Cold blooded friends

The twilight sky shimmers a purple and lights the strange city that Liz is walking through. She followed the instructions on the paper and somehow ended up in a massive, purple city. "So little plant life here...it almost feels barren." It really isn't, but compared to how much plant life she's used to.

She heads into one of the alleyways, looking around for a plan on how to get to the rooftops to get a better view. "Heeey pretty la-." The voice behind her barely gets another word out before green september uppercuts him with a fist made of plants.

"Not now, captain pervert." Green september curls around Liz's hips and lifts her up like an elevator, gently placing her onto the roof. "Ooo pretty view…" Liz walks along the rooftops, using green september as a bridge on occasion to cross buildings. She was on the opposite side to wherever Strike and Sparky were in the city, she didn't recognize those names but she is apparently supposed to meet with them, or at least that's what the paper said on the back.

Liz starts nearing a massive tower, curiosity takes over her movements as she makes a seat out of green september and starts using it as a sort of elevator to rise up next to the building. Peeking in through the windows, the building is mostly abandoned aside from the occasional person walking along the halls, it doesn't look like a office building. It resembles more of a massive research facility of some kind, no one has taken notice of her yet.

Liz eventually peeks in on the top floor, to her surprise it is the most populated floor. And for the first time, she's been noticed. "What the heck is this building used-." She felt green september get grabbed by something, she blinks in confusion as her green september would normally be way too big for a normal person to grab. "For?" She was about to looked down, but instead, she screamed as something started pulling green september back down and her along with it, down all thirty five stories. Down to the bottom where what looks like a massive war machine like robot that's dragging her green september down to street level. "HOLY SHIT!" Liz clinged onto green september for dear life as the machine, covered in strange symbols, some of them looking like nazi symbols started leaning in and examining her with massive glowing eyes. "U-umm...good...giant...nazi war machine?...good boy?" She nervously chuckled as she tried to climb down.

"Do not stick your nose where it doesn't belong, little girl." The user of the machine speaks from somewhere on it's giant shoulders. "Get her, Propaganda." While this confirms Liz's suspicions of this being one massive stand, that doesn't change the fact that it's winding up it's arm to punch her into paste right about now.

"SHIT, GREEN SEPTEMBER!" She surrounds herself in green september's roots and the punch hits the roots instead of her, launching her like a giant, incredibly sturdy egg. Her ,screaming can be faintly heard as she gets bounced from roof to roof and building to building, ragdolling inside her own stand. She gets slammed into a building, groaning and falling limp in the roots, panting and gently putting herself down. "Okay...that...hurt allot." She shakily stands up and looks around, she was launched a very long distance from the tower. "Where was i punched off to?" She starts stumbling down the street.

As she walks, she felt someone beginning to approach. She realized that the street she was on was pretty desolate, besides one very shady looking man who was starting to come towards her. His movements strange and slightly creepy, as if something in his brain is keeping him from being able to move normally. But when they came within twenty feet of each other, Liz froze and so did he as he was glaring at her up and down. "...Not like her...nothing like her." The shaky voice of this creeper barely seemed to wheeze out and Liz breathed a sigh of relief as he seems to have calmly walked away, not being like whoever he was looking for was a blessing.

Liz kept an eye on him, she knows it was a stupid idea but she tailed him, not very closely, but she needed to find her way back to a crowd. She could feel that giant war machine's rumbling nearby. 'I have so many questions and absolutely no answers…' Liz slipped from one hiding spot to the next, one eye constantly on the man in the dark green hoodie and the other is on the lookout for any other suspicious figures. 'C'mooon there's gotta be a park with people in it or something.' She wasn't entirely sure if that would be true, to her, it's night time but it has been night time for as long as she was here.

"Hey, you alright flower girl?"

Liz yelps and turns to smack whoever just spoke, but her hand gets stopped with relative ease by a blue haired girl who looks like a beauty wearing beautiful french fashion. "CRAP, DON'T SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE!"

"Hey, hey, sorry." She puts her hands up. "You just looked a bit weird, you were sneaking around and i got a tad curious." They barely notice the gentle rumble that occurred. "My name's Star strike."

Liz raises her eyebrow. "Star strike? That...honestly sounds like a alias."

The ground shakes a little. "It is, but i never give my real name to anyone." Strike looked around. She felt that second rumble. "...er...did you feel that?"

Liz steps closer to Strike, she doesn't know strike very well, but she's allot more comforting than what's coming. "Yes...yes i did…" Something started sounding like it's smashing through and past buildings.

"That sounds like...glass and concrete being shattered." Strike takes a step towards the noise until the building she's looking at suddenly cracks. "What the…"

In a sudden burst of dust, concrete, sparks and gravel. A massive machine smashes through the building, charging like a lunatic as it winds up its arm to throw a massive punch. "IT FOLLOWED ME?!" Liz has green september come out and rush forward to try and trip propaganda.

"THIS THING IS FOLLOWING YOU?!" Starlight queen comes out as the enemy stand is going for Liz, not Strike, but when green september fails to tripit and it swings down to smash Liz into paste.

"EEEEEK!" Green september covers Liz much like it did before. But instead of the defense being met with a devastating blow, Liz instead hears something that sounds like metal being repeatedly hit with something hard. "W...what?" She walks to the end of her wall and peeks through the cracks. She sees strike's back instead of Propaganda's fist and when she stands on her toes to see more.

"ARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARIARI." Starlight queen's battle cry is punctuated every time with a barrage of fists slamming into Propaganda. Pushing it back until it retracts its fist to look at it's new opponent.

"Move aside, my business is not with you." The voice seems to come from a speaker in the giant, hulking machines body as it slouches over to speak, showing off all it's moving parts and almost blocky-like structure.

Strike huffs and brushes her hair out of her eyes. "Considering you were just about to attempt to kill her, yea, i'd say i'm going to have to intervene."

"She saw some things she shouldn't have." It's head lowers to glare at her with it's large, camera lense like eyes. "I cannot let her go off."

"I BARELY SAW ANYTHING, I WAS ESSENTIALLY SKIMMING!" Liz hissed out, like as in actually hissed it out like a snake.

Strike sighs and cracks her neck. "Why is Sparky never around when a fight breaks out." Strike gets ready as Liz gets green september ready. "Starlight queen!"

She lunges forward as Starlight queen bursts out, punching one of the camera like eyes with brutal precision. "GAH, FUCKING ELL!" Propaganda reels back as it's user either just lost half the stand site. Or perhaps that punch really did take out his eye, Strike can't tell, he's either hidden inside the stand or really far away and watching through cameras.

The massive war machine pulls back its massive arm and starts swiping it in an arc in front of it, smashing through buildings, street clutter and almost Liz and Strike. But green september catches it in a massive arc of roots and plant life forms slip inside, grabbing and clogging it's mechanical parts. "Not on my watch!" It holds and pins the arm in place.

Strike gives Liz a thumbs up before jumping onto the arm and running up it to head for the joints on the arm. It's angry roars become mechanical screeches as it begins to lift its other arm to swat Strike off, only for Liz to give the second arm the same treatment. "HEY, ASS HOLE!" Starlight queen comes out and starts winding back a punch. "IT'S BREAK TIME!" Starlight queen punches Propaganda's joints so hard it creeks and starts cracking to the point of almost breaking. Starlight queen then slowly looks at Strike with a face that translates to. 'Are you fucking kidding me?' Strike shrugs. "Hey, it wasn't THAT bad."

Propaganda screeches and thrashes around, it's arm starts being pulled off by green september, breaking as oil and wires spill out with it's attempts to keep itself together. "YOU STUPID- RAAGH, THIS ISN'T WORTH MY TIME!" Propaganda is suddenly gone. Leaving Strike with nothing to stand on.

"HOLY CRAP!" She just barely grabs onto one of green september's roots before she falls.

"I got ya!" Liz brings Strike down gently and goes over to her.

"Thanks for the help." Strike hops down and sighs, dusting her outfit off. "So, are we going to talk about what that guy wanted with you?"

Liz sighs, then with a creek behind her, they both snap their attention to the man behind them. "Oh give me a break…"

To be continued