[center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/e39b451c-cbdf-4533-a353-15961e03cd2f.jpg[/img] [color=deeppink]"Look at my horse, my horse is amazing!"[/color] [color=888888]— Willow[/color][/center] [color=ff1493]"I’m not going to stop just because you’re telling me to do the opposite!"[/color] Willow continued to make a beeline for the club room. While an average ape couldn’t keep up with a magical girl, things became a lot more confusing when comparing the abilities of magical girls to each other. Willow’s demonic steed wasn’t going to slow down for Evil Eye. Fortunately, the latter had an idea to keep up. While not as majestic as a corrupted unicorn, her void panther was a respectable mode of transportation. At the very least, it gave Evil Eye a way to track her mogall while moving. Navigating through so many eyes was a bit like flipping through different video feeds in a surveillance terminal. She had to go through them one by one, but did have a sense for where they were in space and could choose which one she wanted to focus on if she needed to. The issue was that her mogall didn’t seem to be scattered around the school, or even any place in reality. Wherever they were, it was far more surreal. Through their eyes she witnessed… A giant hourglass with a girl trying to escape its confines. A woman, unmoving, leaned against some garbage with the rest of the trash. A battered and broken man being buried under a dumptruck full of coins. [i]something[/i] being harvested from [i]someone[/i]. A boy on a conveyor belt that would drop him into a pile of discarded mannequins. The next one was looking directly at Michi, who was wearing a long T-shirt and looking back at the mogall. Except the mogall wasn’t looking at Michi, it was looking at a [i]mirror[/i] in some dingy studio apartment bathroom. The point of view looked at the wash basin. There was a tapered black shape, which Michi’s hand reached for. After retrieving the object, she held it up to her face, in front of the point of view. As it was turned over, it’s blade shined in the light. She placed her fingertip on the end of the blade and looked ahead. She blinked once, then gripped the knife with both hands and pressed it under her chin. Her breathing was becoming heavier, then faster, then then she snarled before jumping into the air. As she descended, she kept her heels behind her back and fell on the hilt of the knife. Only a combination of her low physical strength, momentum, and inaccuracy caused the knife to fly out of her hands as she stumbled into the counter top. She fell backwards with the knife sliding across a tile floor, and Evil Eye’s vision now pointed at the ceiling. And Michi wasn’t the only one who had fallen. Evil eye was pulled back into her body when an exceptionally tall monkey backhanded her off of her steed. The shadow creature scratched and bit at its numerous opponents, but was swallowed up by the sheer number of them. This left Evil eye in the center of a ring of monkeys, but one side of the mob was parting. And in stepped a familiar face. [center][url=https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxgg5SNsj3EuscUq_6zUmtTuiSBSKzJdbP][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/eef5b949-a883-46fc-a11d-01cdbeac2023.png[/img][/url] [color=9a8c9a]"It's important to surprise a player with unexpected behavior from time to time."[/color] [color=888888]— Black Gate[/color][/center] It was Black Gate. Her steps were slow and clumsy, like she might fall over sideways if she tried to run any faster. This wasn’t the vengeful Michi from the cafeteria or the cool Black Gate that could stand up to Rei, but the lethargic goat girl that Evil Eye had taken to the Build-A-Cat. As if to remind Evil Eye, she had the black witch cat tucked under her arm. She stopped walking as soon as she had taken a few steps into the circle. [color=9a8c9a]"I don’t get it."[/color] Black Gate’s thumb hovered in front of her face, but she slowly folded it into her tiny fist. [color=9a8c9a]"I thought out of everyone, you would be the one to understand me. We’ve both seen how the world works. It’s where violence and cruelty are rewarded, while trust will only earn you heartbreak. You and I are weaklings who stand aside giants."[/color] She hugged the cat. [color=9a8c9a]"Was it wrong to try and make you feel good? Do you enjoy being so much weaker than the others?"[/color] [hr] [center][url=https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxj0pkYHWgZQ6SwZFGqG2ASfGVwon8Xe1f?si=NlNhP1sP8MqLPlCS][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019b7079-1cfa-739a-85a1-4bb56f4802a1.webp[/img][/url] [color=9a8c9a]"You guys need therapy."[/color] [color=888888]— Black Gate[/color][/center] Michi didn’t look away from the beating that Sylvia was receiving. [color=9a8c9a]"Unfortunately, I was not gifted physically. I knew I would be no help to my sister, even if I attempted to run for help. Knowing I didn’t try still haunts me, though I was only doing what she wanted. She told me to stay put when she hid me. Everything she was enduring was so that I didn’t have to. But that didn’t make it any easier to watch."[/color] Roche and Hizuki brought fury. Messy, uncoordinated fury, but fury all the same. One of the ape men turned to face Earth Shaker and braced their shoulder. The two collided without either one budging an inch. Their upper bodies twitched as magical girl and ape pressed against one another. Another turned around with a flourish of something metal. Hizuki’s sword struck a solid black Baretta, but didn’t throw the gun out of the Ape’s hand. He fired several rounds into her armor. While Hizuki’s frame held solid, the students were really starting to panic with the gun being fired in their direction. Oros didn’t just stand by either. Her bloody tendril reached for Sylvia, but was stomped out by a third ape. There were still several apes that could focus all of their sadism on beating the crap out of Silvia. More were coming out from behind the curtains to replace the ones that were fighting the magical girls. [color=9a8c9a]"The school grounds were hardly empty. Others showed up, but they did nothing. They just watched. Even when they outnumbered them, they just watched. It might be hypocritical to say, but I found them cowardly."[/color] As the third ape made its way towards Oros’s position, her eyes wandered over to the Tsubomis.