471/Art Criticism

Art Criticism
Date of Scene:	20 October 2015
Location:	Pikarigaoka - Clover Tower
Synopsis:	Cure Gull, Bass-chan, Sailor Moon, and Ikuto fight Oresky, who is upset about losing a children's art contest.
Cast of Characters:	37, Usagi Tsukino, Haruna Kurosawa, Ikuto Tsukiyomi, Mizudori Teion

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Mint Chip (37) has posed:
It's a crisp, cool, comfortable autumn day in Tokyo, and in the shadow of Clover Tower, there's an young amateur art competition going on, sponsored by a small art supply shop. The square around Clover Tower is abuzz with activity, and everyone seems to be having a lot of fun! Kids and teens alike have wonderful peices on display, from all art forms. There are prizes not just for the best art - but for the funniest, for the 'most interesting', and similar categories. The atmosphere is charged, and full of happiness. Finally, the awards have come around to the winning young artists in each age group, and the four of them - two girls and two boys - stand on the podium, all smiles. And there's a roaring cheer that comes up from the assembled enthusiasts!

But there is one person who is not happy. He's somewhat out of place, in a tan-yellow military uniform that looks vaguely like a high-quality cosplay peice for some anime about strange Russians. His hand, in a white glove, is clenched and shaking. He's standing in front of a decidedly... not artistic peice, that looks like stick figure art, of someone holding a scepter.

"How... I should have won... in all the categories!" he shouts, suddenly. "ALL OF YOU ARE FOOLS FOR NOT RECOGNIZING MY GREATNESS!"

One of the youngest winners walks up and calmly informs him that "You're too old to be in this competition - you can't win anyways!" This does not seem to calm the man.

"All of this happiness, and other people winning - I can't handle it!" he shouts. "The only winner in this world is me, Oresky!" As the power of despair overcomes the civilians around, Oresky's golden medal glares bright! Oresky pulls that medal off of his uniform.

"LET THE FUTURE REFLECTED IN THE MIRROR TURN TERRIBLE!" suddenly, the four winners are trapped within a mirror, red ribbons holding them fast.

"COME ON! TERRIBAD!" he shouts!

And in a brilliant flash of light, there stands a giant creature with bright red angled glasses, an artist's beret, a shield made of a paint palette, and a giant paintbrush as a weapon!

"Terribad! Destroy Toyko! And with it, all memories of the day I didn't win!" He spreads his hands, and a thick grey fog overtakes the area, with the plants and trees becoming dead and frayed, and the ground becoming a blasted landscape!

This is... somewhat blatantly obvious to any magical heroes in the area.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
AN ART CONTEST! Corvus dragged Haruna here because Haruna still needs to get out more. Haruna /is/ needing less coaxing to get out. She is becoming horribly less 'shy' about things- though she still isn't a social butterfly yet. Also, Blue-sama is here! Haruna felt like he needed to get out of his mopey Cross Mirror Room, too. Friends help Friends helping Friends, right!? Also, She looked over the pieces earlier. Something about the stick figure with the scepter made her uneasy. She doesn't know why. Blue spends a little bit too much time looking this one over.

Blue sort of mopes into a mirror portal behind Haruna's back as she turns around... "Kami-sama?... where did he go...."

THEN THE WINNERS Are announced and---- oh my lord it's Oresky why didn't she see that before.

She raises her PreChanMirror and PreCards, making a dramatic cross elbowed motion at this. "Hey! No one likes a sore loser you jerk!" she announces.

<Rollin' Mirror Change!> - PreCards go into the Mirror. A mirrored ball is spun. There's a transformation here! It involves bubbly hearts turning into elbow length gloves and boots and a green cloak and more bubbly hearts. A then, you know- the introduction. "The wings of hope, that soar across the sea...! Cure Gull!" she says- making an exagerated pose where she uses her hands to make 'wings'- crossed at the wrist.

She throws up her hands in front of her in a martial arts stance of some sort. Hands flat.

"Oresky! If you don't put that happiness back right now I am going to /Tide Kick/ you in the face! Why not be happy you were even allowed to participate!?" she calls out.

She's not attacking yet. She's trying words first.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi isn't looking for trouble. Well, technically she's enjoying a double trouble hot fudge sundae supreme, but this implies that she's technically found the only trouble she was looking for.

It is probably not the best thing to eat so shortly after getting a stabbing pain in her gut a few nights ago, but yay magic, and also, dude, she was just stabbed in the gut the other night. Her teeth needs sweetening!

And then there is chaos! (Of course.) And an art show gone awry! And...

Her shoulders slump as she dumps the rest of her sundae in the trash (after taking a quick twelve more bites and finishing okay it's the thought that counts) and she ducks between the crowds of panicked people and...artistic...villains? Never mind. She finds a place to transform.

She is a bit out of breath, so her words are a bit wheezed when she raises her hand.

"MOOoon priSM poWEr! mAKE-uPP!!...p"r
This better not end like before. Last time, she bled on someone's floor. This is surprisingly hard to live down, even if he in no way seemed mad about it before.

There is a convenient mail box, and a convenient spotlight suddenly falls on her.

She poses. She takes a breath. She is prepared to deliver a Scathing Speech.

Instead.

"I'm sorry, is there any way we can skip to the end where the good guys win? I think I just pulled my spleen. Transforming involves a lot of bending and twisting, something I've never really noticed before. And it feels like my gizzards are vibrating. And I am fully aware of what my kidney feels like." She points to the approximate area of where her pancreas is.

She may have fell asleep during the anatomy lesson.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
It's a fine day for an art contest! It's also a fine day for a nap, and that's exactly what Ikuto's doing. He's doing so on a pretty dangerous place, though... on the roof of ne of the taller buildings. While he'd used his Chara Change to get up there, he isn't currently using it. Anyone who knows him knows this is not at all unusual for him. Napping on his stomach is Yoru, snoring a little feline snore, just loud enough to be heard.

and then suddenly... explosion. Magical of course. Both Ikuto's and Yoru's eyes snap open, and Ikuto bolts upright. Yoru tumbles of his chest with a startled mew, but is quickly in the air again. Yoru heads to the edge of the building, catching sight of the huge creature. "Ikuto! There's somethin' down there-nya!" He points with one oversized hand-paw.

Ikuto stands, and steps over to the edge of the roof, surveying the chaos below. His eyes narrow, and suddenly his cat ears and tail pop into existence. He pauses, though, seeing the magical heroes arrive. He stays where he is for the time being, silently watching.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
One of said magical heroes -- a scenester high-schooler with shoulder-length messy sea-green hair and kind of lazy-cyberpunk additions to her school uniform -- was boredly sucking down a frozen drink that was in the process of turning her tongue blue, only here because one of her nieces was in the competition, when that dude went nuts and took the whole place with him.

"Yo!" she yells in aggravation, throwing her frozen blue slushie on the blasted landscape ground where it explodes. "NOT COOL. Look I GET IT if you're bored, I GET IT if you're disappointed or something, but your art SUCKS and you're not even a KID, you make ZERO SENSE and actually thanks I was bored too." She glances at Cure Gull and Sailor Moon, purses her lips, and tries not to laugh.

Then the girl, completely heedless of things like secret identities or common decency, ...plays air guitar?

No wait:

"By the power of GRAYSKRILL, BASS-CHAN WILL DROP YOU!"

Instantly, any humanity she was displaying's swallowed up by featureless blackness; she has become a silhouette. Her face changes shape, sea-green lights play off her and shine out from her hair, her eyes, her fingertips; her air-guitar is actually now a bass guitar made of light and shadow, and blades of that same color light push her off the ground. She instantly starts skating toward the monster, cloud of glowing hair streaking behind her along with afterimages of the neon lights playing over her shape, and she plucks the low E and waves her glowing hand in front of it. Apparently talking is for nerds and squares, and shouting out attacks is for Beat Defenders. Her voice is a distorted thing, artificial and autotuned.

"LOW-PASS KICK BREAK!!"

Mint Chip (37) has posed:
Oreksy stands, hands on his hips, in front of his towering Art Terribad. "Cure Gull!" he shouts. There's a rapid rush of dozens of smaller youma - little shadowy humanoids with the same glasses and white and black gloves.

A subset of these are carrying, on their shoulders, a /chair/ which Oresky quickly shifts to sit in. "There can be no happiness, when I am not crowned the winner of a contest, Cure Gull! But! I am glad you are here, because after I defeat you, I will create another medal to honor my victory!" he says, pointing to the one on his chest.

He turns to Sailor Moon. "The only part we can skip to is the part where I win again! Just like I won the art contest!" he says without any sarcasm at all. It's a strange world, Oresky's mind. "But if you're not feeling 100% you should give up now! You're facing... A CAPABLE MAN!"

A dramatic pose later, and the hordes of Kindabads, the smaller youma of the two, are attempting to descend on and mob Cure Gull and Sailor Moon!

Then Bass-Chan comes in and makes an attack on the Terribad directly. Oresky is /incensed/ as he shouts out in disbelief. "That's not how this works! You fight the other ones FIRST! You can't just go out of order like that, what's wrong with you!" All that screaming aside, though, the Art Terribad shields itself from Bass-chan's attack with its paint palette, and swings the paintbrush forward, trying to pressure her back into the mob of Kindabads.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Corvus sighs and reaches behind himself to pull out a notepad. He begins scribbling something and then taps Cure Gull on the side of the head and she peeks over to the notepad and back to Oresky. No one particularly sees what was passed on. "What! You didn't win! Your drawing of the stick thing was horrible! Is that supposed to be Queen Mirage!? I bet she'd find it stupid and ugly!"

(Smash cut to various similar drawings plastered over a fridge in the kitchen of the castle of the Blue Sky Kingdom.)

She is trying to elicit mad responses from Oresky now- but suddenly--- KindaBads!? "Nrg..."

Suddenly, there's!?...some sort of air guitaring weirdly dressed girl and now there is some sort of weird dark creature in her wake!? But it's helping!? With Dubstep!?

"So cool...." she says wide eyed.

She blinks. "Oh!? Sailor Moon! Hiiiii! Sailor Moon help me please!? okay!?" she calls out. Sailor Moon would know Gull through Virtue channels. (And also that one time they sealed a crow in a tablet but let's not think about bad stuff right now!)

She jumps up and backwards as her bow turns into a translucent seafoam green wings, and she draws her hand backwards- spinning the dial of her PreBrace. "Gull Windburst~!" she calls out. Wind forming around her right hand for a moment as she tries to come down hard into a mass of Kindabads and send them flying! The small fry need to be mitigated before she can try punching the Terribad--- and that's ALSO an issue! Maybe the weird dubstep dropping dark thing can handle it.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
Bass-chan gets whomped back away from the Terribad through the air, sailing over the heads of a bunch of Kindabads and also Cure Gull, and tumbling to a halt at Sailor Moon's feet. She looks up, glowing green eyes blinking in mild confusion for a second before she scrambles to her feet next to the Pretty Soldier. And she SHAKES HER FIST at Oresky.

"You don't follow rules either, chump! You entered a kids' art contest with a stick figure of a jester or something, I can't tell--"

Wait wait wait. THAT girl has... has seafoam green WINGS. The dark creature/magical girl/Beat Defender stares across at Cure Gull, and the grin is audible in her autotuned voice. "HEY YOUR WINGS ARE WICKED COOL! WE'LL BOTH HELP YOU UNLESS SAILOR MOON PUNCHES ME, OKAY?"

Then the silhouette of a girl glances aside at (the even shorter than she is!) Sailor Moon, and suddenly her eyes are like n.n in that featureless face. "So yeah let's team up and sweep up so we can get to the big monster, that's the exciting one, and we can give that Cure Gull girl a hand too. Here I'll skate low and do the manuevers and you punch 'em, okay? Bowling for mooks!"

Maybe she doesn't know what bowling is.

Either way, she crouches down, and as soon as Sailor Moon climbs on her shoulders, she starts figure-skating a few inches off the ground, knees bent and yelling, "Together we fight for WUB AND JUSTICE oh my god GET IT?"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Corvus says at Bass-chan suddenly "That was horrible! Do you feel bad for what you just said!? DO YOU FEEL PROUD OF THAT!?" he says at Bass-chan in comical over-anger.

Cure Gull huffs. "CORVUS THAT WAS COOL!" she yells. Corvus crosses his wings angrily in front of him. Grumble Grumble Puns, Grumble Grumble Rhyming Witch.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Smaller youma may be smaller... but with their sheer numbers they might just overwhelm the heroes he's seen appear. They need to concentrate on the big one, and not be hobbled by those smaller youma. That in mind... the cat decides to make himself useful. "Yoru."

The tiny chibi cat looks up and back at Ikuto where he hangs onto the edge fo the roof to look over it and down at the chaos. "Is it time-nya?" The nod from the larger of the two is enough of an answer. Yoru flies up, two broken halves of a black-and-white egg appearing above and below him. His feline features disappear. And as his body starts to glow from the neck down, he speaks.

"Ore no kokoro... UNLOCK!"

The egg closes around Yoru, the jagged seam healing and disappearing as if it never was. And the palm-sized egg sinks into Ikuto's chest, small ripples in the air over the place it disappeared at. A cat tail grows in place, then cat ears, and then the glow of his body coalesces into an outfit. A cropped top with long tails in the back and a high neckline that covers his chin, a pair of slacks with a long strap tied between both legs just under the knees, and black boots. A thick silver cross appears at his chest, and a long, wickedly curved silver claws weapon appears upon his wrist.

CHARA NARI: BLACK LYNX

And then? Well, those Kindabads are making a nuisance of themselves. Maybe he can get some attention off the heroes if he goes after some of them. He leaps from the roof, dark form silhouetted against the sky a moment before he lands in the middle of the mayhem. And then he's on the move, all but a black blur of motion, using momentum for strength as he aims to slice into the ranks of the smaller youma.

The Kindabads he goes after just miiiiiiiiight be the ones holding up Oresky's oh-so important seat, too. Maybe. Ikuto might just be being a total douche here. Or he might just be being a cat. Does it matter? He's cutting down Kindabads, so that's good.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Awww man. Really? For reals?

Sailor Moon chooses this time to let some tears fall, which swing from her eyes like mournful pendulums. And then she is ready to Speech yet again!

A deep breath, held back only by the pull in her gills (really, she should stay awake in class...) and then--

WHAT THE WHAT WHAT! They are like...giant small cockroaches, swarming all over!

That's not the best comparison ever, but she's pretty sure the pain pill she took earlier is still making her a tad loopy.

Then her attention is taken away! GULL! Yay she knows someone! Her hands wave in the air.

"HI! HOW ARE YOU!" Silly question. Before she can retract and correct, there is a thunk and a roll and more talking is done.

She blinks for a moment, staring, mouth agape.

Then she shrugs and grins wide.

"Okay, Scary Guitar Lady!"

Piggy back rides!

Her fists are out and she prepares to flail---and she about sprains her spleen again because OH MY GOSH SHE GETS IT IT IS BEAUTIFUL! and is laughing hard.

OW!

Mint Chip (37) has posed:
Oreksy watches from afar as the Kindabads... do kindapoorly. But he's used to that. The big thing he's proud of are his Terribads, anyways. But the burning question is: do Cure Gull's insults get through to Oresky? He's about to get up and shout when suddenly his chair tips one way - then the other - then crashes to the ground, the Kindabads below destroyed by the Black Lynx! So as Oresky starts to speech, all he gets is a small surprised noise as he crashes to the ground, slumped in his chair momentarily. He gets up and makes a jump that's worthy of the cat-based magical boy himself, across the battlefield to the shoulder of his Terribad.

"Any rule that prevents me from winning anything, that is a truly a poor rule!" he adds. "But breaking rules regarding my monsters? That's unacceptable!"

Back on the battlefield itself, Kindabads are... well, getting completly mauled. That is, after all, what they do - they're flying every which way, fading out of existence, getting booted off the battlefield, being punched and skated into. It seems like, though, despite their near-complete uselessness, there are still /so many/ of the things. Maybe Oresky is going for a battle of attrition with them?

Or maybe they're just that expendable.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Did some sort of handsome blue haired catboy just make a complete joke of Oresky!? She sort of takes this in. It takes a moment. Where had she seen this description before.... has she seen this boy before!? She doesn't remember. But you know-she's not gonna think too hard on that. Right now, she's too busy sending Kindabads flying and is getting into a combo groove of punching and kicking and martial arts moves following her Windburst.

Oh- Bass-chan gives her compliments!? She blushes terribly hard at this! "Ah--t..thanks!" she says as she finally punches a kindabad up into the air--- she has a path towards the Terribad! Horray!

But first. "First I'm gonna clear out your jerks Oresky and then I'm coming for your big painter jerk!" she yells.

<Rollin' Mirror Change~ Blueberry Waltz!>

Cure Gull gains a very pretty bright royal blue ballroom Gown! (It also has a feather motif, secondarily!)

She spins around in a dance and then wisks her arm out. "Gull Blueberry Sparkle Waltz~" she calls out and there's a HUGE blast of ice and wind out that freezes terribads--- some gain earmuffs suddenly- before being blasted away in a sudden flash freeze!

"Ta-dah~" she ends!. The Form change dissapears as soon as it came however- using it's power just to take care of the last of these jerks.

"Now I'm going to paint your face red!" she says pointing at Oresky!

Corvus applauds from Gull's shoulder.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
"Okay while she's yelling at that dude let's plow through the rest of these idiots~" comes Bass-chan's filtered and autotuned voice from under Sailor Moon. She comes to a slick figure-skater's stop on her glowing blades, and her hands come up and the shadowy magic bass guitar vanishes and a row of ghostly shadow dials and level faders appears in front of her hands.

She turns all the knobs up to 11.

(They all go up to 11.)

She slams all the bass faders up and all the treble faders down.

"Aight," she says, then ducks her head and dislodges Sailor Moon into her arms, and her eyes are like n.n again. "Go knives-out, Pretty Soldier, I'll back you up. Don't worry if your teeth rattle, they're supposed to."

Then she up and HURLS Sailor Moon at the last clutch of Kindabads and raises her hands and slams them back down, and a thunderous rolling C below low C rocks the ground, then starts shaking it beneath the last of the monsters, directly in the path of the flying Sailor Soldier.

"BASSCILLATOR CRUNCHY ROLL!"

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Ikuto spares a smirk as Oresky's dumped on his behind. Yes, he did that on purpose. Pompus twit. Of course he didn't stick around long enough to see the complete effect. Hearing the surprised noise is enough, though.

Thus far he's been keeping a pretty low profile, hiding himself behind Kindabads as he picked his way through the entry-level youma. Individually no, they weren't much of a challenge. But there's still too many. "Ikuto!" The muffled voice of yoru comes from somewhere in the area of his chest. "We gotta clear out the crowd-nya!" Ikuto nods.

Then Ikuto performs a leap of his own, back to the back of the pack of Terribads, at an angle he probably won't hit the magical girls, and draws back the arm with the claw strapped to his wrist. The silver gleams oddly, and just as the ice blasts out from Cure Gull, Ikuto makes his presence known. Quite loudly.

"SLASH CLAW!"

Three silvery slashes of energy erupt from that claw as he swings his arm forward, into the ranks of frozen Kindabads, as Bass throws Sailor Moon into them. Given the combination of attacks that are being thrown, hopefully this should be enough.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
She is punching! She would be kicking if she has legs free! There are assorted pieces of artistry equipment grabbed up and hurled! And then--

"Wait, what?"

Rattle? Teeth? And then:

"AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

She is going at least Mach Bajillionty! She breaks the time barrier and sees dinosaurs! Space-ships! Not really, but goodness she is being FLUNG THROUGH THE AIR LIKE HER TIARA! Only not as spinny, because that would not be good on her stomach and the sundae she had!

Her arms are flailing, her legs kicking, and her pinwheeling limbs strike (something) and it's Totally on Purpose, and not Panic Induced, promise!

Good gosh, the almost-as-tiny-as-her lady is strong!

On solid ground again, she is shaky-limbed and trying hard to focus in a room that is still spinning.

She does have a bit of vertigo, and flails some more to catch her balance. There's thunks against her arms and finally she spins in place and falls over, landing heavily on the soft cushion of a Kindabad.

"HAH! Take THAT, Doodleybad!"

Mint Chip (37) has posed:
Kindabads are going flying - where /did/ they get those earmuffs, they aren't standard issue - and they're slashed into fading black smoke, and they're is a huge squadron of them removed from play by the Moonball Special - in fact, the only one left to be seen is the one Sailor Moon is sitting on.

But meanhile, Oreksy laughs from atop his perch on the Terribad. "I'll pass on the face paint, Cure Gull - unlike yours, my face is already perfect! I bet you don't even have a fan club!" he adds, and then with a dramatic thrust, points his thumb at himself. "You can join mine if you like, though. The yearly membership fee is 800 yen! But first... Terribad! It's time for you to earn me another medal!"

"Terribad!" is the somewhat predictable response, as it takes that massive paintbrush and - suddenly, there's red paint on the tip - swings it boldly towards the heroes - and in mid flight, the red paint becomes red, dangerous energy. Oresky jumps from the perch on the Terribad to watch the fight from a nearby building roof, for now.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
So dizzy!

But then! Oh, how rude!

She hops up, squishing the Kindabad beneath her boots in the process (also totally on purpose promise swear hahaha).

"HEY! Gull has a PRETTY face! And if she had a fan club, I'd join!"

Usagi is a fan of fan clubs.

Is it speech time?

Nope.

She spins on her heals and glowers!

"Hey, Cranky! Just because your artistic genius wasn't seen doesn't mean you need to beat people up for it!" Sheesh! (She thinks the picture isn't that bad. Her mother has a whole folder full of similar pictures at home.) "Art is subjective!"

Oh wait, she's Speeching after all!

"IN THE NAME OF THE MOON I WI--run away!"

Or at least away from the giant paint brush heading in her direction.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull fan club!? "Wait you have a fan club!?" she says as she blinks blinks. Later tonight Haruna sneakily mails a flyer. Her reasons are her own! She probably gets a glossy picture of Oresky in the mail or something a week later. She guiltily hangs it on her dorm room wall and then has to explain it to Blue the next time he visits. This will be comically awkward.

HOWEVER, right now there's a brush swinging with red energy and she flys around it right to avoid it. Ekk!? Ack!? Noooo don't hit me! She flies forward after ducking and comes straight up with a martial arts 'chop' straight into the torso of the Terribad!

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Ikuto kept his eye on the larger youma. And once Oresky took off from its shoulder, he knew something was about to happen. So he tensed as soon as Oresky jumped. Sure enough, there came a red paint through the air. Quickly he leaps, over the flung paint, and lands in a catlike crouch on a nearby roof.

He doesn't stop for long, though. Pausing only long enough to drop his head down low and and shift his weight-- humorously he almost seems to wiggle and squirm in place for the ever so briefest of moments-- before leaping to attack again. He's aiming for the thing's face, too. Just like a cat, RIGHT FOR THE EYES!

Mizudori Teion has posed:
Bass-chan's all about this justice speech stuff! She's terrible at it, though.

"WHAT SHE SAID! Except actually some art really is terrible. It may even look great but still be terrible! Like if you're paid to do it that's the only reason so you phone it in and there's no feeling in it! That's bad art, even if people might think it's pretty because you're talented and have spent a million years practicing! And then there's--"

Scenesters don't get second chances.

Bass-chan, right in the middle of her tangential lecture-rant, standing there amidst her ghostly knobs and dials and sliders, gets splattered back by a splash of red paint energy and screeches-- and it's still dubstep.

She hits the ground, a little scorched and kind of brownish from the mixture of red and green, and her lights flicker as the impact makes the sound of a... no I'm so sorry...

...a dropped bass.

Mint Chip (37) has posed:
The terribad stumbles back from the chop Cure Gull lands on it - holding itself up by digging the non-brush end of the paintbrush into the ground like a walking stick for support. This plan stops working as Ikuto dives on him, clawing its glasses-protected face (there's even a scratch on those fancy glasses now!) The massive creatures takes it's time returning to its full height - dislodging ikuto by shaking its head in the process - and makes another paint-swing! This one is full of blue paint, and rather than turning into energy, it flies around the battlefield, and creates deep pits of blue paint, hopefully near or under one of its enemies. Then, it comes forward with the palette-sheild like a battering ram!

Oresky, meanwhile, is rooting for the Terribad when it attacks and booing whenever it takes a hit. "You're right, mechanical girl! Some art /is/ bad - all art that isn't from the Great Oresky!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
If other people were here, there may be Words. Encouragement or Scolding, either works.

Tiara time?

"MOON TIARA ACTI--ooOOooonnNNnnn!"

She isn't almost falling in a paint puddle. She also isn't slipping or sliding, clinging on the closest person.

The tiara flies, of course, but the wobble at the end doesn't mean it's flying straight.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull ah!? Weird Dubstep-chan! She sort of takes off toward's her to see if she's alright, but a paintbrush comes crashing down in front of her and she dashes backwards. Nrg. This Terribad is now making her unhappy! Well. That's the purpose of a Terribad, of course. "Nrg! Your paint of evil won't coat my feathers of hope!" she says raising her fist. Corvus gives a loud cheer from her shoulder. "Goooo Gull-chan!" he yells. He suddenly has pom-poms. Where did he get those!?

"Wings of Hope, turn into a sacard power!" she calls out, her lovely PreBrace shining in brilliant Sea-foam green for a moment. "Pretty Cure----" she claps the Brace. "Hopeful Feather Shoot!" she calls out, spinning her hands around before creating a translucent winged symbol---which she then proceeds to punch into the Terribad. She turns around on the BRILLIANT GREEN NINJA PLAIN and says! "Wings of Hope, return to the heavens!"

Hopefully this'll purify this thing away and free the winners! And you know. Upset Oresky.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Ikuto is thrown free from the Terribad's face, and lands, again in a crouch, one hand on the ground. And it just so happens that a blue blob of paint hits right at his feet, and before he can leap to avoid it, the ground has disappeared under him! He inhales sharply in surprise, and quickly digs that claw into the ground. He emits a growl and begins to claw his way out.

This is difficult, and takes him a few moments. But once he's out? While the others are throwing their purification and/or super attacks, he starts to make flying sweeps next to the Terribad's legs, trying to keep it off-balance so it cna't dodge. And maybe, y'know, hurt it a little in the process.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING MECHANICAL! DO YOU EVEN SEE ANY ANALOGUE COMPONENTS YOU COMPLETE LUDDITE! IF IT'S NOT MAGICAL IT'S DIGITAL!" howls Bass-chan, whirling to her feet and shaking off the red energy-paint, and her matte black parts get blacker and her sea-green light parts glow brighter, glow incandescent! "YOU PROBABLY DON'T EVEN LIKE MUSIC!"

Now she's shaking with indignant rage, unwilling to live in a world where such a horrible point of view doesn't get corrected immediately. "I am going to ****post about you SO HARD tonight you have NO IDEA!" she bellows, pointing a glowing-tipped finger at Oresky and then manifesting her shadow-bass once more. She takes a combative, bracing stance, glares brilliant beam-of-light metaphorical daggers at the Terribad, and a beat starts clicking and hissing in the air out of nowhere. A slick electro-beat with a slid-up hi-hat that breaks in exactly the right places, and she starts playing a bass lick that's a fight in and of itself, fast and low and angry.

"Hard fuzz low-tone GRIME BASS OVERDRIVE!" she calls out over it, each syllable timed with the next arpeggiated step up, until she scratches her fingernails down the low E and stomps on a ghostly-shadow effects pedal and the last note's a painfully gritty reverberating note that drops lower and lower and lower until it's subsonic and can only be felt. It will rattle that Terribad's bones. It may melt them. Who knows? Bass-chan certainly doesn't. She hasn't tried this one before.

Mint Chip (37) has posed:
There's a lot of things happening at once - all at once - but it seems the heroes have had enough of the Art Terribad! Ikuto's getting in on it, and causing the thing to instinctively try to swat him away with its palette and brush - which leaves it open! Sailor Moon's tiara comes screaming in from the side, and it just barely raises the palette-shield in time - the shield is oblitterated by the Tiara Action! Next, Bass-Chan joins in on the attack, and Grime Bass Overdrive is only prevented from destroying the Terribad by the spinning paintbrush it wielded as a second impromptu shield! This means it, too, has been destroyed at the end of the attack - and now the defenseless Terribad stands alone as Cure Gull's Hopeful Feather Shoot blasts into it! Taking the attack full force, the Terribad rises into the sky, as white feathers fall calmly from the sky.

"So relaxing..." is all the Terribad manages to say, as it vanishes along with the aftereffects of the attack.

"It's too bad for all of you that in the end, the only one qualified to judge my greatness is me!" Oresky says, and jumps over, grabbing a ribbon off the table in his rush to vanish back to the Dusk Zone. If one looks, the only ribbon he managed to grab was, in fact, a participant ribbon, likely much to his later chagrin.

Mizudori Teion has posed:
"I'LL JUDGE WHO I WANT! I'M JUDGING YOU SO HARD oh my god what a jerkbag--" Bass-chan trails off, dropping henshin as soon as the blasted landscape turns back into the art contest and Oresky jumps into the Dusk Zone. She looks cranky. And also human again, except her tongue is still blue from the now-vanished slushie.

"Hell with this. Hey, Sailor Moon, if you run into a little purple-haired kid with glasses named Natsumi Jin, autograph something for her? She's a huge fan. Uh and tell that Gull girl and that cat kid they rock too. I gotta go, I have a show in like an hour."

She waves a hand over her shoulder and slouches off, because high school and attitude problem.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull nooooo! Oresky stole a highly valuable ribbon everyone got for just coming!----wait a minute that isn't really victory worthy for him is it!? Ugh, she isn't going to try to chase Oresky over a ribbon! Also. The terribad is purified- and the people are free and----- oh!

"Hey!? Is everyone else alright!?" she calls out to the others. "Is um. Dubstep-chan okay!?" she asks. She's making up a name.

Oh. She is. Kinda.

"Hiiii Sailor Moon! We should go and I am going to go eat Cheeseburgers with Corvus-chan! Do you want some!?" she asks.

She blinks.

"Oh! Right! Catboy-channnnn~" she calls out. "Are you okay too!?" she asks.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Wait, they won?

YAY!

Her arms raise in the air as she cheers.

"YAY! Victory for all!" She trots over to get her tiara. "I didn't even get stabbed this time!"

Tiara now on her forehead (is there a way to bring it automatically back? She should learn how to use a boomerang...) she trots around and makes sure people are okay.

She blinks and looks over at Scary Guitar Lady. "...Natsumi Jin! Right!" And then she's gone.

Wait. CHEESEBURGERS?!

Happy hands clasp in front of her. "Will there be french fries? And milk shakes?! I have a day of Not Eating Much But Yummy Soup to make up for!"

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
"...Seriously?"

That's all Ikuto says as he stands. "He couldn't even steal the right ribbon?" Once Oresky is gone and everything returns to normal, there is a brief flash of light around ikuto, obscruing him for just the amount of time it'd take one to snap one's fingers. There's a *pop* at the same time, and the tiny catboy fairy-thing is floating away from Ikuto. The former human-sized catboy is now just a normal kid. He doesn't speak up until Gull calls him 'catboy-chan'. That gets a muffled snicker from Yoru and an eyetwitch from Ikuto.

"...My name's not 'catboy-chan'. And yeah. I'm fine."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull thinks. "I know there's fries! Not sure about the Milkshakes! It's a stand by the ocean and the night guy doesn't seem to mind my magical stuff 'cuz I was silly one time and forgot I was transformed and junk and also Sailor V thinks he might be in love with me!?" she says with a scandalized blush.

SOMEWHERE. IN THE BUSHES. a woman smiles and puts down her 20$ out of focus camera. She begins to tiptoe away. "This is all I need, says Masuko Miyo!" she pauses. "Soon EVERYONE ON YOUTUBE WILL KNOW OF PRETTY CURE WEEKLY!" she says defiantly.

Whelp. That's gonna be a thing.

"Hey- do you want Burgers too!?" she asks. "Um. who are you? then?" she asks.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon blushes for Gull and does a happy wiggle! Love! Yay! "Yes! Cheeseburgers and fries and it's okay if there's no milkshake!"

She turns to the boy. "Yes, come with us, Not!Catboy-chan!" She is very curious about a name, too!

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
Burger? Hey, Ikuto can appreciate love of cooked meat! So after a moment of pause, he lifts one shoulder in a noncommital shrug. "I have nothing better to do tonight." Actually he does, he's supposed to be working, and Director-san will get upset with him if he doesn't get back to work. But Ikuto's in no mood to care about that.

"Oh, food!" Yoru pipes up from his place next to Ikuto. "I'm hungry anyway; all that fighting mmade me work up an appetite-nya!"

But she did ask who he was. "Ikuto," he offers. Apparently the name is offered to both girls, looking between them both. This is gonna look really awkward if somebdoy thinks it's a legit date...

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull head tilts. Ikuto? Where has she heard that name before. She taps her chin before. Something....something..... naughty cat... something. Nothing she can remember. Maybe she was too busy thinking that day Tadase was talking her ear off when she was helping with work in the tea garden or something.

She smiles. "Sure then!" she says. "I'mma gonna stay Cure Gull thou!" she insists. Look. You learn the ID after the /third/ date. Right!?

Corvus nods matter of factly. Ids are important!.....

Even though almost everyone knows hers.

Why does she suddenly care again!?

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon's eyes widen to about ten times their normal size at the tiny sort of kitty sort of , and soon she is a fidgety ball of Must Be Professional.

"YOU ARE SO CUTE I WANNA HUG YOU!"

Nailed it!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull is suddenly floating away on her wings to burgers. She stops and turns around. "Uh. Meet you guys there!" she says.

Ikuto Tsukiyomi has posed:
"AAAAH! Ikuto, Ikuto, help me-nya!" Yoru shrieks as he hides behind Ikuto's shoulder. Girls are SCARY, man! Meanwhile Ikuto looks over his shoulder at the hiding Guardian Character, brow quirked.

Gull makes to leave, and Ikuto looks back at Usagi, with a smirk. "Choose well, Kitten hugs... or burgers?" he says as he starts to walk after Gull. Once he's out of the immediate area, he pauses, turns to look at Usagi, and smirks wickedly.. And then, with a pop and a tiny sparkle at the top of his head and just below the small of his back, his cat ears and tail reappear. It's not his full transformation, though... it's a Chara Change.

"I might save you a seat. If you get there fast enough." Then he does one of those super-leaps and lands on a building. And he's away to the burger place too!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Her jaw drops! Offended! "I choose both!"

But of course, he's probably out of ear shot. So she jumps after him. And he has kitty ears. And a tail. And she wants to hug him now, too, because kitties.

She chases after the group. BURGERS!