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Closed Action in Locke City

Who: Alexandra Ryker, Thunder Corp, Those in Locke City
What: Attempting to break into the Thunder Corp Warehouse.
Where: Locke City, Phoenix District.
When: Evening, October 6th
Why: Because breaking, entering and causing extensive property damage are fun.

Alexandra had been one of the few to see the message from the Thunder Corp scientist. She knew most of the other numbered were at least aware a message had been sent to them by now, thanks to a certain someone informing them all. She wasn't about to sit back and see how the rest of them were going to handle the situation, she was perfectly fine with taking matters into her own hands. Thunder Corp had a device that could track down the numbered, she was sure her grandfather could find a way to make use of something like that.

That thought is what had brought her to the Phoenix district of Locke this evening, she had spent a portion of her afternoon locating the warehouse that the message had shown and scoping out the area. It certainly didn't look like anything special as far as she was concerned, she would have thought there would at least be more than a few security guards keeping an eye on something so important.

Still... That wasn't exactly a huge concern to her, she was pretty confident one of her Nakewameke could deal with a whole lot more than what she had seen so far. A shoe had been able to go toe to toe with dinosaurs and other numbered after all, she'd just have to up her game for this one. It took her longer than she would have liked but she managed to track down one of the stone snakes that had been plaguing the city. She quickly transformed into her white haired alter-ego and prepared one of the red, diamond shaped cards.

“Nakewameke, do my bidding!” She threw the card at the creature and let out a burst of purple smoke once it connected. When it cleared the stone snake had grown into a massive stone hydra, each head marked by the red diamond symbol she had used to transform it.

Satisfied with her new creation, Alexandra directed it back toward the warehouse. Where she promptly ordered the massive creature to charge through the main door. It was more than willing oblige.

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It's an ordinary, boring night guarding this warehouse. No one really tries anything anymore. No one out here even really knows what they're guarding, just that they're paid to stand here, armed with little more than pistols. They don't want to put out too bad of an image, after all. Thunder Corporation had a questionable reputation surrounding their secrecy after the alien invasion - so they had to cover that on all If anything is to happen, they are told to sound an alarm and then things will be taken care of. They figure they'd be notifying the police, right?

Regardless, two such guards are standing just within the fencing area of the warehouse, by a door leading inside. Lowering a flashlight, one greets the other and grins.

"Hey, Joe. 'Nother night, eh?"

"Yeah, Mac. Ugh, I know these guys pay well, but this is the most boring security gig I've ever had."

"Tell me about it, but hey - that ain't a bad thing, right? Hey! You catch that game last Sund--"

And that's that. Suddenly, said massive stone hydra is careening towards the warehouse. The men hardly have time to react, and though one goes for his radio, the other is frozen stiff. Whatever they've got? Isn't going to stop that.

Other guys scramble, opening fire on the monster. This... one way or another, is about to get messy.

There was no way Jasmine could really miss the sounds of noise and chaos. Since returning to Locke, her goal was to keep better patrol, and one of the areas she KNEW was of interest was the Phoenix District. Thus, under the cover of night and modest disguise, she'd been moving around, trying to get a handle on what she could.

Then all hell seemed to break loose. Jasmine grit her teeth, and took on her Precure form, flying towards the sound of it all... and when she realized where she was, she balked.

Oh hell. It was that warehouse. Growling, Jasmine pulled out her phone, and sent a text to Marina, Winter, and Lily, who she knew were in the city with her.

Monster attacking that warehouse. Need help.

In any case, these guys may clearly be Thunder Corp, but she doesn't want people to die. She summons a sphere of dark power, firing it at the snake. She doesn't seem to have noticed Alexandra yet, but she does already realize this is a bit different from the usual beasts that have been menacing the city.

Edited 2015-10-06 23:33 (UTC)

In the middle of Locke, without a very immediately known threat to the city, it's hard to get away with summoning Seles - so it was lucky for Jasmine that Marina wasn't as far away as she could've been. Lucky for her and the poor little security guards, she thinks of the men who are both considerably larger than her, setting off in a rush towards Thunder Corp with her sword and armor at the ready.

Since Jasmine seems to be leading the attack on the massive stone beast, Marina diverts to head off towards the security guards, aiming to protect them. At this level, they're just guys doing their jobs, and probably not anyone who's a threat, so that's her first priority. "Move! Move, get on out of here, come on!"

Winter is, ironically, at home when this happens, kicking back with a book - but her Kindle is set aside calmly when the text comes in, which is about the same time Raquel warns her that there's some kind of darkness in the general direction of the Phoenix District. Without a word, she transforms and heads toward the warehouse at her not-inconsiderable top land speed. Her wings are... probably not entirely necessary at the moment, given who owns that warehouse, but there's a certain responsibility to help even when it is Thunder Corp. So she's not exactly taking it easy, either.

When Cure Diamond arrives on the scene, she finds Twilight on offense and Marina on defense; it takes her a second to recognize how insanely huge the snake is, and by the time that's clicked, she's already helping to herd the remaining guards aside. "Your guns aren't high-caliber enough to take this thing! We'll handle this!" While she guides them, her thoughts are whirling - it's too big to be a normal snake, and the customary warning aurora over the city hadn't appeared to signal things getting worse again. So... what's going on? It's a question for consideration when its rampage doesn't put her too close for comfort, and as she pushes the last guard in her section out of the way a little sharply, she ducks behind a parked truck as debris flies through the spot she'd just been standing in. Poking her head out, she frowns heavily, commenting without much thought to if anyone's even there to hear her. "It's just so big... is this what we sensed? Something's not right..." Her eyes widen as a larger chunk of concrete comes flying at her, and she pulls her head back behind the corner just in time.

Cologne's not taking to the feeling of that darkness any better than Raquel is. Cure Moonlight is hot on Diamond's heels as she takes off across the city, agreeing that flight is probably not necessarily their friend for a standard approach. Sweeping behind her as they arrive, she observes the situation and winces.

"THIS. WEEK."

She hadn't fought this many monsters built for them since she'd become a Precure!

She observes the monster, and something's familiar about it. Something she feels like she's seen in at least a couple of ways. She's caught up in that enough when the chunk of concrete comes flying for Winter, even as she ducks away, Moonlight's arm snaps out and her fist obliterates it in mid-air.

"We need to finish this. Fast."

Alexandra smiles to herself as chaos erupts around the warehouse when her Nakewameke's assault begins. The security guards are laughably under equipped to handle what she brought in, maybe Thunder Corps just wasn't all it was cracked up to be? That smile was quickly wiped off her face when a group of numbered appeared to stand in her creatures way. Of course most of them had to be Precure, both her grandfather and her past self's memories had known they were a pest that had to be dealt with.

The security guards bullets didn't seem to even catch the stone hydra's attention, they harmlessly bounced off it's rocky hide as it continued it's assault. The sphere of energy on the other hand did. It connected with one of the creatures heads causing it it to slam into the ground as a few hunks of rock were blown off. It didn't stop the creature but it 's momentum was shaken for a moment. Despite that it'll continue on and lash out with three of it's heads, attempting to bat Marina out of it's path.

It takes Alexandra a moment to realize that her everyone else has their attention on the monster and she has so far gone unnoticed. She decides to use this to her advantage to assist her Nakewameke. Alexandra will make a dash toward Jasmine before leaping up and attempting to drive her knee into the girls back.

Joe and Mac? They aren't exactly having a good enough time of this. They and their fellow guards' rounds are useless, and some of them are forced to dodge as their bullets effectively ricochet off the hydra's stony hide. And now...

"Great, now we have Numbered," the first of the guards said. "We're not equipped to handle any of this!"

"Calling it in!" the second replied, pulling out his communication device. "This is nightwatch, Sector 24-5! We have a Type-3 anomaly and several Numbered here! We need backup!"

"Understood. We're deploying the Advanced Tactical Unit. Find cover and maintain suppression fire until they arrive."

"... The ATU!? Are you serious?!"

Truth be told, none of the guards knew why any of these forces would even be here. They were just told to guard the entrances. But there was protocol, and they were trained to follow it. Meanwhile, the others? They moved to find cover; if their shots were going to be useless, they might as well be a bit safer doing it.

Edited 2015-10-08 22:12 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Jasmine had been flying pretty low to the ground. And what's more, she's distracted by the attempt of the serpent to attack Marina. Her first attempt is to fly to her, but instead...

... Instead, she gets a knee in the back. Jasmine cries out, bouncing against the pavement. She forces herself to a stop and turns around, teeth grit in anger. "Who the hell are you?! Did you cause this?!"

Edited 2015-10-09 01:51 (UTC)

Meanwhile, Marina can hardly react to Jasmine getting a knee in the back, because she has a massive stone hydra trying to flatten her. Better her than the security guards, though, she mostly convinces herself, as she pushes off into a jump, and then twists in the air to kick off of one of the heads, sending her flying and spinning through the air before she lands in a rough skid, dropping to all fours.

A moment to steady herself, and a slight throb in her ankle, and she's up and off again, raising a hand to summon a familiar sight around herself. "Water Dragon!" she launches the torrent straight at the creature's body, more focused on repelling than destroying.

Winter has no clue what an ATU is, and no time to care. The situation isn't getting better, either, as Twilight comes under attack from something that is decidedly not the monster. She catches it out of the corner of her eye as the rubble clears from her vision, and her eyes widen as she stands back up and points. "Hold on a second, Jasmine is-!" She'll complain later at the lack of decorum - what self-respecting magical girl calls her teammates by name while they're transformed? - but right now, this is more important. Without a second thought, Diamond leaps out from behind the truck and heads toward her, immediately enraged - family is one of Winter's hot buttons. "Hey! Get away from her!"

Sorry, Thunder guys. You're going to have to fend for yourselves.

As Winter leaps to the defense of her sister, that leaves Lily's course fairly obvious. Trusting the both of them to handle themselves, Cure Moonlight is then left to focus on reducing the potential of collateral damage from the monster - most importantly, hoping that her would-be sister-in-law is not that collateral.

As Marina's Water Dragon pulses out towards the hydra, Lily lands with a click of her heels, drawing up her hands. Light bursts forth from her palms, and she lets out a pure, unfocused blast of light energy to one of the snake's heads. It might only damage it a little bit, but really, she just wants to get its attention.

Alexandra found there was something very satisfying about watching Jasmine bounce off the pavement that brought a faint smile to her lips, she would have to try and do that again sometime. Still that smile would quickly shift into a scowl as Jasmine spoke to her.

"The better question is "Why the hell are you people getting in my way?" Aren't these people your enemies?" It's about then that she hears Diamond shout out and it's back to business. She'll move to close the distance between her and Jasmine. She'll attempt to throw a kick at Jasmine's side in an attempt to her sprawling toward Diamond.

The torrent of water is enough to slow down the Stone Hydra for now, while the the blast of light energy manages to blast off a chunk from the one head and get it's attention. Since it's having trouble moving around at the moment, it's going to use bite down into the ground with four of it's heads and pull up small boulder sized hunks of concrete and earth. It's going to hurl two of those chunks at moonlight, one at Marina, and the final one at the cover the Thunder Corp guards are hiding behind.

Suddenly, that hunk of concrete flying for the Thunder Corp guards? Is met with something streaking out from within the warehouse. Where in the warehouse? One can't really determine just where its source could have come from, but all the same - a rocket streaks out, colliding with the concrete. Bits of rubble rains down, but otherwise Joe and Mac make it out unscathed.

At one sight of their saviors, though - they scramble. Nope, they are not paid enough for this.

Emerging from the warehouse are a set of four... soldiers? They're armored from head to toe, in what could only be described as futuristic looking armor that certainly looks military, if no military anyone has ever seen on this Earth. Each are armed with weapons that appear familiar, yet advanced beyond what one may have seen. Though the rocket launcher one such soldier is discarding is self explanatory enough. On one of them, they're shouldering something which looks... well beyond that, though. It's certainly a gun of some sort, but huge, even as they level an assault rifle at the hydra.

"ATU Beta Team! Spread out, flank the monster!" shouts the one soldier with the rather giant weapon as he secures it to his back, then fires off a round from the rifle at the hydra. "Check fire, magical girls are not on target!"

And so, they move. They move pretty fast, assault rifles blazing fire at the monster, though... obviously, they may not do that much damage. Yet they move with purpose, as if fully understanding that.

Jasmine sees the kick coming this time, and moves to block with her arm, pushing back against Alexandra as the kick connects. "Just because we hate them," she said, "doesn't mean we want to give them a reason to make things worse for all of us!"

Then... then she hears the rocket hitting the debris, and her head snaps in that direction. Her eyes widen as she sees the guards. Gritting her teeth, she thrusts a sphere of red energy at Alexandra to keep her from attacking her in this moment of distraction.

"What the hell?! Since when do they have armor from a fucking sci fi movie?!"

One chunk of concrete? Come on hydra, you can do better than that. "Sapphire Whirlwind!" kicks up a torrent of wind and water, contained enough to not wreak havoc, powerful enough to deflect the concrete away from her, and anyone else. Marina strode forward, facing a dilemma now.

On the one hand, Thunder Corp had space marines and they were fighting the beast and clearly ready for it, but not actually making much progress. On the other hand, some new dark magical girl was fighting her fucking fiance.

The snake was part of this girl's plan, though, it seemed; was it a distraction? Necessary for smashing down some kind of barrier? Did she need to stay nearby to command it?

Whatever the case, Marina was glad she'd practiced her aim, launching Icicle Blades down from above, along its body, without aiming at anyone else.

Winter also sees it coming, but like Jasmine, the wind comes out of her sails as the high explosive round flies from the warehouse, followed by... "Powered armor? Jasmine, complain later! I don't know what guns to do you, but they still hurt me!" A hastily-thrown shot of Twinkle Diamond will have to be enough to open up space between Jasmine and their new little friend. Whatever those rifles are, they're nothing like the tech Thunder Corp. shot her with during the Project Jump heist. Something's... different.

Thunder is defending the warehouse, which makes sense. Tall, red and obnoxious is... attacking the warehouse, but also attacking them. They're defending the warehouse, and not being attacked - intentionally, at least - by Thunder Corp's goons, but they are being attacked by the snake and the young woman. None of this makes sense.

Well, there's one easy enough question to start with, though getting an answer might not be so easy. "Hey!" she calls at the only person she hasn't figured out an allegiance for yet. "Who the hell are you, anyway?"

Edited (HTML) 2015-10-12 01:46 (UTC)

Well, this is turning into one hell of a night. As the soldiers advance - around Marina and Lily, no less - her guard flares up and she's about ready to grab the blue-haired girl and get them clear. Yet, the attack isn't upon them. In fact, they're said to be kept out of the crosshairs.

Remembering when they stole Project Jump, much like Winter, that somehow doesn't make her feel a whole lot better. As Marina's icicle blades come raining down upon it, Moonlight draws out her Tact and begins to ready herself.

"If we can keep it off balance enough, I might be able to finish it... I just can't get caught in the crossfire they're laying down..."

Because, she knows just as well. Her transformation does not make her invincible - in fact, it's almost deceptive that way.

"Because they aren't just going to make up an excuse to do that when they're good and ready too, right?" Alexandra spat back before the explosion managed to catch her attention too. unfortunately she didn't have much time to get a look at just what else the Thunder Corp guards were equipped with as she had to quickly skitter out of the way to avoid a certain sphere of energy.

That dodge has to turn into a full retreat when Diamond launches her attack. Alexandra breaks away from Jasmine by leaping back a few feet to avoid the Twinkle Diamond, though it manages to catch and freeze her coat-tails of her jacket solid. ...Her eyes narrow and she let's out an annoyed breath, that was too close for comfort.

"I'm someone who would really appreciate it if you idiots got the hell out of the way, and stopped defending people who were obviously your enemies!" It probably wasn't the answer Winter was looking for, but it wasn't a lie either.

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The Stone Hydra found itself pelted by gunfire but that didn't exactly bother it, it was much more annoyed by the blades of ice that managed to pierce into it's hide. The thunder corp troops were fast and annoying but the two magical girls were the bigger threat as far as it was concerned at the moment, or at least until it's master gave it new orders.

The hydra turns toward both Marina and Lily and lashes out at the both of them, attempting to slam into them with it's heavy body. After the initial attack it's multiple heads will strike out at all of it's attackers, trying to catch any of them in it's snapping jaws.

The soldiers appear undeterred by either the size of the monster they're firing upon, or the magical girls battling around them. They keep their fire steady, concentrated. One might think they're trying to just chip away at it... until it begins to move. As it tries to thrash against Cure Moonlight and Marina, their fire ceases. They hold themselves steady, all in unison. Their vision remains locked on the monster...

...until its heads snap out, and they all move at once. Fast, quicker than a normal human might be capable of, they leap back, pulling away from the snapping heads, and reach one brings a free hand to grip something.

Before chucking grenades in each snapping mouth near them.

"We're not defending anyone!" Jasmine growled, putting distance between herself and Alexandra. She wasn't exactly running, though, as she focused on her tact. "We're protecting this city! From you! GATHER, DARK POWER!"

A black and red flowerbud appeared at the end of Twilight's weapon, which was pointed directly at Alexandra... only for Jasmine to jerk her arm to the side, and without looking, fire the Dark Forte Wave at Alexandra's hydra. Even with her feint, she was able to keep it from coming anywhere near her comrades.

"You don't know ANYTHING," she said. "These guys don't know anything. And who the hell is going to pay the price for your little temper tantrum?! Locke City!"

She grit her teeth, and continued focusing on what was in front of her. She had helped distract the Hydra, it was time to trust in her friends.

Well, now Marina had little choice but to just take the hit - sword raised, she braced herself, rolling with the impact and then rolling across the ground, skidding, bouncing, relying on her magic armor and having learned how to fall to keep her unharmed.

A few scrapes, maybe a bruise or two, but she snapped to her feet in time to see grenade lobbing. Synchronized grenade lobbing, impressive, sure, and terrifying that Thunder Corp has troops like this.

Troops. They're nothing short of actual soldiers. All she needs to do is take a pot shot...

Gritting her teeth, she stood back to watch. Maybe that hydra could focus on them, instead of her, while she made her way over to Jasmine and Alexandra, trying to skirt around the battle.

"My enemy is the person that started attacking a warehouse with a freaking hydra out of nowhere!" The armored guys still aren't shooting at them, so Winter elects to just push forward, darting into the gap as Alexandra jumps back and trying to rush her down with a physical strike, swinging in up close with a kick of her own. It's not complicated, but sometimes that's a good thing. No need to overuse her ice and not have it later.

She's aware of Lily being threatened, but... her partner's a big girl. She can handle herself. All of her friends can. It's a reassuring thought, compared to some of the past times things have devolved into chaos.

"MARINA!" Her instinct is to defend the blue-haired girl, but she doesn't quite get there. There's too many heads to keep track of, and she still has to keep her own head attached to her shoulders. Cure Moonlight snaps back, getting checked in the shoulder by the surge, tumbling back in the air and hitting the floor, boots skidding back alongside it...

When the grenades go flashing out. There's explosions to follow, to be sure, but... she's not really going to get a clean shot at this point, is she?

Gritting her teeth, the crystal of her Moon Tact flashes and she thrusts it up into the air.

"Shine, flowers!" A massive bulb of energy expands out above her, which she promptly swings down and launches at the hydra. "Precure! SILVER FORTE WAVE!"

Of course, it's not well aimed, either. She could easily have sent it wide, or it could be a monster that requires more than the power of one Precure to cleanse it - still, Cure Twinkle was able to take out this girl's last attempt. Lily figures she should be good... so long as it connects.

"I wasn't attacking the city! Just this warehouse!" She tried to rush toward Jasmine again, but the seeing the energy gather up in the Dark Tact was enough to get her to back off again, even if it ended up being a feint.

Unfortunately she doesn't have much time to act after that feint as she's soon assaulted by Winter. She manages to raise an arm up to block the kick but it still manages to knock her off balance.

"A warehouse that has things you know they plan to use on you later!" She makes an attempt to grab for one of Winter's arms, if she gets hold of her she'll pivot and attempt to hurl her at Jasmine. It's not exactly the most elegant of attacks but things aren't exactly going her way at the moment.

The Hyrda isn't exactly having the best day either. It was looking to chew on some high tech soldiers, not grenades. The explosives go off in the four heads and manage to destroy three of them, while leaving the other in complete shambles. It's remaining heads let out a frenzied cry though that's quickly cut off when Jasmine's attack connects with it's body and knocks off a another large hunk of stone.

The turns itself around and darts over at one of the soldiers, only avoiding the Silver Forte Wave by luck that it wasn't a well aimed shot. It'll attempt to coil around and crush one of them with it's large body, while it's tail sweeps around and attempts to bat a second away.

As quick as the serpent is, the armored soldiers are quick themselves. Propulsion jets fire, propelling the man high enough to avoid the coiling of the serpent. As he ascends, he trains another grenade, aiming it down where the hydra's various heads meet the body.

The others? They're not afraid to take advantage of exposed weakness, aiming at the parts where the hydra's armor has been blown off, concentrating their fire there.

Hearing her sister's scream, and seeing Marina's status, it's enough to make Jasmine change her focus immediately. She speeds over to her fiance's side, shooting Alexandra a look. In the same moment, she does her best to brace herself to catch Winter.

There's not much room to retort to Alexandra in this. Her efforts right now are focused on protecting her own.

Edited 2015-10-28 07:25 (UTC)

They're all sort of gathering up, which mostly just serves to make them a target, Marina figures - although there's also strength in numbers. It's not like those soldiers aren't doing most of the work anyways, and Marina's happy to leave them to it.

"Jas! What's up with that chick anyways?"

Needless to say, the warehouse that was being attacked was more than a warehouse. Below the surface level was several sub-levels of greater technological complexity. Facilities like this had been common in the Dead District before the city's "remodeling", and this one was no different.

Alarms blared as the magical girls and elite soldiers fought the monster above, which meant security was in a frenzy. The Advanced Tactical Unit had been deployed, but that left the rest of them to prepare for the worst cast scenario where they failed.

"Ugh, this is a nightmare," one patrolman said as he hurried through the halls. "I thought we were done with Numbered trying to bust in here."

"I guess that's what the higher ups meant about it only being a matter of time," said his comrade. "But why are they attacking? Nothing has been held here since-"

"That doesn't matter," the first interrupted. "There's more than enough information on the mainframe to be a serious security risk. Besides, you know they don't tell us how much information has or hasn't leaked."

His comrade frowned and didn't reply further, he just kept running in step with his fellow soldiers, which numbered in five, including the two of them. At the very least, as they began to round the bend to head to the mainframe, he took solace in the fact that they were on a low enough level that any kind of security risk would be long taken care of before it ever reached them.

Edited 2015-10-27 05:34 (UTC)

At least, it would have been nice for them if that was the case. Such does not prove very much the case, however.

Alexandra's attack is pretty fortuitous, really. Satsuki had planned for something far more elaborate, but... this will do.

The thread-born tendrils suddenly jutting out of the darkness beyond the patrolmen are silent. Less so, are the likely sudden cries as the tendrils sharpen into blades, jamming straight through the backs of two men, severing quite a few vital functions within moments. The blades then just as quickly retract back into the darkness, even as they twitch happily at the new blood staining them.

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