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[color=deeppink]"I formally retract my previous statement."[/color]

[color=888888]— Willow[/color][/center]

The situation was about to fall into chaos, but not in ways that Willow could have foreseen. Surely her fellow club members didn’t need to be told explicitly what her plan was. She couldn’t say it herself as a matter of principle. Who would answer the call of a beckoning cat that always lied? 

Things started to go south before Willow even stopped yapping. Was she trying to talk to the goat girl. [color=ff1493]"What are you talking about? She stole my phone to play Wuthering Waves! I’m not going to stand for having chinese anticheats running on my phone! How else was I supposed to react?"[/color] Her lips were pulled into a snarl once she realized what she was doing. [color=ff1493]"Now here’s a real question, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO REACT TO THIS!?!?!"[/color] 

Black Gate rolled off the back of the steed, bouncing along the road. A normal human would need medical attention, but the goat girl managed to rise to her feet. Even with so many wounds, she stumbled towards the back allies. 

[color=ff1493]"SON OF A BI-"[/color]

Willow had not released Hizuki, and her armor flaking off hadn’t addicted her grip at all. But she was going wherever the light girl was flying. [color=ff1493]"Hizuki! I need to trade you for Acid Drop’s safety! They think I kicked your ass STOP RUINING EVERYTHING!"[/color] 

But Willow didn’t have the means to stop Hizuki’s flight, and she flew straight towards. Speed was not important, because even if Hizuki wasn’t moving as fast as she could, Pearl was flying towards her plenty fast. Rather than fire, she stumbled backwards and nearly fell off the back of the shield. Hizuki’s spear closed the distance. But it stopped just an inch away from her nose. Not only that, but Pearl didn’t fall off the back of the shield. 

Standing between the two was Morganite. While Pearl’s heels were off the side of the shield, her arm was firmly in Morganite's grip. Morganite’s other hand was on Hizuki’s spear, and had slowed it down just enough to stop it from hitting its target. Her second shield floated up behind Pearl, and she allowed the girl to sink to her knees on the trailing shield. 

[color=ffc0cb]"Hizuki! Iz me!"[/color] Morganite patted her chest. [color=ffc0cb]"Iz ya friend Morganite! Ya remember me, ‘ight? All da poinaz and miseria slayin’ we did?"[/color] It wasn’t that much, but it was more than she had done with anyone else. She must have noticed some surprise in Hizuki’s face, because she started to look concerned.  [color=ffc0cb]"Are ya okay? We’z da good guyz. Wez here ta make sure everyone getz outa dis okay."[/color] 

[color=ff1493]"Hahahahahaha!"[/color] Willow had planted her legs on the far side of the shield, and was madly playing on her violin. [color=ff1493]"Talk to her all you want, ‘heroes,’ but she’s under the effect of my music! She fights for me and no one else!"[/color] 

Morganite growled. [color=ffc0cb]"We gotz ta save Hizuki!"[/color] She attempted to pull Hizuki into a hug and wrestle her weapon away from her.

Pearl nodded, then her shield shifted so that she had a better vantage point of Willow. She fired another lazer, this time cutting the cat girl’s ear clean off. [color=ff1493]"Oh, well, looks like I’ve become Beethoven, now."[/color]

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[color=00ff00]"Urge to kill… Rising."[/color]

[color=888888]— Dazzling Diamond[/color][/center]

Naturally, things weren’t any less chaotic around Tsubomi.

It looked like Topaz might turn the poor girl into a ritualistic sacrifice. Though with her hands high above her head, Nyxia saw an opportunity to slice them off. A cruel attack, but one directed at someone who she deeply hated. But if there’s one thing that they teach you in school, it’s that a frog’s tongue is plenty fast. In an attempt to delay Topaz and save her from losing her hands, she was pulled back before Nyxia could slice her through. There was a darkened line on the back of her wrist where she had started to cut through. 

Now was not the time to play twenty questions, but the frog girl deserved some acknowledgement for keeping her hands intact. [color=fab35f]"My arrows can’t hurt people, darlin."[/color] As if to demonstrate, she stabbed her arm. The wound on her wrist started to close. [color=fab35f]"My arrows are filled with positive emotions. Love and happiness ain’t ever killed nobody."[/color] 

In the right situation, it was a devastating weapon however. Miseria were constructs of negative emotions, as were the familiars of dark girls. Dark girls themselves were fueled by negative emotions, so they likely impaired them in some way. 

Something Evil Eye would soon discover.

There were only two arrows stuck in Oros, and they were not hard to remove. As soon as Evil Eye gripped the shaft, they turned into gold flakes and fell to the ground. There was no wound left behind, so if the head of the arrow needed to be removed, she would need to make an incision and try to dig it out. But given that the arrows faded into nothing on touch, it wasn’t clear if she would even find anything. 

[color=ff6347]"Heyyyyyyy therrrrrrrre."[/color] Oros tipped her head up, and her hair spilled to either side of her face. She had the same stupid grin on her face that time she kissed Evil eye while also having her mind taken over by her influence. Only her eyes were really wet, and not with blood. [color=ff6347]"I’m glaaaaaad you decided to come over to my house tonight. We got stuff for smores, yup."[/color] She laid her head down. [color=ff6347]"Hot pockets and pizza bites. We just need to microwave them, babe. Then we got soda for days."[/color] Her eyes were running over with tears. [color=ff6347]"Ahhh, things would have gone better on a do over. I should have just invited you after school."[/color] She was still for all of two seconds before immediately ugly crying. 

Shatterscape was up to pitch, and Diamond was ready to play ball. The umpire seemed to have passed out, but was waking up. Their power had been untested, but shatterscape approached with the certainty that at least one of her sisters would be there to offer backup. Given her proximity to Tsubomi, there would be no getting between Diamond and the dark girl she was [color=ffffff]"protecting."[/color] Not without the aggressive power to back up her charge. But in a battle with so many people on every front, and with (almost) no one paying attention to anything but their own selfish goals, Hotaru was left without her much needed backup. She pitched her claw, but the batter didn’t strike out. 

The batter’s bat had grown in size. The end had turned into a giant corn dog for extra reach. She caught Hotaru’s waist and flung her through the air. The deep fried treat broke apart and littered the ground with saturated fats. It wasn’t quite a home run, as Hotaru’s claws didn’t make her too aerodynamic. But it was an opportunity for Earthshaker to slip by. 

She had passed the batter and she had passed the frog, and now she was closing in on the cupid. Kaeru was there, but was she even paying attention to the dark girl charging up from behind her? Diamond was also chasing Earthshaker now. Topaz had just been cut by a lazer, and was rather attuned to what was going on downfield of her. She scrambled back to her feet and prepared an arrow. 

Finally, Boleite showed up. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to know things were getting crazy. But as frantic as the scene was, she could spot the pissed off prune of a magical girl with a giant deathray. That didn’t seem like the sort of thing you just let walk around. So when she saw her laser focus was on Topaz, she took aim herself. The front of her cannon powered up instantly, and she fired.

It was a frantic scene to be sure. The sort of fight that could carry on for days if not weeks. If only there was some goth mommy to fall into the area and prevent that from happening…