Überwelt 3

[21:57]	`GM	After the dramatic events of the recent battle, no one really feels in the mood to go back to school. The girls go their separate ways, and Miaka returns home to check up on her shut-in sister. “Fluffy”, unsure of who to follow, goes with her as at least then it’ll be closer to more of the “team”.
[21:58]	`GM	The terrain near their house is thankfully normal and non-nightmarish. One less thing to worry about...
[22:06]	Miaka	heads inside, and manages to relax. However, this does not belie her excitement as she heads to her sister's room and knocks on the door once she's there!
[22:07]	Fluffy	follows Miaka inside but gets distracted by looking around inside the house instead. It's so interesting!
[22:07]	Tiara	---!
[22:08]	Tiara	's sharp sense can spot Miaka since she opened the front door. By the time she comes up the stairs, Tiara is already in front of her door. She doesn't open it yet, however.
[22:08]	Miaka	Hey Tiara! Open up! Something really cool happened today!
[22:08]	Miaka	knocks again!
[22:08]	Tiara	opens it just a slight bit.
[22:09]	Tiara	...can you be quiet? It's loud and annoying.
[22:09]	Miaka	pushes the door open in her excitement and rushes inside, jumping up and down.
[22:09]	Miaka	Tiara! It was SOOOO COOOOOL!
[22:10]	Fluffy	is intrigued with a corporate business magazine of the father's on the coffee table! Apparently there's economic trouble in a place called Europe!
[22:10]	Tiara	---!
[22:10]	Tiara	The thing... is here...!
[22:10]	Miaka	Thing? What thing-?
[22:10]	Tiara	tenses up. She grabs her pepper spray.
[22:10]	Miaka	looks towards Fluffy
[22:10]	Miaka	Oh, that thing.
[22:11]	Miaka	Forget about him. This is more important!
[22:11]	Tiara	huh?
[22:11]	Miaka	I TOTALLY FOUGHT MONSTERS TODAY! AND I KICKED THEIR ASS!
[22:12]	Tiara	mon... ster...?
[22:12]	Miaka	They were all RAAAAAWRRR, and I was like FOR THE EMPEROR!! and then it was like DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKABOOOOOOOMMM-!
[22:12]	Tiara	recalls the event the encounter with the stickman.
[22:13]	Tiara	's worries returned to her and hit her hard like a truck. She tried so hard to forget about the whole thing and dismiss it as a delusion, but somehow she just can't deny its authenticity.
[22:13]	Tiara	grabs both Miaka
[22:13]	Fluffy	sits in the hallway near the sisters, teaching itself rudimentary macroeconomics. Or something like that.
[22:13]	Miaka	IT WAS SO COOL!
[22:13]	Miaka	-ah-!
[22:13]	Tiara	grabs both Miaka's arms and shake.
[22:13]	Miaka	is shook
[22:13]	Tiara	You FIGHT it!?
[22:13]	Tiara	Tell me more!
[22:14]	Miaka	I fought a /bunch/ of them!
[22:14]	Tiara	how---!?
[22:14]	Miaka	goes into more detail about what happened. Along the way, she says something about the other girl that she met today that could see what was going on.
[22:14]	Tiara	listened to all of it. Face grows more pale and worried by every seconds.
[22:15]	Miaka	...and then I came home!
[22:16]	Miaka	So we killed like 5 of them!
[22:17]	Tiara	Don't you talk about killing like it's a pleasant things!
[22:17]	Tiara	's voice is unbelievably angry, unlike her usual self.
[22:18]	Tiara	Ah-
[22:18]	Miaka	But they're monsters! And magical girls are supposed to fight monsters, right?
[22:18]	Tiara	realize that, too, and simmers down. She release Miaka from her grasp.
[22:18]	Tiara	...
[22:18]	Tiara	Why are you doing this?
[22:19]	Tiara	You have a death wish?
[22:19]	Miaka	shakes her head.
[22:19]	Miaka	No way! It's totally safe! I'm really powerful! And we have other friends that can fight too!
[22:20]	Tiara	I don't care about those 'others'.
[22:20]	Tiara	What if something happened to you...?
[22:20]	Tiara	sinks deep down into her despair once again.
[22:21]	Miaka	Totally impossible. Like I said, magical girls always win!
[22:21]	Miaka	It's scientifically proven!
[22:22]	Tiara	why... why are you doing this... You want to leave my side that much, huh...?
[22:22]	Tiara	's biased logic spirals down to the point of no return. She's going back into her self-hatred shell again...
[22:23]	Miaka	Oh c'mon, it's exciting-!
[22:23]	Tiara	In the end... I'm not needed... I'm just a nuisance...
[22:24]	Tiara	Everyone can just go to hell for all I care...
[22:24]	Tiara	mumbles.
[22:24]	Fluffy	notices a heated discussion and stops looking at worldwide currency conversions. It plots up nearer to the sisters and listens in.
[22:24]	Miaka	notices that Tiara's headed into one of her 'moods' again, so she rolls her eyes and heads out of the room.
[22:25]	Fluffy	looks between the sisters, confused.
[22:25]	Fluffy	"Is... something wrong?"
[22:25]	Miaka	ignores the magical pet as she heads back to her own room.
[22:26]	Tiara	...
[22:27]	Fluffy	watches Miaka leave... It wishes it would have paid more attention to the conversation now...
[22:27]	Tiara	is left alone again, but not really. The creature is there.
[22:27]	Tiara	...What is your purpose.
[22:27]	Fluffy	looks at Tiara innocently.
[22:27]	Tiara	's hatred is now being focused on Fluffy.
[22:27]	Tiara	Why are you making my sister fighting.
[22:27]	Fluffy	"My, purpose? I, ohh, umm..."
[22:28]	Fluffy	has to think about this again. One of those "weird" questions...
[22:28]	Tiara	gets up. She grabs her pencil from the desk and slowly walking over to Fluffy in a menacing way.
[22:28]	Fluffy	"I... I think I'm a... a, her, ald...?"
[22:28]	Fluffy	starts answering but trails off, looking at the approaching girl...
[22:28]	Tiara	's pencil is sharpened to the point of being dangerous. Too much free time, I guess.
[22:29]	Fluffy	"What, what are you doing...?"
[22:29]	Tiara	Since you came.
[22:29]	Tiara	Since you came... everything turned into a mess.
[22:29]	Tiara	If you just disappear...!
[22:29]	Tiara	's grips on her pencil tightens.
[22:29]	Fluffy	inches back a little, not really liking this.
[22:30]	Tiara	raises it up. Rage running wild in her head.
[22:30]	Fluffy	"I... no, stop, don't...!"
[22:31]	Tiara	If you just disappear, she wouldn't be so far away like this!
[22:32]	Tiara	brings it down, and misses the mark horribly. The fragile piece of wood shatters as it impacts the flat surface. Her hand bleeds from the splinter and carbon shards.
[22:32]	Fluffy	scampers down the hall, running for its life!
[22:32]	Tiara	...
[22:33]	Fluffy	"It's not my fault! The other one died and it still keeps happening! It's not my fault!"
[22:33]	Fluffy	shouts from under and end table in the hallway.
[22:33]	Tiara	toss her alarm clock down the hall.
[22:34]	Tiara	's attack crashes with something. She couldn't care less. She doesn't care about her now-bleeding hand, either.
[22:34]	Miaka	wonders what the commotion is about and peeks her head out of her room. The sound of magical girl anime can be heard in her room.
[22:34]	Miaka	...hey, what the hell is going on?
[22:34]	Fluffy	is afraid again! Why does everyone hate it so much?
[22:35]	Fluffy	"I don't know! I don't know!"
[22:35]	Tiara	runs up to Miaka and tackle her down with force, clutching her sister's body with all her might.
[22:35]	Miaka	Uwah-!
[22:35]	Miaka	is tackled!
[22:35]	Tiara	Don't go... don't go...!
[22:35]	Miaka	Wh-what the hell is wrong with you?!
[22:35]	Tiara	What am I going to do if you...!
[22:36]	Miaka	pushes Tiara off of her and sits back upright. Then she notices the blood.
[22:36]	Miaka	...why is there blood on me?
[22:36]	Tiara	is shivering like a featherless bird in winter storm. the bleeding in her hand dirties Miaka's clothing.
[22:37]	Miaka	looks over at Tiara and notices the bleeding.
[22:37]	Miaka	What the hell did you do Tiara?! Are you crazy or something?!
[22:37]	Miaka	picks herself up, then drags Tiara to the bathroom to take care of the wound.
[22:37]	Tiara	doesn't answers. She sort of in a panic.
[22:41]	Tiara	Ngh-!
[22:41]	Miaka	Get a hold of yourself, geez!
[22:41]	Miaka	hates it when she has to be her mental sister's babysitter like this.
[22:41]	Tiara	's hand hurts when the water runs over it. Good thing the splinter's not stuck in there. There's a lot of scrapes, however.
[22:42]	Tiara	...
[22:42]	Miaka	applies some peroxide to the wound which hurts too.
[22:42]	Tiara	...sorry.
[22:42]	Fluffy	creeps out from under the table and tries to surreptitiously sneak closer again, really wanting to know what is being said between the sisters. It wants to understand...
[22:42]	Tiara	has calmed down a bit.
[22:42]	Tiara	The thought of you going so far away and might not come back... I don't like it.
[22:43]	Tiara	Your luck couldn't last forever, you know?
[22:43]	Fluffy	wants to make a comment, but thinks it will get yelled at, so doesn't.
[22:43]	Miaka	Will you stop...?
[22:43]	Tiara	...
[22:44]	Tiara	silences herself.
[22:44]	Miaka	finishes dressing the wound and shuts the water.
[22:44]	Miaka	...seriously.
[22:45]	Fluffy	pokes its head into the bathroom, seeing if anything is happening.
[22:46]	Tiara	Sorry.
[22:46]	Tiara	say it again to state that she really means it.
[22:49]	Tiara	say no more, afraid of being scolded again.
[22:50]	Miaka	heads back to her room to continue watching her anime
[22:52]	Tiara	, however, sorta follows Miaka there.
[22:52]	Tiara	...
[22:53]	Miaka	doesn't keep her door closed, and Tiara can see Miaka lying on her bed on her stomach, watching her DVDs.
[22:53]	Fluffy	sorta follows Tiara there too, hearing joyous noises and music nearby.
[22:55]	Tiara	silently scoots over and sit on the bed, staring at the flashy display moving around in TV.
[22:55]	Tiara	...
[22:56]	Miaka	doesn't mind, but she's mostly focused on the show.
[22:56]	Fluffy	tries to find an inconspicuous place where its out of the way but can still see the moving pictures. What is this thing they are watching...?
[22:57]	Tiara	doesn't register any part of the show, but a small fragment of idea start manifesting itself in her mind as she watch the girls in the show valiantly fought with love and friendship.
[22:59]	Fluffy	is intrigued. This looks almost like... real life, out there! But then... why does it still look so fake...?
[22:59]	Tiara	, in a quiet whisper as if to tell herself;
[22:59]	Tiara	"If I have a power to keep you safe..."
[23:00]	Miaka	...?
[23:00]	Miaka	turns around
[23:00]	Miaka	You say something?
[23:01]	Tiara	n-nothing...
[23:01]	Tiara	's eyes are still fixed on the screen.
[23:01]	Fluffy	"What is this? This thing you're watching."
[23:01]	Fluffy	points at the screen.
[23:01]	Miaka	Magical girls. It's like what we are now.
[23:02]	Miaka	I'm studying.
[23:02]	Fluffy	watches a bit more processing the information.
[23:03]	Fluffy	"Does that mean... If this it like you, can we use this to find out what's going on?"
[23:03]	Miaka	shrugs.
[23:04]	Miaka	I dunno, there's all different kinds of magical girl animes. I'm watching for stuff like techniques and tricks and stuff.
[23:06]	Fluffy	does not detect a very positive aura from that statement.
[23:06]	Fluffy	"So... It doesn't have the answers?"
[23:06]	Tiara	You are serious about this, aren't you.
[23:07]	Miaka	shrugs again.
[23:10]	Fluffy	is depressed. Of course it wouldn't be that easy, would it?
[23:11]	Tiara	wait until it ends.
[23:12]	Tiara	keep that idea within her head as she silently leave to her own room.
[23:13]	Tiara	shuts the door behind her, and starts mulling on the idea.
[23:13]	Tiara	If I am so worried about her welfare... what I could do is...!
[23:15]	Tiara	now starts looking for the creature, which is probably the first time she want to find it without malicious intent.
[23:17]	Fluffy	is on the living room couch, keeping to itself.
[23:18]	Tiara	walk downstairs past the broken alarm clock (which she took some time patching it back up. it still works fine, somehow) and see the thing on the couch.
[23:20]	`GM	[As Miaka continues to indulge in anime, out of the corner of her eye she notices some sort of dark flash or something out the window.]
[23:21]	`GM	[Fluffy is minding its own business for now with its eyes closed, seemingly in deep thought]
[23:21]	Tiara	sits besides it, causing it to bounces up.
[23:21]	Tiara	...!
[23:22]	`GM	[Fluffy is bounced like the stupid plushie dragon it is! Its concentration is broken!]
[23:23]	Miaka	...?
[23:23]	Miaka	heads over to the window to investigate.
[23:24]	Tiara	Tell me how to become one.
[23:26]	`GM	[Miaka: Several rooftops away, a dark humanoid blur can be seen behind, or perhaps leaning on, a chimney. It's quite a ways off; she's lucky she spotted it at all.]
[23:27]	`GM	[Miaka: It doesn't seem to be moving, but at that distance its hard to tell, since it's in a part of the neighborhood which is currently purple and hazy with weird swirls.]
[23:27]	Fluffy	"Hum? What...?"
[23:27]	Fluffy	"Become, one?"
[23:27]	Fluffy	"One with what?"
[23:28]	Tiara	become the thing like my sister has become.
[23:28]	Tiara	Magical... girls.
[23:28]	Fluffy	"Ohh, one of... one of those."
[23:28]	Miaka	!!
[23:29]	Miaka	hops out of bed and out the door, running downstairs in a hurry!
[23:29]	Miaka	Tiara! Just saw a monster, gotta go kill it, be right back!
[23:29]	Miaka	is very quick about the whole thing as she bounds out the front door and heads in the direction she saw the monster.
[23:30]	`GM	[Fluffy is shocked!]
[23:31]	Fluffy	"Wait, wh-what? Another one?!"
[23:31]	Tiara	?!
[23:31]	`GM	[Fluffy panics a little. It thought it would have a chance to be safe for a while!]
[23:32]	Fluffy	"Where is it, is it close?!"
[23:32]	Tiara	is always cynical. She can think of million ways for the situation to go wrong. Without any logical reason behind this, she darts out, following!
[23:32]	Miaka	is already out the door and doesn't hear. Tiara can still see her heading down the alleyway next to their house, towards the street behind their house
[23:33]	Fluffy	"What, no, you too?! What's...!"
[23:33]	`GM	[Fluffy is free to be confused and freak out inside the house, where it stays.]
[23:39]	`GM	[The two of them enter a hazy world of purple swirls. The houses, trees, and the like are still there, but washed with strange violet shadows.]
[23:40]	Tiara	grit her teeth. She experienced it once, and is aware of what to come next.
[23:40]	Miaka	I should get ready to fight...
[23:40]	Tiara	If I don't hurry---!
[23:40]	`GM	[They approach the area where Miaka saw the shadow, but from the ground now it's a bit difficult to tell exactly where it was...]
[23:40]	Miaka	For the Emperor-!
[23:41]	Miaka	undergoes the quick version of her transformation sequence and then stands at her full, proud height, rifle in hand and at the ready.
[23:42]	Miaka	Come out and face your doom, foul xenos!
[23:44]	`GM	[The foul xenos does not appear...]
[23:46]	Tiara	, however, notice something Miaka doesn't.
[23:47]	`GM	[Tiara spots a dark-strange humanoid looking at them from the window of a second story of a building across the street!]
[23:48]	`GM	[Or, sort of looking? Does it even have eyes...?]
[23:48]	Tiara	----!
[23:48]	Miaka	stands there for a while, looking around and expecting something to jump out at her.
[23:48]	Miaka	...well, where is it?
[23:49]	Tiara	There!
[23:49]	Tiara	assists, in order to end this as fast as possible
[23:49]	Miaka	!!
[23:49]	`GM	[A strange shadowy beam of something shoots out from the creature, narrowly missing Miaka!]
[23:49]	Tiara	Gya!
[23:49]	Tiara	backs off.
[23:50]	Miaka	aims where Tiara is pointing and lets loose with 3-round burst... that tears the window and most of the building around it to shreds.
[23:50]	`GM	[The shadowy something may or may not have gotten hit...]
[23:51]	Tiara	---!
[23:51]	Tiara	is impressed by Miaka's sheer destruction force.
[23:52]	Tiara	o 0 (Is this going to be okay...?)
[23:53]	Miaka	isn't sure if the thing is dead, so she keeps her guard up as her eyes scan the area.
[23:54]	`GM	[Tiara can also be impressed by something else! She spots a second something-or-other in a window across the street from the first! This one is also humanoid, but is a weird whispy white instead of black!]
[23:54]	`GM	[Miaka is busy with recon looking elsewhere and notices nothing!]
[23:55]	Tiara	I don't think there's only one of them!
[23:55]	Tiara	, not knowing what to do, just hide behind something. At least it's better than going prone.
[23:56]	Miaka	Where's the other one!?
[23:57]	Tiara	point at the last place she spot it.
[23:57]	Tiara	Is it okay to destroy things like this!?
[23:57]	Tiara	I mean, that's a building you just shot!
[23:57]	`GM	[A white flowy beam of energy is where the other one is! It grazes Miaka's armor and is very very bright!]
[00:00]	Miaka	!!!
[00:00]	Miaka	returns fire, causing more grievous property damage!
[00:01]	`GM	[The white thing gets out of the way! Meanwhile, the black thing reappears, slashing at Miaka's exposed back with a shadowy crescent!
[00:02]	Miaka	Ngggh-!
[00:02]	Tiara	Miaka!
[00:02]	Tiara	calls out. This is not good at all!
[00:02]	Miaka	recoils as her armor holds out, and responds with a spinning rifle butt!
[00:02]	`GM	[The black thing then darts away, extremely agile! It's all smokey and neither of them can get a good look at it!]
[00:03]	Miaka	is growing frustrated with this situation and switches to her chainsword as she pursues the black one!
[00:03]	`GM	[The white one is on top of the roof of the building it was on, and sends out a flurry of pulsating white orbs towards Miaka!]
[00:05]	Miaka	uses her Magic Shield to tank the orbs, but she's starting to look a bit ragged.
[00:05]	Miaka	Enough of this trickery! Stand and fight!
[00:05]	Tiara	S-
[00:06]	Tiara	STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP !!
[00:06]	Tiara	throw herself between the orbs and Miaka, unsure of why she did that.
[00:07]	`GM	[The orbs are closing in, not at bullet speed but fast enough!]
[00:07]	Miaka	is shocked when she sees Tiara jump in front.
[00:07]	Miaka	TIARA, NO!
[00:10]	Tiara	is covered with lines and cords of electrical appliances. Several part of metals clicks together as it entwines around her in a complex sort of puzzle. Her hair bundled up together and form itself into a helmet with purple linings, complete with orange visor. Her clothings shreds as the sheet of metal and electrical plugs forms an extending arm-
[00:10]	Tiara	use the arm... no, FOUR of the arm to erect a green shield between it, taking the impact of the force, unflinching.
[00:11]	Tiara	stand tall in her magical girl form that looks like a cyber armor from science fiction.
[00:11]	Miaka	...whoa...
[00:11]	Tiara	You get away from my sister!
[00:12]	Miaka	looks at Tiara with the kind of admiration only a younger sibling can muster toward their elder.
[00:12]	Tiara	use the extending metallic arms to prop herself up, walking by making a hole in the ground like a mechanical spider.
[00:12]	Tiara	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
[00:13]	Tiara	dive towards the white monster with reckless abandon
[00:13]	`GM	[The white one ceases to shoot the orbs and moves out of the way. It's very fast but looks like it doesn't want any of that business!]
[00:15]	Tiara	chases it around.
[00:15]	Miaka	intercepts the white one by cutting it off at the pass, then proceeding to cut it off at the head. With her chainblade.
[00:17]	`GM	[The white one dissolves almost immediately, leaving nothing behind. The black one is nowhere to be seen...]
[00:17]	Miaka	...have any idea where it went?
[00:17]	Tiara	lands smoothly with the soft touch of her mech-arms.
[00:17]	Tiara	No.
[00:17]	Tiara	They better hide. If I find them, they will be obliterated.
[00:18]	Miaka	stands near Tiara. When Tiara's walking around at full height with the spider legs, she's almost as tall as Miaka.
[00:18]	Tiara	I won't just sit back like a scared girl watching things happen without able to do anything.
[00:18]	Miaka	Good! Welcome to the team, sis!
[00:19]	Tiara	I'll keep you safe, no matter what---!
[00:19]	Miaka	pats Tiara on the back happily, and accidentally sends her flying flat on her face.
[00:19]	Miaka	...umm, sorry. Still getting used to how strong I am with this armor-!
[00:19]	Tiara	You little-!
[00:20]	Tiara	plugs the mechanical arm on Miaka's armor and send a light electrical jolt in it.
[00:20]	Tiara	That hurts!
[00:20]	Miaka	Kyaaaa-!
[00:20]	Miaka	gets the jolt.
[XX:XX] `GM	And then they became a loving family again, forever and ever.
[XX:XX] `GM	That's most likely a lie.