Sparkle Shimmer Bang! Part 1: Upside Down Smiles

[cityship]

||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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[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.

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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.