[@Shifter_Master][@PlatinumSkink][@t2wave]

	By the time Amber got to the Pit Stop, Alexander and Lily had already moved on. Which was probably for the best, considering the nature of what she was going to do. But Amber didn't intentionally miss them, that was just how things turned out. Amber had gotten lucky in that nobody stopped her to ask where her parents were. Well, not until she got inside the diner anyway.

	“Oh, aren't you adorable!” A waiter said. “Do you know where your mommy is?”

	“Yes.” Amber proceeded to walk past the waiter without speaking further. Man the city was a tough place to get around when you looked like a kid. It wasn't until Amber wasn't running through the cold air that she realized how little information she was working with. Where was everyone? Had they all left together? Amber knew she forgot to ask Sue a few things, but she was so eager to meet the Djinn sisters again that everything else slipped her mind. Amber started calling out names as she walked around the diner. “Lily! Sue! Alexander! Sakura! Violet! ...Mariette...” It wasn't like Amber knew what anyone's untransformed state looked like, save for Lily and Alexander. Well, even if they weren't here, there was someone else who was expecting to see Amber at the Pit Stop.

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[@Flamelord][@Shifter_Master][@Majoras End]

	Elroy was angry, not stupid. The two were easy to confuse sometimes. An angry person is more impulsive and tends to not consider the same number of variables as a calm person does. But rage can also make one more focused. Elroy was fully intent on breaking the cyborg below him. Even when Penny moved completely behind him,  He still tried to look through his massive shoulder at her. This didn't work, but he clearly knew she was there.

	Fortunately for Penny, she was correct in assuming that Elroy couldn't adjust his trajectory in the air. He descended to earth with his metal boulder in tow and slammed into the ground like a meteor falling from the hevens. Elroy's landing zone had become a crater, and the dirt and stone that use to inhabit that area were thrown in every direction. The debris were by no means dangerous to a magical girl, but it did limit visibility in Elroy's vicinity. More dangerous was the shock wave. Even people further away from the quake like Alicia and Scout would find it difficult to keep their footing. Penny, and conceivably Elroy too, could feel the force behind the attack. If Elroy wasn't holding onto a boulder, And Penny wasn't so close to the ground, they probably would have lost their balance too. It was difficult for anyone to act with the earth shaking so violently, especially those who hadn't braced themselves for the impact. Scout shot her rifle at Elroy. But between losing her balance, the dust from the impact, and all the dark zones on the battlefield, it was impossible for her to tell exactly where Elroy was. She did her best to guess, but still ended up missing. After transforming, Scout attempted to taunt Elroy into attacking her. But Scout's attempts to get the giant's attention were unsuccessful. He was much more focused on the magical girl that “killed” Regina.

	Penny's gambit seemed to be paying off. Even after that last attack, Penny would be able to resume her charge directly into the giant red ape's back. But unlike most opponents, Elroy's back wasn't an undefended weak point. This was where his seemingly endless supply of chain stemed from. He couldn't see Penny, but Elroy knew she was there. The transformed demon boy would charge into the shop's wreckage while flailing his chains like whips. He had left behind that massive bolder, but all the scrap metal was starting to take shape. Though it was still too early to tell what he was doing.

...

	Even though Regina had braced for it, the shock nearly threw Regina to the floor. Had she not been crouching beside the wall, she probably would have been on her face right now. But that wasn't really on Regina's mind at the moment. She needed to assess the situation. It was time to look out the “window” with the scope and see what was up.

	As Regina had suspected, Alicia was able to recover from the curse rather quickly. She wished she had gotten to see her recover from it, just to confirm she used light magic. It was still entirely possible she drank a potion or something. Wait, were there such potions? Regina wouldn't be able to learn as much about magic from this battle as she initially thought. Oh well. Regina would have to stick with her original idea. 

	Or at least she would have if she didn't hear the sound of another rifle firing. What was this? Beacon reinforcements? Regina waved her staff in the air to call five more magic mortars into existence. Soon afterwords Scout stepped out of her hiding spot and attempted to taunt Elroy. Oh, aren't you a mouthy little brat? Perhaps the experiments weren't quite over yet. Regina swung her sniper staff and lobbed one of her mortars at the newly arrived magical girl. Shortly afterwords, Regina stepped into a shadow only to reappear on a lower floor. She felt she was giving away her position by constantly attacking from the same vantage point. If Scout got caught in the blast, she wouldn't be able to see anything going on outside the dome of magic. That, and she would feel dizzy as long as she was standing inside the cursed zone. The vertigo curse affects the inner ear, causing the people inflicted by it to feel like the world is spinning, or like they spun around a few too many times in an office chair.