586/Takeout in the Labs

Takeout in the Labs
Date of Scene:	16 November 2015
Location:	Mitakihara - Downtown
Synopsis:	Hannah, Gull, and Ms. Blue eat Chinese Takeout in the WPS labs
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Haruna Kurosawa, Mikoto Nakajima

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Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White has been in the lab for quite a bit! Mostly so she can skip out on another really boring board meeting. Thus it is that she's not yet eaten, in between going over all of the data she has on Puella Magi. Mostly boring theoretical work, the kind that Takashi is far, far better at.

She'd rather be testing the melting point of Familiars, but sometimes you have to do that kind of thing. Sipping on some coffee, an earbud hooked up to a massive Evil Computer amidst the horrible feeling that comes with so many evil things locked up amidst steel and white walls, she hums a tune while she works.

Bob is also being quiet today. Bob being the Witch that Hannah has locked up in the odd time-space area that Eclipse uses so well. It's not even visible right now, comfy in its Labyrinth.

Someone might want to bring Hannah some food!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna might ask about the pet Witch later. For now, she knows Hannah is busy and hungry. She has brought food. The most /romantic/ of foods!

TAKEOUT CHINESE!

So Haruna plops down, sitting backwards in the chair so her front rests up against the back of it as she plops down a bag on the clear computer panel next to Hannah-c---White-chan and smiles widely!

"I got food!" she insists. "It's chicken fried rice." she insists. Look. Everyone loves 'American Styled' Chinese food, right!? She grins and steals her quart of it and opens the takeout container.

Corvus is already eating like one of a bag of Eggrolls he has. Nomnomnonom.

"So whatcha doin, White-chan?" she asks.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Mikoto - 'Ms Blue' to WPA - is still new to the 'experimenting on evil' thing. She's been mostly just hanging out and watching things, really, and helping out with the occasional experiment. Mostly by providing extra containment fields and such. Having a Device specializing in them is a useful sort of thing.

So here she is, finishing up a report on the latest experiment, noodling on some ideas of her own, when the scent of fooooooood drifts by the door of the small office Miss White assigned her. "Hmmm," she murmurs, then checks the clock. It's been ... at least a while, she decides, since she last ate.

She pokes her head out the door and follows her nose. And there's Gull and White. And food!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White's head pops up from the computer, with a welcome distraction in the form of food,Gull-chan, and Blue-chan! Her smile is one of very, very bored relief.

"Hey Gull-chan! Blue here has been helping me run a few experiments. Nothing conclusive yet, though I think we've isolated a few more data points on how Puella magic works." Like anything else magic-science, it's always tricky to actually get reliable data given how vast different magic types seem to be!

"Oh thank goodness, let's dig in folks!" She's on her food like a rabid chipmunk.

After committing delicious chinese to her woodchipper called a mouth, she grins at the two.

"So how's things going today with you, Gull? Settling into the office well? Hope payroll wasn't too much of a hastle to set up."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa has various boxes of takeout chinese food in the box. When you live in a dorm box for two years and don't care about life, you know where all the good places are and they give you a deal when you order out. Also. Haruna may not know how to cook anything that isn't 'add hot water and wait 3 minutes.'.

She hands a quart of rice to Blue. "Hi! I'm Haruna Kurosawa~" she says. "I'm not really a bad guy, I'm here to help White-chan but I also punch her if she gets out of line like-----"

"BURN DOWN A JEWERLY STORE!" she says loudly. It's not a yell, but it's loud enough for Hannah to get the point that SHE KNOWS! Then clears her throat and resumes eating.

She smiles sweetly. "Anyways!..." she says. "Not bad I guess. Everyone likes my green suit I think. Even though it feels weird. Also. Corvus is a good secretary it turns out. He's reallllly good at paperwork."

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Mikoto favors a blue suit, not a green one, but she looks good in it. "Hey, do I smell sesame chicken?" she asks, poking her head in the door. She takes the quart of rice and looks at it. "Hmm, it'll do."

She flashes Haruna one of her trademark smiles. "Hi! Around here I go by 'Ms Blue', but it's good to meet you, Green-chan." She winces, just a little, at the yell. Yeah, that was a little weird. Even for her.

"Suits are supposed to feel weird. Somebody tell me what the point of a necktie is, please?"

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White gives an utterly suspicious whistle of 'innocence' at Gull's yell. Oh yeah, she's mad.

"Hey, it's not like anyone was /in/ it at the time." She huffs a bit. Not the point, Hannah!

She then squints. "...Huh. I was wondering why there were birdseed shells on some of those reports. Yeesh, we aught to just hire magical animals to do all the paperwork around here. They all seem so oddly good at it."

Elsewhere, Boris sneezes.

"Bah, then you need a better tailor. Always get them custom made. Preferably italian." Nod nod.

"So, any interesting ideas on the docket, guys? The mundane business is booming, but now that we have one less competitor to go after, what should we focus on? I mean aside from massive flowers ready to doom us all." Nom.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa huffs. "Not the point!" she insists. Though that is the reason that wasn't on her priority list that night.

*smash cut to Cure Gull punching a big pudding theme Terribad.*

"Anyways..." she says. "What! Corvus prefers burgers and eggrolls and stuff actually." she says. She peeks at Corvus. Who is WAY too busy stuffing an eggroll into his face so he doesn't have to answer at all. Ever. Nope. This Eggroll lasts forever now. Haruna siiiiiiighs loudly.

"Mine is magic. I'm just not used to wearing it." she insists.

She taps a finger against her hand a moment.

"Nrg... Um.---" she peeks to Mikoto. "Is she trust worthy... about. um. The thing.. soon..." she mumbles to White-chan softly. "The- red haired jerk thing."

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
'Ms Blue' nods, and reaches out with a pair of chopsticks to steal an eggroll! Cruel, cruel woman. "I like them too," she says, and adds in an aside to the bird, "I'll buy you a donut later."

"So is mine," she admits to Haruna. "Hannah has a point, though. It's worth consulting a good tailor on the design, you'll find it's a lot more comfortable that way."

She pauses, then quiets as Haruna asks about 'the red haired jerk thing'. Interesting!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White looks from Gull, to Blue, and back again. She considers, then smiles, and nods.

"Yeah. We need all the backup we can get, and Blue here doesn't strike me as the evil type. Well, at the worst, hovering somewhere south of my own dasterdly deeds." Grin!

She opens both arms.

"The floor's yours, Gull-chan. Fill her in!"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa just looks down. "I don't want to fill anyone in..." she admits looking down.

She really really wants to use Hannah's real name and just lean in and cry but----she doesn't wanna ruin White-chan's cool imagine and also Haruna respects Hannah's identity unless she knows the other person knows and Hannah knows that they know and all that jazz.

"...White-chan I'm really scared. I'm really scared..." she just says silently as she looks down, her stance sort of curling inwards on the chair.

"I'm sorry-- just..."

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
'Ms Blue' just sighs, softly. Sometimes, you just have to let kids be kids. Even when they're magical girls out to take over the world. ... not that that's a terribly bad thing, all things considered.

She eyes Corvus for a moment, then starts eating her purloined egg roll, waiting for the others to make up their minds what to tell her.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Time to be less the employer, and more the slightly evil good friend. She takes off her tie, walks over, and then just kneels down and hugs Haruna tight.

"Hey. It's okay. We're going up against something no one's ever been crazy enough to try. And it's for something really important to you. It's okay to be scared. But you need to be brave, too. You can't freeze up."

She continues, and presses an almost motherly kiss to Haruna's forehead. She /can/ be gentle when she has to.

"And I know you're strong. Chin-up, okay?" She'll hold Haruna as long as she needs.

After a while, she pulls away.

"The decisions up to you, Gull. Want me to tell?"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa kinda wants to cry in fact. She does when Hannah hugs. It's short lived but by te time she lets go she has it out of her system she takes a deep breath. "S-sorry about that..." she mumbles a little.

Also she got a kiss so that's helping and also causes her to blush. She just talks, though she doesn't look at 'Ms. Blue'.

".... a guy named 'Phantom' has my sister somewhere. We're going to get her back..." she mumbles. "It's going to be really dangerous....espcially me.. and my other Pretty Cure friends. He hunts Pretty Cure. He wants to take us all away and---put us in his creepy mirrors." she mumbles.

"White-chan is helping me rescue her. We're not even sure we'll make it back." she says lowly.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
A somewhat recovered Haruna and that blush has Miss White smiling. She /knew/ the girl could pull herself together.

Though when Haruna gets to the part about 'not sure we'll make it back', Hannah frowns for just a moment. Still, she doesn't start up that old argument again.

"Basically, we're going to smash-and-grab a sister. Seriously, though, guy's tough. He might actually be able to beat me head-on. And that's before you factor in that his world's just about as bad as Bob's home back there." She points to the Witch's containment cell.

"So we're going in to a place that'll effectively make us weaker against a guy who's really strong. Bring your A game."

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
"I'm in for it," Ms Blue offers, after less than a moment's thought. Rescuing a prisoner is high on her list of 'things a Knight is supposed to do', after all.

She chews thoughtfully on the idea. And another bite of egg roll. It's going to be difficult and dangerous, certainly, but environmental hazards... that's a new one on her. In this life, at least.

"If we know anything about the kind of space we'll be going into, maybe we can work out a way to shield against it?"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa looks down. "Nothing. I can tell you nothing. Not because I won't, but because I can't....not even Kami-sama knows..." she mutters. "Cure Victory got tricked into being taken there. But her and her friends escaped by the skin of thier teeth. It's the only reason I have an inkling of what it looks like.... a big purple hole in the ground with-- with mirror coffins..." she mutters.

"They were too busy trying to be taken down by Phantom to do anything like---scan or read..." she says softly. "They only escaped because he got careless around someone who wasn't a Pretty Cure...."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah nods to Haruna.

"I've got the coordinates and everything. Tried to do some deeper scans, maybe get some info like that, but that's why Phantom came after me." Explains the woman to Blue.

A shrug. "Best thing you can do is spend time near Bob. Should fill in the 'despair and hopelessness' bit, but I'm not sure that it'll be the same thing."

She finishes up her chinese, and crosses her legs.

"That's why we need as many non-Cures as we can get. Less risk, more potential for throwing off Phantom's aim."

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Mikoto nods. "Makes sense to me," she muses, listening to the two tell their stories.

"The timing could be better, though. All this stuff with the White Flower going on... we've got to keep a watch out for them, too. They might try to interfere."

Some of them might. She knows at least one of them won't be. But she's certainly not going to share that with anyone until it's safe to do so.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa shakes her head. "Thier folly if they want to deal with The Phantom Empire...." she mutters. "At least what I've faced so far..." she says.

She looks up at White-chan and gives her a tighter hug and sighs a bit. "I'm used to fighting them. I just know how this place is going to feel. It's-- It's going to be like a constant energy drain. Corvus is going to be able to pinpoint Aki for me at least...." she says softly.

Corvus, FINALLY swallows the Eggroll from earlier. "Yeah. I can do that. I know that much." the bird says.

"I mean... Victory said there was like thousands of mirrors there..." she mutters.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White tilts her head. "Honestly, I wouldn't mind the two getting into a fight. Less work for us, less resources for them. But they don't seem the types to not just burn everything to the ground."

A shake of the head. "Oh well, one problem at a time."

Hugs! As ever, Hannah is full of them. She even ruffles poor Gull's hair.

"WE'll be counting on you, Pidgeon-kun! Double birdseed for you if you don't screw it up!"

Truly Miss White is a jerk.

"And soon, there'll be one less mirror in there." She finally adds.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
"I was more worried about them attacking places we'd have to defend, just in time for us to make this trip. I hate coincidences like this. It makes me a little paranoid."

But she walks over to wrap her arms around Haruna anyway, joining her hug to White's. "More than that, if I have anything to say about it."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa shakes her head. "I'll be okay I think now. Just. It's so soon..." she mutters. She looks up at Kyra. "We...shouldn't be gone that long. Kami-sama said we don't want to really be there long- based on what he knows about world's dominated by the Phantom Empire..." she mutters.

"Two Hours. That's all we'll have. Not exact..." she says softly...

"Maybe way less..maybe way more. It depends per person... how well they can-----"

She sighs. "How well they can weather a place where hope doesn't exist even a little bit..."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
So many hugs!

But something Haruna says has her twitching. A time limit?

"Huh. Well. I guess no one said this wouldn't be a challenge."

She's still smiling, but her smile has slipped just a bit.

For once, she's happy that she spends so much time around evil things.

She's soon up, tossing the trash from the lunch.

"We'll just have to hit as hard and fast as we can."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa sniffs a bit. "Let's...finish eating. Before it gets cold. Cold chinese is like the worse!" she suddenly exclaims.

Corvus is already eating TWO Eggrolls this time.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Mikoto nods. "Hard and fast. In, and out. We get your sister free of that bastard."

She hugs Haruna tight and close. She'll have to draw deeply on that other memory to do this, that other past, that sometimes intrudes on her own.

She's been getting a little nervous about doing so, lately. But it's the only way to do this, under that kind of pressure.

"And we'll get everyone else out that can, too," she whispers, barely audible, swearing it as an oath to herself. To the Knighthood she's claimed as her own.

Everyone.