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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frank costume

In hindsight, Vicky should have expected that. If her hardware was failing just approaching the damn place, there was no reason to think that Cassie's phone or any other technology would work on the inside. It left her steaming, feeling completely helpless and once more utterly useless. She could already imagine what others thought of her dallying around rather than leading the charge, but the cold logic was that her going in was pretty much guaranteeing one funeral in the family. At least Cassandra's teammates seemed to have the situation handled. She would stay and try to come up with some other course of action, just in case those two were also not returning for a while.

Diana's suggestion shook Vicky out of her thoughts. "Right." she managed to affirm before Diana too went through. Of course, she knew who Madalyne was, although they pretty much never spoke to each other. Would she be willing to help her? There was also the other option. Madalyne might be able to help. But Lady Nimue would certainly know how. The question was, would she? In the end, the decision was simple: Madalyne was visible - Albeit being crushed by Danni - and the teacher was nowhere to be found.

Making her way over, she tried to get the witch's attention: "Good evening. Sorry to be a bother, miss Crane, but could I have a moment of your time? My sister seems to be in a spot of magical bother and in need of aid and I am a bit out of my depth." she said, keeping polite but with worry creeping into her tone.


Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frank costume

Victoria was worrying more than she would like. In this school, it was entirely possible that a Halloween prank would be deadly. She could think of other causes of Cassandra not yet emerging both better or worse. Still, what could she do? Her posse wanted to go back to the house to fetch her, something that did not seem to be an option for her, given that even the brief exposure to the magic did not leave her system yet. "And how do you propose to even get to the same instance of it as she is in? Clearly there is some... spatial distortion magic going on, it hurts me the same as Agatha's tent. Still, she has to be somewhere - Hold on!"

She pulled out her phone. She ahs just hacked into Cassandra's, it should be a cinch to repeat that and access the GPS locator, assuming it had reception inside the magical space. She had to fake pressing stuff on the phone while her own system tried to connect to her sister's phone. In her frenzy to come up with a solution that did not involve leaving Cassie to the dogs or herself going in there and face almost certain brain death, the announcement of the contest qualifier winners went completely over her head.



Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frank costume

Initially, Victoria eyeballed the snack table, wondering whether she should hurry up and make a pit stop before all of the good food was gone - people were swarming to it like flies to- But eventually she forced herself to saty and socialize some more. Taking the opportunity, she was looking at the haunted house - and taking notes of what she was seeing for future reference. Hopefully she would be able to start developing some magic countermeasures - and perhaps help Leah a bit further with her daddy issue.

Boredom was replaced with interest and later worry, as three powerpuffs went into the house, and only two came out, followed shortly by more people that went in after them. What the other two were saying did not add any courage either. "What do you mean? They let her do what? What happened?" she bombarded Kate and America with questions, eyes trying to spot anything resembling Cassie among the glitches.



Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frank costume

This was a bonehead idea, Victoria knew. Despite trying, she still hade no progress in defending herself from magic. Truth be told, the concept of even trying terrified her more than anything she could imagine to find on the inside of the haunted house. What were the odds of something similar happening here as with Agatha's tent? Quite high, as far as she reckoned, and anything above zero was not something she should leave to fortune. It was sheer dumb luck that this did not come into play during the tournament yet.

"Last time I got involved with magic, it was very nearly fatal. True story. Now given that the house is Nimue's creation, and I have no reason to think her magic is any less potent than Agatha's... I should err on the side of caution and ignore it." Nope. It wouldn't do. Curiosity killed the bot, but she had to know. "I know I'll regret this." Vicky groaned, raised one hand in front of her as if she was walking in the dark and took two steps closer-

impor☥ nuмpy as np
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frøм sĸlearn.рreрrøcessing imрøʀʈ SʈandardSʈsĸaʟer
frøм sĸlearn.sνm imрøʀʈ SʋC

daʈa = np.ʟøad('daʈaseʈ.npʏ')
ʟabeʟs = np.ʟøad('ʟabeʟs.npʏ')

X_ʈʀain, X_ʈesʈ, ʏ_ʈʀain, ʏ_ʈesʈ = ʈʀain_ʈesʈ_spliʈ(daʈa, ʟabeʟs, ʈesʈ_siʑe=0.2, ʀandøm_sʈaʈe=42)

sĸaʟeʀ = SʈandardSʈsĸaʟeʀ()
X_ʈʀain = sĸaʟeʀ.fiʈ_ʈʀansføʀm(X_ʈʀain)
X_ʈesʈ = sĸaʟeʀ.ʈʀansføʀm(X_ʈesʈ)

ʍødeʟ = SʋC(kernel='ʀbʆ', C=1.0, gamma='sĸaʟe')
ʍødeʟ.fiʈ(X_ʈʀain, ʏ_ʈʀain)

aʂʂuʀaʈy = ʍødeʟ.sϙøʀe(X_ʈesʈ, ʏ_ʈesʈ)
рʀinʈ(f"Aʂʂuʀaʈy: {aʂʂuʀaʈy}")

-and stumbled back, clearly not quite okay, her movement lacking her usual grace, which wasn't absent before despite the Frankenstein costume. "Nope! Bad! Cursed!" she shook her head and arms, as if the corrupted code could be flushed out that way. She almost packed it right there and then, heading back to the workshop to restore from backup. But seeing that she still possessed most of her faculties, she decided to monitor the code for now to see if it would spread, ready to immediately treat it if needed. But if she was to find a defense against such attacks, having a sample of a corrupted code would be worth it's filesize in adamantium. "I'll be here. You know. when you emerge and need a shoulder to cry on."


Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frank costume

"Heh. Either that, or the qualifier results are posted in there, and they didn't get in." Victoria chuckled as Diana pointed out the people in tears, before reviewing the data she got from her sister's phone.

Hm. Vicky's calls went through, Cas' just never called back. In fact other than a few messages here and there to a few group chats, there was nothing much. Nothing much at all. And the playlist... Girl, you're not angry with me, are you? You're just sad. she thought, trying to make sense of what she was seeing. Well, that, and if Uncle is dragging you through the mud, you might just be sleeping it off any time you can. How did flesh and bone people have empathy without surveillance? Vicky could not tell anything was wrong from the way Cassandra was acting, to the point where her thought process made a complete loop and she started wondering whether Cassandra was actually feeling down or just took a liking to those particular songs this month.

"I guess it is your last year in that particular team composition. Maybe Vis wants you to go out on a high note. And pocket another win for himself. Usagi has been giving us grief too. You think they have a bet going?" Victoria proposed. "Anyway, if you need me to hack into the Framework and have Vision load into an Ultron infested nightmare scenario next time you plug in so you can get a breather, yell. I have another teammate who can help with that now, and apparently, I am now a delinquent worthy of detention - I don't even really know what for - So I might as well play the role." she scoffed. Actually, maybe I should step up my effort. I'm just going to go and kick in Cas' door next time and drag her out. Yeah!

Then she remembered something. "Actually, Cas. I got a letter from Mum a while ago and she said to come visit. How about Saturday? I think we could both use a little time away form this place, if even for a day."


Location: Cafeteria
Skills: Hacking
Equipment: Frank costume

Well. Miss Flynn agreed to head inside, although Victoria was promptly left behind. Half success, she guessed? Anyhows, that left her in the awkward position in making eye contact with Cassie, and pretty much falling right next to her when they filed through the door. While she originally wanted to let her marinate, being in such a close proximity and ignoring her sister was way too rude for Victoria to stomach. She was raised better than that.

"Hey," So you ARE alive? she thought bitterly. "Long time no talk." NOT from the lack of trying! Seriously, what has been going on? "Been busy?" Go on, justify not returning any of my calls. How did they and up like this in the span of just a few weeks? The more Victoria thought about it, the more it smelled of a setup. She briefly closed her eyes as they went red, pinging the area in an attempt to check Cassie for the presence of her phone and trying to access it to see what the problem might have been, before she made a scene. Eyes opening again, she raised an eyebrow and gave Cassandra a quizzical stare: "Bubbles? So I guess that make me Bunny?" she said in a joking tone.



Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frank costume

Aaaand cue the cricket sound. For having several orders of magnitude more brain capacity than a human, Victoria could never come up with small talk topics if her life depended on it. Her brain already wanted to rationalize why Zelda's costume looked like the real thing despite her seemingly not putting all that much effort into it, ranging from her own physical similarity to the target to 'You got talent, I guess'. None of them seemed like thoughts that should be said out loud in this case.

Maybe a change of scenery then? Vicky was wondering what would have been done to decorate the place. It probably wouldn't beat the main hall in Hogwarts, but hopefully this wouldn't be a total bust. "So... shall we go in? Before all the good snacks are gone." she asked the company. If nothing else, she intended to sample the food today. Out of everything though, the results of the qualifiers interested her the least. Well, no. that space was firmly reserved for any dancing. Hopefully the costume would deter anyone who might think to ask her for one.


Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frank costume

The area was relatively empty, although Vicky figured that was about to change quickly. Looking around she spotted the self appointed queens of the school dressed up as powerpuff girls. Wow. Dressing up as sisters with someone else after ghosting me? That one... Actually hurts. What the hell did I do to you, Cas?! she thought bitterly.

The reasonable, adult thing to do would be to use this time to talk to her about it. The unreasonable thing to do would be to confront her about it. But the side that won at the moment was the petulent child, who screamed from inside of Vicky's mind to ignore Cassandra in return. Leave those hens to their blather. You'll lose less synapses this way! If she suddenly wants to talk, she can start by explaining herself.

Instead she put her attention to the rest of the room. "Diana, miss Flynn, good evening. I like the costume Diana, but that blows us both out of the water. The resemblence is uncanny." she credited Zelda's effort.


Time: After qualifiers
Location: Training room B > Locker room
Skills: N/A
Trick or treat: Detention for all of November

Finally, this thing was over. Now, she could get to what needed to be done. First things first, she flew up to the hostage cage, grabbed the first aid kit and administered what she could to the other team, leaving some prescription-free pain relievers with Rada once she was dug out. Then, she gathered her own flock: "Locker room. Now."

Once she shut the door behind them, all floodgates came open. Vicky turned on her heel, her gaze snapping to Zari "What the hell was that?! If you have a problem with me or how I conduct myself in this role, you can tell me when we're here or almost any time else. But not in the middle of the bloody fight! If you do that again, I'll take you down myself! I'd rather be a pair of hands down than to have an undisciplined maverick like you running amok! I wouldn't trust you to pick up my groceries, let alone to have my back! It'd a coinflip whether you would show up with what I needed, or two days later having bought something completely different!

I support proper initiative, when I tell you what needs doing, I won't micromanage you about how to get it done. Or like Ed and Leah have done, when I didn't actually have anything for them to do, they found how to use their skillset to help us achieve the objective. But so long as I am at the helm, this was the last time you told me me 'no' when I asked something of you, and then fucked off to do gods know what else!"


Her head snapped around, addressing the rest of them: "So let's hear it! Now, when it's actually supposed to happen and won't screw us over! All of you! Because I am done trying if you don't even want it, you can find someone else among you whom you'd feel more comfortable with." She lifted a bench and slammed it to the middle of the room, dividing it to two sides. "Statement: Victoria is a leader I care to follow. Aye's to my left, Nay's to my right!"

In the end, Diana and Leah stood in her corner, while Ed seemed to straddle the bench. Not enough of a unity to just tell Zari to fall in line or show herself out the door, but hopefully enough to make her at least think about whether she herself wanted to stay with the group. It wouldn't be the only change on a team this year after all.

It wasn't all victories though. Afterwards, both Diana and Leah dropped by to tell her they did not appreciate how she handled the situation. Victoria understood, and apologized for it. She did let her emotions slip, although she would be lying if she said she did not feel a bit relieved afterwards. She also appreciated that they actually voiced their concerns immediately rather than letting them ferment.

There was one other party though. Usagi did not exactly appreciate Vicky's efforts to make any changes to the team - composition or leadership wise - without her input, and gave Victoria a month of detention for her efforts. Victoria almost dug herself a deeper grave by asking what was the point of even appointing her as the head when she could make almost no decision, but caught herself at the last moment. Reasoning with the fuzzball was fighting windmills, and Victoria did not like expending any effort if it would only result in more detention. She would have to figure out how to approach this from another angle.


Time: Day of the Dance
Location: Workshop > Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Equipment: Frankenstein's monster costume

This event caused Vicky to have mixed feelings. One one hand, she could not care less about dancing. To her, not being asked to the dance by anyone was a sign that she made friends that knew her well. Dancing was an utter waste of motion, and it did not even look pretty! Once so many pairs were on the floor, one could barely see anything at all. And all of them sweated bullets after a while, stinking up the place.

The aspect she loved? The cosplay. There were some talented artists in this school, and Victoria set to out to join the ranks of those. She needed an idea though. She faffed with the idea of going as a vampire, but after a bit of introspection, she finally nailed the perfect costume for herself: Frankenstein's monster. She picked the one form the movie Van Helsing as a starting point, and crafted her own variant, calling the project 'Frankenstein's daughter'. The hidden design element were the iron braces around the ankles, which gave her a convenient out form any requests to dance. And those in the know oughta get a laugh out of this! she thought, putting in the final touches before heading out to the cafeteria.

While she did not intend to dance, she did intend to get any gossip she could, and perhaps update her intel board.


Location: Training room B
Skills: Armored ground and aerial combat
Equipment: Shieldmaiden armor



F******* piece of s**** paranormal a*******! Victoria managed to think as she was tossed at Zari. With a massive clang she bounced right off, bewildered at how the hell did she get completely rerouted by a sword. I know it can transform into a flashlight pretty much ignoring the conservation of mass, but this is ridiculous! What is that thing made of, solidified defiance and hate? She did not have too much time to think aobut it any more as she smacked right into the muddy ground.

Alright. She has had enough. Kiddie gloves were coming off. Hit me with telekinesis? Fine, let's see how you like your own medi-

VEIL warning: Impact force exceeded human safety parameters. Idle period of 5.34 seconds is recommended to maintain cover.

I am soooo over this stuff! Vicky groaned internally, but followed the recommendation. To her own detriment, as she felt herself being yanked again. This time Rada missed and Vicky zoomed across the room before imprinting a Vicky-shaped dent into the wall behind the judges. She freed herself from the broken masonry and brushed some of the red brick dust off. ♫ I came in like a wrecking ball! ♫ Oof. This will take some repairing. she thought as she skirted around the judges.

Then that dreaded blare filled her audio receptors, as her diagnostics registered her power dropping. Her gaze snapped towards Abby, who was still severely beaten from Leah walloping her earlier. "You just can't leave well enough alone? You have to make me do it!" she projected her voice out loud, raising her arms up and slashing repulsor beams over her assailant. One missed, but the other finally succeeded in knocking the power leech out. As she watched Abby's lights go out, a good portion of her self respect died an agonizing death. Being such a failure over the last few weeks hurt. But this, this really took the cake. She asn't even learning what not to do from this.

This fucking contest. And everyone who had something to do with it! A bunch of Usagis, every single one of them! Abby would be just about bedridden for a week before her bruised chest and pounding head stop hurting. Victoria understood that hero work was tough. But how would a beating like this motivate anyone to actually do it? She has had enough. Snarling in anger, she powered up her chest projector and slashed another shot over Jyoti while she was struggling with Diana's bind, knocking her out cold as well.

Looking over the field, she did a quick count. Jyoti, Abby, Momchil and Sveva were out cold, and Leah managed to entrap Rada in another cage. Even if the Colosette managed to break out, she would be piled on by everyone else. She turned to the judges, anger not leaving her her voice: "Call the match already!" Or you're fucking next! "Don't you have any better hobbies than watching kids get beaten?!"

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