Sayaka hums, rubbing her chin with her hand. "Intriguing. Tell me more about this 'not losing arms during fights'."
Sayaka sighs. "Look," she says to the other bleunette, "it's very simple, so follow me on this one..."
Sayaka nods, prompting Sayaka to continue.
"When you are fighting, say, a Witch," Sayaka explains, "you need to not get your arms cut off."
Sayaka frowns indignantly. "Well, how are you supposed to do that?"
"What do you mean how? Just don't get hit!" exclaims the other one, blue eyebrows raised.
"What do I look like, diet Mami?" huffs Sayaka, crossing her arms.
"No- You..." Sayaka trails off. "Look, let's start from the beginning."
Sayaka can only shrug to that. "And that is...?"
"Well," Sayaka scratches her head, "as Sabrina tells me, the first step is to Wish Good."
"And what's that supposed to mean?"
"That your Wish is useful for your life as a meguca."
"A what now?" blue eyes blink.
"A meg- I mean a Magical Girl," corrects herself Sayaka. "Point is, a good Wish empowers you enough, while a... misguided Wish usually comes back to bite you-"
"I Wished to heal Kyousuke's hand."
"Ouch," Sayaka flinches.
"... Hey!" Sayaka glares at Sayaka, who makes appeasing motions with her hands.
"Easy!" she says. The other bleunette opens her mouth to retort -angrily- but the first one cuts in again. "I mean, you could have healed him with your bogstandard meguca healing magic; your Wish could have been more... helpful."
"Oh yeah?" Sayaka grits her teeth. "Well, what did you Wish for, pray tell?"
"Well I..." Sayaka throws a look around, before leaning towards Sayaka, signaling her to do the same.
Her anger momentarily abated by curiosity, the blue eyed Magical Girl approaches the blue eyed Magical Girl, who whispers somethign quickly to her ear.
"Fuck, that's hax," blurts out Sayaka, blinking in astonishment.
Sayaka grins bashfully, scratching her head.
"But that's bullshit!" exclaims Sayaka, "can you even do that? Like..." she fumbles for words, "it's that a valid Wish?"
"Well," says the other girl adjusting her cape a bit, "Sabrina literally Wished to control Grief, so I figured I should go for something strong, too..."
"Still saying that's bull-"
"Crap, yeah."
"Yeah..."
A momentary silence passes between the blue magical girls, each one lost in their own thoughts.
Sayaka's the one to break the silence.
"So, maybe I didn't Wish that good," she grumbles, "so what?"
"Well, then you need to group up- not that you ever shouldn't, mind-"
"What, you think I threw myself at Witches solo?" Sayaka asks, eyebrow raised.
"No, no, but... who was your... partner?" Sayaka asks back.
The bleunette shrugs. "Kyouko, mostly. And Akane-"
"Wait," blinks Sayaka, "Kyouko? Like, Sakura Kyouko?"
"Yes."
"That..." Sayaka waves a hand around, fumbling for words, "that doesn't make sense."
"Ah, she's pretty sweet once you get to know-"
"Not THAT!" yells Sayaka, red faced.
The knight themed magical girl grins at that. She leans in, grinning. "What? Got a liking for red heads?" she winks. "I know I do..."
Sayaka splutters denials, taking a step back and raising her hands as if to ward Sayaka away.
"N-not the issue!" she protests.
"What's the issue then?" Sayaka laughs, "because it sounds to me you haven't gathered the courage-"
"The issue is Kyouko eats Witches for breakfast!" yells the blushing Sayaka, fist clenched.
Sayaka stops in her tracks. She squints. "Eats...?"
"Metaphorically."
"Oh, good," she sighs in relief.
It's Sayaka's turn to laugh. "What, you didn't think..." she giggles, a hand on her mouth, "you didn't-"
"Ha-ha," Sayaka rolls her eyes, "funny. Now, you were saying...?"
"Right," the other girl fake coughs into her hand. "Kyouko is strong. Like, she's been soloing Witches for what, two years?" she asks rethorically.
"Well, yeah..." Sayaka admits, looking aside. "It's kind of weird she could do that, but once we grouped up she got..." she frowns, "hurt almost every fight... Do you..." the bleunette grimaces," do you think it's my fault?" she asks, a hint of apprehension in her tone.
"I... doubt it?" blinks Sayaka. "You made a healing Wish, you got healing powers, not... exp leeching powers."
"Exp leeching?" asks Sayaka throwing Sayaka an amused look.
The bleunette shrugs.
"An, whatever," shrugs Sayaka, "it's been a while since my Kyouko got hurt," she smirks. "How about yours?"
"My Kyou- good try," Sayaka's eye twitches. "Anyway!" she says before Sayaka can even open her mouth again. "Kyouko's good enough she should've been able to carry you through the fights."
"That good?"
"Good enough to take care of a ten year old meguca while witch fighting," nods Sayaka.
The blue eyed magical girl whistles. "I mean, I know my girl's cool, but somehow she keeps surprising me, you know?"
Sayaka waves her off. "So there's definitely something weird going on with your place. Maybe..." she mulls, "noticed anything weird about the witches?"
"A disproportionate amount of spider themed witches?" ventures the caped magical girl.
"Nah, that's pretty normal in my experience," shrugs Sayaka.
"Witches' strenght seems to scale with your own?"
"That's..." Sayaka points a gloved finger, "that's definitely not right. Like..." she opens her hands in a shrug, "how does that make sense?"
"Luck?" Sayaka shrugs.
"That's some rotten luck you got there."
"Rotten?" glares Sayaka. "What? Would you rather I found the stronger witches first? Well, the strongest," she corrects herself. "Not like I'd survived that."
"Not what I mean," Sayaka frowns back. "I mean, a Magical Girl usually kills at least a few Witches, on average-"
"Before this whole 'Sabrina' thing, you mean?"
"Yeah, so-"
"No, no," interrupts the blue haired girl, shaking her head, "I get it. I just don't know what to tell you," she shrugs.
"Well, anyway," Sayaka pulls her phone out of her cape, "it's getting late, so shall we...?" she nods her head towards the slit in reality that's been sitting besides the chatting girls all along.
"Right," nods Sayaka, "but you were gonna tell me something about keeping my limbs attached...?"
"Eh," the bleunette shrugs, rolling her shoulders in preparation for a Hunt, "it seems that's a thing with your universe."
"A thing?" asks Sayaka curiously.
"... I'll explain later," says Sayaka with a long suffering sigh.
The blue eyed girl looks at her for a moment, but shrugs.
"Just remember we've got unlimited magic, so-"
"-We can spam magic as much as we want," finishes Sayaka with a feral grin. "You know? I think I'm gonna enjoy this for once."
The knight themed magical girl draws a deep breath, and as she releases it, a blue flash covers her momentarily, drawing a confused look from her counterpart. Once the light dies down, she's covered in golden gilded blue armour.
"That's so cool!" exclaims Sayaka, looking the other magical girl up and down with wide eyes.
"Not as useful as you think," mutters the armoured magical girl.
"Is that a second transformation sequence?" asks Sayaka, excited. "Do you get more powers-?"
"Just a plus ten to my defense rolls," answers Sayaka straightfaced.
Blue eyes blink a few times. "Pfft," their owner laughs, "got me there for a second."
"Yeah..." drawls Sayaka, before turning to the waiting Barrier, her armored feet clanging against the ground.
Sayaka follows close behind. Once they're both in front of the slit in reality, they nod to each other and, as one, they pull out identical cutlasses and cut vertically.
The Barrier opens wide, and they step inside.
"You know," frowns the armored Sayaka suddenly, "suddenly I've got a bad feeling about this."
"Bad how?" frowns Sayaka, inspecting their surroundings as she takes slow, measured steps into the Witch's domain.
"Like..." mutters the blue haired girl, still advancing. "Like we were in something weird and we just walked into something weirder."
"What kind of feeling is that?" scoffs the blue haired one.
Sayaka shrugs. "Chalk it up to..." she trails off as she comes to a stop besides an enormous pit. The other Sayaka slows to a stop as well, and together they look down into the endless void, only a few web threads hanging from one side to the other. "... Experience," finishes Sayaka after a few seconds. "You know, there's something else weird with this Barrier," she says suddenly.
"Like the fact there's no familiars?" guesses Sayaka.
"And no labyrinth?"
"This is the main chamber, right? And there's..."
"No Witch. Instead-"
"Is that a camera?" asks Sayaka, befuddled.
"And hey, look, a board game," points Sayaka.
"... You know," says Sayaka after a few seconds of silence, "I'm gonna hazard a guess that this is probably Sabrina's fault somehow."
"By what you've told me about her, that sounds... plausible?" asks the bleunette dubiously.
"Let's go with that," shrugs Sayaka. "Come on, let's get out of here, I'm hungry," she turns back and walks back towards the exit.
"Hell yes," agrees Sayaka, following close behind. "I haven't eaten one of Mami's cakes in ages."
"Yeah, they're gre-" Sayaka comes to a dead stop at the Barrier's Door.
"What is it- why is it a lot colder here all of a sudden..." Sayaka comes to stand besides Sayaka at the exit.
The exit which opens up into a vast expanse of blue sky.
As high speed winds buffet the Magical Girls, two sets of blue eyes trail down to find an spectacular sight of Mitakihara. All of Mitakihara. Way, way, way down miles under their feet.
The Sayaka wearing armor pinches her nose and draws in a breath-
The other Sayaka elbows her lightly; she meets her twin's eyes with a smirk.
"Did you know we can fly?" she asks.
Then she steps off the Barrier and plummets down, her white cape flapping behind her.
Sayaka looks down, bemused, as a light blue platform forms under Sayaka's feet and she surfs down on it across the air.
"... Fucking cool," says Sayaka, letting herself fall.