"Kiri-Chan," Shirabe said as she shook he girlfriend's shoulder, "Kiri-Chan, wake up." "Mmm water melons conquered pig stew mailbox dess," Kirika mumbled amiably, and then she rolled back over and continued sleeping. Shirabe's cheeks puffed up in annoyance. "Kiri-Chan!" She said, shaking the older girl again, this time more vigorously, "we've been summoned to the meeting room." "I don't wanna meet any rooms, I already got one," Kirika grumbled, burying her face in her pillow. Shirabe hmphed and turned away, her nose in the air.
"Fine then, you can make your own breakfast," She said, turning and making for the door.
Now, Kirika may have been asleep, but some things can be heard through anything. Especially when it was a matter of survival. "I'm awake dess!" Kirika shouted, throwing off her covers and getting up.

"…There's nobody here, dess," Kirika said, looking around the meeting room in annoyance, her hands on her hips, but Shirabe hid behind her and pointed under the table. "Kiri-chan, there's something moving under there."
Skritch skritch skritch skritch
An odd, somewhat familiar noise was coming from under the table now, and Shirabe squeezed Kirika's shoulders nervously. Knowing that her girlfriend was depending on her, Kirika steeled herself, and looked under the table. The scratching noice was the result of a pink beach ball colouring with crayons. "Poyo!" Kirby said, handing her a sheet of paper and a box of crayons, before returning to his colouring. Straightening back up, Kirika handed Shirabe the crayons and paper. "Cute dess!" She said emphatically, and Shirabe flushed, looking away. "No no," Kirika said, taking one of Shirabe's hands, "You're clearly cute, but I meant this." Kirika gestured under the table, and Shirabe cautiously knelt down and looked under it.
Kirby waved.
"…Cute…" Shirabe said softly, blushing.
"KIRBY!" Called Miku from out in the hallway, "Kirby, where are you?" Hearing his name called, Kirby bounded out from under the table and ran over to the door, which opened, revealing Hibiki and Miku. "So this is where you got off to," Miku said, her hands on her hips, "You can't just wander off like that."
Kirby just looked at her quizzically.
"Does anyone know why we were called here?" Hibiki asked, taking a seat, and the other three shook their heads. "That would probably be because of me," said a new voice, and Hibiki fell out of her chair. "Kanade!" Tsubasa called out in embarrassment, running after she-who-was-supposed-to-be-dead, her face red and her manner flustered, "You were supposed to wait for the commander to introduce you!" Kanade waved away Tsubasa's protestations with a broad smile. "It's fine, Tsubasa," She said, pulling Tsubasa in close and kissing her on the cheek, "This saves time, and I wanted to meet everyone."
Tsubasa squeaked at the kiss, and turned as red as her lover's hair. Also a bright red was Hibiki Tachibana, who had picked herself back up only to fall down again. "EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?" She shrieked in surprise, "EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?"
"I think you broke her," Shirabe said as Hibiki began to slap her own face repeatedly.
"Did someone break the idiot?" Chris demanded as she pushed past Tsubasa and Kanade, and she marched over to Hibiki. "Hey, idiot! This isn't even in the top TEN weirdest things we've ever dealt with!" She snapped, grabbing Hibiki's shoulders and shaking her, "We fight aliens and wizards and demons all the time!" "Tsubasa and Kanade are GAY!?" Hibiki finally managed to sputter out.
"YOU DIDN'T KNOW!?" Chris screamed in exasperation, throwing her arms in the air, "HOW THE HELL DID YOU NOT KNOW!? EVERYONE KNOWS!"
In an attempt to confirm this, Hibiki turned first to Miku, who just nodded silently, and when she next turned to Kirika and Shirabe, she found that they were staring at her in disbelief.
Then Kirika seemed to realize something, and she rounded on Tsubasa. "Have you talked to Maria about this!?" She demanded angrily, her fists clenched and her shoulders hunched. "Kirika, don't," Maria interrupted, her voice quiet, and Kanade looked sharply at Maria, seeming to have picked up on something.
Tsubasa for her part, wilted.
She looked very tired.
Kirika, however, did not appear to care. "Coward! You're the worst dess!" She shouted angrily, pointing at Tsubasa, and then she ran out of the room. "Kiri-Chan!" Shirabe said in distress, chasing after the older girl. "Poyo!" Said Kirby, hopping out of Miku's arms and charging out the door after them.
Tsubasa, Chris, Maria, and Kanade all stared at Miku in shock.
"…I thought that was a stuffed toy," Kanade said finally.

Shirabe found Kirika sulking outside a warehouse not far from where the S.O.N.G. submarine was docked. Kirika was sitting with her back against the outside of the warehouse, her arms wrapped around her knees. "I know, I know dess" Kirka mumbled into her knees before Shirabe could say anything, "I shouldn't have said anything." Shirabe wordlessly knelt down next to her girlfriend and wrapped her arms around the older girl. "I believe in Tsubasa," Shirabe said softly, "She's not going to abandon Maria. Tsubasa's not like that. She's just very confused right now." Kirika nodded silently in response.
"Akatsuki Kirika, Tsukuyomi Shirabe located," a female voice said from close by, her tone completely emotionless, "Proceeding with capture protocols."
Kort Croitzal Bilfen Gungnir Tron
Kirika and Shirabe looked up in shock at what stood before them: A woman in an iron mask… who was wearing a Black Gungnir.

After about a minute and a half of fighting - or the fourth time she was thrown into the wall, Shirabe wasn't sure which - Shirabe coldly realized that she and Kirika were badly outmatched, and by enough that even if they could pull unison off, it wouldn't matter. Not that unison - or the Ignite module, for that matter - were even options, as she and Kirika were fighting unmedicated and trying either would probably kill them.
Shirabe also knew Kirika well enough to know that Kirika was just about to work this out herself, and would react by doing something stupid and selfless.
This called for a change in tactics.
Shirabe stopped attacking the figure, and began focusing on evading the masked spearwoman's strikes. "Shirabe?" Kirika asked, her eyes widening in surprise, confused at her girlfriend's sudden shift in behaviour. Shirabe was focusing on ineffective, annoying attacks, keeping her distance and drawing the enemy back towards the base. Now, Kirika might not have been the winner of the all-symphogear users uptake speed contest, but even she could see the plan here. "Got it, dess," she said under her breath, and she began to mimic Shirabe's combat.

Things were still going badly, and Shirabe was well aware of it. The mysterious black gungnir user had all of Maria's attacks, as well as some of her own. Worse, she seemed to know how Kirika and Shirabe fought, meaning that while they had yet to land a hit on anything other than her cloak, she was routinely landing hits on them. Shirabe was also well aware that her gear wasn't going to hold out much longer. Each time she blocked a slash, stab, or chop from the spear, she could feel her whole gear vibrate.
She figured that she had maybe three blocks left in her before it shattered.
She blocked an overhead strike. That's one.
She blocked a strike from Gungnir's cloak. That was two.
Kirika threw herself in front of strike three.
Shirabe screamed.
Kirby threw himself in front of Kirika and blocked the oncoming spear with a short sword. "Poyo!" He said bravely, charging towards the spearwoman, waving his small sword in the air, his long green hat streaming out behind him.

Much to Shirabe's surprise, Kirby was not immediately defeated, and in fact appeared to be holding his own, despite being armed only with a sword that was about a foot long. And this was a good thing too, as it was just then that Shirabe's gear shut down - With Kirika's failing shortly after. The pair of them watched helplessly as Kirby valiantly fought against an enemy that much larger and more powerful than he was, determined to protect his new friends.
Even when his sword was knocked from his hand, he refused to give way.
The swordswoman raised her spear above her head, and brought it down again.
It clattered harmlessly off of the blue and silver wall that suddenly appeared before her. And from from up in the sky, a voice boomed "KAZANARI TSUBASA, DEPLOYING FOR BATTLE!"

End Chapter Three.