Scene #2409: Twister and Tea

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Mochi	"Right hand. Blue." comes the a voice from within the labrynthine sectors of Tomoe Laboratories, within Obsidian Tower. "Left Foot. Red." In an area of desks pushed away to clear a space (still piled high with lab equipment), a Twister sheet has been laid out. On that twister sheet are Viluy, currently maintaining a flexible position, and 'Dr Tomoe', currently reaching for a spot with his left foot, which he barely gets. "Hah! See! I am unbeatable. My flexibility in science is equal to my flexibility in this game. And it's important to keep in good condition for both body and mind." he says. Then his head rotates - almost slghtly unnaturally - to look up at Mistress 9 with gleaming glasses. "You know, you could join in too. There's no sense in taking over this world if we're not allowed to have a little fun. And it's good for your conditioning." he says. "Not much else to do while we wait for the machines to infuse energy into the next bit of Seriss Nyx's improvement parts, right?" he says, looking at the towering older woman that's stolen his daughter's body much as he has stolen the original Professors.
Sailor Saturn	Mistress 9 was sitting there, arms crossed, leaning against the wall... And looking like she was going to rip someone's spine out through their throat. And worse? There were three subjects who served her... two of whom were playing Twister. And she did not PLAY twister after... last... time... ... So much hair. Why. Why did this body have so much hair. Worse? Hotaru would have been delighted to see this and she really hoped that, inside her, the girl couldn't. "... I have no time or energy for games. The ring from that pretty cure was enough to get things started, but I still require more to attain my full power and those sparkles are... persistent... I'm starting to believe I should have just devoured all of the witches, rather than allowing them the chances to fail me... again and again..." Then her eyes trailed to Viluy. "Well... all but one, at least." After all, Viluy HAD found her... Seriss Nyx.
Molly Skyline	Speak of the devil. Into the Laboratories enters Seriss Nyx, the purple-haired woman's approach announced by the sound of boot heels clicking on the floor before she becomes visible. The Cygnus Lich hangs from her earlobe, a small jewel with a golden needle styled as a spine dangling from it. As she rounds the corner, she slows to a halt and adjusts her spectacles, looking first to the game of Twister in progress on the floor, then up to Mistress 9. if she is surprised or perturbed by what she sees, she doesn't show it. "Who's winning?" she inquires, asking in a bemused tone of voice, as she wanders to where she can get a bit of a better view -- without failing to show her deference to Mistress 9, of course. Wouldn't want to sour that relationship, of course. Viluy, on the other hand, is entirely expendible. Where she comes to a stop, she leans against a desk and reaches up to absent-mindedly touch the earing that houses her device, and watch the woman who created her play a thirty-plus year old game of competetive contortion with the man charged with making her powerful enough to handle the magic rods. All perfectly normal on Earth, no doubt.
Mochi	"Left Foot. Yellow." calls the intern who's stuck watching and spinning a spinner without playing and is otherwise mostly trying to avoid any notice from the terrifying people there. Perhaps she's a Daimon too, wanting to avoid being Mistress Nine's snack. "Oh come on, this planet's just BUSTLING with energy. If you don't have enough for games, I mean. Like it's not all the same kind of energy as you need to reach your full power, but if you're tired... either that or I can make you some tea?" Tomoe asks as he moves his body to align with the new command. "And not much of a point to taking this planet as hosts for our people and our Master if we have to feed all of them to you to get it, right?" He says, which is almost a mildly insubordinate comment. "Like, that's the whole point of coming here and finding things for you to snack on. So you don't have to do that." Seriss arrives, and Tomoe waves at her. Before Viluy snaps at him "Hey!" and he has to put his hand back on a colored circle. "I'm winning." Tomoe says. "You can join in a moment - the game only gets more fun with more people." he suggests. "Your next enhancement is being empowered with Dark Energy now, too!" he adds excitedly.
Sailor Saturn	"... Tea won't give me what I want," Mistress 9 said. But it was true... she was tired. A lot more tired than she should be. She thought that, as she gained control, she'd feel stronger. But still Hotaru was fighting her. How could one meager nothing girl still suppress her? Still fight her? Worse, that ring... it had given her some power. But it had also... there was something... like fear... from that figure she'd seen. Something about them.... worried her. Her eyes narrowed at Dr. Tomoe's comment. Oh, if it came from anyone else she'd have torn him apart for that. Germatoid, however, had long earned such... privilages. "If we have to drain half the life of this planet to allow me to summon our master, then it takes half the life. I, and I alone, can perform that task." Just as Germatoid alone was capable of making a body capable of hosting her. She sighed and glanced towards Seriss. She was unique, at least. Someone with magic BEFORE they became a host. And it seemed that... she was growing stronger accordingly. Perhaps one day the girl would serve her was as a proper general. "Have there been any changes in your ability to control your host with the addition of your new powers?"
Molly Skyline	Seriss pushes off from the wall and goes to just... casually crowd the intern's space, giving the dial a little flick with one finger and watching it spin. "Right hand, blue. That's how this one works, mmm?" She wanders away again after that; her eyes scan about the space, until she spots what she's looking for. Seriss is going to make tea. It's entirely possible that by the time she's finished, there might be someone who wants some. If not, well, maybe she will. "I have complete control over my host," Seriss reports. "She was powerful in her own right before, but her circumstances were... unfortunate, for her, when I took over this body." She sets up a tea pot, and a little burst of magic starts it heating up, rather than doing anything so pedestrian as using a burner. "I am getting stronger... and I am almost ready for my next experiment. I do hope there will be more of the Mahou to come and fight my creation this time, I want the combat data." Seriss glances at the intern once more; and there's a distinctly predatory look in her eye. Maybe if Mistress 9 doesn't devour her, the latest addition to her forces might have her own use.
Mochi	It's been a long time since anybody in Tomoe Laboratories made tea with anything that wasn't a bunsen burner, and that at least gets a slow eye-shift from the intern. "That's good. You're the first real success we had with having a Daimon take root in a fully powered host and not need to lay dormant for sometime." Tomoe says, looking over at Mistress Nine. "Left arm, Green." it calls, and Villuy is in trouble. Reaching, reaching - and she falls! Tomoe leaps up ''far'' more spryly than a man of his age should do - it's practically a martial-arts kip up! "Hahaha! I am UNDEFEATABLE!" he yells throwing his arms out to the sides and laughing. "Well, at twister, anyways." he says, after pausing mid laugh to tilt his back a little too far and look at Mistress Nine and Seriss Nyx upside-down. "Really though, if you're tired, you should just drain energy from the humans." He suggests again. He doesn't actually try to argue against her comments again, he said his peice. "Seriss Nyx is getting stronger, she's such a wonderful receptacle for power; perhaps the second-greatest I've seen besides... well, your host." he says.
Sailor Saturn	Mistress 9 glowered slightly at Germatoid. How dare he... "Normal human energy isn't enough. I require something more... substantial. Magical power, and a lot of it, for what I must do. Combat strength I have in abundance and always have. But the kind of power I require to open the wormhole to our master... is far more." "... The host is still fighting me, as well. I would have imagined she'd be dead by now. She SHOULD be dead by now. The fact her body can even sustain me at all is a... sign of your capabilities, Germatoid, in your modifications." "... But the fact she hasn't melted away into nothing by now... is frustrating... No matter how much I hurt her or tear her apart... she just... keeps... fighting me... as if she believes that, somehow, she can avert what is to come." Then, slowly, her eyes moved to Germatoid and a slow grin formed on her lips. "Or maybe... I've failed to properly stifle her hope, as it were. Perhaps it's time you learn the truth of what has happened up until now... Viluy, I know you haven't been aware, fully, either. And Seriss Nyx... congratulations..." "The true goal of our organization has been to open a wormhole to the Tau Star System, one big enough to transfer our master, Phantom 90, through. When he comes here... this planet will be devoured. All life will become hosts or sustenance for our kind." "... Dr. Tomoe was the one who... accidentally invited us here... and in return for his help... we agreed to 'save' his daughter, and allow her to thrive in our new world. The price? His life and his brilliance. Germatoid took his body... and since then... he has been preparing Hotaru to withstand my rise." "So you see, Hotaru... nobody is coming to save you. There is no papa to fight off the monsters, there is just... us... so go. To. Sleep!" Mistress 9 snarled at that.
Molly Skyline	It's not that it was entirely as easy as Seriss makes it sound. Molly fought back, of course. What Seriss is donig, what Germatoid and Mistress 9 are doing, is something she would resist with every fibre of her being and every once of mana she could squeeze out of her linker core. But she was far too weak to resist or even delay Seriss' takeover. Much as Seriss might deny Molly's presence, she can still feel her, behind her eyes, too weak to do anything but watch. And perhaps, in the end, Seriss wouldn't have it any other way. "Then I will bend my efforts to making this endeavour a success," she answers, entirely unperturbed by Dr. Tomoe's victory, or the way he bends his neck. "I have a few more experiments I wish to perform. The best plans take time to prepare." Seriss takes the now thoroughly heated tea pot and pours its contents into three cups, one of which she takes for herself but doesn't sip from just yet; the other two are left within easy reach. In the back of her head, Seriss is contemplating the odds that Viluy might be thirsty enough to go for it. ...Or maybe the intern. "My host had a friend she was close to. I am curious to see if she continues to behave in such a reckless fashion. I would appreciate it if nobody kills her, at least while I am satisfying my curiosity." She pauses, and shrugs her shoulders. "She is of no significant threat; at least not on her own. her abilities lend well to assisting others but in direct confrontations of the sort she seems desperate to provoke, she is hopelessly outmatched."
Mochi	Dr Tomoe - well, Germatoid - reaches up to rub his shoulder and crick his neck. "I mean, it's quite an agreeable body. And the good Professor appears to have been a bit eccentric anyways. Suits me well." he says, before rubbing his wrists and taking a short walk to look over at a sinister looking machine that seems to be pouring Dark Energy into a sliver of gem - such as might have once adorned one of the staves of the Witches Rapidly Declining Numbers. "I think all of the killing would be done by you capable ladies, as I am just this world's greatest scientist." Tomoe says, gesturing to Viluy, Seriss, and Mistress Nine. "Experiments are all well and good, of course, but we do need to keep our eyes open for properly powerful resources to feed to our Commander so that we can hasten the arrival of our Glorious Leader." he notes. "To that end do keep your eyes out and any other senses you may have or develop."
Sailor Saturn	"Ugh... you mean the korma girl, don't you? My host is... annoyingly fond of her as well. Apparently the two had a deal where the stupid girl would buy her lunch whenever she lost... girl barely ate anyway, it was just a waste on all counts." She then nodded towards Seriss. "Indeed. Listen to Germatoid. Our master grows impatient. I am close to being able to open the wormhole... but it'll be difficult and slow. The sparkles will surely interfere. Once it is open, however, they'll be able to do nothing to stop us. It took all they had to destroy Kaolinite, and she had barely a fraction of my power... and I hold only a fraction of our grea masters." She then glanced towards Seriss. "Perhaps, however, you will be able to take Kaolinite's place... if you can hold such power."
Molly Skyline	Seriss sips the tea; apparently she is in fact the only person here who is thirsty. Or maybe she just likes the taste of green tea; afterall she's only been on Earth and in this body for a handful of weeks. There are some things -- like sushi -- that she does hope survive the takeover of Phantom 90. But, if they don't... Well, everything will be fine, one way or another. "I will be able to," she affirms. "I am growing stronger every day on my own; and with Germatoid's help," she nods towards Dr. Tomoe, "I believe I'll reach even greater heights. ...Viluy chose my host exceptionally well. I don't think there are many on Earth who possess both magical strength, and compatibility with our kind." Compatibility that may have been engineered, but who's splitting hairs over that? "We'll get the energy requried." She lifts her tea towards Dr. Tomoe. "We were already winning, but we've taken two of their number off the field and added them to our own forces." She tilts her head, and smiles, "Yes, the korma girl. My host was particularly fond of her and her blind optimism. It brings me satisfaction to see her flail in futility against it, but this body is mine now and there's nothing she can do to change that."
Mochi	Germatoid may have slightly puffed up a bit happily when Mistress Nine said to listen to him. Not that he was ever going to cut a particularly imposing figure in this body. 5t"Ah, do refer to me as Professor Tomor or Professor though, it is best to not shake this world's very pathetic boat much." he adds. "And yes, I believe that you're going to be an exceptional weapon and warrior. You've already shown such power. Truly one of my finest works. I was worried Master Pharoah 90 might regret choosing to send me along but now, with Mistress Nine awoken and a new powerful mark, I have been able to prove my value... so in appreciation I will continue to provide you both with the best assistance I can." he says. "Perhaps if this girl is so troublesome and connected to your hosts you should assault her directly together. Just... let me know when. Sounds like this girl is connected to where I get some of my favorite takeout and I'd like to enjoy it one more time before hopes and dreams of people who make it are crushed..." he says, starting a low laugh. That was probably going to develop into trademark unhinged laughter soon.
Sailor Saturn	Mistress 9 gave the smallest grin, before nodding. "Very good. We may have lost some of our... garbage... but the useless must be cut off so the strong may survive. Just like this world." A shame Riventon had never been a valid host. Alas. His ego was too much. She pushed off the wall and started towards the door. "I'm going to rest before I go to gather more energy... Continue to grow and prepare. The time of Pharaoh 90 comes soon," she said before heading out, the sound of the professor's laughter echoing through her head... and she hoped helping to silence her host.
Molly Skyline	Seriss listens as the back and forth between Germato-- Professor Tomoe and Mistress 9 discusses the possibility of making a joint assault on the Korma Girl. ...Which would certainly be the end of her. That would rather cut short Seriss' interest in tormenting her, but she can't deny that removing pieces from the board is the path to victory. "Alright, at your earliest convenience then," she agrees. She consumes the rest of her tea while Mistress 9 departs the room; her gaze tilts back to Tomoe, and she considers for a brief moment. "I'm going to finish my preparations for my second experiment. I should be ready to awaken it in a day or two... The Korma girl will intervene, I'm certain, but I'll make sure she stays alive for Mistress 9 to have her fun with." She rolls her shoulders dismissively, as she heads for the door. "You come with me,' she beckons the intern, "I have a use for you."