Sparkle Shimmer Bang! Part 1: Upside Down Smiles

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||Attention, Attention. The following personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. The following personnel please report to the Observation Deck.

Doctor McNinja
Alastirra
Guru Clef
Miyako Inoue
Kanoe Zouichi
Jiraiya
Remus Lupin
Shoutarou Hidari
Sayaka Miki
Starfire ||

When the called crew members were assembled at the Observation Deck, they would find the usual mission information displayed on the screen.

Planet Designation: Sweetdream Paradise
Status: Terrestrial, H-class
Non-sentient life: Extensive flora and fauna
Semi-sentient life: Yes
Sentient life: Yes
Water: 70.2% of planet's surface
Climate: Earth-like
Landscape: Varies
Air: Normoxic concentration: 31% oxygen, 60% nitrogen, 2% xenon, 4% trace gases, such as hydrogen, krypton, and argon.
Air Pressure: 93.8 kPa (kilopascals) = 13.6 psi (pounds per square inch)
Sky: Pink.
Sun: Class G yellow star
Warnings: None.
Mission: Check the stability of the capital city of Gummiring. Dispatch of any threats encountered.

It was a nice, fluffy planet with a nice, fluffy name. Bound to be as nice as Happy Happy Fun World, right?

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[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps she will have difficulty doing so if she cannot see us," Lupin said as he raised his diamond rod grandly. The tip of it flared into a brilliant cone of light directed towards the Captain; no power behind it, but hopefully bright enough to blind.

[cityship]

The one with the diamond powers was clever. Almost too clever, Ripades had to admit to herself. No matter!

You are wise, but I am wiser. This is a path I have walked before, and the Melody Militia will someday walk it alongside me! See the wisdom I bring, see the world as it truly is!

Her attack began. She slammed her hands together over the black gem on her chest, drawing on its power. It struck as black flashes across the entire area, giving the warriors a concentrated blast of pure pain. They would've been completely taken out if Diamond hadn't somewhat shielded them, but even now...sadness and rage welled up, the pain taking on more forms than just the physical agony. Emotional agony was added too.

They would be acutely aware that they were small fish in a sea beyond their comprehension, running from a shark that would one day swallow them whole. No, Ripades knew nothing of the Ohm or the greater war, but there were feelings to draw on. The slaughter, her attack reminded them, would continue. Victory here would mean nothing.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Physical pain had little effect on Zouichi, so in that, he had a bit of an edge. The emotional agony, on the other hand, the sorrow -- that he had rarely allowed himself to feel, even in moments in which he was alone. It was an alien sort of pain, one he knew little of how to deal with. For a moment, he faltered, almost swept away in its tide.

And yet... for almost the entirety of his existence, he had been fighting against impossible odds, in a battle that was all but hopeless. Would he give up now? Zouichi drew on the anger as he always had, on his sense of duty, using those feelings as a shield. He wouldn't let Ripades -- or anyone else -- stand in his way. Not now, and not ever.

Zouichi slowly stood; as he did so, the pain seemed to lessen somewhat. The blue gem at his breast, whose glow had been all but snuffed out in the course of the attack, began to shine brighter. "Sorry, Miss. I'm not checking myself out of the fight just yet." He held out a white-gloved hand; in it, a slender white conductor's baton appeared, elaborately decorated. His costume itself shifted, becoming longer, sleeker, until what he was standing in was a silver-white evening gown with long, flowing ribbons at his back. He raised the baton and in concert, the atmosphere immediately around him began to change, turning from turbulence and emotional turmoil to calm and tranquility.

[starbolts]

Starfire was feeling similarly. She could withstand agony, torture---all Tamaraneans had been trained to do so, for their enemies would surely try it. Strength in the face of capture was important. She allowed herself to cry, but just enough to let a trickle flow from the damns storing up her pain.

Emotional assault was another matter. Her emotions were her strength, even now with a different power fueling the battle. She saw vivid pictures of her home torn apart, of her friends dying, of all the horrible things that could possibly happen.

But deep within, she heard the voices of her allies. They were here, and fighting, and so would she. She battled the weight of the world to clamber to her feet, the lasso a lifeline in her hands.

"Neither am I. You cannot defeat us alone, and we cannot defeat you alone. But together---"

Her gem glowed as well. creating another bright spot in the storm. She squeezed Zouichi's shoulder warmly, quietly urging the others to get up.

[wantstobebatman.livejournal.com]

Doc's hand settled on Starfire's shoulder in turn, sword at his side and the gem around his neck glowing bright.

Crippling pain, injuries, impossible odds; these were the sort of situations he'd been trained for and dealt with since birth. This of all things would not break his will to fight, and he could already feel the shift in the wind that heralded something big.

They had this in the bag. The tropes were on their side... (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin)

He smirked behind the mask, lifting his blade with one steady hand and pointing it at Ripades with a crack of confident laughter, focusing his energy on his teammates.

"--together you've got NOTHING on us. Do your worst! Knock us down all you want and we'll get back up again!"

[thisclinchesit]

Theme-song powerup time?

Shoutarou stumbled up, taking a place at McNinja's side, wiping his mouth. "They're right - You won't stop us, and you won't stop those girls... Their hearts are dedicated enough to justice to entrust complete strangers with taking their places to deal with you!" One hand goes to Doc's shoulder, and the other holds up the Prism Sphere, pressing the green button, and encompassing the team in a green light to boost their already high determination.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

Lupin rose calmly, a sad smile on his face. "Whatever you may think of yourself and whatever you may try to make us feel, you're not a quarter the terror that Voldemort was."

He placed his own hand on Shoutarou's shoulder in turn. Twin diamonds coalesced out of the energy surrounding them, whirring around and around the group in complicated geometries that cut curious patterns in the light as they shaped it.