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NOTE: I wasn't expecting Hikaru's bandaged hand to be in this story this long, but... I dunno, it gives me good fodder for plot. xD

Chapter Eighteen: Here Comes The Sun! Enter Cure Soleil!

It was a nice day in Mihoshi Town, as Elena, Hikaru and Lala were walking to school.

"I just want a nice, easy life. What's wrong with that?" Elena asked Hikaru and Lala, frowning a bit.

"Oh, nothing..." Lala started, nervously playing with her antennae.

"It's just with the Milky Squad, every day will be glitterific!~" Hikaru chirped.

"Unlike your hand?" Elena responded, eyebrows quirking slightly.

Hikaru looked down at her bandaged hand.

She forgot all about the injury, because it had healed up enough for her to use a pencil normally.

"Oh... yeah. I forgot all about that." She responded, sweatdropping.

Elena nodded, understanding the hand thing a bit better now.

"Anyways, see you at school!" She responded, walking off down the hallway.

Lala looked suspicious.

"You don't think she knows, does she, oyo?" She asked Hikaru.

Hikaru frowned.

"I think she does."

No other words were said about it until they were out of school for the day.

Lala frowned, as Eric was already unbandaging Hikaru's hand.

"Are you sure about this, Eric? I don't think she's fully healed yet..."

Eric nodded, grumbling.

"If there's one thing I learned from Sidekick Academy... it's the fact that you gotta bandage yourself up, and you better do it well. And besides, I'm just changing the bandages, no worries about it."

Lala didn't like Eric's tone when he said that, but she understood it completely.

Hikaru shrieked, and fainted suddenly, as she couldn't handle the sight of her own stitched up hand.

Eric sighed, pulling out another set of bandages.

"Give it a few more days to heal up. She's a PreCure. They heal quicker... and better."

Lala nodded, cringing a bit.

She didn't want to imagine an injury like that on herself.

As the Milky Squad was called out to another mission by Plato, they decided to throw a birthday party for Socks before they left, and Socks decided to invite the entire Adventurer's Club...

And Elena had tagged along with Lala and Hikaru, taking in the birthday party.

Harvey was playing a ukelele, singing a birthday song off-key to Socks, as Socks blew out the candles.

"Wow!" Zero said, clasping his hands together. "You're 16 now!"

He was a proud adoptive father to the rest of the Milky Squad.

Peyton put an arm around him, as Socks blushed.

"Yeah, dude. Next year you're gonna be the dancing queen."

Socks rolled his eyes, smiling, and blushing slightly.

After they all got a slice of cake, they went forth and entered...

The dimension of Lyvsheria, the home of Prohyas and Vambre Warrior.

There had been an emergency from their dimension, as there had been a viral force that infected some of the land.

And the Milky Squad knew exactly what it was.

"So, you're telling me the guys that attacked us were the Byogen?" Vambre asked them.

Kaz nodded.

"Yes, it's true. We're thinking maybe they attacked your dimension... because it's ripe for the picking."

Vambre facepalmed.

"Och! That doesn't tell me anything!"

Kaz sighed.

"Magical energy, Vambre. The magiswords."

Prohyas whimpered as he said that.

"But why would they be after the Magiswords?" He asked.

"Same reason they come after everything... they want to corrupt its magic."

Prohyas gasped dramatically, then cried.

"B-But, we're looking for them, and- and-!"

He started sobbing.

Vambre patted Prohyas' broad shoulder, then glared at Kaz.

"Just telling the truth, ma'am." Kaz said, nonchalantly.

As they went through Lyvsheria, the group was planning on relaxing.

"It's so beautiful here..." Tom started, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yeah, but remember. We're here on a mission." Socks started, his arms crossed.

Tom paused, then nodded.

"Right, right."

They were suddenly ambushed by the Byogen, but they had a new person on their side...

"Whit?!" Eugene shouted in shock.

"But... I-I..."

Eugene fell to his knees.

Everyone else transformed, except for Eugene and Elena...

Elena walked over to Eugene, patting him on the shoulder.

"Hey, I don't know you, but... you sound like you know that guy that got corrupted and is now fighting alongside the Byogens..."

Eugene nodded, wiping his tears out from underneath his glasses.

"Affirmative." He whimpered pitifully.

Elena nodded.

"That doesn't sound very nice... So sorry, sir."

Eugene whimpered.

"A-Affirmative."

Meanwhile, in the battle...

[CUE - I RAN - A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS]

As the Byogens were introducing Whit, now Dariest...

"Well... tell him I'm a vegetarian, and that I ain't flippin' scared 'a him." Ostrich Apocalyptica stated, flipping his scythe around in the air.

Eagle Astra looked at Apocalyptica.

"Are you actually a vegetarian?" He asked.

"Vegan, actually. I don't trust pencil sharpeners, either!"

Astra mouthed "freak" to Eagle Compass, trying to not let Apocalyptica see him mouthing the word to Compass.

Compass nodded, his eyebrows knitting together.

Apocalyptica didn't notice.

But... as they were talking amongst themselves...

Dariest was rushing towards Eugene and Elena.

Eugene was so distraught upon seeing this, that he almost vomited.

Elena, however...

A golden light shone in her heart.

A golden pillar of light erupted from her, throwing Dariest backwards.

One transformation sequence later...

"Light up the sky! With sparkling heat! Cure Soleil!"

Cures Star and Milky looked at her, their eyes REALLY wide.

"Elena's a PreCure, too?" Cure Star asked, mouth gaping.

Cure Milky nodded, and then watched as Cure Soleil kicked Dariest in the face with her high heel.

Eugene backed up, almost choking on his tears.

"Don't exterminate him! Please!"

Cure Soleil looked at him, smiling.

"Don't worry. He'll just be purified."

Eugene looked more worried.

"That doesn't help at all..."

CUE ATTACK SEQUENCE!

Soleil's pendant started shining, and created a big red flaming ball of fire, which floated up in the sky.

As she ran towards the ball, Soleil jumped up, doing a backflip to kick the fireball towards Dariest.

Dariest was sending skidding across the ground...

But somehow, still got back up, though heavily injured.

"Kids like you deserve to be whipped... with a belt!" He said, smirking.

Soleil frowned.

How'd he survive my attack? She thought.

She rushed towards him, and punched him with a left hook to the jaw...

And knocked him out.

The Byogen realized this, and grabbed Dariest...

And teleported out of Lyvsheria.

They all turned back to normal, while they looked around at each other.

Prohyas ran up to them, holding his magisword bag, and a secondary one.

Kaz raised an eyebrow.

Prohyas opened the bag, as a lot of magiswords came out.

"I'm sorry you guys didn't defeat the villain... but look! I bargained with a merchant! And got his whole stash of weird magiswords!"

He smiled wide, as Socks raised an eyebrow, grabbing a blue and white one with the 1970s Filmation smiley face logo emblazoned on its side.

"What, were these ones all waiting for us?"

Prohyas shrugged.

"I dunno, but the merchant said it was for the plot, whatever that is!"

He then looked at Lala.

"Also, me and Vambre want to be allies of your squad."

Lala looked excited for him to admit that.

"Yes, you may, lun!~" She chirped, as she picked up a teal magisword with a star emblazoned on the side.

Kaz picked up an orange and blue one with an Underworlder symbol emblazoned on the side.

He frowned, rubbing the side of his head.

"What's the purpose of these things? They all have a purpose, right?"

Prohyas nodded.

"Yeah, but he didn't tell me what their purposes were."

Peyton wiggled his fingers, as he held up a green and grey one with the Mipedian symbol on the side.

"Ooh~ Mysteriooooous~"

MILKY SQUAD ACQUIRED! SOME MAGISWORDS FOR SOME WEIRD PLOT REASON!

...Don't worry, it'll be relevant later.

PLUS! SOME MYSTERY ONES... FOR POSSIBLE NEW MEMBERS OF THE TEAM?

We'll see.

END CHAPTER EIGHTEEN