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|Date of Scene=2016/09/01
|Location=Mitakihara - Easter Stadium
|Synopsis=UMBRA has a plan to return orange to the universe! Riventon and Lacrima are TOTALLY GOING TO FIX EVERYTHING. Somehow, other people do not seem to be lauding them appropriately for this. Maybe it's the amount of dark energy mixed in, or the Nullheart Reiko...
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:47|Takashi Agera| (47)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Riventon floats high above the city of Tokyo, above Easter Stadium, that structure which serves as the city's premier indoor sporting arena slash emergency shelter (a place Homura would know of protecting quite well.) The roof is closed, meaning though Riventon's pretty far off the ground, he's not so far away from a stable space.<br /><br />Next to him is a recongizable young magical girl - Prism Keeper Orange! Though right now she looks a lot more like Prism Keeper Orange And Black Paint Splotches. Just like the giant ball of energy the two of them are sheparding. It's a torrent of swirling energy, and it looks like someone is furiously swirling black oil and orange water together.<br /><br />The false Keeper Orange looks over to Riventon, holding a small crystal in her hands. It looks like a cross between a Chroma Crystal and a snowglobe, with little flecks of orange swirling inside it, rather than the brightness of a true Chroma Crystal. "Shouldn't we be doing this in your lab or something, Riven-niisan?" Her voice tone varies between very excited, and dull and listless, all in such a short time. "We're going to get attention this way."<br /><br />"And that's why we're not doing it in my lab. The attention is inevitable, and I'd rather not have it smashed up again. Or have it suffused in bright orange. My eyes still hurt." he says, raising up a hand and feeding more dark energy into what is rapidly looking like a strange, paintswirling false sun.

:'''{{#var:160|Lacrima| (160)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Lacrima is floating behind Riventon and Nullheart Orange along as she seems to be holding a tablet of some sort. She's taking readings. That's her job right now is to observe. Part of some sort of experimental training of 'this is how you do things'. She doesn't understand the readings right now- that comes later. She's nodding. yes, yes.<br /><br />There's a line on here and it's going up! That's good right?<br /><br />She's mostly somewhere to the lower ease side of the stadium keeping a distance and tapping the side of her chin.<br /><br />"This line marked 'B' is going up." a pause. "That's good, right?" she asides from her postion toward's Riventon-san.<br /><br />She's dressed in her normal outfit henshin--- the bat motif and everything, floating twenty feet off the ground.

:'''{{#var:141|Kukai Souma| (141)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Basketballs. That was the thing Kukai missed the most about the color orange. Everything about trying to practice basketball right now seemed listless and soulless. It made it impossible to focus on the dull grey balls, and that was driving Kukai crazy. Also, carrots. Carrots were in everything Shusui cooked and it had been his week to fix dinner and so meals were always a quiet, drained time, when usually his brothers were as loud during dinner as any other time. And something effecting his brothers would not stand. <br /><br /> So when a bright orange light lit up in the distance, it was like a beacon to Kukai. A quick change over to Sky Jack in a empty side alley and he was in midair on his board, trying to home in on the orange light - which was flashing black from time to time, and doing it more and more often. It couldn't be a good sign. <br /><br /> The fact that this was happening over the Easter Stadium was just frustrating Jack even more. This was a perfectly good stadium, for pete's sake! But whatever it was... confused him, as he approached from a distance. He could see figures near it, but the light obscured them for the moment. "Hey! HEEEEY! What's going on here? What's wrong with the orange ball?"

:'''{{#var:78|Kyouko Sakura| (78)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kyouko was in the area.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, when you're talking about a gigantic glowing ball of light and dark swirling in the sky, it's not hard to be 'in the area' enough to notice. You can probably see that thing halfway across the city.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It goes without saying that she's going to henshin and check it out. The former is accomplished in a flash of red light, the latter by leaping up the side of a nearby building, perching on the roof, and squinting across at the figures floating in the sky near the ball.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The loss of the color orange hadn't effected Kyouko much. She wasn't close with any predominantly orange people, although she had certainly noticed, and heard the reason why from Mamoru and Kunzite. That makes this sudden reappearance of the color, in such dubious company, more of a curiosity for her than anything else... for now.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Recognizing Riventon and Lacrima, she frowns slightly. She has... reasons not to just haul off and attack them right now, especially given that what they're doing, while certainly concerning, does not appear to be hurting anyone. Yet. The very fact that she considers ''not'' trying to stab them all at once speaks volumes about her personal growth the past couple of months.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the moment, she waits to see what's going to happen.. though she does pull out her phone and send some texts.

:'''{{#var:58|Usagi Tsukino| (58)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Venus.<br /><br />The color orange doesn't affect Usagi personally, at least not in the cozy cloud that is her room. Aside from the duller tones of sunset, if it weren't for ''Venus,'' she'd be...<br /><br />Okay, devastated, because even though ''carrots,'' there's still oranges and parts of rainbows and all that stuff! And Venus!<br /><br />And why she's here, she doesn't remember. All she knows is Takashi's here being his Bad Guy part of himself, and that rarely leads to good in her experience.<br /><br />Still, even though she henshins, she stands wait. After all, she promised Ami she wouldn't hurt him lots unless it was absolutely necessary.<br /><br />She sees Kyouko and waves, and where she lands is not too far off from Sky Jack.

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu has no idae why the color orange is suddenly back, that's definitely a strange situation since the last she'd heard, it hadn't been resolved yet. Especially since she knows the girl is still in the hospital. This means something's afoot at the circle k stadium. Since she doesn't have a fancy henshin or anything like that aside from managing to look human, she shows up wearing what she had before, which at this point is a loose hooded jacket, a geeky anime t-shirt with something cute and something in English on it that she can't read and a pair of long cargo shorts with a comfy pair of skater shoes! <br /> <br /> She shows up to investigate, bounding along the rooftops nearby with the help of her ghosts, a way she's slowly becoming comfortable with despite the fact that it's more akin to being thrown than leaping right now. She is getting better with her magic though! Seeing a familiar face fly overhead gets some complaints about doing everything the hard way from the girl, still she calls out a greeting of, "Heeey" to him. Keeping it simple. While looking over, there's someone else she recognizes, which gets a frown. How is this going to play out? She takes another assisted leap towards the building, trying to keep up.

:'''{{#var:159|Momo Akatsuki| (159)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Momo had, in fact, been on the other side of town strolling listlessly down the side walk. Mostly avoiding people she knew during another Momo Broods About Things period. Which had pretty much been every single day lately.<br /> <br />One of the things she was brooding about was what happened to orange, and she'd paused by a maple tree to stare angrily at the sky. That was probably the main reason she managed to see the giant ball of orange and black, like some freaky yin and yang symbol, floating in the sky. Momo was entirely certain that there wasn't supposed to be a giant ball of orange and black in the sky though, since she'd been there when orange was lost.<br /> <br /> There was only one thing for it. Investigation! Momo changed in a flash of pink and sent little wings fluttering as she rocketed up and towards Easter stadium. As she got closer she realised she really wasn't surprised whatsoever to see her arch-nemesis Lacrima standing near the persons holding the ball. That was just the sort of thing evil girlfriend draining vampires did in Momo-mind. She was however, astounded by the appearance of the person standing beside the person unknown and she had to blink several times. She slowed down, approaching cautiously.

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"<span style="color:xterm177">Naomi-Chan!! I'm sensing something really dark! You have to hurry!</span>" Lilac is in a tizzy as she flies around the rather exhausted looking Naomi. She's in bed and curled up under a blanket. She completely tired herself out after school! It could have something to do with a minor explosion at infinity. Minor in this case meaning only scorching the walls of her work station a little. It could also have to do with her dancing in the park afterward. Or it could just have to do with trying to put a certain boy out of her mind. "<span style="color:xterm177">Naomi-chan!!! Get up!"</span> She quickly grabs Naomi's blankets and begins to pull.<br /><br />Naomi is having none of this. She grabs hold of her blanket, desperately trying to stay in bed. "Uh uh! no! I'm tired! I want to sleep! You can't make me go!" She exclaims as she yoinks the blanket away from the fairy and curls up to go back to sleep. Not before poking her head out and sticking her tongue out at Lilac.<br /><br />Lilac just looks at the rather lazy Precure. She needs to get her butt in gear. She's not worked as a cure in months and now somethings come up. The fairy gets a sly idea and speaks up, "<span style="color:xterm177">Naomi-chan, if you do not get out of bed this instant I am going to tell Blue-Sama about you falling for that guy from the park!</span>"<br /><br />"You wouldn't." Naomi attempts to call the bluff.<br /><br />The fairy smuggly flies over to the full length mirror in the room and calls out, "<span style="color:xterm177">Oh Blue-Sama!! Naomi-chan's broken your rule and has fallen in love!!</span>" She didn't actually tap the glass so assuming Blue wasn't paying attention to the goings on in Naomi's room, he still would be in the dark about that.<br /><br />"You Vulture! Fine! I'm going! I just wanted a little more sleep!" With that Naomi gets up and takes off out the door. "<span style="color:xterm229">Time To Change!!</span>" She quickly has her mirror out and loads the proper cards. "<span style="color:xterm229">Pretty Cure! Rolling Mirror Change!</span>" With a flick of the round gem on the mirror, the cards are pressed down in and the transformation sequence kicks off. As her clothing is changed from behind a cloak, Lightning streaks all around her. With a flourish the cloak is removed revealing Cure Spark. She begins drawing the lightning symbol in the air, "<span style="color:xterm229">Curiosity! Sparking the fires of Creativity! Cure Spark!!</span>" She poses and thats that.<br /><br />Quickly her back bow reforms into wings and she takes flight, making her way to the Easter Stadium. It only takes her and Lilac a few moments before they are there. Stopping in mid flight, she recognizes one of the girls. Not the other or the guy there. Wait, That girl, She's got ORANGE!! That color hasn't been seen lately so, something major is up. Quickly she looks around, looking for people to team up with. One on one? She could fight against. 3 on 1? Not going to happen. She quickly lands and looks for other magical types.

:'''{{#var:47|Takashi Agera| (47)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>And, as Riventon guessed, trouble is coming already. "It's an effect. I don't know if this will hold steady soon or if it'll be a longer effort. Obviously I hope it will go quick, but this is a bit of an inexact process. Not exactly a lot of datapoints on remaking and controlling colors in any literature."<br /><br />Then he looks up at the very loud Kukai, and Riventon taps a finger to the side of his head. "Hey, skateboards for brains. Haven't you noticed the whole 'orange doesn't work' thing? I'm going to fix that."<br /><br />"We're working on fixing it." the Nullheart Keeper corrects him with an odd firmness, being slowly affected by the dark energy suffusing the color she's tied to, copy or not.<br /><br />?Riventon looks at her, but doesn't comment. "So I know the whole 'giant orb of orange in the sky' thing might be a little disconcerting, but why don't you run along for the evening? Cause if you get in my way I'm gonna help Lacrima-san snack on you." he says.<br /><br />His Intelligent Device, Axion, pings a warning as other people show up, within range of detection if not visual confirmation. So Riventon raises his voice. "Let me say that again for anybody who just showed up. Make trouble for me and we'll make triple for you. This doesn't concern you, so go home. Tomorrow morning orange will be back and it'll be safeguarded by its new owner - me."<br /><br />Almost as if in response, the orb of energy thrums with a low WUMP as it radiates waves of black energy. A few nearby posters for a boy band, a fast-food neon sign, and a billboard with orange in various places also thrum in the same tone, the places where orange would be gleaming brightly before shading back to a dark black.

:'''{{#var:160|Lacrima| (160)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Lacrima looks up, and rolls her eyes. "Sky Jack go away. We're trying to fix something and not eat babies or anything." she says deadpan as she sighs and taps taps at the tablet. "Haven't you made enough trouble anyways." she says.<br /><br />She sighs a bit and looks over to Nuwu and frowns a bit, but says nothing to her- but does give a little wave. She's working right now technically.<br /><br />"I could go for a snack." she says when Riventon says he'll help her feed on them. Like she agrees.<br /><br />Oh god it's the pink girl. She frowns and hovers upwards toward's Riventon. "Watch out for the Pink one. She uses positive energy." she says.<br /><br />She frowns and turns back.<br /><br />"Seriously. We're fixing things." she says deadpanly again.<br /><br />Then orange things go bright orange. Then black. She peeks at this.<br /><br />Is that supposed to happen?

:'''{{#var:78|Kyouko Sakura| (78)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kyouko has been feverishly sending texts, communicating with a number of people about this little bit of colorful insanity. She glances across to where Sailor Moon has landed, meeting the girl's gaze for a moment and shrugging.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then she settles down in a crouch on the edge of the roof and keeps her eyes on Riventon and his compatriots. She doesn't, at this moment, make any move to intervene, or even particularly to conceal that she's there.

:'''{{#var:58|Usagi Tsukino| (58)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Sailor Moon looks up from her phone. She's been unabashedly texting Kyouko, but now, her attention is drawn to the currently most annoying male figure in her life.<br /><br />"Go ''home?''" Her eyes are ''not'' welling up with tears, thank you very much. "You expect me to just ''go home?!''"<br /><br />She points a finger at Riventon. "Dammit, Taka-baka! It's not enough your ''friend''" She totally means Lacrima. "Had the ''audacity'' to presume I didn't ''care?!''" She looks at Lacrima. "If it wouldn't kill you, the offer would still stand! And if I'd known, I wouldn't have made it!"<br /><br />Back at Takashi. "You didn't even ''come'' to me after the Jupiter thing! It's only because of ''Mercury'' I haven't tried to end you! And you expect me to just go ''home'' and ''trust'' you after what you've done?! Why should I, when you don't even trust ''me?!''"

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu returns the wave to Lacrima, though at this moment, she's not sure if she's ready to believe the guy running the show is actually trying to help, what with the facimile of a friend up there and all. She doesn't say anything, instead she moves forward, ready to help whoever she decides to help in the long run. <br /> <br /> Then the light goes black and while there was black already there and that had bothered her, the pure black thing is definitely an issue! She jumps forward and keeps silent, mist and jacket trailing behind her until she lands. She stays there with the help of what looks like a ghost half through the side of the building, green energy flaring anywhere she's touching it. Her other ghost begins to mimic her actions and the same color is visible as she climbs, mostly being a touch quieter about her actions than the others. She's tired of being hurt and she doesn't want to upset a friend unless it's necessary.

:'''{{#var:141|Kukai Souma| (141)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Sky Jack looks back and forth at the others, then shrugs at Riventon. "You know, I knew you were dumb, but I didn't think you thought I was dumb. Because to me, this looks like you're trying to take over the color orange using the... I don't even know who that is, but that's not my friend Orange. She'd be fighting you the hardest of anybody. As for Lacrima, bring it on, it's not like I haven't sent her running before." <br /><br /> Sky Jack holds up one hand as the black energy washes over him. It feels... wrong, even if it's trying to correct a right. "Eugh. Yeah. No, this is not going to happen. I can appreciate even you wanting to fix things but you're trying to turn it to your benefit, not fix it." He looks over at Sailor Moon for a minute, then makes a little noise. He was thinking it was time to do a 'going to give you to the count of TIME'S UP' on Riventon but Moon seems to have a lot more energy in her intent on screaming at the - wait. <br /><br /> Taka-baka? Who is she talking to?

:'''{{#var:159|Momo Akatsuki| (159)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Prism Keeper Pink stares hard at the little motley group, swiftly realising that is NOT Prism Keeper Orange. She starts getting mad, because this is just dumb. These people don't even know what they're doing, and that girl, that evil evil evil evil girl has the audacity to tell her they're fixing things. "I'll fix your face! You've no idea what you're doing!".<br /> <br />She draws her wand, levelling it like a ruler in the hand of a particular snippy and colourful nun teaching a class of terrible children and as she levels it upon them, a camera spawns before it on a tripod. Pink goes through theatrics for once and leans down. "This is going to be the perfect picture.". She aims it towards fake Prism Keeper. "Say cheese, Cheeto.". *SNIP* "Pink Photo Bomb!"

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"Go home? Well I would but you see, If I do someone is going to tell one of my secrets to my boss and, I can't have that so it looks like I am staying here!" Cure Spark moves over to where Sailor Moon happens to be standing. "Hi, Nice to meet you, Cure Spark's the name!" She smiles but doesn't extend a hand. Her attention is on the trio of trouble.<br /><br />Her bright blue gaze goes over Lacrima, "Hey, I remember you. We met in an alley where you were hurting innocent people. Looks to me like are still up to trouble." She smiles a little.<br /><br />Then the Orb sends out a wave of dark energy, "Okay thats trouble." She quickly turns the dial on her prechan mirror, "<span style="color:xterm229">Spark Blinding Flash!!!</span>" She throws her hand into the air and immediately a flash of brilliant light goes off.

:'''{{#var:47|Takashi Agera| (47)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Riventon doesn't seem concerned, outwardly, about the way the color orb is surging. He looks to Lacrima. "It's within expected parameters." he says, nodding a bit, as if to reassure her. And then there's a fingerpointing Sailor Moon/Usagi, and Riventon turns to regard her. He crosses his arms.<br /><br />"I've explained my position on the issue with your punchy friend too many times." he says with a scowl. He won't rise to the Taka-Baka insult directly, not consciously, though one of those crossed arms has fingers clasped and black smoke escapes through it. "Why should I trust you? I barely was able to keep Mercury's head on straight, so many of you so busy telling her lies and working behind my back. If it wasn't for her, I would've ended you and taken that little energy focus jewel of yours, instead of letting you wave it around and shove it at my creations."<br /><br />"The last time I trusted you to take care of anything, I died. And things only barely ended up okay. You had to draw from the spirits that had already departed to get it done. Didn't even have the strength to do it yourself. So no, I don't trust you. Not to act in my interests, and not with the saftey of this world. I can only trust myself. And you can trust me that if you interfere I'll pay you back in kind for pretending to be a caring friend while not lifting a finger to help me with the most important per..." he shakes his head. "That's not important right now. Just leave."<br /><br />Sky Jack's talking, and he probably said one of the things he shouldn't if he wanted to talk Riventon down. Challenging his judgement, his research, even his results might be one thing. Calling him dumb? After all of that he just went through with Sailor Moon? That hand that's smoking with energy rears back, over Riventon's head. "You need to shut up. I'll have to give her a different snack, I'm not leaving enough of you to be of any value!" A giant orb of crackling black energy surges into existence and Riventon heaves it forward with such force the sphere distorts into an oval shape as it rockets towards Sky Jack, aiming to detonate on impact.<br /><br />And then there's an attack lobbed at the Nullheart, and Riventon's not in any shape to defend against it! But the Nullheart is, and she waves her hand like a child smearing fingerpaint. But the paint she smears is the surge of orange and black liquid energy the two are utilizing, and it creates a ward against the pink Prism Keeper's attack! The dark energy is purified away, and the false orange barely resists the pink energy. The orb shrinks a little from the loss of energy.<br /><br />"I'm better than the real thing." Not!Reiko says, a grin crossing her face. "And I'm better than the last one, too! I'm... upgraded!" she says, leveling her false Chroma Wand at the Pink Keeper. And instead of adorable Koi, orange-and-black pirhana surge into existence, teeth snapping at the air before they dive bomb Pink, aiming to return fire by bursting into surges of black energy.<br /><br />The aim might be a little off on all the attacks because of the sudden surge of brightness. "Agh!" Riventon shouts. "Lacrima... pick your target. Orange 2.0 and I will deal with the others. I suggest the one that just made me want to wear sunglasses at night." he says, that moment of anger descending into just raw evil grump.

:'''{{#var:160|Lacrima| (160)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Lacrima looks at Sailor Moon and frowns super heavily, she crosses her arms. "So the offer still stands to poison myself, is what you're saying." she says to Sailor Moon. "You heard Kunzite. You're poison. At least to me." she spits out. She sighs and shakes her head.<br /><br />She frowns as Nuwu moves to act. And then there's a blinding pink flash. She covers her eyes and nrg. Positive energy. it sucks so much at least she wasn't anywhere near it.<br /><br />She turns toward's Spark and frowns a bit.<br /><br />"You're an idiot who has no clue about what you're doing." she says as she raises her arm and concenrates a bolt of dark energy from her shoulder, down her arm and into her palm for a sudden, hard bolt of energy to come flying down at Spark.<br /><br />She moves into a more proper position, toward's the Pretty Cure, coming down to a landing against the ground as she moves to stand her ground.<br /><br />"I swear. You're only upset because we're fixing it and you're not." she insists.

:'''{{#var:58|Usagi Tsukino| (58)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"''No!''" This is shrieked at Lacrima. "Shut your damn mouth! You don't know me! If I knew it ''didn't'' hurt you! If it meant keeping others safe, if it meant helping you! You damn, idiotic girl!"<br /><br />He brings ''that'' up? Now? Of all times?<br /><br />Talk about your low blows.<br /><br />"You knew it was a long shot. You knew--!!"<br /><br />Her head jerks toward Sky Jack, eyes large and watery. "Is...what he said true? Is that how it was?"<br /><br />But no, that's not important right now. She turns back toward Riventon. "A part of me ''died'' each time one of you--" But no, that's not important here, either. "Until the ''last.'' I was with you until you took ''MY'' Jupiter away from me. ''You're'' the one...I ''fought'' for you, you big giant moron! Even when I knew, until I knew what you-- ''She screamed like Jupiter!''" Okay, she's crying now. "Forget about me! How do you think that made ''her'' feel!"<br /><br />At this, Moon is the first to make a move. She screams, tiara in hand, as she lunges toward Takashi. Because a brass knuckle still hurts either way, right?

:'''{{#var:78|Kyouko Sakura| (78)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kyouko narrows her eyes as blows begin to be exchanged between the various sides of this conflict.. over what, she's still not exactly sure. She shades her eyes against Cure Spark's blast of light, making a tsking sound, but otherwise doesn't move from her position..<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until Sailor Moon starts to have a minor freakout. She opens her mouth, and looks like she is about to leap over and try to comfort the other girl in some way, but before she can move Usagi launches herself at Takashi.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kyouko closes her mouth and stays put, although her body has tensed up and her fingers curl tight around the haft of her spear. Clearly on edge. Clearly ready to intervene if Usagi ends up needing help.. but not wanting to commit too early.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kunzite would be proud.

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu finishes her climb and stands up, brushing herself off a few times. Drawing her illusory mist around herself and her ghosts, she gestures forward, the thing looking like an evil ink drawing even in motion, 'frames' stuttering and scattering as it moves. It's not darting after Lacrima or Riventon though and instead seems to be going straight for the not-Reiko. She still doesn't speak and the only details of her face visible at this point are her eyes reflecting the light through her illusion. Is she playing that up? <br /> <br /> The ghost dips through the floor at the last second in a weird reverse pounce, reappearing in what it hopes is a blind spot, swathed in Jia's telltale magic, most of it focused around it's claws. Whether it's attack lands or not, it lands on the roof without sound and begins laughing- a distorted echoing laugh that seems to lag behind the ghost's movements. Jia herself is trying to creep forward, the other protecting her from the front, watching for anything to come flying her way. <br /> <br /> She's done declaring things and making herself front and center, she's relying on the others to be both more powerful and more distracting than what she can do with her powers. Only after it's obvious she's taken action does she call out, "Sorry, that cheap copy is offensive." looking at Lacrima as she says so.

:'''{{#var:141|Kukai Souma| (141)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Well. Sky Jack has often said he's here to keep the rest of the group safe by being a giant distraction, and apparently he has found the #1 method of distracting Riventon. Of course, this means he's found the #1 way to get blown up by dark energy, too. <br /><br /> That hand rearing back means Jack has just enough time while Riventon's expressing himself in words to lunge away as he expresses himself through exploding dark energy bazooka shells. The explosion launches him forward to skip over the top of the stadium, the back wheels bouncing along the metal frame, before he gets back into the air and spawns in a soccer ball, punting the sizziling, electrically charged ball at Riventon and yelling at him too! "And there you go again, being dumb and losing your focus on the big black and orange ball!" <br /><br /> Jack has a second to look over at the slightly panicked Sailor Moon and shake his head. "Everyone there gave you their energy, no matter what form they were in! Nobody gave you anything they didn't want to or couldn't afford to - but we all knew how dangerous Beryl was! He's just being a big dumb~" Another dark energy ball explosion muffles that last word, sending Jack spiralling out of the way before he can finish talking, a grimace on his face.

:'''{{#var:159|Momo Akatsuki| (159)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>There wasn't enough space in the tunnel of Prism Keeper Pink's hearing and sight to catch everything going on around her. She just knew everyone was mad now. That was okay. She was mad too. Burning hunka hunka PINK.<br /> <br />As the Prism Faker Orange's piranhas come towards her, she snaps a pose and photography umbrellas appear before her with gaudy pink flashes. They pop easily as energy hits them, but are numerous enough to last until it is just Momo and Prism Faker Orange once again. "You're going to regret that.". She twirls her wand like a baton and then points it right at Prism Faker Orange.<br /> <br />"Hold that pose. <span style="color:pink">Prism Aegis Power! Pink Chroma Camera Capture!</span>". This time the little girl focuses it, weaving the net as the camera appears and focuses to capture Prism Faker Orange. She glanced briefly at Lacrima, as if pondering capturing her in it as well but deciding not to.

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"<span style="color:xterm229">Spark Surging Beam!</span>" Spark calls out as she throws both hands forward. A beam of electrically charged energy goes flying at both the ball of dark energy and of course at Lacrima. She keeps that going for a moment before she ends it. "I'm a fool? Your the dummy who thinks that to save people you have to hurt them. That makes about as much sense as a 220 line in a 110 outlet!" She smirks and takes flight to get into position. <br /><br />"Do you have any idea what you are doing? I wouldn't be here if not for Lilac sensing the dark power in this place. This guy up here, I can already tell he's not good. He's a bad guy! You want to save the world by hurting bad people yet you team up with him? I think you need to rethink who is the fool here." <br /><br />She gets into a fighting stance and prepares herself. "So, Lacrima. Are you sure you want to fight ME and not fight the guy who is worse then the ones you were draining that night? Because if you take HIS side tonight, Any doubt I've ever had about fighting you. You know this is not right." She is hoping beyond hope that this gets through to her.

:'''{{#var:47|Takashi Agera| (47)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"Well, you took my Jupiter away from me, and you got yours back. I didn't get the bit of my soul back, that you so casually erased with your damnable bright energy. So if anyone's going to avenge anyone, I should be attacking you!" And then Sailor Moon does the opposite of that. But after being punched enough times, one gets good at... getting punched at least less.<br /><br />A hand is raised, and the brass knuckle slams into a circular dark blue energy shield - Midmagic. He glares at her from behind it, as the shield crackles with energy, resisting the force of the senshi-enhanced punch. "I forged her out of my own energy. I gave her a peice of myself. I worked hard. She didn't just fall into my lap, I created her. I know the wavelengths of energy that made up her spirit. I understand her in a way you never could. So just because she spoke some truths that were in Jupiter's heart, don't hate me for it. I didn't add anything that wasn't already there. Just because you wanted to shut her up..."<br /><br />Meanwhile, Jia's shadow drawing moves in on Not!Reiko who's busy trying to fight her colored opposite for the moment, and she's suddenly driven forward by the slashes. The liquid inside isn't blood, though - there's something else that seems rather inky. The wound closes up and the illusion takes over, but for just a moment, the truth is there. She snarls, and turns to face the illusion that's laughing. A couple pirhanas chase after it, and then try to burst near it like fishy explosives of dark energy.<br /><br />"You're not helping at all!" she shouts, and then turns to Pink. "All you have to do is just GO AWAY. Is that really so hard? Just go, I dunno, hop on a train or some-!"<br /><br />But all of that turning, divided attention, and the half-mental work of keeping the energy ball controlled means she doesn't have the capability to grab another wad of dark-color-energy with her hands to shield herself, and Pink's attack comes in. Suddenly, the fake Reiko is frozen mid-talk, and the positive energy is visibly eating at the frozen not-friend<br /><br />"Every time I've found something good, something like family, or some breakthrough, someone steals it from me! So I'm just going to keep amassing power until I can have everything I want, and nobody can take it away from me." he snarls as he raises his right hand up, and then brings a surging pulse of energy forward right as his shield dissapates, intending to have it blasting into Sailor Moon at point blank.<br /><br />But the attack lacks a lot of its intended oomph because one of Kukai's soccerballs finds his back, and he slams forward a bit before jumping back and trying to keep everything in his sight as best he can.<br /><br />He instinctively moves a bit towards his stunned Nullheart, but he also knows he can't drop his defenses. And then, suddenly, in a rush, he shifts through the Dusk Zone. But he doesn't go to save the Null Keeper - he goes to grab hold of the false Chroma Crystal.<br /><br />And when he does the orb lets out another dark energy surge of its own, radiating waves of power. "This isn't some child's toy. I won't be responsible for what happens if you cause this thing to lose containment!"

:'''{{#var:160|Lacrima| (160)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Lacrima blinks once at Spark, and lets herself leap out of the way of the beam of charged electrcity. She frowns as she lands in front of it, straight onto her feet again, leaping without a second thought. She frowns and raises her hand and swings it upwards.<br /><br /><span class="underline fg_e bg_p ++ +Purple">"Tormenta Oscura."</span>. Black bolts of dark energy rain from the sky around Spark and continue to do so for a bit, trying to saturate her area and places she might try to retreat to nearby. This also scorches some Stadium seats.<br /><br />"I work for Riventon-san." she says plainly. "So of course I'm going to help him." she spits.<br /><br />She flicks around and then rakes a dark energy blast through the sky as she seethes. She's not even aiming.<br /><br />"You're ruining everything tonight, aren't you all!?" she seethes out.<br /><br />"You don't even care about this, you're just here to rub things like /that/." she says pointedly at Sailor Moon. "Into Riventon-san's face!"

:'''{{#var:58|Usagi Tsukino| (58)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Though it doesn't seem like she's listening, as emotionally distraught as she is, Kukai's words help. They help a ''lot.''<br /><br />Still, she screams out in pain, and she winds up on the ground not far from Riventon, cradling her wrist to her chest. "You stupid, ''stupid'' boy. How can someone so smart be so stupid?" She looks up at him. "I ''loved'' her. She wasn't mine, but I ''did.'' It ''killed'' me to...how can you be such a moron, Taka-baka? I ''liked'' you. I ''still'' do. And you just--!! With--!!"<br /><br />She turns and screeches at Lacrima. "For the last time, you're an even bigger idiot than he is! Baka! Stupid! Moron! Ahou! Everything and more! Get your head out of you...butt, you...butt!"<br /><br />This may be why she's not able to dodge Riventon's energy burst.<br /><br />All Sailor Moon really knows, as she screams, is she's ''really'' glad she went to the restroom before this.

:'''{{#var:78|Kyouko Sakura| (78)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kyouko, amidst everything else, watches Sailor Moon get knocked down to the ground and then hit with an energy burst. Cursing, she launches herself off of the building and down to where her friend has landed, in time to at least lend some support if not to actually catch her.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Hey, you okay?" She scowls, glancing up at Riventon, but in actuality (as well-desrved as it was) she can't say that wasn't self-defense. Of course, she's generally in favor of punching first anyway, but..<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Look, I'm gonna go see if I can find backup." Kyouko says to Usagi, sounding stressed. Her instincts are all telling her to leap up and stab Riventon for hurting Usagi, but she's more than aware of what breaking the truce, such as it is, that she has with Lacrima and by extension him would mean, and she's not about to do it lightly.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She makes sure Usagi isn't in immidiate danger.. then turns and leaps away to a nearby rooftop. Ugh.. she hates it when things are complicated.

:'''{{#var:141|Kukai Souma| (141)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Sky Jack sees Moon make her attack and... it's blocked. Dang it. Of course it would be, but he didn't even think she had any power charged in behind it. When Riventon raises his hand, a soccer ball is already on its way, finding its target in his back, others raining down around him, enough to mute the force of the blow even though Moon is sent backwards. <br /><br /> Jack is back in Riventon's face again, sliding into place to one side, trying to keep him distracted from Sailor Moon and the others, even as he grabs ahold of the false Chroma Crystal. "What, you don't think we can handle the same level of power as you? Maybe not any one of us, but all of us together can do it! Take your creepy wannabe youma body duplicate there and get lost!" More soccer balls fire away at Riventon and the crystal in his hands, trying to keep him focused on him, and keep his eyes off the downed Sailor Moon and the other fights going on, even as Jack catches ... Kyouko?... pulling Moon out of range and onto her feet.

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu doesn't need to see it for long to realize what the thing is. This upsets her more and she's surprised Lacrima's not upset about the idea. Something for later, maybe depending on how this places out. The bound ghost giggles, once more, seconds behind it's movement as it ducks out of the way of the piranhas explode near the ghost. The ghost seems to love the stuff, but the energy that's enveloping it lashes out and flares like it's not a fan. This is probably helped by the fact that Jia yelps all the way over there and shakes her hands like she's been burned. <br /> <br /> Making a quick, sharp gesture with her hand, making the fact that they're trailing smoke from whatever it was that had happened obvious, the ghost dances back and dashes forward with two vicious, wide swings in an almost feinting manner. At the same time, Jia starts to run forward, a ball of blue fire cupped in her right hand while ducking out of the way of Lacrima's wild swings. "Should I stuff this in your dark blooded copy or into her jewelry? Which one breaks it faster!" she's got an angry edge to her voice and on the frazzled side. Maybe some of the feedback through her balance off! Her other ghost has gone from mirroring her actions almost exactly to trailing behind her, avoiding the fireball specifically. <br /> <br /> Jumping forward with the ghost's boost, she lunges at the fake creature, palm extended out, blue fire trailing between her fingers. She doesn't know about purifying the orange thing or the other things yet, she's not even sure this is going to work, but a fake copy of a friend is really, really anger inducing! Then again, now she's a lot closer than she wanted to be, whether she hit or not and she's feeling suddenly exposed. She's been surprisingly quiet this whole time.

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"How dare you call me a fool. I thought you were good but misguided. Instead you are fool who sides with jerks like that!" She quickly spins the dial on her mirror and calls out, "<span style="color:xterm229">Spark Static Repulsion!</span>" She throws her hand upward to repel the incoming attack. Its a form of shield that is definitely keeping herself safe.<br /><br />Quickly she gets ready. "You know I was hoping I'd get through to you. Now I see that can't happen. So if this is how it has to be, So Be it!" She quickly turns the dial on her mirror, "<span style="color:xterm229">Spark Lightning Strike!</span>" She charges at Lacrima and jumps into the air. Lightning strikes her infusing her with electricity. She winds up and swings at her.

:'''{{#var:159|Momo Akatsuki| (159)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Prism Keeper Pink pressed her attack on the faker as she was caught and attacked by another. She twirled her wand, calling up a big fat heavy camera of pure energy and flinging it through the air at the creature. "Pink Photo Bash!". She scowled a little, glancing around as she realised the other guy had briefly vanished.<br /> <br />Then the orb shudders and she cringes slightly, even though it isn't her colour being tainted. Maybe that was the place to aim? She glanced between them, waiting for at least another sign to be certain.

:'''{{#var:47|Takashi Agera| (47)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"Stop calling me that!" he shouts. He might've been angry enough to put more force behind the attack than intended, because instead of going away, the girl looks like she's headed for going through a building. He's almost about to ''wince'' and that turns into confused relief when she's at least somewhat protected by Kyouko. Of course the wince isn't for Moon, but for the response of a certain friend of hers...<br /><br />But there's no time to focus on that because there's a problem in his face and that problem's name is Sky Jack. "Of course you can't handle it. When dark energy licks at your soul you shirk back, afraid of it. So no, you can't possibly come to my level." Riventon says, holding the crystal in one hand and putting up shields against each of Sky Jack's orbs in the other. But he knows he can't keep this up and make progress. His device pipes up as energy is poured into it - and out into the world.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color:#3877C9">&lt;ZERBRECHEN ALPTRAUM&gt;</span><br /><br />Small and large Mid-magic circles erupt into being underneath Sky Jack's position, and the position (even as it changes) of the fox Jia, who's attacks are finding homes in the frozen clone's flesh, that ink dripping out of wounds for moments. And the orb itself seems to jitter, even as the dark energy from those circles soaks into the earth and surges in sudden columns, bursts of black energy that streak towards the sky.<br /><br />The color orb shudders more, like the combined energy is threatening to break whatever maigcal bonds it's under, as the giant camera from the Pink Keeper slams into the false Orange. Her body twists and distorts before she's released from the power of Pink's camera freeze, and she levels her own false Chroma Wand at the pink Keeper. "Fine, we'll just take your color next!" the copy shouts. "ORANGE ERADICATION!" A brilliant corusucating surge of neon orange comes out in a wave of energy headed for the pink keeper, though this obviously takes a huge toll out of the clone - she's pointing the wand steady, but her false body is shaking and she goes down to one knee.

:'''{{#var:58|Usagi Tsukino| (58)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"I'm fine, I'm fine." She is quick to assure Kyouko with a hurried nod and a water smile. "Go find someone. I'll be okay."<br /><br />Even if she wouldn't be, would she say otherwise?<br /><br />Before Kyouko can escape, she's subjected to a tight, warm bunny hug before she's released.<br /><br />"I want Kunzite," she whispers to her. Because Mamoru's had enough issues to deal with. He doesn't need any more.<br /><br />Even though, really, if she admits to being selfish, it's ''Mamo-chan'' she wants. And if she were even more honest, he's who she needs.<br /><br />And don't think it's not been difficult. She's been keeping her end empty, serene and calm, even, completely blocking him out.<br /><br />Usagi staggers to her feet.<br /><br />He's not listening to reason, is he.<br /><br />And it's not ''just'' because of Ami that her eyes glitter in the light when she looks up.<br /><br />After all, this is the boy she talked to about Madoka, even if she doesn't know it. This is the boy who genuinely adores Ami, even if his ways are skewed.<br /><br />She looks up at him, and if he ever claims she's uncaring about him again, he's full of it, because there's no way to mistake the crumpling face as she holds up her broach in her left, uninjured hand.<br /><br />''I'm sorry, Ami-chan. Taka-baka.''<br /><br />"MOON HEALING ESCALATION!"

:'''{{#var:160|Lacrima| (160)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Lacrima frowns. "Are you some sort of idiot?" she says at Spark. "Walking around trying to talk to people when you're stopping them from /fixing a major current problem/!?" she spits.<br /><br />She rears back to defend and then she hears 'Moon Healing Escalation'.<br /><br />"...Riventon-san!" she says with sudden worry in her voice-- which is a totally distraction from being punched in the face. Which she is. She gets flung back by the electricly charged punch. Which stops her from actually moving to help Riventon-san right away. She does however, get to her feet and shoot upwards.<br /><br />She can feel that thing /tingle/ at the edges of her being from over here. Holy Monkey, Kunzite was right about that one. Danger danger danger.<br /><br />She moves to disengage.

:'''{{#var:141|Kukai Souma| (141)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"Who'd want to handle dark energy like that, except somebody like you!" Sky Jack just keeps punting soccer balls at Riventon, intent on keeping him busy. The Device doesn't exactly register with Jack, and neither does the German. It's all he can do to suddenly lunge to one side as a pillar of black flame drives upwards, almost underneath him. Panicked, rolling from side to side, trying to keep his eyes on all the magical circles lighting up everywhere and the sound of Moon's words cryi~ <br /><br /> Black fire engulfs Sky Jack's world. Purple, black, silver, grey, it all mixes together in a wash of agony. Momentum is the only thing Jack can maintain and he can taste the darkness in his mouth along with a painful scream as he flies through one of the larger columns for a moment. He falls off his board as the dark energy battles his own internal magic, his dream desperately fighting to keep the evil power from eating him alive. <br /><br /> He slumps down to one knee, the skateboard flying off down the slope of the stadium, scorched and messed and bruised all over. "Aaaaaoooww... aoow, aoow." At this moment he doesn't know if there's another ball following up the attack, but he doubts it. Which is good, he doesn't think he could dodge anything else. Moon and the others will have to catch up, he's got to have a minute to let his frostburn lungs ''breathe''.

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>The Cure raises an eyebrow, "Am I an idiot? You're baka that is working with a man who is as dark as night trying to give him MORE power. What the heck are you... You know what. I'm done with you!"<br /><br />She hits her Prebrace, "<span style="color:xterm229">LIGHT OF CURIOSITY TURN INTO SACRED POWER!!!</span>" And everything goes dark violet around here. Blue and yellow lightning striking around her. "<span style="color:xterm229">Love Prebrace!!</span>" She moves and poses before calling out, "<span style="color:xterm229">Pretty Cure!! Ball Lightning!!!</span>" Two lightning bolts intersect behind her and begin moving forward reforming into a ball. Moving right toward Lacrima.

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu isn't completely marred by tunnel vision, when the attacks are making the sphere wobble and look even worse, she points at it it, sending both of her ghosts out to keep the fake occupied. That blue fire still in her hand, the wobbling orange sphere that is looking worse and worse and a potentially bad idea. Maybe everyone will look like an oompa loompa and not... what, exploded? What happens when you overload a color with dark and not considering a bad printer cartridge anyway? <br /> <br /> Well, she doesn't see any way it could go any worse, she doesn't think a color being corrupted would be any good, she's pretty sure Reiko would be upset if that happened right? So! In her ball of flame goes, hopefully with her monitoring it closely for any side effects- would she even be able to yank that out at that point? Too late! In it goes, she shoves it in with her palm and hops back, pulling both of her ghosts back to her and sealing them away behind her just in case this does go wrong. She doesn't want anything to happen to them! She's kind of glad for the most part she's low key for once! Though she's not sure how much she's doing in any direction.

:'''{{#var:159|Momo Akatsuki| (159)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Prism Keeper Pink threw up her hands as the orange neon attack came towards her. "Pink Photo Shoot!". The umbrellas spring up, an added boost of cameras behind them as doubled up support. Like a real photography shoot, except the model this time is a little girl in pink in a defensive pose.<br /> <br />She yells from the other side of the pink things. "You're nothing but a big huge fake-y! The real Reiko would never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever tell me to go away! I am a Prism Keeper and she understands I want to fight too!".

:'''{{#var:47|Takashi Agera| (47)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Sky Jack's orbs keep Riventon mostly on the defensive until his spell goes off, and the wincing for moon is utterly not there for Sky Jack - that only gets a self-satisfied smirk. "One pest down... who's up ne-"<br /><br />Riventon hears the call out just a little too late. But he's got both hands in front of him - damn the experiment, for now - and he's absolutely pouring inky, black energy into the shield, but it's being torn away by the fearsome power of the Silver Crystal.<br /><br />Riventon can't possibly keep any sort of limited control back on the color-mixing orb of energy now, though. Not if he wants to survive this power surge. The bright energy the shield is cracking and desperately working to withstand is the base to his acid, and as dangerous as mixing the two. And yet he's stubbornly trying to hold against the phenomenal power.<br /><br />Nuwu's blue fire dunks into the orb, and alongside the energy from the Escalation, it rips through the squishier outer shell of the orb, causing it to lose form and begin to move like the liquid inside of a lava lamp instead of a sphere. The false orange goes first, leaving an orange-tinted surge of black energy behind them.<br /><br />The crystal cracks about the same time Riventon's shield starts to give way, and then all at once, so many things happen. The exhausted Nullheart Keeper loses the last vestige of control over the surge of black energy. Riventon's shield gives way. And so many other attacks hit home.<br /><br />Riventon's voice twists in a half-scream, half-snarl as the wave of energy from the crystal washes over him, and for a half-second of time, there's a shadow behind Riventon - some manifestation of negative energy forced out by the positive. And it's gone just as fast, dipping back in, the shadow and the physical merging.<br /><br />And Riventon ducks back into that surge of negative energy - into the largest collection of his kind of power anywhere near him, using it as a secondary bulwark. "Retreat, Lacrima-san!" he shouts, ragged with pain. Because Cure Spark's adding positive energy to the mix that's dangerous to both of them.<br /><br />The Nullheart doesn't get to retreat. Without that color orb, and having just thrown so much energy into an attack, the mere residual energy from the cooperation of the heroes silences her, form crumbling into dust and blowing away on the wind.<br /><br />The positive energy erases the vestiges of the ink-like negative power before it can splash out and infect anyone, but by the time it's gone, Riventon's made a retreat. Or been obliterated. It's hard to tell.

:'''{{#var:160|Lacrima| (160)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Lacrima is doing her best to try to get to Riventon-san before it can hit but then there's more tingling. Coming right from behind. And it's increasing... and increasing. She turns around and she uses the same tactic--- build up dark energy suddenly as a shield and try to let it burn through that which she does with both arms outstreched. She didn't have enough warning to put up a proper wall and it burns through the attempt easily as it touches her directly.<br /><br />'''She is on a stage. She is dancing. There is her family in the stand. She is dancing in tune with her friends. That they practiced hard on for the past three weeks! They even did so at sleepovers. It was going to be the most perfect recital ever. She was so happy.....'''<br /><br />'''and for a moment. She remembers what it's like to be human and be happy....''<br /><br />'''Then it sets in. The voices. You can't go back. You're not human. You're a monster. Nothing but dark energy. Who could love that? Who could be friends with that? Who wants to be related to that?'''<br /><br />And the positive force begins ripping her to shreeds as she screams out-- sounding like something inhuman, it's not as bad as a few other times--- the build up of dark energy she did manage stopping her from potentially being purifed, and potentially destroyed completely.<br /><br />When it's all settles, she's hanging in the air for a moment, leaking both black ichor and mist with a slightly dead look on her face. That was...<br /><br />Unpleasent.<br /><br />She can barely hear it. But she does. 'Retreat'.<br /><br />So she does. Darkness cloaking off her and into the Dusk Zone she goes. Escaping along with Riventon-san.

:'''{{#var:159|Momo Akatsuki| (159)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>As the dust settled from the attack Sailor Moon, Prism Keeper Pink let her shields dissipate and looked around. Seeing the evil people gone she nodded softly and started a tired spiral towards a block or two from her house. Wouldn't do to go directly home.<br /> <br /> Between one corner and the next Prism Keeper Pink vanished and Momo Akatsuki strolled towards home, tired from extensive magicking and just plain too late for little girls.

:'''{{#var:58|Usagi Tsukino| (58)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Usagi's shriek mingles with Takashi's.<br /><br />He is a jerk, and she wants to strangle him, but that in no way means she hates him.<br /><br />Quite the opposite.<br /><br />She hadn't been lying when she said she'd been rooting for him. Despite what he thinks, Usagi is ''rooting'' for him, so long as he doesn't wind up hurting Ami-chan.<br /><br />And Taka-baka hurting is almsot as bad as Ami-chan hurting.<br /><br />And it's not fair.<br /><br />And it's mean.<br /><br />"Whatever you do...as long as you're important to her?"She tries to wipe her eyes, and she steadfastly does NOT cry out as she workes her injured hand. "You're a baka. Always, always, always." She looks up at him and screams. "''TAKA-BAKA!!!''"

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>"<span style="color:xterm229">Spark of Curiosity Return to the heavens.</span>" Her magic discipates and she lets out a soft sigh. She looks saddened. She really didn't want to hit the girl with a purification attack but she left her no choice. There is no joy in that victory. Even as Lilac flies over to her and asks for her nose to be scratched.<br /><br />She does it. The cards she gets are that of a cat. "<span style="color:xterm177">Spark-chan! We are one step closer to our goal!</span>" Spark doesn't say a thing in response. She was really hoping she'd have gotten through to Lacrima.<br /><br />The young Precure steps closer to Sailor Moon. She puts her hand on the girl's shoulder and speaks softly, "It'll be alright. Everything will work out. You'll see. It just seems really dark right now because its night time and the orange in the world is still gone." She tries to sound reassuring but her own voice is betraying her. Even though it was a victory, it feels a lot like a failure. "Would you like some ice cream?" She asks curiously.

:'''{{#var:141|Kukai Souma| (141)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>It's all Sky Jack can do to keep his henshin together when he gets to his feet. But on his feet he is, when Riventon and Lacrima both are seared by the blinding yet soothing light of the Silver Crystal. He just wishes he could have gotten a bit of that soothing himself, with wisps of blackish-purple still falling off him. <br /><br /> He rubs his arms and looks over at the remains of the ball of black and orange (and now blue and purple and yellow and pink) energy, still fading away, and raises one arm. "Whoooo. Hey, we won, yaaay." He leans over forward again for a moment. "Anybody get the number of that bus? I'm going to have to call their insurance agency." He raises one hand and focuses, trying to summon his board to him and failing. Instead, he begins walking across the roof of the stadium towards Moon and Spark and Nuwa. "Are we all in one piece, people?"

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu cringes visible at the pain Norie's going through at this. There's got to be a better way of handling this. She's also right there, at the epicenter. She blinks a few times, having been caught off guard before she could do anything to help her friend. Slumping down, she checks her hands, her jacket has been burned away up to her elbows, tattered and in poor condition, black streaks going further up her arm. Shaking them a few times she looks around, trying to find everyone else. <br /> <br /> This time she wasn't hurt too bad, but someone else was, a couple of people were. She tries to find both Kukai and Usagi, though she's pretty sure Usagi had help earlier right? So Kukai first. Then again, he seems better than she thought he'd be. Walking over, she asks the obvious, "Are you okay?" Which... she can see he's not, but what else do you ask. Hospital maybe? She hesitates there for a moment, torn by helping him now and doing something else. She pulls out her phone and after making sure it wasn't destroyed, begins texting someone with one scorched hand, ignoring the pain in her fingers while offering the other hand out to support Sky Jack. There- two things handled at once, that's good right? <br /> <br /> Sniffing the air, wondering if it smells like ozone when it's been hit by that much pure energy, she releases her friend from her seal, the ghost asking her something in Chinese and getting a reply before floating off looking for Usagi to make sure she's okay too. <br /> <br /> Finally, she looks to where Spark was and asks, "So- who was that?"

:'''{{#var:58|Usagi Tsukino| (58)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Usagi sort of just...sits there.<br /><br />Whenever anyone comes near her, she just sort of stares ahead.%r<br />"I'm fine..."<br /><br />That's all she says,really, bht it's obvious if nothing else that someone is comeing for her.<br /><br />Even as she curles in on herself. ""I'm ''fine.''""Even if its a lie.<br /><br />Afterall, Kunzite is coming for her soon. And then, she'd really be okay.<br /><br />Maybe.

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Cure Spark looks at Nuwu for a moment. "I've never seen the guy before. The girl was Lacrima. I've encountered her before. She is magical in nature but seems twisted. Like the good in her has been stripped away leaving her trying to do the right thing but not knowing what that is." She sighs. "Its the second time I've hit her with a purification attack. I hate having to do it but, I'm hoping that maybe if enough darkness is stripped away, maybe she will be see that what she is doing is hurting her and everyone else." <br /><br />The youngest of the Precures just shakes her head. "Her attention goes to Sky Jack. "I'm fine. A couple close calls but, No clue about a lot of things. I am actually glad my target was someone I actually know. Who was the guy?" She asks curiously.<br /><br />Then it is back to Sailor Moon. She rubs her back gently and shakes her head. "It will be alright." She states softly, hoping she hears her.

:'''{{#var:141|Kukai Souma| (141)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Jack looks over at Nu Wu, then nods at her. "No. But I'll be ok soon enough." He pats her hand, then her shoulder, and keeps walking along with her towards the others. "I can stand on my own. Thank you." He grins weakly. "I think I could really use something chocolate right now. Is that weird?" <br /><br /> He walks towards Moon and Spark with Nu Wu, his breathing slowly returning to normal, and finally sitting down on the roof-floor. "Good. Glad you're ok... uh..." The fact that he's blanked on Spark's name is probably a sign of his brain heading towards autopilot. "That was Riventon. He's... Magical Bad Guy Enemy #1, pretty much. And a great big jerk, to boot."

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu watches Spark and says, "I know who she is and I know what that does to her- if I could have been quicker I could have tried to protect her." She doesn't sound too happy about that either. "I meant you, sorry." <br /> <br /> She drops her arms to her side and rubs her hands and arms and says, "I've never had chocolate, wasn't allowed to when I was young and we kind of think I'm probably allergic." Her hands go in her pockets, trying to ignore the tatters of her sleeves with some aggravation. Also her fingers and lower arms don't feel too good and it keeps her from doing things like clutching at them, scratching them or anything else. "Huh" is all she offers to the description from Kukai. "Is uh, her. The other one that isn't her" she gestures to Spark embarassed, "Okay?" What with her ghost only just now finding her and just standing there. She isn't passed out right? That's okay-ish. She'll go back and point the group her way.

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Cure Spark looks at Sky Jack and then at Nuwu. She smiles and laughs a little. "My name is Cure Spark. I'm a Pretty Cure. We are good guys. Trust me. If I wasn't I wouldn't feel bad about using the attack I did on the girl. I hated doing that. I prefer keeping that for Youmas and Terribads but, what can I do? Its my duty to protect the earth from misfortune and darkness." She sighs. "You probably know my friend, Cure Gull. We are both similar Precures. " <br /><br />She frowns and rubs her head. "I will have to talk to Kami-sama. He probably knows more about Riventon then I do but letting him know what happened here tonight is kinda important."

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu nods and says, "I've met Cure Gull, yes. Twice now I think?" She shrugs it off though. "There's got to be a better way. Either to help her or to at least make sure she's not doing anything bad so that in cases like this, she's okay." Can she do something like that? <br /> <br /> "That he tried to... what, corrupt orange? I kind of wasn't listening to his plans sorry. I didn't like seeing a cheap clone of a friend." even if she's not as close as some of her other friends, she's a friend!

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Cure Spark frowns, "If there were a way I could do it without hurting her, I would do it in a heart beat. The problem is, what was coming out of her wasn't blood or any type of normal bodily fluid. It was dark energy. If more people purify her, It would hurt but it might also help her recover."<br /><br />She smiles, "Cure Gull is a team mate and friend. She was helping me out before my other life kept me from doing this stuff." SHe smiles a little.

:'''{{#var:171|Jiaying Maki| (171)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Nuwu nods and says, "Well it was a pleasure meeting you, but I Think-" she pauses, gathering her thoughts. "I thin k I need to go, get my arms cleaned up, see if it's ash or what." <br /> <br /> She offers a wry, but genuine smile, "It really was nice meeting you. Maybe nedt time without the really bad things."

:'''{{#var:170|Naomi Yomada| (170)}} has posed:'''<br><span></span>Cure Spark nods, "I hear you. Be safe!" With that she leaps into the air. Her back bow quickly changing to wings. She begins flying off into the sunset? sunrise? Distance! That works! She vanishes from sight. Once she is clear she looks at Lilac, "I think we need to pay a visit to the Cross Mirror Room."
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