Utena growled angrily, muttering under her breath, as she and the
others stayed hidden behind the large meeting table. On the other side,
they could hear what sounded like a very one-sided battle going on between
most of the members of the Alliance and some very familiar looking foes.
Anthy, Miki, and Touga were crouched nearby her, as well as two figures she
recognized as Mikage and Mamiya. Even if they were wearing odd costumes
too.
"Would you please try to explain something to me, Mikage," Utena angrily started, only to be cut off as another figure appeared floating in the air beside them.
"That's Mentat!" Mamiya corrected her rather prissily. "And I," he then declaired, "am the mysterious Ghost Boy!"
She shot him a glare. "Why don't you just shut up, Figment Boy. Mikage," Utena turned to ask him rather coldly, "why in the world are we sitting here being attacked by a group of YOUR OWN Black Rose Duelists?"
"Well..." Mikage blushed brightly. He rubbed the back of his head and said, "You see, we made a few too many of them. The extra ones left us and eventually went freelance, and now are hired out on a per-job basis as Generic Henchmen."
Everybody looked over at the embarassed Mikage and Mamiya floating nearby him and they all sweatdropped.
Shiori, out her two piece leather bikini, somehow managed to produce Juri's sword, causing several people to look at her in more than a little surprise and awe. "Have you been taking lessons from Anthy?" Miki asked her, his eyes suddenly becoming all sparkly and shoujo like.
Utena stuck her head back up over the table and took in the progress of the battle. The various heroes weren't doing too good, not very good at all. Ducking back down, she sighed and reluctantly said to the others, "I guess we'd better go out there and try to help them out." She looked over at Witch Girl to say, "Anthy?"
A quick sword draw later, Utena, Juri and Anthy leaped over the table and went after the small mob of Black Roses. "I," Touga loudly exclaimed, flipping his cape back dramatically "the Really Cool Kamen, will also join the fight!" From a fancy cane, he pulls a concealed sword out and starts taking out black roses.
Miki sighed softly. "I forgot my sword!" he complained to Shiori. She looked him over up and down suggestively.
"Oh, I don't know. I think you have a pretty good one myself," she said, smiling as she looked down at the groin area of his skin tight blue spandex costume. Miki blushed neon red and then dove over the table to get away from the young lady. "What'd I say?" Shiori asked in kawaii tones, a evil little smile on her face.
Anthy fought them with a simple method: she just kept clobbering people over the head with her broom's wooden handle. Utena watched that and blinked, suddenly struck by the vague memory of a figure sneaking up behind her back at the dorm. 'Did Anthy clobber me that way?' Utena thought, sweatdropping a little.
Juri, in her suit, cut a fine figure as she tore a swath through the small army of black roses. Even Touga was holding his own, though he did seem to keep getting tangled up in his overly long cape. Suddenly, Miki jumped on top of one of the few upright tables in the secret base and held his stopwatch over his head.
"Time... STOP!" he loudly yelled out, hitting the stop switch on the watch. There was a sudden wave of bright blue light, and the Black Roses began to slow down, then they just seemed to freeze there in place.
"Miki," Utena asked as she turned to him slowly, a fierce frown on her face "why on Earth didn't you do that earlier?"
"I can only do it once a day." he quickly explained. He saw Shiori giving him a suggestive look and blushed. "Guys, you've got less than a minute of the time stop left!" Miki said to them rather frantically. All the heroes jumped up into action, everyone shredding the duelist's Black Roses as fast as they could manage.
"There's still too many! We're not going to make it," Touga cried out, when a nearby wall suddenly exploded inward. Two pretty young women walked through the smoking gap, stopped, and took in the scene.
"Did we miss the meeting?" Kinomoto Sakura asked them all with a cheerful smile. A card seemed to appear from nowhere in her hand, she raised up her staff and then she activated it. "Time Card!" she cried out, "freeze all but the heroes!"
Miki sighed with relief when she walked in. Daidouji Tomoyo followed her close behind, carrying a sword in one hand, a video camera in the other. "What a shot!" she sighed happily, absentmindedly cutting roses as she filmed.
The threat delt with, Sakura smiled sunnily at Utena. "My name is Kinomoto Sakura," she said, and with a blush continued, "though around here they just call me Cardcaptor."
Utena, Anthy and the other Ohtori residents were sitting at a newly straightened up table, having some tea with Sakura and Tomoyo. The sword and staff the two of them were carrying had become a pair of necklaces.
Most of the members of the Heroic Alliance had left, rather sheepishly, to go tend to their wounds. They had also bestowed full membership on Utena, a gift she was kind of dubious about, to say the least.
Utena took a drink of her tea, looking over at the two new arrivals, "So how many of you heroes are there, anyway?"
Sakura looked thoughtful. "Well," she said thoughtfully, "there's the Goddess three, poor Gender-change boy, Kekko Kamen, Moldiver, the Hyperdolls, Galaxy Frauline Yuna, Pollylina, Supergirl, Steel..."
"Gender-change boy?" Utena quietly echoed.
"He's under a odd curse. Cold water turns him into a girl, hot water then turns him back," Tomoyo explained.
"Now where was I?" Sakura asked them.
"Steel," Anthy supplied.
"Oh, right! And there's me and Tomoyo, of course," Sakura finished.
Tomoyo kawaiily panned her camera across the small group, recording their expressions: Anthy's cheerful, Touga trying to look heroic, Miki smiling rather shyly, Utena looking a bit irritable, Mikage and Mamiya cuddling, Juri looking embarassed, and Shiori looking... hot. Then she zoomed back in on Sakura.
Hearing the soft beep of an alarm go off, Sakura checked her wrist watch and then groaned softly to herself. "It's time to go out on patrol again," Sakura said to the rest of them, looking very glum as she said it.
Tomoyo perked right up hearing that, saying very happily, "Good, I can get more heroic footage of my Sakura-chan!"
"Patrol?" Utena asked, sweatdropping.
Anthy smiled eagerly, "We go out and battle evil!"
"No," Miki sighed, very depressed looking "we get to go out and let random people laugh at all the dim-wits running around in the funny suits." Juri nodded in agreement, getting a scolding look from Shiori for her trouble.
Anthy gave them all a hurt look.
Utena sighed and asked Anthy, "You're going along?"
"Of course I am, Revolutionary Girl-sama!" Anthy said cheerfully in reply.
Utena sighed, then looked over at Sakura, "All right, I guess I'm in, just to keep... Witch Girl out of trouble."
Anthy squealed her happiness and suddenly threw her arms around Utena's neck, who blushed furiously.
Suddenly, the familiar sound of running can be heard, and Utena's eyes go wide. "Not here, not now!" she whimpered.
"Utena-sama!" Wakaba cried cheerfully, glomping her. Utena staggered about in a circle, fighting to keep her balance.
"Wakaba, what are you doing here?" Utena asked.
"I'm not Wakaba," the masked girl said to Utena cheerfuly, in the same hyper tones Wakaba usually used "I'm Genki-Girl!"
More sweatdropping...
"Would you please try to explain something to me, Mikage," Utena angrily started, only to be cut off as another figure appeared floating in the air beside them.
"That's Mentat!" Mamiya corrected her rather prissily. "And I," he then declaired, "am the mysterious Ghost Boy!"
She shot him a glare. "Why don't you just shut up, Figment Boy. Mikage," Utena turned to ask him rather coldly, "why in the world are we sitting here being attacked by a group of YOUR OWN Black Rose Duelists?"
"Well..." Mikage blushed brightly. He rubbed the back of his head and said, "You see, we made a few too many of them. The extra ones left us and eventually went freelance, and now are hired out on a per-job basis as Generic Henchmen."
Everybody looked over at the embarassed Mikage and Mamiya floating nearby him and they all sweatdropped.
Shiori, out her two piece leather bikini, somehow managed to produce Juri's sword, causing several people to look at her in more than a little surprise and awe. "Have you been taking lessons from Anthy?" Miki asked her, his eyes suddenly becoming all sparkly and shoujo like.
Utena stuck her head back up over the table and took in the progress of the battle. The various heroes weren't doing too good, not very good at all. Ducking back down, she sighed and reluctantly said to the others, "I guess we'd better go out there and try to help them out." She looked over at Witch Girl to say, "Anthy?"
A quick sword draw later, Utena, Juri and Anthy leaped over the table and went after the small mob of Black Roses. "I," Touga loudly exclaimed, flipping his cape back dramatically "the Really Cool Kamen, will also join the fight!" From a fancy cane, he pulls a concealed sword out and starts taking out black roses.
Miki sighed softly. "I forgot my sword!" he complained to Shiori. She looked him over up and down suggestively.
"Oh, I don't know. I think you have a pretty good one myself," she said, smiling as she looked down at the groin area of his skin tight blue spandex costume. Miki blushed neon red and then dove over the table to get away from the young lady. "What'd I say?" Shiori asked in kawaii tones, a evil little smile on her face.
Anthy fought them with a simple method: she just kept clobbering people over the head with her broom's wooden handle. Utena watched that and blinked, suddenly struck by the vague memory of a figure sneaking up behind her back at the dorm. 'Did Anthy clobber me that way?' Utena thought, sweatdropping a little.
Juri, in her suit, cut a fine figure as she tore a swath through the small army of black roses. Even Touga was holding his own, though he did seem to keep getting tangled up in his overly long cape. Suddenly, Miki jumped on top of one of the few upright tables in the secret base and held his stopwatch over his head.
"Time... STOP!" he loudly yelled out, hitting the stop switch on the watch. There was a sudden wave of bright blue light, and the Black Roses began to slow down, then they just seemed to freeze there in place.
"Miki," Utena asked as she turned to him slowly, a fierce frown on her face "why on Earth didn't you do that earlier?"
"I can only do it once a day." he quickly explained. He saw Shiori giving him a suggestive look and blushed. "Guys, you've got less than a minute of the time stop left!" Miki said to them rather frantically. All the heroes jumped up into action, everyone shredding the duelist's Black Roses as fast as they could manage.
"There's still too many! We're not going to make it," Touga cried out, when a nearby wall suddenly exploded inward. Two pretty young women walked through the smoking gap, stopped, and took in the scene.
"Did we miss the meeting?" Kinomoto Sakura asked them all with a cheerful smile. A card seemed to appear from nowhere in her hand, she raised up her staff and then she activated it. "Time Card!" she cried out, "freeze all but the heroes!"
Miki sighed with relief when she walked in. Daidouji Tomoyo followed her close behind, carrying a sword in one hand, a video camera in the other. "What a shot!" she sighed happily, absentmindedly cutting roses as she filmed.
The threat delt with, Sakura smiled sunnily at Utena. "My name is Kinomoto Sakura," she said, and with a blush continued, "though around here they just call me Cardcaptor."
Utena, Anthy and the other Ohtori residents were sitting at a newly straightened up table, having some tea with Sakura and Tomoyo. The sword and staff the two of them were carrying had become a pair of necklaces.
Most of the members of the Heroic Alliance had left, rather sheepishly, to go tend to their wounds. They had also bestowed full membership on Utena, a gift she was kind of dubious about, to say the least.
Utena took a drink of her tea, looking over at the two new arrivals, "So how many of you heroes are there, anyway?"
Sakura looked thoughtful. "Well," she said thoughtfully, "there's the Goddess three, poor Gender-change boy, Kekko Kamen, Moldiver, the Hyperdolls, Galaxy Frauline Yuna, Pollylina, Supergirl, Steel..."
"Gender-change boy?" Utena quietly echoed.
"He's under a odd curse. Cold water turns him into a girl, hot water then turns him back," Tomoyo explained.
"Now where was I?" Sakura asked them.
"Steel," Anthy supplied.
"Oh, right! And there's me and Tomoyo, of course," Sakura finished.
Tomoyo kawaiily panned her camera across the small group, recording their expressions: Anthy's cheerful, Touga trying to look heroic, Miki smiling rather shyly, Utena looking a bit irritable, Mikage and Mamiya cuddling, Juri looking embarassed, and Shiori looking... hot. Then she zoomed back in on Sakura.
Hearing the soft beep of an alarm go off, Sakura checked her wrist watch and then groaned softly to herself. "It's time to go out on patrol again," Sakura said to the rest of them, looking very glum as she said it.
Tomoyo perked right up hearing that, saying very happily, "Good, I can get more heroic footage of my Sakura-chan!"
"Patrol?" Utena asked, sweatdropping.
Anthy smiled eagerly, "We go out and battle evil!"
"No," Miki sighed, very depressed looking "we get to go out and let random people laugh at all the dim-wits running around in the funny suits." Juri nodded in agreement, getting a scolding look from Shiori for her trouble.
Anthy gave them all a hurt look.
Utena sighed and asked Anthy, "You're going along?"
"Of course I am, Revolutionary Girl-sama!" Anthy said cheerfully in reply.
Utena sighed, then looked over at Sakura, "All right, I guess I'm in, just to keep... Witch Girl out of trouble."
Anthy squealed her happiness and suddenly threw her arms around Utena's neck, who blushed furiously.
Suddenly, the familiar sound of running can be heard, and Utena's eyes go wide. "Not here, not now!" she whimpered.
"Utena-sama!" Wakaba cried cheerfully, glomping her. Utena staggered about in a circle, fighting to keep her balance.
"Wakaba, what are you doing here?" Utena asked.
"I'm not Wakaba," the masked girl said to Utena cheerfuly, in the same hyper tones Wakaba usually used "I'm Genki-Girl!"
More sweatdropping...
