They didn't find the bad end general, but they did find an earful from cure Black when they got back. She was very mad for them not being able to handle such a tiny bit of fusion on their own, and for not finding any people or fairies, dead or alive.
miyuki returned to her room mad that night, angry at the boss for not understanding that her powers had limits. She didn't know the boss that well, but she knew her well enough to know she would probably say something like, 'then push your limits!'
when she laid down on her bed, her roommate, yayoi, looked down from the thing she was drawing. "Are you okay?"
"yeah." miyuki replied, "just great"
Candy walked up to yayoi, "She got yelled at by the boss~kuru."
"Oh, I see. Well, Miyuki," She turned away from the rooms third resident, "me and the others agreed to have a fun night together in their room! do you want to come?" The other three members of their team, Akane, Nao and reika, had all decided to share a room. they were staying in a larger room next door, and it was much better than the two-bed room they were staying in.
"Sure." she accepted the offer. She was glad that they were going to have a night of fun, because the constant missions that she participated in were starting to wear her down. And it wasn't as if they didn't have food. All the electricity and utilities in the hotel were still working, despite it being buried. It also looked as if food restocks had arrived in the hotel a day or two before the attack, so nobody was worried.
Though there were some people, who miyuki couldn't remember the names of, who were constantly going on self-assigned missions to look for food. they always found a lot, so if there was ever any worry of starving, it was long gone. Water wasn't a problem either, as the water pipes still worked despite everything.
So yeah, it was going to be a relaxing night.
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1 hour later, the smile precure team was assembled in their p.j's in the bigger of their two rooms, talking about a rumor that one of them had heard.
Suddenly, the intercom buzzed "Everyone present please report to the main lobby, I repeat, everyone please report to the main lobby." Without hesitating, the team quickly rushed out of the room and down the stairs, candy perched on Yayoi's head.
they all bounded down the stairs and made sure to dodge for people coming down the stairs from other floors. They were all on the top floor, so many other people, both precure and normal people alike, were rushing down the stairs. She noticed that a girl who, based on the phone case strapped around her belt, was a precure, talking with a woman who appeared to be her mom
This made Miyuki think back to her mom, who was still at home, and had no doubt heard of what was going on in the city, with the dome and fusion and all. it made her wish she had told her mother about being a legendary superheroine of of another world, but knowing her mom she would worry, and that was the last thing she wanted to do.
they all filed out of the stairs, into the lobby which was just big enough to fit everyone comfortably. Miyuki regrouped with her team, and they found an open table to sit at near the middle of the room.
Cure Black, and cure white, surprisingly transformed, walked onto the stage, along with the city's mayor and a businesswoman looking lady. The Businesswoman looking lady walked up to a microphone.
"hello, my name is , and i am going to report some news that has come to us. For one, we have confirmation that Itsuki Myodorin-Cure Sunshine has been captured by a portion of Fusion, however, we also know that she is still alive. For lack of a better term, she is trapped in suspended animation."
A small, orange fairy that Miyuki hadn't noticed until now, flew up to the microphone and spoke "I saw it~deshu. Sunshine was fighting while blossom was helping, but then it reached out and grabbed her. It threw the perfume over towards me and then surrounded her, before crystallizing~Deshu"
the fairy began to tear up, and was mumbling something that couldn't be heard by the smile cures. An older fairy of the same spices flew over to him, comforting him before flying off the stage.
"wow," Akane stated, "I knew this was dangerous, but i never thought that people would get the plus side though, this means that the casualties might be way less then everyone thought." she cracked a smile, and then dished out some of the pizza from a plate in the center of their table. they might have had to stop the fun, but who said they had to stop the pizza?
The rest of the lecture was just the people on the stage talking to the people they were in charge of, telling them to be careful and all that. The Smile cures mostly talked during this time, eating more of the XXL sized pizza and whispering funny jokes. It was almost as if they were back in nanairogaoka middle school, passing notes and fighting evil during the breaks.
if only things were still like that now.
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It didn't take long for the speeches to finish, and when they did, some people come out of the kitchens holding megar bowls of salad, and passed one tiny bowl out to anyone that wanted one
Since they didn't have enough to go around, Some people came over to the Smile team's table to help them finish the huge pizza. This included Hibiki, ako, Urara, and three girls Miyuki didn't recognize, but she thought that one of them might be the Purplette.
As Miyuki ate her Pizza, she looked around the room, hoping to recognise someone or at least get some people's faces down. She noticed the girl who her team had saved at the beginning of the fusion attack. She was wearing something different, and was sitting with some other people who Miyuki didn't recognize.
The girl looked her way, and Miyuki froze with fear. The girl's eyes seemed to hold light deep within them, but not a pure light, a scary, illusionary kind. She didn't remember meeting her all that clearly, but she knew her eyes didn't look like that.
Ayumi was the one to break the eye contact, creeped out that a girl was staring at her. Why is she staring at me? Is there something wrong with me? she didn't show these concerns on the outside though, she didn't need anyone to know she was stressed.