Scene #7490: STAGE SELECT: Sir This Is A Wendy's

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Reliant	An enormous field of colossal deep fryers surrounds a Wendy's. Railless gondola platforms travel over bubbling oil, from which yellow mechaniloids shaped like french fries float lazily on golden-brown helicopter rotors. A giant robot chicken emerges from a pit in the middle, spewing boiling oil from its beak. Several yards away the ground gives way to a pit of soft serve ice cream, through which it is necessary to walk to advance. A smug-looking female robot master with an enormous screen of a twitter feed scrolling by rapidly is sitting on a throne of Sniper Joes. This is an evil that must certainly be stopped.
Xion	Sometimes you can see the unique signature of a character when they arrive. A flash of light in the dark, streaking down from the sky like a laser. Cored in white and limned in roiling dark. Landing in a puff of dark blues and reds, Xion pops up with a frown across her face. "No guard rails? Aggressive work hazards targeted at critical points? Trans fats?" "Not only is this place not up to code, there's no way I'd recommend this place to a friend! Fried food in moderation! Try a grill! And is that--" Xion dramatically points at a fryerlator output pipe that falls into a bottomless pit. "Cooking oil being discarded as oil rather than food waste?! You dare?" Xion has a brace of medallions for this. "I'm taking you out, full power - full force." The medal in her left hand has the stylized X that Roxas favors. The medal in her right bears the forehead jewel of Mega Man X. "Cross Up! Force Up! Prepare yourself!" Two planes of light, one bomber-blue, one silver-white, enmesh as Xion leaps through them, landing on the stage with Starlight in one hand, Oathkeeper in the other, and two floating orange orbiters that shoot plasma shot lemons at the frybots as they pass. "This is - X!X!X!" Pronounced, deepest of all translation travesties: 'X Cross Key'
X	"It's hard to take this seriously, but ... " Alia trails off, uncertainly, as a beam of light descends and forms into the blue bomber himself, Megaman X. For his part, the Maverick Hunter looked like he was in fact, taking this seriously, despite how ridiculous the flair of it all was. But, he did come from a world where what would ordinarily be cute and cuddly mascot characters were rampant murdering machines. Perhaps this was normal, and Alia was the weird one. Or maybe, X just really was that much of a straight shooter. Alia coughs to the side, a fake sound to enunciate the uncomfortable silence before moving on, " ... but even so, our only hope of fixing things is by de-comissioning this place. Lifesaver and Douglas are hard at work on figuring out how to reverse the roboticization, but none of that matters if we can't undo the damage that Wily is doing." "Yeah. We have to do this, one way or another." R E A D Y? Buster up, X charges forward, leaping from gondola to gondola, weaving through fryers, blasting and wall kicking and engaging in good old fashioned Nintendo platforming on his way to catch up to Xion, and get to the Boss Room.
Shinnosuke Tomari	The Tridoron, the red supercar, pulls up outside the Wendy's Boss Stage. The driver, Shinnosuke Tomari, deposits holding a high-tech belt. He pauses. He stares. He squints. For any others who gather at the stage, he gestures at this, and then at the Not The Stage, to try and confirm this is real, before sighing. "Let's get to work." He straightens his tie, equips the belt, and then grabs the Tridoron-shaped Shift Car from his leg holster. He places it in the arm bracer on his left arm, flips it, and speaks up. "Henshin!" DRIVE! Type -- Speed! Transforming into the red and black Kamen Rider Drive, complete with tire diagonally across his chest, clasping his hands as he prepares to leap onto a gondola, following after his allies. He's grabbed the Door Gun from OFFSCREEN, firing blasts at the mechaniloids as he tries not to fall into the oil, using his speed and mobility to keep up, parkouring across with exact landing. Also, when they get to the giant chicken, Drive mutters a 'seriously?' and then shoots it in the beak and eyes, trying to find a way to damage it, before closing and reopening the door on the gun to reload.
Hibiki Tachibana	TWO MINUTES AGO: "I just wanted a burger..." This is another unfortunate situation of Tachibana Hibiki not being here on purpose, yet she stumbles onto something completely awful by pure chance. From across the street, squinting up at shadow-casting deep friers and massive mecha-chickens, she watches the scene with equal parts 'completely aghast', 'mentally exhausted', and 'why'. Dr. Wily was wrong. This isn't perfection. This is no utopia. This is an affront to everything good. Like fresh, never frozen, beef. NOW: A transformed Hibiki, avoiding the call of ice cream further ahead, hops and leaps behind X like a Player 2, almost mirroring his movements as she cleans up anything that escapes his Buster. She's a long time expert of walljump tactics, and has a 50% higher jump distance than him, meaning there are secret areas you can only reach when playing as her. She can also break walls--which she's happy to do, when it comes to blazing a path towards that awful oil-wasting chicken and the mastermind behind this chaos.
Reliant	"Oh PLEASE. As if anything YOU'RE doing is fair use, little miss copyright infringement," Wendy's Woman replies to Xion through one of a multitude of flying drones, which are very much too numerous to get rid of altogether. Several of them explode with Xion's passage, but a greater number of them swarm around her and just attempt to glom onto her obnoxiously. They're not bats. They're more like the spikey-headed assholes used by Sigma that swoop in, nom a bit, and then fly up smacking their nonexistent lips like total douchebags. X knows the ones. In reaction to the radio chatter from Alia, Wendy's Woman replies, "What, have I not killed enough of my friend's kids for you? Is that what you need to take this seriously?" X catches up to Xion in relatively short order; more than that, he knows the Tricks, so he advances ahead of her a ways... until he encounters something unusual: A stretch of emptiness over which there are disappearing blocks. This would normally be fairly routine but the disappearing blocks are greased up. What the hell? Shinnosuke reaches the Giant Chicken and blasts it repeatedly in the eyes. If it had a health bar, you get the impression that it would be about 3/4ths gone. Unfortunately this causes a MODE CHANGE, in which the exterior exoskeleton of the chicken fires into the surroundings, saturating them with boiling oil and debris. A skeletal frame is left behind, but it is very vividly a CHICKEN SKELETON, and ultimately it's this enemy that holds Hibiki's advance up. She joins Tomari around the time that the SKELETAL CHICKENBOT is hurling enormous eggs that explode into clouds of swarming, murderous baby chicks that self-destruct on contact. It probably would've been less steps if the eggs just exploded on their own. "All cops are bastards," Wendy's Woman says, boredly, to Tomari. Hibiki... gets a different response. One of the copter bots -- an ordinary one, more like the kind Entrapta was using -- hovers over with a tray. There's a bagged meal with a drink and a frosty on it. "Fine. Here's a meal on me. Now go away," Wendy's Woman says to Hibiki.
X	"She's in our communications line...!?" Alia is shocked, but X isn't truthfully that surprised. Considering that the technology seemed much closer to what was in 21XX than anything, or in some cases even more advanced, that their communication line could be jacked into made some degree of sense. As well, he was too busy dealing with those incredibly annoying, flying drones that seemed to plague him everywhere he went. Did every enemy lieutenant have to have something like this in their fortress? It was his experience that the answer is yes. But, X is an experienced Maverick Hunter. This means that he knows when to use his Special Weapons, even if they're not the boss' weakness -- in this case, he assumes the color pallete of Rack Reindeer and deploys the remote weapons from his Buster to attack the nuisances automatically while he dashes ahead. He trusted in Xion and Hibiki to keep up. "What..?!" X, unfortunately, goes careening off the side of one of the platforms, which has been coated in grease as it moves. Having not expected this at all, X is just lucky that there was a wall for him to jam his leg into and kick, Force Metal energy blasting out of his shoulder blades temporarily to send him back up into the air. "Guh! That's a serious slipping hazard ...! Watch your step!" he warns. The colors of his body change as he swaps weapons again, opting to use the Hibiki-themed Supra Arm. Only, once he fires his Rocket Punch through the maze of disappearing platforms, he grasps onto his own fist with the opposing arm to take himself along for the ride, clutching it desparately by the gauntlet.
Shinnosuke Tomari	"Do you know how often I hear that out here...?" Kamen Rider Drive reaches the giant chicken, shoots it in the eyes, and causes it to MODE CHANGE into a skeleton as it begins shooting eggs that hatch into babies that explode. This is surreal. Under the helmet, he's flinching. It's enough to cause him to nearly take a bath in oil, as a chick explodes and pushes him back, but he maintains his control at the edge and lands back on the platform, sparks flying. As Hibiki joins him... "We need more hands. Alright, Midnight Shadow. Your turn." The ninja hotrod is grabbed, slotted into the armbrace, and twisted, with a twist of the belt, to activate. The tire shoots off at the chicken's face, before cycling towards the Tridoron, as a shuriken-shaped tire flies into place, locking in. Tire Change! -- Midnight Shadow! As the shadowy ninja tire is in place, Drive suddenly splits into four, three of them holding a phantasmal Door Gun. It'd be clear which are the copies, but that doesn't matter, because each of them fires at the chicken! Four rapid-fire blasts is better than one, even if the chicks start blowing up the copies into nothing, the ninja clones only existing as attack SFX. Drive uses this to weave forward, and try and cooperate, hopefully with Hibiki, for a finishing blast straight into the chicken's face. If this succeeds in destroying it, he can move on.
Hibiki Tachibana	Arriving just in time for PHASE TWO, Hibiki gives a nod towards Drive as she hits the scene, though doesn't expect a reply given they both need to immediately set about dodging a hail of eggbombs from above. She was, in fact, expecting them to just explode. She backstepped from one expecting as much, which leaves her very confused - and yelping - when the horde of robo-chickidees throw themselves at her. Just as she's lowering her arms down, scuffed and a little singed for wear, Hibiki stops to blink up at the offered meal. "...Really? On the house?" She sounds wary, but reaches over with one hand to take the drink and take a long, slurping gulp out of it. There's a nod of satisfaction, and after emptying it in seconds flat, she crushes it in her grip and sets it back down on the tray - and turns away to narrow her eyes up at CHICKEN SKELETON. "Sorry, but I can't do that. And I don't take bribes." She just did. "Especially not when it's a meal made in a place like this--or from someone who insults Drive!" Fueled by resolve and soft drinks, she launches forward so that this poor copterbot won't be caught up in all of the chaos, leaping and dashing from point to point to keep out of the way of the rest of the projectiles. Luckily for Shinnosuke, if he needs more hands, she has two of them. And she puts them to use as she springs up, landing lightly on one of the eggs mid-flight, and uses it as a springboard to reach the head of their mechanical foe - rising up above its beak before throwing down an elbow strike as hard as she can, aimed right down on its metal beak!
Xion	Being swarmed by Munch Fries is one thing - when they back off and smack their chops, that's the real final straw (of fried potato). "Guh!" is the annoyed issuance from the Nobody as she swipes at the retreating fry monsters with her keyswords, trying to dash through them only to meet another set who are done in their swooping idle animation of lipsmacking to go again. "Nice... What-about-ism!" Xion shouts, drawing both swords to a cross at her fists - Starlight over her shoulder, Oathkeeper under her arm. "But just because I've got a copy of something - the original isn't diminished! And that's not a defense for your own reckless endangerment of people!" Xion flickers out of the swooping ring in a gust of darkness that rematerializes into her jacketed form, springing off the ledge and landing on a greased up disappearing platform! Where she sticks. This must be the power of Player 2 - or an extremely advanced adventuregame explorer. She leaps from there into another curl of darkness that resolves into a keyless finger-laced under-foot boost for X to get him across the rest of the way to save Weapon Energy. Falling for a moment, she disappears before falling into the oily pit and catches herself on the far edge, greased up but still ignoring it, as she mounts the edge and holds both hands out for Hibiki and Tomari to grab on their own way across. "This is a meal with friends, Wendy's Woman! No Justice? No Peace? No Service? No Problem!"
Reliant	"Of COURSE I'm in your communications line. We're not playing catch-up with you, you know. You're playing catch-up from the last remaining bits of OUR stuff," Wendy's Woman replies to Alia, boredly. Issuing a harsh laugh, she adds, "I bet you think finding evil rocks in the ground is original." X uses a copied weapon to try to get by-- but the block he attaches to vanishes partway there, sending him plummeting into the FROSTY FIELD. It's literally just several tons of frosty spread out in a pit, and he begins sinking slowly. It's not really hard to stay above the frosty line, but it is sticky and slow and obnoxious. "Probably constantly, on account of being a cop," Wendy's Woman says to Tomari. "Have you considered an ethical career? Like garbage collection? Or firefighter?" In response to Hibiki's incredulity, a mechaniloid that is ENTIRELY screen floats down. Wendy's Woman has her fist resting against her face. "Ma'am, this is a bit for hopelessly horny people, social masochists, and bored elites. This is a Wendy's, I still make and sell burgers, and there's not much else to say about it." The ROBOT CHICKEN SKELETON shudders to an abrupt halt as it gets blasted and punched one more time in the face. It explodes almost in slow-motion, minuscule explosions pushing outwards in colorful spheres that certainly MAKE the chicken's death look like a spectacle. Another monitor descends in response to Xion's continued talking. It hosts an entirely different image of Wendy's Woman. She's sipping on a straw. Continuously. The drink is almost empty and the noise is very annoying, especially when you're trying to talk over it. After a long, long pause she replies, "Just SAY if you're hungry too. God." The final stretch, they'll all find, is the frosty tarpit that X got tangled in when he missed his mark. For those who might make the effort to fly over, swarms of fried foods pelt through the air. Towards the final quarter or so of FROSTY FIELD there are red-and-yellow Sniper Joes in a firing line that just make the whole thing unpleasantly lemon-y. Beyond the frosty tarpit and joe line is... an outdoor seating area. There's only one dark brown-haired human figure there, seated with their back to you. The Wendy's itself, and presumably Wendy's Woman, is a few yards past that.
Shinnosuke Tomari	"I have another job, in times like this. It's called Kamen Rider." Drive responds, as the skeleton chickenbot goes down. He takes Xion's help in getting forward as Hibiki gets a thumbs up, before they reach the FROSTY LEVEL. The slow tarfrost causes Drive to trudge straight into a few lemons, sparking his armor further and causing a grunt as he starts slipping, before he faces down the Sniper Joe that shot him. The Midnight Shadow tire begins spinning, diverting frosty tar away from him (and sending it flying everywhere else)... As Drive moves to leap and forward, launching a phantasmal copy of the tire straight through the Sniper Joe, aiming to cut him in half! Hopefully, he can get to the seating area, and identify the brown-haired woman! And hopefully, she's just eating a burger (in a death course, for some reason) and isn't another mid-stage boss.
Xion	"Of course I'm hungry." Xion grumbles, running up the face of the monitor and leaping off to avoid joe-fire and dash-glide over the first quarter of the LAND OF FROSTy and it's Joe-plasma swirl. "I'm smelling tons of stuff made to smell delicious, so I'm definitely hungry!" She agrees, the haunting slururururururururururururururururp- of the falling contents of the joke cup to match the dipping of her airtime. With the fries inbound, she takes spitting-hot oil spatters of health-ring chewing scalds to leap up the fry-sides like walls, trading health for airtime. With verticality she flicker-teleports up over the cloud of fry drones only to drop down in a falling slice. Buoyed up by down-aerial bounce, Xion air-dashes again, and continues the combo all the way across the 'high route' to the Wendys Ring. She immediately shanks a joe with Oathkeeper on a backswing for trying to heck up her air combo. "Wendy's Woman, social media is the path of evil. Your burgers were pretty good, but I didn't need callousness on my fries." She levels Starlight tip-out, two candy-twinkling stars orbiting inwardly towards the tip as she charges her shot. "I'm cancelling you, Wendy's. Freezing this account, and the beef too." Her keyblade-tip flashes blue-white and the effect implodes, and her two X-Options flash black and silver. "Super XXX!" Pronounced: Super X Cross Key, of course, because of sin. A central beam of blue-white with zigzags of black and silver VREEEMS out. It looks something like... vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ===============O ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hibiki Tachibana	"...I don't think that's a gimmick you should be telling other people out loud. Do you even enjoy what you're doing?" After a thumbs up back towards Drive, Hibiki regards the screen with crossed arms and a slight frown. If she tasted one of these burgers, there would be no love in it. Well, even less than fast food already warrants. Without waiting for an answer, she gives one last stare and bounds after the Kamen Rider to keep up. The horde of frosty goodness slows her up at first as well, as she finds her boots getting stuck in it enough that she has to work for each step rather than just sprint through. With a grunt, and a blast from her leg pistons, she propels herself straight forward in a leap and leaves an ice cream-rimmed crater in her wake, speeding ahead--where she eats a barrage of fries that sends her spiraling back into a wall, and she gets shot and greased up several few more times while she's recovering. "And a restaurant shouldn't have obstacle courses...!" Gripping into the surface, she uses it to flip herself up out of the way and then start wallrunning the rest of the way to the finish line, leaping over further hinderances as she goes and ending with firing off snapkicks into the air, releasing crescents of golden energy to strike down into the line of Sniper Joes! They explode rather than cutting. Then all they have to do is keep going ahead...! And skid to a stop when they come across the strange person, narrowing her eyes warily. Slowly, she starts walking around to see if they're doing what she thinks they're doing. This /is/ an eating area...
X	X, unfortunately, squanders Xion's well-meaning boost and finds himself sinking quickly into Frosty. "T...thanks ... " he calls back up to her, a grimace lining his face. It was just ice cream, but still. It was very uncomfortable, and very embarassing. Alia, focusing more on her job than the antagonizing Wendy's Woman; which is Alia-speak for willfully ignoring someone who was annoying her, instead turns around in her command chair. "While he might not need the firepower, sir, I think that .. uhm, X could really use a hand maneuvering out of there, so -- " Signas, in his command chair, is pinching the bridge of his nose. "It's fine. Since the repairs on it are done, bring the Fourth Armor out of storage." "X, can you hear me?" Looking up from his neck-deep position in the frosting, X manages to wiggle his arm out to press onto one of ear nodules with his forefinger, "Y..yeah, you're loud and clear." "We're sending you the Fourth Armor, it should help you get through that sticky pit, and any other obstacles in the way. Good luck, X!" "Thanks.." Recollecting himself, and overcoming his embarassment, X waited only a second longer for the blue beam to fall from the sky and strike his helmet, wrapping his body in a wave of energy as various parts of his form were changed out for the bulkier counterparts of his older, yet most reliable armor. X's body shoots up, assisted by the jets lining his new feet and leg units, allowing him not only to dash, but a short-range flight ability to zip straight out of the Frosty Field, as his body begins to shine with a bright light and pick up speed. "Huoh!" The shots of the Sniper Joe firing line seemingly have little to no effect as he engages the Nova Strike and dashes straight through them.
Reliant	"Making the police more powerful by being a superhero while cop isn't a good thing, youk now," Wendy's Woman complains. The Sniper Joe raises its shield against Drive's charge. TING TING TING BOOM. It endures for a few seconds before the shield is knocked from its hands, and the tire cuts through its body. In the meantime, Xion gets an incredulous look on a copterscreen. "Good luck finding a place that serves fries without callousness. At least my callousness is FUN callousness." "By the way, I see what you're doing th--" Unfortunately the monitor is a valid target for the air combo that Xion is performing to not have to walk in FROSTY, and gets blown up shortly before Wendy's Woman can point out what she saw. The finishing beam at the end rakes across the line of Sniper Joes, causing several explosions throughout as they detonate into a pile of parts. Wendy's Woman rolls her eyes at Hibiki. "Telling people about it doesn't do anything. The people who are into it are degenerates. Everybody else can't be bothered to not eat here in spite of it. It's win-win. And I enjoy PARTS of it. Mostly the part where I torment degenerates and idiots. You know, not this one. This is the BORING part. It's even worse at the end." A few more Sniper Joes explode beneath the pressure of Hibiki's burning crescents, and the last few are plowed through by X's Nova Strike.
Reliant	Hibiki approaches the man at the seating area. Surprisingly, he looks pretty normal. Short, dark brown hair; fair-skinned, wearing sunglasses. His outfit is a brown overcoat, jeans, beat-up brown shoes, a yellow scarf secured neatly and tucked into the coat rather like a tie. A shotgun is laid across the table at his left, a rather futuristic-looking silvery pistol at the right. Inbetween both is a tray with food on it. There is a mountain of fries, and a single chocolate frosty. He dips a trio of fries into the frosty and looks towards Hibiki, raising his eyebrows.
Xion	Advancing though the outer areas of the Wendy's, Xion pauses in her outward assault as the joes are vanquished and the party assembles on a man with a mountain of cruelty fries and a shotgun. "Enjoy your food!" Xion cheerily waves as she passes, Oathkeeper held reversed at her side and Starlight slung over her shoulder as she steps towards the door. "And there's no ethical consumption under capitalism - that doesn't mean we can't be decent to each other and fix what's broken. Tearing people up is a rush the same way acid bubbling on your teeth is a funny feeling at first: It becomes normal after a while, but it's still damaging something for a chemically-sweet flavor." "Try an orange instead of spreading hate. They're basically the same."
Shinnosuke Tomari	Drive sighs, as he cuts through the Sniper Joe. After he's gotten past, he gets out of the field, catching up to Hibiki. He casually salutes the man eating, before realizing he probably shouldn't interrupt his meal. "Let's stop her reign of...I guess it's terror?" He shrugs, but this is definitely something that needs to be stopped, as he gestures to his allies and moves to head towards the WENDY'S. When Drive kicks the doors open, expecting the boss health bar to slide up, he's got his Door Gun at the Ready, and all the energy and build-up prepared for his big Finisher. Time to see the Boss Herself, and stop her so she can be brought back to normal! Or at least, that's what he's thinking. "Stop right there!"
X	X, having finally cleared the Frosty Field, approaches Wendy's Woman. They all pass a man enjoying his meal on the way, and X awkwardly, but politely, waves on his way over to the Boss Battle. Finally, it all came down to this. "I'm not interested in the ethical debates of fast food and capitalism. All of this ... at least, in its current form, is nothing more than a product of Albert Wily's ego. And it's going to stop." X levies his Buster, "Please come quietly. We have a facility to care for you until we can reverse the effects of Wily's machine." It went without saying that she would be complying whether she wanted to or not, her choice was whether or not she resisted her arrest. But X, determined in his course of action, was determined to restore balance to this establishment.
Hibiki Tachibana	Staring back at the man, eyes locked on the darkness of his sunglasses, Hibiki is silent for a moment. She wasn't sure what she was expecting, but he seems to be enjoying his food. Her attention goes down to his meal, each of the weapons in turn, and then back. "...You're going to need a bigger frosty than that." She makes an observation on the mountain of salty fries stacked up with only one cold treat to share between them all. Especially if he's triple-dipping. For a moment, she considers asking if he should leave...or at least loan off some of his fries. That soft drink was pretty good. But he can take care of himself, obviously. With a firm nod and a pump of her fist, she half-turns away. "Sorry for interrupting. We have to return this place to normal. Even if they don't serve that many fries here normally...!" Sounding almost upset about that, Hibiki rushes forward to rejoin the others at Wendy Woman's throne room before she lags too far behind. She needs to see it... The 'end' that she spoke of. Even though she almost doesn't want to.
Reliant	The doors to the Wendy's open. It's a Wendy's, except instead of a typical counter or kiosk there's a stripe-legged red-haired Robot Master reclining on a throne of Sniper Joes. They are, notably, active. They've just locked their joints in place. Fortunately, they're actually factually not people and neither get tired or uncomfortable. Wendy's Woman sighs theatrically, and mouths, 'Try an orange instead of spreading hate.' "Orange is okay. I prefer strawberry," she replies, bobbing a foot in the air. "And non-carbonated sweet drinks are better." There's no signs of resistance. That's because there aren't any. Wendy's Woman can't actually fight at all. Her throne of sniper joes shifts, but not particularly offensively. It angles her towards X. Wendy's Woman places a hand against the side of his buster, allowing X to assimilate her weaponry-- if he chooses. For that matter, anyone with relevant abilities can collect without issues now. The ability that she confers is WILYBOT NET, a complex mental program that allows managing... well, basically a one-person botnet. It wouldn't be possible to lock such a person off of social media. It's also very efficient; it can run a very long time before the weapon energy goes. "You," Wendy's Woman thumps X's buster playfully with an outstretched finger, "won't be doing anything, shorty. Because I'm not a machine. I'm a human victim trapped in a shell. Lift a finger against me and you're just a... Wendy's Woman whisper-mouths the words. "M A V E R I C K" "Now that you know it'd be real dumb for Maverick Hunters to take custody of me, Wendy's Woman pivots her chair a little to look between Xion, Hibiki, and Tomari. "Where are we going?"
Reliant	The man in the coat looks at Hibiki, looks over his shoulder towards the FROSTY FIELDS, and then looks back at her. He shakes his head emphatically, being polite enough not to speak with a mouthful of frosty-fries. When she retreats into the Wendy's, the man stands up and comes inside to watch the show. Wendy's Woman glances at him but conspicuously doesn't give him much in the way of attention afterwards. He just stands there. Eating fries. Dipping them in floor frosty.
Shinnosuke Tomari	Once they've gotten to Wendy's Woman, Drive prepared to fight, it turns out that a fight would actually just be one-sided police brutality. So, to show that he is not, in fact, going to police brutality her, the Kamen Rider sighs, and debelts. He places his Shift Cars away, revealing Shinnosuke Tomari. Straightening his tie when she levies that she won't be going to the Maverick Hunters, and uses emotional blackmail against X, Shinnosuke turns to the others. "Alright. Normally, I'd say we take her into Paladins custody. But two of you aren't Paladins, and you've been a great help through all of this - I don't want you to feel cut out of the investigation. So..." Knowing this is gonna sound really bad, he says it anyways. "We can take her to the Drive Pit. I trust you guys enough to show it to you, anyways, and Rinna can see about freeing her from the shell, if you can forward her your intel." But, Shinnosuke ahems. "If there's an alternative, though, I'm happy to hear it. Or, if she'd prefer Paladins custody over my resident mad scientist." A hand-wave to Wendy's Woman.
Xion	A flickering keychain charm - a TALL SODA that glimmers with inner light, and two red ponytails - hangs in the air before Xion. With a nod, she grasps it in her hand. ACQUIRE THE FEELING OF: D D D Distributed Darkness Denial This keychain charm is an upgrade to the xPhone. Allows for autonomous social media integration and thumbless roasts. Now REMOTE MANIPULATION applies to SHITPOSTING. Xion endures the upgrade text and attaches the new phone charm to her pocketed smartphone. "Well... I know what I want." Xion smiles at Tomari and Hibiki. Then she carves a hole in the world, which opens to... A Gastropub. "Let's get a real burger. I've already called Roxas, he'll meat us there. I suggest the smoked pepper bacon western with onion ring. You coming, X?"
X	WEAPON GET W. BUSTERNET X frowns. Part of him wanted to argue that they should have HQ take custody of her -- after all, with a case study besides the disembodied arm for Lifesaver to look at, it might provide a breakthrough on the matter at hand. But, he was being insensitive, he knew. She wasn't incorrect in the sense of being a human just caught up in this mess. And since she wouldn't -- couldn't -- fight back, it left an unsettled feeling to try and force the issue. With a sigh, he acquisces, and leaves the rest to Tomari. It's not like Lifesaver couldn't contact Special Cases to take a look at her, afterwards. "That sounds nice," he says to Xion, before looking down at himself, self-conscious. "I think ... I should probably clean up first, though." He was covered in grease and melted Frosty, after all.
Hibiki Tachibana	Hibiki still doesn't approve of a throne of Sniper Joes. Robots are people too! Sort of. It's complicated. But she's...glad? this didn't come to a fight. She's not actually sure what to make of all of this now that they're here--or her reaction to X. It leaves an awkwardness and a tension in her immediate atmosphere, where she looks between the others for a long moment before she finally speaks. "...Thanks," she replies in response to Shinnosuke's trust. "I think that's better than any other alternative. I don't really want to bring her back to /my/ place," she says with a slight furrow of her brow, for reasons known only to her. She regards Wendy's Woman for another moment, looking like she's trying to sort out some thoughts...and settles on simply saying, "...We'll get you out of there. Uh, if you even...want to...?" This Robot Masterization kind of goes over her head. After a shake of her head, Hibiki raises an eyebrow at Xion, remembers their last visit out fondly...and then turns back to look towards the door, where she's realized the man from before has followed them. Beat. "...Do you want to come too?"
Xion	Xion brightens. "Yeah! I hear the Special Cases Outreach program needs a social media manager to help people. Wanna roast chuds online and actually make a different, Wendy?" Xion just calls her 'Wendy'. It's a normal name for a normal person with a power that could be used for something good and not bad with no changes.
Reliant	"Ah, just try and fucking stop me," Wendy's Woman replies. She's already doing that. Right now. Across multiple different threads of conversation.
Xion	"Nice. Catch you when you clean up, X!" Xion's smile is radiant. "I want to see you there. You deserve a burger too." She steps through her portal, clearly walking through the darkened iris towards burger time. Everyone else - even frosty-fry-floor-guy - is able to follow. Except the joes. They're bolted there.
Reliant	The man in the coat finishes the handful of fries that he brought with him to watch and retreats back out front. If anybody is watching they can see him stowing his shotgun and pistol. At some point he makes his pile of fries disappear, too Then he returns, his expression aggressively neutral until he's directly addressed by Hibiki. There's a moment of visible contemplation. He fishes out a phone, types on it. Sure, the phone says for him. Wendy's Woman is extremely dissatisfied without her Sniper Joes, but seems to get over it in relatively short order. She orders strawberry lemonade and ribs. She is ABSOLUTELY posting every second of this to the internet. Except-- if anybody is paying attention, she's conspicuously excluding the coat-and-scarf guy from all of it. Only when directly prompted does he actually say anything, and always through his cell phone. That is, until the very end. The man in the coat stands up, having only really gotten a root beer float and finishes his fries-and-frosty. "You're wound up tighter than Spring Man, X. Being a Maverick's not so bad, not that Wendy's Woman deserves that kind of trouble," Break Man says, gesturing towards the underside of a nearby table. A green robotic cat scampers out underneath, jumping up onto Break Man's shoulders draping itself across the back of his neck. There is a blip of red, not quite as paced as the usual collapse-into-a-column, and he's gone. Wendy's Woman leans back in her chair, looking annoyed. "Could've grabbed me on your way out, you jerk."