http://magicgunworks.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] magicgunworks.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-06-11 11:18 pm

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Night. Or rather, whatever passed for night on the meatship. With the threat of the Melting Clock gone, the ship's crew was free to return to their normal schedules. Unbeknownst to anyone on the ship, Stacy was hiding something. Not that this is anything new, but this is a fairly recent something. Something that wasn't on the ship before the last podpop.

So in the dead of 'night' when the majority of the ship was asleep, or working, or otherwise holed up somewhere, a shadow suddenly appears in an empty sensorium. The Shadow darted about, running up the walls, on the ceiling, looking for any means of escape. After a few more minutes of scrambling around the room, the Shadow found the door, and immediately darted out and down the nearest corridor.


Mami Tomoe wasn't normally a night owl. Before she was taken on board Stacy, she was never up at the wee hours of the morning; she needed all the rest she could get, after all, having to keep up with schoolwork and witch hunting. Even now, when she had nothing to occupy her time other than staying by her injured friend's bedside, one would think she would keep up that habit.

But that was far from the truth. Between her restlessness over Madoka's current condition and her frequent nightmares, Mami hasn't been sleeping well the past few days. So here she was, in the nearly vacant Obs Deck, staring at her nearly-dim Soul Gem. The sight greatly unsettled her, even though she didn't know what would happen when it went completely dark.

And then, as if in response to her thoughts, the gem flared to life. Not the healthy golden glow of a fully restored Soul Gem, no, but a dim, sickly glow. The only reason it would glow like this was if...

Damn.

In one fluid motion, Mami jumped off her chair, pulled out her comm, and punched in seven words:

Witch. Meet me in the Obs Deck.

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-12 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Unlike Mami, Sayaka had been asleep at this time. Staying awake worrying about Madoka wasn't going to be much help when she needed rest. Besides, she could worry about Madoka all day in the morning.

But well, the omnicomm going off ruined that plan. Groaning, Sayaka picked it up, looking over at it and wondering if she was going to have to yell at whoever woke her up... until she saw that message and froze.

And then cussed.

And then bolted out of bed and started heading towards the Obs Deck as fast as she could, making it there with not that much time passing.

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-12 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka shook her head, seeing Mami's Soul Gem and transforming herself. And well... her's wasn't in much better shape. "It's fine. We're the only ones on the ship who can really handle it, right? It's stupid for you to fight alone if you have me with you."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-12 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka nodded. "Right. Let's get going."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-12 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka walked after Mami, hoping that they were up for this. Sure, it was better than her having to fight the witch alone, and at least on the ship she didn't need to worry about that transfer student or that Kyouko bitch trying to stop her. But still, both she and Mami were dangerously low on magic at the moment, so they needed to be careful.

Once they made it to the barrier, Sayaka nodded. "Yeah. I'm ready. Let's get this over with."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-12 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka blinked, at that as they walked. "Okay. Good idea." She looked around, frowning at all the destroyed dolls. "And this witch is just as creepy as usual..."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-12 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka summoned one of her swords almost at the same time that Mami did. "I know what you mean, except why would the ship chose to save some witches?"

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-12 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Sayaka nodded. "Yeah. It doesn't make any sense, and it's way too dangerous..."

Not that there was really that many people besides Mami and Madoka on the ship that she cared about, but that was besides the point. She didn't take these powers just for the wish after all. She did it to protect innocent people from the witches. She frowned.

"Hey Mami? Did you ever find out where the witches come from anyway. I mean, I know that Kyuubey mentioned something about them coming from curses, but I never really understood that..."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-13 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka shook her head. "I see. Didn't think you knew, but I figured it'd be worth asking..." She frowned as they kept walking, hand still clutching her sword.

"I guess it really doesn't matter. They're still here, on the ship."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-13 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Sayaka nodded, looking around and avoiding the creatures, hands still clutching that sword as she started looking for that door. The witch should've been there, and they would kill it, and save themselves from whatever fate a corrupted soul gem had in store for them.

She needed to be strong, they needed to be strong and take this thing out...

And Sayaka finally noticed the door, pointing over to it with her blade. "Found it."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-14 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka followed after Mami, frowning as she saw the witch. To think that she used to be afraid of things like this...

Well, that was actually understandable. She had fought a few witches since that first one she had encountered, after all.

Sayaka formed a few more swords around her body. "Ready."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that was as good a plan as any.

So as soon as Mami fired the first shot, Sayaka was already flying up, two swords clutched in her hands... and somehow the other blades magically flying around her body, spinning in the air.

She flew as fast as she could towards the witch, slashing over at it's hammer-shaped head.

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh sure, of course the neck part of the hammer would be metal as well.

And there Sayaka went flying, slamming into the nearby wall of the witches lair. "Owww..." she mumbled out as she freed herself from the wall and started flying towards the witch again, readying to slash at those arms.

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sayaka grinned at that, noticing the damage that she managed to do to the creature. Hopefully the witch wouldn't be able to regenerate or anything like that. Of course, if that was the case, she just needed to make sure it stayed damaged, and she moved to start attacking one of it's other arms.

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka smiled as she heard that from Mami, flying out of the way of fire as she watched Mami form that massive gun of hers. Hopefully this was going to work, but in case it didn't, Sayaka was ready with her blades to start attacking the witch again.

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka landed on the floor of the ship, changing back to normal and taking a few deep breaths as she looked up at Mami. "... yeah, thanks."

She held out her gem to the grief seed, watching as the black darkness from the gem moved over into the seed.

When she was finished, she pulled her Soul Gem away, looking over at Mami.

"We need to find a better way of practicing, hopefully one that won't use our Soul Gem's energy."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka nodded. "Yeah, that's a good idea. We should've thought of it sooner, really."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka blinked, before realizing what that meant. "That's right. The people here will actually believe us, won't they?"

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, it is," Sayaka said. "It's going to be kinda strange to talk to anyone else from our world if they wake up though. Unless they were involved in this too, anyway."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Sayaka frowned. "I guess. But not everyone here has powers or anything like that. There might still be a chance that someone who isn't a Puella Magi is down there."

[identity profile] swordstabmagica.livejournal.com 2011-06-18 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Sayaka sighed, looking away from Mami. "Well, I'm just going to hope that they are there. It's all we can really do..."