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…The black knights linger in the air, the blue cricket starts losing height until pink and white picks it up in the air. From the thick darkness in its cowl, its single yellow eye darts like crazy as all other Toys fall slowly to the ground.
But Rita? Risa rises.
Like a retired bouncer turned construction worker woken up, for the seventh time, by the wannabe death metal band next door, Risa rises. That slowly. That carefully.
That ready.
And when that little yellow dot meets her, it finds someone having a really bad time, someone that ruined her life- someone very, very angry. Rita doesn’t go for it. Instead, the stained glass in her armor shakes and glows as its colors grow ever brighter. They explode. Bang. Rita is launched into heaven. The two Black Knights that held her, dragged by the chains, get smashed together right under the Magical Girl. And when the chains pull her back, right as she’s snapped back to them, the rapier instantly draws a circle in the air and Rita gracefully falls through the scattered pieces of the Toys, which rain around her.
As some of the shards bounce off her, Rita, on her knees, takes time to stand. The thick metal shoes, twice the size of her feet, crush the tiny pebbles and wood splinters as she walks toward the pink and white Toy. Who finally puts piece and piece together and darts away, yet it takes it a bit more to realize that it’s doing so with half its body. The blue toy, ‘screaming’ almost comically, makes a run for it too- only to end up at the tip of the rapier, which drew a line of crystals right under it.
Shaking the blue toy away like it was a cockroach, free of any kind of chain, Rita turns to the three remaining Black Knights as the lethargy washes out of them. The first shoots its chain straight and ends up with a silent ‘O’ between its shoulders, so clean the cut that the pieces fall vertically as crystals spawn all over them. The second takes advantage and shoots, only for its chain to end in the head of the third Black Knight, which then couldn’t run away before the oversized rapier drew a clean line through it. Still stuck to its brethren, the second and final Black Knight bursts into a mad dash as it drags half of it with it- but ends up crashing against Rita’s chest piece instead. Who, right now, is studying it face to face.
