first patrol | OPEN

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

Characters: Sora and yooou. Seriously she's poking her head into every room, you can meet her in two tags if you want.
Setting: various.
Format: Your choice. <3
Summary: Superheroes should be proactive, especially in the face of great peril. Minutes after waking up, a newly-arrived Sora wanders the tower.
Warnings: None so far!

Sora is a slow waker at the best of times, and a worse one when she's been kidnapped and moved to somewhere that isn't her hideout and her alarm clock, so it isn't until she sits up, calls out the names of several of her major villainous counterparts hopefully (they're usually nice enough to stay nearby when she wakes up, in case she has questions like 'where am I' and 'what have you done with my friends'), and does two circuits of the room that she notices the paper on the table.

When she reads it, it's all she can do not to scream. This lasts for a while, this struggle with self-control and vocal chords, so her legs thoughtfully buckle and she ends up back on the edge of her bed, clutching the note on her lap. Her world. It's too big a concept for her to wrap her head around. All those people. She tries to imagine it, and what could have caused it, and fails. Several times. She blames herself, then stops, then the guilt is shoved down into a part of her mind full of childhood memories and unpleasant thoughts.

Deep breaths. If she's here, Sora, an insignificant girl from Manhattan, then that means others have to be here.

X never warned me is her next thought, but she dismisses it as unworthy of a knight and a hero. It's not her mysterious masked benefactor's fault. It never is. No villains have turned up either, which means she's free to look around. And she means to do exactly that; she is going to search this place, wherever it is, until she keels over from exhaustion. And then she'll start again.

She doesn't notice the trunk until she stubs her toe on it, but once she's got it open, she lets herself cry a little bit. Then she carefully stacks the photos at the bottom, and tucks them underneath some shirts and her socks. The cape and her costume she takes out, mask tied in place, boots and gloves on, cape swirling down to the back of her knees. The gauntlet she fits to her left hand, and even though it isn't armed right now, it makes her feel better. Closer to the others. Armoured, she feels more confident, and sets out into the corridor.

Sora plans to open every single door in this tower, just on the offchance her friends are behind it.

But they aren't. You are. Hello there.

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[knightofangst.livejournal.com]

Suzaku is rumaging through his trunk with one hand, the other hand is preocupied by being used as a chew toy by a cat. He looks up in vague hope as the door opens, hoping that it is Signless and that he has found Psiioniic. It wasn't it was a strange looking girl in a superhero costume.

"Can I help you miss." Suzaku asked making a vague attempt to dislodge Arthur who just miowed at him and bit his other hand.

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

"Yes!" She had been about to back out and close the door again when he spoke, but once he had, she was inside and smiling before he could finish. "Well, I'm looking for my friends. They would be wearing masks. Kinda like mine, but different. Different colours! One has really soft hair, and one has long black braids..." She added gestures to her descriptions, including indicating the shapes of their masks and their signature poses.

"They'd be carrying a badge. Like this!" A small, feather-shaped badge (reading Justice Squad Member for ultimate secrecy) on her chest was unclipped and held out for him to inspect.

Someone else might've asked where she was, but that was several rungs down Sora's priority ladder right now.

[knightofangst.livejournal.com]

Suzaku had the feeling she had just got here, he nodded and tried to remember if he had seen any other mask wearing people. "Well theres a little girl who often wears a mask, and I've seen one or two others, I'm not sure about their hair..." He looked at the badge and shook his head, he had never seen a badge like that before.

"I can help you look if you like." He should do another look round the tower for Psiioniic and it was perfectly possible to look for this girls friends at the same time.

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

"A little girl with a mask..." She thought about it. "Does her hair go like this?" She waggled her hands on either side of her head, as though imitating the ears of a small dog. "I guess I can-- You'll help? Really?" There were helpful people everywhere. It brightened Sora's entire being, and shone out through her smile. "Thanks!"

[knightofangst.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps, I'm not sure but I think so yes..." Suzaku hadn't really paid much attention to her hair, she had ran past in a blur the few times he had seen her. He nodded, "Of course I will help. Where have you checked already?"

[fifty]

America is digging through his trunk--he's taken to gathering things from elsewhere in the tower in it as well as things he got from home, so finding anything specific is always a bit of a chore. Looking up at the door opening and finding a girl isn't really what he expected, but he smiles anyway.

"Hey, I think you have the wrong room?"

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

"Actually, I'm looking everywhere!" She grinned sheepishly at the only guy in the room - who, since she didn't recognise him, was not a target - and waved anyway. "Have you seen anyone else in a mask?"

[fifty]

Closing his trunk, America sat down on top of it while he ran through the list of people he knew in the tower, or had seen.

"Nah, I don't think so," he said after a moment. "Did you just get here? I haven't seen you before."

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

"I woke up about ten minutes ago," she agreed. The feelings she'd staved off began to churn again at the prospect that they weren't here, but only for a second. "That's why I want to find everyone as fast as possible."

[thisclinchesit]

When Sora opens one door, she will see a two-colored armored man, standing over an unconscious man.

"Shoutarou, my you let my body fall!" The green and gold half of the man reached over, smacking the black and purple half. "I've been out of practice! And Akiko isn't here!"

They don't seem to notice the armored girl opening the door...

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

"Excuse m-- um..."

She'd already walked in by the time she realised there was only one person in the room - one conscious person, anyway - and by that time she was committed. "What's happening?"

[thisclinchesit]

For a moment, the two-colored man hangs his head, having made both halves of himself sad at the lack of their chief.

Sora's addressing them got Shoutarou's attention, however, and he looks over at the armored girl. "Ah... My partner and I were just working out some issues," he answers, pointing down at Phillip's body...and then to the green half of him. "You shouldn't be so careless, Shoutarou," Phillip nagged, the right eye of Double flashing as he spoke.

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

It's two people, Sora decided. The eyes of the helmet - and the voices - made it obvious to her bizarre, knightly perceptions. But the fact remained that there was an unconscious guy on the floor, so she focused on that first.

"Ah... He shouldn't be left like that. Let me help!"

Luckily, this was a dorm. Plenty of beds. She was over to them and kneeling by the boy's side before you could say 'superhero complex'.

[princesspowaful.livejournal.com]

[Molly, in her significantly less impressive uniform, is also searching the halls, like she does every few days. But then another superhero catches her eye! So of course she has to go talk to her!]

Hi! I'm Princess Powerful, are you new?

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

Yes! [oh gosh another hero. And so small and cute! Well no she's probably not that much shorter than Sora but WEVS]

I'm Crimson Lass.

[princesspowaful.livejournal.com]

[as much as she wants to be all yay happy another superhero, Molly needs to first prove to this other girl, Crimson Lass, that she is totally serious in her work]

Have you found anything suspicious? [she looks around quickly like suspicious things will jump out at her at any moment]

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

Suspicious? Well, ah...

[what counts as suspicious? Sora doesn't have a suspecting bone in her body. After a few moments of similarly dramatic looking around - maybe Princess Powerful spotted something! - she slumps] Not yet, no.

ACTION cause I am the laziest ever 8Db

[ocariness]

[ ... You came across a trap Link. While she was busy trying to find an exit to this place.

Well. She is surprised. Hi there have an elf-looking person fully equipped with sword, shield, and the whole nine yards. ]

8Db Yessss

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. [zoom have a Sora in your face. And looking at your sword. And shield. And the other eight yards.]

This costume is amazing!

She should tug on her ears, that'd be hilarious--/shot

[ocariness]

[ ... What. ]

My... costume...?

[ Do you not see the green clothes and heavy equipment and the bags and the quiver full of arrows, Sora? ]

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

[ some superheroes carry a lot of equipment! Sora is okay with this. |Db ]

Ah, your uniform! Sorry, I always call it the wrong thing...

[ ohhhhh and another mutant, too. She doesn't tug, but one ear gets touched at the point anyway. ]

[xbludjunkie.livejournal.com]

Getting used to the Tower was the easy part. The total lack of respect for the laws of physics and the frustrating fact that there was no information he could work with? Yeah, so over it. What he wasn't getting used to was the people (he'll use this term loosely) that were in it. Sam didn't usually have a problem with strangers, but normally these strangers didn't run around wearing costumes.

So here Sam is, putting the main tower problem on the back burner, and getting ready to go scavenger hunting for some intel about those disembodied voices he keeps hearing about, when one of those "hard-to-get-used-to" type of people poked their head in. And for just a moment Sam hesitated, eyebrows pulling together in confused thought. Because, seriously? What was with all the costume wearing in this place? "... can I help you?"

ohi o/

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

In Sora-language, that meant 'by all means, come right in'. So, naturally, she did. By this point, she'd invaded most of the dormitory rooms in the tower, and both her crop of new friends and her confidence had grown in the meantime.

My but her new prospective helper-slash-friend was tall.

She smiled, undaunted. "Thanks! I'm looking for my friends. They'd be wearing masks like mine, only without the horns! And different colours."

Hi!

[xbludjunkie.livejournal.com]

Of course they would be. His eyebrows seemed to grow more tense as he looked her costume and mask over, trying to think if he'd seen any like it before. Nothing rang a bell.

Well, except that symbol looked oddly familiar...

"I haven't seen anyone with masks like that," Sam finally replied. Really, he did honestly want to help, but it was kind of hard when all he had to go off of was 'they were masks.' "What are their names?"

[allurprincess.livejournal.com]

"Um... I shouldn't really give their civilian names. But this is an emergency, I guess!" She realised, belatedly, that she should have brought the photos of them she'd found in her trunk. Too late now. "There's Koharu. She has long, soft hair and she's an amazing cook! Yuki has short hair. But with these two long braids! And she has beautiful gold eyes... Reiko's hair is always in bunches," she mimed two pigtails spiralling down the sides of her head. "And she always looks angry. Tomoko's got bunches too, but she's still a kid. Sometimes her hair waggles, like a little dog's ears. She likes strawberry juice boxes. And Hiyo is a kid too, but she wears a hat with a little duck badge on it."

She stopped to breathe, and looked up at him expectantly. Surely that was just enough detail. "Their hero names are all colours, like mine! But the Angels call them weird names instead. I don't remember what they are, though. Sorry."