Xaltwind
Lunamaria Hawke
Kon Kon
Floofenstein
RPM
Renose
Rune_Alchemist
Savo
Ronin had camped out in an abandoned building near the parking garage Justine was waiting in, anxiously waiting for replies to the call she’d sent out. Of course, she couldn’t fault anyone who didn’t want to come, but she did hope that some people would come out of the sheer goodness of their hearts. Well. At least two would.
After sending a text agreeing to help Ronin with her problem, Connie and Mia had transformed and set out to join their friend. It wasn’t long before they found themselves at the location the samurai girl had specified.
“H-Hi, Ronin!” Connie called out as they entered. “W-We c-came as f-fast as we c-could!”
“Yes,” Gaia agreed, “your predicament sounds quite serious indeed, and we are certainly not the sort to abandon a friend in such a dire situation,” she added with a reassuring smile.
‘Ooooh, Connie, Mia, you’re a sight for sore eyes,’ Ronin called, grinning so widely to them as they came. ‘I messaged quite a few, but not a lot replied…’ She definitely had expected something from Su. What was that girl doing…?
‘In any case, I’m happy you’re here! Alright, now, do you have any immediate questions while we maybe wait for… more… hopefully,’ Ronin told, sighing just a little.
“You were kind enough to provide quite a thorough amount of background in your text, so most of our questions have already been addressed,” Gaia noted. “However, I am curious about one rather important detail. You mentioned that our ultimate objective is freeing a pair of girls from mind-bending. Do you happen to have a plan in place for doing that? Please forgive me if I come across as rude, but I find myself worrying that you are planning all this on the fly, so to speak.”
Ronin breathed in deeply. Alright. Plan. ‘Alright. I’ve done all I can to make our success as likely as possible. Now, to outline it all,’ she said… ‘ … Though, I intended on doing that when everyone was here, hahaha,’ she chuckled a little. ‘Still, I don’t even know if anyone else is coming… so I might as well get started?’
Before anyone could reply, a sparkling pink whirlwind swirled into existence in the center of the room. It quickly dissipated to reveal a whimsical-looking girl with a cheerful smile.
“Tada~! Magical Dream Princess is here~! (giggle!)” she declared, striking a cute pose and giving everyone a playful wink. “Wowie zowie~! Like, look at all the new friendy wendies Magical Dream Princess can makey wakey~! (giggle!) It’s, like, so super duper nice to meet you girls~! (giggle!)”
Ronin stared at the newly arrival in surprise, and then blinked as she got a message in her phone, which immediately needed her attention, allowing the rest to talk first while Ronin read the message.
“H-Hi…” Connie said tentatively, more than a little stunned by the hyperactive girl’s startling entrance. “I-I’m C-Connie, and t-this is my b-best f-friend,” she added, gesturing to the green-skinned girl with flowing emerald hair.
“Gaia, Daughter of Mother Earth,” the verdant magical girl finished for her friend. “It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.”
“Y-Yes!” Connie stuttered, trying to be as friendly as she could, but still very nervous. “I-It’s v-very n-nice to m-meet you!”
“Connie~?” MDP repeated, while slightly tilting her head. It was clear to see that the childish magical girl was a bit confused. “Connie Wonnie~? Hmmm… Why does that namey wamey sound so familiar wiliar…? Oh wellsies~! (giggle!) Magical Dream Princess can’t remember wember~! Magical Dream Princess’s memory wemory is, like the worsty worst when she’s Magical Dream Princess~! (giggle!) But, like, when she’s her normal wormal selfie welfie she actually wacually has a photogaraphy waphy memory wemory, so it’s, like, a really big changey whangey for her~! But it’s also, like, really funsie wunsie, too~! (giggle!) Like, she remember wembers all kinds of thingie wingies when they just pop into her brainy wainy, but then they fly away like little birdie wirdies~! (giggle!) Like, she just remember wembered that she heard Gaia Waia’s namey wamey before, too~! (giggle!) She was, like, super duper important for some reasony… Oh~! But, like, Gaia Waia also has such pretty witty greenie weenie skin and such super duper long hair~! (giggle!) She reminds Magical Dream Princess of her friend Katie Watie~! Like, can Magical Dream Princess play around in it~?! Can she, can she, can she~?!” the hyperactive magical girl asked, while jumping up and down with childish glee.
“You may,” Gaia confirmed with an elegant nod, while giving voice to a melodious laugh.
“Oh goodie woodie~!” MDP cheered as she ran under Gaia’s flowing tresses and swiftly wrapped herself up in them. “Wowies~! This is, like, so super duper comfy cozy wozy~! (giggle!)”
“I am glad you like it,” the verdant magical girl replied with a warm smile. “My dearest Connie also greatly enjoys cuddling in my hair.”
“Like, Connie Wonnie and Magical Dream Princess should cuddle wuddle in Gaia Waia’s hair together~! (giggle!)”
“U-Umm, I, uh, g-guess w-we c-could…” Connie noted, while she nervously played with her own hair. “B-But, um, o-only if M-Mia’s o-okay with it…”
“Mia Wia?” Magical Dream Princess asked, clearly more confused than usual. “Like, who’s that?”
Before either of the two friends could respond, something new caught MDP’s attention.
Or, rather, someone.
“Like, OMGeee~!” she squealed, while bouncing over to the small samurai girl she’d just now noticed. “You’re, like, sooo super duper cute~! (giggle!) And soo tiny winy, too~! Magical Dream Princess could, like, pick you up and hold you in her armsies~! (giggle!) And she just, like, totally wotally wuvs your outfit~! It, like, makes you look like some kinda winda magical wagical samurai girl~! (giggle!) Oh, golly wolly~!” MDP exclaimed as a thought managed to poke its way through the ditzy haze that so clouded her mind when she was in this form. “Are you, like, Magical Pastel-chan’s friendy wendy~?! The one who needed helpsie welpsie~?!”
Ronin recoiled a bit as MGP jumped at her, though she was quick to grin at the extremely over-the-top Magical Girl. Yikes, she’d never seen someone lose themselves to the power of magic to this insane level before.
‘Yupp, that’s me! I’m the Tiny Ronin, Magical Ronin, or whatever like that! You’re the friend of Amanda, right? I’m so happy you came! Let me… just…’ She just… had to respond to Penny’s text a bit quickly first, because there was a very distressing part in it.
@Shifter_Master
‘WTF BEACON’S COMING!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?
WHELP, THAT COMPLICATES THINGS!’
And then away with the phone!
‘So, you wanted to help me? You understood the circumstances well enough? Any questions on the circumstances?’ Ronin asked her, because, well, she didn’t exactly seem like the type that maybe got all the details in the first explanation.
“Like, totally wotally~! (giggle!)” MDP replied in her typical overly energetic manner. “Magical Samurai-chan is Magical Pastel-chan’s friend, and Magical Pastel-chan is Magical Dream Princess’s besty westiest friendy wendy in the whole wide worldsie, so, like, Magical Dream Princess just hasto help one of her friendy wendies if she’s in trouble wouble~! (giggle!) And, like, Magical Dream Princess, like, totally wotally understandy wandies what she’s gotta do~! (giggle!) Her brainy wainy might make it hard for her to thinkie winkie real good, and her memory wemory might be, like, really terrible werrible, but she still remember wembers that~! (giggle!)” she declared, sounding very proud of herself. “She’s gonna helpy welpy Magical Samurai-chan save some girls from a bunch of meanie weanie heads~! And, like, one of those girls is someone Magical Dream Princess would like to have a talky walky with~! About some really super duper important stuffy wuffy that Magical Dream Princess, like, can’t remember wember right nowie…” she added, her voice trailing off as her gaze wandered around the room as if searching for the missing knowledge.
‘Alright, uh. I’ll take it from the beginning to be safe,’ Ronin said with a smile, wondering if bringing this girl along was a good idea. Does this girl even have the concept of mortality? Is bringing her to a battlefield a terrible idea? Oh, well!
‘So, the situation is as follows. We’re going to join up with Justine, who wants to have us as allies to break into Mariette’s base of operations. Justine is an overall terrible person of a Horror-patron… wait, what if she’s just mind-bent too… EH, ONE HORROR-GIRL AT A TIME!’ Ronin grinned and threw her hands into the air. ‘Regardless. Mariette will oppose us with likely lethal force. However, when the time comes, we don’t want Justine to get her hands on Mariette, because we want to secure Mariette and Eli, because they’re mind-bent, doesn’t know they’re not following their patron against their will, and needs to be saved, along with everyone else on Mariette’s side.’
‘Now, I’d be afraid that Justine might see through us and just attempt to annihilate us on the spot… but I just heard she’d recruited BEACON as well, similarly to how she recruited me. So we can be decently sure Justine doesn’t kill us, because Beacon would mind, and I don’t think Mariette has the firepower to oppose Beacon so that puts us in a winning position not as likely to die, but on the other hand Beacon is a big organization that definitely wants Mariette dead. So, we need to make sure they don’t get their hands on Mariette first, too, and that’ll be fun. It also sounds like the Lesser Force Dan the Dolphin will be there… but I don’t really know what he’s doing there, so, uh, who knows.’
‘Fortunately, we’re not ENTIRELY alone on this mission. I’ve made a connection with Vermillion Veronica, who in turn has an alliance with Mariette. Mariette has asked Veronica for assistance driving off the assault… what I’m saying is Veronica will have people on the inside, that are allies of ours. Trixy, Silhouette, maybe some of Maura’s people. They can’t exactly help us get in, but they’re our allies. Veronica has the tools to remove a mind-bending from a mind-bent mind, we’d just have to help her.’
‘Besides that, I’ve also procured an Interdimensional Home from some of my friends, which I can enter at will. We can use that to escape. I’ve also procured the contact information of some friends in Beacon, I don’t know if they’ll be there, who are willing to help me remove the mind-bending on Eli and Mariette. So, if I can just get my hands on them, I can take Eli and Mariette to a safe dimension Justine doesn’t know about, and then have Janet and Jenna remove the mind-bending. Now, it wouldn’t hurt if Mariette is knocked unconscious at this time, as she’d not willingly allow the mind-bending to be removed, but everything in due time. Knocked out is better than awake is better than wounded is better than dead.’
‘So, at the start of this battle, it’ll be us, Beacon and whatever other force Justine brought invading Mariette’s dimension. We may have to make use of Justine and Beacon to get in, because we’re not strong enough to overcome Mariette by ourselves. But when we DO get in, we can’t let them kill Mariette, and we have more friends on the inside in Veronica’s agents. At that point, defeat Justine, somehow secure Mariette and Eli, take them to me so I can bring them to that dimension, bring everyone along, hopefully, and then contact one of those that could remove the mind-bending. That’s the plan as far as I’ve made it. Yupp.’ Ronin nodded at the end of her explanation.
Oh, and on that note.
@BrokenPromise
I’ve got more allies with me. They’re Connie and Gaia, nightmare and nature girls, as well as the eccentric Magical Dream Princess. Have our agents avoid killing them slash cooperate with them, if you could.
Ronin sent a message to Veronica through the mind-link. Now to see what the others say.
“That… Is certainly a lot to take in…” Gaia said after a moment, while doing her best to maintain her serene demeanor.
“Y-Yeah…” Connie agreed, her voice filled with uncertainty. “It k-kinda m-makes my h-head hurt…” she added quietly.
Predictably, Magical Dream Princess had a slightly different opinion.
“Wowie zowie~! (giggle!)” the ditzy magical girl exclaimed, while bouncing up and down in delight. “That sounds, like, super duper crazy wazy, but also, like, mega wega funsie wunsie~! (giggle!) And, like, Magical Dream Princess is glad her brainy wainy isn’t the only one going spiny winy~! (giggle!) Oh~! And she just wuvs secret wecret stuffy wuffy, and, like, she totally wotally understandy wandies that she can’t telly welly anybodywody about Samurai-chan’s super duper secret wecret plansie wansie~! So, like, pretty please don’t worry about her, Samurai-chan~! (giggle!) Okie dokie~?”
That demeanour of MDP’s really made Ronin wonder if she was secretly an agent of Justine or something. It just felt so over the top. Let’s assume not.
‘I’m happy to hear it!’ Ronin said with a wide grin. ‘So, yeah, I’ve outlined my plans. Any further questions? Do you still want to come?’ she asked, primarily to Gaia and Connie, because, yeah. It was a lot to take in.
“Y-Yes!” Connie answered, with a bit more force than she’d intended. “Y-You’re our f-friend, a-and it w-would be awful if w-we just a-abandoned y-you to f-face all t-these h-horrible things alone!”
“Well said, little sister,” Gaia noted with an approving smile. “It shall be our honor and privilege to stand with you Ronin, no matter what trials lie ahead.”
‘Aw, you guys…’ Ronin smiled so widely, and then promptly leaped to embrace all three of them if she possibly could. ‘You’re the best of friends! I love you so much!’
Then, she released, and promptly spun around towards the exit.
‘Alright! Shall we go before they go without us?’
“Yes,” Gaia concurred, giving a voice to a small giggle as Ronin embraced her. “Let us be on our way.”
“Y-Yeah, l-let’s do t-this!” Connie added, drawing comfort and resolve from Ronin’s enthusiastic hug and kind words.
Magical Dream Princess squealed in delight as Ronin embraced her. “Yaaaay~! Magical Dream Princess just wuvs cuddle wuddles~! (giggle!) And, like, Samurai-chan just made her sooo super duper happy wappy with what she just said~! Magical Dream Princess’s heart feels all warm and fuzzy wuzzy right nowie~ (giggle!)”
‘Awesome!’ Ronin called, grinning at the positive emotions currently surrounding the four of them. ‘Let’s go!’
Something else that Ronin thought of as they were going along.
‘So, uh, let me just add that, there may be a point in telling people that Mariette and her forces are mind-bent. Justine and her forces probably wouldn’t care, being evil beings and all, but Beacon might reconsider using lethal means. Might. They’re generally good-natured, after all, if they don’t decide Mariette’s just too far gone. Just don’t mention this where Justine can hear, it may give away our intentions.’
‘Oh, and, Light-specialized girls are able to tell if you lie to them, and if Alicia is leading the Beacon team, she’s one. Try to avoid lying to the best of your ability, kaaay~?’
“O-Okay…”
“Understood.”
“Okie dokie~! (giggle!)”
A short while later Ronin and co came down to the underground parking garage. She gazed upon the Beacon forces and then to Justine and her strange furniture and the weretigers beyond… huh, there were shapes in the void beyond there. How much firepower did Justine have? Who even knows? Still, Ronin just grinned and went along.
‘Heeeeeeeey! I’m Ronin! Pleased to meet you all!’ Ronin called to the members of Beacon. Then there was the pooling of information… Ronin grinned and put her arms behind her head. ‘I’ve got nothing I want to add! We don’t really have the ability to scry across dimensions, after all, heh,’ Ronin said, chuckling a bit as she pretended to not be super-nervous around Beacon and Justine.
@Shifter_Master@Ariamis@ERode@Ponn@Flamelord@Crusader Lord@Majoras End
