195/White Rage

White Rage
Date of Scene:	18 July 2015
Location:	Mitakihara - Kikoku Street - North
Synopsis:	Kyouko shows up to mess with Miss White and WPS. Then Ao gets involved.
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Mamoru Chiba, Kyouko Sakura

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Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko Sakura has found herself in an uncomfortable position. It's not really that she's in any immidiate danger or anything- she still has plenty of Grief Seeds, and the ability to get more. No matter the rhetoric she herself has been spilling about, Miss White's operation is not really in danger of cutting off her personal supply. However, she has been running her mouth a lot- to Mami, to Nagisa, to Homura. To Miss White herself. About how WitchHunter Personal Services was a threat to them, about how something had to be done. Mami didn't seem convinced, and Homura had basically told her she couldn't do anything about it.

    All this left Kyouko feeling like she /did/ have to do something about it, to prove that she could. To prove that she was a threat to Miss White and not the other way around. If she could strike a blow against WPS, visibly, it might convince Mami to support her, and perhaps shake Homura's faith in the operation a little bit too. The last thing Kyouko wants is for her fellow veteren Puella to start thinking she is all bark and no bite.

    That, in essence, is why Kyouko is standing atop the building in downtown Mitakihara this evening near WPS HQ. Watching and waiting. She wants to send a message to Miss White in the best way that she knows how. It's well after dark now, and the streets are about as quiet as they get in the middle of downtown Tokyo, which is to say mostly empty but with a couple cars passing every few minutes. She's been watching these cars come and go.. waiting until she finds one of those black sedans like the one which ambushed her. Finally, after what seems like hours, she sees one of them pull out of the parking garage and start to head off down the street.

    "There you are.." Kyouko mutters, a feral little grin coming to her face as she tracks the car with her eyes. She waits until it's just below her perch on the building... and then launches herself off. She plummets like a red meteor down the dozen or so stories to the ground, magical energy burning around her, making her look like a blood-hued comet, until she impacts the black car. She's aimed herself so she hits right at the front of the car, spear-first. The impact is deafening, the hood of the car crunching downwads, the trunk flipping up into the air, leaving the car itself pinned like a bug specimen in a collection. Kyouko's spear is straight through the engine block, with the Puella herself standing on the crumpled hood amongst the twisted metal, grinning like a madwoman. "Evening, gents." She says, flippantly. "I've got a message for your boss."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Thankfully, this sedan was full of the robotic creatures on loan from Eclipse. As the car lands, pierced through almost entirely, it skids to a halt. Some of the robots tumble out, only to short circuit and blow up. Shrapnel everywhere, but not likely anything that would hurt Kyouko.

It's around that time that the doors to WPS opens, and two girls walk out. Miss White pauses, frowning, as she surveys what's happened. Another car wrecked. Oh, the insurance forms she will have to fill out.

"Then why not deliver it directly! Now what exactly can I do for you, Kyouko-san?" There's more than a little irritation in her voice right now.

The girl at her arm is none other than Ao Karina. She lets go, and starts for some cover!

"Kick her butt, White-san!" Encourages Ao!

"Raging Tempest SET-UP!" Soon, Hannah has her weapons in her hands, and starts walking towards the girl.

"You really do know how to make me angry. Do you have /ANY/ idea how many forms I have to fill out on stuff like this!?" Then she's leaping, a burst of wind magic sending her arcing towards Kyouko, flipping in the air, and aiming a hard kick towards the girl! Hit or miss, that car is likely to be utter toast now.

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko looks a bit startled as the robo-gangsters flop out of the car and explode and stuff. She hadn't actually known they were robots- she had tried to attack the car in such a way so as to not totally kill everybody inside while still causing a lot of damage. As it turns out, that concern was unwarrented, because robots! How handy. She'll file that away for future reference.

    But that line of thought is de-railed a moment later as Miss White herself appears from inside the building only a few hundred feet away. Kyouko's grin turns a bit lopsided. "I should have known you were the type to work late." She says, a hint of mocking in her tone, although exactly why she should feel this is mock-worthy isn't clear. Ao is noted (the girl from the hospital) but then dismissed as a non-threat. No, the threat is very obvious, as Miss White henshins right in front of her, and then flips at her, foot first.

    Kyouko has enough time to roll nimbly out of the way, letting Miss White finish the utter destruction of the car, which explodes in glorious hollywood fashion. Returning to her feet, the redhead whips her spear around in front of her, holding it in a guard position. "Yeah? Well good! Maybe if I blow up enough of 'em you'll decide the paperwork ain't worth it and you'll get off my turf!"

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah dusts off her barrier jacket from the explosion, an emerald green shield keeping her intact.

"Oh please! Every one you destroy just means I am even more entrenched here! Gotta turn a profit, you know? If you would just be a good girl and stop messing with my business, then things would go a lot better for us both!"

Miss White isn't messing around, not with Ao present. Her Device calls out, and then she dissappears! Wind magic envelopes Miss White, depositing her at Kyouko's side! She'll try to reach out, grab the girl's collar, and throw her across the street! It's about then that the Barrier goes up, washing the world in strange colors.

And yet, Ao Karina is still standing. And moving. There's something she's grabbing from a bag. It's...a cup? She tosses it at the flying Kyouko!

"Go home, you big jerk!" Cutting commentary from the non (!?) magical girl. Unfortunately, this puts her dangerously close to Kyouko!

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    "Yeah right!" Kyouko shoots back, clearly not buying that story. "Sooner or later you'll have to file for bankruptcy, and we'll just see how long you can keep the doors open after that!" She sure knows a lot about finances for a middle school-aged girl.. well, maybe it's because something similar happened to her father and she saw it all first-hand. But that's neither here nor there.

    Miss White vanishes, and then appears again right beside her. What is she, learning from Homura?! Kyouko swears in an unladylike fashion, ducking back, but not quickly enough- Hannah grabs her collar and with surprising strength, tosses her across the road. Kyouko managed to recover in mid-air, spinning around and whirling her spear behind her to take the impact of her landing..

    But she catches movement out of the corner of her eye. Something thrown at her. She doesn't even have time to look, reacting on instinct, her spear spinning to smash the cup away before it hits her- and sending it straight back towards the one who threw it in the first place before Kyouko even has time to realize who it is!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
The magical girl just laughs.

"Going to take a lot more work than that to get /us/ bankrupt!" They have landed some darn good mundane contracts after all!

"Still, I like how you think Kyouko-san! Once you join me, your worries are going to be over!" No, she /still/ hasn't gotten that notion out of her head yet.

Kyouko is utterly out of her range by the time she recovers, and so the magical girl is running a jagged, unpredictable pattern over to her target. Thus, that spear clacks against the cup, and sends it back to the one who threw it.

For a magical girl, it would be a love tap. For a mere human? It smacks Ao right in the face and sends her tumbling backwards only to slam into a vending machine. She crumples, unconscious, with a moan of pain.

"AO!" Screams Hannah, and she's running. There's no concern for Kyouko and what she's up to. Her mind is entirely on saving her friend. But she's far away, even for her! And that bleeding doesn't look good down the girl's face. A good chance to get in at Miss White!

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Watch your back!" yells a male voice from over Hannah's head, sharp and commanding, slicing through the air. Before anyone has the time to even look up, a slender black and white shape in a billowing black and red cape lands in a crouch next to the collapsed girl, pulling off white gloves and immediately putting his hands on her, one on her face, one at her neck.

Tuxedo Kamen's fair, pointed face with its glimmering white mask turns back toward the two girls, and it's not furious, it's schooled. So carefully schooled. It's a challenge to anyone who might still be looking their way, to either of the girls. It's also brief, because his attention's immediately back on pouring his senses into her injuries, seeing if it'll be all right to move her, seeing if anything's broken-- taking stock of her physical condition, the amount of danger she might be in.

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko lands from her unintentional flight, on her toes, spear held out, eyes darting to find Miss White and the blows she expects to be following up on the last.. only to find her opponent ignoring her, rushing instead towards the crumpled form of an injured girl. It takes her a moment to put it together, but she does realize what happened after a moment.. the cup was thrown at her, and she had deflected it back. At, it turns out, an ordinary girl who was not prepared to take such a blow.

    She stands there for a moment, looking uncertain, her posture loosening as she half-relaxes her guard. Then a dude in a suit shows up! "What the-" Kyouko mutters, narrowing her eyes as she watches him start to tend to the injured girl. For a moment, she just looks.. confused. And a little guilty. She would have pulled her punch if she had realized who she was aiming that cup back at, but she hadn't. Not that Miss White is likely going to be listening to excuses, judging by her panicked reaction.

    So, Kyouko excercises her talent for saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. Although she actually feels guilty, she pastes a smug smile on her lips and calls out, "You see? This is why you shouldn't mess with me, Miss White. Innocents get hurt. It's better just to pack it in and go somewhere nice and safe.. and far away."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah comes to a dead halt, as she feels the form of Tuxedo Kamen swooping down. Her heart is in her chest. Terror is etched onto her features. But the man is there. Helping up Ao. His touch has her moans of pain going away, and then she's just trembling. She clings to Tuxedo, muttering Miss White's name over and over.

There's glass in her back, she's bleeding in the face, and that impact probably broke a rib or two. Not good.

Kyouko draws Hannah's attention after a moment. She's silent. Trembling, in utter rage and fury, there's nothing but hate in her 'look' towards Kyouko.

She hurt Ao. She's /threatening/ Ao further. Teeth turn into a feral, horrible grin. There's no humor, just wrath.

With a voice far too cold for her look, she speaks.

"...Raging Tempest, release all safety protocols."

Her Device beeps. Somehow, it sounds afraid. But after a moment, the Device's spikes extend and steam is blown out from them.

"Mid-Childan Lethality Limiters released."

Magic flares, emerald green slowly being tinted with blackness bursts around her. The nearby wall is slashed to pieces as her anger is made manifest. Then, she rushes towards Kyouko. There's no attempt at defense, none of her usual calculated moves.

Her foot slams down, then she's right in front of the other girl with a bestial howl. This was no time stop, no teleportation, just magic-enhanced speed and strength hammering towards Kyouko.

Her hand reaches out, and tries to grab for the tip of her spear. She squeezes, in an attempt to either rip the weapon out of her hands, or just snap off the end.

And then jam the pointy end right towards Kyouko's neck.

"DIE! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIEEEEEEE!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Tuxedo Kamen doesn't pay a hell of a lot of attention to the business between Miss White and Kyouko, though part of him observes distantly that Kyouko just guaranteed -- yeah, there it is, Miss White's voice in the background, loud enough to echo off the sides of the buildings surrounding them. No, his attention's on Ao, and the tension in his shoulders goes from 'anxious' to merely 'combat defensive'. She's standing, she's awake, she's holding on. There's glass embedded that shouldn't be, there are broken bones, but--

("Shh," he says to her, tall form steering her away from the ramping-up fight, keeping up the contact with her skin. "I'm taking you to the hospital, and then I'm coming back to make sure Miss White will be all right. Let me know if anything hurts on the way, okay? It's all right if you go to sleep, I'm going to carry you--")

Then the injured girl's carefully held in his arms, and he's gone -- upward, away, away toward the most illegal hospital in Tokyo. He'll keep her out of pain and further injury until Iris can actually help her, but for now there's not even a referee.

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Whatever reaction Kyouko had been expecting from Miss White, it clearly wasn't this. The sudden coldness... the hate. When you don't have anyone left to care about, when they've all already been taken from you, you forget what it's like, at least until you see it in someone else- the helpless feeling of rage and the need to hurt someone, anyone, in order to make it go away. Kyouko has felt this before.. she recognizes it in Miss White.

    For a brief moment, she actually looks afraid.

    But if there's one thing Kyouko Sakura knows how to do, one thing above all others that she is an expert at, it's how to survive.

    The speed and ferocity of Hannah's attack catches her off guard, even with the fact that she saw it coming. However, it won't be as easy as all that. Hannah goes to grip the tip of the spear, and she should have grabbed it- but she finds her hand closing on empty air. Its suddenly in Kyouko's other hand, despite it clearly not having moved there by normal means. Even as this is going on, Kyouko is stumbling backwards, her teeth baring in a grimace, showing off her little fangs as she realizes this is no longer a fight for territory or power-games. It's a fight for survival.

    And she needs to survive.

    Her spear explodes outwards into fragments of wood, each trailing a segment of glowing chain, but not actually connected to each other. As she spins to try and get away from Miss White, each segment sprouts a spearhead, and they begin angling towards her, firing through the air like little missiles, trying to skewer her before she can catch up with Kyouko.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
And like any predator, Miss White can smell that fear. It only eggs her on, even as that spear is snatched away from her grip. Those chain sections lash out, an uncountable amount of spearheads jamming towards the magical girl.

Every strike of the spear is met by a fist or a glowing shield. Normally they'd crack under that assault with little resistance. Today, Hannah's not being careful, not holding back. She pours her magic into everything. And unlike normal, she just keeps making more.

And with every motion, every punch, every berserk thought, her aura grows darker. Drawing on the worst parts of herself, selfish love, hatred, anger only despoils herself more. Were she a Puella, she'd have burnt out by now, or gone Witch.

Instead, as she aims a kick, her blows are growing increasingly tainted and filled with anger. It's quickly becoming a physical thing, able to be felt. And it's hungry for Kyouko's blood.

Her kick is a graceful arc, a perfectly aimed kickboxer's blow. But it doesn't directly come for Kyouko. Instead, a burst of magic from her foot kicks up the local wind, infusing it with magic. A literal tornado of dark-green magic kicks up, rushing towards Kyouko and seeking to suck up body and chain-weapon alike! The ground, as well as several parked cars, are already in the air and falling down! Some might even endanger Kyouko!

"NO ONE HURTS HER! ANYONE WHO DOES WILL BE GROUND INTO DUST!" Howls Miss White.

She doesn't even yet register Ao's removal from the battliefield, the girl set to 'kill'. But Ao trembles in Tuxedo Kamen's arms.

"It all hurts...face, back, chest...I...nnnh." Soon, she trembles, and passes out.

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko is no welterweight- she has a good deal of magical strength of her own she could bring to bear. The thing us, unlike Hannah right now, she prioritizes her own survival, which means she's always going to hold back, even just a little bit.. dying from using up her magic is no different than dying from Hannah beating her to death after all. She has enough power that normally this reservation wouldn't matter much- but with Hannah pouring everything she's got into her attacks, it suddenly makes a difference. Kyouko is on the defensive, and she knows it.

    The mini-spears arc in, only to be deflected or miss, smashing into the street and leaving cracks and craters, spinning away to impact car windshields with loud smashing of glass. But there always seem to be more, even as Kyouko is still backpeddling, her arms moving to block punches thrown her way, though each of these is strong enough to make her wince even when she deflects it.

    Then Miss White throws up that magic wind.. a literal tornado that lifts cars.. and Kyouko with them! She can't get out of the way of such a huge, fast attack, and she finds herself whirling through the air. She smashes off of one car with a pained grunt, t hen the other. She latches onto it, hands digging into the seam between roof and door for purchase, all while the car is whirling wildly through the air.

    Blood trickles down the side of her face. But she's far from done. As the car re-appears out of the swirling debris, heading for the road again, Kyouko is riding atop it, balanced with preternatural agility, her face locked in a snarl of grim determination. Using the momentum of the car, she launches herself off of the car just as it hits the ground, the impact catapulting her straight towards Miss White, her spear suddenly meaterializing in her hand as she hurtles in, aimed straight at Miss White's heart!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Despite the wild storm, Kyouko survives! And comes flying in on a car, a blurr of motion! Miss WHite meets that spear as it comes for her! The pure force of the impact meeting her own beknuckled fist sends her skidding backwards! Concrete is ripped up as she's flung back, feet and legs working to halt her progress. Muscles flex, magic flares, and in a moment of genius, she aims another kick!

Right at the spear! It's sent spinning into the air, end-over-end! Then she leaps up, and with another burst of wind hurls herself towards Kyouko, feet-and-her-own-spear first! That is if she doesn't magically retrieve the thing!

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    The thing about Kyouko's spear is that, unless she's the one wielding it, it never seems to be where, or doing what, you want it to. Miss White is able to meet the strength of that diving thrust, the two forces in opposition as power crackles and spits off in all directions, Kyouko doing her best to force her way through Miss White's defenses. But she's not Vita from that scene in the second Nanoha movie which is just like this! More's the pity. Instead, Hannah kicks up at her spear, sending it flying up into the air.

    Thrown off-balance by the sudden vanishing of the opposing force, Kyouko stumbles forward as Miss White leaps upwards after the spear. When the other woman goes to grab the spear to use it against its owner, however, she just finds it... gone. It vanishes into thin air. Of course, this does not stop Miss White herself from hurling herself down towards Kyouko feet-first.

    The redhead is still in the process of turning from her stumble when the double-kick catches her right in the chest. With a loud grunt of pain, she's sent flying backwards.. careening across the street and into a bank of vending machines similar to the ones Ao struck, but with significantly more force, enough that she actually goes /through/ the glass and ends up inside the machine, a tangled mass of limbs covered in candy bars. Oh the irony, it is so thick.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Kyouko is into, and /through/ the vending machine, the poor girl laying in a pile of machinery, limbs, and delicious snacks. On the upside, plenty just seem to fall into her pockets. She'll have no shortage of sweets.

On the downside, Miss White is stalking towards her like a cat seeking wounded prey. Magic is already flaring around her right hand. By the time she's there? A tornado's worth of air is swirling, tightly packed, and she raises that fist high.

But something stops her. Kyouko's own words, about not striking down someone when they've been kicked down. A moment's hesitation. And then her phone rings.

It's her Hat Guy jingle. A text that her Device feeds to her brain.

The magic dissipates. Slowly, Miss White leans down, and again reaches for the other girl's collar, trying to rip her up to her level. Oh, and slam her face against the other girl's, hard.

"....You really are good at making me angry. But luckily for you, I can find...uses for a Puella Magi such as yourself. So you get to live." Then, she starts laughing. It's low, and a little unhinged.

"And lucky you, you get to advance my cause all at the same time. You will be /punished/ for hurting her you scum! YOU. WILL. SUFFER!" Comes the girl, a ball of hatred as she tries to haul Kyouko into her arms.

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    It seems like Kyouko is finished- she seems unresponsive as she lays in the shambles of the vending machine, clearly wounded in several places. Miss White is unopposed as she marches up, the redheaded Puella like a lump doll as she is hoisted by her collar.. and headbutted for good measure, her head lolling to the side with the impact.

    But then, as Miss White begins to try and pull her from the machine.. something snaps. Kyouko goes rigid in her arms, then her head lurches up. Her eyes are open, and there's something wild in them- they almost seem to glow, red and violent. Her lips peel back in a snarl, those little fangs looking somehow larger and more threatening.

    A wordless scream of rage, and suddenly her spear is back.. segmented, chains and wood materalizing out of nowhere, snake like. Like an oiled snake it slides around Hannah's neck, and Kyouko's arms jerk up and grab either end, starting to pull, starting to tighten it. Her face still right next to Hannah's, her expression is a mix of panic and anger and pain, like a cornered wolf, and she's still being held in the air by the collar as she pulls with all her might on the ends of the spear, trying to choke Hannah out before she can take her..

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Victory is hers! Or so she thinks! The limp form of Kyouko suddenly comes alive and that spear twists! Her animal growl and scream echoing in her ears, her breath is utterly cut off as Kyouko squeezes! Shielding tries to stop it, but she's just too strong, and Miss White caught off guard!

The woman goes to a knee for a moment, her breath stolen. Her heart hammers! And she very nearly passes out.

IN a wild blow, up comes Miss White's knee! It's aimed straight for Kyouko's ribs, aiming to knock breath...and hopefully consciousness...out of the girl!

"Stubborn...just...go...DOWN!" She'll keep kicking, kneeing, as long as it takes!

Kyouko Sakura has posed:
    Kyouko hangs on long past when it seems like she should be able to- far past where any normal human could, past where many magical girls could. But she's taken too much damage, used too much magic. If her opponent had been weaker, she might have just been able to succeed. But not this time.
    It takes half a dozen knees to her chest before she finally goes out. Miss White feels the pressure from the spear weaken suddenly.. then vanish, the entire spear simply winking out of existence. In the same moment, Kyouko goes limp, all tension going out of her body.. and her Puella outfit shatters into red sparkles which drift up and away into the air, leaving her in her 'civilian' clothes. Just a poor, redheaded girl looking mighty beat up.

    She hangs from Hannah's grip, completely unconscious.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"Go....to...SLEEP LITTLE GIRL!" Knee! Whack! Crack! Finally, Kyouko goes limp. Miss White stomps on her face one more time, digging in her sandals a little for good measure.

Then, she's pulling the girl back across her shoulder. Into the building she goes. The Barrier fades, and soon, Kyouko is being strapped down to a medical table. Nurses are tending to her wounds, an errant Grief Seed is soon cleansing her soul gem (with plenty of readings being taken!) and off she'd led to a secure part of the facility. Not to the proper Lab, but instead through the non-euclidian Eclipse pathways to lesser used Labs.

But even then, Kyouko's rest likely won't be eventful. Just a room away, protected by a dozen failsafes and Barriers, a Witch spews its hate. The horrible emotions would easily slip into the adjacent room. The first act of vengence from Miss White.

But at least she's alive, right?