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Elphelt Valentine	It's a horrid, decrepit place, the many bridges that make up Skyway City. And unfortunately, Elphelt Valentine lacks anything even remotely close to street smarts. She simply wasn't programmed with them! So it is that, atop the rocketship-like Bridal Express, Elphelt is zooming along in tight traffic, singing as she speeds along the expressway towards the center of the city. Unfortunately, it's not to be! As a speeding motorist zooms from behind a four door sedan and straight into the back of her vehicle, sending her flying upwards, spinning around with her rabbit ears flailing, and right off the road! Meaning a one-way ticket towards the underside of the bridge. There's a flaming rocket with a /very/ panicked quarter guardian angel zooming towards the edge of the water dangerously! At the last moment, Elphelt leaps of just as the rocket slams into the water in a wave of dirt, water, and falling bridal bot! "Ahhhhhhhh oh no I'm gonna chip a naillllllll!" She yells out as she careens towards the ground, launched off like an artificial-human missile!
Mamimi Samejima	Even with Mamimi visiting Boston... Skyway City is definitely more busy. The rampant crime and run down atmosphere calls a /need/ for superheroes. Those that don't have a dependence on them. Sticking to the roads, Mamimi had noticed the difference with very little difficulty. The atmosphere in the city different from the quiet towns and cities she had so far visited. It was a city of happening. She couldn't even walk along the expressways! Those were for cars. As such, she took alleyways and paths under and around bridges, finally ending up under, near the water. Obviously marked by crimals as either incredibly brazen for an elite or incredibly stupid to just go somewhere out of the way, clearly watched, potentially followed. For the moment, she was unharassed, spread out under the bridge - laying out and looking up as a few criss-crossed. The sounds were so very different. Especially that roaring sound. One that is getting close faster. ".. Huh?" As she sees a blur, she snatches out the odd camera/video player that was given to her and tapes it, the sudden spray of dirt, water and Elphelt. She waves even as she follows Elphelt's arc from the sky to one that will take her to the ground. Such grace.
Elphelt Valentine	There is one very stunned Elphelt, the impact having made a small crater in the concrete of one of the underpasses. She looks alive, thankfully: she's far tougher than she looks. Big, green eyes are all swirly, and sparkles of confusion make a cute little lightshow around her while she tries to remember the last few seconds. Bridal Express, for the moment, is toast. It's actively on fire, too. Praise be to the Lord of Flames, for the wedding angel has brought an offering. Slowly, Elphelt picks herself up, dusted with water and mud and concrete bits. Drooping visibly, she reaches for her oddly untarnished bouquet, and with a pop, pulls out a champagne bottle. POMF! The cork embeds itself in the bridge above them. Then she starts dousing herself wiht champagne that actually seems to get most of the debris off. "...Oh man, Mister Kiske would yell at me if he could see this! How am I going to find Sis now!?" She laments. If Mamimi hadn't already been marked, she too gets attention now! Hiding in the shadows of one of the other bridges, there's a trio of superpowered gang members. One has a sword, the other two seem content with a big iron pipe or simple fists. Sword Guy whispers to the others. "Hey boys...bet those two chicks have a bunch of money on 'em! Heh, especially the weirdo with the dress!" There's shared whispers as they form a plan! It's around now that a familiar figure is spied. Blink. Blink blink. "Mmm? Oh! HIIIIII!" Yells out Elphelt, across the river. She then leaps across it to land right beside Mamimi as if she were hopping over a fence. Elphelt leans down, ignoring her burning ride. "What're you doing here? This is a dangerous place you know? Ummm...Miss Mamimi, right?" There's a warm, slightly goofy smile! One she'd have seen plenty of times at the party!
Mamimi Samejima	It makes for a good video. As El-sama, the quarter guardian angel, makes a crater. And Bridal Express, an inferno. A fitting sacrifice indeed for Cantido, Lord of the Black Flame, which Mamimi notes by clasping her hands together as if she was praying for a moment, sitting up only to bow forwards briefly while Elphelt is still dizzy. Even after, Mamimi doesn't immediately speak up. So she's looking for her sister? Or at least someone named Sis! It's not new for Mamimi to be targetted. Part of the reason her crappy camera and notebook hasn't ever been taken is that it's simply not worth enough. Tomoyo's camera, though, might be. Mamimi does have a tiny bit of money though. Quite tiny. She usually just finds it. That's when Elphelt spots her. Mamimi gives Elphelt a smile, just as she /leaps/ across the river, landing right besides her. It's quite the leap! Wide eyes blink, but it's not /too/ surprising. "El-sama." Mamimi greets Elphelt with that goofy smile! Even telling her it was dangerous. "Did you just fall from heaven?" The question of course since Elphelt literately had crashed down with a rather large crater. "I thought Angels landed more gracefully..." No concern to her safety considered at all! She doesn't even really answers Elphelt's questions. She is simply there.
Elphelt Valentine	There's this vaguely 'big sister' look about Elphelt for a moment as her question goes unanswered. Granted, it was mostly rhetorical, but still! The quarter guardian angel gives a worried look, before she softens. Flop! Right down next to Mamimi without a care in the world. She even stretches out, her bouquet right beside her! "You're going to make this quarter-guardian-angel job hard, I think! You should show a little more concern for yourself." Comes El softly. From /Heaven/!? Here, she blushes! "N...no nothing like that! Well, okay, I guess you could say that I came from Heaven...sort-of." Is the Backyard actually Heaven? It is very bright and full of magic that feels good to a Valentine like her. Maybe? "No, I just fell off the expressway! Some jerk hit my rocketship." Scowl! She stamps her heel into the ground. "Hey, there are clumsy angels too!" Pause. "N...not that I am clumsy or anything! I am the picture of Ladylike grace!" A nod. She totally isn't. Meanwhile, those three Gang members are already slowly trotting over to the duo. El doesn't notice yet. She doesn't have instincts for anything that isn't a Gear. "What are you doing here anyway? Exploring the Multiverse? Ah, say...have you met a girl about my size? Dark skin, funny cape-like outfit...uhh, /really/ sharp teeth?" El puts both fingers to her mouth, pulling it out in a wide evil grin. "...Keeps going on about destroying humanity?" Cue a nervous laugh.
Mamimi Samejima	If Mamimi had a big sister, she probably wouldn't be where she is now. But she doesn't. Or a family. "Oh, you actually took the job?" Comes the answer, Mamimi somewhat surprised. "I don't really have any payment for the job." Is added as Mamimi misses the entire point of El's concern, or at least appears to. The girl yawns as she talks about concern for herself. Smoking, drinking, and out under a bridge alone - though Mamimi doesn't seem to wallow in sadness. "I can't make it any easier. If you fail, I won't blame you." Back to laying out with El-sama, she closes her eyes for a bit. "Quarter Heaven." Mamimi offers to Elphelt, as if she was an expert on such things. "Huh? I guess there are a lot of jerks." Mamimi offers, her forehead showing a bit of 'impact damage' from the other day, finally showing a slight bit of swelling from her meeting with Haruko. Not guitar damage, at least. Just normal, baseball homerun to forehead damage. "Like a cat that didn't make a jump, or a bird that forgets to flap it wings sometimes?" Mamimi offers again to El-sama, a finger rubbing against her lip. "The reception's better here, in case he calls." She answers, just like she did to Haruko. There's no real reason. "Oh, no. I met Haru-san and Tomo-san, though. None of them wanted to destroy humanity, I think." Except there are Gang members moving over. Mamimi rises slightly, almost instinctively recognizing the approach. Being one that is bullied as much as she is, or robbed, there's almost a six-sense. Not that she can avoid it if they are super-human. She doesn't know. It's just likely, if everyone else seems to be special. She rises to her feet, then backs up - tripping on El of all things and people, wincing. She's not going to get away, anyways. She sort of just assumes. "I don't have anything." Is sort of her immediate response.
Elphelt Valentine	Here, Elphelt kind of just sags her head. "Well of course! You seem like a good person! If maybe a little prone to trouble." Clearly, this quarter guardian angel is a /terrible/ judge of character. She's smiling brightly, way too chipper, like a living bolt of sunlight. Her arms cross across her chest. "Even if I do, I'll keep trying! People shouldn't be just left behind." Then she closes an eye, and sticks her tongue out one corner of her mouth. "Quarter Heaven. Definitely. I'd definitely take you to visit, but, uhhh..." Wince. "I kinda don't know how to get back, and I've only heard of one human who can survive there." Then, she's over to Mamimi with a medkit. She'll be forced a bandage and some ointment! "Who did that to you!?" She comes indignantly. "Ehhehheh. I kinda forget that whole 'flap wings' thing. Or, uh, decelerators in my case." She raises up her bouquet, and a blast of pink sparkly magic goes to the sky. Sparkly, pink deceleration. Blink. "Reception? Oh, are you waiting for a friend to come pick you up?" But then, there's people approaching! Mamimi catches on, and then El's up. She doesn't like the looks of them, and the girl's words don't help. El steps in front of her. She'll try to act the wall to Mamimi's squishiness. Sword Guy just laughs. "Sure ya do! You gotta have somethin' on ya! A phone, money...somethin'! Heh. Even if not...wonder what ya'd come out as if we gave ya the Stuff!" The local superdrug, of course. Elphelt scowls. "HEY! Back off, you meanies! We don't have anything for you! Not when you can't even ask nicely! And /drugs/! They're bad for you!" Comes El, the current single source of moral compass in the area right now. Then the big one with the fists is walking over, aiming to just punch down the Valentine. It's around then that Elphelt trips at just the right moment, flailing, her bouquet held in her hands above her head. Which connects with the Troll's skull with a hard 'klonk' of...metal? El and the big man go down in a tangle of limbs. He's out. El looks embarrassed. The gangsters just stare for a long, awkward moment after seeing a girl in a wedding dress fall on their friend and knock him out with /flowers/.
Mamimi Samejima	A lightning bolt of sunlight! A flash of happiness that brilliantly lights up the sky! A light source Mamimi, the firebug, is bouncing against. With the terrible judgement of character made, Mamimi nods to all of her responses - and replies to one in particular. "Haru-san. She got a home-run and my head was in the way." Mamimi answers, matter-of-factly, no emotion of hate, anger or resentment. Simple acceptance. "With how much it hurt, I bet it would have continued on into the sky." Mamimi muses, having blanked out and fallen off the top of the bleachers. Thankfully she landed in tall grass. "Even older cats and birds forget sometime, El-sama." That makes it clearly okay. might be hard to visit Quarter Heaven, then, since it must be exclusive to Quarter Angels. Truth be told, Mamimi, flat on her rear from tripping, looking up at the three is - frozen. She is grasping her bag as they talk, telling her about /something/ called the Stuff. "The Stuff?" Mamimi asks, having a bad feeling about it. It sounds like something hard, like drugs, and 'what she'd come out as'. It's kind of confusing! Still, Mamimi is literately frozen, clasping her bag. "You can't have that, Tasuku-Sempai might call!" She exclaims, clasping the bag tight but not moving at all. Of course, El-sama has something to say about it! Like how drugs are bad for you. How they haven't asked nicely. Then El-sama trips. "El-sama forgot to flap her wings again." Mamimi remarks, but gasps as she takes out the thug in a single strike! El is even embarassed but, there is a gasp. "El-sama really IS an quarter guardian angel!" She seemed like one, but now, it's certain! Mamimi hasn't even moved an inch, is she that helpless.
Elphelt Valentine	"Well, she should be more careful! You could have gotten seriously hurt! Lucky you didn't get a fracture..." From the looks of things, El now has a mission. "I'll find Hara-san and make her apologize by making you a cake!" But then danger! She and Mamimi are both on the ground, but at least one is out! Elphelt gracelessly scrambles back up! Mamimi protects her phone! Sword guy looks surprised, but finally gets his wits back. "Heh, I /knew/ ya had something! Come on! One of 'ems not even a Cape!" Elphelt looks back. 'NOt going to make it easy'. She's right. In comes the guy with the pipe, and El is looking to Mamimi! "You need to flap too! Here! If you just lay there, then you might get hurt! Here!" She reaches into a bouquet and throws her...another champagne bottle? "Just point and pop the cork! I'm just a quarter guardian angel you know!?" And then she pulls out a gun from her garters, all pink, and stares firing at the two. Thankfully they're rubber rounds, but the two super-Gangers manage to deflect a few bullets! The hits obviously hurt, but they're still up!
Mamimi Samejima	"Ah, it's Haru-san." Mamimi would have mostly corrected. "She did say she was a house-keeper." Of course Mamimi isn't a cape! She doesn't have one! The guy with the pipe, if he's used to fighting fledgling super-heroes, is going to have no trouble with Mamimi! This is far worse than a few school bullies, too! Incredibly so. With no weapons, no drive to fight, and frozen with fright, Mamimi looks like a full-lipped deer in the headlights, eyes wide as she just watches El and the two remaining thugs. Just... watching. Until El-sama throws her a champagne bottle. Mamimi realizes at the last second that something is being thrown to her - the catch is downright flailing, Mamimi not letting it drop but instead seemingly bouncing it in and out of her grasp a few times, before the head of the bottle is held like a bat. "Wowowowoah!" This thing she remembers, and finally, when her grasp is solid, she looks to El. OOoooooh. Point and click? Like in an RPG. Kneeling, Mamimi raises it towards the thug! Pop the cork... Mamimi grasps it and shakes the bottle up! Pointing it towards the thug, she pulls on the cork and ... nothing. "Huh?" She twists it around, turning it to face her face - which might have El freeze for a moment in utter horror, since Mamimi has seen what these can do. Only then does Mamimi turn it upside down and towards the ground. Pat. Pat Pat. She hits the end. It gives, then. Mamimi holding on tightly enough that she and the bottle go skywards, Mamimi's eyes snapping shut. "!!! - Tasuku-sempai-tasukusempai-tasukusempai." Comes the repeating plea for help as the magical fizz shoots out, Mamimi letting go over the water with a SPLASH. The bottle... might still manage to clock the thug, somehow, though. Mamimi isn't being washed away, though, already hanging on the edge of the river, like a drenched kitten.
Elphelt Valentine	It's like Mamimi doesn't have survival instincts. Or a will to survive. It reminds her, frighteningly, a little bit like Ramlethal. That /scares/ her. Watching her flail with that bottle doesn't help! Plop! The cork is wasted, and then the bottle goes flying. Right onto Sword Guy's head. Whump! And then Mamimi is calling out her friend's name helplessly. Few things actively make Elphelt angry. But this? Infuriates her. "THAT'S IT! HOW DARE YOU MAKE MY FRIEND CRY!" She screams, and she's reaching into her bouquet. The bottle to Sword Guy's head does more than infuriate him! He takes a step back, eyes mostly blinded by stray champagne! Augh! He rubs it out, the alcohol burning! A long rifle is pulled out, a duo of bullets pulled from seemingly nowhere! "Are you guys feeling lucky, punks!?" Suddenly, Mamimi and the Gangers are in a field of flowers. Warm, fragrant flowers, adrift with the scent of love and justice. There's two sharp gunshots, the two gangers hit straight in the chest. Both take a step forward, and collapse! "ELPHELT-SAMA! I LOOOOOVE YOU!" Roars Pipe Guy. "I QUIT THE TROLLS AND DRUGS! YOU'RE THE BEST HIGH, ELPHELT-CHAN!" Thud! Thud! Down Sword Guy and Pipe Guy go, entranced by magical bullets. Then, as the area fades back to non-flowers and sparkles, she's over to Mamimi, worry on her face. She'll try to gather her up, and hug tight! "Are you okay Mamimi?"
Mamimi Samejima	There are a few still around. Though when you've given up... You just don't fight back as much anymore. Through failure and flailing, Mamimi manages to take out the ... no one. Only bother the Sword Guy, and thankfully, even blind him once! Drenched and miserable, Mamimi pulls herself out of the water. The bag on the ground... her bag! The phone! The cameras! Mamimi's eyes go wide as the pipe ganger goes for it. The day is about to get worse. Yet even then, she can only crawl out of the river. Unable to watch it be taken away, she just looks to the side. El-sama speaks, but Mamimi is silent, hands balled into fists slightly before... there's a field of flowers. "Wh...?" It's like heaven. Warm, fragrant, afrift with warmth and the smell of beautiful justice flowers. It even warms her heart a bit, Mamimi looks up to see El-sama, after the shots, with the long rifle out. The pipe guy and the sword guy crash down, claiming their love to the best quarter guardian angel ever. They crash down, but not dead. She really is magical, obviously... but was that heaven? Mamimi seems to be caught up in that fact for a moment - before it all sparkles away, Mamimi clutching where there was something a moment before. Pulled into Elphelt's grasp, Mamimi is gathered up easily enough, grasped and hauled free of the water. She drips and, wet as she is, stands lopsided. That is because there is, somewhere down the river, a shoe going on a voyage. Leaving one foot bare. "That looked like they liked that." Mamimi remarks, looking to the two thugs, and away from her, not really answering Elphelt immediately. "Yeah." Comes the answer, finally. "I'm not hurt and I'm still me. You're a great quarter guardian angel, El-sama." She answers, leaning against her, dripping - and putting arms around her. She doesn't remember being asked if she was ok after anything like this. Her voice is mostly down, but it's honest.
Elphelt Valentine	The goons are down, and then the flowers dissappear. The only thing that matters is El's new (slightly shifty and dangerous!) friend is safe. She lets out a deep sigh of relief. Guns are safely back in the bouquet of holding, and helps the girl up. Then she's hugging Mamimi, squeezing with gentle warmth for someone who's seemingly pretty strong, despite her frame. There's love in her glance, of life, of people. "...Eh heh heh heh, they always do. Mother was reeeeeally into a Love phase when she made me I think." But there's a little bitterness even she can't describe when she mentions her mother. A little blackmail for Mamimi perhaps? "I'm glad! Jeez, what /jerks/! Pushing drugs on vulnerable young ladies, trying to mug us! Ugh!" She shakes her head. "They'll never fall in love at that rate!" Elphelt, the love freak rides again. "Like I said, I'll do my best! Now come on, you're going to get sick like this. There's a hotel for Elites, I can use my Union card to get us in. And let's get you a change of clothes too!" So considerate. Mamimi is literally being picked up here. She pauses, though, and runs over to bag and camera alike. "Can't forget this! They have your precious memories!" Then, she leaps, magical pink power rocketing them off into the sky. The citizens think nothing of this, aside from a few snapping pictures of the newest Cape and a saved citizen. Off they go to warmth and safety!