Freezing Mall! (Ami and Haruka thread)

[Bean Bandit]

"Right." Ami nods to herself, and closes her eyes again. This time she braces herself against the counterforce, bringing all the control she has to bear...

[Bean Bandit]

OOC:
[07:36] <@Ciel> roll 2d6+2
[07:36] * +Hatbot --> "Ciel rolls 2d6+2 and gets 7."

Wheeeeeee! Duney said this was kosher. >_>

IC:

Ami feels the counter force that defeated her first attempt twist and yield under the force she herself commands. The faint pressure is there, but she holds it back, turning to Haruka, and speaking in a low voice to maintain her concentration, and hold on the trap. "It's ready...You can walk through, now, but hurry...I don't know how long I can hold it back."

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka nods, "Alright, let's get going you two," she tells Viluy and Artemis, following up behind the pair.  Once safely across, "Okay, we're on the other side," Haruka tells Ami, keeping a cautious eye trained on her fellow senshi.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods, and her face still strained with concentration, she follws the group. Once she's past the trap, and all the group is safe, she relaxed her hold on the trap with a sigh of relief...

[Anastasia]

Artemis lets out a breath as you have passed by the trap safely. "That's one less trap," he notes, glancing down at the stairway to the second floor. Like the others, it's coated in ice....again.  The path to the second floor will have to be cut out. Did it refreeze?

Still quiet, Viluy says nothing. As she ponders the fate of one quiet, hopefully innocent woman...

Only to be broken by a shattering, explosive sound behind on, a wall from outside to the third floor being blasted apart rather noisily. Ice and the concrete underneath are sent aflyin', a small pile of rubble and dust spilling out and momentarily cloaking whomever just did this.

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka eyes the iced over passage with some worry.

I have a bad feeling about this....

Her suspicion is only confirmed by the explosion as she whirls quickly around towards the direction of the blast.  She strains to see through the obscuring haze at who... or what, might be the culprit responsible.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami whirls around at the sound of the noise, only barely remembering to stay back from the trap she just passed through. "What...?"

[Anastasia]

Viluy jumps back, surprised but trying to cover it as best she can. Spinning around swiftly as she lands, she faces the threat, as does Artemis.

As the frigid dust settles, you can see two figures entering. Floating down from outside...it looks like two women...Cyprine? Ptilol? Waving her hands and coughing a bit at the dust, "Uranus? Neptune? Mercury?" Cyprine calls, getting out of the mess she and her sister made.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami laughs, pleased to see something going her way for a change. "We're here." Ami calls to the twins. "Watch out for the traps..."

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka lets out the breath she was holding.

Couldn't they have done a much less... showy entrance? she wonders to herself with a shake of her head.

"Welcome to the party girls," she greets with a smile and a wave, then on hearing Ami's caution she adds, "Yeah, the trap is body heat activated so watch yourselves."

[Anastasia]

Ptilol nods as that, as her sister half sneezes on the dust she kicked up. "Finally...It's been hard to pinpoint you, let alone tell something wrong is going on." Cyprine, recovering from her sneeze, agrees. "There seems to be a dampening field of some sort around here - we couldn't even tell anything was off until we were almost here."

Staying carefully where they are, "We even had to blast in because of that."

[Liddo-kun]

"There's a dampening field?" Haruka asks Cyprine before shifting her gaze towards Ami at that.  "Anyway," she begins to say, "It's good to have you two to back us up.  Does it look bad from the outside?"

On seeing their predicament - being seperated from the Twins by the damanable trap.  "All this pussyfooting....  I should've just blown the darned thing up in the first place," Haruka grumbles.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami blinks, checking her computer again. Did I miss the dampening field? she wonders curiously. Or does it not register from the inside?

At Haruka's complaint, Ami simply rolls her eyes.

[Anastasia]

"It's frozen over...from the outside," Cyprine starts as she carefully examines the area, Ptilol finishing. "How did you get past it in the first place?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami looks up sharply at that. "It wasn't frozen over when Artemis and I got here, and we arrived after Haruka and Viluy-san." she replies, frowning. "This situation is escalating a bit more visibly than I'd thought. Maybe we should hurry..."