Freezing Mall! (Ami and Haruka thread)

[Anastasia]

A short nod as he raises it above his head, gripping it on the bottom so the top is pointing into the air freely.

"Mercury Disguise Power! Transform me into a warmly clothed...um...version of myself!" The words echo as the Mau is covered by a screen of bubbles, almost reminisent of Ami's transformation at points.

It tingles...!

A brief few moments later, the bubbles pop and fade away, revealing Artemis, decked out in a warm muffler with fur lined hood, red gloves, and heavy pants. Lowering the pen, he nods and seems to snuggle a bit. "Thanks," he says, putting the pen in a newly obtained coat pocket.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami covers her mouth with one hand to smother her smile, finding the moment oddly cute, but not electing to share that observation.

"You're welcome." She replies simply, her smile warm, but no longer on the verge of giggling.

[Liddo-kun]

"And here I thought we were going to get a dose of Sailor Artemis," Haruka comments over her shoulder, sporting an amused, face splitting grin at the Mau's expense.

As loose as she was acting though, Haruka makes sure to keep one eye open for any other nasty surprises that might unexpectedly pop up.

Quick, easy, and everyone goes home.  Is that too much to ask?

[Anastasia]

Artemis shoots Haruka a momentary glare, but he lets it drop.

Sailor Artemis...gah! As if those pictures from a few months ago aren't bad enough...

Luna would claw me to hell and back.

"We really should be going now," he says, beginning to head towards the escalator.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami blinks at the exchange, raising a single eyebrow curiously. They love sniping at each other...And he passed up the chance to return fire? She followed the group in silence, eyeing Artemis contemplatively. 'Sailor Artemis' indeed. But for some reason, it got a reaction...

[Anastasia]

Indeed, the Mau is simply silent as you go on. The fourth floor escalator is still deiced and passable, you find. Nothing blocking your way down to the third floor at all. At least right now.

[Bean Bandit]

Staying with the group, and shifting her visor back to the vision ehanced mode she'd found while preparing to enter the first floor, Ami moved to the head of the escalator, and cautiously began making her way down, examining her surroundings in slow, relentless sweeps of her gaze...

[Anastasia]

The third floor looks relatively unremarkable again - more or less as you left it, you think. But, to be sure, you make a second sweep - and this one does find something! There are a few minor energy patterns in the floor near the 3rd to 2nd floor escalators, four in total. They form a rough circular pattern.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami turns back the group quickly. "Be careful! There's something embedded in the floor near the escalator." she warns urgently, turning her gaze back toward the energy patterns, and pulling out her computer once more, trying to identify them before they get too close.

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka stops short at that, alert now for something to occur.

To Artemis and Viluy, "Be ready for anything."  Sidling along side Ami now, eyeing the general direction of the escalator suspiciously, "What do you see?"

[Anastasia]

Viluy nods, carefully falling into place on Haruka's other side.  Artemis chooses to hang back, quiet for now as he lets his Senshi of Ice take the show.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami eases down until she gets to the bottom of the escalator, pausing from her new vantage point to look again, trying to identify the strange signatures...

[Anastasia]

It's not long before you have a match - it's the same as the pillars of cold from the fourth floor. Exact, as a matter of fact, the icy stands protecting the way down to the second floor of the mall.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami frowns. "It's the same booby trap that You and Artemis tripped upstairs." She reports to Haruka, moving closer to see if she can determine how the trap is set off.

[Anastasia]

Buzzing right along, your computer quickly returns that it seems to be set off by a source of warmth entering the area.

Like a human body, for example.