Enter Berthier

[darkwater_sis]

She's just an average (but totally beautiful, she insists) girl walking down the street. There's a light laugh at something in one of the window displays, a pretty dress probably. There's a pause by a bakery. Then Berthier comes to a stop at what seems to be a random store, a cosmetics shop

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[lighteningqueen]

Jun finds herself being swept up from her normal life (dammit she really wanted some of the cake) before being dumped in the middle of an argument. Only her reflexes thanks to training save her from being shoved as one takes the verbal argument to a physical one.

"Jesus fucking Christ!" Jun glares at the two women. She could break up the fight, but really she doesn't feel like it. Besides the two women seem to be ending it anyway, glaring hatefully at each other as they leave the store. Jun watches them with a frown, honestly people. It's just a shop. And, by the looks of it, a cosmetics one. Oh fun.

Turning on her heel, Jun stomps off, heading for the door. The nexus might have picked her up and dumped her here but like hell she's staying.

[lighteningqueen]

"Oh boo hoo. Would you like a tissue?" Juno taunts, stepping to the side. The axe is swung and the cry repeated, "Peacock Slash!"

She hears the taunt but forces herself to ignore it. She can't let her temper get in the way, that will make her weak. She must stay calm.

[darkwater_sis]

It's distraction enough, Berthier hopes. While the two attacks struggle for dominance, her droid circles around and aims another shot of ice at Jun's back. She'll make a pretty frozen treat, Berthier thinks.

"Did you borrow that costume?" she asks, in a friendly tone. "It's pretty, but you shouldn't go around pretending to be a warrior."

[lighteningqueen]

It almost gets her. Almost. But just before it hits her she dodges, leaving the ice to cling to a counter. One attack later and that droid is hopefully out for the count.

"No actually," Jun shoots back, "It comes with the powers. Part of a package deal and all."

"What about you, eh? Did you borrow that outfit off a hooker?"

[darkwater_sis]

"I guess I can't expect someone from this primitive twentieth-century to understand a woman's fashion," Berthier retorts easily, making a rather glaring assumption.

The droid's hit by the attack and goes down, but there's no pile of dust. It'll probably get up again if Jun doesn't find a way to get out of here first instead.

"Oh, dear. I guess droids aren't very reliable sometimes," Berthier says, as if the loss doesn't matter very much. They can always just abduct more humans, replace more, fill the earth with more droids.

[lighteningqueen]

"I wouldn't know, but I think if I asked a friend she'd say it was an affronting fashion in any century, 20th or 30th or any other one."

Noticing the lack of dust, Juno frowns. Too go over there and finish it, or to stay here and watch Berthier. Hmm. Possibly best to go and finish this one so there's less to fight, right?

One quick jump and she's over there, axe swinging down. Bye bye Mr/Mrs Droid. We knew thee not that well.

[darkwater_sis]

Far from the reaction that might be expected to having her droid taken out (it's annoying, but really, they're expendable), Berthier feels ready to laugh. Because the few seconds it will take Jun to finish the job gives her a clear shot at the girl's back.

"Dark Water!" It probably feels very cold, if it hits, cold enough to numb and freeze the immediate area, but Berthier isn't as strong as her sisters and this isn't the strongest form of her attack.

Then she lets the laughter out. "Really, you should know you can't even trust a friend. It's laughable to be so naive you'd turn your back on an enemy."

[lighteningqueen]

It is cold. Piercingly cold. Juno bites her lip to hold in the cry of surprise, of pain, back seizing up. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Ugh, how could she have been so idiotic?

There's a cracking sound as she moves, the ice breaking. But the cold remains, will remain for a little while. She spins, "Peacock Slash!"

[darkwater_sis]

"Hey, that's my ice!" Yes, she seriously sounds affronted, as if she's the one who's been wronged here.

Well, to be fair, her droid did just get killed. Hmph.

It's only worse when she barely avoids the peacock slash, and it hits her hand.

"Ow! That hurt!" You are a terrible, terrible person, Jun. "Hmph, I won't forget this, tattoo-girl!" With that, she disappears.

[lighteningqueen]

And she cares cuz why? It was on her back, that makes it almost hers.

Juno snorts with Berthier's disappearance, before dropping her own transformation. At almost the exact same time the nexus whisks her back home. Hmph. Be like that you stupid time streams.