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Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

_{-Preparation-}

Kimble’s last whispered statement was heard by Penny as she raced off, but was quickly pushed aside in favor of focusing on her task at hand. A manic smile found its way on to Penny’s face as her cannon round tore through the walls with ease, and the smile just grew as Penny took in rest of the castle. She was going to have so much fun tearing this place apart.

Following after the Beacon members again, Penny stayed at the very edge of the pathway she opened tearing chunks out of the wall as she passed them. She took an inordinate amount of satisfaction at the feeling of crushing stone in her hands and in a fit of glee charged through the final wall by herself rather than use the shortcut she had opened just a few feet to the side.

Breaking though the wall she threw bits of the wall at the retreating girls, uncaring if she actually hit any of them as she wouldn’t likely chase after if she did. Instead she took in the view of the library and swallowed thickly as she did. This place was truly breathtaking to the sole monster girl in the room, and for a vastly different reasons then it would be to others. It was like looking at an intricate set of dominos all poised to fall, and Penny was the one who got set it off.

Slowly she walked over to one of the bare walls and gently ran her hand upon it. As a cleric of Laat she knew of all manner of ways to destroy, part of that knowledge are the principles of architecture, from this she could tell the wall she was standing in front of was one of the load bearing walls. It wouldn’t take much, if the prior walls were anything to go by, to set everything tumbling down to dust, especially if the fire stuck around. ‘It would be so easy too’ she thought to herself as she looked at the wall with longing.

With effort Penny turned away from the wall, her hand still resting on it as she did, and focused on the members of Beacon and Alicia for the first time since she entered this room. ”You girls might want to grab everything that’s important and evacuate” She said her voice trembling lightly as she spoke, the manic grin still etched across her face and the spark of her madness visible in her eyes as they glowed a harsh orange “As I can topple this castle from right here” she added as she thumped the wall hard enough shake the walls not bothering to hide the shiver that ran up her spine at the wall’s reaction.

The lightning in her blood was roared with restrained desire, the metal plates of her limbs itched to feel the stone crumble beneath them, the monster within her needed to hear the symphony of this castle collapsing, needed to witness this timeless bastion of to fall to ruin, but Penny could be patient, needed to be patient. Her allies with were still inside, and they weren’t as durable as Penny, but her patience could only last so long with this temptation staring her straight in the face.

“Please hurry”

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_{–Knock Knock-}

The small smile playing about Penny’s lips as she watched the scene next to her unfold hid just how much Alicia’s seemingly small act was appreciated. From how Kimble reacted to this turn of events, Penny guessed that they had similar experiences in the magical world, and the machine girl wouldn’t be ashamed to admit she was jealous of the cat girls luck in this situation.

The byplay of the beckoners was also very interesting to watch, and Penny was glad that she had been overlooked, possibly ignored outright, by the people present solely for the fact she could watch them. She was a creature of change, fashioned to be that way by AlOfan’s will, to see and hear the highest echelons of Beacon talking about the need for change sent a tingle down her spine.

This brought her back to Alicia, the lynch pin for all of this change, It was her choices and her beckoner that were the driving force behind these changes. Penny had to wonder if this was what Laat was planning when the deal was first struck, but knew that she would likely never get the answer, but promised to protect Alicia as much as she could regardless.

Hearing Slyvia casually mention killing Alicia once again reinforced how glad Penny was that she was being overlooked, because the red tinted glare she gave the mechanic could only be described as murderous. Even then the glare didn’t last long as a messenger arrived from the castle pulling Penny’s attention away from the dark thoughts brewing in her mind.

Penny stayed silent at the explanation given by the recently freed captive, having never talked with Mariette she had no context to just how weird to hear her called savior should be. The small flare of light by Alicia did have a small effect on Penny however. A chill she wasn’t even aware of was brushed away by the soft light, for becoming the Engine of Destruction always froze a part of Penny’s heart leaving her just a bit colder.

This time it wouldn’t be permanent.

Penny herself felt this happening as a gentle warmth spreading through her, and could tell it was due to the light, but wasn’t given much time to figure out what or why it had occurred or what it ment. As Alicia’s Beckoner reappeared shortly after with dire news.

”No rest for the weary huh?” Penny said with a chuckle as she stood up pushing her thoughts about the odd sensation to the side as she did.

She let the rest of beacon rush off first, knowing that she could catch up easily in a moment, as she gave another look back at the lake she opted to try something before catching up with her allies. Taking a short breath Penny reached out for the fragments of the Earth bastion following the odd connection she had with it, and pulled with everything she had. Unknowing what might happen she was rather surprised to see that it wasn’t metal that reacted but a ghostly echo of Earth bastion its self that rose silently from the lake and flew at her before vanishing the moment it touched her, afterward she could feel a weight of some sort settle in the back of her mind.

Spurred on by the apparent success she repeated her internal actions, this time focusing on her old body parts. This time dozens of streams of electricity emerged from the lake and flowed in to the cyborg, refreshing her while simultaneously finished off her repairs. Shaking her head at the oddity that she was she turned away from the lake, happy to have learned that she could never knowing that her old parts and the remnants of the Earth Bastion had been reduced to dust, such was the price of the robotic girl reclaiming the magic that was housed with the scattered pieces.

“She is something else isn’t she?” Penny asked Kimble with a wide grin as she watched Alicia race off towards the castle, thoughts of that odd warmth lingering just out of sight as she did ”I trust her, can’t say the same for everyone she works with, but I trust her. So just sit tight and relax, you’ll get patched up and be free to head out on your way soon, for now I’ve got a wall to break through“ She explained before taking off in a run towards the castle and Alicia.

Due to her inhuman strength it didn’t take Penny very long at all to catch up with everyone else and quickly found herself at the front before she slowed down enough that she wouldn’t leave behind. From her position at the head of the pack she launched her gauss round at the castle, aiming at the wall just beyond the front door.

Wither or not they had the floor plan of the building Penny was going to find out if she could just go through the walls if she needed, for as much an impact her gauss cannon held, she could still punch a lot harder then it could and if it could break through the walls then she could just as easily. Then it was just a straight line to the library, wherever that was.

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_{-Next step-}

It was interesting to Penny, the various reactions that the reinforcements had upon realizing that Kimble was still alive, the indecision from some, the dedication from others, and the borderline heresy from one, though the accidental insult made her snort softly. She wouldn’t be very surprised if that was how most of Beacon saw her, and she couldn’t really tell them they were wrong.

It was Kimble’s plea that really resonated with Penny however, as for a moment it sent her back in time. To point months ago where she had been in Kimble’s position, it was her first real encounter with Beacon and it had been long before she had heard of Penrose. With some effort Penny forced herself to face the lake, and to focus on her task of recalling the scattered ship, and her own spare parts. She wouldn’t be the one to start the impending execution, no matter how tempting the tension in the air made the idea.

The monster girl didn’t deserve to be killed by someone who understood so well what it felt like to be in that position, scared, confused and alone.

Thus those of Beacon were not the only ones who were shocked at the Beckoners’ statement. Penny was just as surprised as they were, though with her sitting down and partially facing the lake it was easier for her surprise to go unnoticed. Though her surprise might have come from a different reason, twice now Beacon had skirted rules, twice it had stepped away from the rigid Iron bound path it had laid out. Change was growing within Beacon, small and insignificant as it might seem now, Penny knew, as Laat’AlOfan would know, sometimes it only takes a single pebble to cause a rockslide.

And Alicia didn’t disappoint, Penny did her best to hide her smile at her friend’s decision, as the cyborg was sure that Alicia didn’t realize just how big this moment was. A member of Beacon had willing chosen to not kill a monster that was literally at their mercy. Depending on what Kimble did this story would get out there, and some of the monsters out there would have a reason to hope, something that was often in short supply at least in Penny’s experience.

”I can keep watch on her when we get out of here” Penny offered as she caught a small piece of Earth Bastion, feeling something drain out of the scrap as had happened with every other piece she had pulled out so far.

”In the meantime what’s the plan for the castle? The Semtex I brought is likely gone due to the atomic chick, and we have people inside still if that shockwave from earlier is any indication.” She asked glancing at the castle, licking her lips as she did. “And we might want to figure out something quick, I’m starting to get hungry” she added casually, though she wasn’t referring to wanting food. She was starting to feel the need to break things, for as much as she would like it to have been the case at the moment, she didn’t destroy the Earth Bastion, Curie did.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

I'm now counting 5 mutations, Wings, Dual Spec, Weakness, Warrior, Chaos engine. And looking over the monster info again only two of your mutations need to be black, and they don't need to be from the same grouping.

Easiest thing I'm seeing would be to drop Warrior as it's not a black mutation.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

Missed the weakness part myself, didn't see it rolled in to the second special. And you can have two of any of the mutations so long as one is a black mutation.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

I count three, so still missing one, Wings, Dual Specialization and Warrior. Pretty sure none of those are black mutations as well thinking on it.

Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

“I have no doubt that is at least part of the reason; I did raise him after all” Kakashi replied with a nod as he sat down at the table to watch Airi work “And both you and him know me too well” he admitted with a soft sigh. For as much as he didn’t keep track of how often it had crossed his mind, Airi was still spot on with her guess of how he had been dealing with the situation. Hence why Akino was forcing the issue, the dog knew that when it came to normal Kakashi’s trained instincts would hinder rather than help, for Kakashi was bad at prioritizing his own happiness.

It was part of the reason why Kakashi was speechless at Airi’s offer of help; it was proof that there was once again someone else that cared for him beyond just as a comrade in arms. It was comforting, and the cynical part of Kakashi finally relented. The other reason he was struck speechless was out of a shocked amusement, as he had offered her the same help only a few weeks ago, for nearly the same issue. ‘We are hopless’ he mused silently at the turn of events.

Turning his attention back to Airi he let out a light chuckle at her appearance, it was adorable, and went a long way to explaining why her scent was always tinged with flour. “As a matter of fact, I don’t have any powdered sugar” Kakashi would state with a hit of disappointment, knowing full well that he had some with his tools, it made for a better blinding powder “But if crushed sugar works just as well” he would continue on as he walked in to the kitchen to get the needed things to try and powder sugar, it wasn’t something he had done before, and he fully expected to somehow end up covered in sugar in his attempt. But that wasn’t going to stop him; in fact he might make sure it happened just to see if he could get a laugh out of Airi.

With a short sigh Sarutobi watched Guy take off in search of his fiancée, leaving behind his students in his panic. He was glad that he had chosen to inform the man of that event at the end of the debriefing as he was worried something like this would happen. As Guy was a very passionate person. He waved the genin out of his office in silent dismissal, as he turned back to the paper work he was finishing up; it was the summons for Kakashi.

He waited until the genin had left before rolling it up he passed it off to one of the Anbu stationed in the room “Please make sure that this gets to Kakashi before Gai does.” The Hokage requested as he had a feeling that Kakashi and Guy would soon be on uneasy terms with each other, if he was correct in his belief of why Kakashi has stormed off after Miss Mae last night.

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_{–Piece by piece-}

Penny was grateful to see another friendly face, or at least someone who wasn’t going to attack her, as she wasn’t sure if she could consider Shannon a friend but knew she wasn’t an enemy. Being lifted slightly Penny had a better look across the lake to the castle ”You talking about the fight or the fact I survived?” She would ask as she watched the castle with curiosity, mainly due to the ringing that could be heard coming from the tallest tower.

That curiosity was quickly forgotten as a pillar of light was shown forth from near Alicia, and normally that wouldn’t be anything impressive, but Penny couldn’t help the shiver that ran down what was left of her spine as the monster inside of her could tell that was Beacon magic. Penny didn’t have any issues with that from a logical perspective, but the Beckoners always put the cyborg on edge due to her blighted heritage. Still she wasn’t going to voice her discomfort to them, or anyone really, not a good idea to tell people just how close the monster was to the surface most of the time.

It did mean that she saw her mechanic coming however; though with Sylvia calling out her approach it wouldn’t have been much of a surprise anyway, and Penny did try and hold still but the first aid felt so weird and nearly ticklish, not that she said that ”I’m trying, but it’s kinda hard when you get poked in places that are normally inside of you” she quipped in return even as she keep a steady lock on her mechanic.

”Most likely and the Earth Bastion got caught up in the same blast that did this to me, one of the crazies that was guarding this place went nuclear, and I say that quite literally.” Still despite her prickly demeanor at the moment, Penny was always a bit weary around member of Beacon she didn’t know, she could tell that the first aid was working, but even better was the radiation was fading away.

Closing her eyes Penny shut out everything she could, and focused on the feeling of her regeneration at work. She had always known that she had some operative control over it, but she wasn’t aware of everything she could do with her own systems, not like her monstrous half was. Thus every time it rose to the surface she learned something new about herself, as much as she wished that wasn’t the case. This time she had learned about the power rerouting trick, and she knew herself well enough that if she could shunt power away from the regeneration she could also redirect power too it.

Outside the sound of machinery would grow, as Penny poured as much power to her regeneration as she felt comfortable in doing. The sight that Shannon and Slyvia would be witnessed to would be rather bizarre as the missing endoskeleton would rapidly start rebuilding itself from jagged spikes of steel that would seamlessly emerge from the melted wounds.

After a few minutes the sounds coming from Penny would return to their normal quiet murmur and her eyes would open moments later letting her see that which she already knew, she was now mostly functional. She was missing a few of the outer layers of her platting, and her blade ports were still out of commission so she would have to be cautious if another fight broke out soon, but she was self-mobile again even if she looked half built.

”Thanks for the pick-me-up” Penny said to Slyvia as she checked herself over once more, mainly to take note of her standard regeneration speed, before nodding to herself. She looked worse for the wear but that would be taken care of in a few minutes, which wasn’t surprising considering the density of her outer platting. Plus she looked a hell of a lot better then she had been a short bit ago.

Without waiting or prompting Penny started back towards the lake shore, she wanted to check up on Alicia, and be near someone that she didn’t feel the need to be on guard with. She wanted to trust all the beacon members on sight, but it was hard not to see to distrust and disgust in most of their eyes.

The sight she encountered when she did make it back to Alicia was rather confusing to the mechanical mahou, and she stood there for a few moments with her confusion plain on her face at the sight of first aid being given to an enemy who by all rights should have been dead. Her right hand flexed a few times as Penny fought against the urge to simply break Kimble. With a force of will she shoved that desire away, back in the dark parts of her mind.

”Careful with the tail, they tend to be really sensitive” Penny was confused, but she could tell what Alicia was doing even if she couldn’t figure out why. So she sat nearby, and offered what little help she could as she started and pulling back the pieces of the Earth Bastion, as well as her old parts, with her feeble magic using the same connection that had been used earlier. Only this time she was just pilling up the wreckage off to the side rather than merging with it, not that Penny could merge due to the radiation, and her inability while not under metamorphosis.

All the while small part of her couldn’t help but feel dread at her confusion, she was missing something she could tell.

Inside the Hidden Leaf Village. |Shifter_Master & EasilyAmused|

“Same thing as last night really” Kakashi explained as he also helped get set up for baking breakfast. “Akino’s just forcing the issue, mainly because he finds it fun that he can, but partially because he thinks it’ll end in a good idea.” Kakashi wasn’t as hopeful as his dog, or at least was more realistic about the obstacles that existed. There was Gai and Airi’s family as the biggest issues, assuming that she said yes to begin with, not that he doubted the information he had gain from Ana, especially considering the sight he woke up too, it’s just once can never be sure till the words were said on some topics.

Still he was thankful in a small way, despite his intentions when he was exhausted last night, without with his dog he might have put off the issue until some nebulous later date. For such a simple reason as well, fear of losing a friend. Kakashi could count on one hand the amount of friends he had that were still alive, and add in any prior relationships he had were manufactured things for missions and it became easy to see how his first thought would be how this would all end badly.

Putting those thoughts aside, Kakashi graciously stepped aside leaving his kitchen to Airi. If there was more being made he would have assisted, but since it was only cinnamon rolls attempting to help would likely only end up a hindrance.

Elsewhere in the village, various things were arraying to disrupt the peaceful morning the two were enjoying. The Hokage was preparing to send a summons notice to Kakashi, as had been assumed. Team Gai had recently returned as was undergoing their debriefing; it wouldn’t be long before they learned of what happened last night. And Team Seven could feel how something was about to change, as the rumor mill had been in full swing last night and odd whisperings could be heard following after them.

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_–Fallout-

When Curie turned her blade on herself, it was the only moment in the fight that the Engine stalled as it had no information about what a tactic could mean. The lull lasted only until it was full body tackled in to the lake at which point it threw everything it had at the atomic powered girl. It quickly noticed that something was wrong however, as Curie had been run through several times by all manner of blades and spikes but was refusing to change her tactics.

As fast as it was capable the Engine started to reshape its body, it was placing as much metal as it could between this last desperate attack and its core as it could, having to way to tell just how powerful this suicidal attack was going to be, it could only be as cautious as possible. When the nuke finally did erupt it could tell that it lived by luck, luck that the metal it had used was blessed for durability.

Slamming on to one of the remaining ice flows that were scattered across the lake, the Engine was still attempting to complete its primary goal. Even though it knew it was at critical levels of damage, as it only barely had thirty percent of its core mass remaining, and the wounds were all bathed in radiation causing regeneration to be stymied.

Relentless in the truest sense of the word.

Somehow it managed to orient its self so that it caught sight of Alicia and Doris, another gauss round visible through the cracked line that was its mouth a moment away from being launched at the ice user. Then the ice golem shattered into soft snow and Alicia lowered Doris to the ground. From this distance the only thing it could tell was that the ice witch was dead. It gave one last scan of the area, to confirm there were no more visible threats.

“Rebooting Humanity.exe”

The first thing Penny felt as she resurfaced was relief and satisfaction, Alicia was okay and the enemies were dead. Then the pain came, as every wound she suffered let her know of their presence all at once. She tried to grit her teeth and endure it but could help the yelp of pain that slipped out. She could also feel a phantom sensation from the Earth Bastion, but as it was currently scattered across the lake bed, along with the rest of her body, all that really did was disorient her making it hard to shut out the pain.

She sat on her little block of ice floating for some time as she fought to get her pain under control, thankful for the refreshing coldness of the ice. She wasn’t too worried, as she wasn’t completely helpless despite being little more than half a torso and head covered in irradiated burns. She still had a gauss round chambered, and allies weren’t too far away.

Eventually, once she could clearly think through the pain she would call out tiredly ”I could use some help over here” hoping that her allies could hear her, If not she would just fire off her gauss round at the castle to get their attention. After all she could still see the top of the tower from her postion.