Echo Incursion 01 - Jurassic Gateway (August 10th, 2016)

[raisednpcs]

It's a particularly hot day in the Gateway City zoo. What else could you expect? It's not like it's not to be expected, it is the middle of August, after all. But there's plenty of things to see here at the zoo, and the visitors' center is air conditioned well enough.

Just a normal summer day in a typical summer vacation spot. Right?

Well, that's when things change. Those in the visitor's center would find the building changing around them. There's suddenly a dinosaur skeleton in the middle of the place, with the banner "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" hanging from the ceiling.

That's not all. The animal enclosures are now different. What used to be a pen for the african elephants now has very large, very long necked reptiles in it. A gigantic, meat-eating dinosaur just tromped its way out of the lion habitat it's too much too large for, and unfortunately for the people around it, its vision is based on movement. The monkey house? Well, those are velociraptors breaking out of it. The aviary? Now filled with particular aggressive flying pterosaurs.

These are just some of the creatures making their sudden emergence, and it's not long until they spill out of the zoo and into the city proper. Dinosaurs are now walking the streets of Gateway City.

Yes, indeed. Just a normal summer day.

[OOC: The new event is live! Please see this post for npc information and just what characters will have to deal with.]

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[alilyinthemoonslight]

As the two Precures land, Moonlight immediately moves the rip a door off the car, shouting and ushering the occupants to flee. There's a shout from above her as Cologne comes swooping down, while the Triceratops is still recovering.

"Cure Moonlight! Cure Diamond! These creatures, they're acting unnaturally! That darkness Raquel and I felt, it's within them!"

Moonlight grits her teeth and nods, just in time to see the beast charging straight for them. She bites back a curse and moves to dive out of the way, smacking her brooch to draw her Moon Tact at the same time. A flick of her wrist, and a wave of light, pure force and power of light, surges out for the beast's face. Her hope is to, at the least, temporarily blind it or slow it down.

From there, she's counting on Winter to back her up.

[peacefulwinter]

Diamond winces as she lands; that thing is strong. Strong enough to give herself and Lily trouble on sheer power. And that's not something that's happened particularly often before. Neither is the coming darkness that Cologne warns her about, of course, but... priorities.

When Moonlight springs to one side as the dinosaur charges again, Diamond goes the other way, bringing one hand below herself to spring back into readiness as she touches down, the other going to her side and claiming her Love Heart Arrow without fanfare. She slams a Loveads into it just as quickly, and when she lands, her momentum carries her a little bit further. Diamond begins to tap on the edge of her weapon lightly, the familiar sound of a tambourine ringing out over Gateway gently as snow issues forth. Creatures like this tend to charge in straight lines, right...? That's her assumption as she sends her ice straight into its path. Or, at least, what she hopes is its path.

[willdareanything]

The trike doesn't recognize the weapons being drawn on it, nor does it have any understanding of the words being spoken. Not that it would anyway. All it knows is the rage. All-encompassing, undeniable, and driving it to crush everything its eyes fall on. And right now that's the two creatures that struck it. Its side aches, and the tiny creatures are glowing with a bright light. It hurts its eyes.

Its charge doesn't falter when Moonlight's energy wave strikes across its face, although it does issue a pained bellow and squeeze its eyes shut. As a result, its feet hit the ice at full speed, sending it slipping and sliding across the surface. It doesn't quite lose its footing though and at the last moment, heaves its bulk to one side, attempting to smash into Moonlight with all its considerable strength and weight.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Moonlight is already springing further away when the beast tries to smash into her, weapon trained on it. She hits the ground, heels skidding back along it, though she knows she isn't going to stay there for very long. No, if darkness is truly coming from that thing, there's really only one thing to do? At the least, she was able to calm the raptors with her power... surely, this had to work too?

Still, she doesn't want to play around, either.

"Winter, let's hit it at once!"

She lifts her baton into the air, a light erupting as a massive bulb appears above her. "Shine, flowers! Precure... Silver Forte Wave!"

The swell of energy launches with force, rocketing straight towards the beast. She can't quite do so in her position, but damn does she want to cross her fingers right now.