the redhead says to Hisako, "Of course it's just a massage, what else could it-Goddamn it, Nea!" she shouts to her coworker as she hears the outcry of fed up anger. Robin grimaces. "Right, well... Time to find a place out of the way..." He turns and runs, predictably. He's not the only one, but most people are just watching what's going on. Some are looking at the unidentified magical girl, some are looking at what looks to be a fight about to brew between Armor, the two unidentified women, and Rainbow Dash. He finds a corner to duck behind and, from around the corner, it looks like light is reflecting off a liquid from the patterns of light shining on the wall. It's barely a moment later when the Steel Valkyrie Strimla steps out from that corner! Souta-kun does something what any wise civilian would do when someone shoots lighting out of there hands. He runs away! With he people panicking he runs into a store a it down the mall daring for a changeroom and transforms! La Pucelle has arrived! She runs back to where everyone is. Rainbow_Dash isn't in much condition to do anything at this point! It takes all her effort to try a good old fashioned kick to the head! Of course that electrical zap isn't going to do her much good if it lands, either! Marion, otherwise known as Sunlight Ranger White, gets ready to enter the fight, a simple mace and buckler combo materializing in her hands. "S'up Strim, fancy meeting you here, you're just in time for the party." With that, she dashes in, ready to follow up on whatever move Hisako makes. She couldn't throw a crazy amount of spells around in here with all the civilians, but she would make do with her mace. Hisako doesn't have room (or time) to deal with the blonde's electric grasp before Rainbow Dash lashes out with that kick. On the plus side, the pegasus's strike gives the mutant teenager the chance she needs to enlarge her armor and just try to physically pick the woman(?) up; the goal is to hold her aloft so she CAN'T touch anyone else with those electrified hands. On the other hand, that leaves the OTHER 'masseuse' ... S. V. Strimla nods a bit grimly to Marion as she's greeted. "Right. Uhhh, Ranger White, meet La Pucelle. La Pucelle, Ranger White," she says, shaking her head somewhat as she reaches behind her back. "Better introductions later!" she says before leaping towards the growing fray. 'Nea' doesn't seem to expect the kick, and manages to get hit right in the head... but it doesn't seem to do that much to her beyond knock her back and causing her to growl. "Forget it, Arsene. You wanted to bring me on this farce, you get /me/ on this farce!" Her hair darkens to a medium-dark blue while her skin fades to aqua as she once again charges in at the pony that dared attack her, only to be grabbed by Armor. She struggles against the grip for only a few seconds before screaming out, letting electricity arc out in all directions from her. Her coworker, however, just sighs and shakes her head before flicking a card from her sleeve at a nearby potted plant. The plant, almost predictably, suddenly transforms into a roughly humanoid creature. It looks as if it were carrying a large blade made of leaves in one hand, while the base of the pot covers its head like a helm, but doesn't leave any space for it to see from. In its other hand it spins another set of leaves, almost like a flail or perhaps a bola. The dragon Knight arrives. She points her broadsword at Nea and Strim. "I won't let you contine with your evil ways!", she see as the plant tranfroms into a monster! "Didn't expect that to happen!", she charges at the now walking plant going for a downward slash at the creature! Rainbow_Dash feels like she's made of mud right now, so she just falls to the floor in a blue heap.... Hisako grits her teeth as the arcing electricity traces along her armor's 'shell' - although it doesn't really penetrate the psionic force field, it's not that pleasant for her to endure either. "I don't know who you are or what you're trying to do here, but -" She glances around briefly, then chucks Nea bodily at the plant-monster conjured by Arsene, "- I'm not going to let you hurt people!" Sunlight Ranger White doesn't really have any heroic battle cries that she can think of off the top of her head, so she just tosses her buckler at Arsene with a gutteral scream. "NGAAHH!" The buckler glows with sunlight as it careens towards the woman. Once thrown Nea kicks off the plant monster, causing it to stumble backwards, then lands on the ground crouched in front of it. "Too bad. That's what I do best," she says with a feral grin before reaching out to her sides with fingers outstretched, lighting arcing along her arms. She dashes forward just before a large blade occupies the space she was just in, the blade known as Gnistra, as Strimla ends a leap with a downward slash of her own. Strimla follows up with a side slash in her direction, but Nea is too fast and already leaping back at Hisako with another yell of anger, striking down at the young mutant with far more strength than it looks like she should have by her frame. The plant monster recovers well enough to be able to react to La Pucelle's own blade, deflecting it just in time with the sword of its right hand. Silently, it reaches back with the other arm and swings downward at La Pucelle, the two trailing bunches of spiked plant matter swinging down after its fist. Arsene, in the meantime, is scrambling back for that lava lamp, leaving the fighting to the other two, when she gets winged in the back of the head with the shield and goes sprawling forward onto the ground. "Ooowwwww..." she says as she rolls over, pointing both hands at the White Ranger with her wrists held together. It looks like she's starting to gather some energy there for an attack. Luckily for Rainbow Dash, she appears to be ignored by the villains and monster. Marion charges forward, catching her buckler on the rebound and bringing her mace to bear, swinging it at Arsene with both hands, the mace head glowing with sunlight. La Pucelle swing her blade in front of her parrying the plant monsters she bring her leg up trying to kick he monster back. Well, thinks Hisako, THAT didn't go according to plan. She doesn't have much time to think about it, though - bringing her armor's arms up in front of her to catch Nea's strike, only to get pushed back a couple of feet by the force of it. That makes Hisako's eyes widen, her armor's color shifting from yellow to a pale green ... just briefly, though, before it turns more orange and she counterattacks with a loud yell. Her armor actually shrinks again, until it's only adding a few inches to the girl's height: just enough to let her use the enhanced strength her armor provides, while small enough that she can utilize some of the hand-to-hand combat training she's received from the X-Men and honed in sparring/training with her fellow Titans ... Rainbow_Dash merfs and tries to get to her hooves; she feels like a ten-ton pony! "Not...cool..." she grrs. Arsene lets go of the energy, blasting herself backwards as much as she lets the energy forward, barely avoiding the swing of the mace as she sends herself rocketing the last of the way towards the glowing lava lamp, which she grabs with her bare hand. "Nea! We're leaving!" She calls out as she rolls back and tries to scrramble up to her feet. As for the plant monster, it doesn't make a noise as it's kicked backwards, but it stumbles for only a step before it just forms another leg from its viney body to stabilize itself. It does shake its head, however, the planter helmet shaking a little extra as it does so, before it starts more flowing than stepping back towards La Pucelle, swinging wildly with the sword-arm. Nea, for her part, grins wildly as she watches Hisako get knocked back and change her stance. "Good! Give me a real fight!" she shouts before looking back at Arsene with an absolute GLARE. This leaves her open enough that she does get pummeled by the orange armor, knocking her back several feet herself. Her hands spark almost out of control as she reaches up to try to /catch/ the armored fists. Strimla, meanwhile, moves in behind Nea, moving in before swinging a wide horizontal ark to strike at her back. The blade hits solidly at the blue woman's waist, but the only reaction of pain is a grunt from her as the blade seems to hit possible armor underneith her clothes... or she's just that tough. "Two on one? Good!" La Pucelle just stand her ground as her sword double in size and she slashes at the plants sword arm. Sunlight Ranger White takes a page out of one of her fellow Ranger's book and throws herself forward with a gust of wind after using the momentum of her swing to lever herself into a leap. The mace gets left behind as she tosses her buckler in first to try and knock the lamp out of Arsene's hand. The follow-up is her rearing a fist back, the appendage glowing in a manner similar to her shield and mace with the exception being the flickering flames that accompany the light, before letting the fist fly. "You're not getting off that easy!" Hisako gives Nea a withering look - one which turns alarmed when the woman manages to *hold* her punches. "I'm not fighting for your entertainment, whatever you are ... !!" she calls out, her armor scaling up again - and then she tries to just *flatten* Nea, almost as if she was taking a page from the Hulk's playbook. Rainbow_Dash grrrs, she can't NOT do anything! So...she looks around, still weakly...ah! Massage oil! She whips it off the counter with her tail, and as it hits the floor, she stomps on it! sending the slick liquid towards the evil blonde's feet! The plant's arm goes flying! It stumbles backward, seemingly in pain before more vines simply grow out from the body to form a new sword-arm, complete with new blade. As for the severed arm? It's now on the ground, quickly decaying. Even the leaf-like blade is rotting away. Nea just grins wildly, seeing the incoming attack, but as she ducks down to the side, her foot hits that massage oil. Her gaze snaps to the floor as her footing goes completely away and she collapses to the floor, sliding just far enough that only her leg gets smashed by Hisako's attack. Arsene, however, manages to pull the lava lamp out of the way /barely/ in time, the shield actually slicing up a bit of her sleeve as she does so. The motion of the dodge keeps her spinning, and she once again barely manages to avoid the next attack as well, singing the back of her shirt. "NOW!" she calls out, and makes a horizontal swiping gesture with her arm, causing her to vanish from sight after a breif glow from the lava lamp. At the same time, whatever she did seemed to recall Nea as well, causing her to vanish, too. The plant monster, however, is still there, charging at La Pucelle with both weapons swinging without making any noise. La Pucelle extends her sword out in front of her as it grows in size hopefully stabbing the plant monster in the chest and pushing it back! Marion stood, sighing as her buckler faded away. It always sucked when the bad guys actually managed to slip through her fingers. "Or...maybe you /are/ getting away..." She turned, looking to see if her help would be needed for the plant monster. Hisako lets out a breath, glancing around ... then moving to help set some furniture back upright that might have been knocked over in the fray. (She probably took out a table or some chairs or something, too.) Once she's done moving furniture, she de-armors again. "Rainbow Dash, how do you feel? I'm sorry we didn't realize something was up faster ..." Rainbow_Dash says, "I'm okay..." she struggles to her feet, 'Just got all my stuffing sucked out of me. Was totally looking foward to relaxing, too," she pouts. 'I" Rainbow_Dash says, "I'll be okay once I get my wind back." The plant creature runs right in on La Pucelle's blade, impaling itself completely... but it doesn't seem to notice other than the fact that its mobility is severly hampered. It leans forward on the blade, its flower pot head coming in close but not quite reaching far enough to head-butt La Pucelle. Seeing her target vanish leaves Strimla quickly glancing around to make sure there's no more threat... but sure enough, there is! She runs on in again and swings a diagonal slice that cuts the creature in two right below where it's impaled by La Pucelle's blade... but it just grows all the plant matter right back, good as new! "This isn't working!" calls out the Steel Valkyrie. "It just keeps growing back!" Rainbow_Dash says, "Use...a fire spell thingy!" La Pucelle says, "I think we need to burn it or freeze it!", she says taking another swing at the plant creature. "I don't have any fire spells!"" Marion rolls her shoulders and lets out a deep breath. Her fire spells weren't exactly the most precise tool in her arsenal, and she'd rather not take the term 'Friendly Fire' to a more literal definition. "Get back, I got this!" With that, a white flame gathered in her palm, building until it was about the size of a softball. Once she's certain she's not going to hit someone or something she doesn't want to, she rushes in, thrusting her palm forward and letting the flame fly forward as it expanded somewhat. "White Flare!" The plant monster wasn't dead yet? Oops. Hisako armors BACK up and tries to circle around behind the plant creature, to hold it still so it CAN'T dodge Marion's White Flare. Or she might not get there fast enough to do any good. S. V. Strimla jumps backwards at Marion's call, swinging the blade backwards in preparation for another leaping strike in case this plan doesn't work. Luckily for Hisako the thing's motion is hampered greatly by the fact that another leg was just cut off by La Pucelle. It struggles against her hold before the flare hits it. It spasms under Hisako's grip as a hole is burned right into its body, incinerating the center body to the point where its 'head' falls to the floor. But there's still motion. It's still moving! It's definitely slowed down, but it looks like the plant is growing again, trying to make a new body! Rainbow_Dash grrrs and jumps. having recovered enough......to try and stomp the head to bits!! "Time to finish it!", La Pucelle says and runs up and chops the head in a half! Hopefully that will finish it! The pot is smashed, leaving shards of pottery flying... as well as the card Arsene threw at the original plant. La Pucelle's blade cuts cleanly through the card, and all motion stops. Marion lets out a sigh of relief and looks around, grinning. "Great work team, we did it...kinda." She glances back at where the woman had disappeared with the lava lamp thing. La Pucelle says, "They got away we will get them next time they show up!", she know what to look for now." Rainbow_Dash huffs, "What kind of place is it, that you can't even trust a spa?? S. V. Strimla lets out a huff of releif. "Well then... That's a job done..." And then, of course, the crowd starts to cheer. Strimla takes a quick step back in surprise, only now realizing just how many people had stayed to watch the magical girl battle! "Uhhhh..." she says, suddenly getting a bit of stagefright. She glances left, then right, then casts a spell that boosts her speed.... allowing ehr ro run off fast and leap over the crowd to try to find a place to transform back. La Pucelle smiles and waves to the crowd. "Thank you all for your support!", and she leaps over the crowd and dahes off to find someplace to change! Oh darnit she forgot where she put her manga! Marion waves as Strimla books it. "See ya Strim!" Only then does she notice the crowd, chuckling a bit and rubbing the back of her head. Back home, most of the people were used to seeing her team go to work. S.R. White grasps her necklace while muttering something under her breath before becoming engulfed in a flash of warm sunlight. Standing in her place is Marion Whicker. You quietly morph into rhoodie. Hisako says, "Technically, it wasn't really a 'spa' so much as a massage sampler ..." Marion turns to the pegasus. "Now that that's over and dealt with, how're you feeling Dash?" Rainbow_Dash says, "Well, either way, ya shouldn't have to woory about 'em s sucking your energy ouuta ya." She checks her wings. She seems to be getting her strength back. 'I'm still kinda wobbly, but I'm okay."" After a minute or so, Robin is there at the edge of the crowd. Rainbow_Dash says, "Gee, Robin! Where were ya? You totally just missed Strimia!" Marion smirks at this, but quickly shakes it off. "Heya Robin, you just missed all the action." She stuffs her hands into her hoodie pockets. Robin sighs and hangs his head slightly. "Yeah, well, everything happened so fast and then the crowd all showed up before I knew what happened..." >.> "But, uh... Everyone's okay, right? In the end... Well... you still look a little wobbly there, Dash." Rainbow_Dash says, "Yeah...think I gotta hit the food court...." Her stomach is grumbling. She stops to check her cutie mark, "Even my marks was fading...geez....I'm gonna get her!" Marion shrugs. "It kinda sucks that they got away so easily, but I'm not too bothered. Everyone's alright in the end, and next time I see them, I'm going to break them. Simple as that." Hisako corrects quietly, "We'll get her. Them. I wish I'd realized what was going on sooner ..." She turns to look at Marion, grinning sheepishly. "I, uh ... didn't really tell you all of who I am earlier, sorry. I'm not a magical girl or anything, just - I just have the power you saw me using. Part of who I am." Marion shrugs. "I didn't tell you I was a magical girl, so it's all good. Besides, like I said, I never really got the whole secret identity shtick, since my outfit's the only discernible change between forms." Robin nods to Marion. "Yeah." He grips the air right over the center of his chest. "Next time..." He then starts looking away with a bit of a guilty look when they both talk about not mentioning their own powers. "Um... anyway... Since you guys did all the work and I just watched, Why don't I buy everyone a round of dinner?" Robin says, "...Get your... energy back... and stuff."" Rainbow_Dash says, "Sure, thanks! Won't turn that down...just point me to a salad bar....." Marion nods excitedly, smiling. "That'd be awesome." Robin says dryly, "Just... don't go all out, I don't have that much money." Rainbow_Dash pffts, "salad bar's all you can eat! Anyway, I have some bits," she shrugs. Marion nods. "Don't worry, I won't go all in, that's reserved for when Ranger Black's paying, since he makes this hilarious screechy sound whenever the bill comes back, even though the guy's loaded. It's the best." Robin raises an eyebrow at Marion, then nods. "All right, then... Just... yeah, remember I'm not," he says with a little bit of worry in his voice. After a breif pause, he motions on towards the food court. A comment is heard from the crowd, someone saying something about wishing he had the guts to ask out the magical girl and superhero. This gets a sweatdrop and slight blush from Robin, but he dscides not to respond to it. It was directed at the speaker's friend, not him, afterall. Somewhere in the foot court is a dude who's got that wierd sorta icecream tendril looking hair style (though not to the ice cream like levels of some totally unrelated dude called Egon) that's got something of a black and grey skunk stripe coloration to it....and yet his gothic looking dress, facial scar and the aforementioned wierd hair is probably what sticks out LEAST about him today. Gundham, apparently on break from work, is here typing at his lap top with one hand and holding up a sign with the other. His arms both have some leashes on them, attached to various animals that are with him. This is apparently meant as some different sort of approach to advertizing for the pet store, all all the pets are being entirely behaved, to the point it seems like the leashes are only a formality. Rainbow_Dash bee-lines into the food court, and for a bit does a fair Pinkie_Pie impersonations, gobbling op from the salad bar, some coen muffins, etc. She almost had her cutie mark wink out, so she has a lot to catch up on! Marion simply follows Robin, glancing around for something that would catch her eye, since she wasn't craving anything in particular right now. Robin sighs and follows behind Rainbow Dash, still somehow slower than here even with her energy drained. On the other hand, he's not all out running, either. "Well, see anything you want Marion? Hisako?" He does, however, move over first to pay for Rainbow Dash's salad bar before he looks around for what he would want... eventually deciding on italian. He liked that type of food last time he tried it. Rainbow_Dash stuffs some money in Robin's hand to help out. "Oh, hey! Gundam! What's new? How's your job working out?" she asks, stuffing a bluberry muffin in her mouth. Hisako looks over the menus of the nearby eateries. "I .... uh. Teriyaki burger, I think," she answers Robin. "Small fries to go with it. I'll eat a proper supper at the Tower. - Dash, are you *sure* you're okay?" Marion eventually spots a pizza joint that looks like it'd be decent. "Pizza sounds pretty decent." Her wallet was, unfortunately, not on her when she arrived, so she couldn't really help pay. Rainbow_Dash nods to Marion, "Still feel weak and hungry, but I think I'l all right. We ponies are tough," she grins a little. Making short work of the salad on her plate now. Robin goes around paying for the others's meals, ending with Marion's since they're both ordering from the same place, then meets up with Rainbow Dash and Hisako. He looks down at his meal, unsure of what he should say next. Rainbow_Dash says, "I'll get Twilight to give me a once-over when I get home. Though...I tell Fluttershy, I'll get mothered for the next week. Which...maybe isn't so bad." Gundham blinks and peers up from his lap top as someone dare speaks his name. Oh, hey! "Hello Rainbow Goddess of the Storms," he replies, "Work is good of course, because no mere mortal could ever predict the advancedness of my skill with all creatures between heaven and hell." "I suspect you have seen the Fluttering of the Whispered Winds today?" Robin blinks at the way Gundham greets Rainbow Dash and facepalms. "Her ego is large enough already..." Marion starts in on her food, pondering on the ubiquitously par nature of mall food. "That has to be the most metal way of referring to a neon colored pony I've ever heard." Rainbow_Dash says, "Oh yeah, Fluttershy's KIND of a homebody, so, not hard ti mump into here. And she's the same way, yeah; has this way with animals." Robin looks back to Marion with a look of incomprehension. "Metal?" Marion turns to Robin, looking just as confused. "You've never listened to Metal music before?" Rainbow_Dash says, "Hey, I'm a warp-speed pegasus, I can work with that." Gundham says, "But some egos are earned after all..." He closes his lap top now, apparently deciding to subject himself to talking to people as much as he tends to talk as if he's quite unfound of people in general. "Something befell you lot?"" Robin shakes his head. "I'm guessing not? If I have, I've not known what it's called... I'm kind of... well, the world I came from isn't as... 'advanced' as this one, was the way someone put it. Like... to me, electricity is something I'm only now getting used to." He looks over to Gundham and looks a little surprised. "You mean you didn't hear the commotion earlier?" Hisako explains, "There was a little trouble with a fake massage sample thing two women were doing ... not human women, I'm not quite sure what they were." Rainbow_Dash says, "They sucked the energy right out of me...." which is why she's munching so much." Gundham shakes his head. "Sometimes the great warriors of hell make it difficult to hear the sounds within one's own head..." Marion nods at Hisako's explanation. "Yeah, they tried to drain Rainbow Dash dry, but we sent them packing." She then turns back to Robin. "And I've definitely got to show you Metal. It's pretty great." Gundham says, "Ahh, then that's likely what the fuss from the warriors of hell was about as well..." He opens his lap top back up, does a little clicking about, and then turns it toward Marion. "That should make things easier..."" Hisako blinks at Gundham, "'Warriors of hell'?" Robin nods to Marion with a smile. "Sure! I still wanna learn more about this more 'modern' world compared to mine. I'd bet my apartment is pretty empty, since I've not gotten any of the modern stuff that I bet most people have." He laughs once, perhaps a bit nervously, then tilts his head at Gundham. "...Warriors of Hell'?" he asks, echoing Hisako. "What are you talking about?" Gundham says, "The many a cerebus, nekomata, rocs, and other creatures from my place of work..." Marion nods before turning at the mention of various monsters being kept at the strange man's work. "Wait, really?" Gundham was offering his lap top for Marion to look up music to show Robin if that wasn't clear... Very understandable if it's not clear, given his wierd ways of saying things and always exagerating things to be like some epic situation. "...really what?" Robin looks at the laptop. "So it's... like a really big phone, but... what's with all the letters down there? Qwertyuiop?" He does a decent job trying to pronounce the top row of the keyboard. Hisako looks at Robin, sprouting a sweatdrop. "It's called a 'keyboard,' you use it to type words into the computer." Marion grabs the laptop and searches for something decent to show Robin while she responds. "You've got beasts of hell in you're work place. Robin is still wondering what kind of store is selling cerberus, rocs, and whatever the heck a nekomata is. He does laugh and nod at Hisako. "I know, I know, I'm messing with you guys this time. one of those pops up on my phone, too, you know. That looks a hell of a lot more convenient, though." Still... you have to feel sorry for the poor salesman who had to explain... EVERYTHING to Robin. Gundham says, "Of course...." He raises his arms as if indicating the pets that are resting upon him. ...nothing here looks hellish... A different kind of intresting but, not hellish. There's likely a VERY large lizard of some sort, a cat, a dog, a ferret...just a small varriety of animals out to get people curious about the shop and want to adopt and such really." Robin munches on his sub sandwhich while watching Marion type. He looks up at the array of pets and raises an eyebrow, swallowing before saying, "Well, they look, uh... very fearsome..." Gundham says, "That they are...only the most dedicated of possible masters can adopt from this store....lest they pay the price for neglecting their duties as masters." Marion eventually found something suitable, hitting play and letting the sound of electric guitars and drums play. "Sounds like a nice place." Robin listens to the music, then nods. "Okay, yeah, I have heard that kind of music. One of my neighbors plays that some nights until one of my other neighbors yells at them." He smiles somewhat, but shrugs. "I'm not really sure what kind of music I prefer still, to be honest. I'm kind of taking it all in still." Gundham says, "Music is a vast topic, after all....thankfully the Tanaka the Forbidden, the Dark Overlord of Ice needs worry not for annoying neighbors!" In fact it's the opposite, but he'd never admit that it's sad that none of his class mates are there, so it's just him on the entire first island of Jabberwock." Rainbow_Dash fishes off one of severla corn-cobs. "There...that outta hold me...." Gundham says, "The tofu fries demolish all other competing foods in this court...." Marion shrugs as she finishes up her pizza. "Metal's my favorite, and that's heresy sir, mall pizza is the best mall food." Robin thinks he might be starting to understand the way Gundham talks. "Well, I'll have to try them both some time. But I will say that the chinese food here is nothing compared to the place I work." He smirks at that, of course. Does he actually think that? Hard to say. Gundham nods toward Robin. "Malls are blasphemous when it comes to most ethnic breeds of meal. And good tofu is worth heresy and damnation." Robin looks to Rainbow Dash. "So, you feeling better now? You looked pretty bad for a bit there... I might have even been able to have beaten you in a race for a minute there." Rainbow_Dash says, "I'd just have to call up my reserves," she teases. "Yeah...after I get some sleep I'll be good, anyway, but I'm better." Robin munches on the last of his sub before saying, "Worth damnation, huh? Well, I'm definitely going to have to try that, then. I've already spent about a week in Elysium, anyway." He then mock sighs and shakes his head at Rainbow Dash. "Well, I can dream, can't I?" Rainbow_Dash just grins, hopping to her hooves. "I should get home and crash, later all! Thanks for helping me out by the way!" Marion nods. "No problem Dash. We've got your back." Rainbow_Dash says, "I totally gotta find a spa that doesn't try and kill you." Robin gives Rainbow Dash a thumbs up. "Later! Fly home safe!" Gundham streaches out and stands up. The animals somehow all manage to stay in place and don't freak out from the movement. "The store calls...." he states, "But first...." Gundam stats striking some martial arts like poses and all the animals actually get down and follow suit like this is some sort of synchronized show. Robin blinks, watching the martial arts moves, then applauds. "Impressive training!" Marion applauds as well. "Now that's impressive." Gundham pauses and bows as all the animals crawl back into place onto him. His free hand tugs his scarf firmly up over everything below his eyes as his actions had the intended, though not quite /desired/ affect on all the other folk eating in the court as well. "And AWAY!" He says suddenly before scooping up his lappy and BOLTING back toward the pet store. Marion blinks and laughs, the absurdity of the situation finally getting to her. "That was brilliant." Robin nods in agreement. "Yeah... even in my world, I've not seen someone able to handle animals that well. I guess he's late to his job?" Marion shrugged. "Who knows? Anyways, what do ya wanna do now?" Robin sighs and leans back slightly, looking upward. "Well, I was going to see if I would find something more for my apartment... some 'new' thing or other to me that I never knew existed but I think I'd use. I wasn't kidding when I said my apartment was pretty empty. But my closet is empty, too... But... eh. That all can wait." Marion shrugs. "I'm fine with whatever, since I'd just be window shopping on my own anyways." Robin frowns slightly. "What are you doing with your time, then? I mean... Well, I'm getting by with bussing tables. I've not seen you since your second day here, so... how've you been getting along?" She shrugs. "I haven't found anything decent yet, but I did make a run to the Badlands that got me some cash for food, so that was cool. I spent it all already though." Robin keeps his frown at that. "I guess I should make runs there, then... I've been thinking about that lately, as I... think I said?" He scratches at the side of his head. "Were you going in by yourself?" he asks with a bit of concern. Marion nods, looking excited. "Yeah, it was awesome! It was nice to actually have a challenge, and even when I get banged up, healing spells are my specialty." Robin looks away at that. "Am I the one that's being the coward now?" This seems to actually worry him. "I'm being too... avoidant." Marion shakes her head. "Nah, you're just being careful's all. I'm not gonna lie, I had a couple close calls." Robin's frown turns to a grin. "So then, we just need to go in as a team. You, me, Miyu, S... La Pucelle." He had to catch himself there... It's not his place to reveal that the middle schooler with them just before the battle was the same person as La Pucelle. "Or really just someone else we think we can trust with our backs..." Robin smirks and nods. "Then we'll have to do that soon." Marion nods and stands, stretching. "Welp, I better get back to the airport." Robin blinks. "Airport?" Marion shrugs, stuffing her hands into her hoodie pockets. "That's where the shelter is." Robin frowns at that. "This is why you need a steady job on top of Badlands jobs... I honestly felt better camping out than staying there... Uh... do you want to borrow my camping stuff? Or you can crash at my place a few days, I can use my bedroll." Marion shrugs. "I mean, if you're cool with that. I wouldn't want to kick ya out of your bed though, I'm fine with like, the couch or something." Robin scratches at the side of his head nervously. "Eheh... well, you can use the bedroll, then, if you want... I don't have a couch. Just a futon, so... I arguably already sleep on my couch." Marion laughs at the joke. "Nice one. Yeah, I'm chill with the bedroll." Robin nods and smiles. "Just, yeah, forgive the bachelor pad and all!" | |
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