Scene #645: Sakura and the Impossible Maze

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Sakura Kinomoto	A new maze has opened up in Tomoeda's theme park! Did you know Tomoeda has a theme park? It totally has one. There was a movie set in it and everything. The maze is a staggeringly large and complex afair. The walls are made of brick interspersed with wooden fences, while there are indoor areas and even tunnels. There are even places to get food dotted about the place - one assumes the people who work here have secret tunnels or something. Like at Disney World. What's more, there's apparently a prize for reaching the center first. So Sakura has invited some people to check it out! What's the worst that could happen?
Kaede	Kaede's here! Likely perched on Sakura in some way shape and/or form! She's not wearing her armour, and seems to be enjoying time with her Master. "Hee, this should be really fun, Master! You did bring enough drinks, right? How about that Bento I made for you?" she asks, peering at the girl seriously.
Nasrin	A maze with a prize? Well, Nasrin could check it out. She shups a backpack over her shoulder as she steps off one of the busses, looking up at the gate. She's clad in gray cargo fatigues, hoodie pulled up over her head as she makes her way along with the crowds. She hears Kaede's voice, and she looks up, the light catching against the long lines trailing down her face, and gives a smile as she trails the duo.
Natasha	A theme park, Natasha mustn't get too excited or bad things might happen! Still, she loves this sort of thing so she certainly isn't going to pass it up. "Yes, this is going to be great!" She nods at Kaede and Sakura. "Thanks for inviting me, I haven't been to a theme park in a while. "I wonder what the prize is?" The girl's doing her best to try and keep composed but is clearly having a bit of difficulty as small flames appear and vanish on her.
Emiya Shirou	Man, invited to a theme park? Shirou'd kind of like to refuse. He has people to help in Dun Realtai. But he needs the Union's help to aid him in finding Fuyuki before something crazy happens there, and that means getting to know people, not pushing them away. He'll just have to work harder for Dun Realtai's sake when he's back! This has brought him to Tomoeda, and the theme park. He's looking around confusedly though. He was supposed to meet someone and... he spots Natasha, and her wild long red hair, long before he spots Sakura! "oh..." But that does get his gaze in the right direction. Man, so many girls. Maybe he should leave them be... But he was invited... "erm... is this the group I was supposed to meet?" He asks awkwardly, walking up.
Sakura Kinomoto	And, of course, Sakura is here. With a Kaede perched on her shoulder and everything. She's dressed in a white shirt, pink jacket and blue jeans, and also sneakers. Pink sneakers. "Don't worry, I brought -plenty-. We can always go to the Castle if we need more, anyway..." she answers Kaede, hefting her backpack a bit while stroking the shinki's hair with a single finger. She giggles a bit nervously at Natasha's obvious excitement. "C'mon, don't burn down the maze or anything..." she murmurs a bit. Then she notices Nasrin and Shirou ariving, waving to the former while peering curiously at the latter. "Oh, are you Shirou..?" She's never met him in person!
Nasrin	Nasrin gives a wry smile, and she ccomes along the back of Sakura, tapping her shoulder as she passes. "Safety, little sister." she greets her simply, leaning back on her heels. "And Kaede both." she adds in to the little Shinki.
Kaede	Kaede emits a pleased sound and a giggle at her Master's response. "Good~, don't want you keeling over and forcing me to drag you out of there~." she teases, hugging the girl's cheek, before climbing up to perch atop her head. She beams at Nasrin. "Safe Tea and Peas!" comes the mirthful little chirp, before Shirou gets her full attention. Much like the bird of pray her model is based on, those grey eyes peer at him. "Hi~, I'm Kaede!" she offers, waving to him, then to Natasha too.
Natasha	"I've got it under control, I'm not going to burn anyone." Natasha takes a deep breath and calms down a bit. "Yeah, that's us. Glad you could make it, I'm Natasha!" She tries to make Shirou feel more welcome. Who knows how sucessful she'll be at that. "Well, I'm not going to drink anything." She doubts Petals brought gasoline or anything that would draw even more suspicion. "Nice to meet you too, Kaede!"
Emiya Shirou	Oh good, he's found the right group. That cheers Shirou up considerably. Particularly with Sakura's cheer. "Yeah. Emiya Shirou. Thanks for the invite!" He glances about at the others... is that a Shinki? He's sure it's a Shinki. "Not sure what I did to deserve it, but thanks." The boy's smiling now. So many happy girls! That's awesome to see. "It's... Kinomoto Sakura, right?" His tone's gentler when addressing Sakura too. She's really a mage?
Sakura Kinomoto	"Safety and Peace, sister," Sakura responds to Nasrin, half-automatically. She's smiling as she says it, of course - she gets to see Nasrin! That's awesome! She giggles a little bit, heading for the entrance to the maze. "I wanted to get to know you, duh. It's nice to meet magic users, y'know? Everyone does things so -differently-, it's great." She grins. "And yes. You can call me Sakura, though~ Kaede is my Shinki. Pleased to meet you in person~"
Kaede	"Yep! I'm the Shinki of the Most Powerful Mage Who Ever Lived~." chirps Kaede, who then adds quieter. "In her world at least." before she slides back down to perch on Sakura's shoulder. "I'm a Raptias, MMS Type Eagle! We're really rare y'know~! Master got me for saving someone in Union Steel's life! She's just that amazing~."
Nasrin	"Nasrin." the taller girl introduces herself simply, and she hups her pack and pulls the hood back over her face. She glances to Shirou and Natasha with some curiosity, but doesn't expound further on her identity. Instead, she regards the maze, glancing up at it. "This may be a challenge. It's very large."
Natasha	"Well, I'm pretty powerful, but I'm more than just a mage so..." Natasha's not sure if that applies to her. "What kind of magic do you use Shirou?" She's kind of curious since Sakura mentioned he was a mage. "Well, I'm guessing flying over it would be cheating." She knows most people can't do that after all.
Emiya Shirou	"Th... the greatest?" Shirou gulps. This kid? Well, it's not that she's a kid that he's taken by surprise. Who'd ever expect to encounter someone like that to begin with, in any world? "..." He blinks a few times at Sakura, then mutters, "Trace, on." The simple act of switching on his Magic Circuits - and gaining access to more than just one - has gotten easier since that crazy fight. Just a simple mental operation, not converting a nerve momentarily. A tidbit of magical power leaks from his body, barely noticeable by most standards. But he's trying to get a feel for Sakura, if she's leaking any power he can feel anyways. He's none too good at that. "She must be." he agreeds, smiling and waving in greeting at Kaede! Nasrin gets a nod, and then Natasha. "Er... Projection magic. Creating objects from energy. C'mon though, didn't we come here for a maze?" he doesn't want the attention on HIM. These girls should be enjoying themselves. Speaking of which, he peers at the imposing structure... "Whoah. I've never seen one this size before."
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura rubs the back of her head. "Eheh. Kaede, you need to stop introducing me that way to -everyone-..." she says, slightly embarassed. She glances at Natasha, and nods. "Mmhmm. That's actually posted on the rules and everything. No flying. Or climbing the walls, obviously." They reach the entrance, and Sakura starts to head in! "Yeah, it is pretty huge. They built it to try to get multiversal tourism, I think." Emiya's magic scanning reveals that Sakura is... enshrouded in a nimbus of mana. It's very 'bright', and seems to extend quite a way outwards. One gets the distinct impression that, if seen from a long way away, Sakura would look like a star. If Sakura notices Shirou scanning her, she doesn't mention it. "...But don't worry! I'm sure we'll find the center. After all, we've got Nasrin with us!"
Natasha	"Projection magic? Then couldn't you just project where the center is? Or does it not work like that? I mean it's not cheating, we still have to go through the maze to get there." Natasha figures it's just making things a bit easier for them. "This is pretty big, I wonder what's waiting for us?" She can only imagine.
Nasrin	"... I could argue those points of rules. It seems unlikely that /everyone/ will be able to climb the walls." Nasrin gives a grin, and stretches her arms a moment before palming a piece of chalk in one hand. "And I've got a way to track our movements without sending any warning signs.
Kaede	Kaede giggles, and just hugs Sakura's cheek again. "But it's true! You're awesome, Master~." she chirps merrily... but then frowns a bit. "Does the no flying rule mean I'm stuck riding along the entire way? I can't keep up with you on foot y'know."
Emiya Shirou	GAAAAAAAAAAAH. Shirou immediately regrets forcing his senses open. He has to suppress them. He senses things not as sight, but as pressure. The energy pushing at him from Sakura is crazy. And that's just what she gives OFF?! "I-... it's a maze. There's no challenge if you cheat." Shirou points out after a fit of swallows, as if this should be obvious. Though he's never, EVER seen one this huge. "And it doesn't work that way. Projection needs me to understand what I'm making." The maze is new. How could he possibly project something he's never seen? And isn't it just too plain huge, anyways? "Oh... not a bad idea. Some way to draw a map." Oh well. In he goes!
Natasha	"I think it means you can't fly over the maze, not inside of it. Oh, I see." Natasha nods at that, "What about looking over the walls, I mean it's not cheating if you're tall enough to see over them right?" Of course that wasn't the case right now but she could make it the way. She eagerly makes her way into the maze as well.
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura pauses. Kaede brings up a good point! "Uh. I think you should be okay as long as you don't fly high enough to see over the walls..? So, like, stick to head level and you should be fine." She grins a bit at Nasrin. "If they're hoping for multiversal tourism, they should assume that they -will- get customers who can climb sheer surfaces like that." She giggles a bit as she spots the chalk, but says nothing about it. "C'mon!" And in she heads. And so the party moves onward, taking turns via guesswork, intuition, reasoned logic or simple blind luck. "Anything that would make the Maze card react badly is probably cheating," she tells Natasha, with a bit of a huff. "Being taller than the walls is one of them."
Nasrin	"Ah, there still has to be something to climb. I am not the Mentor, I don't climb as well." Nasrin explaims, but she glances over the walls. "I could run up them, potentially, especially if there is a few narrow passages." she replies. "But do not worry, little sister, we shall win over the maze."
Emiya Shirou	"Using anything but intuition or a map to figure out how to get through is cheating!" Shirou points out sourly. These people just don't get it! Or something. "Yeah. Don't rise over the walls." There's a tiny flying robot girl here. This is worth more investigation, but INFORMATION OVERLOAD.
Kaede	Kaede blinks, then beams brightly and hops to her feet on Sakura's shoulder. She draws her arms in an X shape in front of her, before pulling them back firmly. There's a soft chiming ring as the robot is engulfed in light, which quickly resolves into a set of armour and a flight pack. The two jet-nacelles glow around the exhausts, before bursting to life and lifting the robot up on her own power, though she keeps nice and head-height. "Sorry Master... but I like being under my own power~."
Natasha	"Too bad Freya isn't here, she could just look over everything." Natasha figures it's not cheating if you're naturally taller than the maze. Though making herself taller likely would be. "I wonder if there's a minotaur in here somewhere. They tend to live in mazes." She nods at that.
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura stops and looks towards Natasha in confusion. "A... minotaur? I... I hope not. He'd be pretty far from home. Aren't they Greek?" She shakes her head a bit, and the group continues on! As they round a corner, Nasrin might notice a chalk mark she made earlier... maybe they've been going in circles?
Nasrin	"Doubtful -- minotaurs don't seem to be popular in Japan...ese..." Nasrin pauses, stopping short. She blinks, and she draws herself slowly to the mark, dropping to one knee as she inspects the mark, the swirls of Arabic caligraphy in her own hand. "... that is most unusual..." she mutters, and when she stands, she seems keenly focused, pulling upon her bloodline and trying to look around the maze with Eagle Vision... hoping for an enemy.
Emiya Shirou	Shirou snorts. "If there's a minotaur in here, I'll eat my sleeves." Shirou amusedly declares. "You're just scaring Sakura." He nods her way. "Yeah. The Minotaur was a half-man, half-beast trapped in the Labyrinth in Crete." Who are these people, that they'd expect a mythological enemy right in a friendly maze? the Union people are nuts!
Kaede	Kaede idly flits around the group, doing little maneuvers as she hums a happy tune. However it's when Nasrin comes up short that the Shinki does too, pausing in mid flight and alighting gently on the woman's shoulder. "What's wrong?" she asks.
Sakura Kinomoto	Nasrin doesn't sense any danger or enemies about. Sakura glances down as Nasrin kneels down to inspect her mark. "Hm..? Is something wrong?" she asks, concerned. She's immediately on-edge, suddenly becoming much more alert - as far as Shirou can tell. What's the big deal? These Union people ARE nuts.
Natasha	"I've read books that had minotaurs in other places." Natasha points out. "I'm guessing there's even minotaurs in the Union right?" There seems to be everything else right? "I'm not trying to scare Sakura, I'm just saying it possible right?" She suddenly stops and looks at Nasrin wondering what's going on.
Nasrin	"... this is my name in Arabic. I've been using it to mark where we've been going." Nasrin states as she draws upwards, and takes off her hood. Cinnamon-brown hair is shown beneath a hair wrap, and she looks upwards. HEr eagle eyes can't see anything, and it was frustrating. "... we have been turned around."
Kaede	Kaede blinks, then brings up a little holoscreen. "Let me check my navigation circuit." she says, pulling up data and collating it while perching on Nasrin's shoulder. There's some kind of symbolism here.
Emiya Shirou	"Isn't that the point of a maze?" Though Shirou doesn't remember having to turn around yet... the redheaded magus frowns. He's not worried yet. Everyone else just seems a little paranoid to him. For now.
Nasrin	Nasrin stands, brushing her feet off. "We shouldn't have." the assassin replies, "There is something wrong here."
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura crosses her arms. "Mmmh. That -is- the point of a maze, yeah, but I don't really feel like we've gone around in a circle..." Something which Kaede's nevigational records will agree with. They -haven't- gone around in a circle, yet somehow ended up in the same place. "Maybe we should retrace our steps, see where we got turned around?" Sakura suggests.
Kaede	Kaede lifts her right arm up, and shows a route map compiled from her navigation data. "Something's definitely weird, we've not gone in a circle, but ended up back in a circle..." she announces, before kicking up off Nasrin's shoulder and hovering on her own again. For reference, the map looks like it was drawn by a two year old that got bored and started doodling ponies and laser guided unicorn missiles.
Natasha	"Well, how else we have run into Nasrin's writing if we haven't been here before? I doubt there's another Nasrin in here." Natasha figures that unlikely. "And wouldn't one of us notice if we went in a circle?" She figures between them someone should have.
Emiya Shirou	"... gone in a circle, but this early?" Shirou frowns even more. This doesn't feel right. He has an excellent sense of structure and layouts, and this doesn't feel like they've gone in a circle no matter what kind of map he draws in his head... Sighing in resignation, he strolls over to a wall and places his hand on it for... some reason or another. He's never tried expanding his awareness through a structure this big. He probably won't get further than a wall. But he's made huge strives recently with his magic, so maybe... Maybe something like 'the walls ten meters around' is doable. But probably not.
Sakura Kinomoto	Emiya's awareness expands... and he detects a somewhat architecturally-unsound arrangement of two walls. That is, one of them feels like it should be plowing right through the other one, given the way it just sort of cuts off halfway through. Sakura, meanwhile, has begun to try retracing their steps!
Nasrin	Nasrin is following Sakura, and this time she marks another word as she goes, figuring the change inw ord might confuse whoever is misguiding them. The Assassin pulls her hood b ack up, her face going deadly serious.
Emiya Shirou	"Wh-igh?!" Shirou pulls his hand off the moment he feels the bizarre layout. What the hell? He's never picked up any kind of blueprints like that, and it's not matching what he sees. The hairs on the back of his neck all start to stand up... That's just ridiculous. The face he's making is screwed up in several shades of disbelief and bewilderment. "that can't be right, it should collapse if it's built like that and..." He stares. And, for the moment, hurries along with Sakura. Maybe he made a mistake, trying to expand his awareness that far... yeah.
Natasha	"Collapse, so there's a weak spot in the maze?" That's what sounds like to Natasha. "That would be bad if it fell apart, a lot of people would get hurt!" She sounds quite concerned now. Getting lost might be the least of their problems right now.
Kaede	Kaede flits along, hovering protectively near Sakura now. "I don't like this... My sensors are coming back normal but..."
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura shakes her head. "I don't think the maze is in any trouble of collapsing. Actually, I think I might know what's going on here..." They round a corner! It looks perfectly normal, but Shirou might be able to tell this is where he felt that 'half wall', just on the other side of the wall to the right. Something's not quite right here...
Nasrin	The corner revies a mark, and an arrow. Nasrin looks to Sakura with curiosity. "Something having to do with magic?" she guesses vaguely, and then rubs the back of her head.
Emiya Shirou	"Wait a moment, we were just here!" Shirou's on guard now. This is wrong. Really wrong. Is the maze more than it appears? "... I just checked this area. I felt like two walls were connected oddly, and didn't see it right when we were there..."
Natasha	"Wait, so some of the walls are fake to begin with?" Natasha figures that might be the case of it's magic. It would also explain how it would know if they were cheating or not. "I mean the whole thing couldn't be fake or someone would notice a maze suddenly just appearing out of nowhere right?"
Kaede	Kaede lands on Sakura's shoulder. "Do you think it's one of your Cards, Master?" she asks. "I can't sense magic, my sensors aren't tuned for it, but... I know something that shouldn't be possible in a non-magical world when I detect it."
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura frowns. "The walls -might- be fake but I'm sure Shirou would be able to tell..." She crosses her arms, taking a few steps forward. Then she freezes, and steps back again. "...Hey. Look at that," she says, pointing to the ground. The ground is paved with concrete tiles, in an irregular pattern. At the point Sakura is gesturing to, though, the tiles all abruptly cut off, in a perfectly straight line. Sakura holds out her hand. "I'm about 98% sure this is the Loop card..."
Nasrin	"... ah. More magic." Nasrin states blandly, trying to hide her greater anxiousness. She flexes her fingers, and tilts her head as she turns to Sakura. "Will we have to fight the Loop?"
Natasha	"Wouldn't it be kind of pointless fighting something that can just repeat things over and over?" Natasha figures it would be. "How would beat something like that, stay in one place?" She figures it might get bored after a while if they didn't do anything.
Emiya Shirou	"Loop card?" Shirou stops near where Sakura's pointing and bends down to try and check one of the tiles instead. That's a really weird layout, after all! "And isn't this just supposed to be a maze?"
Sakura Kinomoto	Shirou's inspection reveals that there's no physical seam between the paving slabs at the particular spot they seem to just abruptly cut off. They just flow into the next tile, with no gap between them. "Mmmh? Oh, uh. Well, a couple of years ago there was an, um, accident, and most of my magical cards got scattered. I've spent the past three years tracking them down... although usually they seem to find -me-..." Sakura admits, a little embarassed. "Oh, no, we won't have to fight. Loop isn't agressive. Just need to cut at the seam..." She pulls out her Key from around her neck. "O Key that hides the power of the Stars..." she begins to incant, as a magic circle erupts under her feet. Anyone looking behind Sakura at that exact moment will see a faint glint of metal catching the light... as something suddenly heads for Sakura at speed.
Kaede	Kaede blinks, alert sensors blaring in her vision field. Her visor slams down over her eyes, and a flash of light forms her buckler as she guns her engines. "MASTER!" she shouts, placing herself in the path of the metal object, shield ready.
Nasrin	Nasrin hears the little Shinki, and though she was watching the 'edge' of the loop with curiosity, she turns, and snaps to attention, but not as quick as the Shinki does. She draws her own throwing knives in preparation to fire back at the enemy, her eyes narrowing as she tries to pick them up with her Eagle Vision again.
Sakura Kinomoto	TING! A small metal dart his Kaede's shield, and tumbles to the floor with a clatter. Sakura yelps and almost jumps out of her skin, wheeling around! In the distance, there's someone perched atop one of the maze walls, looking over towards the group...
Natasha	"Well, it's nice to avoid a fight if possible." She might be somewhat hotheaded but she's still caring. "So how much of this maze is real.." She can faintly notice something in the distance as Kaede's shot at with the dart. "I'm guessing that's The Loop?"
Emiya Shirou	"Magical cards?" One questions eems to lead to another, doesn't it? His inspection's leaving him with a really weird impression, and he pulls back. "It's like this space itself has been distorted..." He's not much of a magus, but he does have some logic on his side. Either way, when Sakura starts doing her thing he quickly backs away, going wide-eyed. This is new!
Kaede	Flash. The buckler is gone, and in exchange is a large calibur (for a Shinki) rifle which the little robot brings up to aim. "Target spotted, engaging offense protocols. Master safety paramount." She then looses off a burst of gunfire, the relatively small bullets streaking out to the distant figure.
Sakura Kinomoto	The man perching on the wall is shot! And he falls off the wall, into the pathway below. Sakura glances up, then begins her incantation again from where she left off. "Show your true form before me! I, Sakura Kinomoto, command you under our contract: RELEASE!" The key spins around in the air, growing and lengthening into the form of a wand. Sakura plucks a card from a pocket. "And... SWORD!" Blue chains wrap around the wand, converting it into the form of a sword.
Kaede	Kaede dismisses the rifle, summons a pair of talon-like blades into her hands and bursts off towards where the man fell. She descends upon him like a vengeful buzzsaw... if he tries to escape, that is. "Don't move, and I won't have to find out if you bleed red, scumbag." Someone's been watching old movies again.
Nasrin	Nasrin has her own blades out, but doesn't stand between Sakura and the man who fell off, but she does rush the man, flanking him and trying to block off any way of escape out of habbit, her eyes going cold and her face expressionless, hazel eyes peering stonily from beneath the hood. She holds her throwing knives in one hand... and the other gives the loud /tching/ of metal leaving a scabbard, and there was the flash of a blade below her palm.
Emiya Shirou	SUDDENLY, VIOLENCE FROM NOWHERE! Maybe tehy're right. Maybe they're wrong. Shirou's not sure, but he's hoping they're right for suddenly going on the attack for something he doesn't know. "W-what's with the fighting?!" And sudden magic. SWORD magic? Oh, well. Two can play at this game. If there's some trap in this Ridiculous Maze Sakura's picked up on, he can't let her or the other girls here get hurt. "Trace, on." He lowers his hands out as if grasping a sword. A wireframe forms... one depicting a sword. It quickly fills in, too. The golden light that does so leaves behind... a dark-colored longsword of ancient make. It's not very ornate. There's a thick core to the blade, and the cutting edge is much thinner. It's one solid piece of metal rather than assembled. The guard is nonexistent, the grip has a weirdly spiky design that's only comfortable for two hands thanks to lots of leather wrapping, and and the pommel is a strange upswept double-wing-like design. Visually, it's uninteresting, but the weapon gives off an amazing aura over a hundred times greater than the meager energy used to make it. Kusanagi no Tsurugi. "Sakura! What's going on?"
Natasha	Natasha's confused, to who was attacking them. Sakura said that The Loop was non-aggressive so who was attacking them. Her hand lights up with fire but she doesn't throw it yet. "Do you know who that is, Sakura?"
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura turns back to that strange seam. "I'm not really sure! But I'm going to seal the Loop before anyone -else- decides to try to stop me!" She gives a swipe of her Sword at the seam... and reality promptly -breaks- for a moment, the space on the other side of the seam simply being -not there- for a split second before what should -really- be there reasserts itself. A ribbon, arranged into a mobius strip, hovers in the air in front of Sakura. As Sakura sucks the ribbon into the form of a card - with the incantation "Return to your original form!" - the man who threw the dart at her gulps, looking up at Kaede and Nasrin. He's... not getting away any time soon, it seems.
Kaede	Kaede sits on the man's chest, those scalpel blades at his throat and potential murder across her silver optics. She shots the fallen man that gaze as her visor snaps up and away from her eyes. She'd probably give a Master Assassin a run for the 'I will destroy everything you are' looks.
Emiya Shirou	Since Sakura seems to have the card business in hand - and that's crazy enough on Shirou's head to worry about, easily - he decides to go assist Kaede. he might have to vault OVER a wall, and that will take some serious Reinforcing his legs if so to jump up eight feet and scramble over, but he can...
Nasrin	Nasrin's near by, just in case the guy thinks he's going to get up any time soon. She has an equally steely gaze learned from the master of steely gazes and zero cares about what you're thinking given.
Sakura Kinomoto	The guy is wearing average clothes under a leather duster. He's fairly average looking, although not from around here - he's white, not Japanese. He's not armed, but his clothes -are- covered in arcane sigils picked out in thread...
Kaede	Kaede sneers. "Start talking. Who are you and WHY did you attack my Master!?" she growls dangerously, letting the prickle of blades press into the man's throat. "Talk before I make it so you can't."
Nasrin	"I would do as my small friend says," NAsrin offers. "We're not known for our patience."
Natasha	Natasha lifts up in the air with flames jetting out of her feet as she looks down on the stranger. "Yeah, why did you attack Sakura!" Her flaming hand is pointed out at him to show her intent if he doesn't start talking.
Sakura Kinomoto	The man manages to sneer, despite the razor-sharp blades being pointed at his throat. "The Order won't let that witch just do whatever she likes! Clow Reed's creations are too dangerous to be let to just cause chaos." He stares right back into Kaede's eyes, with the steely gaze of -conviction-. He believes what he's saying, apparently. Sakura sighs a bit. "Oh great, not these guys..."
Emiya Shirou	"Witch? ... There's something wrong with you." Who'd call a girl like Sakura a witch, even if she's a really powerful mage? "... What's this order? This isn't something the police can handle, is it?"
Kaede	It takes the little robot a full five seconds to reign in the urge to just gut the guy's throat. Kaede then clambers up his face, and holds one of those blades right near to those sneering eyes. "Call my Master a 'Witch' again. I dare you."
Natasha	"Sakura's really nice! She wouldn't hurt anyone for no reason." Natasha's does her best to resist the urge to let lose her fire on them. "So just walk away right now, before something bad happens!"
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura mmphs a bit. "Actually... he's a member of the Order of the Purple Pentacle, so we should take him in for quest- uh, we should also knock him out before he casts his memory erasure spell. Like, RIGHT NOW." The man is smirking. That can't be a good sign.
Kaede	Kaede runs a charge through her blades, then jabs them into the man's face. Unfortunately, being a tiny robot, she doesn't have that much juice, and it drains her battery to a dangerous level within a couple of seconds.
Sakura Kinomoto	The man's smirk kinda vanishes as he convulses and then passes out. Seems he's not particularly hardy! Well, not compared to Elites, anyway...
Emiya Shirou	Shirou WINCES. This is a lot of sudden REALLY MESSED UP information to process. "Memory erasure...!" These guys are hardcore. Well, Kaede seems to have the matter under control, so Kusanagi vanishes in another flash of light. That was an unnecessary trace! "You've been attacked by these guys before?!"
Kaede	Kaede slumps over as her armour fades out, wisping off in little white motes of light as it returns to the Slipway... Seems she used enough power to end up forced into Sleep Mode.
Sakura Kinomoto	Sakura rubs the back of her head. "...Yeah. I... sorry, but I really need to get this guy back to Njorun and into an antimagic cell before he wakes up. Excuse me." Two cards. "POWER! And JUMP!" She gathers up Kaede, then hefts the unconscious man with one hand - and leaps into the air, lands on a wall, then leaps away.