2832/Sandwich Not Sand Witch

Sandwich Not Sand Witch
Date of Scene:	11 November 2025
Location:	Pikarigaoaka Ward
Synopsis:	They just wanted sandwiches - but it's the Sand Witch that Usagi, Adora, Takuto, Koji, and Amy will have to deal with. The sand goes away, right?
Cast of Characters:	Usagi Tsukino, Takuto Tsunashi, Adora Rainbowfist, Ikiko Hisakata, Koji Silvia, Amanda Faust

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Usagi Tsukino has posed:
It's lunch time on Monday, and Usagi Tsukino has been possessed of a wicked desire - the desire to leave campus for lunch hour and get something else, besides what's on offer at the cafeteria. The cafeteria is admittedly well-stocked, but sometimes the thrilling allure of being able to just walk off-campus for something else seizes her and this time, she decides to follow the impulse.

She is determined to not be alone in this, and as thus has called upon a group of friends. Having left campus in the direction of Pikarigaoka, she calls, "Okay, so what kind of sando are you guys after, because this conbini is having a limited time fruit flavor and I'm really curious if it's just pumpkin bread flavor again-"

Everything is calm, which is probably the first sign of trouble, but there's no real signs, just yet. There's not a Puella among them, so their extra sensory perception of Witch trouble isn't available.

Takuto Tsunashi has posed:
Takuto has his hands jammed in his puffy jacket's pockets as he slopes along behind Usagi, chewing on a lollipop stick. His hair's a spiky beacon to the world of Yes Hello There's A Star Driver Here -- rather like it literally says on the back of his jacket, in a glittery logo, STAR*DRIVER. He takes the lollipop stick out of his mouth to say dubiously, "Fruit flavor sandwich? Not, like, just a fruit sandwich. But like ham dusted with grape flavoring just sounds gross."

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
"There's these sandwiches with cream and fruits in them right? I actually haven't had many of those, just the strawberry one. Maybe something interesting and weird! Like. Uhm. Oh! The one with the fruit named after the bird!" Adora says. Of course Adora went with Usagi when the offer was made. Who wouldn't want to turn down food, after all! If there's actually going to be kiwi-cream sandwiches is debatable, because Usagi is probably right. It's probably pumpkin again.

Of course, being Adora, she's talking with her hands, which were gesturing in ways that might help with that whole 'calm' thing. Definitely.

"Huh. Grape ham... that's kind of weird. Don't they use pineapple sometimes when making ham? Grape might not be /that/ bad... though... ham dusted with grape flavoring... even I wouldn't try making that, and I'm still pretty new at cooking." Adora wrinkles her nose at that thought. Grape flavoring was, like, /the worst/.

Ikiko Hisakata has posed:
"Yeah, ham and grape definitely doesn't sound like a good combo," Ikiko agrees with Takuto and Adora. "Dusting it with pineapple flavoring would definitely work, although I've heard that pineapple was mostly used for tough hams, so the enzymes would soften up the meat."

A pause as she contemplates flavors. "Probably shouldn't use artificial orange flavoring on ham, either," she adds with a shrug.

Koji Silvia has posed:
Trailing along behind Usagi is Koji, with an well-worn looking army surplus jacket over his school uniform top, except this one is actually older merch, specifically a G.I.JOE logo on the shoulder that looks half-gone. As the topic turns to the odd ingredients that can come in sandos, he feels almost required to speak up.

    "The best sandos to judge a conbini on are pork katsu or egg. I mean, those are usually the ones you get when you go. Honestly, I want to see if they hand-make their onigiri or if they just ship in."

Hands reflexively come out of his pocket, holding his Device with it, and his thumb runs along the folded smartphone frame again before adding, "What if... you had candied bacon instead of ham? Then you could pair it with plenty of fruits so you get crunchy with sweet."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"The one with the fruit named after the bird... the one with the fruit named after the bird... okay, no one tell me, I'll get it- KIWI!" Usagi is so thrilled with herself for figuring out which sando Adora wants to try that she yells loud enough to scare an actual bird away, and then - cringes, sticking her tongue out.

"Grape ham? Grape ham, no that's so - ewwwwww, no! No orange dust flavor OR fruit flavor ham, absolutely not."

She runs around and ducks behind Koji, using him as a teasing shield.

"Koji-kun! Protect me from the evil orange and grape dusted ham sando!"

He, of course, is thinking of actually good flavor combos, which she has to credit him with, considering the awesome spread at her wedding. "Candied bacon would be really good, actually, but I don't know about bacon and fruit... you've got to invent it so we can taste it. That's the only way it will worrrRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAA!"

The perfectly ordinary sentence turns into a shriek of surprise as Usagi drops. And drops. And... yeah, drops, right into a sandy-distortion in the world.

The entrance to a Witch's Labyrinth. Right on the floor of a random street.

Tumbling through the labyrinth, Usagi shrieks all the way down and lands face first in an enormous sand dune, only to pop out going, "PLEH, PLEH, OH NO, UGH, IT'S IN MY MOUTH, BLARGH, IT'S ON MY TONGUE!"

Koji Silvia has posed:
When Usagi suddenly falls away in midstep, Koji whips his head around to see what is going on... only to get elbow-swatted by the bun-haired blonde and knocked off balance, and is sent tumbling down another direction. Unlike her, though, he can immediately throw himself into a roll to control his direction and not get a face-full of sand.

    << SET UP. >>

By the time he hits the same dune, Koji is no longer Koji, and Hanzo ends up thumping his back into the sand, just the stair up into the Labyrinth's false sky, "OH... COME ON!"

He throws his hands up, sending a couple whisps of sand into the air, "REALLY?!"

Takuto Tsunashi has posed:
"Oh well then, if that's how it is," says Takuto, expertly flicking his chewed-on lollipop stick to ding off a streetlight and land in the trash. "Apprivoiser."

He henshins as he dives in after Usagi without otherwise waiting, still just the outline of a naked CLAMP noodle as his feet disappear into the sidewalk--

--by the time he reaches the bottom, he's flying instead of falling, and he alights gently next to Usagi. "Do you need something to tie around your face?" he asks her in alarm.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Oh huh, we match!" Amy comments to Koji, also wearing an old army surplus jacket that's way too big for her. It does not have a faded G.I. Joe patch though.

    "Pumpkin?" Amy echoes. "...I guess it is, technically, a fruit." She nods at Takuto's and Ikiko's comments about the idea of a fruit-flavored sandwich. She stares at Adora, trying to figure out which fruit is named after a bird.

    "Honestly, if I'm going out for a special sandwich... Maybe an italian one with all the fixins? Ham, roast beef, salami, cheese, onion, lettuce, tomato... I had a softshell crab sandwich once, that was pretty good but they probably don't have that. I heard beef brisket is good but only if properly prepared so they probably don't have that either. Maybe a reuben, I haven't had one in years actually..."

    "...We're just going to a conbini? ...I don't know, then. Maybe a meatball sub?"

    She nods to Usagi. "Candied bacon souAAAAA WIIITCH!"

    Luckily for her, she henshins in midair and uses an explosion to slow her fall at the end before dropping onto the dunes. "Oh ick I hate sand getting everywhere..." She suddenly has her messenger bag back and lends Usagi her water bottle before disappearing it back to... wherever her stuff goes while she's henshined.

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
"Maybe better to use real fruit! Not that I have much of a chance to properly cook, the dorms mostly don't have much room for cooking stuff, so I end up making a lot of sandwiches." Though she /does/ make judicial use of the shared kitchens when she can for more interesting dishes. Like fried rice.

...She makes a /lot/ of fried rice.

"Candied bacon is pretty good! I had it once. Honestly pork seems to go pretty well with sweet in general since it's kind of a sweet meat. Mostly. Except when it's not. Hmm... but bacon is a bit hard to make in the dorms too, much less candied bacon. I'd have to sneak over to the cafe apartments I think."

There is a moment when Adora mostly shuts up, and that's when Usagi is trying to figure out the name of the 'kiwi' fruit. She's just smiling as she listens, looking towards the group quietly.

It's nice to have friends.

And then Usagi shrieks.

Adora doesn't even hesitate, lifting her arm up as the glint of her bracelet becomes visible under her jacket, the gemstone within glowing faintly. "For the honor... of Greyskull!" She calls out, the outline of the Sword of Power appearing in her hand as she jumps towards the same hole Usagi fell in, transforming mid-fall towards that same sand dune.

Which she hits with her sandaled feet! And promptly starts to slide down.

... To her credit, she's staying mostly standing up as she slides down the slope a bit, her feet sinking a good few inches into the dune.

It's probably all still being consumed in the golden glow of She-Ra's initial transformation helping her be extra awesome that she doesn't flop over, honestly.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi is wiping sand off her face and feeling vaguely bad about knocking Koji in - not like, that bad because they were obviously all going to have to come in but still kind of bad - when she's offered a water bottle to clean her face and asked if she needs something to tie around her face, and she shakes her head.

"Bleh, no, I'm -" she takes a swig of water and swishes it around her mouth before spitting to get rid of all the sand. "I'm good."

She thrusts her hand in the air, the other clutching her broach, and light floods her form, fills it in as silhouette, before vanishing to reveal - "Moon Crystal Power, Make Up!"

- Sailor Moon! Duh.

"I can't believe we fell into a sand witch trap. This is so dumb!"

And it's about to get dumber! Rising from the sand all around them come great big red ants. The sort that interrupt picnics and bite irritatingly - only, where red ants are usually only big in comparison to regular ants, these are about the size of a horse, and beginning rushing over the sand to them, easily navigating the loose grains. There are about a dozen of them altogether.

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
She-Ra takes a moment to glance around, making sure that everyone landed safely and nobody needs pulled out of the sand. Which it looks like everyone ~mostly~ landed okay. Intact. More or less. Except perhaps for their dignity. Okay good.

...What's /not/ good is there are giant red ants rising from the sand.

"Huh. This is honestly kind of weirdly normal. Aren't the labyrinth things normally actually really weird and stuff?" She-Ra comments. Well, whatever.

She flicks the Sword of Power, which the movement causes it to curve as it shrinks, becoming a crescent moon boomerang.

"We don't have time for a plan, right? Sooo... time for smashing? Yep. Smashing time." She-ra nods.

And then she calls out, "Magnificent Moon!"

Afterwards she quickly channels rainbow energy into the Crescent of Power, then spins, throwing the boomerang at the end of her spin to send it flying in a quick, rotating arc. Its sharp edge and glowing rainbow energy aimed to strike as many of the ... probably-familiars as possible to make sure that there's plenty of breathing room for everyone to get ready.

Koji Silvia has posed:
First sand, and now ants...

    "Yeah... so it's the usual. I'll go high and try and locate where the..."

He can't bring himself to say it, he really can't. It's in his eyes, and the set of his mouth under the mask.

    "Yeah I'll just go high. And Yes, Moon... I have snacks for after."

Pointing his hand upwards, the semi-ninja-dressed young man calls out, "Reverse Chain Bind!"

    << REVERSE CHAIN BIND. >>

A small circle appears in the air and shoots down to Hanzo's arm, wrapping around it, and then yanks him UPWARDS! Once there's some good velocity, the spell vanishes, and he begins to look around, scanning with his Device for the source of the reality-bending effect, and any other representations of their trauma.

Takuto Tsunashi has posed:
"Oh shit you're Hanzo?" the Ginga Bishounen blurts as Koji picks himself up. And then he flushes as scarlet as his hair and his eyes and he half-turns away, swiftly, and says "...of course you're Hanzo. I think we're allowed to be loud on this one. Amy-chan, you said it was a Wit--DAAH BUGS!!!"

He slams one fist into his chest, "Star Swordo! EMERAUDE!!" and pulls out a glowing green energy sword, then repeats the process with the other hand and a blue sword, "Star Swordo! SAPHIR!!"

And then he just throws in and starts pureeing enormous fire ants, going absolutely ham. "AMY-CHAN HOW DO WE FIND CIVILIANS IN HERE?" he yells from the middle of lots and lots of fire ant blood. "Ow f--"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy can't help a scoff with a slight smile upon realizing they fell in a sand witch trap. If Usagi didn't say that in English, Amy explains the pun now.

    And then ants are upon them.

    "Oh no." Amy starts with the high-caliber pistol and throwing incendiary grenades to make flames some of the ants will have to go around. The moment she tries to move in the sand she sees the problem... but she can still use explosions to jump well enough to not be caught. That doesn't help the others though. "Do you think the Witch will be some kind of antlion-creature...?"

    Find civilians? "If we see any, we get them out of danger. Once we kill the Witch, any that are still in here will be freed. Unless we saw civilians come in here, our priority should be finding and killing the Witch -- maybe no other civilians wandered in yet, and if they did and aren't already--"

    "...If they're still around somewhere, killing the Witch will save them."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Koji takes off into the air. Koji is - as soon as he is more than twenty feet up - beset upon by a sudden raging sandstorm, swirling about him, scouring his skin with fragments of sand and rock, battering him with wild winds of terribly high speed.

But it's localized on Koji, as he stays high up. It's not battering anyone else.

Which is probably a problem for the rest, because Magnificent Moon tears through two ants, revealing glittering geode formations of stone that looks somehow papercraft and crystal all at once. Ah, so that's the weird Witch-y part.

"Oh no, we're in a pun," Sailor Moon moans, once Amy has explained the joke. She takes her tiara off and hurtles it in a swift circle, cosmic energy tearing through two more great ants. "Moon Tiara Action!"

Amy's bombs and grenades are blasting and blowing up ants, hurtling bits of glittering papercraft and rock into the air, while Ginga Bishounen slaguhters ants, whirling into the fight, and as more ants swarm, he's taking them out -

And then one of his legs sinks down to the knee in sand that's gripping, tugging, pulling. Quicksand.

"Usually we get sandwiches before we get the ants what's going on- Koji-kun?!"

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
"What did we do to deserve this pun-ishment? We were just going to get sandwiches! And now we're here in this pile of sand with a witch." She-ra doesn't seem actually all that upset.

In fact she might have a slightly dumb grin on her face in spite of being the noble Princess of Power and all that right now. At least /someone's/ enjoying the situation.

...Sort of. It is still dangerous. Whoops!

There might have been a moment when the two moons crossed each other, briefly creating a full moon in the ant destruction. Possibly.

That /definitely/ wasn't intentional on She-ra's part. At all. Nope.

After catching the swirling Magnificent Moon, the Crescent of Power... rather swiftly becomes a Lasso of Truth -- wait no -- Lasso of Power which is quickly spun over She-Ra's head and thrown towards one of the fire aunts.

Which she would immediately pull on and attempt to leap up and get on the back of one with simple intent.

To ride it over towards Ginga Bishounen, a hand held out towards the magical bishounen to attempt to yank him out of the quicksand.

Surely the ants can move over it, right? Of course, riding a Familiar is probably not She-Ra's /smartest/ idea ever. But hey. It's probably fine. Maybe.

..Okay probably not.

Koji Silvia has posed:
A Sandstorm is one of those rare exceptions where Hanzo's shielding abilities can be limited to useless, especially a storm made of magic and targeted at him. As he tries to bring up his lattice of hexes, every one that appears is almost immediately knocked out by the magical sand of the Labyrinth. Coughing, spitting, even through the mask... and Shin Hanzo, his Device, is unable to cut through it all to get a good reading on the space.

So it's a bit diminishing as he falls from the sandstorm back towards the fight... and right into the quicksand that Ginga Bishounen is in. Having set up for a tuck and roll, it sends a splash of the stuff into the air and gives him some surface tension to work with, until he tries to stand, and just sinks, not a foot from the more vibrantly-dressed young man.

    "Well... at least it's not craft glitter."

Takuto Tsunashi has posed:
"Hey! HEY!! I mean good to know th--ffu--thanks--" says the starry and artfully battered Takuto, more to the ground but also partly to Amy, as he reflexively tries to fly, and gets really mad and a little scared when he's not able to just fly? It's PULLING on him not just with gravity?! There's a blue white silent comet beneath one foot and the other foot's just. Sank.

And still the ants bedevil him! Gamely, he hacks away at them with his swords!! as She-Ra makes her way toward him on her Notable Mount (only Swiftwind is legendary)--

--and then Koji lands with a really impressively audible splat right next to him. He starts to say 'no don't' but it's already too late, Koji is already trying to stand, and already sinking. Takuto winces. "Yeah craft glitter would be way, way, way worse. All right, hang on--"

Takuto vanishes the swords while the ants are at an ebb and yells out, "TAU GALAXY BEAM!" and slams his fists together next to each other in front of him, and it is a homing laser and it goes after So Many Remaining Ants extremely optimistically.

He flops onto his back on the edge of where he was standing before and holds out his comet foot to Koji as he sits up. "Climb up and tell me if there's anything breathing down my neck," he suggests, having forgotten that She-Ra is on her way and probably about to grab him by the scruff of the neck he's worried about things breathing down.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "...I mean, the sando wichu did come before the ants, obviously, we just haven't found it yet." Amy answers, and then looks around for Koji to see why Moon's yelling. And Koji's landed right next to Takuto, who's... sinking. "Quicksand?! Are you kidding me?"

    Of course, after the coffee and sweets monsters, quicksand was inevitable. So many others are already rushing over to help, though... So for now, she focuses on thinning the herd (of ants... do ants travel in herds? Can it be a swarm if each ant is this big?) testing whether gyrojets, minimissiles, or shoulder-launched explosives seem to work best so she can tune to the right amount of boom for efficient ant-destruction.

    Also if there's no other ants around the one Adora's riding, then when^H^H^H if that goes bad they'll be in a better position to handle it.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
The Magnificent Moon and Moon Tiara together make a beautiful full moon of power, annihilating a score of ants. They are just gone. So are the ones Tau Galaxy Beam reduces to glittering dust, as it homes in.

But flight is beyond them - Hanzo is grounded, sinking into the quick sand once he's forced down and Takuto is not able to get into the air, but those on the ground find the only danger is trying not to step into Quick Sand.

Sailor Moon is thankful that as she runs about, she's not sinking into the ground. Ants are coming, and falling, and glittering geode-paper piles up, but she's managing to not sink.

SHE-RA, LEGEND OF AWESOME is riding a giant ant, which does indeed stay right about the sand with no trouble, though it does shriek and toss its head about as she guides it. Ginga Bishounen is YOINKED out of the sand by the back of his jacket, but by god is he tugged free.

Amy finds that all of her weapons are equally effect - it's magic, after all. But the shoulder-launched explosives seem to take more energy for the effect, so maybe she should stick to something smaller?

But eventually the BOOM is enough, that as Ginga Bishounen is tugged away and Hanzo is sinking, the Witch rises.

She's a many armed crab-like, woman-like monstrosity, sunk into the sand at the belly level, mouth a gaping lizard maw, eyes bulging geodes.

Sailor Moon darts swirls in a circle, calling up the enormous pink hearts. "Hanzo! Get ready to get yoinked!"

Because the giant heart rockets forward, Sailor Moon clinging to it at the narrowest point, and throws out her hand for Hanzo to grab and get yeeted along with her as they crash towards the Sand Witch.

"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!"

Koji Silvia has posed:
Trust is a many splendored thing, so Hanzo doesn't even THINK when he's called out for by Sailor Moon. The Device Mage just grabs the hand that grabs his, and is hauled out of the sand and free. As his legs pull free and he's actually able to feel air around them again, he says towards the blonde haired soldier of Love and Justice, "Okay, my turn! Let go when you feel the tug, Sailor Moon!"

    << REVERSE CHAIN BIND. >>

This time two small circles appear in the air behind Sailor Moon and Hanzo, shooting out to grab about their waists if allowed to do so, and pull them back and away from the monster so that the attack can do it's thing. But the Device Mage isn't done as he's about to be hauled off. Pointing one glove up towards the heart, and says, "Shin Hanzo, set Disruptor Blind!"

    << DISRUPTOR ENHANCEMENT - BLIND. >>

So now it's not just a big giant cannonball Heart. It's a Giant SPARKLING, Blindingly Bright Cannonball of a Moon Spiral Heart Attack flying right at the creepy-eyed lizard-lady!

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
Huh there's actually kind of a few things going wrong all at once. Koji in the sand. Bishounen in the sand. Also probably her in the sand soon too if riding the ant doesn't work out properly.

...It's fine. She's She-Ra. She'll figure it out. Yep.

Which actually it turns out it's kind of working out just fine, as Bishounen is yoinked out, and then it looks like Sailor Moon has Hanzo aaaand so She-Ra opts to, from her position of having grabbed Bishounen.

Once she's properly gotten him out of the sand, She-Ra opts to just let go of Bishounen, letting the further momentum of the yank let him fly up into the air.

Because he can fly, right? So he doesn't need her to keep holding onto him.

A moment later and the Lasso of Power has turned into the Baseball Bat of Power, as She-Ra stands on the back of the fire ant, crouching down as she kicks the side of it to force it to turn around the side briefly... before she hops off to said side of it, the Bat of Power glowing brightly for a moment, before she SWINGS it towards the ant, intending to send it flying, and imparting the same rainbow-powered glow from the bat to it as she intends to send it flying towards the Sand Witch!

"Dasshu..."

She leaps after the ant, flying through the air beside it as the bat starts to glow alongside it.

"DEVESTATION!"

And she swings her glowing bat towards the side of the glowing crab-woman, at about the same timing as the baseball bant would strike it, if it sticks together long enough!

Amanda Faust has posed:
    They pop from any attack? Amy mows ants down with two pistols (with homing bullets) akimbo, then!

    And then the crab -- not an antlion after all -- rises from the sand, and the runes overlay on Amy's vision, proclaiming the Witch's name to those who face it.

    She still can't read all the characters, though.

    Amanda looks at the Witch, and clasps her hands together in front of her chest. "I'm sorry you ended up like this. We'll end your suffering quickly and bring you to the goddess, alright?"

    Someone's got to have a little sympathy for the Witch. If things went differently a couple of years ago, Amanda could just as easily be the one in her place, now confronted by mahou that never knew her, and she'd hope someone would have sympathy for her.

    A mercy killing is still just as lethal, though. Since Amy's standing on solid sand already, she doesn't move, she just braces herself as she lifts her arms to shoulder the artillery cannon that suddenly appears on her shoulder.

    BOOM!

    A super-dense cannonball flies right for the Witch's head,

    BOOM! BOOM!

    Two more aimed at the torso, trying to keep the Witch off-balance and throw off any attacks those pincer-arms might be making against her allies!

Takuto Tsunashi has posed:
YOINK! ... YEET! ... why does this sound familiar;;;

The Ginga Bishounen has absolutely no idea what's going on as She-Ra grabs him and yanks him out of the quicksand (which leaves one red thigh-boot schlorped down into the quicksand; he has red socks with yellow stars on them, for the record)-- Koji will see the absolutely comical look of surprise on his face as he sails into the air and just keeps going. It's as he hovers for a split second before he starts falling again that a sandstorm starts to pick up around him -- but he's not flying, he's definitely falling, and he starts laughing and he pulls his swords out of his chest again, and he sees the spiral heart glow iridescent glittery charged by Hanzo, and he sees the batted ant go flying and She-Ra alongside it with the actual cosmic bat of power and its rainbow energy going for the Witch's gut and Amy's cannon going for its head and gut and Takuto...

...Takuto has style. He doesn't fly. He doublejumps and twists himself sideways to get himself at the right angle, then spirals down trailing a beautiful helix of blue-white comet-tail and brilliant glowing energy swords, and he sings out,

(one, two, and through and through)

"GALACTIC CROSS SLASH!"

and vanishes into the explosion.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Trust.

The trust that lets Hanzo take Sailor Moon's hand without a word. The trust that lets Sailor Moon let go, when he calls, when the tug pulls, and the magic circles pull them back and away like a parachute of magic, as the heart goes giant and sparkling and blindingly bright and strikes with terrible force that craters through the witch-lizard-crab monster.

The trust that lets She-Ra let Ginga Bishounen go and unleash not the Lasso of Power but the Baseball Bat of Power strikes the ant and sends it flying as a missile before following it up with a SWING of UTMOST BASEBALL ENERGY!

(Truly, Niji Dasshu would be so proud.)

It's trust that Amy has too, when she has sympathy for a Witch, when she expects that she and her friends and their skill will finish this mercy kill in a way that respects the loss.

And? Absolutely?

It's trust in his own skill and power, when Ginga Bishounen watches he chaos of battle and joins in, one boot one sock and a comet tail spiraling behind him as he slices through the Witch, one, two, through and through -

And the Witch explodes, in a spiral of light that defeats the darkness.

The sand dissipates, and the Labyrinth spits them back out on the street, glittering with dust and light, a single grief seed in the center of it all.

Sailor Moon breathes out and says, "So... sandwiches, everyone?"

Koji Silvia has posed:
Landing on his feet, but still with witch-sand fluttering off into the ether around his legs, Hanzo just arches a brow at Sailor Moon as she asks it... just like that, "Wow... you are single minded today."

He walks with stomps, still more of that etheric sand coming off his leggings and boots as he goes over to where Ginga Bishounen's boot is to recover it, muttering to himself, "This stuff's gonna be in my henshin for weeks. Just watch... some trans-dimensional evil is going to rip open the sky over Tokyo, and I'll be knocking this grod out of my boot while trying to make the fight..."

Turning it over... Ginga's boot somehow dumps at least a meter-tall pile of the stuff onto the street, but it vanishes as soon as it touches the air... and just keeps going... and going... and going...

With a sigh, he holds it out towards the other boy, and says, "Thanks. For reaching out. Really."

It's... still pouring out... HOW...

Adora Rainbowfist has posed:
Frankly, it's an almost beautiful sight as the attacks strike. It might be more beautiful if there was lest dust being kicked up by explosions and stuff but hey.

Sometimes you just have to deal with sandstorms.

This is magical sand, right? It's gonna disappear, right? ... Right???

And then... the witch is gone. And glittering dust and light covers the area.

She-Ra is about to celebrate when she pauses, staring at the dust and light as it flutters down around her and her friends.

Moments later, it is no longer She-Ra standing there, but Adora, still holding the Bat of Power resting over her shoulder. "...Wow. ...The after-effect is pretty beautiful." She comments absently.

Sandwiches. "Oh! Yes! Time to go get some kiwi cream sandwiches~."

Takuto Tsunashi has posed:
"Yeah!" calls Takuto, dragging himself to his feet and looking for his boot.

His boot is gone. :(

He's also tattered, battered, and sooty, and he puts his hand over his heart, and he says fervently, "It didn't eat people. If the sand witch ate people I would NOT want to eat a sandwich right now."

He still has to worry about shaking soot and ash out of his hair, too, and also probably putting antiseptic on some of those mild injuries, but like, after eating.

WAIT. KOJI has his boot!! :D Wait. Koji has his boot. D:

And-- is offering peace. Takuto's shoulders de-tense instantly, and he tilts his head a little, tiny crooked smile on his face. "You'd do the same. Neither of us sucks, we're just really different... but I think, not where it matters."

He takes his looooong thigh boot back, then bends to step into it, and pulls it allllll the way back up as he says with friendly ease, "I can let the whole thing go if you can."

He takes a step, and then D: stops mid-step. "There's still sand in there," he sighs, and drops his henshin as he trudges conbenie-wards.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Did you just ride a Moon Spiral Heart combo Attack?! You can do that?! That was so cool!" Amy shouts, dismissing the weapon, as the Labyrinth fades and reality reappears around them."

    First order of business is of course picking up the grief seed. Amy has been trying to conserve magic since she used up her last one. The gem on her wrist is about a seventh corrupted, if anyone looks.

    It really helps that that whole zombie thing involved very minimal actual blasting and they didn't really fight the nightmares, and she stuck to mostly weak and efficient attacks against Mimictrain.

    And when her SOUL is pure and red again, she mutters, "You'll see her soon, alright?" and slips the remains of Sandy into her belt pouch before de-henshining.

    "...Yeah. Sandwiches."

    She stares at Takuto, and wonders if maybe she should have dumped her boots out before changing back. She thought the sand would go away.

    :sweatdrop:

    It goes away, right?!