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(21) | (20) | (21) | (8) | (5)

(Metal & Lightning & Gravity) | (Regen & Copy Cat)

(Bile) | (Tooth and Claw) | (Evolution) | (Enhanced Uniform) | (Imortality)
(Monstrous Metamorph) | (Legacy) | (Enhanced Weapon) | (Dual Weapon) | (Gifted)

(ShineSpark) | (Perfect life) | (ManaFont)
(Vow:Hope) | (Excomunication)

(Redirected magic)  | (Second spec) | (Transport)
(Broken reincarnation) | (Non standard limbs) | (Debt)

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It was always dizzying the speed in which chaos can overwhelm a situation. It had only taken a few seconds, seconds that Penny was using to processes and fact check Nuncio’s story. And in that brief moment she knew that she had lost control of things. The tomato slapping into her barrier was proof of that. 

She herself was only a moment away from rushing to the defense of the girl who assaulted her. She doubted that it would go well, but Penny could not blame anyone here for their actions, or their fears. She would not let any of them come to harm for their actions against her if she could help it.

Dina’s arrival could not have come at a better time, and for that the robotic girl would be in the catgirl’s debt.

She followed Dina’s request, and watched those she proclaimed to watch over while Dina spoke, willingly meeting the eyes of any who looked back. As she did so she pulled up the black months she often ignored, the months of her life back before she came to Penrose. The months that broke Jason.

Penny would blink, once, after Dina finished speaking. The metal queen’s eyes changing from their warm gold to violent, electric blue. It would last only a second, but in that second the full weight of Penny’s mechanical nature picked over the situation. And came to a conclusion: too much logic, not enough emotion. She still had much to learn it seemed, as even with years of human interaction from Jason Penny was still a machine at her core.

With another blink her eyes were back to their soft gold and at last she met Dina’s gaze. She would give a subtle nod, thanks, an apology, and an acknowledgment all in one. Later she would tell her with more than soft actions, but for now she had people to sooth. For a moment as she turned back to the crowd there would be a hint of red that flickered across her eyes. She was going to need every advantage she could get after all.

[color=9e0039][u][b]“If I am to choose between all of you and staying with Beacon the answer to that question is simple”[/b][/u][/color] Penny would state simply, because it was simple, but by no means was it going to be easy. It was going to hurt. She paused for a moment as if taking a fortifying breath. The air around her would become charged as she ramped up her own copied Power of Friendship, and brought her Gravity to bear with more force. Her next words would have as much impact behind them as she could impart onto them.

[color=9e0039][u][b]“I will always choose you over Beacon”[/b][/u][/color]

And it was a truth; Penny wasn’t deeply entrenched into Beacon. She saw herself as on the fringes of the potent organization. She always knew that she would come to blows with the organization eventually due to this Sanctuary. She just hoped that Alicia would be able to forgive her for this, because Penny wasn’t sure she who she would pick if she was forced to choose between the Sanctuary and the Seraphim.

With her magic still, thrumming she brought her hand to her chest. With a soft whirring some of the plates of her chassis slid aside allowing her to reach into her own chest and a moment later she would withdraw something that by all rights shouldn’t exist within her body. It looked like a small glass sphere but it radiated such a powerful soft white light and, as far as Penny was aware, the first time that anyone had ever seen it, because it was the ShineSpark, made physical due to her altered magic.

[color=9e0039][u][b]“With your permission”[/b][/u][/color] She would say after giving everyone a moment to regard the treasure she held in her hand [color=9e0039][u][b]“I will call forth the Beckoner assigned to me to return this to them. I will let them know where it is I stand, where it is we stand. I would do it here” She would gesture to the platform she, Nuncio and Dina stood upon “In front of all of you, and I would do it as soon as I have your permission.”[/b][/u][/color]

“Wouldn’t that just let Beacon know where we are?” A voice from the crowd would yell out.

[color=9e0039][u][b]“Yes, but Beacon already knows. Because Cindy knows, and even then it has always been a matter of time before they found us.”[/b][/u][/color] Penny would reply [color=9e0039][u][b]“This space was never my final intention for the Sanctuary. It was simply the best place for it to start as it was my lair. It has always my intention to move us into the Bastion, a ship that is uniquely mine.”[/b][/u][/color] Perhaps it was earlier then she had intended to do such, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t move on to the Earth Bastion. It had more than enough space after all.

She would raise her hand holding the ShineSpark [color=9e0039][u][b]“So do I have your permission?”[/b][/u][/color] She would ask as she scanned the crowd [color=9e0039][u][b]“May I display for all of you to see where it is my heart stands?”[/b][/u][/color]

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[hider=Aurelio]
(5) | (6) | (5) | (13) | (13)

(Empathic & Illusion) | (Duplication)

(Enhanced weapon) | (Dual weapon) | (Masculinity) | (Gifted) | (Eternal style) | (Awareness) | (Enhanced transformation)

(Perfect life) | (Shine Spark) | (Transportation) 

(Excommunication) | (Vow: Kindness)
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Counter to his normal nature Aurelio made sure to stick to the background of the pre assault meeting. He was content to simply stand off to the side and watch, making sure to use his senses to the fullest. Small micro expressions were tracked with his Awareness, and each lick of feeling given off by their allies was noted and contemplated on.

It wasn’t exactly the most precise art but it was enough for him to get a general gist of everyone. Which honestly made his head hurt a bit, as there was basically no trust between the small groups that all arrived for this. Everyone had their own agenda, and more or less everyone knew that. It was times like this that being an empath sucked.

The thing that made it worse was the fact that he couldn’t really draw upon Sally’s presence for support at the moment. As that would tip off Justine that him being at her back was more than simple support, and he knew that which was contributing the head hurt.

He resisted the urge to run a hand though his hair. This all sucked. Still he would acknowledge his orders with a smile and a nod [color=fff79a]“They’ll be safe with us”[/color] which was true, and would be true until it wasn’t true. Gah! This all just grated on him, and his Vow. He wished that this would all work out for the best, but not even Sally’s luck was that good.

What he wouldn’t give to be able to pull out a deck of cards and start shuffling it, now if only that didn’t tip him off as being stressed.

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