"She [i]stole [/i]our [i]tails[/i]!!"

Actia is playing a game. Every time Cyanis comes back to that she does [i]one [/i]push up[1].

[1] A little fox magic and a high tensile elastic harness make that meaningful in zero G.

She expects to be able to fistfight Princess Qiu once her orbit sufficiently decays.

"I literally cannot believe it!" said Cyanis. "After everything we did! We saved the world! We literally saved it! Through the power of teamwork and friendship we defeated the giant enemy crab and she just [i]ditched [/i]us up here!"
"Are you proud of her?" asked Actia.
"WHAT!?"
"She finally did a fox move," said Actia. "Surely that reflects on your training."
"I never trained her to do anything of the sort!" said Cyanis. "This came out of nowhere!"
"Didn't you say -"
"A corruption inherent to her soul!!"
"- never get more tails if she didn't -"
"And to victimize an innocent little angel like me!"
"- seminar on tax evasion -"
"She is [i]literally [/i]worse than Emiya Shirou!"
"- that's going too far."
"No it is not!" said Cyanis. "And she abandoned us up here! We can't even get down! We're stuck up here for -"
"Three years based on current rates of orbital decay."
"LITERALLY FOREVER! You can't speed that up!?!"
"I could," said Actia. "But then I won't have the mana for the re-entry shield."
"NO FOX HAS EVER SUFFERED THIS BADLY," wailed Cyanis.
"I spent a thousand years sealed under a bridge," said Actia.
"Why do you have to make everything about you?" Cyanis accused.
"..."
"Why doesn't anyone ever think about me!?" said Cyanis. "It isn't fair! Why aren't there space shuttles coming up to rescue me? Why aren't crowds of cheering civilians chanting my name and sending me their spirit energy? Why do I never get a lucky break!? When is it going to be the Cyanis Route!?!?"
"Shh!" said Actia suddenly. Cyanis squeaked indignantly and blushed without dignity. "Do you feel that?"
"All I feel is the cold void of space," said Cyanis, even more annoyed at the brief duration of her silence.
"Look..." said Actia. "Over there. A ship?"
"Oh no!" said Cyanis. "The crabitalists are coming back! They're sending an invasion fleet! I'm sorry Katherine! I'm sorry I called you a Shirou! You are a good girl fox who will come up to rescue me, aren't you?!" she peaked the mike. "AREN'T YOU!?"
"It looks like it wants to land. I think I can boost us onto it," said Actia. "We can ride it down."
"Why is it always Mission Impossible shit with you Actie?" sighed Cyanis, slipping her tail around inside her spacesuit to wipe the spittle off the inside of her visor. "It's never, 'let us flag down the spaceship with our feminine wiles and hitch a lift', it's always 'let's do it in such a way that nobody sees us, hears us or begs to touch our fluffy tails'. Don't you know compliments are part of a growing fox's diet!?!?"
"And you have a lot of growing to do, two-tails~" said Actia on autopilot - she was concentrating on Cutie Math to figure out the proper trajectory to launch to intercept the coming starship.
"AND ANOTHER THING," said Cyanis. Actia did a push-up. "It is UNFAIR that losing a tail reduced my cup size! I have a signed affidavit from a psychologist that is very clear that I get dysmorphia when I don't have giant honking bazonkas! Fluffybiscuits stole my tits and I'll have her ass!"
"Hang on," said Actia. "If your cup size reduced when you lost mana, that means your breasts were illusionary."
"Of course they were," said Cyanis primly. "I am a delicate princess and am above the menial labour of carrying around actual breasts. I am a fox, not a [i]cow[/i]."
"..."
"But people should still look at me and see enormous badonkadonks! That's who I am on the inside!"
"... So should I leave you up here, or -"
"Are you [i]sure [/i]you cannot find a better spaceship?" said Cyanis. "This one is so... blue. It doesn't go with my fur at all."
"I could," said Actia. "Once again, at the expense of being able to generate the heat shield."
"Once again Fluffybiscuits stabs me in the back!" howls Cyanis.
"*Foxy pushup noises*," said Actia.
"Well, we have no choice," sighed Cyanis. "I've tried radioing them asking them nicely to pick us up but they're not answering. I will simply add this indignity to the heap of indignities that I bear, like Emiya Shirou bore the crucifix."
"... I thought they hanged him."
"The way he goes on about it it might as well have been a crucifixion," said Cyanis, making a jerkoff gesture.
"You met him?" said Actia.
"Of course," said Cyanis. "He was my first Servant - because I'm such a martyr and everything - but he annoyed me to the point where I Fox Wished for a different one."
"... You are having me on."
"It is Fluffybiscuits who had [i]me [/i]on!" cried Cyanis to the sounds of pushing up. "Fine. I don't care. I will accept this latest indignity with grace and poise. Take us down, Actia, I will simply have to compensate for the unglamourous ride with my own vast charisma."

And with a puff of blue magic, the two foxes soared away to intercept the oncoming starship.

- TO BE CONTINUED -