[h2]Shirai Kuroko[/h2]

"It smells like food," the teleporter confirmed, trying to work out where the singing was coming from. Like the knight, Kuroko was feeling that heading for the source of the smell would be the most likely way to find out how and why they were here--and how to get back home again. Though a grumbling in her stomach reminded her that it would be approaching time for dinner if they were back in Academy City...

"I think we should," was the small girl's reply to the question--and then she stretched out one hand to touch Lucia, offering the other to Mikoto. What followed was probably thoroughly confusing to the knight: a series of rapid changes in scenery that, with some effort, could be resolved as moving rapidly towards the source of the smell and the noise. There was no guarantee that the food had been that nearby and maybe if they didn't hurry, the sounds would stop as suddenly as they started.

Kuroko stopped the sequential teleports when the source was located--a small girl manning a stall and... some other girl stealing Takoyaki? Hopefully Onee-sama wouldn't respond to the crime in her usual manner...

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[h2]Reinhardt Wilhelm and Ana Amari[/h2]

To say that the pair's attitude changed quickly--Reinhardt's jovial demeanour sobering up and Ana's hand snapping towards her belt--was an understatement. The sight of something so obviously dead walking around (and wasn't that an uncomfortable reminder of Gabriel?) earned responses that, once conscious, were now nothing more than the most basic of combat instincts. A small pistol shot a dart full of sleeping agent to no effect...

... and the old man's wrist came up, presenting the lion's head towards the enemy. Faster than the human eye could follow, hexagonal panels of blue rippled out around it, until a massive translucent barrier kept the newcomer from the humans. Helmet dropped to the ground, Reinhardt's other hand was now wrapped firmly around the handle of his massive hammer, ready to smash this monster if it made a single attack.

[b]"MONSTER! I will not allow you to harm anyone!"[/b]

Ana, of course, had already recognised that her sleeping dart was ineffective (yet another uncomfortable parallel) and was instead pulling up her Biotic rifle. With the potential for a fight, the singing and the smell of good food were quite the secondary thing to pay attention to now.