Alice did a flip over Medusa and used the wire connecting to her dolls to wrap around the other witch's tail. Once Alice landed behind her she quickly flicked her wrist and Medusa went skidding along the ground towards another pillar.

"I'm not letting her get the best of me again," Medusa thought to herself as she looked at the pillar she was skidding towards, "Vector storm!" She called up flurry of vector arrows from underneath her and broke the wires that were wrapped around her tail.

Alice grimaced as the wires were cut, but then it quickly formed into a smirk as the broken wire parts reconnected through a magical she had placed on them. She moved gun-powder-filled dolls towards Medusa and used her fingers to manipulate the wiring and make them explode once they got close to the woman.

"Vector shield!" Medusa called out to summon a shield of her vector arrows to take the blow from the explosions. The dolls explode across the surface of the shield which pushes Medusa back against the wall. When the smoke cleared Medusa saw Alice walking towards her with a small horde of dolls with various colors and clothing on them, "Damn brat, who does she think she is? Thinking she can beat me with children's toys," Medusa thought as she glared at the girl approaching her.

"It's a shame it has to come to this," Alice said with a tinge of regret in her words, "I don't like it when I have to kill people," the girl became crestfallen as she was now as now stood fifteen feet away from Medusa.

"It's simple you pathetic whelp," Medusa started as a sadistic grin creased her lips, "this is a life or death situation, surely you contemplate that? Or have your morals blinded that aspect of your brain?"

"My morals aren't blind, Medusa," Alice replied as several dolls seemed to tend to her wound, "the wonder land I'm from prohibits killing, that is why I'm hesitant in taking your life."

"Then show me this wonder land Alice!" Medusa sneered as she suddenly rushed towards the other witch with black glowing finger nails, "vector nails!" Alice attempted to dodge the attack but suddenly the glowing tips of Medusa's nails shot forward and embedded themselves into Alice's right shoulder.

Alice jumped back and clutched her now bleeding shoulder as an expression of pain appeared on her face. Alice attempted to counter by sending a flurry of rainbow-colored bullets at Medusa, which impacted upon her body and sent her sprawling to the floor. Medusa got up slowly and grumbled as she took around the battered arena and noticed something out of place.

"Where's Stein...?" She said as she felt a palm pressed against her back.

"Right here," Stein said in a low, ragged voice, "soul force," he sent his soul wavelength shooting into Medusa's back, which sent the witch flying forwards towards Alice who promptly stepped to the side to avoid her.

"Sorry about that," Stein adjusted his screw and glasses, "it took a while for that paralytic to wear off," he turned his attention to Alice now, "don't think you're off the hook though, I'll deal with you after we've killed her."

Alice let out an exasperated sigh and looked at Medusa who was getting up and wiping her lip from the blood that had formed, "My my it looks like the good doctor decided to join us again," she said as she got into a stance similar to a preying mantis.

Without a word to each other Stein and Alice rushed to opposite sides of Medusa, who promptly held out her hands in their direction and unleashed a mass of vector arrows in their direction. The attacking pair used their own methods to get through Medusa's attack, Alice used her magical bullets while Stein used Spirit to cut through the arrows.

Once stein had gotten through Medusa's attack he slammed his palm into her ribs and sent his soul force straight into her attack, which sent her flying in Alice's direction. Alice responded by a spiral kick straight into Medusa's stomach to send her flying back to Stein, who did a spin and slammed his palm into her stomach and sent her flying down the hallway.

"Did they just play ping pong with me...?" Medusa thought as she landed with a thud on the floor. She got up and let out a yell of rage as she hurled hundreds of vector arrows at the pair, "The time for talk is over!" she exclaimed in rage, "it's time for unruly children to DIE!"

Stein and Alice went straight through the middle of the storm Medusa had sent at them. Arrows tore through Alice's skirt, shirt, and caplet as she returned in favor with her bullets and exploding dolls which destroyed droves of arrows. Stein was having a harder time, trying his best to avoid the arrows as best he could and slicing them by using Spirit.

Alice did a flip into the air above Medusa and landed behind her, the hurricane of vector arrows had nearly incapacitated her but she managed to get through it. She uses her wire to restrict the movement of Medusa's tail that had risen up to attempt to cut off Stein's head. Stein had rushed forward and sent a powerful soul force attack into Medusa's midsection. Medusa coughed up blood after the attack then sent her tail, despite the wiring restricting it, towards Stein's neck, but it stopped inches from it.

"What's...this...?" Medusa questioned weakly as she suddenly saw stitches appear on her tail.

"Soul threads," replied Stein in a hush murmur, "It stops you from moving, it's another way of channeling my soul force into your body..."

Alice had been stitched as well and remained holding the witch back as Stein concentrated with holding the threads together, "If either one of us moves in the wrong way...Stein's dead and possibly me" Alice's thought echoed in her head as she continued watching Stein and Medusa.

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"We got 'em on the ropes now, Blair!" Marisa shouted with glee as she and Blair chased the Mizune's through the streets with flurries of pumpkin bombs and star bolts exploding in various directions, pot-marking buildings and streets with colorful death.

Marisa "surfed" on her broom while Blair rode on her pumpkin as they followed the five Mizunes through criss-cross streets, roundabouts, tunnels, and even into the open air in their attempts to shoot the mice witches down. After the pair had shown them what their most powerful attacks were they had immediately turned tail and ran.

"Hey where ya goin, ze?!" Marisa shouted as she taunted her opponents, "we're just trying to hug you!"

"I think that's why they're running Marisa, they just aren't people persons," Blair shrugged as she looked at her ally and new-found friend.

"Nonsense!" Marisa replied with intense vigor, "they just wanna make us work for it!"

The Mizunes stopped in their tracks and did a complete turnaround and headed straight for the pair with glowing whiskers. They barely had time to move out of the way as the whiskers grazed them. Marisa's right sleeve was torn and her cheek was nicked while Blair's hat was cut in three pieces and drifted off her head and onto the ground.

"Damn these things!" Marisa pulled her hakkero out and fired off her master spark in one of the Mizune's general direction, who promptly avoided the blue blast with a smug grin on her face.

"Hey I have an idea," Blair turned to Marisa with a slight smile, "let me deal with these naughty mice while you try to destroy that giant glowing cube thingy on the school."

"Eh, well I could give it a shot if you think you can handle them, ze."

"Of course I can! They're just mice after all," Blair gave a wink then took off after the mice witches, leaving Marisa slightly dumbfounded.

"Well I guess I should go off to the school then," Marisa turned and flew off to where the spatial cube was located, upon arriving, she began firing everything she had at it, master spark, star dust reverie, even final spark seemed to have no effect on it.

"Damn it, this thing won't bud- huh?" She was cut short as she saw the cube dissipating and shrinking, "well it looks like I worked after all thanks to my greatness da ze!"

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Alice felt it the moment it's presence came into existence, pure evil and insanity had appeared in the underground chambers. She opened her eyes and saw a black flash of Spirit, who was swung by Stein, cutting through Medusa's body, causing blood to spray everywhere. Alice jumped back once the wiring she has wrapped around Medusa's tail was released. She looked at Stein, then at Medusa as the other witch's blood came pouring down on the pair.

"She was distracted by the sudden release of madness," Stein said as he put a cigarette into his mouth, "that's how I was able to gain the upper hand and end it quickly," he held out a cigarette to Alice, who promptly shook her head in decline.

"It feels great doesn't it?" Stein looked at Alice with a crazy look in his eye, "The madness that seeps out into the world that is," he raised his head to the ceiling and began cackling like a madman as the blood of Medusa rained down onto the floor.

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As soon as the cube dissipated Marisa saw Lord Death and Reimu burst out of the open windows and head straight towards the center of the city. Marisa cocked her head in that direction and froze in her place as she felt the pure evil and insanity emitting from the one man in the multiple scarves that was floating in place with his hands clasped in a praying stance.

Lord Death arrived at the center of the town and stared at the man who was floating, "Hiya, been a while hasn't it?"

The scarves covering the man's face parted to reveal his face, blood red eyes and pale skin, "Well if it isn't Lord Death, why do you talk in that stupid voice?"

"Well ya see, after I sealed you away I started an academy for children meisters and weapons, so I had to tone it down a little ya know? No more scary voices and object, they just ran away when I approached them."

"It's stupid and pathetic, how hath the mighty have fallen."

Suddenly without warning Lord Death lunged at Asura and struck him with a reaper chop, sending the Kishin to the ground. Asura responded by opening his mouth and firing a red beam from it, pushing Lord Death back as he had to use a shield in the shape of his mask to block it.

Asura flew up an an incredulous speed and using the spike of Vajura he began attempting to pierce through the shield, eventually cracks formed and Asura pushed forward into the sky behind Lord Death, which tore a massive, gaping hole in the shinigami's head and mask. Lord Death turned and looked up at Asura.

"You bastard! I'm going to skin you alive again!"

"Well we both know there's only one person to thank for my bastardization."

As the two were conversing paper charms flew at Asura from behind and stuck to his back, the kishin turned around with a raised eyebrow, "My...what are these?" suddenly the charms exploded into purifying energy that rippled across Asura's back, causing him to yell out loudly in pain.

"I just can't seem to get a break even when on a vacation..." Reimu sighed as she began throwing more charms in Asura's direction. Asura reacted by sending out several scarves and slammed Reimu downwards into a building.

"Reimu!" Marisa charged forward and fired her star bolts at Asura which harmlessly exploded on his body. Asura reached out and repeated the same thing and slammed Marisa down into a building and smirked sadistically.

"Girls in pretty dresses coming to fight me, oh I will enjoy this~"