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“Don’t. Come. Any-”

Clementine said, aiming down the sights of the weapon.

“Yeah, yeah… [i]closer,[/i]” The monster laughed as he walked closer anyway. “How am I supposed to kill them from [i]this[/i] far away? You’re asking for a lot here lady…”

Clementine pulled the trigger, and a boom filled the room, putting a hole in the monster. Not just any hole, a hole into a black, void-like expanse. “Ah… [i]annoying,[/i]” 

The holes closed as it got closer and closer.

“Okay, time to try something else!” Vanessa shouted as she put her fists up, and [url=https://i.imgur.com/mu2iyaX.jpeg]two silver gauntlets[/url] appeared on her hands in a flash of silver light. She yelled as she rushed the creature and gave him a punch across the face, then a shot to the stomach that sent him stumbling backward before she dashed at what had to be supernatural speeds and punched him, sending him flying through a wall.

“You three, c’mere!” Clementine shouted as she ran over to the three. She raised her hand in the air, surrounded by a wavy blue aura. “Hate to waste good cuffs, but stick your hands out!”

[color=e77fbf]"Pleassseee get them off me,"[/color] Ella ran over to Clementine and stuck her hands out. She slammed her hand down and cleaved right through it as if it was nothing.

[color=DC143C]"I'm good,"[/color] Saskia winced, holding up her cuffless arms, fingers beginning to snap back into place with horrible sounding cracks. They still moved over to the others, dropping their voice. [color=DC143C]"Ella, you need you channeler."[/color]

[color=e77fbf]"We don't have time for that!"[/color] Ella shook her head. Maybe they could run while Vanessa fought whatever this was - but it would just follow them! And they couldn't abandon newly refound friends! [color=e77fbf]"I'll just have to fight without it- PRISMATIC TRANSFORMATION!"[/color]

She launched right into her transformation spell, spinning shakily as harsh burns spiralled out across her stomach and down her thighs. Her clothes were replaced with the normal magical girl affair - in duller colours than normal - and her hair remained the same, normal bright pink braids tied in buns. She winced, eyes darting over to the creature, ready for him to get back up.

[color=DC143C]"Shit,"[/color] Saskia swore, looking at Lisa. [color=DC143C]"Can your spiders get her channeler?!"[/color]

[color=764820]”They can,”[/color] Lisa shouted, sticking her hands out as Clementine broke them with her abstraction. [color=764820]”But, you’re gonna have to give me a minute to get them read-”[/color]

“... Hello,”

The monster opened another rift through reality and stepped through it, ending up in the interrogation room. “Would you please hurry up and die? I’m late for dinner.”

The creature swung its claw, creating a massive rift into a dark void. Lisa screamed as she fell backward before a wave of spiders crawled out from underneath the door, from the vent, and the hole in the wall Vanessa made fighting the creature. They quickly crawled up the creature’s leg, until they covered his lower body and began biting...

[color=764820]”... Damn it!”[/color] Lisa shouted. [color=764820]”His skin’s too tough!”[/color]

“Ah, that [i]itches,[/i]” The creature laughed. 

[color=764820]”... But, not too tough for [i]this![/i]”[/color] Lisa grinned as she activated the Acid Burst spell… and then he disappeared. Leaving behind all the spiders as they fell to the ground and exploded. Sending acid in all directions… and one splash hit Lisa on the cheek and dissolved flesh until it exposed her teeth. [color=764820]”[i][b]AH![/b][/i] Take cover!”[/color] 

[color=e77fbf]"AHHHH!"[/color] Ella screamed as she rolled to the side, grabbing a chair to protect herself. Acid splashed her arms, eating through her flesh. Magical burns ran further down her legs as she lit them up with a flickering, rainbow light. She was in agony from casting without a channeller and getting hit by the acid - but she couldn't fight without her magic! 

[color=DC143C]"SHIT!"[/color] Saskia jumped behind the table, acid onto their left leg and burning through to the bone. They cursed as they quickly clotted the wound, slamming their hand against the sharp edge of the table to reopen the one there. Blood flooded out, coating their body in a thin protective layer. [color=DC143C]"Go through the hole- we need more space."[/color]

[color=e77fbf]"And my channeler,"[/color] Ella groaned. At least she should be able to hold the spell on her legs for ten minutes, giving her a way to attack without more damage- but it was risky!

[color=764820]”Give me a minute!”[/color] Lisa shouted as she summoned massive tarantulas from the hidden corners of the room.

“We need to get outside!” Clementine noted, before she looked through the hall. “‘Nessa! [i]Nessa!?[/i]”

“... We may have a [i]problem![/i]” Vanessa shouted.

“Oh, God, what now?!” Clementine shouted. 

“... [i]There’s more of them![/i]” Vanessa shouted before she was launched back into the room and slid across the floor on her back. 

[color=e77fbf]"Vanessa!"[/color] Ella shouted.

Footsteps approached.

“You three are the ones that caused that mess in Morningstar’s office…?” A feminine voice spoke, and then they saw her [url=https://i.imgur.com/nalkgrq.jpeg]grin[/url]. Then, her sunken eyes shined as she stepped in wearing a heavenly white robe. “And killed [i]Mala’Boolaan?[/i] He was [i]clearly[/i] unworthy of his position.” She laughed.

[color=e77fbf]"Rude!"[/color] Ella yelled, pushing herself back to her feet. This was still fine, they could take on two people. Apparitions. Whatever they were. [color=e77fbf]"Don't disrespect the dead! He put up a good fight!"[/color]

“And he was felled by three idiots!” She laughed.

[color=DC143C]"That's not the point, Ella,"[/color] Saskia hissed, shifting from behind the table and next to Ella. Two bone spears grew out of the back of their hands.

[color=e77fbf]"Alright- I won't let you hurt me or my friends!"[/color] Ella pointed her finger at the woman. If Lisa's spiders were going to get her channeller and she needed a minute, they needed to keep both of the creatures off of her. 

She leaped forward, swinging a shining leg at the woman, and the creature floated backward while raising a hand. A chunk of the ground flipped up and tanked the hit meant for her. At the same time, Saskia shifted into a protective stance in front of Lisa, and Clementine went over to help her sister up to her feet. Lisa activated the hybridization spell, wrapping them in a glowing cocoon, which burst a few moments later—equipping the tarantulas with Ant mandibles. Then, utilizing the command spell, she sent them into the halls of the PRA office.

[color=764820]”Where is the channeler?”[/color] Lisa shouted.

“It’s…” Clementine attempted to reply.

“... Please tell,” The mysterious lady-thing said, raising her hand, and chunks of the wall broke off and flew at Ella. “I’m going to kill your friend with it!” She said in a sing-song.

[color=e77fbf]"You're not killing anyone!"[/color] Ella winced, jumping to the side with her strengthened legs and rolling out of the way of the chunks of wall. Her legs ached as she did, the spell cast on them unstable, but she fought through it. Pushing back to her feet she launched herself up, spinning mid air and flying towards the lady-thing, and launched her backwards. However, she caught herself with her telekinetic abilities, and floated back.

Another massive rift into darkness opened up, and the white creature poked his head in momentarily. “Hey…” he began. “I brought some friends.…” 

A massive, clawed foot stuck through the portal before the [url=https://i.imgur.com/DtckODp.jpeg]rest of the hellish beast came through.[/url] Hulking, waving around a threateningly large sword, several arms, and a severed head. He growled as he gave his blade a swift flourish… Before holding it in both hands.

After he came through, a monstrous claw came through, before [url=https://i.imgur.com/pstvqsV.jpeg]the rest of the hellish creature[/url] followed. It was even taller than the other one, with its head bursting through the ceiling.

“Let me see if I can find some more,” the white creature slowly slid back into the rift. “Play nice now.”

Before he disappeared, and the rift closed.

“Ooookay!” Clementine took a few steps back, until she was against the wall. “We [i][b]NEED[/b][/i] to get the fuck out of here. [i][b]NOW![/b][/i]”

[color=DC143C]"No shit,"[/color] Saskia hissed. [color=DC143C]"Go, I'll cover your backs. Ella, you too-"[/color] 

[color=e77fbf]"No way!"[/color] Channeler or not, Ella wasn't going to abandon her friend. 

[color=DC143C]"I'll take the one with the sword,"[/color] Saskia said, blood running across their skin and forming two blades on her hands. They didn't engage, holding their blood blades in front of them while watching the creature with the sword. 

Ella, on the other hand, jumped forward and swung their shining leg up towards the other creature, and he used his hulking arm to block.

[color=764820]”I’ll take the girl!”[/color] Lisa shouted as the spiders covered the telekinetic in spiders. [color=764820]”I can’t keep summoning like this!”[/color]

“You can’t!” The lady laughed as she raised a hand, and the table they took cover behind began floating. “Because you’ll be dead!”

The table flew towards Lisa, but Vanessa punched it in half. 

“I said we gotta go! There’s too many big motherfuckers in here to fight like this!” Vanessa shouted as she raised a gauntlet-ed fist into the air. “Get ready!”

Vanessa slammed the fist down and punched the ground, creating a massive gaping hole in the ground that led to the main lobby of the PRA office building. They could see the front desk right underneath them.

“I’m not sure if you have some way to take the fall,” Clementine said as she aimed her pistol at the brute with the extra-large arm and fired off a few shots, which penetrated his flesh but didn’t seem to stop him. “But figure out [i]something![/i] We are at a disadvantage fighting in here!” 

[color=e77fbf]"I can’t!"[/color] Ella wailed. She could maybe take a fall if she’d absorbed enough colour… but not like this!

The creature with the massive arm cocked it back, then swung it in a wide arc - only for Vanessa to hop in it’s way and block it with her arms up. Skidding backwards as she grunted, “Well, you better have a fucking healer, then!”

Long black spider legs burst out of Lisa’s back as she hopped into the hole—only for the legs to spread out and attach themselves to the ceiling as Lisa climbed down the walls to the floor. Clementine just jumped and landed on the ground with no harm done.

[color=DC143C]"I’ve got this,"[/color] Saskia’s blood once again moved, coating her back in a thin, strong layer. More pooled out of her wound and formed a long tendril, as she visibly paled. She grabbed hold of Ella from behind. Before Ella could protest, Saskia yanked her through the hole, thanks to catching Ella by surprise. 

The blood tentacle shot past Ella’s face and hooked onto the edge, slowing their fall so they dangled for just a moment… before it let go too and dropped them the rest of the way. Midfall it retracted and they landed on the floor with a loud thump, Ella right on top of Saskia - and more protected from the fall. Nothing was broken but everything hurt like hell!

[color=DC143C]"Fuckkkk,"[/color] Saskia grunted, audible cracks echoing in Ella’s ears. She rolled off her immediately and helped Saskia sit up. Her back, neck and head had been protected by the blood armour, but her legs and arms were visibly broken. They were twisting horribly as they started to repair themselves and the blood that hadn’t splattered across the floor pulled back into Saskia’s wound. 

[color=e77fbf]"Saskiiiaaa,"[/color] Ella cried, stopping herself from going full on upset about it - she had to keep fighting now that they were down!

[color=764820]”... I got you!”[/color] Lisa shouted as spider preemptively forced their way out of her pores, and she lept over to Saskia. She placed her hands on Saskia’s shoulders, and the spiders crawled down her arms and onto Saskia. They bit her, injecting her with their healing concoction, which would heal her wounds…. 

“Well…” The Pale-Lady raised a hand in the air, and technically lifted a chunk out of the ground - making the hole evn larger - before launching it at Vanessa. It hit her and launched her into the hole in the ground and she hit the ground with a loud tud next to Ella and Saskia. The lady stuck her face through the hole as she stared down, then looked at the two. “Don’t leave your friends behind, you two!” 

[color=e77fbf]"Vanesssaaaa!"[/color] Ella shouted, swapping from kneeling beside Saskia to kneeling beside her.

The first one down was the Demon with the sword, who landed some distance away from the trio (and Vanessa and Clementine). He gave his sword another flourish as he walked over to them… menacingly. The next one down was the demon with the freakishly long arm. He slammed his hand on the ground as he walked alongside the other freak… while the pale lady watched from above.

[color=764820]”... We need to get your Channeler,”[/color] Lisa muttered to Ella. [color=764820]”This is why you need a Channeler like [i]ours.[/i] You can’t fight like this long term!”[/color]

“Do you think your spiders can find it?” Clementine asked as she raised a pistol at the two creatures. 

[color=764820]”They can…”[/color] Lisa said, then shrugged, [color=764820]”... [i]Eventually.[/i]”[/color]

“I can lead you there!” Clementine asked, before she turned to Ella and Saskia. “Can you two stay here and hold them off?”

“You mean [i]three?[/i]” Vanessa said with a wry grin.

“Yeah, whatever!” Clementine said, “Just buy us some time.”

[color=DC143C]"Easy,"[/color] Saskia grunted, sitting up as Lisa’s healing spiders worked their magic. The terrifying whiteness disappeared from their already pale skin and their broken bones were fixed. 

[color=e77fbf]"Yeah, don’t worry, we got this!”[/color] Ella declared, pushing herself to her feet. Even through the hot pain searing through her legs, burnt skin visible through the glowing light coating them, she could- would- keep going. This was nothing compared to dying! [color=e77fbf]"I can keep this up for… another eight minutes.”[/color]

[color=DC143C]"I can keep this up until I bleed out,"[/color] Saskia said, reaching out to scrape their healed hand across a piece of rubble and draw blood again. They then stood, blood coating their hands. [color=DC143C]"Go."[/color] 

Ella held out a hand to help Vanessa up, gulping as she looked at the two creatures. For all her bravado… she really was limited when she shouldn’t use anymore spells. [color=e77fbf]"Saskia…”[/color]

[color=DC143C]"Yeah, got it. Go defensive."[/color] Saskia stepped forward. Ella moved to her side, one leg slightly bent and ready to move - but neither attacked first. They had to hold them off, and maybe hurt them, until Ella got her channeler. [i]Then[/i] they could properly fight. Because right now, Ella really was running on next to nothing!

“Well,” Vanessa said as she got up. She punched her gauntlets together as she said, “We can take them.”

Clementine nodded as she grabbed Lisa’s hand and carried her off into the halls of the PRA building.

The creature with the freakishly large arm slammed it on the ground, and used it as a pole-vault to launch itself high up into the air. It had it cocked back for a devastating punch. While the beast with the sword came charging from the side. Ella and Saskia dodged to opposite sides to avoid the punch. Ella spun around, leg kicking up towards the creature with the freakishly large arm’s abdomen, causing it to hit the ground with a thud. Saskia’s blood formed a single blade from her right hand, and she swung it towards the beast with the sword. Clashing blade against blade…

The other creature pushed itself to its feet by its arm, before raising it into the air and bringing it down on Ella, who blocked it with a strengthened leg. She winced, draining the colours from several bracelets to coat her right fist. The bright pinks flickered before settling, red hot wounds cutting across her arm away from it. The pain was intense, her vision blurring as she punched at the creature with the pink fist. The punch caused it to stumble…

… Then Vanessa charged in and walloped the thing and sent it flying. It went through the wall.

“… The Chairman Board is going to kill us,” Vanessa shook her head before facing the two. “You two! Double-team him! I got the other one!”

The brute came out charging and grabbed Vanessa, raising her up into the air and slamming her onto the ground. Before it kicked her through a wall and kept charging after her, it ran lopsided due to its proportions.

[color=e77fbf]"... She doesn’t seem like she can handle that?”[/color] Ella looked at the new hole in the wall in panic. 

[color=DC143C]"She’s trained, she’ll be fine!"[/color] Saskia said, still engaged in sword to sword combat with the other creature. It was a deadlock, but Saskia was being pushed back. 

Ella ran towards it, sending a high kick towards its side. The impact caused it to hunch over, but it quickly swung the severed head it was carrying like a bat at Ella. Ella raised her arms to block it, wincing when it hit the one she hadn’t infused with colour. She pushed through it, bringing her knee up to ram into it. At the same time, Saskia shot a long bone spear out of their elbow as their blood blade clashed with its blade, aiming for its sword holding arm. Impaling it through the arm as it let out a roar, keeping the sword in its iron grasp as it grabbed the spear and squeezed it in an attempt to break it. The spear snapped with a sickening crunch, half still lodged in its arm and the broken half pulling back into Saskia's skin as she grunted in pain.

One of the free arms swung at Ella, hitting her in the shoulder and sending her flying. She landed on her ass , wincing and immediately getting back to her feet. Everything ached, the casting without her channeler beginning to get to her, but they just had to hold on. Ella jumped back in, swinging one leg towards its side then aiming her strengthened fist forward at the same time. Shattering several ribs in a loud crack.

However, he lunged forward to grab Ella. She tried to dodge back, but her forward momentum was too much, and she couldn’t avoid it. Ella punched the arm, holding her with a grimace, which he ignored as he came in with a full-force punch. She pulled up a leg in time to block the punch from hitting her stomach, muscles tearing as it slammed through the prismatic light. She cried out as pain seared through her leg.

[color=DC143C]"Shit, Ella!"[/color] Saskia twisted around, unable to disengage and help.

Ella let out a hiss, hands pulling together and draining [i]all[/i] of the colour she wore. A large, multi colored sphere appeared in her hand. It wobbled, shape fragile, and painful blisters formed across her skin as the burning got worse. She launched the sphere right in the creatures face - it would be like a brick was hitting it. But at the same time it exploded on contact, shards of colour erratically shooting off and hitting both Ella and Saskia. 

It grabbed its face - stumbling backward. Before putting all its weight on its backfoot and rushing forward, swinging its sword wildly. Ella was right in the path of its sword, leg injured and wounds all over her from the prismatic prisms’ backlash. Saskia jumped forward and pushed her out of the way, awkwardly blocking the sword with one blood-covered hand and their blood blade. The erratic swings sliced through Saskia’s blade, blood splattering on the floor, and she narrowly avoided getting her arm chopped off. Her blood coated both hands in a hard shell and she grabbed the sword, more blood thinly coating her feet to stop her from being pushed back.

Ella raised a hand, a beam of light shooting directly from her finger and towards the creature's sword arm. As it did, her entire finger lit up as if it were an ember, burning pain spreading out from it and down her entire arm. The creature yelped in pain, finally letting go of the sword and holding her hand as it thrashed around.

[i]“… Hey,”[/i] The White Creature stuck its head through the gaping hole in the ceiling. “Ignatius said that if you three can’t handle this, you have [i]no[/i] place in the Society. So no more friends!”

“But we brought you something!” The Pale Lady stuck her head through the hole. Then, two more identical swords flew into the monster’s hands through the hole.

“Oh dear,” The white creature said. “You dropped one, pal.”

“Best get it back!” The Pale Lady shouted. 

She retreated out of sight.

[color=DC143C]"Shit, you can’t go on much longer,"[/color] Saskia muttered, looking at Ella. She was covered in burns and the light coating her legs was flickering rapidly. Ella shook her head, grimacing. They had to get rid of this one [i]faster[/i] now to help Lisa and Clementine before they were killed!

[color=e77fbf]"I’m fine.”[/color] She recast her super prism kick, rainbow light on her legs stabilising as pain seared through her midsection. Even if she had to sacrifice herself, she’d make sure her friends were safe. Adrenaline pumped through her veins enabling her to continue, light supporting her damaged leg. 

Ella jumped forward, leg kicking out towards one of the arms holding a sword. Saskia reformed their own blood blades simultaneously, two of them, and sliced them towards it and were parried by the creature’s blades. However, the kick sent it stumbling over, and it quickly used one of the blades to brace itself.

It loudly yelled as it raised its blades, and wildly slashed at Saskia while charging. Saskia gritted her teeth as she blocked the slashes, forced to step back with each strike. There was no opening for an attack, only defence, as the blades got scarily close to her face. Ella backed away as it attacked Saskia, raising a hand to shoot a rainbow laser at it. She tried to aim for a sword-holding hand, but the spell was unstable and pointed toward its shoulder. With great effort, hands feeling like they were on fire, Ella kept up the continuous beam of light, directing it down its arm. It screamed as it continued the barrage of blades towards Saskia.

[color=764820]”... [i][b]ELLA![/b][/i]”[/color] Lisa shouted, barging into the room, holding Ella’s Channeler high into the air. Clementine was behind her, holding her pistol with both hands… Then Lisa’s spiders came after her, crawling up the walls like a strange macabre carpet.

[color=e77fbf]"[b]LISAAAA![/b]"[/color] Ella yelled back, cutting off the beam of light. She was incredibly relieved to see her - both alive and with her Channeler! She was at her limit of casting without it. Ella started running towards Lisa, burned hands outstretched for her Channeler.

[color=DC143C]"Hurry up and help me,"[/color] Saskia hissed, being beaten back further and further as all they could do was block. She was panting heavily but still keeping up with the continuous barrage. [color=DC143C]"Actually, heal Ella first!"[/color] 

[color=764820]”Okay!”[/color] Lisa shouted as tiny black spiders forced their way out of Lisa’s pores. They traveled up her arm and covered the Sailor Moon Wand. [color=764820]”Come here!”[/color]

Ella took one look at the spiders coming out of Lisa’s pores, covering her precious wand, and felt sick. She’d been healed by them once before and it had been horrible! Times weren’t so desperate right now. She stopped running towards Lisa, instead beginning to back away. [color=e77fbf]"No, I’m alright! Just give me my Channeler, please!"[/color]

[color=764820]”Let. Me. [i][b]Heal.[/b][/i] You.”[/color] Lisa shouted as she began to sprint after Ella.

[color=e77fbf]"NOOOOO! Stay away!"[/color] Ella screamed, turning around and running away as fast as she could. 

[color=764820]”Get back here!”[/color] Lisa shouted.

[color=DC143C]"... are you fucking with me,"[/color] Saskia muttered, still fighting.

“Look out!” Clementine shouted as she shot both of her hands forward. A blue wave of energy came out of her hands. It hit the creature, launching it back. She ran over to Saskia’s side. [i]“We can take him!” [/i]

It got up to its feet… before grabbing its dropped weapons. It gave them a flourish with all three before it roared.

[color=DC143C]"... Sure. No rest till I bleed out, I guess."[/color]