[b]Alicia Hayden[/b]

Leaving behind Kimble while keeping in mind her directions, she only paused for a moment as her gaze swept the foyer, settling on the hole in the floor ans the impact crater in the ceiling. "I see they were busy," she remarked. Just what had happened in here while they were finishing the fight outside?

There was little time to think about that however, and Penny took over in making them a path to the library by blowing out the walls. It might be a bit overly blunt, but for once Alicia could approve of Penny's destructive tendencies. It got them to June faster and that was all that mattered. Though she was also glad that they didn't hit anyone along the way there, that would have been a bit awkward. 

The sound of fighting spurred her forward, and she plunged further through the hole that Penny had made. They soon arrived at the library, entering into a massive room. There was no time to look at it, and she instead focused on the fight at hand. "June!" she cried, extending her palm and tried flaring a burst of light. Yet she doubted that it did any good, with the girls retreating in flight at the sudden arrival of reinforcements. 

As the fight came to a swift end, she quickly hurried over to June. "Are you alright? What happened?" she asked. It looked like it, relatively speaking, but she could tell that the rookie was scared. Glancing around, she couldn't help the involuntary clenching of teeth at the dead bodies. Not that she was angry at June, when the rookie had been stuck in a bad situation and had just acted to defend herself with no better options. She was new after all, so one couldn't expect too much of her.

No, her real anger was directed at Mariette. First she came to them seeking their help from a threat that she had enabled and helped make even worse, purely to save her own skin. And now she was taking advantage of the girls that she had previously abducted for her own purposes. She should have shot the portal user dead when she had the chance. 

She did her best to keep it repressed, and focused on the task at hand as she turned to face the others. "I don't know how, but Mariette, the portal girl serving the Horror who approached us about Justine before, she's somehow managed to get the brainwashing that Justine used on the girls they abducted to apply to herself instead. We all know what a Horror could do with an army of magical girls at it's command, so we need to stop her too if we can."

Admittedly she'd always planned to put an arrow in her back when the fight was over, but this changed things. A lot. 

"My magic can shake off the brainwashing, so I can work on that. I just wish I knew how the fight with Justine was going on," she muttered, glancing around as if she could somehow see through the walls and get an indication of how the battle was progressing. If they didn't need help then they could focus on stopping Mariette. but if they were in trouble then Beacon would have to help out.