The 42nd Gecko

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If you're like... taking notes on what that timeline is, I uh.. Would love to see it. :P

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Very nice.

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LILAC SHIMMER

Lilac locked eyes with Burning Heart for just a moment and nodded after Burning told her to get clear. A quick knee stomp and a hip check knocked down the two Pageless closest to her, and then she leaped free of the pile at the last second before the flames and weapons of Burning Heart struck. "Amazingly done, Burning Heart!" Lilac's eyes shined with glee, quite literally thanks to Joyeuse's latent power spilling out even while not called onto the battlefield yet, as their combo attack landed. Now the Pageless that Lilac had brought down to the ground were more or less defeated as a fighting force.

Turning to see how the others fared, oh, it looked like Dynasty Queen was on the offense while Camelot played defense for that other magical girl. Awesome that they were working so well as a team already!

"Alright woooh, looks like the rest of them are milling about in panic! Their morale must be broken. Burning Heart, let's sweep in on them from above, do you know how to wall run with a partner?" Lilac sucked in a few deep breaths after the exertion of the last few moves, but seemed still mostly ready to go, just pacing herself. ~Ok.... So, this is like, the second date, right? So, it's ok if I get a little excited, and ask to hold hands, right? It seems like Camelot and the others are holding back so we don't get outshone, so let's show everyone what we Fable ranks can do! Alright, that last part actually sounded good, I should say that out loud.~ "Let's show everyone what we Fable ranks can do!"

After getting confirmation one way or another, Lilac would spring into action. Unlike Tesni, who decided to attack the Pageless through Tsubasa, Lilac would attack the Pageless after moving past Tsubasa. She leaped up to the wall of the alley, and if Burning Heart leaped up to the opposing wall in tandem, Lilac would extend her hand out to grab Heart's, and then, using the force of pushing against each other, the pair of them would be able to run along the opposite walls of the alley, easily coming over the Pageless that were regrouping behind Tsubasa and choosing when to leap down and strike at their hapless prey.

The signal of when to do so would be easy to tell, as Lilac cried "Joyeuse!" with her free hand stretched skyward and called her blade to her, before jumping down to strike at their Pageless foes.

If they weren't synced up however, Lilac would have to make do with walljumping between the two walls.

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@Lonewolf685 Sorry about the wait. Post up now. I was was gonna finish earlier, but I was tired and needed to sleep. Then I come back and find yet another Bonnie post already out way sooner than I was expecting, which prompted a bit more adjustment.

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Haha, I may not know your extremely long post technique, but meet my secret counter, back to back post no jutsu! :P

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LILAC SHIMMER

"Alright, let's do this!" Lilac heard Tesni transforming and assumed everything was cool now. All the magical girls were gonna beat up the Pageless and everything was gonna be cool! Definitely no misunderstandings and infighting was gonna happen.

Lilac launched into action, leaping up the walls of the tallest nearby building, jumping up from windowsill to windowsill in a zigzag up the side. As the Pageless crawled their way down the side, Lilac slammed into them with bullheaded force, arms spread wide to catch as many as she could. Rank upon rank of them got piled together into a great mush, weighing down upon Lilac. But she smiled under their weight as her ascent came to a stop, and planted her feet against the building, pushing off and pulling a chunk of their forces off the building and into the open air. For a moment, her momentum kept them skybound, but gravity was calling.

She didn't have any great powers, but like, she could still call her attacks whatever she liked, right? Stories were things of creativity, and that was surely what gave magical girls their strength. To use stale attacks would surely be against the principle of being a magical girl. So, even under the mass of clawing Pageless, Lilac called out, drawing on her inspiration and creativity. "Heavenly!" She rotated in the air somehow, pointing the writhing mass of Pageless she had grabbed below her. "Lilac!" She began falling, twisting and picking up speed as she did, stray Pageless getting thrown from the mass and smashing into buildings. "Drill!" Bonnie slams into the street with all her built up momentum, smashing the Pageless against the unforgiving concrete, while using them to soften her own fall.

Still, the Pageless were nothing if not durable against conventional attacks. If mere simple impacts could defeat them, there would be no need for magical girls. While Lilac had severely damaged, stunned, or disoriented most of the Pageless she had just hit, quite a few of them were still in fighting trim. Lilac quickly found herself wrestling with those who had made it out of her Heavenly Lilac Drill more or less intact by being cushioned by their fellows. "I would like to- ORAH- rescind my line about sitting this one out, help!" She called for aid as she chucked a Pageless over her shoulder into a nearby bin.

Perhaps fortunately, she didn't notice anything Dyansty Queen was doing at the moment.

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LILAC SHIMMER

"Good. Let's take a moment, ok?" Bonnie guided Suzuya over to a nearby bench and sat down beside her, speaking softly.

Bonnie stayed with Suzuya as everyone else launched into debate. Her head was swimming with all the perspectives on display, but she wanted to stay solid for Suzuya right now. As the Pageless appeared, Bonnie gave a reassuring shoulder rub, and whispered, "You can sit this one out if you like."

"I don't know about the future, but I know right now my heart wants to fight." Bonnie begins shining as she stares at Roma. A spotlight shines over her as if she were on stage. Then her eyes drift over to her companions, as a flower materializes in her hands, held to her lips. "There are too many beautiful things in this world to worry about whose responsibility it is to defend them." She dramatically tosses the sparkling flower into the sky whose petals fall, like the shower above a wedded couple. By the time gazes fall back down to Bonnie from the eyecatching flower, the transformation into Lilac Shimmer is already complete, and with a spin, the illusions of petals scatter to the wind as a Magical Girl stands ready for battle.

"Another time, there's battle to be done." Lilac returns her gaze to Roma, dismissing her words for now, before gazing to the sky to face the Pageless.

~Alright, that should be what to say if she's like, she's the type whose's gonna play coy before helping... Wait, I hope she didn't, like, summon the bad guys, and I'm about to get hit while I'm dramatically staring skyward.~ Lilac's eyes drop from the Pageless for a moment to nervously glance around everyone, even as she holds her chin high as if she's still looking up.

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Huh, I wonder if Grimoire Modding too much could cause you to become an artificial Alter.

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In other news, Looking up to Magical Girl's latest chapter. Oh my.

That is all.

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BONNE CHANCE

By the time Chinami had come back, Bonnie had already passed from fitful rest to actual sleep. The night passed, Bonnie's sleep uninterrupted by Chinami's words. But, hopefully, it could said that at least Chinami's well meaning offer blessed Bonnie with sweet dreams. Perhaps it was a small blessing that Bonnie never realized Chinami had seen her in such a disgraceful state, avoiding the distress that would inevitably bring.

A new day, fully recharged, and ready to oh no she was on a team with Camelot. Not only was she rooming with someone who overshadowed her entirely, she'd be going on missions with someone who overshadowed her entirely. Whose idea was it to put four melee girls on the same team?!? Ok, calm down, just be reasonable, maybe its an opportunity to... uh... something?

Suzuya spoke interrupting Bonnie's chance to internally panic, and a surprised smile made it onto Bonnie face. Yeah, this was nice, normal, magical girl stuff. "Thank you!" Bonnie nodded. "You were Burning Heart, right?" She thought back to her briefing on her teammates. "It was an honor to fight beside you as well."

Then Tenzi happened.

What was going on? Tenzi hated Camelot? Oh no, did that mean Tenzi hated her even more since she was just a worse version of Camelot? And why was she being mean to Suzuya? Magical girls weren't supposed to be mean! Unless maybe, was Tenzi the tomboy Lancer of the group? Hmmm, but she had twintails, maybe the tsundere? Maybe she actually really liked Camelot. Wait, what was that about Camelot saying Bonnie should lead?

Bonnie was lost enough in worry that she very nearly walked into Camelot from behind as she transformed, cartwheeling her hands as she teetered on tiptoes, before managing to fall backwards.

"Get ready to fight, evil do- wait... um.. Are you not a bad guy..? Sorry I thought with the outfit and everything..." Bonnie looked back and forth between Camelot and Tsubasa after the transformation, assuming that a fight was about to begin, and nearly transformed herself, starting to shine with energy before she slowly realized that for now they were just talking.

Still, perhaps the shock of the confrontation or the moment of calling on Charlemange's power was enough to stir something within Bonnie's soul. Namely, she stopped thinking too much about herself.

"Hey, don't be mean to Suzuya and Chinami!" Bonnie walked over to Tenzi, and bapped her lightly on the back of the head (or at least attempting so, given Tenzi's martial skill). "Respect people's personal space!" Bonnie proceeded to bap all three of the attendants while the grown ups talked (hopefully they wouldn't be into that sort of thing). "Are you ok?" Bonnie took her jacket off, and wrapped it around Suzuya.

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Friends got me addicted to WoW classic. I can see how this ensnared so many lives.