Top Speed Witch

Chosen muse: Top Speed:

★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ —  strength ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ —  offense ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ —  defense ★★★★★★★★★★+ —  speed ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ —  durability ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆—  accuracy ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ —  agility ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ —  stamina ★★★★★★★★★☆ —  teamwork ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ —  stealth   ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ —  close combat         ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ —  bladed weapons ( swords, dagger/s ) ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ —  blunt weapons ( club/s, staff/s ) ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆—  ranged weapons ( archery, gun/s ) ★★★★★★★★★☆ —  superpowers / abilities ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ —  traps/setups   ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ —  medic

Any lasting injuries from combat?

 None.

Fighting style? ( BOLD any that apply. )

commander / duelist / honorable / dishonorable / would have others do their fighting / stealthy / long-ranged / melee / technological / sorcery / superhuman abilities / has fought in an illegal tourney / a lover of fighting / a hater of fighting / cowardly / reckless / strategic / uses underhanded tricks / renowned for their skill / trained / untrained / keeps skills secret / won a battle / lost a battle / ruthless / merciful

“Absolutely. I don’t think I could say no after seeing you fly around like that. Just…gimme a sec.” Monika took out her phone for a bit as she seemed to be texting someone, but she was actually modifying the code so generic, NPC-like students would spawn within the area inside, and that they would pay no heed to Top Speed’s eccentric appearance. “All set! Shall we?”

As Monika texted Top Speed thought she saw a student walking by one of the windows, but then they suddenly seemed to disappear.  Must’ve been a curtain or something.

Ripple tried to avoid making eye contact with Top Speed, staring down into her lap, however after a moment she slowly brought her gaze upwards.

It was so strange seeing Top Speed again. Even knowing she wasn’t real, Ripple hadn’t thought she’d ever get to see her again. It felt too good to be true. Like she didn’t deserve to talk to her, even in a dream. Yet… here she was.

“I’ll… try.”

That was as much as Ripple could offer. She would try to take care of herself, even if it was just because she couldn’t afford to get killed while Frederica was still at large. If she could, Ripple would try to return home to N-city. She would try to see Snow White again, to let her old friend decide the punishment she should receive for her crimes.

She couldn’t promise she’d succeed, but she could at least swear that she’d try.

Top Speed’s grip tightened on Ripple’s shoulder for a moment.  She felt so powerless.  Ripple just seemed so lost and she wanted to help her, but in the end this was just a dream.  A dream that was going to end soon.

“…Please.”  Top Speed pulled Ripple in close for a hug.  Even if this was just a dream, she needed to do anything she could for Ripple. She was her partner after all.  “Please, just say you’ll make it back.  Even if you can be brash and stubborn and you get annoyed at me sometimes, you’re also kind and I know you care about others way more than you let on and you always put helping others first and-” Top Speed said, her voice getting more and more emotional as she went on before cutting herself off to pull herself back together upon noticing tears had started streaming down her face onto Ripple’s shoulder.

“Uh…yeah, it’s nice to meet you too….” Monika was surprised. What did she just witness? Was this some kind of irregularity that she overlooked? Nonetheless, she tried to play it off. “I’ll be quite frank and say you’re the strangest thing I’ve seen so far, flying on a broom and all. But I suppose your inquiry of me means that there’s trouble afoot…would you care to share your information with me? I’d more than love to help out with the best of my ability.”

Top Speed had been asked by Fav to investigate some strange readings he’d been picking up.  Top Speed flew down towards where Fav said the source of the disturbance was, a normal looking high school.  

Top Speed was right. There was nothing anyone could say to change Ripple’s mind now.  Everything had gone too far… Pythie Frederica couldn’t be allowed to hurt anyone else.

Ripple didn’t like being stubborn or set in her ways, not after what being like that had cost her in the past. However, with Frederica it was different. Frederica wasn’t like Swim Swim, and Ripple wasn’t doing this for the sake of revenge. Unlike Swim Swim, Frederica would continue to hurt more and more people. She would never stop unless someone made her.

To protect all of the innocent people that Frederica would target… to prevent her from hurting Snow White anymore… Ripple had to do this.

Ripple frowned and looked away. That wasn’t a promise that she was sure she could make. There were people that she trusted- those who survived the B-city incident and, of course, Snow herself. There were others that she could hypothetically reach out to as well, but…

If Ripple tried to take down Frederica alone and failed, if she tried and got herself hurt or killed, that would be fine, but if she tried with others and got them all killed, she would never be able to forgive herself.

“I don’t… want to lead anyone to their deaths.”

Top Speed put both hands on Ripple’s shoulders and slowly turned her so she was facing her.  She looked Ripple in the eye, she had a gentle smile on her face although her eyes were still a bit red from crying.  She felt like she need to keep smiling for Ripple, she needed to be strong here.

  “Fufu~” Star Breaker might’ve realised that Top Speed was reacting to her outburst, but she was blocking that part out. As far as she’s concerned, that didn’t happen. 

   “Hm? Who?” Was that some other magical girl? No, wait, she said ‘he’, so… magical boy? Did those exist? “I dunno who that is, but I never got assigned any mentors. Not that I need it. I’m quite experienced at being a magical girl, you see~”

“Oh really?”  Top Speed responded, not sounding convinced.  She was confused about why she didn’t know Fav, but there’d be time to ask about that later.  She was more interest in seeing if Star Breaker was as experienced as she claimed to be.

Moeka felt a little uncomfortable at the question, and made sure to avoid the gaze of the woman. The truth was a rather ugly sort of one; though she was a journalist at one point in time, she had actually been fired not too long after being hired… She was considered “incompetent” at the job, and though that may have been true, the truth was still hurtful. Not that it mattered anyway, though. The job as a journalist was merely a cover for her work as a rounder. It was something that no one else could know about, aside from fellow rounders and her beloved FB. Though she didn’t enjoy it, people who knew too much had to disappear… Not being able to divulge the actual truth, Moeka decided that she needed to make up an answer to give her… [text;] Thank you for the compliment! <3 [text;] These pictures aren’t for an article, but i’ve written some paranormal articles here and there! [text;]I find that sort of thing fascinating~ She had never actually written any articles like that, but that last part wasn’t actually a lie. She did find paranormal phenomena interesting and wouldn’t actually mind doing a little more research on the matter.

Tsubame did notice Moeka shifting uncomfortably when her job was brought up.  She thought about pushing further on it, but thought better of it.  As curious as she was Moeka seemed like the shy type and she didn’t want to scare her off by bringing up something uncomfortable.  Besides there was something else was wanted to ask about anyway.

   “I was asking what you did in general, but this works too. Here I thought the broom was just to match your witchy look.” She supposed with a name like ‘Top Speed’, it was only natural to have a power that made her really fast. 

   “Hmm… yeah, let’s see…” She put a hand up to her chin in thought. What would be a cool way to describe her powers? She had plenty of bombs and laser apparati with her, so maybe something like ‘To have many advanced weapons from the future!’. Though, in a way, wasn’t she herself a weapon? “Aha… hahahaha…!” 

   Reika could feel herself suddenly breaking out into laughter at the thought of weapons, much less being one. It slipped out, and she just as quickly snapped back to her senses. She blinked a few times, then started speaking as if nothing had happened. 

   “Oh yeah! ‘To be exceptionally powerful’, that’s my power. Not just physical strength, but strong in a lot of ways. Strength, speed, durability, flexibility… And strong enough to fly too! Which most magical girls can’t, it seems.” Just don’t press her on mental strength. She might start laughing uncontrollably again.

“Uh, neat!  Congrats!”  Top Speed replied, very obviously put off by Star Breaker’s sudden fit of laughter.  Maybe she was just really excited that she got picked to be a magical girl?  Maybe she just really excited about it.  She did only recently become one after all.