Mobius Cafeteria

Daydre just watches Logan from a slight distance and gives Addie a thumbs-up.

".. Should we.. help?"

Chateau d'Avarice

"Oh yeah, you know, spooky season and whatnot. Surprises come with the territory, y'know?"

Daydre creeps a little closer to the Maid while she's talking, hoping the maid is distracted by her talking.

off the shits

Mobile Base Conference Room

-it is eerily quiet in here-

-There is no one but the group and the moderator in sight-

-Except...-

Izaya: Hello there~

Cosmic Latte Cafe

Gaius: Are there more like that?

Robin: Yes, and some with appetites just as big as yours.

Gaius: Great! We can see them all together!

-suddenly snaps back to normal, blushing-

...If you want, Bubbles. Maybe. I suppose.

Robin: -also blushes- Uh, s-sure thing.

Winston: <Oh hoh hoh~>

Robin: S-shut it!

Contact Me!

Though they are caught a bit off-guard by the sudden photoshoot, they get an idea.

Halsei: <One, two... three.>

On the count of three, trying to match the timing with Lily's own, they decide to use Baby-Doll Eyes to either confuse the camera or otherwise simply maximize the chance of appearing harmless.

Mobius Mobile Base, Conference Room

-Ian enters the deathly quiet conference room with Mahina's group only to see...-

Me: -thinks to himself, with a burning anger to his thoughts- Izaya...

♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...

...that is—

-and now Logan swings the open contacts of their Styler towards the Moderator's neck, quick as a flash-

—FAR too knowing a greeting—

-and at the same time, Addie attempts to press a cheek to the same Moderator-

Addie: —for ANY of us to be comfortable.

-if they make contact, Addie's cheek sparks with a Nuzzle, attempting to apply extreme, full-body paralysis-

-and Logan's "tazing" is less electricity and more...-

-every inch of Logan's instincts, driven by a laser-focused stream of terror through the waterwheel of their cognition, tells them to remain very, very quiet-

-they attempt to push all of that into the Moderator, camouflaged by the optical illusion of a Latias, hovering invisibly behind them-

-neither of them should appear to have moved at all-

Logan: -out loud, to Izaya- Oh, hello! Do you happen to know where the restroom is?

-glancing around- ...and why were you sitting alone in this room?

...I'm getting some bad vibes from you. Hm.

Addie: -by radio, silently- <Someone was expecting us>

<HELP>

---

Megan: -to Daydre, opens mouth-

-gets call-

Megan: -hurrying- yes, apparently

Edited by Asterisk395 on Oct 13th 2019 at 9:30:13 AM

No mind to think. No will to break.

Mobius Conference Room

-To Izaya-

Thought I saw a glimpse of a shitty parka in here.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Stormchaser, Megan's Room, whenever

Ever: Yes, other feelings. You wouldn't be this angry if you didn't want them back.

Stormchaser, hull, whenever

Ever: ...Well, no longer our problem.

-and they duck back inside-

Mobius Conference Room

Ever: Izaya. Evening. You're outnumbered.

Dunsparce didn't stop being a thing or anything.

Mobius Conference Room

Not quite remembering who Izaya is, Colton doesn't make any moves until the rest of the group reacts. Initially confused by their shared disdain or fear, he places a hand in his pocket, around Xatu's Nest Ball, but doesn't draw it yet.

With his other hand, he appears to shrug.

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

Mobile Base

Daydre (quietly) books it down the hallway towards the room Logan entered.

Viridian City

A small public dance performance finishes. The dancers bow, the crowd begins to disperse.

The main performer steps to the side and takes a moment to breathe.

Alana: ".. Phew. I'm beat. Well, good thing that was the last one for today, huh?"

The Oricorio gathered around her, who'd also taken part in the dance, just nod wearily. Eventually the crowd thins to the point where only one is left. That one being Daydre [redacted]. [redacted]. She and Alana accidentally make eye contact and hold it for a second too long. A long, unbroken silence follows.

Daydre, attempting to make this less awkward, speaks.

Daydre: "So, uh... Your Oricorio were pretty neat there! The choreography was impressive."

Alana: ".. Thanks! We put a lot of practice into the routine."

"..."

"... Oh, right! I'm Alana. And these guys are Hibiki, Tsubasa, Chris, and Maria."

Daydre: "I'm Daydre. I see you're a, uh, [Symphogear] fan?"

Alana: "What's [Symphogear]?"

Daydre gives her the blankest stare.

off the shits

Delta watched as Tommy ran off, noticing the lack of Tobi with the others, he turned to Rodan, "Rodan, Mazinger, follow me. Bonnie, you handle the others."

Dracula was struck by the Rock Slide, and grumbled when he crawled out, <Are you a Belmont trying to put me back in the grave?>

Ghidorah flew in front of Mazinger, and took the confuse ray... it just made him angry... and left Kevin in charge.

<LIGHTNING! BWAAAAAAH!>

Bonnie laughed and spat a hydropump at Drake, as Thorian and Raiju stepped over and stared at the party, <Ya dun fucked up.>

Inside the construction site, Tommy had made significant distance away from Delta... who had opted to go at his own pace. It seemed Tommy was safe for now... until a metal clicking could be heard.

Crude mechanical armatures came down from the ceiling, and down lowered a woman in a green bodysuit with armored padding, a thick pair of green goggles that obscured her eyes, curly brown hair, and a wide unsettling grin, hooked into her back were long mechanical apparatuses that formed tentacles.

"Oh you must be the one with the fancy spider!" She said in a sickeningly sweet voice, "Care to hand him over?"

Tonio was here.

Roxy shoves the sandwich in Locke's mouth, "Of course speaking is hard, you haven't done it in a long time. Look we want to help you, honestly Muggy isn't even hurting you. They just like giving hugs."

<Hugs are the best thing ever, you can't change my mind.>

"They also wanna give hugs on the moon, hence their name. Moon Hugs. Muggy."

<Sooooo... if we got him... well under control, who do we take him to?> Amber asked.

Wayne nodded, <Yeah that seems important.>

Jackal proceeds to say with complete conviction and certainty (a feat easy for someone like him) "Yes it is a surprise party, a spooky party fit for the best time of the year. We are working on making it fantastic but if your mistress knew, well that'd just ruin all that hard work and make a fun spooky party so much less fun."

He stuck his hands in his pockets, "Think you could keep it a secret, for us?"

"I have my doubts but hey this should be fun to watch."

Stormchaser, Roxy

Locke: M Mph! Help?

Mobile Base, Mahina's Group

Izaya: -to Ever- Does it matter dear? Does it?

Shizuo: You... You...

-he lunges-

Edited by Umbramatic on Oct 13th 2019 at 11:03:44 AM

Contact Me!

Mobius Mobile Base Conference Room, Confrontation with Izaya

-Ian, in his rage, slowly reaches for the Poké Ball that he knows contains Piku-chan-

Me: -thinks to self, with burning rage- When you took the Z-Crystal that we had worked hard to retrieve from the Macrauls, it was a minor inconvenience... but when you proceeded to kidnap Merlin in the same fell swoop, that was where you went too far... That day, I said that you were going to pay... and now...

PAY YOU SHALL!!!

♪Show me the wisdom of the world... Tell me the secrets of the heart... and the sweet~ mysteries~ of love~...

Chateau d'Avarice

-The maid tilts her head.-

Maid(?): Oh, that's... exciting. I'm not sure how anybody else is supposed to know to have costumes, though...

Paula: Don't worry your pretty head, it'll work out.

Maid(?): If you insist, mistress. I suppose I should tell Mistress Robinson that you let me in on—

Paula: Nnnnope! Someone, open that door, quick!

Maid(?): W-what?

Security Level: 17%

Mobile Base Conference Room

Shizuo, no! We don't know what his plan is!

-Attempts to grab him with an Aura chain before he can close the distance with Izaya-

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Mobile Base - With Pent

-Everyone smiles quite convincingly.-

-Beneath the illusion Isbrand graps Einbite tightly, ready to iaijutsu Lily, knowing damn well who she is.-

---

Mobile Base - Conference Room

-Luca draws Twilight's Kiss and releases Lydia, but they both hang back.-

Edited by SwiftSeraph on Oct 13th 2019 at 10:54:37 AM

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Chateau d'Avarice

Rage and Love held out a hand to put an illusory veil of solid black around the maid's head, making certain it was also soundproofed, but not airtight.

He was already starting to sweat, fingers trembling.

[Insert Unoriginal Stinger Here]

Cipher Chateau

-Rakash rolls his eyes and starts flicking through his book ready to Navigator the imminent fight-

Mobile Base Hallway

-With a smile that was either genuine or incredibly well-practiced, Lily Thane stepped back and took her phone back, giving her Magnemite a gentle pat before checking out the photo-

Lily Thane: Oh yeah that came out nicely.

-She taps a few things, finger hovering over the screen as she glances up at the infiltrators-

Lily Thane: Yaknow I've done this thing you're doing back in the day; The whole costume thing. Want some advice?

Stormchaser

-The wind blows, and with it pieces of paper lazily cling to the windows of the vessel and flutter in through it's doors. There are many of them, identical invitations directed to the J-Team at large:-

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

Mobile Base, Hallway

Lita was trying to pass her katana off as a cosplay prop the whole time. Since C is basically always in V cosplay all the time her felt comfortable.

Lita: "What sort of advice?"

Stormchaser

Lita snatches a flier out of the air.

"...This oughta cheer up Dad's mood. Time to hunt down some red and blue leather jackets."

GIVE ME YOUR FACE

Halsei: <...Ohhh, no, you don't, I've seen this before.>

Halsei looks at the way she's going about this with the utmost suspicion, recognizing that this is usually the moment someone betrays another person like in those movies they used to watch, and tries to flick a tiny Thunderbolt at the phone, just enough to force-restart it, but not enough to actually fry it... at least, that's the intent, anyway.

Mobile Base

-Isbrand tenses, though WeissBrand simply tilts her head.-

Kaiiseii: "I'm always looking for advice."

---

Stormchaser

Shaun: "Well, that's suspicous."

Jessica: "Wasn't Mason-"

Shaun: "Yep. Might need to make everyone's props more functional."

Jessica: "We're still going?"

Shaun: "Hey, free food. Plus we might have the chance to beat the shit outta some Macrauls."

"Dang that sure is totally poggers my good bitch"

Viridian City

Daydre: "... So you're telling me you just.. Named all your Oricorio after [Symphogear] characters by accident?"

Alana: "..."

"Yep!"

Daydre: "But... how? Maria is like, common enough I guess but the others were all just coincidences??"

Alana: "Well, Tsubasa came with a nametag when I found her. Hibiki just had a weird birthmark on her butt that looked like the name "Hibiki" so I guess I figured it was fate and called her that? Chris was named Chris because some asshole I knew in third grade thought girls couldn't be named Chris, so I said fuck him (except retroactively because I was like 8 at the time) and also I couldn't really think of anything else and she seemed fine with it-"

Daydre over the course of this whole explanation has been slowly tilting her head further and further to the side.

Alana: "Oh, and Maria was because there's this laundromat in Hau'oli called Maria's that I found her near and I thought 'hey that's a pretty decent name!'."

Daydre's head finally stops at about a 40 degree angle to the horizontal.

Daydre: "I.. see..."

She kind of gives the Oricorio a look. The Oricorio give her a look right back.

Daydre: "I really don't know what to say to that!"

...

"Well this has certainly been awkward, I'm just gonna go." And with that she scoots off, leaving a mildly confused Alana behind her.

Stormchaser, An Invitation

Daydre grabs an invitation out of the air and reads it.

Well, this is definitely suspicious but if everyone else is gonna be there it's probably fine right? Also. Rich people house party.

Chateau d'Avarice

In the following confusion Daydre panic-punches (or tries to, anyway) the place she last saw the maid's head before the illusion went up.

Mobius Conference Room

All Daydre has to say before everything starts happening is: "Oh shit, it's that asshole!"

off the shits

Mobius Base, Conference Room

Milagros: -Hold on, that's the asshole who kidnapped Merlin.-

He would reach into his pockets for his Pokeballs and his armband. Lance just tilted his head. He had no idea who Izaya even was or why basically everyone in the room hated them.

i think i’m in love (probably just hungry)

Tommy's mindscape

The duality of this specific young man manifests in two chibi figures: a brunet who wears plaid shirts and a guy in a full-body super suit that's just a bit too tight. They're in some sort of control room.

Chibi Arachna-Guy: It feels like I'm wearing nothing at all.

Chibi Civvie Thomas: Quit it. Now focus, it's my turn to be the hero.

Chibi Arachna-Guy: I say you wise-crack. Supervillains have oddly high standards for jokes and being all cheesy about it really rustles their jimmies.

Chibi Civvie Thomas: No, that's too superhero-ey. I need something more average person facing obstacles sort of thing. Something defiant and badass—

Chibi Arachna-Guy: Being a superhero isn't badass enough for us?

Chibi Civvie Thomas: We do have to keep up the pretense. We have to look cool in different ways.

Chibi Arachna-Guy: That makes sense. It's all yours, Tom.

Chibi Civvie Thomas, cracking his knuckles: Finally.

Castelia City, In Real Life

Tommy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Tommy's mindscape

Chibi Civvie Thomas: Stupid writer's block! Dude, I can fix this.

Chibi Arachna-Guy: Oh, that is it.

The chibi Arachna-Guy seizes the controls.

Castelia City, In Real Life

Tommy recomposes himself and started speaking. He sounds a bit more defiant this time.

Tommy: Took me by surprise there. Uh, first of, who are you supposed to be? Dr. Octillery? And second, I dunno if you've been listening in on Strokepool over there but I don't have what you're looking for. And who's next? Doctor Articuno?

In that brief span of time between escaping and Tonio's arrival, Tommy had assembled a makeshift mallet out of a cinder block and started spinning it around. He did seem physically strong enough to do that, but he is wearing a baggy plaid shirt.

Tommy: Oh, hey, I'm in a construction site filled with a lot of scrap. Kinda evens it out since I don't have a super suit of some sort. I'd ask why you want my spinarak so bad but judging from appearances I kind of don't need to.

Angelan State Capitol

The Governor of Angela sneezes while cosplaying as Rip Stinger's supervillain character from that one movie.

Senator Armitage: Gesundheit, sir.

Governor: So, who's Rip Stinger dressing as this year? [Turbo Man]?

Edited by MasterJayAM on Jul 24th 2020 at 11:48:44 PM

mobile base conference room

-Cady reaches for her pokeballs. Kat grabs one of her pokeballs with one hand, the other readying a shadow claw. Lila waits for something to happen.-

Cady: Well this is just great.

Kat: Yeah, I've been looking forward to a good scrap.

-She watches Ian make his move.-

Kat: Or watching one. I'm just fricking bored.

meanwhile on the stormchaser

-Eva is presenting something to her pokemon.-

Eva: I have armed the tentacle with a [swiss] army knife, from my [swiss] army card thingy. I've also increased the clicker speed, so let's see what happens now when I turn it on.

-Said tentacle, which is coming out of the top of the box, begins wildly slashing the knife in random directions.-

Eva: I appear to have invented a knife wielding tentacle.

-She turns to her pokemon.-

Eva: If anyone wants to volunteer to turn it off that'd be fine by me.

Siri: <Certainly.>

-The Rotom proceeds to possess the knife wielding tentacle machine and turn it off. A flier blows past the room.-

Borealis: <Look over there!>

-Ampere runs and gets it.-

Ampere: <Looks like some sort of party invite.>

Volt: <Cool!>

Edited by QuantumMelody29 on Oct 14th 2019 at 12:34:05 PM

I used to plug my deviantart here but turns out the link was too long.

Silas lays in bed and stares at the Invite, "Huh... guess I better go."

Roxy nods, "Yeah, we have to go see this. Oh I'm gonna dye my hair for this! Think I can get it as red as Alice's?"

"Yes, help. Locke you have a problem and we're all concerned, you're pulling this weird cryptid stunt and we just want to make sure you're okay."

<Who would we even bring him to? Know any doctors?>

"Pefery but she's not a doctor... also her grasp of the Hippocratic Oath and ethics is loose at the best of times..."

<Maybe it's a psychology thing.>

"We could get Denali then, they're a therapist. How do we summon them though?"

Muggy didn't care, the furret was happily still just hugging Locke.

"Oh? Well if that's the case. I just won't bother with you then," Tonio responded, catching the mallet and ripping it out of his hands, "Don't try anything."

"That's my line," another voice said.

Tonio froze and stared down, seeing none other than Delta, "YOU!"

"Me."

"It's thanks to you that Pokefutures lost a lot of good hunters and the guild support!"

"You're a bunch of nuts who think betraying people is a acceptable pastime."

Tonio grimaced, "Why are you even here, you're after the spider as well aren't you?"

Delta started to laugh, it was the first genuinely evil laugh he had did in a long time, it filled the construction site and would've put people with less force of will on edge, "I am. But I fight smarter, not harder... the Whistleblower there will ensure I get what I'm after."

Tonio stared at Tommy, "Will he now~?"

Jackal swung the door open with as much force as he could.