Chapter CXXXII: Not Really a Rematch ~Kyanosa

Josh, Kaye, Kyanosa, and Mazzic, in my standard alphabetical order, were clumped together in a heap on the floor of Gundam Kitty's cockpit, which by the way used to be the ceiling, and before that it had been one of the walls, the ceiling again, a different wall, the floor, and yet another wall.

"Ow."

"Did anybody see what just happened?"

"Even if they did, they wouldn't remember it."

"Whose elbow is that?"

"I bet I have more bruises than you."

"I'm not gonna bother counting."

"Wait, that's not an elbow."

"You know, we didn't even fire at him."

"Yeah, that was a bit mean."

"We should hurt him."

"It's an umbrella! Who has an umbrella?"

"What color it is?"

"Pink."

"I think it came with the mecha."

"What the heck kind of mecha comes with an umbrella?"

"One shaped like a kitty cat, naturally."

"Oh, of course. Forgive my lack of thought."

By this point, the four had largely figured which body parts belonged to whom and were standing or leaning somehow in what remained of Gundam Flower's cockpit, mentally counting their bruises just to prove Kyanosa wrong. When he discovered that he really had fewer than he'd thought (they were just really big), he tried to change the subject to the possibility of mastering the dreaded and nonexistent two-umbrella style, but was unfortunately cut off by a massive surge of "no" running through his head. He blinked twice, then shook his head, fully switching to his other personality. Almost immediately he transformed into Archangel and looked at the others. "So, who's ready to join the fight?"

"Gimme a sec." Mazzic cracked his knuckles, elbows, shoulders, neck, ankles, knees, back, and any unusually spaced bones in his skull. "Alright."

Josh pulled his dagger from the back of the seat in which it had planted itself and fixed his hair. "I'm good."

Everybody looked at Kaye. Actually, maybe "looked" wasn't right. Josh did something closer to watching. Mazzic examined, wondering if we would try to keep them from the rumble. Kyanosa just glared. Kaye started looking at all of them, but started alternating between Mazzic and Josh because Kyanosa was just disconcerting. Eventually she threw up her arms. "Okay, fine."

Kyanosa nodded. "Who has the spoon?" Josh retrieved it from the wall upon which it was impaled and held it up. "Good. If we hurry, they should still be off from when they were hit with us. Everyone get ready."

Mazzic switched to his fighting clothing. "I thought none of us remembered what happened."

"Shut up."

"Make me."

"Gladly."

In the best interests of harmony, Josh repeated Kyanosa's earlier Japanese, Gundam Euphoria faded away, and everybody refocused their agendas. Havering tapped Multehx on the shoulder and nodded towards the four, who were forming a rough battle stance. Multehx sighed and looked back at the council.

Cydak squinted at the group. "Um...where's the kitty?"

Nictem closed his eyes. "I'm guessing it's a Creation Weapon. Feel that power. No humans have that power."

Jadea winced and backed up a bit. "You didn't feel that guy's umbrella."

Rebdok snorted. "Umbrella? They fight with umbrellas? Who's drunk, you or them?"

Malachi sighed. "Quiet. Three of you should be able to manage them. God knows two couldn't."

Jadea narrowed her eyes. "They had a big robot."

Necronimus refused to break his eyehold on Havering. "Yes, and we saw how effective that was a second ago as it was turned upside-down and pitched around the arena with the sheer grace of a flying brick. Feel the power. Whoosh."

Malachi fought the desire to forcibly switch their hairstyles. "Cydak, Mel, Orson. Go do the killingness. The seven of us should be able to hold out until they die."

Nero smiled. "If it makes you feel any better, they got rid of the big scary housecat."

Jadea shuddered. "You can't prove that."

And with that, the assigned Twilighters launched toward the quartet. Cydak fully remembered Vole's previous trouble, and since the latter was a bit unavailable, he immediately swung at Mazzic, who blocked the demon's fist with his own and otherwise remained immobile. Mel tried to run past them and double back, but Josh slid in front of her and blocked her with both arms. They grinned at one another, hopped back, and brandished their respective weapons. Something cuaght their attention out of the corner of their eyes, and Mel scowled as Rainstorm Yoshi slid next to Josh, still wondering what was happening. Orson liked doing the killingness, so he immediately launched a lightning bolt at Kaye, unfortunately thwarted by a quick and easy magical shield. Kaye smiled, Orson grimaced, and Kyanosa got bored, so he tightened the grip on his sword, unfurled his wings, and launched towards Orson.