851/Chop Shop Witch

Chop Shop Witch
Date of Scene:	12 January 2016
Location:	Mitakihara - Downtown
Synopsis:	WPS and company visit a Chop Shop with a client.
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Mara Brando, Yuko Minami, Haruna Kurosawa, Mikoto Nakajima, Sayaka Miki

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Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"You nervous, kiddo?" Asks one Miss White, as the CEO stands at the door to one of Tokyo's chop shops. A very, very abandoned one. Already, she's gotten the doors open using a pair of bolt cutters. Inside, it's dark, but one can make out a half dissassembled bmw, and the telltale shimmer and feeling of despair that accompanies a Witch lurking about. Hannah lets it roll over her like a spring breeze, smirking in the face of it all. The team knows the drill: get in, kill the familiars, punch out the Witch. And most importantly, keep their newest client alive.

That client being Momo Shugi, a half-chinese, half-japanese young woman. Her puella henshin seems to be some kind of traditional cheongsam rather than your typical skirt. Puella Momo looks to Hannah, and squeezes down on the odd leather-like gloves she's wearing.

"I...I am. But I can do this, White-san." She adds quietly, nervously.

Whack! A hand on the girl's back.

"You'll get used to it. C'mon. Okay people. Remember the rules: nobody dies, except that which is not us. Unless our client is in danger. So let's go!" Momo hesitates. Hannah just shoves her through the Labyrinth.

And then, the group is in a surreal mirror of the chop shop they just left. Clockwork figures with rotating gears in their body lean over cars, ripping out parts endlessly from giant muscle cars and smaller tuners. These cars in question are all odd angles, seemingly paper mache made into the forms of cars. Some of them even spit fire, and headlights are eyes of glass and paper and teeth of the same. Exhausts belch putrid fire.

The area is plain for a Labyrinth, the focus being on its many workers. Off in the distance, a long run's worth, is a another garage with eerie lights comeing from it. A horrible sound of grinding metal and burning metal-torch comes from within. So too is there the scream of several dying people.

They quickly fall silent.

Almost immediately, fenders bolts, and other odds and ends (in one case, an entire engine block!) goes flying for our heroes! Momo leaps up, just a second slower than Hannah, and the two kick that engine block into dust. Momo seems quite the martial artist despite her nervous demeanor.

One or two of the dozens of clockwork Familiars turn about. Spindly metallic limbs are alight with torches and drills and rotating saws. They slowly march towards the members of WPS and allies!

Mara Brando has posed:
     "Crap! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late! Chotto-matte witch-san! Don't die until I get there to do it myself!" Mara giggles after that last bit while she runs to where she was told to go. She runs by people, not seeming to care about the looks she gets as she clanks through the city streets in some pretty nice armor.

    It doesn't take long for Mara to reach where she was told to go, thanks to the speed of a Puella Magi. She bursts through the barrier and the despair just seems to flow around her as if it was scared of her. If anything Mara looks even more excited.. "FUN FUN! WAIT FOR ME! HAHAHA!" She laughs loud enough, Hannah might be able to hear her in the distance as she sprints through the labyrinth.

Yuko Minami has posed:
     A flash of green light! The clash of metal on concrete! A roar to the heavens! Cure Boost is on the scene! Or she was already, anyway. Not on any sorts of work deliveries, but because the girl was going to meet with someone to buy a limited edition box set! Sure, this isn't exactly the safest of places, but...

     ... But it's better than buying it from scalpers, and there's no way in hell Yuko's going to be supporting /those/ people! Again. Not after that last re-printing made her pay way more than she needed to. It's just her luck that a Witch's Labyrinth popped into existence around her, but at least she hadn't seen anyone when she transformed. Now, she's just wandering around aimlessly with those trademark shields of hers, deflecting flying car parts with an almost indifferent look on her face. The Witch has to be here somewhere, right? Or some other magical girls.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull is alone- in that, Corvus or Tide are never with her on WPS outtings. "Wait--shouldn't..." the non-puella go in first, she's about to say, but alas, Puella Momo and White-chan are already past the entrance of the Labryrinth and she darts after, her green wings forming as she lands just behind them and looks around....

It's just another chop shop. but spookier and more surreal.

Oh great. Familiars everywhere!?

"GULL WINDY HURRICAUNE!" she calls out, a burst of wind picking up from her hand, towards the sky and picking up some familars up. She begins flinging them out of the hurricaune at other familars.

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
    WPS' Miss Blue saunters into the shop, a few moments behind Miss White and the new student. Dressed in her usual Barrier Jacket - that immaculate blue suit - Carnwennan is already unsheathed and held in her hand. Smiling a grim little smile, she takes a moment to steel herself before stepping into the labyrinth.

Despair is a witch's best friend, and in Mikoto's grim mood of late, she almost fades into the background of the place. She lets the PreCures move up past her, using them to attract familiars' attention. As silently as she entered, she starts cutting down the creatures, guarding her colleagues' backs. It wouldn't do to have them get ambushed while teaching the new kids.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    Well..Sayaka isn't part of WPS, but she is certainly a Puella, and a Puella who happens to be currently on the hunt for Witches..Which would explain why she's already in the labrynth by the time the others get there.

    Of course it doesnt take her long before she spies some familiar faces, although some are new (are they Puella too?). With a resigned sigh, she realizes that this time, she's unlikely to be able to keep this grief seed all to herself, but perhaps she'll get a chance to observe the mysterious Miss White, and her associates.

    "I figured I'd run into you and your friends sooner or later." she quips to Miss White. But she has little time to chat further, as random hardware starts flying in her direction. Gritting her teeth, she summons her sword and begins slicing and dicing through the odd familiars.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"YOU'RE LATE MARA!" Calls out Hannah in pure annoyance. She can handle crazy. She can handle morally questionable. But tardiness is uncalled for.

And Mara's karma quickly catches up to her, as one of the Familiars turns up, grabbing the axle of one of the cars. The paper-mache thing screams, even as the non-car familiar whirls the axle around, aiming low to try to crush Mara's legs!

Plink plink plink plink! It isnt' long before Boost would see Miss White and the unknown Puella along with their entorage show up! Right on time, as two particularly large exhaust pipes are headed for the PreCure! Momo punches the air in a classic kenpo thrust, causing a fireball to hit the pipe and send it clattering away. Miss White kicks a wave of wind at the Familiar that threw the thing, ripping it apart. Miss White motions and the Puella tucks in behind Boost.

"Uhh...hi." Offers Puella Momo. Miss White grins, as a group of five Familiars charge finally, wielding pipes and cutters and so many car parts. Miss White catches a slash on the chest, but then kicks away the FAmiliar.

Momo holds her own, largely thanks to the presence of Boost!

"Hey Boost-chan! Hope you don't mind some backup! We're giving the kid here her first Hunt!"

Gull-chan's words get a grin. "If we keep her in the back, she won't learn anything!"

Gull's tactic works, though. A good six Familiars are picked up, parts flying forth from them, and then crashing into car-familiars. Several of them burst in to flames, or are ground up by the clockwork workings. A few cars just chew up their choppers. Some of the flood of creatures abates, but one enterprising Familiar with a nail gun starts firing at Gull! Two more join in, firing at Boost's shields!

Mikoto proves a good rear guard, as the group is swiftly surrounded. Every strike takes out a Familiar, and some of the creatures even seem to back off from the grim Device User. One Familiar gets close, wielding a pair of hacksaws to slash and cut at her!

Griiiin. "Well well! Sayaka Miki! So you really did take that little white rat's goading, did you? I hope you don't come to regret that choice, kiddo. Anyway, down to business! There's a lot of us here, and one of you. Help us out, and I'll compensate you. Otherwise you're going home empty handed. Oh, right." She chucks a business card at Sayaka.

"Call me. I've got a few things to say to you and Kyouko, and I'll bet you guys have the same. I want to bury hatchets." She offers, before she deftly beheads a Familiar with a hard right hook. It's body goes flying into another, the pair twisting together from the force of the blow. Another punch shatters an arm swinging for Puella Momo.

"Watch your back, Momo! That could have been an arm!" She chides. More familiars swarm Sayaka, one with another nail gun. Another gets blown away helpfully by Hannah. THe group is making swift progress, but there's numbers here to work with as they're all crowded in.

"Get some area attacks in, people! Blow them away, they're weak! Use each other as cover if you have to! And get in here, Miki! You're a sitting duck out there!"

Mara Brando has posed:
     "Whatever! I'm made it for the fun!" She grins as she hurdles the axle that is swung at her, then quickly summons her great axe into her right hand. Once she lands, Mara pivots around and swings her great axe one handed, dispatching the familiar. "Weak!"

     Mara can fight and talk?! "I found... An interesting girl!" She swings her axe again at a paper car part that is flying at her, lopping it into two pieces. "I can tell you about it later once we are done here!" She stays long the outside of the group, given her armor, and her physical capabilities with her axe.

    Mara cuts through Familiars and their weapons like a hot knife through butter, but she doesn't escape without a few scratches on her. "I... wonder what this witch will look like? Aren't you excited to find out?!"

Yuko Minami has posed:
     There's a lot of junk flying around! Much more than Cure Boost would like to see even, and to make things even more confusing? There's suddenly a girl in a cheongsam nearby! "Er. Hey there." A pause, then she clears her throat. "Fear not, miss! We'll be free of this place in a-"

     Wait. Is that Miss White? She blinks slowly at the sight of Miss White and a whole host of other unfamiliar magical girls coming in, swatting away an oncoming engine before waving at them. "Hello, Miss White! So that's what this is... In that case, I'll try to keep them from moving around too much!"

     Being part of a tutorial isn't something Cure Boost ever envisioned herself doing, but... Well, that just means she's doing something right, isn't it? Being pinned down by gunfire makes it hard to really look impressive, though, but it does give her the opportunity to glance back at Puella Momo. "Do you have any ranged attacks? I've got these, so when she says 'cover'..."

     Miss White is given another nod, and she grins confidently while keeping those shields held firm. "... She means me!"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull throws familars about, and when one starts shooting nailguns one clips her in the shoulder. Eek! It pings off with a spark of green and smarts with a wince from Cure Gull. She thwisp her right hand through the air and a small pocket of air escapes, aiming to try to throw the nailguns out of the familiar's hands- a trick she saw Namakelder do one time- it looks freak and weird-- and a tinge of seafoam green!

"Like small projecticles huh!?" she calls out.

"GULL FEATHER STORM!" she calls out, throwing a hand upwards--- from the point of her fingers, a sudden blaze of razor sharp seagull feathers wash out in front of her in a wide arc, seeming to turn into motes of green energy that seem to collide down like a rain of small energy spam.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    Sayaka pauses in her combat to glare steadily at Miss White. Yeah, she's already seeing why Kyouko dislikes her so much. "Quit talking down to me like I'm some kinda kid! I made my decision and I think I made a wise one. So don't start lecturing me either, like you're some kinda guru!"

    The business card is chucked at her and she sticks her nose up, looking the other way with a 'hmph!'. seems she's got a little of Kyouko's fire. Still, the card is tucked in her pocket, she remembers Cure Gull's message. And she just might take up Miss White on her offer. Maybe.

    Advancing through the flying familiars, Sayaka continues to dance around as she swings her sword with deadly aim..She wants area attacks? Fine!

    "Shooting Stinger!" Sayaka yells, summoning seven swords that briefly hover and encircle her, before they fly off in multiple directions, slicing through anything near Sayaka. She rolls her eyes as Miss White tells her to move in, and is about to retort when a stray piece of metal slices along her shoulder, openning a nasty gash in her arm.

    With a yell of pain, she quickly retreats closer to the group, although oddly enough, her wound is already healing up.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"Did you? Yeah, let me know! Eh, Witches always look like a weird Escher painting! Or so RT tells me anyway!"

Offers Hannah back to Mara. A wink though! She loves that attitude, and how she cuts through a good eight Familiars by herself. They fall, and it lets them get all the way close to the garage where the familiars are thickest.

Boost is a bulwark amidst chaos. Engine parts and torches and other implements of death come her way, and they plink off her shields! These things are good at swarming, but Boost's shields are tough. Momo and Hannah make good use of their cover, taking to using wind and fire in waves to send them flying or burning.

"Yup, just getting the kid here some experience!"

More fireballs! "Y...yes Boost-san!" The girl looks scared, but Momo is /listening/.

Gull's wind joins with hannah's to create a small tornado that lashes out and destroys much of the waves of creatures from behind. Sayaka's swords cut down many a Familiar.

"Good going Boost-chan! Keep it up! Give me a hand, huh?" She points towards the horde in front of them, and then the front door of the garage.

And to Miki too!

"Oh, stuff it! You're pretty green!" Pause. Waaaait for it. Miss White notes that injury, and how it heals.

"Now imagine if that was your throat." She adds, serious to the girl.

"Better. Here's the rules. Protect each other, don't die. Got it? Now cut us a way into that building!" Her voice is sharp and authoritarian.

Mara Brando has posed:
     Mara hear's someone say to cut a way into the garage, but Mara has other plans! A wicked grin appears on her face, "Nope! No cutting! We blow it up!" She cuts down the last familiar that is in her way as it's bloody, paper corps falls in front of her. She lifts her left leg up, and plants her boot down on it.

"Are you ready for a good time?" She laughs maniacally and points the palm of her hand at the front of the garage, "Broadside!" She shouts out loud. Suddenly spheres of red energy appear around her, fifteen of them in total. Of course this taints her soul a bit, but it's fun to do anyways.

    "Fire!"

    The spheres of energy take off at a blinding speed towards the front of the garage with some nice, flash, explosive works of art upon impact. Not to mention the feel of the concussion from the explosions just make her feel all warm and fuzzy inside. She seems to get a little giddy about this.. "Hehe... Ahh.. nothing like a bunch of explosions, smoke, fire, and concussion waves.."

Yuko Minami has posed:
     Boost certainly looks like she's in her element: Surrounded by so many enemies, pelted by all sorts of projectiles, and standing strong amidst all those things! Granted, she's not really doing much other than standing there and moving towards the garage at a slow and steady pace, but it is progress nonetheless!

     "You're doing fine. If you don't have anything big, just taking one out at a time works, too." It's almost like coaching someone through the starting stages of an MMO! Except with significantly more guns and fire and an actual risk of injury.

     Hearing Miss White's request for assistance with the horde, however, her gaze turns to said horde, then to Sayaka. A combination of sword and shield... Perfect~ "Understood! Enemies of harmony, your end comes now!" She ducks slightly as she braces the shields in front of her, glancing over at Momo once more. "... Oh. Uh. You might want to find different cover or stick close." Why the warning? Because a few seconds after she issues it, she charges right at that horde with the tower shields poised to plow right into them, hoping that Sayaka's ready to follow up on that initial charge!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull woooooos and then punches her opposite palm with her right fist. "Alright then! GULL WINDY EXPLOSIVE ST------"

QAnd then Mara just kind of blows up the door with spheres of red energy. "Huh..okay." she blushes a bit with a clear throat.

She begins towards the opening. Oh right.

"Hiiii Sayaka! That's Cure Boost!" she calls outt. "Remember, big giant shields like I said!" she beams.

"Anyways...."

"GULL FEATHER...." she generates two giant energy feathers. "CUTS!...." then she throws them, they kind of turn into two big circular windy energy blades that aim to cut down into the horde along head of Boost- aiming to take care of her flank so there's no surprises!

"White-chan...!" she calls out.

"The witch has gotta be in there, right?" she calls out.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    "Hey! I'm not all that green!" Sayaka retorts angrily. Although she knows deep down it's true. Even so, several months of fighting as a non-Mahou, and practicing Kendo so she could protect herself has to count for something..Right?

    She does take White's advice into consideration however, and is about to cut a hole in the garage door, when Mara beats her to it. Her fellow Puella is afforded a wry smirk, before Boost plows into the oncoming familiars, headed for the openning.

    Sayaka doesn't need any encouragement as she follows after Boost, slashing and deflecting at anything that comes too near with her swords. It seems Boost has got the front cleared and so Sayaka goes for any stray nuts and bolts that fly in the path of the group.

    "Shooting Stinger!" she yells a second time, summoning a rain of cutlasses to fall down on any stray familiars that block the path to the garage. Cure Gull is given a small smile and nod. Hey, she didnt seem too bad at least. "Good to see you again, Gull. Looks like you got quite a crew here. They all work for WPS?"

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Boost leads the charge, and her shields plow right into the horde of Familiars! Sayaka helps, slicing away, and the two of them manage to cut through the ranks! Particularly with Sayaka's rain of swords, quickly assisted with Haruna's wind power! There's a literal tornado of swords and wind that soon reduces the creatures to mere remnants and afterthoughts. Blood slicks the ground from the Familiars, and soon, all is still.

The new Puella pants, keeping near Miss White. The blind girl reaches out to ruffle her hair.

"See? Nothing to it. Just need a few contacts. Let's do this pe..."

KABOOM! Mara's explosive energy proves useful, as it literally blows away the front of the garage. She might have overdone it, as Hannah is forced to use some wind magic to blow away the debris before anyone takes one to the brainpan. What lays beyond the Puella-made hole?

There's the sound of an engine revving, and something easily the size of the building comes screeching out to our heroes! It's the worst kind of amalgamation of overdone car ever: solid pink paint, disco-ball under-lights beneath the giant wheels. Judging by how the massive vehicle is bouncing, it even has hydraulics! It blasts a strange cacophany of screaming voices in what might have once been music, turned up to eleven out open doors of this two-story tall oversized humvee. It's an open-topped vehicle, and inside is a vaguely humanoid driver, with a baseball cap on backwards, spikes sticking out of arms, and rings on every finger. The engine screams...literally...as blades come out from the rims of the car, fire belching forth from tis front as it tries to run over our heroes and chop them up!

This Witch has one heck of a ride.

The young puella freezes, eyes frozen in terror. "Get away from that thing, people!"

But the Puella doesn't move. Hannah shoves her out of the way just in time for the car to hit her square on, the woman tumbling and getting her leg ran over. She screams, clutching the limb that even a round shield couldn't save!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull woahs and eye widens at the garish car witch. What the heck!? That's like god awful even by 90's standards of awful- she's seen old music videos!

She raises her arm up..."Gull Wind-----"

Hannah yells for people to get away from that thing. She's in the air so she's fine- those green wings of hers coming from that bow on her backside on her waist. Then the car hits Hannah, and there's a scream- and then Haruna's heart sinks.

"White-chan!" she screams out. She knows Hannah will be okay--- Hannah is the strongest woman she knows!- but that doesn't make it any easier. She knows Hannah won't want the help publically. If Hannah wants help- she'll call for it.

So instead- Cure Gull transfers all that anger into another mighty hurricaune!

"GULL WINDY WIND STORM!" she calls out- summoning another mass of wind- and also razor sharp feathers this time- trying to catch the racing car with the impending wind tunnel!

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Moments too late, a second shield spins into place to supplement Hannah's own - an all too familiar Belkan triangle spell-glyph, shining with power. The shield slides into place between the car and the fallen duo, ready to protect them from the next attack to come from the vehicle.

And finally, the rearguard catches up to the group: Miss Blue seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the way, or perhaps simply dealing with a much larger group of familiars trying to ambush the group on their way. Battered and bloodied, her tailored suit torn and stained, she flits backwards, towards the remaining fighters, finishing off the last of a mob of familiars as she arrives.

Mara Brando has posed:
     Mara stands victorious with her foot still on the dead familiar. "Yeah! That is how it's done!" She looks around as she slings her axe over her right shoulder, holding onto it.

    "What the? That looks dumb.." She shakes her head a couple of times and jumps off to the side as the spikes on the wheels just barely miss her. "Miss White! I can't do anything about this one, but I say! Go for it's tires!" She keeps moving, but makes a quick dash over to Miss White to get her up, and out of the way. She seen what had just happened, and she needs to protect the person that is paying her!

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    Well. At least they managed to blast a hole in the wall. Frankly, Sayaka realizes she couldn't handle this particular witch herself, however, that makes her feel more frustrated than grateful that she has to rely on the likes of Miss White to get the job done. Especially as it means she will be forced to share the spoils.

    However, she's not prepared for what comes out of the hole next. It's a freakish monster-witch-car-thing, determined to run them all over! Narrowing her eyes, Sayaka easily leaps out of harm's way, landing on a nearby wall as she ponders how to tackle the thing.

    The Puella is about to charge in with guns blazing, so to speak, when it hits Miss White head on. Eyes widen at the sound of her pained shriek, and even if she is a rival and sometimes enemy of Kyouko's, Sayaka leaps quicky to her side, uncertain of what to do.

    "Miss White..Your leg.." Ugh, she's a sitting duck right now, unless..Sayaka already knows she can heal her own wounds pretty quickly. Can she channel that magic to heal Miss White's injured leg? Closing her eyes, she kneels next to the wounded girl, hands hovering over her leg, and attempts to pour her healing energies into healing Miss White's leg.

Yuko Minami has posed:
     Cure Boost does her own part in trying to protect the rest of the girls from the oncoming debris, using her shields as... Well, shields against the flying bits! She does have to throw herself out of the way of that car as it bursts out, nearly getting run over in the process herself!

     "So this is the culrpit, then... You won't be harming anyone else, fiend!" She howls at the driver, grimacing when Miss White takes those wheels right to the leg. She was hoping to be able to continue dodging it, but with the white-haired girl in that state and the new Puella frozen to the spot...

     Well, it's as good of a time as any to practice insurance fraud! She hauls ass over to the two, taking up a defensive stance directly between them and the Witch while bracing those tower shields in front of her. "If you think you're going to hurt anyone with that, guess again!" Another howl, and she rears back her fist as the elbow piston starts whirring to life.

     "Boost Shield Knuckle!" she cries out before slamming her fist into the first shield, the piston slamming forward to add additional force as the shield in front is launched right at the Witch!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah peers at Gull through a haze of suffering, and grins. "J..just keep the kid safe and kill that thing!" She orders, just before Gull reads her mind. Before the thing can utterly run her over, the timely intervention of Blue has a shield protecting her, only for Boost to come in and offer her great shields! Then that tornado of wind enters the picture, causing the thing's hood to get peppered with razor-wind and feathers! The engine starts to smoke as the car fights against wind and defensive powers of magical girls!

Mara helps her up, and she uses the woman as a crutch. It helps her get out of the way of the blades on those rims, as they extend again, and then fire at Hannah and Mara, and another pair going after Gull, and Sayaka!

"Thanks, Mara! Ow. Yeah, take out its tires guys!"

The newest puella finally shakes it off, and with tears in her eyes, kicks a burst of fire at one of the tires! It catches on fire! Boost's shields pull back, slamming into the fendor and bending the front of the car in! It humps up on its hydraulics, sitting there as it balances!

The witch driving throws bottles at Boost and the new Puella! It's a molotov cocktail! The newbie screams, and kicks it, her foot lighting on fire. She manages to get it out before getting too burned.

Sayaka's healing starts to work its way in as Hannah lets her tend to the wound. It's still fractured, but at least she can move again. She grins.

"Nnghh, lot better. You're good for something after all, kiddo!" Cue hair-ruffle! Poor Sayaka.

And then Hannah leaps into the fray! Kicking down onto the smoking engine, a burst of wind crushes in the hood, and the car comes to a rest! The Witch screams in pain, and the engine /bleeds/. The driver aims a shotgun for Hannah even as that humvee starts tumbling back down on its front wheels!

Mara Brando has posed:
     Mara quickly helps Miss White move out of the way of the car's bladed wheels. "This is a little bit of a pain.."

    Mara hops away and quickly moves around to the side of the car, and as the witch aims a shotgun at Miss White, Mara finds herself launching at the with's arm that has the shotgun.. She swings her massive axe at the witch's arm to save Miss White from anymore injuries.

     She eyes keep moving, to stay alert of her surroundings, and keeping the other girls in mind.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull knows Hannah is strong- she doesn't need Gull being worried around her- she needs Gull doing what she does best---punch evil things in the face with wind, feathers and/or magical karate.

So thusly, Gull keeps flight and flys over the creature as she nrgs- the things moving too fast. Oh then it's leveling a shotgun at Hannah!? Ohhhhh hellllll no.

She thwips her hand through the air and a single large feather sort of speeds toward's the creature's hand- aiming to land sharp-pointed stem into the creatures hand.

This is followed by another one from her opposite arm---and then she's sort of thwiping them in rapid sucession as sharp feathers rain from her postion towards the car and it's wicked witch driver.

"Come on!" she calls out to the new Puella Magi. "Get going and face it head on!" she calls out.

"It's scary, yes, but there's lots worse out there!" she tries to impart wisdom. It may not get through.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    And for all her help, Sayaka gets a head ruffle, like she's one of her little brats. "Uh..Hey! Quit treating me like a kid!" she scowls, quickly distancing herself from Miss White..Yeah, she's gonna focus on the Witch instead! Grr..

    Fortunately there are shields and other defensive maneuvers offered that prevent her from getting run over while healing Miss White. Now, Sayaka pours herself on the offensive, leaping in with a triumphant yell as she swings her cutlass at the giant witch truck thing.

    This time her cutlass extends into a massively long bladed whiplike sword as she swings it forward in a giant arc, unleashing a powerful blast of blue energy at the thing.

    "Arioso Grando!!"

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
Miss Blue finally moves up to join the rest, blade in hand. "So," she muses. "Pink Cadillac?" She shakes her head, dismissively. She steadies her blade, setting up in stance, and a scrollwork of blue-glowing runes wraps itself around the blade.

"Pain is a signal that something is wrong. We'll fix it once this witch is grounded."

It might well be the first things she's said since entering the Labryinth. She waits a moment or three for mana to gather into the blade, then lashes out, releasing it in a helix of power.

(("FLAKSCHRECKEN!"))

Yuko Minami has posed:
     That's fire. That is a lot of fire. Even with a tower shield to protect her, Cure Boost does not like fire. She kicks it forward to try and disperse as many of the flames in front of her as possible before summoning a new, distinctly not-on-fire and incredibly large shield (and smacking the flames out of her clothes because fire is bad).

     "Don't let it catch you! Hn... Form up!" She shouts to... Who's she calling out to, anyway? It could very well be just to make herself feel better, but at least it sorta sounds cool! Maybe. With that order from Mara to go for the wheels and the sight of the car threatening to come back down at Miss White, she springs into action once more!

     Relatively. She's not a very springy sort, after all. Still, she can hoof it when she wants to, and hoof it she does! Keeping the shield held overhead with both hands, she keeps the front angled downwards while charging at the car and trying to run under it, aiming to slam the corners of the shield right into the back wheels.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Mara and Gull prove an effective team: those feathers go flying, stabbing into the Witch's hands and arms, briefly paralyzing it! Then in comes Mara, her axe flying, and slashing off that arm in one blow! The shotgun falls away, and the thing screams! It's free arm lashes out angrily at Mara!

Hannah smartly chooses to leap off the hood, letting Sayaka get that whip-sword into play! The already sputtering engine lets out a mechanical whine-scream as it's sliced in half, and something ignites. A massive explosion sends bits of shrapnel and the fender flying out, but for the most part it's more or less done for! Blue's energy slams into the car, once again lifting it up, and letting Boost charge in! WHAM! The thing tilts and spins on its wheels, the car landing on its side, the Witch half-crushed.

A glance to Blue. "You're late." Hannah finally says.

The Puella looks to Gull, then to the fallen Witch. She gulps. "I...I can do this!" She says, voice full of hope. Hannah smacks her on the back.

"It's your kill, kid."

Then, her fists lighting on fire, the young Puella charges! A trio of hard, burning punches sends the Witch crashing through its car-portion, coming out a mangled, burning mess before finally a snapping sound is heard as it fades away.

In its place is a single Grief Seed that comes floating down, the young Puella catching it.

The Labyrinth soon fades. Hannah slumps down.

"Whoo, well, that was an adventure. Good job people! Congrats on your first hunt." Miss White, pained, is grinning at everyone. "Now someone help me up."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull flies down to Hannah almost immediatly when the Labyrinth fades. The Puella Magi is safe and alive AND has a Grief Seed- so-- it's a win. Horray!

She lands next to Hannah and frowns- and offers to help, though someone may still get there first. "White-chaaaaan." she finally whines- now that the danger has passed. "You're hurt. Let's get ya back to HQ~" she says. INDEED. Why go to the actual hospital when you have a shady grey market one that doesn't mind your magical!

Mikoto Nakajima has posed:
"A wizard is never late, nor early. She arrives precisely when she means to." It's a classic movie quote, and this kind of snark has been rare from her of late. Maybe she's starting to come out of whatever funk she's been in for the past few days.

Miss Blue walks over, reaching a hand down to help Hannah up.

"Gull's right," she insists, and then (("Immobilizer.")) Carnwennan chips in its own two yen as rings of blue light wrap around Hannah's injured leg, immobilizing the break. "Don't you dare try to walk on it."

Mara Brando has posed:
     Mara is caught in mid air, nothing she can do about it and WHAM! Mara goes flying, and slams into something, but she doesn't seem to care what it is..

    Mara shakes her head a little bit, and a little bloody from the impact she just had. "..." She watches the newbie finish off the the the witch as she comes walking over to Miss White. "Mind if I get bandaged up as well?" She has blood seeping down the side of her head, and she just has a smile across her lips like she is having fun.

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    Sayaka glances around as everyone works as a team to bring the witch down. In the end, it's the new little Puella who deals the final blow, coming out with the grief seed. Sayaka gasps with a start, wishing that she'd got here a bit sooner so she could have claimed it for herself.

    However, it would be unfair and pointless to take it for herself after all this teamwork. Instead, she just rolls her eyes, choosing not to assist miss White this time (Someone else gets there first).

    "So...This is what you WPS get up to huh, taking over the job of Puella Magi.." Miss White is given a brief glare before Sayaka wraps her cape around her dramatically, then with a leap, she's off, vanishing out of the rapidly vanishing labrynth..

Yuko Minami has posed:
     Panting as the labyrinth disappears, Cure Boost lets those shields dissipate before turning to today's comrades with a confident grin. "Good work, everyone. Er... HQ?" She looks from Miss White to Cure Gull curiously, moving over to the four girls by her to offer her own assistance as well. Two hands are better than one, and four are better than two, and so on and so forth! Granted, it could get a little crowded with four girls there already, but... Well.

     At least she's trying! Sayaka gets a confused look as she mentions something called WPS and Puella Magi, and before the green-haired girl can get a word in, the blue-haired Puella is jumping off!

     "... Strange. Ehm. But yes, let's get you looked at, alright?"