[@Ariamis][@DarkwolfX37] [sub][sub](The last because potentially spying, without which there may not even have been reason to write this NPC fight XD)[/sub][/sub]

Victoria looked annoyed as Su jumped off, frowning after them. [color=9c87c9]‘Tsk, I’m the one challenging you!’[/color] … Though, then her focus turned to Helga, who was introducing herself. Victoria regained her grin. [color=9c87c9]‘Oh, well, you’ll do.’[/color]

Then… Helga blasted herself off towards Victoria with monstrous speed using her sound-cannons. [color=9c87c9]‘Wha-o,’[/color] Out of nowhere, a shield of ice sprouted in front of Victoria while her arms made a cross to block the attack. Helga at that speed was way too powerful to be stopped by a mere sheet of ice, and promptly slammed through it. Upon impact, a burst of cold emanated from the shield before it in turn shot back into Victoria, who was launched back towards a building. However, despite the speed she was hit with, Victoria regained control in mid-air and kicked her legs and leaned one gauntlet back into the building, where ice froze around her feet and hand in such a way she was now solidly attached to the wall. She grinned at Helga.

[color=9c87c9]‘Right! Okay, yeah, you’re probably faster and stronger than I am, hahaha! Stronger than me I’m used to, but faster? Woah. So this is a Magical Girl. Hahaha…’[/color] Victoria grinned, somewhat. [color=9c87c9]‘Yet, you’ll fall to the same trick as monsters will, won’t you?’[/color]

… Upon impact with Victoria’s shield a burst of cold had shot out, and it was now settling on Helga. She’d feel the cold ice in the atmosphere attaching itself to her muscles, cold and crystalizing, seeking to restrain her movements. Not a lot right now, it had only been one impact, but it was there and promised to be a pain if the fight turned long.

Victoria manifested a longsword of ice in each gauntlet, long and beautiful, smiling at her opponent. [color=9c87c9]‘En garde~!’[/color]

If Helga had continued to hunt after Victoria after the first blow, then Victoria would have made her speech while on the defensive, dodging and creating blocks of ice to defend herself as Helga pursued, each hit to an icy blockade sending another burst of ice to collect around her and seeking to freeze her muscles and joints. If Helga paused after realizing the effect Victoria’s ice was having on her, then Victoria instead went on the offensive, slicing with swords of ice and hitting with gauntlets, not intending to let Helga have the chance to brush off Victoria’s ice or think of another strategy to counter Victoria’s strategy…

[@BrokenPromise] Meanwhile.

The eyepatched girl was already part-way turning around when Su floated up, lifting her metal hands in case she needed them in battle. Her one visible eye widened as Su threw the flash-stone. She lifted her huge metal hand in the direction, and from within her huge coat pieces of metal slunk out and flew to meet the stone… and then it flashed hard. [color=a699ad]‘ACK!’[/color] she made a noise.

Then, Su flew into the neighboring window. She came into an apartment with nothing of note, just bookshelves and couches and a TV, but a door deeper into the building and a path to where she had left the girl behind. She pressed on to search-

[color=a699ad]‘KAH!’[/color] A giant metal hand burst through the wall between the girl and Su, the eyepatched bunny-coat girl grinning widely as she came through with quite a bit of wall debris. [color=a699ad]‘TOO BAD! WRONG TARGET FOR A FLASHBANG! NOT VERY EFFECTIVE! HAHAHAHA!’[/color] Saying so, the girl swiped with her metal hand, which was significantly larger than before and covered a significant amount of the height of the apartment. It seemed at first that she was too far away to hit with the swipe, the girl’s metal manipulation on her her own limbs extended the arm and thereby the swipe, intending the giant metal hand to tear through furniture and Magical Girl alike. While her visible eye was red and partly closed after the flash, she didn’t seem to be particularly pained by it, and neither did she seem blinded. Su had her job cut out for her yet.

… 

[@DarkwolfX37]

[color=9c87c9]‘Hi. Enjoying the show?’[/color]

The Shion that had gotten closer to peek at the skeleton army and possibly the fight suddenly felt a shill of cold and notice [url=https://i.imgur.com/3tj5n3Y.jpg]another Victoria[/url] alike the one fighting had walking in beside her, identical to the one down there currently fighting Helga. Now, duplication should not be a foreign concept to Shion, but still. Another Victoria was right there beside her all of a sudden, smiling slyly at her.