"Rinrin!" Skuld shouted. "Where are you?"
"Almost done with the control circuit overrides!" the reply echoed across the room. "You?"
"Power's rerouted, the amplifier circuit's laid in, the regulators have been upgraded..." Skuld counted off. "We just need the last two components."
Better hurry, Delandra's telepathic "voice" echoed through their minds. That thing on the castle's about to take another shot and the Headmistress is still cycling her weapon. There was a sensation of mental laughter. Rei says this seems disturbingly familiar to her, right down to her being out front playing shield-maiden.
"I'll ask her about that later," Skuld growled. "We should be just about ready to go online. I just need..."
"Herehereherehere!" From out of nowhere, Kaolla Suu vaulted the conduit on Skuld's right and slapped a small, pen-sized object into the young goddess' hand. "Kaolla has been saving this for a special day. She thought it would be her special day, but this is more important!"
Skuld looked at the device. Not just pen-sized, it was pen-shaped, bright yellow, one end surmounted by a tiny metal sculpture of a banana. "This isn't..."
Kaolla nodded her head fast enough to blur her features. "Yepyepyep! Henshin stick! Kaolla sortakinda borrowed Makoto's for a little while and studied it and made her own. Sailor Banana! Fighting for fruit, justice and the Molmolian way!" She suddenly sobered. "But Suu doesn't need it as much as they do. What do you have?"
Skuld smiled slyly and reached into her tunic to withdraw a shining silver gem, a hexagonal prism in form and about the size of a walnut. "I was more interested in Mirai's Mol unit. After scanning it a few weeks back, I synthesized my own Mol crystal."
Kaolla threw her hands up. "Yatta! Let's plug them in and show the bad guys what a mistake they made!"
"Your wish is my command," Skuld chuckled as she fit the last two components into the sockets she'd prepared for them, closed the protective cover that shielded them from outside influence, and released the latch that held the actuating lever locked in its "off" position. "Rinrin?"
A goggled face popped up over the other side of the console and flashed a confident smile. "All done! Quicker than I expected, too! There was an existing remote override system in place -- I just diked out the remote part and replaced it with our local control board."
Skuld nodded as Suu capered in delight. "Cool. Then we're all ready here. Dee, let them know we're going online right now!"
Will do!
Rinrin scampered around to join the other two in taking hold of the great lever with the bright red ball on its end. "Let's do it," she whispered with a grin.
"Right!"
"Yesyesyes!"
Skuld closed her eyes and drew a breath. Then they snapped open and she called out, "Otome Metamorforce Power..."
And together all three girls slammed the lever into the "on" position as they shouted in unison, "MATERIALIZE!"
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
"Almost done with the control circuit overrides!" the reply echoed across the room. "You?"
"Power's rerouted, the amplifier circuit's laid in, the regulators have been upgraded..." Skuld counted off. "We just need the last two components."
Better hurry, Delandra's telepathic "voice" echoed through their minds. That thing on the castle's about to take another shot and the Headmistress is still cycling her weapon. There was a sensation of mental laughter. Rei says this seems disturbingly familiar to her, right down to her being out front playing shield-maiden.
"I'll ask her about that later," Skuld growled. "We should be just about ready to go online. I just need..."
"Herehereherehere!" From out of nowhere, Kaolla Suu vaulted the conduit on Skuld's right and slapped a small, pen-sized object into the young goddess' hand. "Kaolla has been saving this for a special day. She thought it would be her special day, but this is more important!"
Skuld looked at the device. Not just pen-sized, it was pen-shaped, bright yellow, one end surmounted by a tiny metal sculpture of a banana. "This isn't..."
Kaolla nodded her head fast enough to blur her features. "Yepyepyep! Henshin stick! Kaolla sortakinda borrowed Makoto's for a little while and studied it and made her own. Sailor Banana! Fighting for fruit, justice and the Molmolian way!" She suddenly sobered. "But Suu doesn't need it as much as they do. What do you have?"
Skuld smiled slyly and reached into her tunic to withdraw a shining silver gem, a hexagonal prism in form and about the size of a walnut. "I was more interested in Mirai's Mol unit. After scanning it a few weeks back, I synthesized my own Mol crystal."
Kaolla threw her hands up. "Yatta! Let's plug them in and show the bad guys what a mistake they made!"
"Your wish is my command," Skuld chuckled as she fit the last two components into the sockets she'd prepared for them, closed the protective cover that shielded them from outside influence, and released the latch that held the actuating lever locked in its "off" position. "Rinrin?"
A goggled face popped up over the other side of the console and flashed a confident smile. "All done! Quicker than I expected, too! There was an existing remote override system in place -- I just diked out the remote part and replaced it with our local control board."
Skuld nodded as Suu capered in delight. "Cool. Then we're all ready here. Dee, let them know we're going online right now!"
Will do!
Rinrin scampered around to join the other two in taking hold of the great lever with the bright red ball on its end. "Let's do it," she whispered with a grin.
"Right!"
"Yesyesyes!"
Skuld closed her eyes and drew a breath. Then they snapped open and she called out, "Otome Metamorforce Power..."
And together all three girls slammed the lever into the "on" position as they shouted in unison, "MATERIALIZE!"
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Spoiler-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.