As a note, if you suggest leaving Hijiri under guard, the Pleiades will have a solution for that.
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Sabrina bit her lip.
Just as soon as she did, Mami's grip on her hand tightened, the blonde sending her a questioning look.
The white haired girl tried to give her a reassuring smile, but...
She squeezed Mami's hand just as tight, before letting go.
Everyone's heads turned to her as she stepped closer to the group, some of them -the Kannas- glaring at her.
Taking a deep breath, Sabrina broke the tense silence.
"Put her in the Freezer."
The entire group
flinched, or at least, the Pleiades did. The present units of the group
stared at the foreign girl in surprise, fear... anger.
Sabrina simply stood, letting the stares wash over her, waiting for an answer.
"
Bullshit," spat out Niko, shaking her head. "That's- that's...
bullshit! First this, then, how can you..." she trailed off with a growl, her glare being cut off by a veritable mass of hair as Mirai pulled her into an even closer hug.
Kazumi's eyes glinted under her furrowed brows, as two blood-red spotlights shining
down on Sabrina.
Then she sighed, and she gave the taller girl a sligh, self-deprecating smile.
"So you know even
that, don't you?"
At once, the tension in the group lifted, the witch themed magical girl's acknowledgement easing up her friend's fears.
From most of them, at least; Niko hastily but carefully push Mirai off -enough to be able to
glare at Sabrina.
"
How do you know?!" she demanded to know. "Nobody should know about
that. It just... doesn't make sense!"
The blue eyed girl scratched her head, trying for a placating smile.
"Well... I have
approximate knowledge of many thing that need
fixing..." she returned the glare then, before smiling easily, "... and you just confirmed my fears!"
A few seconds passed in absolute silence.
This time, Sabrina
did shift a bit under the incredulous look sent at her from everybody else. Even
Hijiri was looking at her weird.
A
smack drew their attention to Saki, the girl's glasses askew after she'd palmed her own forehead.
"God... We can't have falled for
that," she lamented.
As if slowly coming to, the present Pleiades made dismayed sounds, some of them slumping, others sighing.
Hijiri at least, looked somewhat amused.
Then she blinked, confused.
"Wait, you want to stick me
where?!" she yelled, confusion turning to outrage. And fear.
Completely ignoring her, Kazumi made an "oh!" sound, looking at Sabrina. "If you know, does that mean Mami-"
"NO!" irrupted Sabrina, making frantic warding gestures with her hands. "You can't..." she threw an apologetic look back at the blonde, "you
can't tell her," she stated, leaving no room for arguing.
Wide eyed, Kazumi quickly shook her head, closed her mouth tightly, and made a zipping gesture over her lips for good measure.
After a moment, Sabrina nodded, satisfied her friend understood the gravity of the situation. She turned to Mami instead, the girl sending her a troubled look.
Their hands met and they leaned on each other, talking in the slighest of whispers.
"
I'm sorry Mami."
"
It's fine. I trust you, Sabrina. And this is about...?" golden eyes flickered aside, troubled.
The white haired girl nodded, her forehead brushing against blonde hair.
"
You asked me not to tell you. You couldn't have been more right," blue eyes
pleaded.
Mami nodded, letting go of Sabrina's hands so she could pull her into a tight embrace, one wholly returned.
After a moment, Sabrina turned her head enough to look at a grinning Kazumi.
The red eyed girl nodded. "The Freezer will do." She lifted a finger as Hijiri flinched. "It's both safe
and painless," she promised with a
slight glare.
The clone bit visible bit back her words, and nodded while slumping, resigned.
"Great, so..." Sabrina looked around, "teleport?" she asked Saki, who nodded. Planting a quick kiss on Mami's head, she asked the blonde, "can you...?"
Without needing her to finish her sentence, the blonde nodded. With a wave of her arm, a multitude of ribbons extended to latch onto each of the girls present.
Showing no hint of surprise, Saki took a deep breath, and in a blinding flash, they were all gone.
"Welcome..." said Mirai as everyone blinked the spots out of their eyes, "... to The Freezer!"
As their eyes adjusted, the group was met with a long hall, a magical looking pentagram in the centre, covered by a glowing field, and lining up the sides, two rows of enormous tubes containing-
"Oh my god Mami don't look," startled Sabrina, raising a hand to cover the blonde's eyes-
-At the same time as Mami's hand closed on the taller girl's blue eyes.
"Sabrina don't... don't
look!" the golden magical girl yelled, scandalized as she tried to pry Sabrina's fingers off her face.
"Oh, there's Kaede Hinata!" said Sabrina, peering around Mami's fingers.
"Don't look!" repeated the blonde, covering Sabrina's eyes with
both hands at the same time she shook off Sabrina's. "They're all
naked!" she yelled.
"
Mamiiiiii! Stop looking!" Sabrina grabbed the blonde's head and pulled it into a firm embrace.
"You can't look either!" protested Mami's muffled voice, as a ribbon trailed up from her sleeves to wrap itself around Sabrina's eyes, effectively blindfolding her.
"OK, OK," said the taller of the two, "
none of us looks, OK?"
"OK," Mami nodded, head still buried in Sabrina's arms.
A thoroughly fake cough interrupted -Sabrina's head turned to the sound, unseeing, while Mami tried to turn, but stood firmly held by Sabrina's embrace.
"You
know," said Kaoru, "we're all girls-"
"Why are they naked?" asked Sayaka.
"Y-yeah, why?!" yelled Hijiri, backing off from the group.
Kaoru huffed and opened her mouth to answer...
"... Why
are they naked?" she wondered, turning to look at her friends.
She was met with confused stares; the girls looked at each other askance for a few moments, until Kazumi asked Niko.
"Something to do with magical stasis and contaminants... something?" she trailed off.
The original Kanna shrugged.
"... We don't know," the red eyed girl informed her conclussions, looking back at the blinded couple.
"Well, the situation is clear," nodded Sabrina, moving her head as if to look around, still blindfolded. "They need pants."
For once, there was unanimous agreement with the idea.
Not too far away, a black haired girl sneezed.
Answering Oriko's concerned look with a smile and a shake of her head, Kirika tugged on her girlfriend's arm, dragging her to look at another shop's window, pointing out which dresses she'd like to see her try on the most.
Oh, and now and then, she looked around to see if there were any clearly evil looking meguca around.
'We did
say we were covering ground slowly!' Kirika grinned to herself as she entered the shop alongside her Ojou.
