Mai . There's a creaking noise in the ceiling, and a crowbar pries up several of the panels there. There's a curious noise, and an old Japanese woman pokes her head through. She blinks curiously. "...What's all this, then?"
Garen: Woah, "madam"? First of all, I'm a guy. Second of all, I'm not exactly.. liked.. by.. certain individuals back where I'm from. I thought you were one of them.
octopus gestures with a hand for a second, as if expecting something to happen, then frowns a bit and just eats the candy bar while using his other hand to flip through a manual.
Phoenix Wright watches Otto to see if he turns into something weird.
Hannah does too. Meanwhile, she sticks with her safe yogurt.
Dalamar: "I was addressing the lady with that remark," Dal says, nodding towards Hannah. And he actually cracks a smile again. "And....I see. Well, I thought something similar. Not that they'd actually /try/ anything."
Garen: Lucky. I'm a marked man. "Kill on sight" if you will.
Mai crawls through the new hole in the ceiling, and balances cautiously on one of the rafters. Then she squats, batting some of the ceilingfish out of the way in order to try to figure out how to get down.
octopus suddenly freezes.
Hannah looks up. "What the crap?"
octopus ....looks up to see who's picking her way through the ceiling. "...."
Garen looks around, then up. "Uh.. Are you okay?"
Some appears! Hello, it's a little man with pale skin and enormous eyes!
Dalamar: "So." He tries to fuss over his work while speaking conversationally. "What did /you/ do -- oh." He looks up.
Phoenix Wright: Otto?
octopus: ....who's that?
Maya Fey looks around at the newcomers.
octopus stands and clears his throat. "Hey. Do you need help, up there?"
Mai is an old, possibly early fifties or late fourties, Japanese woman dressed in layers of rags, combat boots, and belts. Many belts, with various tools hanging off of them. She grins down at everyone. "Give me a second, I'll be right down." ...
Mai: Just as soon as I figure out how.
Hannah: Jump and I'll catch you?
Phoenix Wright: [The hell?]
Mai also has a queer brace on one of her legs. This may or may not be important.
Fish looks up. ...
octopus: I.... oh.
octopus scowls at nothing. "There should be a ladder around here..."
Lucas looks at whatever Fish is supposedly looking at.
Phoenix Wright: What're you DOING up there, anyway?
Some waves. "Anyone know how to get play-doh out of carpet?"
Maya Fey: She's ceiling climbing, duh!
Mai sets her crowbar down on the rafter, and stands. "I just came in through your ceiling. Sorry, I thought it was some sort of garbage."
Maya Fey: You use toothpaste!
Dalamar , bent back over his work, doesn't look up. "I know how to get most substances out of carpet. What sort of consistency is 'play-doh'?"
Some holds up a bright green blob. "Like this."
Fish: Let it dry, then brush it out and vacuum up the crumbs.
Mai nods, then grabs the crowbar and jams it into the rafter. She grabs on, then slowly lowers herself down. "...That table can support my weight, right?" No, Mai. It can't. /Don't jump/.
Phoenix Wright: ...yeah, I can see, but WHY is she ceiling climbing?
Some: Awesome. Because it's in everything.
octopus: ...Give me a moment, I'll find a ladder.
octopus shuffles off, grumbling to himself. Now he's really missing his tentacles.
Mai: I was scavenging in the junkyard for parts and...
Garen just sits there and gapes.
Phoenix Wright WOULD suppose Maya would know about Play-Doh removal, somehow.
Phoenix Wright: ...and found yourself all the way up there?
Mai looks up at the sound of a 'mew'. "Aw, no. Don't drop down!" There's a small black cat peering through the hole as well.
Fish may have made horrible messes when he was a child, and thus learned how to remove them under encouragement of the fastidious iron fist of his mother.
Maya Fey totally just made that up. : : Is staring at ceiling lady, though! Even if she seems less perturbed than Phoenix about it.
octopus: *from the closet* ...ah! This should suffice... I hope.
Dalamar looks up for a moment and looks at it. "A brush would probably help. Be sure to use cold water, not hot."
Mai: Look, if you're prying up the floor, would it make sense to come in through a wall?
Phoenix Wright: ...and, uh, why were you prying up the floor?
Phoenix Wright: [Why do I do this to myself?]
Mai: Because I thought there was something ~shiny~ underneath.
octopus emerges, hauling a telescoping ladder under his arm. Its size makes it a challenge for him to carry, but he struggles and manages to set it against the wall without catching it against anything.
Hannah watches as events unfold, eating her yogurt. She's mostly watching Ock, though, to see if he'll explode or something.
octopus: ....rrgh... here. Be careful... I can brace it for you.
Phoenix Wright: Ah... ha. In a JUNKYARD?
Mai: Thank you so much! Cat, if you jump down here...
Fish is watching Otto, too, because let's face it, he takes up most of Fish's peripheral v-- ow, ow! Okay. It's because he's entertaining.
Mai glares at the cat, which 'mew's cheerfully and... Jumps onto the rafter.
octopus gives Phoenix a slightly annoyed look. "She's probably just trying to make a living as a salvager.
Dalamar looks at Some again. "Excuse me, sir, but would you be the ...'grue' mentioned earlier?"
Lucas jumps slightly, looking down at his leg. He paws at his pocket for his cell phone. For as scruffy as he is, that is one expensive looking shiny piece of tech. There's a message on the screen of jumbled letters and numbers.
Some glances at Ock, then over at Dalamar. "Yeah, that's me. Grue Some."
Lucas: "Shit. I gotta bounce. See you later, Fish-dude."
octopus , without his robotic arms, is actually at the low end of burly.... though his podgy, bookish appearance helps to hide this.
Phoenix Wright: [Yes, but why are there floorboards in a JUNKYARD?]
Hannah chokes on her yogurt. Oh, now she gets it.
Mai should clarify. It used to be a hospital.
Fish: Oh, okay. Uhm, seeya 'round, man.
Lucas gets up and rushes off for his room upstairs.
Mai scowls at the cat as it licks at her fingers. "Shoo!"
octopus would probably flip his shit if he knew she was scrapping the remains of a hospital. Too much like the infamous "Goiania accident"....
Dalamar looks interested because totally different species and all. "Dalamar Argent. Good to meet you. I'd recommend letting it dry, brushing the area thorougly, and washing with cold water." He looks down at the flower petals and spices he's messing with with a slight wince.
Phoenix Wright unwraps and bites into the chocolate absently as he tries to work his mind around everything.
Mai would like to be down now. And maybe strangle her cat.
octopus: [.... I havn't got all day, even for an old woman.]
octopus taps his foot impatiently, still bracing the ladder.
Some offers him a hand. Some's hands are all one knuckle too long, the nails neatly kept but currently marked with traces of bright colors. "Thanks."
Mai sighs and finds the ladder with her feet, pushing herself off with the crowbar to stand uneasily at the top. From there, it's a quick climb down, and an impromptu hug for Otto. "Thank you /very/ much."
octopus: Heh... you are welcome, Ms....?
octopus looks almost bashful.
Dalamar takes it, at the wrist, very briefly before fiddling with the flowers some more. "You're welcome."
Mai: Umezawa. Umezawa Mai.
Mai: And you are?
octopus: Octavius... Otto Octavius.
Junk abruptly appears, with a rather bright flash of ~*MAGIC*~. For all intents and purposes, he appears to be... well, anywhere from to (honestly, it's hard to tell), and he's dresesd in a green bandana, a green cloak over him, and a suit of leather armor. And he really, really doesn't look like he knows where he is right now.
Mai: Charmed.
Garen attempts to hide in the couch again.
Mai jerks around suddenly at the bright flash, hand dropping to her toolbelt to come up with... A hammer. "What was /that/?"
Hannah is momentarily blinded. "Ow! Ah, crap, ow!"
Phoenix Wright: !!
Junk 's also not particularly tall - maybe '", and he's got longish brown hair (well, everyone can see that once they're not blinded). "...what the?" he mumbles.
Garen is '. Definitely short. And trying to look shorter.
Mai is '. Odd, for an old Japanese woman.
octopus: Y- uhgh?
octopus joins in on the turning and looking surprised.
Hannah is not blinded anymore. "What the crap? At least have the decency to use a transportation spell that isn't all flashy, geez."
Dalamar , in his restitched black ~Magic~ robes, simply mutters. "Yours went wrong, too, eh?"
Fish is now sitting at the bar with his head bowed and a hand shielding his eyes, waiting for the huge spots to leave his vision. Silently. Oh my god, that hurt /so/ much.
Maya Fey flails at him.
Junk 's eyes open, and he looks around. Okay. This is not Ivalice, and this is not the battlefield. Where the *hell* is he? His expression is clearly 'almost panic'.
Phoenix Wright: ...We really need to make pamphlets.
octopus: Yes.
octopus sighs.
Some vanishes, abruptly.
Junk gives Phoenix the stink-eye. Now is not the time to be snarky B|
Hannah: No kidding.
Mai snaps her head toward the vanishing, and takes a step back. Her cat hisses. She's taking quick breaths as she tries to judge the situation, it might sound like she's trying to hyperventilate.
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Maya Fey: Welcome the Nexus, and the Sanctuary! It's really cool and a fun place to hang out, and it's all of the dimensions at once, and sometimes weird stuff happens from the food, but it's awesome! Except sometimes there's monsters.
octopus: This place is a Sanctuary in the multiversal Nexus. The food and drink are self-serve and free, and fighting within this room, the kitchen and the side rooms is banned.
Phoenix Wright is just happy somebody else is explaining.
Junk: ... I guess that would explain where I am. How, though...
Maya Fey: It happens!
Garen peeks up at the newcomer. Huh. Definitely not a fae.
Fish squints mightily and takes his leave. augh.
Junk: That wasn't Haste at all. B|
Fish is now known as telekine
Dalamar: "Spell Accident. I was redirected here myself a few minutes ago."
Hannah: Some people just...come here. I got here because I read the wrong spell froma book.
Dalamar doesn't look up from the weird stuff he's trying to do with flowers and condiments.
Mai: Is this some kind of trap?
Hannah: No way? Wow, looks like that happens a lot.
Junk rubs his face. "You know, I was in the middle of a fight. I was going to get paid for it too."
Hannah: A fight?
Junk: Uh, yeah. I get paid for that.
octopus: This... is the place that those who have died or gotten horribly lost seem to end up.
Hannah: Oh. What were you fighting?
Maya Fey: So you're like a wrestler? What's your stage name?
octopus: [....I imagine he's more of a mercenary than a prizefighter.]
Mai: Or are you fighting for entertainment?
Mai doesn't sound so much curious as she does plain hostile.
Junk: Uh, who I was told to fight. Enemy troops, I imagine. I'm a mercenary. I take both sides in the Lion War.
Mai: ...The what?
Garen: Both sides, eh? Double-dealer, or just confused?
Hannah: Oh. *Hannah's voice drops a bit.* A mercenary.
Phoenix Wright: [Boy, I hope either side doesn't know about THAT.]
Junk: Neither side's right.
Junk: Easiest way to put the Lion War's that it's a stupid war over succession to the throne.
Garen snerks. He knows that type of war.
Junk is sitting down on the ground, leaned against a wall.
octopus: Wars of succession are rather commonplace throughout history.
Mai: Least that horror won't visit my world anymore.
Hannah finishes up her yogurt and starts on the candy bar. "No kidding? I should listen more in class."
Kara Thrace staggers in from her sideroom, looking decidedly as though she's had a rather hard few days. This: is probably the fault of alcohol, the lack of which is the only reason she's in tonight.
Phoenix Wright is listening. Don't mind him.
Mai seems to have calmed down a bit. Her cat hopping down onto her arm from the rafters might have something to do with it. It's a tiny black thing, with a funny scar on its forehead, neatly between and above the eyes. Almost like a crescent moon.
Junk: Frankly, I really don't care who wins. Whoever pays me, I fight for. Works out pretty well for me.
Hannah frowns. She doesn't like Junk already. "That's great. 'Specially for the people you kill."
Dalamar: "If it is that simple, it is more satisfactory than /most/ cases of playing both sides, I assure you."
Dalamar: "One may find that it does not tend to /stay/ so simple, mind you."
octopus: .... *he squints at the cat, the glint of its 'scar' catching his eye. He isn't sure that such a thing could just be a birthmark. It's so... clean.*
Maya Fey stares at Kara.
Junk: What? It's not like I'm backstabbing the people I fought with. I move from front to front.
Junk would backstab them if it was worth enough, and/or they were stupid.
Dalamar grabs a napkin and carefully mops up the blood that's started seeping through his robes.
Garen goes over to the bar to chuck his empty beer bottle and get himself another.
octopus sniffs the air, then notices Kara. "Heh."
Garen goes back to his couch, and continues icing his black eye, not bothering to open the bottle first.
Hannah: Sure, whatever.
Junk snorts.
Kara Thrace sort of notices that people are looking at her, and shoots brief glares at Ock and Maya before rummaging around behind the bar for more liquor.
Junk: You're just a kid. What would you know about war?
Junk is adjusting rather well to the Sanctuary - or at least isn't anything like freaked-out anymore. It's just another opportunity.
Mai scritches the cat absently, then glares at Junk. "Oh, shut up. Children her age know a worse hell than any little war could bring."
Junk is not in a trunk, or a box, before anyone can say anything.
Maya Fey: Nick, what's wrong with that lady?
Mai could change that!
Garen: Kids can know a hell of a lot about war, for your information.
Hannah rolls her eyes. "I might not know much about official war stuff and things, but I'm totally not stupid. Also, fighting a war kind of thing on my own, thanks."
octopus decides that he doesn't feel like listening to Kara piss and moan about whatever's got her mad this time, and turns away from her. "It's the truth. Tell any war orphan that they don't know the horror that men are capable of."
Mai finds a couch to sit on.
Junk looks like he could be as young as or as old as . It's entirely possible he's just being a dick.
Garen: And who are you talk, anyway?
Mai looks to Hannah and raises her eyebrows. "...So you're fighting a war, too? Are you one of Ryunosuke's friends he mentioned a few days ago?"
Junk cracks his neck. "Lately I've been hunting down deserters."
octopus: That woman, Ms. Fey? I believe she is the sort of person who lives by being angry at everything... you're better of not invoking her wrath.
Hannah: *That name sounds like gibberish to Hannah.* Um, no? I'm the Slayer.
Mai: The Slayer?
Mai blinks. Oh, boy. Edumacation tiemz!
Dalamar , pausing for a moment from magically-messing with stuff, looks up at Junk with surprised amusement.
Hannah: The guardian of the world from the forces of darkness and stuff. Like vampires and demons and things like that. *She chomps on the candy bar.*
Maya Fey: If you say so...
Mai: ...
Dalamar: "You're playing both sides...and hunting down /deserters/? considering that to each at one point or another, you /are/ one, are you sure that's wise?"
octopus: In short, she's a malignant bitch.
Kara Thrace: "Don't worry: I save that for people who matter," Kara retorts, dully. She doesn't have a whole lot of fight in her at the moment: not for /this/, anyway.
Garen: You're hunting down people who want to be leave the army and go home.
Garen: Y'know, I could really hate you.
Junk: And? Their fault for joining it in the first place.
Hannah nods, agreeing with Garen.
Garen: How the hell do you know that they joined willingly?
Junk: How's that my problem?
Garen: How do you know that they weren't forced, that they had no choice? How do you know that they aren't just poor bastards who were in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Garen: And you're killing them for wanting to get out.
Junk studies Garen for a moment, and then repeats his question. "And how's that my problem?"
Mai: That sounds like life as usual.
Mai: Except without the army bit.
Hannah: How so?
Garen: It's your problem because it's -wrong-, dumbass.
Kara Thrace glances at Maya. "But if you're really interested in what's /wrong/ with me, I'm sure there are plenty around here who'll give you a list."
octopus is a pretty cruel guy, insulting the lady and not even looking at her face right now.
Junk: I don't see how it's wrong. They're living in the country, they have an obligation to defend it.
Mai: The attitude. It's just like home. Rather heartwarming, you know?
vorkosigan is now known as Grey
Garen: Against their neighbors?
Grey is not here. Sorry.
Garen: You said yourself it's a stupid war over the succession.
Hannah hopes that was sarcastic. "Uh...huh." To Junk: "And how are you defending your country?"
Junk: It's a stupid war. Doesn't mean it doesn't need to be fought.
Mai was being /very/ sarcastic.
Kara Thrace barely notices Ock, honestly. She's hungover and not looking to make any sort of stop at sobriety right now. Welcome to the land of not coping, Kara Thrace.
Garen: The hell it doesn't need to be fought. Just have the contenders go at it and leave the peasants out of it.
Junk: There'
octopus is totally happy to just let Kara go to hell in a handcart, to be honest. If he knew that Leoben were dead, he might actually feel sorry for her, but this doesn't seem different from her usual behaviour to him.
Mai laughs suddenly at that. "That does work rather well."
deconcentrate is now known as Smelkey
Junk: There's a point at which that's not possible, especially as both countries involved have... rather large stnading armies anyway.
Junk: *standing
Kara Thrace: "That's not how it works," Kara suddenly speaks up, re: peasants being left out.
Junk: If you went through the academies? You know what you're getting into. Why should I have any moral quandry about taking you out and collecting the bounty?
Kara Thrace: "No one gets left out until they're dead," she mutters into her drink.
octopus sighs, and heads back to his desk and his work, instinctively giving Garen a wide berth.
Mai: Oh, the regular people always get involved one way or another, but if you sever the hope, we all fall rather well.
octopus 's desk is covered in books and blueprints and... hermetic seals.
Garen: Not all soldiers go to acadamies. Most of the infantry and shit? They're peasants who couldn't care less.
Junk: Where are you from?
Smelkey is now known as MizunoAmi
Junk: Obviously not Ivalice.
Garen: I'm from nowhere. I live in Richmond.
octopus: ... Queens.
Junk: Then you aren't exactly at liberty to talk about how things work where I'm from, *are you*?
Mai: It used to be Tokyo.
Garen: It's the same everywhere. The richies fight their private battles while the bastards at the bottom die.
MizunoAmi enters the Sanctuary without much fanfare, computer knapsack slung over her shoulder, lost in thought, and pauses long enough to grab a coca-cola from the bar before setting herself in a corner near the door.
Mai is facing away from Ami. This doesn't stop her cat from suddenly letting out a violent /hiss/ once it spots Ami. Cue a black fluffball of rage trying to twist out of an old woman's arms.
Garen is now standing, gesticulating with his still-unopened beer bottle.
Junk: Okay, if that's how it works, who am I to fight it?
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Hannah: That's totally twisted, you know?
Dalamar looks at Garen. "I believe we had quite the misunderstanding just a little while ago from assuming things were /exactly/ the same everywhere. Not that I dispute your current point particularly."
MizunoAmi sips her soda, theh reaches into her knapsack - and ... she's being hissed at by a cat, isn't she. ...... uhm.
Junk: Working with the system instead of a futile attempt to fight against it and get cut down for a cause I don't particularly care about?
Garen: You're a disgusting lapdog.
Garen: And a hypocrit.
Mai: Djehuty! Settle down.
Hannah: You don't need to fight /against/ it. Just, you know, don't get involved.
Kara Thrace finds an armchair to curl up in, taking the bottle with her, because listening to these people yammering on at least distracts her from endless arguments with herself.
MizunoAmi is gonna blink for a moment here, oh yes. What the hell.
Mai raps the cat over the head before twisting around to see what has it's attention.
Dalamar: "Let me guess. Did 'Home' exile /you/ for radical social reform rhetoric?"
MizunoAmi: Hello?
Matt is now known as Adora
MizunoAmi quirks her mouth in the hopes of an explanation.
octopus: ?!
Mai: Hello. *There's a grin.* I'm sorry, but.
Mai: ...
Junk: I hope you end up in Ivalice, boy. I really do.
Mai loses the smile slowly as things slowly click in her head, and she /pales/.
Junk stands up.
octopus looks at Mai's cat, then at Ami. ".....that cat really doesn't like you, Ms. Mizuno."
Garen: No. They exiled me for a whole host of other things.
Some is now known as Alloy
Terana is now known as RobbieBaldwin
RobbieBaldwin is not here.
MizunoAmi looks over at Ock. "Apparently not, Doctor." She's not sure why, aheh. :D;
Mai: ...General Nabu. What a... A surprise.
Hannah: Yeah, well I kinda do wish I ended up in your world. Teach you a lesson or two. :.:
Garen: Hell. Maybe I'll -go- to Ivalice, and kill you for being a bastard scum-sucking hypocritical toady.
octopus: .... I heard that cats displace their anger onto things, sometimes.
MizunoAmi visibly *flinches* at that name, and pales, quite a bit. "I ... ah?"
Maya Fey pokes Phoenix in the arm.
octopus raises an eyebrow. Ami is a general? Or is this mistaken identity....?
Junk stares at Hannah for a moment, starts snickering, and then laughing. A brief moment later, he disappears, fading out in a stream of light.
Hannah blinks. Um?
Mai lets go of that cat. Djehuty scrambles to the top of the couch and gives Ami a fearsome look. It's not about to get any closer, though.
MizunoAmi curls in on herself, just a bit more than necessary, enough to be obvious. "... I'm afraid you have me confused with someone else." At least Ami's *hoping* she does. Junk 's mun is heading off :/
Dalamar frowns enviously, since somebody's spells are working.
Mai licks her lips nervously and stands. "Ah. It would be hard to mistake the Queen's right hand, General. Would it be, um. Rude to ask what you were doing here?"
Hannah shrugs. Ah well, good riddance. She takes another chomp out of her candy bar.
Maya Fey is so totally here still.
Mai glances up at her crowbar, still stuck in the rafter. [DAMN.]
octopus: I... think that this is a case of mistaken identity.
Garen wasn't done, dammit.
Maya Fey is now known as Normie
octopus smiles nervously at Mai. He hopes it is, because if Ami is really some kind of evil sycophant, he'll be sad.
MizunoAmi is absolutely still, and pale. "... would it be impolite to ask which Queen you're referring to?" she says, carefully, as if the very words themselves don't seem to fit in her throat.
Garen looks around, then sits down and opens his beer.
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Mai looks at the rest, pondering how quickly she could get to the hole she came in from before the girl killed her. "Why, her Most High, our beautiful Queen Beryl. Of course." Was the bitch /playing/ with her?
octopus: .....
Hannah looks from Mai to Ami, and back again. Weird cat, too.
MizunoAmi goes pale the rest of the way, and clutches her knapsack tight to her chest. "I'm not General Nabu. And Beryl's *dead*." She forces some firmness into the sound of her voice, and it ... almost works. "I don't know what you're playing at, but whoever sent you here had better know the Senshi don't take such threats lightly." This would work better if her voice didn't shake at the end.
octopus: ... *hem* .... Ms. Mizuno. I believe this woman is from an alternate timeline... she stated that she lives in the ruins of Tokyo.
Dalamar listens to some of this exchange. "Lovely to know I'm not the only person here to make a fool of himself assuming things."
Hannah decides this Ami isn't the one she knows.
Garen has no idea of what's going on.
Mai suddenly loses that nervous look and stands up, glaring at the girl. This isn't Nabu, there's no way she could hold up an act like that. "Don't pull that card with me you silly little bitch. I was there when the last of the Senshi fell. They're /dead/, and you have /no right/ to bring up those girls names!"
Mai is... Actually pretty fucking intimidation when she stops acting like an average old woman.
Ami Mizuno strolls in, carrying a stack of books, a laptop, and a notebook. She looks to her alt and smiles sheepishly before staring around in confusion.
MizunoAmi flinches, and turns away, curling in on herself for just a moment.
Mai: ...
Mai blinks and pales again at this new Ami. Augh!
octopus raises a hand to the old woman. "This young lady isn't from your world. It's likely that she is an alternate of the... em... senshi... from your own, but...
Kara Thrace ... cannot actually cope with any of this right now. Too much drama with too many people who never knew Leoben at all, and who aren't likely to care. She's going to go chill out in the yard. With booze.
Kara Thrace is now known as Kara[yard]
Mai licks her lips, and glances at Ock. Almost as if to ask if he's /sure/.
Ami Mizuno: Did I... come at a bad time?
MizunoAmi sucks in a breath and holds it, biting her lip. And then she stands, swallowing. "The Senshi are *far* from dead, ma'am," she says, quietly.
Hannah gets up, having finished the candy bar. She recognizes this new Ami as the one she knows--she isn't sure how, exactly, just something seems different than the other Ami. The demeanor, it must be. "Sorry, Ami, I can't stay. Talk to ya later?"
octopus looks as earnest as an ape-faced old man in sunglasses can.
MizunoAmi flicks her gaze over to her alt, and there's guilt in her eyes, hard and bitter like porbably her alt's never seen before.
MizunoAmi: *probably
Ami Mizuno is two years younger by the body, much younger in the face. She stares at her alt before nodding to Hannah. "See you in a bit."
Mai: They've been dead for years. I was /there/. I...
Hannah also waves at Garen and Ock. "'Bye." And she's gone after reciting bad Latin.
Mai breaks off, swallowing. What the hell is she supposed to /say/ to something like this?
MizunoAmi slips her hand into her knapsack, and pulls something pen-shaped out, clutching it tightly in her hand, as much to assure herself it's there as to bring it out.
Hannah is now known as AinoMinako
octopus: ...as I said... people from different universes... different timelines... can co-exist and mingle here. How else could these two be here at once?
Mai: Shapeshifting isn't beyond their powers.
AinoMinako walks into the Sanctuary, looking very impressed. She's never been in this part of the Nexus before.
Mai , unfortunately, doesn't recognize a non-transformed Minako. Ami's a different matter.
Ami Mizuno reaches for her pen, frowning. "I'm missing something here."
MizunoAmi doubletakes. "Mina-chan! What are *you* doing here?" ... it's *her* Minako, yes? D:
Ami Mizuno does not recognize a non transformed Minako either, for that matter!
Mai drops her hand down to one of her toolbelts. It rests on a sealed canister.
octopus: Well... I suppose there is little I can do to convince you, if that doesn't. I've known Ms. Mizuno for a while, and as far as I have always known, she was always one of those sailor girls.
AinoMinako: Oh, hi Ami-chan...s? *She looks from one Ami to the other, but thankfully can tell the difference.* I thought I'd check this place out. Heard a lot about it? What's up?
Dalamar wishes he had some fur scraps. He eyes the cat just for a moment.
Mai: Oh, trust me. I know her face very well.
MizunoAmi doesn't let this get in the way of her initiated motion, and she brings the pen-like object up over her head and shouts "MERCURY STAR POWER, MAKE-UP!" in one smooth act. She'll explain in a minute, Mina-chan.
Mai 's cat is still hissing up a storm. And totally unaware of any plans to make it into fur. But don't try it, Mai would break every bone in your arm.
octopus 's expression hardens a bit. "This place is warded against violence, Ms. Umezawa."
Ami Mizuno: Um, I'm afraid I haven't met you be --
Mai flings the canister out as Ami transforms, and both her and it /vanish/. There's an explosion from the Arena.
octopus flinches a bit, then heads towards the Arena, looking flustered.
AinoMinako blinks several times, but readies herself, just in case. Of course she brought her henshin pen with her.
AinoMinako trusts Ami enough to not ask why.
MizunoAmi disappears in a blue glow, which fades within *seconds*. She's clad in a blue-cuffed white coat, with a blue-and-white collar, trenchcoat-like, and blue, tight shorts, with hard blue gloves and firm blue boots, and her visor is already out. Say hello to the new Mercury.
MizunoAmi is now known as SailorMercury
Dalamar pauses for a moment, processing a little of the whole threat-disappearance thing. "I /must/ learn how to do that one someday," he comments offhand before looking back to what he's messing with.
SailorMercury nods to everyone, apologetically, and then darts down the Arena stairs after Ock.
Mai: Djehuty: *Makes an awkward noise now that his meat shield's gone. What now?*
Ami Mizuno stares after her.
AinoMinako looks at Dalamar. Weirdo. She looks at everyone, and then yells, "VENUS STAR POWER, MAKE UP!" and is transformed into Sailor Venus in a flash of light! Nothing different from the original outfit here, folks. She rushes out to the Arena.
Dalamar looks at the young ladies. "So magic for you is star-focused, rather than moon-focused?"
Kowalski is that guy who looks like Leoben but isn't, in jeans and a fleece-trimmed leather jacket. He takes a step in, sees where he is, and /freezes,/ flushing a bit. There's no one in here he knows, right? Or who saw him hook up with some random (if otherwise really hot) sixteen-year-old? (Even though /he/ was only seventeen at the time.)
Dalamar notices she's already walked off, returns to his work.
Ami Mizuno: Yes, it is!
Ami Mizuno: Sort of. Maybe?
Ami Mizuno: I think maybe I should go out there, too...
Dalamar: "That's /fascinating/. But I suppose I shouldn't detain you."
Dalamar understands This is Urgent. Mostly.
Ami Mizuno: Mercury Power, Make Up!
SailorMercury takes the last three steps with a leaps, landing in a crouch before straightening up and darting her gaze around with the habits formed from years of experience.
Mai: What kind of magic bullshit is this? How can you... What's going /on/?
Mai drops her hands to her belts again, coming up with a dagger and a ball-peen hammer.
octopus: The god Hermes set up a ward to ensure that everyone would be granted Sanctuary in this place.
octopus: I will ask you to reconsider your stance on this situation. This young lady is not from your world.
Mai: The fact that she's /Sailor Mercury/ implies otherwise, Otto.
octopus: During my several years here, I have met numerous men who shared my name and identity.
Mai: ...
octopus: All worlds intersect at this place, including those which are alternate timelines of the same world.
Mai is totally expecting to turn to a red mist while listening to this lunatic, here.
SailorMercury swallows sharply, and her words are careful like she's spitting them out through clenched teeth - which she is. "I *told* you," she says, "my name is Mizuno Ami, and I am the pretty sailor-suited protector of wisdom and justice." She says that with a *completely* straight face. Wow.
octopus goes stomping down towards Mercury and Mai. Without his harness, (and without all of the tools he keeps in his overcoat) he's kind of defenseless, but...
Mai: I am Umezawa Mai, and the last protector of Justice we had was Sailor Jupiter. Who you /beat to death/ on a /public street/.
Ami Mizuno is now known as TheotherSailorMercury
octopus grunts. "It's been a few weeks since I saw... your girlfriend is the one who calls herself 'Jupiter', right?"
TheotherSailorMercury comes in just in time to miss the killing bit and hear Ock mention Makoto.
SailorMercury is not actually making *any* moves to attack. In fact, her arms are down at her side, and her eyes are wide and hurt. Those eyes are the ones she turns on Ock, and she nods, once. "Yes," she says. "I wouldn't hurt her even if I *wanted* to." She says the words with unnatural vehemence.
octopus looks awkwardly at Ami as he says that.
SailorVenus has been there for a bit, and is looking from Mai to Mercury and back. "Mercury..."
Mai is... Well, with this many Mercury's around, there's no chance to survive, so she might as well go out fighting. "Sorry, Yakumo." And then she charges, flinging the hammer as she does so. No one that old should move like that.
octopus moves in to try and stop her. He's faster and stronger than he looks, but he's hardly superhuman.
SailorVenus moves quickly. With a shout of "Venus Love-Me Chain!" the chain is out and swinging.
SailorMercury spreads her arms wide and turns back to look at Mai, a strange smile on her face. And catches the hammer on the shoulder and goes down, without even fighting. Something probably cracks nastily, but all that does is make her cry.
octopus: St-
SailorMercury laughs, a little.
TheotherSailorMercury stares, mouth dangling open.
Mai jumps to the side to dodge the chain and Ock, reflexes sharpened after years of such activity, but she /freezes/ when Mercury actually goes down.
Mai: What?
SailorVenus: Mercury! *Venus moves against Mai quickly, snapping the chain at her once more.*
octopus attempts to tackle Mai, and hopefully ends up knocking her out of the way of the Love-Me Chain.
TheotherSailorMercury shakes her head and rushes after Venus to check on her alt, hoping there was some logic behind what just happened.
Mai is successfully tackled out of the chain! yaay. She seems to be in a state of shock, though, not quite comprehending what's going on.
SailorMercury really *is* crying. She reaches up to touch her shoulder, winces, and picks herself up enough to curl around the injured shoulder, and gives Mai a sincerely apologetic smile. She's ... just not fighting back. At all.
Mai is, under the rags and clothing, hard and muscular.
octopus is ...hopefully not being wracked by Venus' attack.
SailorVenus manages to twist the chain away from Ock while jumping next to her Mercury. "Mercury, are you alright?"
octopus: Rgh... will you stand down, or do I have to hold you here while that girl takes her friend to the Clinic?
SailorMercury waits, and watches, and then, finally, looks up at her alt and at Venus. "I'll be fine. Give me an hour, it'll be right as rain." She smiles, weakly, and gets to her feet, wincing a lot.
Mai: I'm... What's going on? How did that /hurt/ her?
octopus grimaces at Mai, ignoring the pain in his back. "Have you ignored every word that I spoke? I'm sure you're traumatized by whatever happened on your world, but shouldn't it be clear by now that these girls are not from your world?
Mai: B-but...
SailorVenus looks at Mai. "How dare you!" She obviously doesn't see that Ock is trying to calm the other woman down. Venus is pretty pissed.
TheotherSailorMercury: Please tell me there was some LOGIC in what you just did.
SailorMercury bites her lip, grimaces, and there's a slightly frantic hope in her eyes when she looks over at Mai. "I'm not Nabu," she says, smiling, and seems as glad to say it as she probably is trying to make Mai feel to hear it.
SailorVenus 's eyes widen. "/Oh/." Awwwkward.
Mai tries to sit up, if Otto will let her, and stares at her with wide eyes, shocked and horrified at what's going on. "...But /how/?"
TheotherSailorMercury guesses that's a yes.
octopus is still kneeling over Mai and holding at least one of her arms in an elbow-lock, but he lets her up when it becomes apparent that she's starting to understand.
SailorMercury sucks in a breath, before taking a cautious few steps in Mai's direction. "I ... *was* ... General Nabu once. But I broke the Dark Kingdom's spell over me, and escaped. And my friends and I - the Senshi - put an end to the Dark Kingdom at last, several months ago." She presses her lips together before continuing.
SailorVenus follows behind her Mercury close, grinning at Mai. Take /that/, Dark Kingdom beyyotch.
TheotherSailorMercury looks around in total confusion . .;
octopus: For the same reason that there are two "Sailor Mercury"s, here. *he attempts to straighten himself up, and discovers that such a thing is impossible*
SailorMercury looks apologetic some more. Yaaaay, she's just feeling miserable all around tonight. . .
Mai: I just don't understand how that could have happened...
SailorMercury: Welcome to the Nexus? :D?
SailorMercury ... does not *say* that emoticon, because that would just be weird, okay.
Mai ...Hiccups a little. And swallows before standing.
SailorVenus dispels the Love-Me Chain, and...stands there. She isn't sure what else to do now. She's not a whiz with confrontation.
octopus: ......
octopus continues kneeling, bent over on the floor.
Mai wonders if he needs help up.
SailorMercury is feeling better already, actually. Go go Senshi magical healing powers, yay! "If there's anything we can do to help save your world from the Dark Kingdom ..."
Mai laughs suddenly, harshly. "Girl, whoever you may be, it's far too late for that. They /rule/."
SailorVenus frowns. She's all for helping people, but after what happened before...
SailorVenus: It's never too late. *She may not exactly be overjoyed to have to help, but never question the ultimate power of light and love and junk in front of Venus B| *
SailorMercury looks firm, even through the pain. "It's *never* too late." She swallows. "It wasn't too late for me, and it isn't be too late for your world."
TheotherSailorMercury: They're right!
octopus: ...
Mai shakes her head. "You Senshi can't do anything about it now." She reaches down to give Otto a hand.
SailorVenus smiles at both the Mercuries, eyes settling on her own.
Mai: You'd be up against the last of your own, with thirty years of experience.
octopus: ...em...
Mai: As soon as she heard you lived, she'd come down and remind us what happened to the /last/ girl who tried to be a hero.
octopus takes her hand and rises awkwardly to his feet, still bent over double.
SailorVenus: We beat them once. We can do it again.
Mai places her hand on his back and tries to straighten him a little, as if in a cartoon.
Mai: I'd... I'd love to see that. I really would, but...
TheotherSailorMercury: But?
SailorMercury bites her lip. "That's no reason not to try. We could *win*." She grits her teeth, more because of the pain. "Like Venus said. We've done it before."
Mai: You're three Senshi. Up against millions of youma. And General Nabu and General Kunzite are two of the best strategists to walk the planet.
TheotherSailorMercury: Thirty years of experience can't beat numbers, especially not if we could manage to outthink her.
TheotherSailorMercury glances meaningfully to her alt and back.
Mai: Could you outthink yourself?
TheotherSailorMercury: I've actually considered this in some detail.
Mai makes a little noise, grinning weakly. "I... I'm sorry. This is just a little... Like a dream. You know?"
SailorVenus: Well, we'd need to go get Jupiter, Mars and Moon, but I think we could definitely swing it! Especially with the Ginzuishou on our side.
TheotherSailorMercury: And the answer is yes, provided she didn't realize who she was up against. Or, in our case, that she was up against two of herself.
SailorMercury gets a rather frightening grin on her face, one probably eerily familiar to Mai. "She hasn't fought herself in *years*, I bet." She wets her lips, and glances over to her alt. "And with the Ginzuishou on our side - with -" she shoots her alt another look - "with possibly *two* full teams of Senshi to bring to the table, we could *win*."
octopus heads quietly back towards the Sanctuary. This whole magical girl thing is totally beyond him.
Mai: You'd do all of that?
TheotherSailorMercury: In fact, I'll need more details, but I think outthinking is easier than you'd think.
SailorVenus: To protect Tokyo? Of course.
Mai: It's not just Tokyo.
TheotherSailorMercury: As long as we can get her to think what we want her to...
SailorVenus is lost there, Other Mercury x.x
TheotherSailorMercury is just going sit here and use the same word too many times, okay, don't mind her.
SailorMercury grins. HELL YES, they would. What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? They're the goddamned Sailor Senshi. "The safety and sanity of a world is at stake. Do you think we'd even *flinch*?"
Mai: Yes.
Mai is very unused to heroes.
SailorVenus frowns. Is it bad that she did? "Well, we wouldn't."
TheotherSailorMercury: Um, I kind of need to save my own world, too, but I'm sure we can handle everything!
SailorMercury smiles, and means it. "Evil won't win," she says. "Not as long as I still draw breath."
Mai: How do you even know Sailor Jupiter? She's from... Several years after your time.
SailorVenus: She is?
Mai: She didn't arrive for four years after... After General Nabu murdered everyone.
TheotherSailorMercury: That's... different from our timelines.
Mai: Oh.
SailorMercury blinks. "... are you sure she did?"
Mai: I marched with her against the Dark Kingdom's unholy palace.
SailorVenus: Then you know where it is? We can totally storm it, and bam, world saved.
Mai: You should have seen it, an entire army of us. And then... Nabu.
SailorMercury doesn't have to see it, she can imagine it plenty. "Ice, and blood, and laughter, and total control. Like she knew you were coming, the whole time."
Mai: Exactly. Except she didn't bother with the ice first. Makoto went up to fight her alone. Said that as long as she had our 'hope' and our 'courage', she'd never fall.
Mai: Nabu beat her to death with her bare hands.
TheotherSailorMercury pales.
SailorMercury shudders, because she *knows* Nabu, as well as she knows herself, and there is no more hesitation in her eyes when she says, "We're going to take her down. Someday, somehow, she's going to fall, and when she does, I want to be there to look at her and let her *see* what good can do."
SailorVenus resists gasping, or looking surprised or appalled in any way. "She still lives on in you, though. She's not gone."
Mai: If anyone, she lives on in her family.
Voice: *Really*, now.
Mai: Ryunosuke's trying to gather some people to help, but... We're only...
Mai pales.
SailorMercury stiffens, and looks around.
Mai: ...Human.
Mai: Oh God.
Voice: Good, triumphing over evil. Friendship, crushing power?
Voice: How ... pleasant.
SailorVenus 's hands clench. She's about a milisecond away from summoning the chain again, or firing off a Crescent Beam.
TheotherSailorMercury stiffens, and searches around.
Adora: (( THREE, THREE Sailor Mercuries. *Thunderclap* ))
Mai: ((Makoto: ...Hot.))
GeneralNabu appears in a beam, then circle, of purplish light, dark blue cloak over her shoulder and ice-blue eyes devoid of anything close to humanity. She takes in the scene without any sign of perturbation.
TheotherSailorMercury: Alright, this ruins the original strategy.
GeneralNabu: You say that as if you *had* a strategy to start with.
SailorVenus: Mercury! Get behind us.
GeneralNabu tilts her head, pleasantly.
Mai takes a step back.
TheotherSailorMercury turns to say something to Nabu, then runs to whisper in her alt's ear.
SailorMercury puts herself in front of Mai, protectively, throwing her hands out in front of her. "I will *kill you* first," she says, harshly.
GeneralNabu: You could try.
GeneralNabu doesn't sound much like she cares.
SailorVenus joins her Mercury. "And succeed."
SailorMercury clenches her hands into fists, fighting with the pain in her shoulder, and the temperature drops around her dangerously.
TheotherSailorMercury: [Do NOT be stubborn right now, she just made the worst mistake of her life, she is here in the Nexus, easily accesible and totally vulnerable, if you know anyone who can help, call themshe doesn't have a full idea of what's going on, but she's picked up enough about Nabu to have an idea how bad this could be*
Mai steps from behind them, stepping up next to the Senshi. "I may only be human, but you're the valuable ones. Get out of here!"
SailorVenus: I'm /not/ running away agin!
SailorMercury: Neither am I.
SailorMercury flexes her hands.
Mai: You say you fought the Dark Kingdom's Generals before? How well did you do? Honestly.
Mai: I'm old, and you're the Senshi.
GeneralNabu cracks her neck, experimentally, and smiles. It is not a pleasant, or benevolent smile, at all. It is is, if anything, pitying. She whips her hand around, and - then a blast of wind strikes out, followed by a wall of shimmering, icy energy, the width of the arena.
SailorVenus wordlessly summons the Love-Me Chain, whipping it out in front of her, spinning it increasingly quickly in an attempt to throw off Nabu's attack from her and her comrades.
Adora: **There are several small explosions across the width of the blast, white-skull-designed camera-robot-spiders apparently being annhilated by the SHEER COLD attack! ONE HIT KO!*
SailorMercury gasps, and tries to grab Mai and either make a run for it or shield the older woman with her body - and doesn't succeed. She throws a hand out quickly, and manages to block enough of it that she just winds up half-frozen to the ground, unable to move.
SailorVenus , obviously, fails to throw off the brunt of the attack, and ends up frozen from the hips down.
Mai lets her breath out in an explosion of air as Mercury grabs her, and ends up frozen in the awkward position of almost sitting with her feet off of the ground.
TheotherSailorMercury has had hardly any training with powers or defense against, and ends up almost totally frozen herself.
GeneralNabu then, very calmly, walks over to Mai, and with a wave of her hand, removes the ice surrounding her - and by extension, removes Mai from Mercury's grasp.
Mai 's cat appears at the top of the stairs and mews imperiously.
SailorMercury stares at Nabu, rage and guilt warring in her eyes.
Mai drops right on her ass, then scrambles to get up. "General."
SailorVenus 's attention is focused on getting herself out of the ice. She punches the ice relentlessly, succeeding in making a few cracks. Nothing more.
GeneralNabu: I believe they called you Mai.
Mai: That's right. Umezawa Mai.
Mai glances back at the Senshi, then narrows her eyes at Nabu, shifting her weight to ready herself for a fight.
GeneralNabu offers her hand to Mai, inviting and open. "Well, then. Umezawa Mai. You don't belong here, Umezawa. How about I take you home now?"
SailorMercury struggles against the ice, but it's not breaking fast enough, not budging enough. She's *this close* and she can do nothing but watch.
SailorVenus grunts, still struggling with the ice, but only managing to make a few more cracks. "Mai, get out of here! Go back inside!"
Mai ...pauses. And looks back. She takes Nabu's hand, then /yanks/ back, trying to tug the General off balance. If she can break Mercury's shoulder...
TheotherSailorMercury is struggling as best she can, but she's fairly well resigned herself to being stuck. "She's right, just go! She can't hurt you in there, and there could be help!"
Mai: If I leave you alone with her, she'll kill you all!
GeneralNabu doesn't budge. Instead, ice grwos from around her hand and arm, covering Mai's as well, leaving the older-looking woman cuffed to Nabu's arm.
GeneralNabu: *grows
GeneralNabu: She's right, you know. If you keep fighting, you'll only kill yourselves. This will only take a moment.
SailorMercury spits in Nabu's face. "Never."
Mai curses, then stomps on the ground with the leg that has the brace on. There's a curious thing that happens, then. Electricity crackles from the bottom of her boot to the top of the brace, and then back down as she delivers a literally /explosive/ kick to Nabu's side. Not that it'll do much.
TheotherSailorMercury hisses under her breath.
GeneralNabu closes her eye where the spit hits. It freezes on contact, and falls away. And then *catches* Mai's kick before it connects. She says nothing.
Mai: ...Uh.
SailorVenus stops struggling against the ice, looking in shock at Mai. "Mai...no!"
Mai: Now would be a /wonderful/ time for one of those speeches about the power of love and justice to be literal!
SailorMercury ... kind of has to agree there. She snarls, and keeps struggling.
GeneralNabu smiles, then brings Mai close to her, and they - momentarily - vanish in a blast of purple light, before reappearing next to Mai's cat. Nabu leans down to pick it up, heedless of any attempts to claw her or hurt her any other way, and then smiles magnanimously at the Senshi. "Say goodbye to your new friends, Mai. I'm sure they'll miss you."
Mai shoots them a helpless look.
SailorVenus: We'll come for you, Mai!
SailorMercury glares at Nabu, and looks at Mai, firmly. "We'll save you, Mai. We'll save everyone. Believe it." She tries to make the older woman see it in her eyes.
octopus: *someone is peering in from the Sanct, just in time to see the drama unfold! Whoo.*
Mai shakes her head. It's kind of hard to believe such things when the Big Bad has you and your cat in her arms.
octopus: What the...?
TheotherSailorMercury: Go get help RIGHT NOW.
octopus: Help? Who? There's no-one in the Sanctuary who...
GeneralNabu smiles, shrugging in complete nonchalance, tips a nonexistent hat to Ock - she looks like an older, meaner Ami, with ice-blue eyes and a dark blue cloak over a vaguely military uniform - and crushes Mai close, cat held in the other hand, before vanishing in a burst of purple light with the older woman.
octopus: !!
SailorVenus manages to break out of the ice right then, and dashes over to where Nabu was just a second ago. "Urgh! No!"
Phoenix Wright peers in.
TheotherSailorMercury swears, struggling against the ice.
TheotherSailorMercury: She is NOT getting away with that.
SailorMercury breaks free at the same instant - almost like Nabu *let* them break free then, just for the nail in the coffin of their optimism, huh? - and dashes right after Venus, shamefaced and angry.
octopus scrambles down, slipping and almost falling to his death on the stairs. "Dammit... "
SailorVenus looks at her Mercury. "We need to find that world."
TheotherSailorMercury: ...How do we DO that?
SailorMercury: Somehow.
Phoenix Wright: !
SailorVenus: There must be a way.
Maya Fey follows Phoenix out, staring around, still totally lost.
SailorMercury clenches her fists, grits her teeth, and throws a punch at a nearby wall. It ... cracks. A bit.
TheotherSailorMercury: Of course there is. We -- need a plan, though.
Phoenix Wright recognizes those costumes. They make him want to die a little inside every time he sees them.
SailorMercury is not in the usual Senshi costume! It looks more like a labcoat modified into a Senshi costume, with - sweet merciful god - *shorts* instead of a skirt.
octopus goes to check on the smaller Sailor Mercury, if she's still iced in.
Phoenix Wright: What's... going on in here?
SailorVenus: Artemis might be able to help at the Command Center. We need to tell Jupiter, Mars and Moon. I can ask around in the Nexus. Someone must be able to track her.
octopus: ...hnh. I can only track people who use technology to teleport.
Phoenix Wright is so lost right now.
SailorMercury closes her eyes. "I don't always have everything my visor can scan for up on the HUD. I may have been able to pick up wherever she was going on my scanners."
TheotherSailorMercury: People from her world have been to the Nexus, it must be possible!
Phoenix Wright: [Hmm. Whatever it is, it must be pretty bad.]
TheotherSailorMercury: We need a plan, though. *doesn't seem to realize she's repeating herself*
octopus: She came in through the ceiling.
SailorMercury reaches a hand up to tap at the visor, quickly cycling through the modes to see what they picked up at the moment of transport.
SailorVenus nods. "Okay, good." She turns to the onlookers. "General Nabu just took Mai. She's in danger--Mai's whole world is in danger. To put it short, the bad guys won because--because we either weren't there, or weren't strong enough."
octopus: Ms Ume... that woman who was just taken,
Phoenix Wright: General Nabu?
TheotherSailorMercury growls.
Phoenix Wright: [This sounds really heavy...]
octopus: She found the Sanctuary by coming in through the ceiling.
SailorVenus nods. "A Sailor Mercury that..." she looks at her Mercury for a split second, "...could have been."
Phoenix Wright: Is... is there gonna be big problems?
SailorMercury: "We weren't strong enough," Mercury says, as she keeps cycling - good God, how many options can that thing *have*. "Or - I wasn't, anyway."
TheotherSailorMercury: There's certainly going to be some problems, yes.
SailorVenus: Don't blame yourself, Mercury. *She walks over to Ock.* Do you think you can show me where she got in? That could be our ticket.
SailorMercury finally 'hah!'s in triumph. "I have a fix. It's a weak one, but it's enough for a PINpoint to get us there."
TheotherSailorMercury: Great!
Phoenix Wright looks worried.
TheotherSailorMercury: We're not going yet.
octopus: Yes. I don't know if it'll do much good, but... if a more covert entrance is possible for you...
SailorVenus: Lead the way.
SailorMercury: The more untraceable the path, the better, probably. A blind PINpoint is a last resort.
Phoenix Wright rubs the back of his head. He'd help, but this is pretty much out of his league, short of using certain items he'd usually rather forget about unless he absolutely needs them.
SailorMercury pounds a fist against a hand. "We can't just *leave* her there ..."
octopus nods and heads carefully back to the Sanct, not wanting to slip and throw out his back... or skull himself on the arena floor.
Phoenix Wright follows him as well.
SailorVenus does too.
SailorMercury will be right behind them.