3232/Touhou Kakudai Stage 3 ~ The Card's House

Touhou Kakudai Stage 3 ~ The Card's House
Date of Scene:	19 October 2015
Location:	Yu-Gi-Oh Earth
Synopsis:	Alice finally makes her appearance as "Margerie" thanks to Marisa in Kaibaland, however, things take a turn for the worse...
Cast of Characters:	165, 623, Tomoyo Daidouji, 807, 829, 847, 882, 887
Tinyplot:	Touhou Kakudai

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Seto Kaiba (623) has posed:
     Seto Kaiba has been quiet recently. His failure against Sakura has left him a little bit frustrated. The entire thing was a plot for revenge. And, it failed. For a brief bit, he has decided to withdraw from society. His main focus has been his business, and watching Mokuba fail at the WMAT in the first non-qualifier round. His time to rejoin the Multiverse, its issues, and its conflict, is nearly arriving.

     At the moment, he sits in his office at the Domino City Kaiba Land. Various monitors are set up through out, allowing him to view throughout. And, the park itself is fairly packed today.

     The park itself is a large tower, several stories tall. The first floor is a massive and expansive room. Roller coasters, rides, arcade machines, and other attractions as far as the eyes can see. In the center of the room is one of the more popular features: an arena for playing the card game known as Duel Monsters, with plenty of room for the massive holograms. A number of patrons take breaks from playing the other hyper-realistic arcade games and rides in order to watch the matches.

     And, Kaiba is observing it all.

Ren Tanaka (165) has posed:
    So guess who actually decided, after all of the adventures in Tomoeda Kaibaland's pop-up park, that he was prime determined to make sure that Kaiba was mostly just a poor representative of his world? That's right, it's Ren.

    And the best way to do this, or so he supposed, was to build a Duel Monsters deck of his own and spend some time in this world. Unfortunately, that all got kind of delayed by a man with a knife and some clones, but he's here now. And of course, logically...

    Logically for Ren, anyway, who has bought a ticket for Kaibaland and has headed to Domino City, the best course of action is to start this off by seeing if he can't bury the hatchet with that ... that man, before he does anything else.

Dressed as he usually goes, possibly with a duel disk, Ren is here... to play?

Marisa Kirisame (829) has posed:
SOMEWHERE AT THE ARCADES.

SOMEBODY IS FURIOUSLY CLACKING AT A PLASTIC BUTTON AND A LITTLE RED JOYSTICK!!

"Uhhh hey Yuri, who's that weird chick at the claw machine?"

"I dunno Maki, but she's really going at it, huh?"

    "Graaaah, come on, you!" The girl hisses underneath her altogether far too big hat. Kirisame Marisa will NOT be defeated by some shitty, broken-ass piece of outsider technology! She thumbs another token into the slot and slams a palm down on a big, shiny button. The crane moves out. She jerks the lever to the right, it stops and slowly slides over. Her palm smashes the button down again and drops the claw down amongst the mass of soft, far-too-plush toys.

Her eyes widen as it seizes around a little brown furball. She squirms as it rises, lifting up, up, up--

Wait, no, it's falling again.

"SHITFUCK!" Marisa screams, pounding her fists against the control panel. "I'll get something out of you yet, you shitty waste of good plastic!"

--ELSEWHERE IN THE PARK--

    A girl, barely over the age of twelve or maybe fourteen at max, bounces through the thoroughfare. A mighty roller coaster screams past behind her, causing her to look up briefly from the enormous puff of cotton candy in her hands.

The Celaeno Fragments blink once, twice. Her big, violet eyes watch the thing go by, and, briefly, she feels a pang of envy. If only she were tall enough...

But, then again, she can probably fly faster than that thing anyway.

...Still not fair, though.

So instead she sighs, heaves her shoulders, and carries on munching at her wound, sugary treat.

"Cotton Candy," she murmurs to herself, "Sweet and delicious and airy. Entry tagged. Categorized." Gingerly, she pinches off another bite and shoves it into her mouth, "Mmngf. Recorffded."

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    "I want to warn you though... be careful around any of Seto Kaiba's theme parks..."

    Ever since their impromptu late-night rendezvous, Tomoyo has been quietly concerned about Alice. Certainly, an ancient youkai could probably take care of themselves... but any mundane man that could harness a Sakura Card to his own ends is incredibly dangerous.

    Besides, it's in her nature to worry about her friends.

    But, her free time is limited these days. On the other hand, she couldn't bring herself to sit on her hands and do nothing So she made a promise to herself: just check one park once. If nothing comes up in her snooping around, she would let the matter resolve itself.

    Though, she might not exactly be welcome at a Kaibaland after the whole kidnapping thing and all. Not to mention, there's no chance her bodyguards would let her within a mile of one. So, she was forced to give them the slip and disguise herself.

    Kaiba's monitors at the gate would reveal a young woman entering the park. Her hair is a blonde bobcut, her eyes obscured by rectangular mirrored shades. Her outfit consists of a black sleeveless top with white horizontal stripes under a yellow vest. A pair of white shorts and white platform boots goes with black tights and a yellow purse. The whole ensemble is topped off with a black beret.

    All in all, it's a pretty convincing outfit, making Tomoyo (for indeed, it is her) look to be a few years older than 16. She buys her ticket and slips inside, just looking around for now. Though her gaze seems to be fixes upwards, for the most part, which might seem suspicious! For some reason, she can't picture Alice walking around when she can fly.

Shinki (882) has posed:
    And that time is now! A red portal slowly opens up in a large mainteance room as twenty eight figures slowly creep forth out of it, waiting for one more specific figure to show up out of it. Most of the devils, twenty six in all look exactly the same. Red hair, energetic wings, spaded tail and cute outfits and a lot of commotion in the large maintenance room. However, one of the many devils in there looks incredibly different. Softer facial features, blonde hair cut to the shoulder and green eyes in contrast to the red.

    The two non-devil figures that are there, one dressed in white and the other in black, give a grin. "I can't believe She talked you into it..." "Yea, I mean, why did you even come anyways if you knew something..." the blonde girl stays quiet, looking at Yuki and Mai with a bit of disdain. "I see, well, you know what we need to do and we called her in." "Yep, the laser witch who cost Makai the first time." "Mmhmm, we told her to meet us here and guess who's leading the Koakuma Procession!"

    The blonde haired 'devil' blinks.. "YOu ... called Marisa here?" the black and white nod in sync. "Idiots. I don't have any new patterns set up to deal with this!" comes the blonde one once more, the black and the white one smiles, "It was your MOM'S idea." Yuki smirks, dissapearing into the portal, only to reappear briefly. "We're ready, Marisa..." then both Yuki and Mai are gone.

    Alice gives a sigh, looking between the devils and the doorway, "Alright girls, listen up. There's one girl that we cannot... and will not... attack. You'll know it when I'm not going at her." all twenty five devils salute and pull up into a odd military stance. "As soon as you hear Marisa's laser, we go."

Konoe Kanno (847) has posed:
     "..........."

     Konoe stood....somewhere in Kaiba Land.

     She looked left. People laughing, having fun, playing games, some sort of overblown card game being dramatically played, signs she was unable to read...

     She looked right. Loud, LOUD giant metal contraptions(roller coaster), more people, more signs she couldn't read, more chatter.

     She faced center of where she stood and sighed, closing her eyes.

     "...Where am I?"

     Lost cat in aisle three, I repeat, lost cat in aisle three!

Marisa Kirisame (829) has posed:
    "I swear, if I don't get it now, I'll--" Marisa grits her teeth tight. The corner of her eye twitches like she's on one too many cups of coffee. Judging by how there's an empty FORTISSIMO-size cup of dangerously dark brew sitting on the ground next to her, that's not exactly an unlikely thing, "I'll..."

Her eyes quiver as the stuffed thing falls. Her mouth gapes and shuts and gapes again, and then she screams.

And then the hakkero comes out.

--ELSEWHERE--

    The Celaeno Fragments humms its cheery tune, skipping down that little street. She peers curiously at what appears to be an ambulatory, stuffed dragon-thing. Her big, dark eyes blink. Twice. Slowly, she turns, and then she says...

"Cuuuuute."

There's a flash of light from somewhere off to her right. Celly swivels her head over to stare at the ENORMOUS COLUMN OF RAINBOW LIGHT exploding the side out of a distant arcade. "Ah," she observes, "Master is angry."

Seto Kaiba (623) has posed:
     An alarm goes off in Kaiba's office the moment the portal opens in the maintenence room. He isn't detecting the portal itself, but instead the beings coming out of it. A camera flips on, and he glances towards it. He frowns towards the video feed, for but a brief moment. He /could/ call in his underlings to deal with this... But. It's best to play it safe.

     He stands up, straightening his white trenchcoat and outfit. He grabs his Duel Disk. And, he starts making his way out of his office, heading to the first floor. It'll be a bit of a walk. He assumes he has time.

     And then another alarm goes off. He stares at this monitor. A /giant column of light/, exploding at a claw machine. His hand moves to his face, facepalming a bit.

     "Of all of the...."

     His thought is interrupted soon after, a man with a large spike of hair walking into the room, "Sir, the man who rescued Ms. Daidouji from the Tomoeda Kaiba Land has appeared, with a Duel Disk."

     This is simply not Kaiba's day.

     Meanwhile, down at the claw machine? The patrons of Kaiba Land stare. They are used to strange special effects, but this is different. People of all ages start running away, fleeing towards the exist. A number of security guards move to surround Marisa. Bulky men, wearing suits and shades. Men who are /no match/ for her.

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    Tomoyo's hands feel slightly empty without her video camera. She did want to bring it along, but was a little concerned it might give her away. So she busies her hands by fussing with the hem of her clothes, adjusting her shades... everything short of playing with her hair. The wig might shift, and we can't have that.

    But suddenly, lasers erupting from a nearby building! She pauses for a moment, considering. Knowing what she knows about Seto Kaiba... that might just be part of some attraction. But, she doesn't really have a /plan/ here or anything... so it's a good a place to start as any.

    Off she goes, towards the light show! She takes long strides, not entirely used to shoes this tall, one hand in that purse to grasp at what it contains. A mirror, a gourd, a credit card-sized grid and an anklet. Just in case...

    Upon arriving at the arcade, she has to try and push through people running the other way! She gets behind one of the machines, trying to stay out of sight. Marisa's blonde hair draws her attention for a moment... but that's clearly not Alice. Was this just some Elite-level vandalism over a crane game?

Alice Margatroid (807) has posed:
    Alice shakes her head a bit and gives a sigh. "Love Sign, Master Spark." she muttered, "That's our cue girls. Do not attack Tomoyo." she orders before kicking the door out with a heavy boot. "Fly." she commands and as she steps out of the door, twenty five devil-like girls take flight over the area, most of them seem content on stopping the rollercoaster to get the people out of there, oddly enough...

    Then the rollercoaster is pelted with danmaku once safe of people. Alice herself, disguised as a special 'koakuma' is walking towards the sign of light and the angle of spark, only to pick up the pace and take flight, the back wings looking like they're working.

    Meanwhile, a week ago

    "So, just use my strings on them? Are you sure that's going to convince people?" "It will, for those who can't see them. Which should be everyone." "If you say so...."

    Back in the present, Alice meets up with the guards surrounding Marisa and lets out a familiar stream of Danmaku at them, "Get away from Maris....Mistress!" she shouts at the guards, oh how it struggled to come out but she had to keep up the act. CCouldn't let this fall, especially since Marisa was there. Oh how she was going to get Yuki and Mai about it...

    Meanwhile, a few more devils throw out some danmaku towards the duel stadium, watching the bullets pass through the holographic monsters before they themselves fly over and poke at the machinery.

Ren Tanaka (165) has posed:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4W2Gto63R0
    Dark Carnival: Horde - Mike Morasky
    Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve Games

    And then it all immediately goes badly wrong.

    Something horribly loud cuts through the air- and the machine- and the walls, and the air roars and now there's running, and screaming...

    And hundreds of feet away, Ren hears it all. He's not aware that he's a person of interest on Kaibaland security, but if he was, then he would hope that what he does next impresses favourably on Kaiba's opinion of him.

    Because sure as thunder he's going to be heading straight over there, and as others run /away/ he walks /toward/. And you'd better believe that as he does, the eyes who pass over Konoe ('hello again, konoe') and Tomoyo ('she looks like someone I know, must be a parallel universe doppelganger')... those eyes are as hard and cold as flint.

That's not to say he doesn't see the dozens of other faces, natives of this world, panicked all. Oh, he sees them too.

    And then, and then... and then it all gets so much worse.

    "No, no, not today," he rumbles, "I didn't come here today to see this."

At the top of his voice, a voice many people would recognize: "Stop it. Stop what you're doing right now!"

Konoe Kanno (847) has posed:
     And then everything suddenly goes to hell. A pillar of oddly familiar rainbow energy lights up the sky, and then with her eyes, she can spot VERY FAMILIAR looking devils beginning to flit through the air. Following that, Ren ran right by her, with a quick hello. Were it not for the sudden chaos, she'd be relieved at seeing a familiar presence finally.

     "....." And with a certain level of calm, onoe sighed to herself and then began to lift into the air, discarding all pretenses of walking like everyone else. What to do first? That energy was obviously Marisa. She didn't know anyone else who had that kind of obnoxiously colored power. And then there were the devils. They didn't seem like they were here to make things better. "So troublesome..."

     Deciding to investigate Marisa first, Konoe flew off in that direction, following closely after Ren. Once they arrived, she lowered a bit, but stayed off the ground. In the process, she produced a set of ofuda in one hand and held it at the ready. "What's going on now?" She eyed Marisa, and then the devil that apparently called her 'Mistress'

     "Marisa-san? You're with them?"

Marisa Kirisame (829) has posed:
YEEEEEEAH LAASEEEEER.

    Marisa laughs like some kind of hypercaffinated maniac as shattered glass, dusted concrete and exploded plywood rain down all around her. "Yes! Yessss! Behold my power, RAINBOW MARISA'S LIGHT!" There's a sound behind her. She turns, staring at the men in suits. "Oh," she says, "It's the fuzz."

"...Well..."

    She reaches over and grabs hold of not one, not two, but THREE big, fluffy Blue Eyes White Dragon (plushies) and a terrible rictus grin spreads across her face. "Hold it right there! I've finally got the three Blue-Eyes! And that means I don't got any need for the lot of you!"

    She laughs. LAUGHS! And fires MORE DANMAKU of the entirely nonlethal variety, because even caffiene-high Marisa isn't that evil.! Only to see something else firing bullets too. The witch narrows her eyes in a tight squint. "Uh. Alice?" She blinks, "What's with the cosplay?"

ANOTHER VOICE. Marisa stares at Konoe. "Ah," she waves with that hakkero, her other hand all too full of soft, adorable plushies, "Hi Konoe. Who's with what now?"

--ELSEWHERE--

    "Running. Running." Celly murmurs as she scurries through the streets. The crowd is gathering and making it a bit hard to get through, but that's okay! She can just run over them, and so she does! The little grimoire girl sprints over the sea of humanity on a road of solidified air, munching on her delicious cotton candy all the way.

Master said not to fly on her own. She said running was fine, though.

Her eyes blink over at Ren and Tomoyo as she spies them moving through the crowds. She leans her head to one side. "Strange people," she concludes. "Very strange."

Alice Margatroid (807) has posed:
    Alice blinks. She knows... "I'm not Alice." she blatantly lies in front of Marisa, "Go get out of here. I'll cover your escape!" she smiled as quite a few more Koakuma come into view in front of Marisa and 'Alice'. "Where's your book?" she mutters quietly, "Get her here quickly." more whispering as she tries to force her way in front of Marisa and between the girls. "Trust me."

    She turns to Konoe and grumbles internally, "She's not with us, I call everyone Mistress! Now, you don't have any problems with that teenager, do you?" she smirks, "If you do, do you have issues with the rest of the people here?" Alice is trying to put on a front as a few more girls come into view, "Well?"

    And she waits... she waits... and waits... where the hell is Marisa's distraction?!

Seto Kaiba (623) has posed:
     The bodyguards are buff and intimidating. Sadly, they are facing an adorable magician. They stand no chance. They go flying, in almost all directions. The bodyguards pile up on the ground, barely able to move as they look towards the girl before them.

     Kaiba himself is fast on his way, sprinting as he moves along. Normally, he wouldn't start playing cards until he was right in front of his opponent. It's only fair, after all. He's under attack at his own turf, though. He has no idea whether this is someone out to hurt him, specifically, or a wild Elite. He'll handle it with extreme force.

     On the elevator down, he plays his first card. Face up. Next to him, in the elevator, a beautiful woman appears. Long white hair, beautiful blue eyes, and wearing a tan dress. A card is set face down upon the Spell/Trap zone. He walks out of his private elevator as soon as it arrives, making a quick walk towards the situation. His Monster, the Maiden with Eyes of Blue, walks in front of him as he moves along.

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    And then things go nuts.

    Tomoyo ducks behind a beat-em-up cabinet to avoid getting beaten up by the caffine-fueled danmaku that the (very fashionable) witch is throwing around. Peeking around, she spots as Alice arrives... dressed very differently. What's with the wings? What is she doing?

    And now Ren is here too?! It looks like he came to play... goodness, can he ever catch a break? That's a really scary look on his face too... and now that cat woman from the danmaku duel is here too! At the very least, she has some backup...

    She stays low for now, listening in. Alice is not a very good liar, it seems. Yet another commonality between the two. Right now, she's paralyzed by indecision, hand to her chin. She could come out and reveal herself, maybe learn what Alice is doing... but that might hurt Alice's feelings, for Tomoyo to have come when she was told not to.

    She looks around, spotting Celly as she peers about. Is she involved? She certainly seems out of place... and now Kaiba is coming!

    Okay, now she's definitely staying out of sight.

Ren Tanaka (165) has posed:
"I don't have any idea what you're doing here. I don't profess to know your intentions or your purpose for being here, but these are innocent people. Thousands of normal people here in a world which has never seen this kind of chaos."

    Ren narrows his eyes. The person flitting in front of his vision- he can't get a good read on her, not when everything's moving, when there's so much flying through the air and there's Kaiba here now too amidst so much sound and screaming- is a moving body in a melange of thousands more moving things. On a moment, they're seperated by a wall, and he takes a moment to speak into his radio. She's familiar, though, and that's enough- as he steps back out into a position of eye contact, his voice comes through clear as a bell, hard as a rock.

"If you have any idea who I am, and I have any idea who you are, then both of us know that this is wrong. And I will protect these people. If you won't stop them- if you won't listen to reason and decency, and for pity's sake I hope you will- then we'll stop you."

    "Please don't make me stop you."

Marisa Kirisame (829) has posed:
    "Uh... As much as I like you callin' me mistress, it's pretty obvious you're--" Marisa pauses, then sighs and rolls her shoulders. "Fine, fine. Whatever, I'm not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth." There's a beat, then. Her eyes narrow. "Alice, how do you know Celly's here?"

--MEANWHILE--

    Celly leaps! Her dress billows in a self-made breeze as a pair of dark, green wings flutter around her shoulders. That breeze becomes a mighty gale as she descends, blasting debris and that unfortunate pile of Kaibaland Thugs back with a sudden airburst. "Master," she says, landing elegantly in the huge hole the witch opened in the wall. "I saw your laser. Is it time to go already?" She looks to the pink fluffball in her hands and takes another bite. "Will we be able to get more 'cotton candy' elsewhere?"

    "Uh, well, yeah, I guess," Marisa murmurs, scratching at the nape of her neck. "Probably should go now that I've got what I've come for, uhhhh." The witch blinks, peering over at Ren. Her eyelids flutter in mild confusion, then she says, "Who even /are/ you, weird guy? I only came this way 'cause someone invited me over. And 'cause I heard there were these--" Marisa gestures at the EXTRA-SOFT BLUE EYES PLUSHIES, "--Ultra rare white dragon things that I wanted to pick up. Relax. Take a chill pill."

Says the girl who just drank through just under a half-gallon of coffee.

Seto Kaiba (623) has posed:
     As Kaiba approaches Marisa and the others, a glance is given to Ren. Really. What /is/ he doing here? He'll have to ponder that later. For now, Kaiba assumes he is in fact part of the problem. It's good for Tomoyo that she is in hiding and disguised, or else Kaiba would be just as suspicious as her.

     Kaiba holds his cards in his left hand, the same arm holding his Duel Disk. He pullsa card from his deck to add to his hand, and immediately places a card face down. He speaks casually, not even announcing his moves as he usually does.

     "Can one of you tell me /what the hell/ is going on here? And you," he says, looking at Ren, "Your friends in the Union better pay for this mess. If Union battles are leaking into private businesses, I'll be holding you accountable." He is /so/ going to be charging the Union's insurance for this mess.

     Two more cards are put down. Another Spell/Trap card floats in the air in front of Kaiba, both of them face down still. A new monster is placed on the field as well. A small, blue dragon. It's only about the size of a person. The Luster Dragon.

     Of course, he's just waiting for someone to attack his Maiden with Eyes of Blue, which is basically inevitable.

     Until then, he's having the Luster Dragon send a burst of flames towards the Blue-Eyes White Dragon plushies, to ensure no one gets away with them.

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    The atmosphere is getting heavy now. Ren is issuing a challenge, the twitchy witch isn't backing down, Kaiba is throwing down cards... though she wouldn't particularly mind if another Kaibaland got torn down, there are citizens milling around, and her friends might get hurt.

    "Wait!" she calls, emerging from behind the cabinet. Though her appearance is a bit unusual, her voice is still very familiar to most people. He strides up towards the middle of the face-off, rummaging around her vest to pull something out of a hidden pocket in the back of her vest.

    A blanket! Blue with a star pattern, she unfolds it with a flick of her wrists, laying it down before standing on it. It rises into the air, just a few inches to make her stand out. A hand rises to her face...

    And the glasses, beret and wig are discarded, revealing her black hair neatly braided and pinned up behind her head.

    "Could everyone just... calm down, please?" she asks the Elites in a pleading, placating tone. Her eyes focus on Alice, a worried look on her face. "Alice... why are you doing this?"

Alice Margatroid (807) has posed:
    Alice perks, leaning down to whisper to Marisa, "I'll tell you later, but for now, get out of here and leave your book here, I need her for a moment. Don't worry, I'll treat you to dinner at a fancy restuarant outside of Gensokyo." she proceeds to wave her hand and a few of the Koakuma move to block the flame gout from that Dragon, "Go Mistress!" she shouts, "And Mistress' Familiar, I need you for a moment!"

    She turns to look at everyone, Konoe's there... this will be a problem. Let's just hope the scent of devils outweigh her own... and there's Ren. Why of all places were there two people who recognize her here. And that girl near the fighting game cabinets, a quick red eye glint... she sighs... she's here too. And she said not to come.

    "Well, today might be a wash..." she muttered, listening to Ren's challenge. She shakes her head, "I'm afraid you have the wrong girl in mind, dear. I'm just a koakuma doing my Mistress' bidding. Of course, she..." pointing to Marisa, "isn't the one I always listen to, I listen to someone higher." she's trying to play up the devil act... trying to lie her way through this...

    Then Tomoyo speaks and Alice falls silent... and she's floating up with that blanket. "Nnngh." then a look towards Konoe again, "I would like to see you try, youkai in the guise of a miko." her breath is getting nervous, eyes glancing over at Tomoyo and she turns away, mouthing a 'I'll explain later...' to her.

    Alice soon turns her attention on to Kaiba. "Ah, you must be the owner. I so deeply apologize but my REAL Mistress needs this land. I'm afraid... you're being evicted. I have no interest in the humans in this area, so they can clear out without issue. That includes you, card boy."

    Ten of the devils split off, three in front of Kaiba, three in front of Ren, three in front of Konoe and one flies behind Tomoyo. Another ten move to make a magic circle and beckon Marisa through, "We'll keep this up for your book, don't worry, she won't let her get hurt." The last five frame Alice's rear, creating an upside down triangle formation. "Girls? Ready?"

Ren Tanaka (165) has posed:
"Well, Ebenezer Scrooge has decided to take the floor," Ren comments, exasperated. He tries to calm his spiralling mood, keeping his calm as the person he least wanted to see arrives. "Whoever said there's often a heavy price for doing the right thing probably never thought it was so literal."

    "It is you, isn't it, Alice?" he says, because yeah, it's kind of obvious by this point. He's disappointed in her, but he doesn't need to say it- she can probably see it on his face.

    He's got Konoe by his side now, and he really wishes he didn't. Not, you understand, because he would begrudge her being there, no of course not- but Ren doesn't often like the - seemingly in the multiverse - necessity of having an ally with a weapon next to you.

    Oh.
    Ally with a ... next to you... Tomoyo is here. In a very dangerous place... no, no, he thinks. Have confidence.

    "Whether or not!" he says, measuring out his voice again. He has to be; Alice is about to do something. Something terrible, something he can't allow. "Whether or not you have a grudge against this man here, you're taking it up with everyone but him right now. All of these terrified people, Alice!" he shouts, sweeping his arms out, gesturing at the fleeing masses, the trampled paraphenelia, the broken building. "Are they Kaiba? Did they hurt your friends? Did they deserve to be caught up in whatever purpose you have for this spectacle?"

    "If what you have for the people you care about means anything, /find another way/!"

Kevin Graham (887) has posed:
    Kevin was told of trouble- but when he arrived based on the coordinates he was given, he is a little surprised. The priest, wearing white clothes with red and gold trim, arrives, with a hefty red bag carried over a shoulder with the black straps from it. The bag seems to be a medical bag of some sort.
    While he hasn't been seen as an active member of the Union in years, he did fall right back into his part-time work with the medical staff. He walks up to the scene just in time for Kaiba and Ren's exchange... "-th' Union's gonna cover what?"
    The green haired priest gives Ren a passing glance before he looks to everyone else around for a moment, raising an eyebrow at the Syndicate members that are present. Kevin then sighs and lowers the red medical bag to the ground next to him with a hefty thump. "...okay, everyone. We need t' try an' figure out a way t' deal with this." Ren's right- people are terrified, but the priest knows that any sort of major conflict is going to make the situation worse. It was said on the radio that trying to resolve it might be a little late, but... it never hurts to try anyway.

Shinki (882) has posed:
    Meanwhile in the maintenance room, Yuki and Mai watch the spectacle with glee, munching on some popcorn and cotton candy. Both of them look towards each other and then back towards Alice and the troupe. "I think it was a good idea to summon Marisa here. Now things are going to get very interesting, aren't they, Mai?" Yuki laughs, munching on some more popcorn.

    Mai shakes her head, "The youkai miko will cause some trouble and so will that man. Both of them. Get ready to back Alice up... she'll probably need our help. She's already cracking, I don't know why She decided to give her acting lessons, they aren't working." Mai shakes her head and Yuki speaks back up.

    "Well, she needs more than just a week and two weeks in devils clothing. yea yea, I'll be ready. It's been a while since I got to use the flames of Makai." a grin comes across the Black Witch's face as she stands up, Mai looks up and shakes her head, "You first..."

Marisa Kirisame (829) has posed:
Because Kaiba is some kind of TERRIBLE CHEATYFACE CHEATER, he tries to take from Marisa what Marisa paid for, fair and square!

Well, we're not having none of that.

    A whirling disk of air, thick enough to actually cause light to flicker and waver and distort as it passes through, interposes itself between the flame and the soft, huggable plush toys. Flame meets a region of unnaturally high pressure and bends away, scalding the nearby ruins of what was once a crane game machine.

    "Please do not attack Master's things," Celly says, her deep, violet eyes staring DEEP INTO KAIBA'S SOUL. Or maybe just at the disk on his arm. She takes another bite of her cotton candy. "Please also do not attack Master."

    "Yeah!" Marisa nods in firm agreement. "I know you. You're Seto, the guy obsessed with blue-eyed white things, right?" That would explain the woman he's got following him around. "Well, I've got your dragons, now," the witch says with a fierce grin, "And what becomes mine stays mine! So THERE."

But.

More importantly.

There's something Marisa needs to address. Something dreadful and dire and something that is clearly being overlooked here.

    "Hey. Hey hey hey. You guys are presuming WAY too much shit here. I mean first of all, look," she gestures grandly over at the Totally Not Alice, "This is TOTALLY not Alice Margatroid. You can tell because Alice doesn't have wings, and because I have it on good authority that Alice wears at least one article of blue clothing at all times. Besides." The witch indicates, with one hand, at the Not!Alice's... bustline. "The proportions are /all/ wrong."

    "So, like," Marisa waves her arms in an altogether mysterious and quite possibly UTTERLY INDECIPHERALE manner. "This clearly isn't Alice. Let's call her Margerie instead. Now, secondly, even if Margerie WAS Alice, you guys are being a little too hard on her. I mean, this is an amusement park, right? So she and her friends are probably just here to enjoy the rides. And besides that, /I'm/ the one who lasered the shit out of this wall, so you should probably all be pointing fingers at ME. Not her."

"Thirdly," she gestures with one hand. A broom MAGICALLY ZOOMS to her open palm. "You guys," Marisa says, shoving the plushies into 'Margerie's' chest, before taking 'Margerie' into her arms like some kind of DASHING, ROGUISH PRINCE. "Talk way too much. And..."

The broom clatters to the ground. Celly and Marisa hop as one onto its wooden back. "Kirisame Marisa--" A terrible sound builds in the air. It starts as a low hum, and thn builds to a great and terrible crescendo. The hakkero...

Isn't in her hands.

It's on her broom.

    "--NEVER leaves a friend behind!" The witch grins that HORRIFYING, CAFFIENE-CRAZED grin! "BLAZING STAR!" A crack of thunder. A flood of distinctly love-colored light.

Marisa begins zooming away from the Arcade, a girl underneath each arm.

/Just as is right./

Konoe Kanno (847) has posed:
     Konoe squinted.

     ...What in god's name was wrong with Marisa? She looked almost high. Did she have THAT much caffeine? Did Konoe even know what caffeine was!? Maybe she likened it to catnip. Alice got another look separate from Marisa. "...Seriously? I thought maybe this was some kind of joke, but...You're actually doing this. You're actually with those irritating devils."

     Konoe stepped forward, next to Ren, ofuda held out. She never liked Alice anyway so this was easy. Marisa, she could ignore, because Marisa was Marisa, and Marisa did stupid things all the time. "You should listen to Ren-san, 'Devil', or else I won't have a problem stopping you."

     And there went Celly. Konoe gave her a moment's glance, and then returned her attention to Alice, awaiting her response.

Konoe Kanno (847) has posed:
     Konoe sighed as three devils appeared before her, blocking her way. As she recalled, neither Ren, nor Tomoyo, who just showed herself, were real combatants. That left her...and Kaiba, who she didn't recognize. Oh, nevermind. Here came someone else. A green haired man she also didn't recognize. He seemed combat capable. Seemed.

     "...Ren-san. They're determined to do this. I know you mean well, but...they're not going to listen. Tomoyo-san, get out of the way. I'm going to-WHUH! MARISA-SAN!" GOD DAMN IT MARISA.

     GOD DAMN IT.

     Konoe immediately threw out a set of flaming seals at the Devils blocking her, She didn't expect to stop them with just that. But at least delay them for a bit. And then she took off into the air, flying after Marisa and 'totally not Alice'. "Get back here! You're harboring a youkai that needs to be exterminated!"

     Konoe yelled, producing and tossing out several volleys of ofuda, which burst into flame and shot through the air, homing vaguely on their positions.

Seto Kaiba (623) has posed:
     "Bah humbug," Kaiba retorts to Ren. "And, I have not met /any/ of these people before in my life. I assume /you/ are the one they have an issue with. You and her." A glance is given to Tomoyo.

     But, Devils are before them now. Kaiba keeps the frown on his face, glancing towards Marisa and Alice as they flee. He now has a new pair to hold a grudge against. He doesn't care if it's Alice, or if it's Magerie, or what. He frowns at her and Marisa, right hand pointing to them both.

     "I don't care /who/ you two are. No one just invades Kaiba La--" And then Marisa steals Alice. Kaiba is actually left a little bit bewildered.

     It's one of the few times he doesn't act immediately. A brief pause occurs. The moment he realizes he has been caught somewhat off guard, he reaches to his deck again. He already has several layers of protection out, but nothing to quite catch the two opponents. He can't chase someone fleeing that fast, and he still has the Devils in front of him. And Ren. And Tomoyo. So many people here are, quite simply, just potential /enemies/ and threats.

     He draws his card. He glances at it. Immediately, he plays it.

     "I TRIBUTE MY MONSTERS TO SUMMON FORTH THE BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON! And then... BURST STREAM OF DESTRUCTION!"

     The two monsters, the Luster Dragon and the Maiden with Eyes of Blue, both vanish into light. In their place, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon appears. A spell card is flipped up: Burst Stream of Destruction. A card intended to wipe all opposing opponents off the field. The Blue-Eye's mouth opens up wide, pointing towards Marisa and Alice as they flee/are stolen. The super-hot beam of plasma flies from the mouth, straight towards them.

     And then Kaiba looks towards the Devils standing before him, and his giant fricking dragon.

     "You might as well just surrender now and come into custody with me."

     If they attack? He has another card waiting and ready. Mirror Force.

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    A look of relief crosses the tailor's face as she reads Alice's lips. She was worried that the girl would just clam up, or insist that she wasn't Alice at all. But she did intend to share, just not right now. Tomoyo can live with that.

    If there's one thing she knows, it's that some things shouldn't be so freely shared.

    But, just because she's not going to be on Alice's case, that doesn't mean she's just going to roll over and let this happen. As one of the koakuma flies around her, Tomoyo has the carpet turn so she remains facing her, hand dipping into her purse to take out the mirror!

    "Please don't make me use this. I really don't want to hurt anyone."

    That's not terribly threatening at first, but suddenly, the frame around the glass crackles with electricity! Tomoyo actually manages a fairly steely glare at the koakuma...

    But then Marisa's high-speed getaway happens! It blasts right past Tomoyo, throwing her off-balance and causing her to topple backwards off the carpet. It's a negligible fall, but she's totally off-guard, the blanket falling to land on her. Also, super embarrassing.

Alice Margatroid (807) has posed:
    Alice actually has a light bit of an annoyed look on her face... "My propor..." a pause, "I see. She's right, you know!" 'I'm going to get you for that bust comment..' "And yes, you all talk too much!" a she's scooped up with plushies in her grasp. They are quite soft and cuddlable. Maybe Marisa won't mind if she takes one for home...

    She would....

    "WUAAAAAAAAAH!?" as the Blazing Star takes off, she's used to getting /hit/ by this but when she takes that love colored joy ride with Marisa and Celly, she lets out one last yell. "YUKI! MAI! GET OUT HERE NOW!" a pause, then a whisper to Marisa, "Just for your information, there's a giant laser coming behind us, and it's not yours..."

    The three koakuma in front of Konoe smile, "We just want to play." "So shall we?" "Of course sisters!" but with the flaming seals setting the three alight, it gives Konoe plenty of time to shoot off the flaming ofuda, to which 'Margerie' responds with a spread of danmaku to try and protect her savior.

    The ones in front of Ren raise their eyebrows in confusion, "Hey, leave her alone, deal with us now okay?" "Yeah, you won't like us when Mistress gets angry or upset!" "Come on, bring it!" as the third one launches up to try and sock Ren in the jaw!

    The ones in front of Kaiba, one of them jumps in front of the laser and gets obliterated, the other two girls looking on with shock and horror as one of their sisters is rendered into nothing, not even her dress. They turn to each other then turn to Kaiba. "Yeah, we're not coming with you!" and soon, a twin pair of danmaku, a dense spread comes flying from them, needles in shape as they want to peirce Kaiba!

    The lone koakuma in front of Tomoyo stares, "You're the one she said not to attack.." she muttered, "It's okay, you want to go get a shake?" she smiled, offering her hand towards Tomoyo... but when Marisa and gang blazing star out... she ducks and dives down and hovers over the now fallen Tomoyo, "You... you okay there?"

Ren Tanaka (165) has posed:
"She's wrecking your place because you're a black-hearted psychopath who kidnapped her friend, destroyed a friend of a friend's innocence, and probably tried to kill them all as well," Ren snaps at Kaiba, "That sort of thing tends to leave people with a desire for revenge. And now, as much as I'd like to feed your delusions-"

    And then a koakuma socks Ren in the jaw, putting him on the floor. Marisa scoops up Alice, and she's away. Kaiba and Konoe leap into the ensuing fray, blasting away and leaving the others behind, too far away.

    Ren glowers, rising slowly with a split lip, watching it alll slip away from him. He looks at Tomoyo, for lack of anything else to do, and then at Kevin as well, the latter expression a bit of a plea for a priest's demon exorcism.

    "This isn't a safe place... You really should leave. Let the people who are more experienced at the fight resolve the situation."

    He offers her a hand up. "This is different, this time."

    "No good ever comes from involving yourself with Seto Kaiba. He's a blight on everyone and everything that gets close to him."

    And with that, he will probably just walk away. Today will be solved with swords instead of words.

Shinki (882) has posed:
    Yuki and Mai give a chuckle and with a step outside of a magic circle and out into another one. They're being guarded by the remainders. "So, shall we play now?" Yuki grins, the black dressed witch snaps her fingers and an orb of flame appears over her hand, "She said to take control over here... but... let's have some fun." she gives a light giggle and readies herself as a few of the koakuma line up behind her.

    Mai, however,is a bit more soft spoken. "We work together, to bring her goals in mind. Shall we dance in the snow's embrace?" Mai gives a brief smile, the white dressed witch holds her hand open, palm up and a ball of ice smokes in her hand. "We're Yuki and Mai, we'll make sure this becomes ours."

    With this, the two float in the air and the koakuma left come behind them. "We'll give you one last chance since She couldn't convince you... surrender this place to us."

Marisa Kirisame (829) has posed:
    "I'm not harboring a youkai!" Marisa grins at Konoe MOMENTS BEFORE SHE ROCKETS AWAY. "I'm STEALING a youkai! There's a world of difference!" To Kaiba, she...

Well.

She just flashes a smile and a wink.

AND THEN THEY'RE OFF.

    But it looks as though Seto isn't exactly going to let them go without a fight. Marisa grunts at Alice's warning, then... "Celly, gimme a boost!"

The little grimoire girl bobs her head from where she's perched on the broom. "Right away, Master." A shrill whine builds as she presses her hands together, "Using the Boost."

For a moment, it seems as though nothing's happening.

    And then, a mere moment before the Blue Eyes turns them all into so much barbecue, the very atmosphere seems to SNAP. It's an audible pop. Marisa screams as she, her broom, book and abductee vanish into a thin, love-colored line of HYPERSONIC FLIGHT.

Maybe she shouldn't ask a book capable of Going That Fast to help her go faster.

Maybe she'd keep her eardrums intact that way.

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    Tomoyo sits up, pushing the blanket off of her like she just woke up. She accepts Ren's help, cheeks a little pink as she looks from him to the koakuma. "I'm okay... not used to standing up on this blanket." She looks around and sighs softly. "What a mess..."

    And Ren is just walking away? Tomoyo stares at his back, looking slightly crestfallen. Even disappointed. "You're not going to do anything? Because it's not me? Because it would benefit Kaiba?" She shakes her head, not saying anything more.

    But the quiet judgement hangs in the air.

    She looks back to the koakuma, and shakes her head. "I'm sorry, but... I can't just do nothing. At the very least, I want to make sure everyone gets out okay." She fishes into her purse, and takes out a 1000 yen bill, offering it to the demon. "But you can go ahead~ It's on me, if you promise to leave me alone."

Ren Tanaka (165) has posed:
    "I can't fight. I'm not a fighter. I can't leap into the air and throw ten thousand plasma bullets or a giant masonry-smashing laser. I'm going to tend to the innocent people here that were caught up in this madness," Ren replies. "The people who aren't him. The people who matter. Make sure no one is hurt, no one gets hurt. Make sure everyone gets away safely."

Kevin Graham (887) has posed:
    The koakuma strikes Ren, and Kevin winces. He's not acting too terribly fast, but he knows that he definitely needs to do something. On the inside, anyway. Outside, all you get is a bit of a stretch from the priest, and he seems to keep a relatively lazy exterior...
    Though as his hand passes by his belt, he gives a firm tug to the cord holding the gold medallion to it, and pulls it away in a hand. Normally worn as a pendant by the priests of the Septian Church, Kevin passes it between his hands before he finally heaves a deep sigh and steps forward.
    Of course, there's the escape with the girls and Kaiba's retaliation... and the priest just rubs the back of his head... at least, until he decides he's going to do something.
    "Alright, already." At this point, the priest holds the medallion out in front of him. "Look, ya shouldn't be here in th' name of Aidios, th' Goddess of the Sky. Jus'... go away an' leave these people in peace. Y'know how it goes."
    His words make it sound like the laziest rebuke ever, but there's a power behind those words, along with a relatively sharp look in his eyes. He seems to be channeling a divine force in an attempt to, at the very least, encourage the other koakuma to follow the same route as the three who just took off hastily. ---and hopefully starting with the one that's with Tomoyo.
    Though the priest quickly shouts back to Ren, "--but I can't throw ten thousand plasma bullets everywhere either!" Nope. He just has the power of faith backing him. ...and perhaps a little bit of his own power with it.

Konoe Kanno (847) has posed:
     "Eh?" Konoe glanced behind herself, feeling a buildup of energy. "Mgyah!" And immediately, Konoe veered sharply to the side as a giant laser blew past her and towards Alice and Marisa. ...Those poor devils though. Not that she wasn't going to do essentially the same thing, if she had the time to focus on them. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, Marisa kicked her already ludicrous speed up another notch, and blasted off into the distance, leaving only a glint of light.

     "......"

     Well, there went those two. And in their place, came two others. They were dressed differently from the other demon girls. Yuki and Mai? Konoe slowed down her flight, coming to a stop in mid-air as she faced the two, as well as the remaining koakuma on their side. "...While I have no stake on this place, just your presence irritates me."

     She produced a set of needles, held between her fingers in both hands, and raised one arm, pointing those needles at the array of foes before her. "And I'm not in a negotiating mood. So please kindly let yourselfs be purified!" That said, the needles Konoe was holding burst into flame, and she threw those forward, and the second set in her other hand followed, creating a fast spread that aimed to pierce into any caught in the way.

Seto Kaiba (623) has posed:
     With one of the girls obliterated by the Burst Stream of Destruction, Kaiba just stares at the other two. This is exactly the sort of thing he needed to get going again. The triumph of crushing an opponent, completely and fully. Even if Marisa and Alice(?) get away, he can deal with them another time. Steamrolling two opponents who are in way over their heads will be fine, for now.

     The attack was expected. It would come, eventually. Kaiba motions towards the card set before him. It's flipped up, revealing itself. "ACTIVATE TRAP CARD! Mirror Force! It sends your own assault right back at you!"

     A burst of energy flies up, in front of Kaiba. He is still visible, but the expanding Mirror Force is pushing back the danmaku. Kaiba smirks towards the two girls, shaking his head at them dismissively. "You come here, to Kaiba Land, trying to claim it, and expect to succeed? You have no idea who you are dealing with. I am Seto Kaiba. Number one gamer! You lost before you even came here."

     The Mirror Force pushes back, sending the vast majority of the attack right back where it came from. Kaiba immediately plays his cards as well. Next to his Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a new Maiden with Eyes of Blue appears.

     No mind is paid to Ren. He'll think what he wants. Tomoyo is doing a good enough job calling him out on it, anyways.

     A glance is given towards the retreating Alice and Marisa. With their dodge, the beam ends up destroying some of his own property. It's expensive. It'll actually hurt him in a place where he can be hurt: His checkbook. But, it was a calculated risk to try and stop them.

Shinki (882) has posed:
    The koakuma near Tomoyo blinks, nodding lightly. "I see. Then be careful. Yuki and Mai know quite a few danmaku tricks and they aren't exactly... nice." she warns Tomoyo before taking the yen bill. "I never intended to hurt you, see. I was here to make sure you wouldn't get hurt, per one of your friends." she gives a bright smile and tucks the yen bill back onto the blanket. "I'll leave you be, but please. When you see her, don't be too harsh on her." and with that, she starts flying away, this one never intended to hurt anyone at all and in fact, starts helping to usher people out of the way. "It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you."

    Meanwhile as the attacks from the koakuma in front of Kaiba continue, that trap card and clear energy burst up before him and the danmaku gets bounced back! The two remaining girls quickly move around, trying to dodge their own attacks, "Hey, how did you?!" "THIS ISN'T RIGHT YOU CAN'T REFLECT THEM!" but the danmaku gets reflected and tears into the two other koakuma, falling to the ground and into a small red hole, defeated by their own danmaku.

    Kevin gets a few looks from the koakuma around, "Eh?" comes a synchronous response from the majority of them before ten of them move, fists raised to go toe to toe with Kevin, but are repelled away by something... divine... from Kevin's being. "Eh?! Is he some kind of miko?!" and turning around, a few rush back but aren't there in time as Konoe lets those needles fly!

    Yuki and Mai stare at the kittymiko. "A youkai wanting to play Miko? You aren't Hakurei. You aren't even close to Hakurei yet... you feel Hakurei." Mai shakes her head, backing off just slightly, "Yuki, you deal with her. One of us has to deal with the next place She selected." Yuki nods and Mai heads off, sending off bolts of flame to counteract the kittymiko's own needles, a few of the needles actually hitting home in the Black Witch's arm and shoulder. "NNgh... you sting like Hakurei too..."

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    Tomoyo just stares after Ren. "But you..." No. He made his choice, and she can only abide by it. But she doesn't have to like it. "Exactly..." she murmurs in response to Kevin, nodding at the priest. She understands the need to keep secrets... but holding back when you could help people?

    That's wrong. Almost evil.

    But then, the koakuma's words snap her back to the now. "There's more of them?" Her eyes drift towards the direction they flew in from... oh no. She stares hard at Kaiba. "Ignore them! I think there might be more lying in wait."

    The blanket is thrown down again, and Tomoyo takes to the air as rapidly as it allows! She follows the trail of destruction left by the demons, keeping a close eye out for anyone injured, trapped... following it all back to the maintenance room.

    She descends, stepping off the blanket, mirror firmly in hand. It's been left open. Suspicious... she pushes it open, and peers inside!

Seto Kaiba (623) has posed:
     With the girls defeated and fall into the hole, Kaiba just stands there. Hm. This will need to be explained, later. He assumes it is something magical based. Just in case any of the others fail to destroy their own opponents, he keeps 'playing'. He draws another card, and then places one down. A green skinned cyclopean giant appears on the battlefield, the Hitotsu-me Giant. Kaiba stands there, surrounded by his Blue Eyes, his Maiden, and the Giant.

     He pulls up the collar of his trenchcoat, speaking into a radio on that.

     "Revoke the Kaiba Land passes of all of those who just fled. Including the man."

     The worst possible punishment at a themepark: Being banned from it.

Konoe Kanno (847) has posed:
     There it goes again. 'You aren't Hakurei.' Konoe's eye twitched. Before she could come up with a snide comment about it though, Yuki's flame blasts force her to put up a hastily constructed barrier of ofuda. Most of the shots are warded off, but several seals burn away, causing flames to lick dangerously close to her arms and sides. "Tch...!"

     Konoe frowned and then dove straight forward at Yuki. She didn't pull out any excorcism tools, what was she up to?

     Well!

     They weren't in Gensokyo, so why play by Gensokyo's rules? Konoe lashed out with a quick combination consisting of a fire cloaked punch to the gut, followed by a swift hook aimed for the side of Yuki's face with her other hand, ended off with a roudhouse kick to the head.

     "That's. For. Calling. Me. Hakurei!"

Kevin Graham (887) has posed:
    "Somethin' like that," Kevin mumbles a bit at the whole 'miko' thing. He even seems ready to give more force behind the aura to push away the koakuma, except he finds that Konoe's needles are fired in his direction. He drops the spiritual push against the demons, snatches up the medical bag, and takes a flying leap back, showing a surprising amount of agility for his appearances.
    His landing, however, is nowhere near as graceful as it could have been. He drops back, slipping on the pavement a bit and nearly tumbling off of his feet. The bag has been discarded between him and where he was before, and that hand is currently being used to stablize himself to keep him from falling completely, as the other hand still holds the medallion itself.
    He quickly slips forward to grab the case with his free hand- and... withdraws a small crossbow? That's not medical gear! --but truth be told, he needed to stow it *somewhere*, and it's easier to throw it into the bag with everything else. He pockets the medallion inside his jacket.
    Kevin fires the bowgun several times, but he doesn't hit a single one of the koakuma. Terrible aim.
    ...or is it. There's a quick spoken word of scripture, before he gestures before them. Earlier, he intended to encourage them to leave. This is an actual attack- spears of holy energy suddenly fire upwards from the ground in the places where the small bolts had impacted the pavement.
    "Move along, already." --he still has a bit of a casual tone to his words with this, but his actions were clearly anything but.

Shinki (882) has posed:
    The koakuma looking at Kevin drop their jaws, staring at him. "Hey, how is he that fast and agile.. isn't he supposed to be lazy?" "I don't know, i never encountered something like him before!" "Quit your complaining and fire!" And with that, the koakuma launch some shard-shaped danmaku towards Kevin, trying to pepper him with non lethal bolts of bullets. But the crossbow causes a couple of them to go wide eye and flee, with the remaining still working on the peppering, but the crossbow bolts go wide and suddenly... HOLY SPEARS OF HOLINESS! as a few more get peirced by them and turn into dust... and seeing that causes the others to flee in fear, "THIS IS WORSE THAN THE MIKO!"

    Tomoyo gets some information as she peeks into the room... and into the portal... and ... well she already knows what she's seeing.

    Kaiba has a few Koakuma surrounding him but as the Hitsou-me Giant comes intto the field and the Maiden... "Nope..." comes one of them and they flee. "He's crazy, what kind of summoning magic is that?!" "I wonder if She can learn it....."

    Yuki smirks, "Okay, you wish to deal with me phyis..." the combination lands before she could even finish her sentence, the Black Witch shooting straight to the ground with a small crater in it now from the landing as the fire eats away at her outfit. "H... hey! I .. I see how this is!" a pause, looking for someone... she's gone. "Nnngh, I can't fight her alone... and the koakuma are running away...." she shakes her head and floats a bit, running towards her escape plan, throwing fire blast out of fire blast danmaku straight towards Konoe. "I'll see you again, NOT HAKUREI!"

Tomoyo Daidouji has posed:
    Tomoyo emerges from the maintenance room after a long moment, a look of deep concern on her face. She sticks around though, insisting on helping to make sure that all the park visitors got out, that none are buried or hurt.

    She stays on her blanket, taking to the skies to help the search, and also to keep herself out of the reach of Kaiba's goons. But the whole time, she seems distracted. Biting her lower lip, occasionally whispering to herself.

    Once everyone is accounted for, she departs. Her bodyguards pick her up, obviously displeased with how she managed to get away from them. But she doesn't really pay attention to their chastising words.

    Something is clearly chewing her up inside.

Konoe Kanno (847) has posed:
     Konoe let out a short breath after she finished her attack, staying airborne and staring down at the grounded Yuki. "......" And then came another volley of flame blasts. Konoe produced a single ofuda, deploying it in front of her. It expanded in size and grew translucent, becoming a barrier to ward off the danmaku.

     Several shots flew past the barrier's radius, searing her arms, legs, and clothes in places. The miko grit her teeth, feeling the pain, but not focusing on it. There was something more important. Something like... "I AM NOT HAKUREI, YOU MORON! THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU, I'LL RIDDLE YOU WITH NEEDLES AND SET YOU ON FIRE!" ...Among other things, most likely.

     Panting after yelling all of that out, Konoe let the barrier before her disperse into nothing, not bothering to give chase to Yuki and the remaining Koakuma. Looking around at the aftermath below, Konoe took a deep breath and sighed. Oh well. Better help out with the cleanup. She changed her course and flew downwards surveying the area to see where she could offer assistance.

Kevin Graham (887) has posed:
    Kevin doesn't mind people getting the wrong impression of him, like with the koakuma. In fact, he actually encourages it sometimes. He doesn't want people to realize that, despite being just a priest, he can pack a hefty punch, too.
    As the bullets come in his direction, Kevin quickly shields some of them, but finding others getting through, just due to the number of them- but due to them taking off in a run, it's nowhere near as bad as it coould be.
    The priest frowns slightly after seeing the things that happened.... He clips the bowgun to his belt, frowning a bit as everyone begins to flee. He quickly hefts up the medical bag and decides that he should get to work- best way to keep up appearances is do the job he's offered to do for the Union. With that in mind, he quickly sets off to try to see if he can find anyone who has been injured in the altercation and work on getting them healed and patched up.