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Just around the corner that's in front of the library, Sally was slowly, but very smoothly, ambling along the pavement. While she could now mostly understand the outside world on a basic level, it was still fascinating to her how beautiful it was to her. Really, she had all the time in the world (or, to be precise, all the time in her battery, which was still at a safe 85%, and she had a charging cable in her pocket anyway, so it wasn't a problem) to explore this world, because... Well... she'd rather not dwell on the incident for the 53rd time. Yes, she's counted.

However, while she was lost in her thoughts, she was coming to a turn in the street, and she would be walking right into a girl she's never met before.

OOC Clarifications:

Thanks to Sailor Sun's great idea they were off to the library to see if they could make out anything about the threads Sun found. "You don't think this should be too hard right?? what do you guys think?" She said as she was rounding a corner...

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As Sally automatically turned the corner, she then bumped right into a person she didn't even notice the presence of. She instantly stopped, and quickly looked around to see who/what she impacted into, then saw a rainbow-haired girl right in front of her.

"I'm sorry for bumping into you. I was admiring the scenery and did not notice you until I bumped into you."

Splash turned the corner and wasn't paying attention bumping into something...she looked up to see she was being spoken to. She bowed and said, "No I'm sorry for bumping into you, are you ok? I hope I didn't hurt you."

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"No, I'm fine.Thank you for asking, though."

She then noticed the outfit the other girl was wearing, and realised that it was somewhat familiar. As is, it looked similar to the clothes she donned when she transformed into this "Sailor Alpha" person.

"Why are you wearing that clothing? It seems quite similar to my clothing when I transform using this." She then pulled out a dark-green-and-black pen that has the Greek symbol for Alpha on It's top.

☼ Sailor Sun ☼

Sailor Sun followed the others, her gaze mostly focused on the unfamiliar street scenes as they headed towards the library. She felt a nagging sense that she had seen this before—or perhaps something very much like it. Yet try as she might, she couldn't recall anything more concrete. All she had was that faint impression, no actual memories. Perhaps this was just a symptom of her mind trying to make sense of something unfamiliar.

As she walked along, she wondered about the small baggie with the threads in it. Perhaps this would be enough of a clue to set them on the right track to solving these crimes, but maybe not.

Her thoughts were briefly interrupted when Sailor Splash, currently leading the way, bumped into another young woman. Dark reddish-brown eyes watched the pair curiously as they talked, waiting to learn more.

"Why are you wearing that clothing? It seems quite similar to my clothing when I transform using this." She then pulled out a dark-green-and-black pen that has the Greek symbol for Alpha on Its top.

Splash looked at the girl thinking, 'Why is she making the same mistake I did earlier?' then told her, "quiet down there...you shouldn't be announcing that to people you don't know. I'm a senshi that's why...my name is Sailor Splash..." Turning to her friends she said, "This is Sailor Koronis and this Bright girl here is Sailor Sun. We are currently on a trip to the library to scan these threads that Sun found... It's ok Sailor Sun.. you can show her... I trust her." 'I hope this is a good idea' She thought

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"Oh? I didn't even know there were more people with powers like mine. I didn't even know what they were called. 'Senshi'... sounds important, in a a way." She looked over to the 2 'Senshi' behind Sailor Splash, one male with light skin and clothing primarily blue and purple, who was introduced as Sailor Koronis, and another female one, with dark skin and very brown/orange/red clothing, labelled Sailor Sun.

"Well, it's nice to meet you all." She said with a cute little smile. "May I join your group? I feel there is more I need to learn about senshi, and I could be of help in your analysis."



As Sailor Koronis noticed the girl Sailor Splash bumped into, he noticed something... ever-so-slightly un-natural in how she spoke. Was it the lack of colloquial? Maybe she's autistic, he thought. He heard that people with autism are slow to catch up with colloquials, so it seemed only fitting.

"May I join your group? I feel there is more I need to learn about senshi, and I could be of help in your analysis."


"Well, I'm not the one you asked, but I'd be fine with you joining. I don't see much reason not to."

☼ Sailor Sun ☼

The fire-haired girl brought forth the small plastic bagging containing the threads, holding it so the newcomer could see it. It didn't really look like much, especially considering they hadn't found anything else, but at this point it was all they had.

"Threads," she said. "They're clues."

Personally, the mannerisms of this new person didn't really strike her in any particular way. Of course, they could have partially been because of her own lack of familiarity with what to expect from people in this place.

"May I join your group? I feel there is more I need to learn about senshi, and I could be of help in your analysis."


Sailor Splash looked to the others for support than said "Sure I am fine with it if you two are...Welcome to the team, what is your senshi name..."

SUDDENLY!!!!



"YES PLEASE TELL US ALL YOUR REAL NAMES!! not that it will matter when I'm through with you!" Steamstress yelled out at the heroes and even though she was at a 3 V 1 disadvantage it didn't bother her. "How shall I dispose of you brats?? Shall I turn you against each other or maybe put you all to sleep and scatter you so you won't interfere..."



Splash turned around quickly and saw a familiar face: Melissa. She was partially confused at why that random woman from before was acting like this but it didn't matter. She got into a defensive stance and said, "What are you talking about Melissa? Why would you want to hurt us?"

 


"Melissa?? oh that's right... I told you my first name before...oops silly me..." She then caught her eyes on the bag one of them was carrying, "MY THREADS!! you THIEVES!! you took my threads..how did you even get into my home to begin with...no matter I will dispose of you like a horrid miss-sewn rug!" She then took the giant scissors of her back and broke them and threw one before the Rainbow brats feet... It slammed into the street in front of Splash then Steamstress raised her hand up towards it and it came up flying back to her...    



Splash listened to her talk then jumped back when she had scissors thrown at her??!! 'What the hell' She thought and then told the others, "Get ready guys...."

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"I feel like saying my name would be too slow at this point."

She took the pen she got out into the air and called out "Alpha Power, make up!" After a brief black-and-green light-show, Sailor Alpha stood triumphantly.

"Okay, Sailor Splash, what is the plan?"



"WHOA!" Sailor Koronis yelped as the giant scissor half slammed the ground in front of Splash. 

"Well, at least we don't have to analyse the threads now. The culprit introduced her identity herself!" he remarked as he held out his hand and formed the Koronis Scepter in front of him and took a readied pose.

☼ Sailor Sun ☼

She quickly jumped back when the new arrival threw a gigantic pair of scissors at them. Sailor Sun wasn't planning on running, but she wasn't about to simply stand still when someone else attacked the group she was part of! Koronis was right—the woman's reaction made it clear that the threads belonged to her. If that was the case, it didn't seem like a stretch to think she was involved in some way in the robberies they were looking in to.

Sailor Sun took a defensive stance, hoping to brace herself if Melissa lashed out again.

She caught the other half of her scissors with ease then saw the boy bring a staff of some kind out. She looked at him cocking her head to the side slightly, "A Scepter? What are you now...a high school band leader? I thought you were one of those Senshi your friend back there was talking about...and you rainbows for brains...is that your real hair or did you use crayons...and you over there...with that outfit I sware you must be Orange Juice girl right? I thought I would be able to have a serious enemy to fight for once but maybe you won't be those ones for long!" She broke her scissors again tossing one at the quiet one (Alpha) and ran at the boy band leader (Koronis) wanting to slash him.

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Sailor Alpha managed to dodge out of the way of the incoming scissor blade. She then efficiently looked at the blade as it flew away and called out "Alpha Flame Snipe!" As she pointed at it, causing the blade to instantly catch fire.



Sailor Koronis managed to meet the scissor-piece blade-to-blade, as he blocked it with the tip of the Scepter. He then stood back upright and retorted Melissa's snark:

"Boy band leader!? Did you even see the tip of this and noted that there's a blade on the tip? Not any worse than you, with your giant scissors that you just chuck at your foes! Seriously, scissors as a weapon? Are you seriously so enamoured with textiles that you picked scissors over a sword?" He then pulled back the Scepter as it surged with energy. "Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that this is also a really long wand?" He said as he pointed the tip towards Melissa.

"Koronis Lightning Beam!"

Chenille Quill "The Needleworker"

Their early departure from the store was of no consequence to Chenille. If the Steamstress said it was time to go, then it was time to go. If she said it was time to fight, then it was time to fight.

Things were simpler that way, and it left Chenille able to focus on her work all the more for it.

She began a whole new piece when she entered the mansion once more, focusing on a lot of whites and pale blues. Her inspiration was of her leader and the stark cleanliness of her appearance. There was a charm to bright and vivid colors, but sometimes the void of those colors could be just as impressive.

So caught up in her work, it wasn't until she paused for a time that she realized that Steamstress needed her help. She didn't quite know how that thought came into being, she only knew that it was strong. With only some reluctance, she set the project aside and quickly made her way to find the Steamstress.

She arrived on the scene just as a boy was casting a lightning spell. In an instant, Chenille summoned a mass of her needles to try and protect her leader, the finely sharped points glinting in the light. From each needle, a pale thread trailed, remnants from her latest work.

With a flick of her wrist, the needles took flight, aiming to pierce theirselves through the boy's clothing and attempt to pin him in place. As this occurred, she began to summon even more needles to her side.

Steamstress jumped back trying to avoid the lightning and shut her eyes only to open them finding herself safe from harm...at least currently. Her eyes moved over to see the body of her friend Chenille protecting her and she watched her friend go after the boy who tried to fry her. She said, "Chenille... thank you so much for doing that for me...that silly boy tried to fry me like an egg" She then ran around trying to find her other scissors-half and found it in a wall still on fire... "Damn you girl lighting my tools on fire...do you know what fire does to scissors?" Steamstress then ran straight at Alpha and grabbed her in a bear hug...now Steamstress was not strong in the strength areas but that wasn't her plan. She then reached one arm forward to call her now flaming scissor half to her...



Splash was going to attack after Koronis did but the appearance of the other women startled her and she now had to choose between attacking Melissa, attacking or protecting Koronis and at the last second she saw Melissa grab their new friend and saw the flaming scissor-half coming at her back. She quickly chooses their new friend and yells, "DEEP-END TORRENT!!" Shooting it at Melissa... "Try to get loose from her!!" She also yelled.   



Steamstress heard the rainbow girl yell an attack that would come straight for her and the other girl. Steamstress waited for the last second before letting her go and getting out of the way and even guided her scissor-half tool through the attack which seemed to be made of water which put out the flames, as she grabbed her other half snapping them back together.

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Sailor Alpha was unsuccessful in dodging the wave, and the result was something noone but her would've expected:

First off, she completely froze. Stance, face, everything physical locked up in an instant. Then, she started twitching in very unnatural, stiff ways. Her arms, fingers, neck and eyelids all moved randomly and, well, robotically. She technically was speaking, but all it was was a repetitive "uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-", like a stuck record.

After about 15 seconds, her voice completely went and her body also went completely limp, flopping to the ground with a metallic klunk, her face frozen in what is best described as a half confused-surprised face with a closed mouth. While her eyes were still open, the glow they seemed to emenate were also gone.
the last sound coming from her in this ordeal was the faint sound of internal motors whirring to a standstill.

OOC:

Sailor Koronis managed to partially dodge the sudden needles. A few did hit and rip his fuku, but none hurt him, thankfully.

However, before he could respond to anything, he saw the whole ordeal with Melissa, Sailor Splash and Sailor Alpha, and saw... whatever Sailor Alpha did after being hit. What that ordeal did do was make him quite suspicious.

"Hold the phone." He said as he slammed the Scepter's butt into the ground. "Koronis Area Scan!"

As he got a hold of the scan, he analysed what he saw/felt: "Okay, so most of us here are part-natural, part-magical, like I thought. But Her?" He said as he looked towards Sailor Alpha's limp body. "Part-mechanical, Part-magical." His eyebrows lowered as his face grew more worried. "I think she's actually an android, and she didn't want us to know, at least not yet. Your attack must've shorted her out by accident, Splash."

☼ Sailor Sun ☼

The woman who attacked them was joined by reinforcements, who already proved by her counter-attack on Koronis that she was dangerous in her own right. Sailor Sun didn't have long to be thankful that she hadn't been targeted—Splash and the others were engaged in battle, including the girl they had just met—who turned out to be very interesting, after all. Her reaction to the douse of water from the rainbow-haired sailor soldier certainly wasn't something Sun expected. Koronis's explanation helped a bit, but she didn't really have a grasp on "mechanical"... And battle was not the time to seek clarification.

Something pulsed within her, a heat in her chest, telling her what to do: she was supposed to help protect.

Melissa wasn't near Alpha anymore, and it was her Sailor Sun turned her sights on. The young woman began to spin, gathering her energy, a visible current of warm air circling around her. When she stopped, directing the warm solar energy charged with electromagnetic inference outwards, she aimed at the Seamstress.

"Magnetic Wind!"

Steamstress got her scissors back and she was happy until that other orange brat yelled out something about magnets and wind or whatever and Steamstress turned to look and was hit straight on by it. She suddenly felt like parts of her were on fire and burning but she didn't see any fire after she was knocked down trying to relive the pain...she was getting tired of all this and yelled, "THIS ISN'T OVER YOU BRATS!! Come on Chenille were going home...but send them a parting gift before we go..."



"I think she's actually an android, and she didn't want us to know, at least not yet. Your attack must've shorted her out by accident, Splash."


"I DID WHAT??!! What is going on?? I didn't mean to hurt her...we need to get her to a safe place!" Splash was in a panic after what happened and trying to figure out everything. She currently wasn't paying attention to Melissa and her cohort...

"Don't fret, Splash. When i scanned, the mechanical part I felt in her didn't seem to be broken, just non-functioning. I think she'll be fine, we just need to finish this fight-"

"THIS ISN'T OVER YOU BRATS!! Come on Chenille were going home...but send them a parting gift before we go..."


"...Or we could just fend off whatever's going to happen now and then check on her. Whatever works," he remarked as he took a readied pose again.

Her attack only partially hit her target, some needles pinning him but not enough to keep the boy in place.

Chenille's eyes narrowed at the sight of the missed attack, but her expression didn't alter. Steamstress still remained the main target, an option that she didn't account for. She'd thought that her own attack would make her the target of at least one person, but she supposed that the fact she'd missed didn't help show off her powers.

Steamstress called for them to go home, but the promise of a parting gift was too much to ignore. She wanted to show these humans that her own powers were the ones to worry about--that way, when next they met, they would leave her leader alone.

A flick of the wrist, and a cloud of glimmering needles hovered around her, angling sharpened points at each of the gathered senshi. "Goodbye," was all she bothered to say before sending the needles to sink into their targets.

With the attack in place, Chenille turned to follow the Steamstress. There was no reason to stay if her leader wanted to leave.

As he was already readied and alert, Sailor Koronis saw the needles that were flying towards him. He swiftly pointed the Scepter at them, calling "Koronis Lightning Beam!" Again as another bolt fired. He knew it would not destroy them, but what he was planning was to stop them mid-air. Sure enough, the force of the bolt caused them to stop... all except one outlier, which dived straight for his lower-left leg,, causing him to yelp in pain as it hit him.

"Erghh... just my luck." He remarked as he stumbled downwards onto the ground, sitting, not laying.

Splash tried to shake off what she just learned when the other women apparently known as Chenille sent an attack at Sailor Koronis and apparently was too late to protect him. She ran over to him and asked, "Koronis...are you ok? Do you need help getting up? Also, Sailor Sun are you doing alright as well?" 'I don't like the attitude of Melissa and that Chenille woman but I guess they are our criminals' She thought.



Steamstress went home letting Chenille in as well then got mad real quickly knocking a few things over and throwing something down the hall. "Dammit, Chenille...those damn brats hurt us...they will pay soo much for hurting us I SWARE IT!! We are lovely, beautiful women who don't deserve to be treated like worn-down sewing equipment..." She then sighed hugging Chenille, "I will get us stronger...don't worry" Steamstress then let go and went upstairs to her room to lay on her bed...she was tired.

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The Linen Shop proved to be exhausting. So many 'eye witnesses', so much crime-scene tape, so many suspicious glances thrown her way for showing up at the scene of a crime, but she hadn't been an idiot. She flashed them the fabricated PRESS Identification badge she had stopped to print off along the way, knowing her credentials would be questioned, and they didn't even second guess her. With a flick of her wrist her nanobot had linked her into the system and she started downloading the footage of the robbery even as she recorded an interview the cops were having with the store owner from a discrete distance. When it became clear that the owner knew nothing but was talking just to make himself feel better, she shut off the recording and, an alert pinging in her visor, smirked as she started down another avenue, her wrists flicking to activate her holographic keyboards.

Hacking into the police computer really wasn't difficult at all.

Sure, she had to fight her way through a few firewalls, but then, just like that, she had access to everything they had, from crime scene photos to analysis of said crime scenes and detailed lists of everything that had gone missing, which, of course, she copied over to her own servers.

Piece. Of. Cake.

She didn't even need to visit the last jewelry store that had been robbed, she had everything she needed right there. Trying hard to feign a look of sympathy as a worker cornered her to talk about how they didn't know what this would mean for their own future, wondering if the store had been insured, thinking about whether the fabric that had been left was any good or if the possible glass from the break-in would render it unsellable and if, that was the case, they could just take it off the owner's hands, yadda yadda yadda, Ruth was finishing the download and starting up her own program. Nodding as though she were listening, she actually started typing away to make a simple algorithm to scan the video files for similarities on the day of the break-in or any day leading up to it.

Give her ten minutes and she'd have the thief and all the proof needed to back up her claim, and she wouldn't even need to go anywhere to make the declaration to the police.

"Ugh, I think so. Is your house nearby? We could recuperate there." As he spoke, he detransformed back into William, having been tired out from the needle going somewhat deep into his leg.

At the same time, he heard a faint sound: Whrrrrrrrrrrrr...

"Also, was that the sound of a motor starting up that I heard?"

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Indeed, and it was coming from Sailor Alpha, having just reawakened (or rebooted, take your pick) after letting all that water drain out of her. She slowly leant back up, still dazed.

"Ohh... where am I? Where did those people we were fighting go?" She queried as she looked around confusedly.

While waiting on Sailor Sun's answer Koronis now William asked about staying at Splash's house till they are rested up. "Sure do you want me to try to carry you? that needle went into your leg pretty bad? wait? Huh??" She then saw Sailor Alpha apparently come back to them, Splash bowed to her, "Miss Alpha...I am really sorry about what happened, please forgive me."

"If you think you can carry me, you can try, sure. Just do it when you're ready."

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"Don't worry about what you did. You had no idea that would happen, and you were in the 'heat of battle', so to speak." She paused as she dwelled on what happened. If she, from her perspective, was hit with water and instantly passed out, her body must've shorted out from the water. And since that happened in front of 5 people... Uh oh.

"Sailor Splash, do you know why I passed out from that attack?"

Chenille Quill "The Needleworker"

Steamstress's outburst caught her by surprise, but Chenille did not react outwardly. Instead, she waited for her leader to calm down, to get the pent up anger out. If Steamstress needed to tear down the entire house, so be it.

Thankfully, it didn't come to that. It would have been such a pain to clean up.

The promise Steamstress left her with made Chenille hum to herself, now alone. To get stronger. It was true that she spent all of her free time working with her needles but it was more of a pastime these days, something she did because it was a vital part of her. It didn't necessarily help her grow stronger in any way.

Chenille stood there, wondering how to help her leader in this endeavor. A spark of inspiration came to her some time later. It was only a tiny idea, was it even possible..? She didn't know, but she would find out.

With the plan weaving itself within her mind, Chenille retired up into her own room, fingers twitching with magic.

Splash held out her hands to William and told him "Just hold still" She then conjured up some water from around them and lifted him up in the air. "Again..dont move too much..." She turned her head to Sailor Alpha, "Truthfully I would love to know but I think I might know..."

William managed to keep still as he waited to be picked up. He had kinda forgotten that Sailor Splash could, y'know, manipulate water at will and was kinda surprised when he was picked up by a controlled body of water.

"First off, thanks. Second off, I wish I could do something like that, like with controlling lightning or something."

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"I felt like you may have known already. I would prefer to talk about it in private, however." She then stood back up and willingly detransformed, as the 2 they were fighting had seemingly gone for the time being.

"Also, you don't have to call me Alpha," she said as she held out a hand to shake with Splash, "Call me Sally, Sally Thomson. I imagine you have a non-senshi name as well, what is it? Do you know the names of the others as well?"