1392/Riled Up

Riled Up
Date of Scene:	19 April 2016
Location:	Somewhere in Tokyo
Synopsis:	Miss White targets the Heart's Egg of a girl who wants to own her own corporation. Prism Keeper Orange and Shadow Witch Shiniko strike a blow for capitalism (and against Miss White's composure).
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Sora Hisakata, Reiko Touyama

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Hannah Sharpe has posed:
It's a horrible, rainy day, but Hannah has /obligations/. The last two attempts on taking Heart's Eggs have been less than helpful: the first, thwarted by the efforts of magical girls and an impromptu emergency, and the last by an overheat from the very weapon she used.

Thus, she's taken to a bit of a sniper's position in a residential part of Mitakihara. All she needs is a young kid with a potential heart's egg, and she thinks she's found one: an elementary schooler by the name of Sakura. No relation to Kinomoto. She's a young girl who dreams of being a corporate bigwig like her mom.

The irony doesn't escape Miss White, laying flat on a roof as the girl starts to scramble for the upscale apartment. Her Device homes in, and with all the accuracy of such a Device linked to the good Doctor's weapon, it's a single shot. A laser sound, the girl starts to fall, and then a barrier descends. The Egg appears, and already Miss White is racing for it.

But are there any magical bystanders there to get in the way?

Sora Hisakata has posed:
As the barrier goes down, Shiniko acts. She hasn't quite figured out how to create a barrier yet, but given the opportunity to see one go up, she acts. The shadows of the real world area covered by the barrier pool up and take control of the barrier, leaving this part of the world without shadow.

The effect? The entire area inside the barrier is thick with shadow, magical in nature and somewhat unsettling, fading out the sky and the colour of the buildings. And from the ground, in between miss White and the Egg, Shadow Witch Shiniko rises, her hair joining the shadows of the ground to form a shield. "No." She says softly, but firmly.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama has a bright orange umbrella with a koi design on it as she's walking in the rain. This little fish is nooooot afraid to get wet! She's wearing some boots, a jacket, and has the umbrella of course. She loves the rain- when it isn't caused by Griselda. Sure, it may be grey and dreary, but rain brings the fish out to play!

In fact, she's going to the gardens on this wet rainy day and passes by a girl, she smiles. She walks past--- then--- zap!

She turns around. A barrier goes up-- she blinks. Someone's Heart Egg is stolen!?

"Oh no...."

She escapes quickly before she's seen--- and then transforms--- an orange flash! Koi tie a hairbow!

It's Prism Keeper Orange.

"MISS WHITE!" she calls out. "NOT AGAIN!" she seethes. Oh yeah she's angry. She's moving to intercept.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah can't quite tell colors, but she /can/ sense magic. It's familiar, and even before the good Witch speaks she knows who it is.

"...It looks like I get that demonstration early. Not bad. Not bad at all." It's almost jovial, but tinged with guilt warring with something else. Confidence, a sure purpose, so many mixed emotions. Inner turmoil that makes controlling her own barrier a problem.

But Hannah isn't one to lay down and take it, and so, emerald fights with shadows. Each swirl and seem to war, the barrier's colors turning muted greens and bright shadows as a battle of wills and magics take place.

Then, she's on that shield, magical drills in her hands as she strains every part of her completed body against Shiniko. Piercing punches are hammered against hair and shield, even as her own magic fills the area, rejecting and weakening, but not quite yet overcoming Shiniko given the wide area and putting more than a little attention on mauling the Witch. She's saving magic in reserve, too, as she doesn't expect the girl to be alone.

Proven right as a familiar voice yells out.

"Fish-chan! You're becoming a pain in my side, you know? I'm impressed though! Come on! Stop yelling and start /DOING/ something about me! I'm just going to keep doing things like this until I'm satisfied! Go on! Magical girl up and kill me!" It's a horrible taunt, perhaps, but she's in the midst of battle and not thinking. Takashi's words aren't helping matters either.

Sora Hisakata has posed:
And that's when Shiniko starts to draw upon the energy she's been collecting, that she has let build up, and she fights Miss White's magic, her shielding shadow hairs not yet yielding, light on dark frozen fire to dissuade her from taking this angle of attack.

And at the same time the shadows fight back the emerald, struggling to establish control over the area. She knows she doesn't need to personally defeat miss White, she just needs to hold her off long enough, "Fish-chan. Take that egg and keep it away from her." There's nothing about her usual playfulness, except for one taunt, "You know, miss White. At least mister Riventon is honest about what he is."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange looks over, that witch girl from that night before--- shadows... these powers don't really bleed heroic to her, but she is here helping so perhaps that's all that matters. She may try to talk to Shiniko later, but she doesn't seem very talkative, does she?

She looks to Miss White and frowns more heavily. "WORDS CAN WORK AS WELL AS ACTIONS! AND TOO BAD-----!"

"-----I'D HOPE TO BE A PAIN IN YOUR BUTT, INSTEAD!" she screams out.

She raises her Chroma Wand and splurts out an array of color energy in beams, trying to side-glance White, trying to get her to stand down.

She then makes a mad rush after firing the flurry to the egg. "R--right!" she calls out. "ON IT!" she says at Siniko.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White is a stubborn person, and that might well be her downfall here. Even as Shiniko expends energy, Hannah tries to match it. Miss White doesn't collect energy, she's always relied on her third-rate linker core and far too much strain on her admittedly top-notch physical presence. As usual, her magical core strains, and her body pays the price.

She doesn't stop, much of that emerald magic lighting on fire, and warring on, almost like some crazed beast. The price for it all becomes all too clear: RAging Tempest yelling warnings, throwing up shields at the worst of the Barrier that threatens to collapse horrifically under the pair of warring magical girls. There's little physical defense at this point, and only a barrier jacket keeps Miss White from outright being shredded by those dark hairs. Fists redouble efforts, magic and blood leaking as she recklessly tries to force her way through the many barriers before her.

Normally, she'd call in reinforcements, or otherwise try soemthing smart. But Shiniko touches a soft spot in her psyche.

"...What are you talking about?" Comes the girl, at once filled with dread, and anger. Her next punch lets out a wild shock of wind magic. She's coughing up blood, her fake arm leaking coolants even as she continues her flurry of punches.

And then there's a lash of color, Miss White taking it quite literally to the face. A magical shield is broken, and she headbutts the magic. Her face bleeding, she doesn't seem to care, finally realizing that Orange is going for the Egg.

Never one to back down, a good twenty magical runes surround the egg. If Orange wants to get to it, she'll have to work through magical bombs that apply cutting wind energy when they get near!

Sora Hisakata has posed:
And, to be certain, miss White's recklessness is not without payoff. Shiniko may be expending energy she has collected, but she's not willing to waste months of collection on protecting a single innocent. Her innate magic isn't all that strong to begin with, and so despite her best efforts, her guard yields under the continued onslaught.

Melee combat never was her strength to begin with, and as soon as those fists and their redoubled effort break through her guard, Shiniko is left essentially defenseless. She's hit in the head, and the shoulder, and she goes flying back, hitting the ground.

Still, though she looks wounded, and physically hurt, Shiniko is far from gone, and though her control over this extradimensional space is partial, she takes advantage of the bits she has, and every bit of the environment she can manage to get to do this to is set ablaze, shadowy fires sucking energy out of the environment and bringing a frozen inferno. She's got enough control that Orange and the Egg aren't in danger, but miss White gets no such favours. "Riventon never pretends he's in it for anything other than himself."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange rush rush rush----argh!

"What are those...!?" she says at the Runes. Nrg, a trap. Well! I have... just the thing for a trap!

"SGT. FINS!" she calls out.

A tiny orange koi with an army helmet appears and salutes Prism Keeper Orange.

"Go try to figure that out." she says.

The Koi salutes again and swims off after the Heart Egg--- aiming to touch the Runes and see what happens. The brave brave koi is probably aiming to set whatever these are off.

Then it stops. And turns around and faces Prism Keeper Orange before it does that. Is setting bombs off near a Heart Egg a good idea?

Nrg...

"Try to push it..."

She urges.

The koi tries to swim stealthly past the runes, like some sort of.. koi commando.. a .. koimando.

Ugh, suddenly ice cold fires! Eeek!

She huffs. "That's right! Stop acting like a victim you jerk!" she calls out. "You have a choice and you choose to be a JERK!" she calls out as Sgt. Fins tries to does his job.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White is on top of Shiniko, even as cold-flame wraps around her. The words said to her spark pure fury, an insult to the very core of her being, and the magical surge is equally as angry. The grip on the Barrier loosens, and is soon likely to expire.

But Shiniko and Reikoi have won a far more important victory, as the furious Miss White raises a fist, and tries to punch Shiniko once more. Her fist falls an inch short, her entire face strained and turned red, magical all but leaking around her. The pair have struck a nerve. And she can't bring herself to truly kill someone she respects as much as the odd shadow-user.

Sgt. Fins touches a rune, it initially explodes. Yet, as he works his way in, he'd hear fists fly. They smash into ground, creating numerous craters around Shiniko, but all just barely off from hitting. Magic shudders.

And then there's a pathway, even as Hannah curses Shiniko and Orange alike in a maddened fury.

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME! I'LL TURN THIS WORLD INTO WHAT IT SHOULD BE! EVEN IF I HAVE TO SACRIFICE EVERYTHING, EVEN IF I MUST BE A DEMON OR DIE, THAT'S WHAT I'LL DO!" It's a maddened conclusion to so much stress, so much dark energy flooded into her over weeks and months, and her own association with Eclipse, and those near Virtue. Her sanity strains.

And then she rolls off of Shiniko, exhausted, the egg free for the taking. Her teeth grit.

"...Tch. Sly little...I won't...next time I WON'T BE THIS WEAK!" She howls, as the barrier around her shatters. Her body and hands are bloody from the extreme magical acts tonight. And by goodness does she need a friend right now.

Sora Hisakata has posed:
Shiniko isn't much better off, but now that the barrier is gone, and Reiko has the egg, she giggles. "It's so easy to rile you up, miss White~" She's bleeding from the back of her head where she hit the ground, and has a black eye where she was punched. She doesn't seem to mind.

"Fish-chan, I trust you'll take care of that egg?" She asks, just to be sure. The voice is a little more sing-songy and unsettled now, and the girl fishes out prepaid phone she stole from a thug, dialing from memory the number of a certain Cure Gull. As soon as someone answers, she just says, "Miss White and I got into a bit of a fight, can you come pick her up?" She follows it up with directions and without waiting for a response, hangs up.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Prism Keeper Orange waves! "I do! I'll take care of it!" she calls out as the barrier drops. She hops over to the egg and reaches out for it, letting it hover into her hands---- she takes it far across the way and calls out. "Chroma Palette Cleanser!" and white healing light fills the egg!--- purifying it, healing it and it shoots back for it's owner! That's how you do it! She beams! She was able to help save THIS one.

MEANWHILE. NEAR A CERTAIN CURE GULL.

A phone rings on Hannah's apartment's counter. Haruna is busy cooking dinner because Hannah went out to work and Haruna thought that- if she's staying here she might aswell play homemaker when she has nothing else to do.

Haruna did not ask what Hannah was doing. She perhaps, thought it was better if she didn't know. She blinks. "Huh, who the hell is Akeno Iwakura and why the hell does he have this number." she says as she looks at her Cure Gull phone. She picks it up. "He---" she doesn't get a word in before Shiniko speaks then hangs up and frowns and purses her lips. "Whelp..." she sighs a bit as she turns the heat off. "I'll finish this in a bit!" she huffs as she moves to get going. She's a coming- eventually, to pickup Miss White.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
There's an Egg, and soon, healing light flushes around it! The dream of owning a corporation returns to the little girl.

Who knows, maybe in time, Miss White's descendants may well face off against this girl in a rivalry now laid out in magic and karma alike.

Miss White lays, grimacing and yet seeming strangely /happy/ with the outcome. She's only done this out of obligation, not desire. And her own hubris in the end has cost her a bit.

"...See. It's things like that why I want you on my team, Shiniko. Good play, kids. You used my weakness to your advantage." There's an almost lazy salute. She actually manages a smile, just before Cure Gull comes to her rescue.

Bloody mess or not, Hannah seems a strange mix of both irritation, and renewed strength through a pure breakdown all at once.

Never let it be said Hannah isn't a living contradiction.