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Aegis rose up from under the rubble created by their impact before the  dust it spread had even settled. The blonde's uniform was completely ruined, with dirty and long, ripped off bits revealing her underwear, however, she wasn't even scratched. If anything had been broken on Aegis it wasn't in her body, but rather her patience which seemed to wane almost completely after falling to such a ploy on the part of the corrupted magical girls.

[b][color=ffcc00]"Great, first my books and now my uniform. What do you plan on taking next, you dimwitted grasshopper?"[/color][/b] she said in an irritated tone, patting off the grayish chunks of concrete that stuck to whatever was left of her clothes while glaring daggers at Touka.

[b][color=springgreen]"I'd like to say your life, but we have a rule against that."[/color][/b] Red Wire landed above her enemy, balancing precariously on a construction beam. The majority of the action was back the way they came, a factor she had been counting on. Now they were alone. [b][color=springgreen]"And a bigger rule against those who break it. You wanna tell me who you are? What you're doing in my city?"[/color][/b] Wire crouched down, sneering at Aegis with a sharp grin. [b][color=springgreen]"You're awfully suspicious showing up days after a Magical Girl got murdered. I know you reek of light too, but that doesn't mean anything when we get down to it...."[/color][/b]

[b][color=ffcc00]"This again?"[/color][/b] Aegis said, holding back the urge to facepalm. [b][color=ffcc00]"Did the corruption affect your brain tissue as well? Wait, don't answer that, I already know it,"[/color][/b] she followed up with an obviously antagonistic barb.

[b][color=ffcc00]"Look, whoever you are. I don't have the whole night to waste, so, if you go away now, I promise that I won't make you go to the dentist this close to New Year's. I heard they charge a fortune during the Holiday season,"[/color][/b] Aegis said, shooing Touka as if she were some kind of pesky bug that wasn't even worth the effort of squashing.

[b][color=springgreen]"Wow, you must be a riot at parties. Problem is dear, you walked into [i]my[/i] city. Without an invitation,"[/color][/b] Wire said right back, eyes narrowing. [b][color=springgreen]"All you had to do was plead innocent and this could have been a lot quicker. But you're still dodging the question. Kind of makes you look guilty, doesn't it?"[/color][/b] The dark girl rose up to her full height now, staring down the other Magical Girl. At the same time, a lance, gleaming from the dark night, landed where her foot was. [b][color=springgreen]"About time...."[/color][/b] Swiping the weapon, she crushed it with one grip, a sudden surge of negative magic flowing through her; of this, no doubt, Aegis could sense.

[b][color=springgreen]"You've got an attitude that needs to be taken down. Even if you're not a murderer, you just piss me off. And I break whatever pisses me off,"[/color][/b] she said, intent to fight cutting clear in the air.

[b][color=ffcc00]"It's not my fault if you cannot see the culprit hiding right under your nose,"[/color][/b] Aegis said, staring upward at Touka. [b][color=ffcc00]"But you know what, that's not the point here anymore. You are getting on my nerves more than that fool with the ring blade. If you want to blow off steam so much, I'll take you on that one,"[/color][/b] she said before a momentary flash of light engulfed her form. When it disappeared, Aegis's clothes had changed to [url=https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3221288]something[/url] more suitable to wear in a fight against another magical girl.

[b][color=ffcc00]"Furthermore, there's something... different about you. Something eerily familiar that really gets on my nerves. I guess you can only blame yourself for showing up before me while I'm in an exceptionally bad mood!"[/color][/b] Aegis finished her sentence, summoning a massive sword to her hand and slashing the air, sending a scythe-like blade of light flying towards Touka.

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[b][color=springgreen]"Ooh, someone's getting serious. But you're right about one thing,"[/color][/b] Red Wire mused, noting the transformation and crescent of light heading right towards her. [b][color=springgreen]"The culprit's right under my nose, whether she likes it or not!"[/color][/b] As opposed to leaping away from the attack, Red Wire rocketed forward, down towards her opponent. Her body mauvered to the side, barely avoiding the crescent of light. At the same time, she spun about to launch a propelled kick right for Aegis' chest.

Aegis didn't even bother with more talk past this point. The foolishness of this act was hurting the blonde in a whole other level. Even so, she couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong with the flying brocolli right before her eyes. She hoped it was a false alarm, but there was only one way to be sure of it. At least one that Aegis cared for at this moment.

The diving kick didn't go unnoticed by Aegis, who shrugged at the sight of the maneuver. [b][color=ffcc00]"It seems like a certain someone really wanted to be a tokusatsu hero,"[/color][/b] she said under her breath as she sidestepped the attack and grabbed Touka's ankle before flinging the green girl at a partially exposed steel beam. [b][color=ffcc00]"Such a shame she's fighing on the wrong side..."[/color][/b]

[b][color=springgreen]"So you can make jokes too? Now I know you've gotta be hiding something."[/color][/b] Aegis' strength was comedable, flinging Wire away like a tossed bug. As she flew in the air, she curled her body and spun about with deadly speed before landing feet planted on the beam. [b][color=springgreen]"You're not helping your case. And frankly, I don't think I care if you're the killer or not. Make this easy for both of us and turn yourself in."[/color][/b]

With a smirk, Wire held up one hand, revealing a wire running from her wrist to the end of the line, coiled around Aegis' own. With a yank that took more strength than she would have liked, she forced the other girl forward. As Aegis stumbled, she was already leaping off into the air, spinning behind her to plant a nice kick to the back of her head.

[i][color=ffcc00]"Hmph, not bad for a pretentious little bug,"[/color][/i] Aegis thought as Touka yanked her off her feet before attempting a complicated attack to the back of her head. Certainly, very few, if any of the girls that Aegis found until now would be able avoid such a chaotic and furious strike, but.. [b][color=ffcc00]"Mom would never let me hear the end of it, if I fell for such a choreographed strike,"[/color][/b] Aegis said. The blonde used the flap of her sword as a shield, intercepting Touka's kick and severing the wires the connected both of them at the same time.

The force of the other girl's blow was still strong enough to throw Aegis through a wall for the second time in a single evening, forcing a really irritated groan out of her, followed up by a solid beam of light tearing away everything between Touka and an angry Aegis.

Said beams of light were not what Wire was expecting, and she chose to dodge the attack as opposed to following up or blocking. Leaping to another support beam, she watched the massive wave of pure light roar and rumble past her. Along with the earlier sword strike, Aegis was doing a well-off job of making the construction site more of a mess. [b][color=springgreen]"Sheesh, you Angels are no joke...."[/color][/b] Wire grumbled, looking back to where her enemye was standing.

Wires ripped and squirmed out of her wrists, cocooning themselves over her hands. A fine mesh of armor ending in enlarged claws was the result of this. Scraping them together, Wire shot off once again at Aegis, this time hacking and slashing away with hew new toys. [b][color=springgreen]"Give up cause I can outlast even you!"[/color][/b]

[b][color=ffcc00]"I'm an Angel, not an insurance company worker. It's not my fault that you are leaping around like a bug instead of letting me end this in one clean shot,"[/color][/b] Aegis said as she swung her sword blocking and parrying Touka's ferocious assault. The few hits that got through her active defenses would still struggle to deal any damage as they had to contend with Aegis' armor-like aura of light.

[b][color=ffcc00]"If you haven't noticed, I still haven't even broke a sweat yet. This fight isn't gonna end before it's time for little girls like you to go to bed, so why don't you give up already?"[/color][/b] Aegis followed her taunt with a punch aimed straight at Touka's gut, intent on knocking the wind out of her for good.

How readily Wire had a retort, only to have her stomach churned violently. She gasped and gagged, Aegis' fist landing hard in her gut and shoving her away. The dark girl was sent flying, crashing several beams before finally finding her footing again. [b][color=springgreen]"Bitch...."[/color][/b] was all she could mutter, wiping some blood and spittle away from her lips as she glared in Aegis' general direction. [b][color=springgreen]"So you're one of those high and mighty types. It figures an Angel would be one, looking down on everyone else."[/color][/b]

Hissing, Wire launched forward again. This time though she leapt and spun for a high-powered divekick intent on forcing her boots into Aegis' face. Or so it appeared; no doubt the Angel would either dodge or sidestep away. Wire was banking on it, landing just behind Aegis while the wires she had left trailing behind her snapped onto her form. With magic circulating into her muscles, Wire leapt off once again, the wires still holding her enemy. Spin and spin she did in midair before hurling Aegis straight downard. And given they were both high up in the half-torn building, the Angel had a lone way to plummet. 

[b][color=springgreen]"Start looking down on me from there,"[/color][/b] Wire snarled, dropping from the air to continue her assault.

Aegis had a look of shock stamped all over her face after Touka's last maneuver. The reason for such was less because it was something that she didn't see coming from a mile ahead and more about how the other girl could be so persistent to the point of almost seeming blind.

[b][color=ffcc00]"You gotta be really thankful that I'm not into breaking my openent's will, like a few certain people I know,"[/color][/b] Aegis said more to herself than Touka as she spun in the air just enough to land on her feet. Sure, she could have caught herself during the drop and avoid hitting the ground altogether if she decided to fly, but that wouldn't accomplish much. Not in this situation.

Instead, Aegis held her sword with both hands and swung it, shooting another, much wider scythe-like beam towards Touka. [b][color=ffcc00]"Now, let's see you try to dodge this while you're airborne!"[/color][/b]

The increased width of the beam only made it more and more difficult to maneuver in the air. So Wire chose not to, leaping from one falling debris to the next, zipping along speedily. As she passed by them, her wires would trail behind and coil around. Once they tightened and connected, the dark girl would twist and turn, spinning around like a deadly wheel. As a result, every bit of steel and building she caught was subsequently hurled right at Aegis and her beam. It was as if the building itself was raining down upon her. [b][color=springgreen]"Did you think I didn't come prepared? Whoever can kill Magical Girls deserves my very best!"[/color][/b]

From this short of a range Aegis didn't have much time to avoid being buried under tons of concrete and twisted metal. Something that even she wasn't likely to come out unscathed from in her current state. Instead of risking that, she rose a hand in the air, casting a temporary shield just  long enough to absorb the brunt of the impact, and taking the rest of the damage.

[b][color=ffcc00]"Unbelievable, are you still on that page?"[/color][/b] she said amid some light coughing, after bursting away the debris that fell over her. At long last, Touka's attacks succeeded in doing some real damage to her, though, with some of her dress ripped, and a few minor wounds spread around Aegis' arms and legs. [b][color=ffcc00]"Do I have to spell it out for you or what? I'm not the person you are looking for!"[/color][/b] the blonde shouted in an enraged voice, throwing away some of the rubble near her with the sheer force of her aura.

[b][color=springgreen]"Do I need to spell it out for you?"[/color][/b] Wire's voice came from the side. And from above. And below. Jumping all over from one point to the next, she leapt at Aegis and lashed out with punches, kicks, and swipes of her wired claws. [b][color=springgreen]"I don't care if you're the killer. If I say you are, then you will be!"[/color][/b] Even this onslaught was a precursor to what she had in mind and she suddenly jetted away from Aegis, putting some distance between them.

She stared the other girl dead in the eye, arms held out to her side before thrusting them forward in a violent fashion. At once the tell-tale sounds of metal ripping and supports failing became clear and soon, the spiraling tower of steel would not only come crashing down on Aegis but the sides as well, forced together to squish the Angel. [b][color=springgreen]"I came prepared to bring down whoever was stupid enough enter [i]my[/i] city, stupid enough to make themselves a target to pin blame on. Or did you think I was going to go easy on you,"[/color][/b] Wire said, nearly having to shout with so much steel and concrete roaring down on her foe.

[b][color=ffcc00]"Ok, that does it,"[/color][/b] Aegis said as the last shreds of her patience got burnt to ashes. What followed the blonde's cold fury was an attack of a whole other order of magnitude compared to all that she did until now. A roaring pillar of light extended towards the heavens, like the legendary tower the ancient humans built to challenge God's might, anihilating everything it touched. [b][color=ffcc00]"If you don't give up on this stupid idea now, I can't guarantee that you will get out of this in one piece. Holding back my blows is beginning to become very troublesome, you know?"[/color][/b] Aegis shouted over the sound of the cascade of broken debris and purging light.

[b][color=springgreen]"And you're starting to get old with that same excuse!"[/color][/b] Wire halted her collapse of the building, bringing her arms up to try and block the light. What resulted were burns beginning to form on her arms, causing her to hiss in pain and jump away into one of the few remaining patches of shadow the torn building had to offer. [b][color=springgreen]"Do you ever shut up? Because you spend more time bitching about holding back than [i]fighting me[/i]."[/color][/b]

Like a demon enraged, Wire lunged from her hiding place and aimed herself like a cannonball towards Aegis. She shifted here and there, picking up speed and bouncing between the falling building's contents. At the same time, more and more wires leaked out from her wrists, trailing behind her. It was only until she forcibly spun herself in the air like a top that the wires snapped taut, surrounding the buzzing whirling form that was Red Wire. She was a bullet now, shredding through whatever light she could to plunge down upon Aegis.

Very well, then. If the brocolli wanted a fight, she would have it now that Aegis had throughtly lost her patience to try and convince her of getting away while she could. The blonde lowered her stance, getting a better grip on her sword, as Touka zoomed towards her at bullet-like speeds. It almost looked like Aegis was going to shoot another wave of energy at the dark magical girl, however, this time Aegis waited until the very last moment and intercepted Touka's strike with a swing of her blade.

Fast and hard, the golden edge rose to meet its mark. The moment it made contact, Aegis twisted its hilt, releasing a shockwave to kill some of Touka's momentum. The counter attack didn't end there, though as the blonde's weapon revealed that it had a few tricks of its own, like being able to break apart. The wider blade that Aegis was swinging until now was nothing but a sheath for a second, slimmer and much faster sword that Aegis swung down on Touka's unprotected back with inhuman agility. The best the blonde could do to ensure that her blow would be as non-lethal as possible was coat her weapon with light and use it to smash Touka against the ground like a hammer, hopefully ending the demented girl's temper tantrum.

The pulsing negativity throbbing off of the serraded bullet that had become Wire's spinning form wafted all throughout the night air. It met Aegis' sword swings blow for blow as light hissed and sparked from the impact. The initial swing held Wire, who had become a living drill at this point, back at bay and held there by her power alone. What the dark girl wasn't expecting, however, was Aegis' true weapon. Like a coiled link of chains being unfurled for the first time, the blade extended out and slammed into her with all the force of an Angel scorned.

Blood spattered somewhere out of Wire's spinning form, though her drill-like state didn't cease. It pushed back with all of the hatred and respite dormant in the girl's soul, forcing the both of them down, down, down until at last, they had each crashed into the earth below. The impact had slammed both girls at long last away from each other, Wire having been sent skidding thanks to Aegis' forcing her against the ground. Finally, her drill had been broken though with dust coating the area and blanketing any vision, she was bruised, bloodied, and now blinded to where her opponent could possibly be.

[b][color=ffcc00]"And now, to end this!"[/color][/b] Aegis said as she came from behind Touka almost as if she had teleported. The blonde girl swung her sword in a tight arc intent on disabling Touka with a slice to the neck that she knew that wouldn't be lethal for a magical girl as long as Aegis avoided hitting the green-haired girl's emblem, which she could easily tell the location of. [b][color=ffcc00]"I'm sorry but this is the best I can do to avoid further harm,"[/color][/b] she added just as she felt her blade connect with the girl's flesh, but still unable to see the result of her strike thanks to all the dust.

Though perhaps there was no need to see the labors of her work; not when Aegis could clearly feel the soft pressure that was her blade cutting through bone and flesh. No sooner did it pass through that a horrid, anger-stricken screech fill the air. The dust slowy ebbing away, Wire was left gripping her left side, which was little more than a hacked stump in red. Her arm lay somewhere among the debris and she stumbled backwards against a slab of rock.

[b][color=springgreen]"You bitch!!"[/color][/b] she seethed, all notion of barbs and banter replaced with a hot, burning wave of hatred. [b][color=springgreen]"You bitch, you bitch, you bitch-gaaaah!"[/color][/b] Wire snarled, snapping her sharp jaws manically into the open air, writhing around as more hot blood spilled from her discarded arm. Despite the wound and red seeping down, there were no veins that connected her arm to her shoulder; instead, what were seen were a mass tangle of wires, keeping the two as one albiet not connected. [b][color=springgreen]"I'll kill you! I'll kill, KILL you!!"[/color][/b]

[b][color=ffcc00]"That's not what I--"[/color][/b] Aegis stopped herself short of making a shocked apology over the result of her miscalculated strike when she saw what happened to Touka's arm. The look of shock morphed into surprise as she dismissed her sword with no more interest in this fight at the moment. [b][color=ffcc00]"What in the world happened to you?"[/color][/b] she asked at the sight of the wires coming out of the girl's body.

However, Aegis would not be around to wait for answer. The chilling wave of darkness that spread all through the city caught her attention. [b][color=ffcc00]"I'll find you again, but this is more important right now,"[/color][/b] Aegis said before retreating from their ruined battleground, in search of the origin of the renewed Nightmares. The response Wire gave was nothing short of an estranged garble of curses and snarls.

As Aegis left from their battle grounds, so too did Wire. Clutching her barely connected arm, she leapt away to recover, eventually stumbling into a dark alleyway. Once again she was far and away from the action, finally finding a spot to collapse her back against the ground. But there was no pain or regret burning her gaze as she stared at the stars above her, ears deaf to the chaos laying siege on her city. There was only a burning, bubbling anger that cooled into seething hatred. As once again began to snarl and screech, some of the wires connecting her arm snapped away, lashing out at whoever or whatever dared to intrude upon her rage, leaving large scorch marks into the alley walls.

[b][color=springgreen]"KANBARUUUUU!! ALANNAHHHH!!!!"[/color][/b]
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