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Clothes? Check. A place to stay? Check. Full deck of cards?

...wait a moment.

In the park within the City, Sakura was busy shuffling through the deck of cards, slightly in a bit of a panic. In design, they looked like tarot cards, but on the face were different creatures of sorts, each bearing names like "The Windy" and "The Jump" and "The Shadow".

"...16...17...18..." Sakura uttered and stopped as she got back to the first card. "...where's Erase? I-I know I didn't drop it. Ohh, if I lost it, Kero-chan's gonna kill me!" She could see it now: the little plushie lion jumping down her throat because of it. Perhaps it wasn't lost, but more somewhere else on the ship? Sakura hung her head at that. "The ship's too huge, I'll never find it that way...!"

Right now, though, other problems were at hand. Like the state of her magic. If she didn't have access to her magic, what good were her cards?

With a deep breath, she removed the necklace holding the strange pendant and held it out, a magic circle forming under her. "Key that hides the power of the stars, show your true form before me. I, Sakura, command you under our contract. Release! " On cue, the pendant glowed and started to expand, showing its true form - a staff bearing a star enclosed in a circle on its head, small wings to its sides. "I-It works!" Taking the staff in hand, she looked towards her cards. "Let's see..."

...

About an hour (give or take a few minutes) later, the area around Sakura has changed a little bit - a few extra trees due to The Wood, a lot of flowers thanks to The Flower and resting under one of those tress were two Sakuras, one of them actually The Mirror in disguise.

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On one hand, Shoutarou didn't like letting Hoshi drive his HardBoilder.

On the other hand, these Ridevendors were pretty cool.

On the third hand, look, twins!

Twins?

Shoutarou stops his bike, and pulls his helmet off. "...you two are kinda lucky, to both show up here together."

Sakura blinked as she heard Shoutarou talking to her. The other one noticed the new arrival, smiled and waved.

"Us two...? O-Oh! Oh, I see...!" she said, finally understanding what's going on. "Ah, it's... kind of a long story, but..."

Should she tell him about her magic? There WERE others here, but...

Shoutarou leans over on his handlebars, one hand bracing his chin. "Well, I don't have any pressing matters at the moment."

"You know," the Akashic said out loud as he rounded a tree, staring up at it. "I'm oblivious. I miss things, I know this. But I'm really, really sure there wasn't a grove here when I passed by a little while ago."

Speaking of missing things, he'd totally failed to notice either of the two girls.

Sakura blinked as she noticed the new arrival circled around the tree, oblivious to that fact that she was here - and two of them.

"Well... that's... because I did it." she said, speaking up.

"Oh, hello, and hello." Too used to totally missing important things to be surprised, Morgan offered both the Sakuras a smile. "This is some pretty impressive work."

He reached out to knock a fist gently into the trunk of one of the trees. "You did all this pretty quickly!"

Applejack knew she'd never be a city gal, but this place definitely didn't have the cold and stuffy vibe she'd felt in Manehattan. The people here were just the crew, just regular folk, passing through on their way to something or other. She supposed it couldn't hurt to have a look around.

Almost immediately, she was drawn to the sweet smell of growing things. Something about these trees felt just a little off, but she could toss that up to their being in space. She trotted around their trunks, a little approving smile on her face.

"It sure is good to see some trees again," the pony smiled, soon stumbling across the twin girls. How sweet they looked.

"Sure is good to have family around too." She tried to keep the longing out of her voice.

The sound of Applejack speaking had woken Sakura from her sleep. She blinked a bit as she noticed that there was a horse in front of her.

But there was no one else around. Then who was speaking...?

Then, it dawned on her. "Hoeee...!" she yelped in surprise. "Ah... s-sorry."

Applejack couldn't help but think that the girl was cute. Cute as far as humans went, she reckoned. She laughed the confusion off with a little wave of her hoof. "Still tired, sugar? Y'all can get back to sleep, I won't bother you none."

"No, no, it's okay..." Sakura said, waving it off. "I can't sleep all the time, can I?" She chuckled a bit as she moved to stand up.

"Sorry about freaking out there. I'm... still not used to everything just yet. I'm Sakura, what's your name?"

"Applejack," the pony introduced herself, quietly trotting over to allow the girl a hoof up if she needed one. "Pleased to meet you, and don't you worry. Plenty to fuss about in this place, but it's not all so bad. Like these trees here," she admired.

Sakura couldn't turn down the pony's helping... hoof. Using it to pull herself up to a standing position, she couldn't help but admire the tree herself.

"It is nice, isn't it?" she said. "Would you believe... I made it?"

"Er...no, I wouldn't," Applejack answered rather honestly. "How in the hay would you make a tree? You just plant a seed and wait for it to grow, don'tcha?"

"Of course, but I have another way...!" Sakura said. Going for the deck of cards, she pulled out The Wood card once more. "...it's magic!"

Ah, magic. It was so common with humans, wasn't it?

"And it's in the card? How does that work?"

"Watch..." Sakura said, stepping back. Almost in an instant, the summoning circle formed under her feet as she brought her Star Staff to the forefront and aimed it at the now-floating card. "RELEASE!"

The card glowed brightly as the form of a woman covered in branches and bark appeared. "Wood, create a mighty tree for my new friend here!"

With that, a tree started to grow almost instantly from the ground in front of Applejack.

"Whoa there," Applejack yelped, backing up a few steps. It was just plain eerie to see something grow from the ground that quickly.

"So...is it just like a regular ol' homegrown tree? Is it gonna stay?"

"It's just like any other tree." Sakura reassured. "And of course, it can stay. Back home, I used this card a few times to cushion my fall, but I had to revert it so no one else would notice."

"You had to keep your magic hushed up?"

That didn't really make sense to her. Unicorn ponies were well accepted throughout Equestria, of course magic was normal, but maybe something about those cards was a little funny./

"This looks different," Eva says as she walks in, lifting an eyebrow. She should know - she's visited the park a few times in her machinations to turn a section of it into a child-friendly playground. "Hello! Are you new?"

She waves her fingers a bit in greeting.

"Hm? Oh, hello...!" Sakura said, noticing she was being called. She smiled and waved in return. "Ah, yes, I am. Just arrived, in fact."

"Were you the one who changed this place?" Eva says, making a twinkling hand gesture. She doesn't sound angry or upset, but rather, shrewd. If she's going to rearrange the park anyway, knowing someone who can help wouldn't hurt. "I'm Eva, by the way."

Ack! Caught! No use hiding it, especially in a place like this.

"Yes, I did..." Sakura admitted, blushing. "I... know magic. And it's nice to meet you, Eva. I'm Sakura."

"That's a nice name. Cherry blossoms, right?"

"Mmm, that's right." Sakura said, nodding. Come to think of it, her entire family was named after flowers! Odd coincidence!

"You know, I've been planning to do something with this park. For the children. Apparently one of them almost fell off a building."

"...they what?!" Sakura said, surprised at what she heard. Doing something with the park was admirable, but hearing that a child nearly fell off a building?

"H-How did that... wh-why would they...?" she stammered, shocked.

"Don't you know that children are little suicide bombers?" she says with a wry grin only a mother can manage. "Some of the children pop here without their parents, and they go with supervision. So one nearly fell off a building while no one was watching, because it seemed to her like the best place she should be playing."

Sakura wanted to facepalm at that. Were people here that... well... bored? Weren't there other things to do than do something that reckless?

Okay, that was a bit hypocritical of her, but still.

"Yeah, now I see why you'd like to have something like that." she said, nodding. "It would be nice, though, in any case."

Once Sakura - the real Sakura - actually opened her eyes, she shouldn't really be too surprised at what she'll find in front of her face: a video camera, red light blinking on top and an enraptured girl staring intently at her behind the lens.

"When I didn't find you in the observation room, I wondered if you were still podded but discovered a lot of new trees and flowers as I explored the city~" Tomoyo replied, happily waving at The Mirror!Sakura.

"Hoe!"

Surprise, Tomoyo - have an utterly shocked Sakura, taken off guard by the fact that there's a camera in her face. Recovering, she couldn't help but grin sheepishly.

"S-Sorry..."

That's right, Tomoyo - you didn't find Sakura. She found you, as expected of a gracious CardCaptor who needed support and guidance from close companions!

"It's not your fault, Sakura-chan...it's quite the dire situation we find ourselves facing, isn't it? Almost makes one wish we could go back to the beginning and find the Clow Cards before they became Sakura-chan cards~!"

"Yeah, it would be a whole lot easier than saving the entire universe...!" Sakura said, blushing bashfully at that. "It's a bit too much to take in, but... we have to."

"And, you'll look wonderful in all of your new costumes I make for you~!" Tomoyo's expression became dreamy within seconds. "I've already got a shop picked out as a cover for us; sure, I'll be helping out everyone else but you'll be my #1 customer~!"

She's fast, that's for sure. Not even a day on this ship, and she's already setting up shop for more costumes to wear. Then again, it was a lot better than trotting around in that odd outfit they all have.

After a few more moments, Tomoyo's expression seemed to return to normal as a question was on the tip of her tongue. "So, have you decided where we'll be staying at? I've already received at least one offer to live on a bus but if you had another idea..."

Recovering, Sakura took up a more thoughtful look. "That's a good question, Tomoyo-chan. I was offered up the bus myself, but with so many people living there now, I'm not sure. Maybe we could take over one of the houses here?"

Though the idea of them living in the same house together is completely innocent, she has no clue as to what she suggested.

Very true, as Tomoyo found herself literally on cloud nine within seconds! The camera was still filming but via zoom lens as Tomoyo had gotten pretty close to her best friend.

"Living together...with Sakura-chan? We're a year away from entering high school, and we'll be under the same roof? Mother would be so proud of us, that we've agreed to taking on so much responsibility~"

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