"Alright, time to retreat." Riku said. "Come on Dante lets get going!" He called out to his other puppet as him and Delsin followed Ruby.

"Ah damn it. I can take this ugly fuck on. I fought bigger things for breakfast." Dante said, but orders were orders so he retreated along with his puppetmaster.

"Chu I think it's time for us to pull back in order to ensure Alexander's safety" Kurama said to Chu after seeing the two giant monsters.

"Aww but I just got me fun on." Chu responded still in his powered up form. Still the two fell back to where Alexander was hiding.

"Alright hate to say it but we got to pull out of this fight." Alexander said to his two puppets.

With a nod from his two puppets they retreated from the fight though Alexander really didn't want to but since the others were pullin out they had to as well. He wondered what would happen to the city now.

"Alice, I want food."

Liam's cry for sustenance was once again made.

"Are you asking Alice to do something physical?" A blue bird spoke up, hopping up to Liam. "You know she has zero stamina and reflexes, right? TShe can only swim in the dog paddle, she can't swing on the bar or ride a bike, every day in PE she only sat at the edge of the schoolyard. But that’s perfect! I know because I was there taking pictures! All Alice needs to be is bea-"

The bird was interrupted by a flick to the skull from its master. "Robin, be quiet. Let's go." She said blandly.

And so began "Alice-chan's First Errand."

Sylvia waited for the others to catch up to her as she led her companions back to the apartment they lived in. Ruby was trying to lighten the mood by talking to the others about her background including her love for her weopon and sweets.

Elsa was uncomfortable being close to Dark Elsa the evil version smirking at her.

Genocider roared echoing Jabberwock. It's snake like head snapped about before it charged out to meet its new target in full force. Genocider was a beast of pure destruction and nothing in its way would be left standing.

Ouja rested his Venosaber on his shoulder as he looked around, noticing that all of his targets had escaped. He stared at Genocider and Jabberwock inevitable clash, annoyed by the latter monster for ruining his fun. "You let all of them get away from me you vexation! You're going to hell in their stead!"

The Boss stared down at the two monsters as Ouja mouthed off to the new one. She would be long gone if not for her master's orders to keep an eye for Ouja. She couldn't very well go back with him dead.

"Alice, Alice, look!"

On the way to fetch food, the witch of eternity had come across something interesting.

"Those two things fighting, that one on the right, that's Jabbers isn't it?! Oh, Mumsy would be so proud to see him out and about like this! Say, where do you think he came from?"

Alice's eyes silently flitted over to the fight in progress, words echoing through her mind.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

...and yet, somehow that thing wasn't a Ploy. Not of the same ilk as hers, certainly.

Interesting.

"What shall we do, my dearest angel?" Robin chirped, flitting about Alice happily.

Alice silently turned and moved to walk away.

Food had to be bought.

Also now she had a new construction project in mind.

Alice and Caster were far from angry as Ouja were. In fact, they were kind of... excited? Instead of a deadly battle between two really real and dangerous monsters Alice and Caster were cheering as if they were kids at a live sentai show in Japan.

"Jabberwock~!" Caster called out as if she was a 5 year old boy yelling a kamen rider to do the rider kick, "Do that! 'Alice Eater'!"

Jabberwock reared back and let out a resounding roar as a malevolent aura flared around him, increasing it's strength. And with that, Jabberwock launched it's fist at Genocider.

Alexander and his puppets were making there retreat separate of everyone else due to positioning. They were heading for where they usually hang out as it was sort of like a safe house.

Jacob and Jeff finally made it to the house now adbandomed but formally owned by his parents before the 'inicdent' earlier involving Jacob and his father.

Genocider roared wildly, it care nothing for Jabberwock's increase in power all it wanted to do was tear everything apart starting with the monster in front of it.

Ouja stared up finally aware of the Alice's arrival. "Are you brats the one that ruined my fight?!" He growled and pointed the venosaber up at the two girls.

"...Oi oi oi oi oi!" Kieran looked out the window and saw Jabberwock on a rampage along with the other monsters earlier, "Alice isn't helping at all! More or less, she's made it worse!"

Mami looked out the window and frowned. "Hmm... well, I worried that it would come to this." she sighed. "Those two can be quite the handful sometimes. I do my best to take care of them, but I do suppose they need a parental presence." she suggested to Kieran.

"A parental presence? You mean someone who would be like a mother to them?" Kieran asked.

"Yes." Mami nodded. "I can't always be there for them either, and they dohave a... strange upbringing."

Kieran sighed. "Alright. I'll think on it. Meanwhile, can you get Alice and Caster back here?" Mami nodded and took out her soul gem. Transforming into her magical girl form, she leaped out from the apartment balcony.

XXXXX

Alice and Caster both saw Ouja point his venosaber at them. "Alice," Alice asked her Caster, "Why is he so mad? We were only just playing..."

"Don't worry Alice!" Caster said with a happy expression as she stood between Ouja and Alice, "Alice will protect Alice!"

Caster may have low combat parameters... but she was still a servant. She was still perfectly capable of taking down a normal human with ease. "Onii-chan," she smiled at Ouja, "Do you want to play? Or do you want to have tea? Alice will be happy with either!"

Food had been purchased.

Maybe she could use some of that food to make new Ploys.

And so began the trek back to Liam.

Oh look, the Jabberwock and that boring other thing were still fighting.

"Come on, Jabbers! Give him the old one-two!"

Cock Robin was as enthusiastic as ever.

Sylvia waved a good bye to the others Masters and puppets as she and her puppets entered the apartment. Ruby zoomed up to the door as Elsa and Dark Elsa continued to be at odds it seemed. Sylvia sighed. Femme was a great puppet to have but it looked like she had a problem in the form of two Elsas.

Meanwhile Anita was chatting with Jo and Pyrrah about how they could help Gene even tho he did not give orders tho Jo was secretly plotting her own betrayal of Gene for Anitas sake.

Ouja jumped up to the rooftop to face the Alice's. He rested the blade on his shoulder again. He stared at the Alice in black with an vacant look, blocked by his helmet. He was a heartless killer, he killed his own family, women, men, it didn't matter as long as they satisfied his lust for blood. Even so, he couldn't help but be reminded of the girl he had once used as bait when he struggled to feed his monsters. He groaned, kids were confusing. He'd think about while Genocider killed their beast "I don't want any of your damn tea that's for sure!"

-Just as Ouja snarled at the Castah and Mastah, a blue bird fluttered up to the rooftop he had jumped to, hovering in front of him.

"Really, no tea? That's rude, don't you think? Little girl asks you to have some tea and you just start cursing at her, why I'm offended for you."

Back on ground level, Alice loosed a silent sigh at the antics of Robin.

Ouja snarled at the little bird. "You vex me" draeing the word vex out with all the venom he could muster. He swung the venosaber at the bird.

Cock Robin didn't move from his spot. He had expected such a rash reaction. It was the man's loss. For, as the venosaber sliced through the air, in the instant before it reached Cock Robin-

It "evaporated", ceasing to exist. Ouja's weapon had been utterly unmade. The Ploy stood where it had before, unharmed. The attack had never "reached" the Ploy. It had not been allowed access into its world.

This Ploy, designed for the sole purpose of "being cute," a being who certainly lacked the destructive capability to break the venosaber, had unmaked it by existing.

This does not seem possible. It defies logic, and that is precisely why it had happened.

The hero Heracles possesses a Noble Phantasm called God Hand. Closer to a conceptual weapon than a Noble Phantasm, and closer to a conceptual space than a conceptual weapon. Within that conceptual space, "attacks of B rank or lower are nullified." There is no exception, no loophole. Even if an attack that destroyed the multiverse struck Heracles, were it "B ranked" he would be completely unharmed.

The Ploys operated in a similar way. They lived in a conceptual space, in their "own world."

Within their conceptual space, "technology" and "Magecraft" were meaningless. A burst of magic power, firing of a laser, or even some twisted combination of the two were utterly irrelevant.

They were fairy tale creatures which existed in their own world, defying logic and reason simply by existing.

Thus, no matter how far technology or magecraft advances, no matter how great it becomes, it will never be allowed to enter the fairy tale world of a Ploy.

This was the power of the First Witch, drawing its roots from a time before even the first hero's story.

Even the legendary weapons of something such as Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon would be denied access.

Even things that attempted to be irrational such as "emotion" were denied.

It was not that the Ploys were "stronger" than these things inherently, no, it was simply that the Ploys found these things inconsequential.

The Ploy was a perfectly impossible existence. No matter what occurred to it, it would exist in its world without a care about the weapons fired at it.

And so, after the blade had evaporated, Cock Robin spoke up again.

"You're a temperamental one, aren't you?"

Ouja's widened considerable seeing his sword evaporate from his hands. "What the hell did you do?"

Cock Robin shrugged as well as a bird was capable. "Well, I was trying to talk to you, but you don't seem to be too keen on that, do you?" He remarked, still flitting about. "I mean, my angel might have a bit of a temper at times, but she's able to make it beautiful~, unlike you."

"You sure this is the right apartment number?" Riku asked Delsin.

"Yeah I'm sure. Saw her and her puppets go right in here." The conduit replied with. They weren't able to catch up with Sylvia and her puppets but Delsin did see with apartment house they went into. It wasn't really that far from Riku, in fact they actually lived in the same apartment complex.

"I hope you're right." Riku spoke again knocking on the door.

"Or he could be wrong and we're just knocking on some random person's door. Talk about awkward." Dante said.

Gene sat in his office once again looking at his surveillance camera that were hidden all over his building as well as around the city. He was keeping an eye on his allies of course. Willow noticed Anita and her puppets on one of the cameras and hissed violently, especially at Jo. He didn't like her nor trust her. Willow was waiting for her to mess up so he could have her head on a sliver plate. "Now now Willow. We can't just assume that they're traitors. Besides, they clearly know what happens to people who betray me. They wouldn't want to experience that now would they?"

Hearing a knock Ruby zipped to the door."company Sylvia. ."

Sylvia managed to get Elsa and Dark Elsa separated but Dark Elsa growled. She then went over to the door and answered it."Oh hi ..Riku.."She said in surprise upon seeing him there.

Pyrrah had snuck away to Genes office. She knew of Jos plans and would be informing the human known as Master Gene. Anita was unaware they were being watched as she was not aware of Jo. Her loyalty was to Gene fully and utterly.