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Mariette eventually realized she did have the Queen’s notebook in her pocket. She’s just going to have ??? photocopy every page as quickly as possible and then drop it through a portal onto the exact site you end up on if you Overcity Shift from the Queen’s castle. Because it’d be a real pain if the queen had someone use Absolute Direction and was able to both find it was in Mariette’s base AND find where Mariette’s base was in the process. Not that it was particularly hard to find.

Mariette was then going to open a portal over the battlefield, peek at what was going on. She needed to recover Mayra…

Though perhaps that’d take a bit longer than that.

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Mayra lay in wait, prepared to launch to Penny’s rescue… but basically found that she didn’t really need to. It seemed like Penny was handling her own, which was pretty annoying. Not to mention here came whatever else kind of supernatural attack and- ooh, it’s red fire guy! They fought together earlier! He was attacking the queen!?

Well, Mayra kinda wanted to save him, too. So Mayra braced for, specifically, the queen’s counter-attack. After the attack, whatever was the result for it, Penny vanished, but Mayra was ready to fire herself off to go to Finn’s aid. They were back-to-back badasses before, Mayra could totally save him again!

Now, time-wise this is a little bit wonky on account the Queen likely reacted and possibly counter-reacted directly after the attack, and Mayra had likely launched herself into the fray to help defend Finn from the counter-attack of some kind (albeit she would only help with a fireball, she doesn’t care enough to actually jump in the way of an attack), but at some point there she’d be a little sad to realize Penny had vanished and then Penny would talk into her ear. Something about Mariette because the Queen had arrived through a portal.

[color=fc6828]‘Eh, Mariette will be fiiiiiiine,’[/color] Mayra answered, almost gleefully. [color=fc6828]‘More importantly, are you fine? I was ready to jump out and help you, ya know! The perfect opportunity just didn’t present itself!’[/color] she said, in the midst of whatever she was currently doing.

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For the twins, it seemed that things calmed down. Others were doing the fighting, and MDP came in clutch to put all the men to sleep. It was a bit unfortunate, Eli thought, as it would have helped if they could have carried the guys over on their own feet, would have probably gone faster, but eh, what can you do. And then they got glomped. I forget if they’ve actually met MDP since being changed.

[color=55B7AA]‘Hahaha! It’s the Dream Princess! You saved us! We gotta talk more later!’[/color] Ronin laughed at the glomp and did her best to glomp right back.

[color=DC9495]‘Oh, my. Close contact. Hello, princess. It’s good to see you,’[/color] Miko giggled a little too, but it seemed like the time had come when they could relax a little. Emphasis on a little, because the battle was still waging over there. Then there was Aurelio.

[color=DC9495]‘Oh, it’s you…’[/color] Miko made a possibly strange comment towards Aurelio. [color=DC9495]‘Thank you for coming to our aid. Both and all of you,’[/color] Miko continued.

[color=DC9495]‘Now, then. Sister. We need to move the civilians,’[/color] Miko commented, turning to the civilians.

[color=55B7AA]‘And we have the perfect tools for that, don’t we?’[/color] Ronin smirked. [color=55B7AA]‘Stand back, princess! It’s our turn to shine!’[/color] 

The two twins grabbed each others hands, and now undisturbed, they could amass their magic. By themselves, they were nobody special, but together…

[color=DC9495]‘With the power of wind…’[/color] Miko said.
[color=55B7AA]‘With the power of floating platforms!’[/color] Ronin called with a chuckle.

[color=DC9495]‘Let’s see them to their destinations.’[/color] 

With that, the two unleashed a great deal of the magic they had left, in order to send out a low wind paired with miniature platforms that would attempt to pick up as many of the fallen civilians as they could. The wind would pierce in under them, lifting them just the slightest from the ground, and thin rectangular platforms manifested, allowing the civilians to lie on them as the twins used their combined magic to let a soft wind blow as many as they could over towards wherever the others were carrying them.

Were they able to carry all of them? Probably not. Were they able to carry more than they would if they just used their muscles to lift them one by one? Absolutely.