It was a bright, shining day. The sun gazed warmly at the Earth, which soaked it up like a sponge. The sky was a robin's egg blue with no clouds in sight.

It was days like this that Mami Tomoe loved. She craved these days, days where she could simply relax and enjoy society and the lives of the individual layperson. People who were the backbone of everyday life. If Mami could choose, she would have loved to live a simple life, taking things day by day.

She'd taken the day off from her schoolwork to take in life. A cafe a long stroll from her apartment had her favorite tea in stock. On top of that, they were serving some rather festive desserts. Normally Mami preferred to bake her own dessert, but it looked too delicious to ignore.

So there she sat, with her favored tea and a delightful dessert, listening to the bustle of the city around her.

Bam!

Mami stopped mid-sip and sighed as something exploded just down the block. It couldn't be that simple, could it? It was a good thing she'd decided to keep her uniform on under her schoolgirl uniform. One never knew when disaster would hit.

Her brow furrowed as she leapt into action. People were running in various directions away from the explosion. With well-practiced ease, Mami slipped through the gaps between people. With the focus of everyone around her on getting away from danger, it was no issue for her to swiftly activate her powers.

Her schoolgirl uniform glowed lightly, the threads themselves seeming alive as they began receding into Mami's soul. In their place, seamlessly, was her uniform. Her outfit that withstood her powers and, in fact, resonated with them. A yellow and brown affair, with a slight flower motif. In her hair in one such flower design was a focus amulet that she had obtained from an elder superhero. It glowed with a faint yellow light as it helped her shape her powers around her.

In the span of a few moments she went from an ordinary schoolgirl to her superhero persona.

Mami lashed out a hand, flicking her wrist towards a streetlight. A ribbon manifested and shot out, latching onto the light. Mami pulled with both her arm and soul, the ribbon shortening and pulling her up and out of the crowd. She balanced herself just so on top of the light and looked towards where the explosion had happened.

From her new vantage point, she could see some kind of creature stretching out, wings and tentacles spreading wide. If Mami had to guess, she would've bet that it was a summoning gone wrong; it didn't seem to be minding anyone as it looked about at the people around it.

The first priority was the pedestrians trying to escape the creature. Distract it so they all had a chance to get away. Then, once it was safe, it would be time to bring out the big guns.

Mami planned out her attack in the span of a few moments. She flicked both her wrists this time, creating one ribbon to get her across the gap between her and the monster and the other to start her assault. As she flew over the heads of the laypeople, she quickly picked out her landing point.

She easily let go of the ribbon. Flying through the air, she did a small flip as she landed hard on her target: the monster itself. It recoiled, shocked at her intrusion. Before it could react, though, her other ribbon wrapped around it hard. Mami's power flexed as it struggled against the seemingly flimsy ribbon. As she'd expected, it wasn't strong enough to break her grip.

Mami summoned more ribbons, trying to control the beast's movements. It screeched, pulling against her power, before it was able to slip its wings out of her grip. Mami tried to readjust, but found that she was too slow to stop it from taking off.

It flew clumsily, barely making it half a block over a small crowd of pedestrians who seemed frozen with fear before it rammed into the side of a building. The concrete side collapsed down towards another group of too-slow laypeople.

Mami reached out, ribbons flowing from her hand to capture the falling debris, when she suddenly realized the people weren't where they had been before. It wasn't that they had run for cover. It was like they had simply vanished .

Out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of them. Down half the block, out of danger. They all looked frazzled and confused, shooting glances back towards Mami and the monster as they rushed away.

Save for one. One girl, around Mami's age, seemed to be unafraid. Unphased by the going-ons around her. The stoic look on her face combined with the barely shifted long, black hair told the story of indifference. It looked like she'd been in the middle of the swiftly dispersing crowd. At the same time, it looked like she didn't know any of them.

There was no mistaking the vanishing purple glow around her. She'd done something . Mami would've believed it was teleportation.

Mami was shaken from her thoughts as the creature under her began trying to get back up. She took a quick look around. No more pedestrians. Good. That meant-

Mami swiftly summoned her Tiro Finale, her giant cannon meant for finishing blows, and blasted the creature clean in the back of its head. It didn't so much explode as vanish into mist. After a few moments, its body fell to the ground, also vanishing into mist. Mami landed easily on the street. Her mental grip on her ribbons faded as she focused more on the girl she had seen.

Except she wasn't there now. The girl had vanished from that spot. Mami looked about this way and that, trying to see where she might have gone.

No dice. The streets were empty now with the vanishing crowd in the distance. Mami was alone.

Her curiosity had been piqued now. She'd never heard of a girl like that being part of any circles, hero or villain. A power like that would've been invaluable to either side, so it wasn't likely she was being downplayed.

An undiscovered superpowered individual. Interesting. It warranted more investigation.

But first, as Mami remembered with sirens in the distance, she would have to do the paperwork for this particular monster.