Versus The Bad End Girls
Cast: Cure Happy, Hoshizora Miyuki - age 15
Cure Sunny, Hino Akane - age 15
Cure Peace, Kise Yayoi - age 15
Cure March, Midorikawa Nao - age 15
Cure Beauty, Aoki Reika - age 14
Joker, Karasawa Jou - age 21
Randou Ichigo - age 22
January, 2013
"You know... don't our costumes look kind of evil?"
Akane raises an important point. She, along with Miyuki, Yayoi, Nao, and Reika, have already gotten into the costumes provided for the hero show. Black leotards with black leggings, bat-winged tiaras... even though the wigs, skirts, and diamond patterns that decorate their outfits are certainly more colorful, they don't look at all like heroines.
The man who asked them to help is waiting just outside their dressing room. He is wearing a harlequin cap with his business suit, and grins at the girls spread out before him.
"How lovely! Our audience is just going to love you girls!"
"What's the big idea, Joker? You said you needed help with a hero show!"
"Oh, did I not tell you that I needed villains?" Joker claps his hands, chuckling. "You'll do fine! Just go out there and be your- No, that won't work. Be the opposite of yourselves!"
"How about we just don't go out?" Nao says. "It'd serve you right for tricking us!"
"Wait!" Yayoi protests. "I don't really want to be a villain either, but... it's a hero show! If there aren't any villains, the hero won't get to look cool beating them!"
"We'd be the ones getting beat," Akane points out.
"It's not like we'd be fighting for real," Miyuki say, then hesitates. "Right?"
Joker nods. "Right. Our hero actor, Mr. Randou, may be an idiot- No, he is certainly an idiot. Still, he knows better than to hit any of you for real. Can I count on you girls?"
The girls murmur something kind of like agreement, then head for the stage.
"Hold it right there!"
After the Bad End Girls have gone out and introduced themselves, that is the cue for the hero's entrance. A young man in a pink bodysuit, he rushes onto the stage then immediately trips and falls.
Bad End Peace looks at him, obviously worried. "Are you okay?"
"I'm okay!" He shouts energetically as he jumps to his feet. "I, Hero Light Red, have come to defeat you!"
"Don't you mean Hero Pink?" Bad End Happy asks.
"It's Light Red! Hero Light Red!"
"But I'm wearing pink, and your outfit is pinker than mine!"
"That's- Oh, I get it! You Bad End Girls are trying to make me into a funny pink man who wears pink! But it won't work! I, Hero Light Red, will defeat you!"
He face off against Bad End Happy, stopping so they can both pose.
"Hero Light Red, you will feel the power of my ma- Of my-" Bad End Happy reaches into her pocket, balks, then withdraws her hand, empty. "Anyhow, I have a really cool and devastating power, but I'm not going to show you!"
"What's with that?"
"Happy Shower isn't for using on heroes, and that's all there is to it! Come at me!"
They clash, not actually connecting. Bad End Happy falls, then slinks away to backstage. Hero Light Red points at Bad End Peace and shouts: "You! What do you have to say for yourself?"
"I am Bad End Peace! You know, true peace is- I mean, there can't- I give up! Fighting is just too scary!" Without even pretending to fight, Bad End Peace flees backstage.
"We can do that?" Bad End March ponders, then glances meaningfully at Bad End Sunny, who nods.
"Cowardly retreat!" They shout, running off in the same direction.
Hero Light Red watches incredulously as they flee, then addresses the one villain who remains: "Aren't you going to run?"
"No!" she shouts imperiously. "I, Bad End Beauty, love only that which is beautiful! I will never retreat, for victory is most beautiful of all!"
He hesitates. "So, if I beat you, then-"
She cuts him off with cold laughter. "Funny pink man who wears pink! What challenge could you possibly offer my beautiful self?"
"I! Am! Light! Red!"
"If you insist, Hero Light Red! Allow me to end you most beautifully!"
They clash. Bad End Beauty stumbles and falls to one knee.
"This isn't over, Hero Light Red!" she shouts, then retreats to the backstage.
Behind the stage, Joker is laughing and wiping tears from his eyes. "That was simply marvelous! I really can't thank you girls enough."