Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon ep5
Getting as much done as I can.
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The attacks just kept coming, didn't they? Thanks to Ami-sensei's bright idea to get the students to branch out, Yoko and Asa were now together in a science project for the next month and a half. When they went to the library to check out the books they needed, Binbeat, the annoying eternal child, sent a Hidoinaa into the building to look for Moon Pieces. The two of them had to fight it, and what was more, it had ruined the whole library. Yes, it went back to normal when they defeated the monster, but it was the principle of the thing. Yoko wished that the monsters would listen when she lectured them.
"I'll never forgive you for this!"
Yoko snuggled into the bedsheets. "Yeah, me neither..." She froze and her eyes shot open. "Who said that? Who's in my room?"
"It's just the TV ~susu," Starry chirped. Yoko pulled herself into a sitting position and rubbed her eyes. The little orange creature was sitting at the foot of her bed, watching her in-room TV.
"It's Sunday morning." Yoko tugged her fluffy comforter around her shoulders. "What's there on TV to watch? Evangelists?"
"Are you kidding ~susu?" Starry pointed at the man in a red bodysuit and mask on the TV screen. "DaiFighter is on every Sunday ~susu!"
DaiFighter pointed at his enemy. "You would even attack the school? There's nothing you'll stop at unless I stop you myself!"
Yoko tugged knots out of her long grey hair and tried to lay down and sleep again. "Kawada-san is being a bad influence. Don't wake me up in the mornings like that, okay?"
"Hey!" Starry waved his stubby little arms. "DaiFighter is a noble warrior ~susu!"
Yoko stuffed her head under her pillow.
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Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon
Episode 5: Moon Piece at School? You Know, If You're Wrong Again...
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The white void with its ornately carved walls held another meeting, like it had a number of weeks before. In front of the usual group, the air rippled as a voice emerged from nowhere.
"We're beginning to have a problem." The voice echoed throughout the room that was a world. "Although they don't seem to be much of a threat, the fact remains that Pretty Cure has revived. They are not the same people as the previous group, as Kainatrol and Binbeat have determined, but they still possess the power to protect their world and the Garden of Days."
Binbeat stretched out his arms and tapped his foot. "C'mon, they beat a couple Hidoinaa, but if they were fighting us, we'd squash 'em."
"Don't talk out of turn!" Kainatrol hissed.
The air rippled again. "We are not prepared to take that risk. At the moment, those two girls are of a lower priority than gathering the thirteen Moon Pieces from their town. Besides the power that they would grant us, having them would also mean completing the Moon Dial that we retrieved from the Garden of Days, returning to us the power to reset time and add worlds to the void."
Mekuramast stepped forward and gave a sweeping stage bow, fluttering his cape behind him. "With all due respect, Boss, the previous Pretty Cure were the ones who took the Moon Dial back from us twenty-five years ago. Shouldn't we get them out of the way first?"
"Do not question me on this matter." The voice got louder and the ripples stronger. "There is a high chance of damaging time irreparably and losing everything that the Etherium has done."
Mekuramast nodded and stepped back into line, ignoring glares from Kainatrol. He didn't see how just getting rid of Pretty Cure before going for the Moon Pieces would do anything to the flow of time, but when the Boss said something, you didn't talk back.
Tachimany shifted into twelve soldiers with glittery swords. "Still, it makes us wonder." They turned into five teenage girls with white and gold school uniforms. "Those girls are looking for the Moon Pieces, too. What if they get them before we do?"
Kainatrol slapped her open hand with her riding crop. "Tachimany, stay in one form when we're speaking to you! It's distracting to have you constantly transforming and multiplying!"
Tachimany stretched out, alternating sentences between the five bodies who currently shared their mind.
"Kainatrol."
"You're an animal tamer."
"What kind of performer --"
"--can't deal with a little distraction?"
"The show must go on, you know."
Kainatrol clenched her fist over the handle of the riding crop. "Don't mock me."
Tachimany shifted into their second form, two salarymen. "Don't act like you're in charge. The Boss is." They gestured to the air in front of them, which rippled but said nothing.
"I'm not!" The red-haired woman glared.
The salarymen shrugged. "Even with your mind-control powers, you can't control everything."
The Boss spoke again. "Tachimany had a point before they were interrupted. However, we don't even know who the new Pretty Cure are, much less whether they already have Moon Pieces. Focus first on retrieving those and then on fighting the girls."
Mekuramast adjusted his eye mask.
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When Yoko finally woke up, it was around one in the afternoon. She'd finished her homework, and a few calls had determined that Yukari was busy working at her parents' store, so there was one thing left to do. She left the house, purse packed with everything she could possibly need to live for a week on a remote island, and walked to the post office.
There were no businesses in her neighbourhood. Besides the shrine, there were nothing but houses. Yoko had to walk all the way down to the Seiki Open Mall just to mail off an order for car parts. She wished for the day that she were old enough to own a credit card, but until then, she just had to deal with the risk of someone seeing her. No one had so far, or at least no one had asked what she was mailing. This time was the same, thankfully. She just paid, sent off the envelope, walked out of the post office and...
"Ouch!"
...walked right into Asa, sending her stumbling back. Yoko grabbed her wrist and yanked her up to keep her from falling, blinked, and let go.
"Nakayama-san!" Asa stepped back a little, flushed. "Sorry! But hey, you're just the person I wanted to see!"
Yoko tilted her head. "I am?"
"Yeah! Come on!" Asa gestured to a small alley and ran off. Yoko blinked and drew out her transformation phone with Starry inside. If she was being this outgoing, it had to have something to do with Pretty Cure.
Yoko followed Asa to the alley and looked around nervously -- it was a habit. "What is it?"
Asa gave the thumbs up. "I think I figured out where the next Moon Piece could be!"
Starry popped open Yoko's phone and looked out. "Really ~susu? Where is it ~susu?"
Asa's eyes sparkled. "It's got to be somewhere inside Clair Academy!"
"What?" Yoko gaped. "Inside the school?"
Starry hopped out of the phone and landed on the ground at normal size. "Just like today's episode of DaiFighter ~susu!"
"No way." Yoko facepalmed. "No, no, no, you are not going to go off on random theories based on what you saw on TV this morning. Why would it be at school?"
"Why wouldn't it be at school?" Asa crossed her arms and pouted. "Think about it! The last one was at the clock tower, wasn't it? The others should be at important places, too! Besides, lots of people come to school every day, so if they had it, they could have dropped it there. Another thing: remember a couple days ago? There was a Hidoinaa at the library for no good reason! I think they're looking for the Moon Pieces everywhere in town! Shouldn't we be looking around just as well?"
"Well..."
Starry nodded and hopped over to Asa. "She's right ~susu! Even if we don't find a Moon Piece there, at least we'll have covered a lot of ground looking ~susu!"
Yoko slumped over and sighed. "I guess there isn't any harm in it."
Asa blinked a few times. Yoko had actually listened to her.
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The Master Magician sat atop a roof, examining his eye mask in his hand. Of course, he'd lied during the meeting, though he hadn't actually said anything. He knew exactly who those two girls were, and he knew for sure that they already had at least one Moon Piece. He hadn't even said that he'd seen them until that brat, Binbeat, found out -- presumably from Pretty Cure themselves -- that they'd fought.
Mekuramast was a magician. They kept their secrets.
As long as the others didn't know what those two girls looked like before transforming, they couldn't track them down and steal their Moon Piece. He placed the jewel-studded eye mask back upon his face and looked down at the street.
Wait, there they were. What were those two girls doing? Certainly, they were headed somewhere, and he heard mention of Moon Pieces. If they'd found another one, he'd have to get there, too.
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"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Yoko clung to the brick wall she was climbing with a look that pleaded 'come on, don't let anyone come by and look up my skirt'.
"Of course!" Asa squeezed herself into a half-open classroom window with no such regard for her panties. Yoko heard a crash inside the room before the blue-haired girl stood up, sweatdropped, and opened the window fully. Taking a deep breath, Yoko climbed a little further up and through the window. She panted and gasped for breath.
"I should... take up... a sport," the grey-haired girl wheezed. "This is... embarrassing."
Starry patted Yoko's hand and hopped over to another desk. "Where are we going to look first ~susu?"
"Here, I think." Asa took out her phone and Scan Card and looked around the room. "What would a Moon Piece be hidden as, though?"
"Probably some kind of stone, about the same size as it would be if it weren't hidden," Starry offered -- Yoko slashed the Storage Card and drew out the Moon Piece she already had, which fit nicely into her palm -- "but I don't know for sure ~susu. I only heard this from our leader when I escaped the Garden of Days ~susu."
"What exactly happened there?" Yoko asked, leaning against the wall for support. "Kawada-san might be used to this --" Asa gulped and shrank back into the nearest desk -- "but I still don't quite understand."
Starry sat down on the desk top. "I don't really know all the details ~susu." He frowned. "The Etherium came to the Garden of Days to steal the Moon Dial so that they could regain their power to erase worlds ~susu."
"You said the Moon Dial was where the Moon Pieces are supposed to go," Yoko said. "If the Etherium had it before, then why was it with you?"
"It's because the previous Pretty Cure took it from them ~susu." The little creature smiled.
Asa perked up. "Oh, yeah, the little kid who stole everyone's panties said something like that. Who are they?"
"I don't know ~susu. It was a long time ago ~susu." Starry put a little paw up to the side of his face. "I know that the Garden of Days was attacked by the Etherium back then, and they sent people here to get help because of the legend ~susu."
"A legend of Pretty Cure? How does it go?" Asa propped her head up with her hands. Yoko listened along, having caught her breath.
"It's a legend common to a lot of different worlds ~susu." Starry stood up again. "The world you live in is special because, when another world is in trouble, its power can enter your world ~susu. That's how the two of you received your phones ~susu."
"So that's also what happened with the last people who had this job," Yoko said. "They took the Moon Dial away, therefore making it impossible for the Etherium to control the flow of time on other worlds and add them to their void."
"But now they got it back, except it won't work without all the Moon Pieces, right?" Asa finished.
"Exactly ~susu!" Starry nodded. "We have to find them as soon as we can ~susu!"
"All right!" Asa rose from her chair and slammed her palms on the desk top. "Let's get looking!"
-
They searched Clair Academy for unusual stone objects to scan with their Scan Cards. Statues in the art room, jewelry in the lost-and-found, and even the doorknobs yielded nothing, but still they continued to search without hesitation.
"I'm not going in there."
"Well, someone has to."
"Do you want to, then?"
"No way!"
"What's going on ~susu?"
"Starry, you're a boy, aren't you? You go into the men's washroom!"
...Almost without hesitation.
They finally arrived back in the hallway near where they had come in.
"We haven't checked the Lily Class' room," Yoko mused. "Let's go there before we declare this a total loss."
'I was going to say that,' Asa thought, 'only a lot less negatively.' She nodded and opened the door to their own classroom.
It looked the same as it did every day. The desks were neatly lined up, and the supplies were stored in the cabinets, mostly locked away. (Hadn't Yukari been on cleanup duty last? She must have been in a hurry, Yoko thought -- probably to go shopping.) Asa looked over at some papers piled upon Ami-sensei's desk.
"Hey, what's this?"
"What are you doing?" Yoko snapped, making Asa jump and step back a few paces. "Don't read the teacher's stuff! That could be a test, for all we know!"
Asa gulped. "I was, uh, going to scan the paperweight!" She pointed to a small violet stone cat on top of the pile.
Yoko sighed. "If that's the case, I'll do it." The so-called Ice Queen moved over to the desk and swiped the Scan Card in her transformation phone.
The dial lit up. The screen -- where Starry sat when he was inside the phone -- read "RETRIEVAL: V" in English. Why? Everything magical is in English. It's a rule across time and genres.
"It's really a Moon Piece ~susu!" Starry pointed repeatedly at the cat-shaped paperweight.
"Great!" Asa went to grab it.
Yoko smacked her hand away. "Are you crazy? We can't steal the teacher's paperweight! We're already bad enough for breaking into the school! Do we have to add another crime to that?"
Asa held her aching hand. "We can't just leave it here..."
"You could use the Copy card ~susu," Starry ventured. "Then you can replace it with an identical paperweight ~susu."
The blue-haired girl looked at her cards and phone. "Wow, these do everything, don't they?"
"Fine," Yoko sighed. "I guess it has to be done..."
Asa drew out the card that bore two identical creatures and slashed it in her phone. The paperweight duplicated itself, just as the little mascot said it would. She picked up the original, which glowed and turned into its true form -- a shiny black stone with one polished side, the Roman numeral V carved into it. Finally, Asa slashed the Storage card, illustrated with a cute little treasure chest, and the Moon Piece vanished into storage.
"These things are so cool. We need to give them a name, like... CurePhone or CureDial or something awesome like that."
Yoko frowned. "Let's just get out of here before we have to do anything else illegal."
"I suppose that's my cue to come in."
Asa, Yoko and Starry whirled around to see Mekuramast climb through the window. He stepped onto the floor and twirled his simple wand.
"Two Moon Pieces already. This is impressive."
"They're not for you!" Asa held tightly onto her phone. "You'd just use them against other worlds!"
"How can they not be for me?" The magician looked over the group. "Hundreds of years ago, before your predecessors took the Moon Dial from us, our leader discovered it in the first world that was reduced to a void. We now call that the Etherium."
"You mean the first world that you reduced to a void ~susu!" Starry waved his little arms. "You stole the Moon Dial and destroyed that world while it was unprotected ~susu!"
"I had nothing to do with it." He adjusted his eye mask. "This was before my time. My own world was still intact then."
"You sold out your own world?" Yoko stepped forward to stand next to Asa. "You're trying to erase worlds -- people -- as if they never existed, and you don't even have a problem with this?"
Mekuramast glared silently.
Asa nodded. "The reason we have these powers is to stop that from happening!"
The Master Magician shook his head. "You're going to transform, aren't you? Go right ahead."
Asa and Yoko looked at each other and held hands.
"Dual Infinite Phase!"
Asa emerged from the instant light show in her blinding orange-and-pink uniform. "On behalf of the light, I am Cure Sunday!"
Yoko followed in her black-and-navy dress. "In the name of the shadows, I am Cure Night!"
"We are Pretty Cure!"
"We'll defend at all hours..."
"...to ensure a peaceful era!"
Mekuramast nodded. "In that case, let's get started!"
"Aren't you going to summon a Hidoinaa?" Sunday blinked.
"Why should I?" He twirled his wand again, almost absently, as a rope crept quietly towards them on the ground. "I just want the Moon Pieces."
"Watch out!" Night tackled Sunday to the ground just as the rising end of rope would have grabbed her phone. The two of them got back up quickly.
"Observant, aren't you?" Mekuramast whipped the rope back up his sleeve. "Then take this!" Playing cards shot from his wand and exploded around the room. The girls stood their ground and emerged, scuffed and burned, from the smoke (and Starry hid under the desk, not used to being out of the phones during a fight), but the classroom was a broken mess.
"We can't fight in here!" Night twitched. "It's all getting wrecked!"
'What's her thing with property damage?', Sunday thought. 'It all gets fixed.' Regardless, she charged at Mekuramast. While his raised arm blocked her strike, Night popped up beside him and spin-kicked him right out the open window. He flipped right-side-up and landed on his feet on the grass.
"You stay here!" Sunday looked back at Starry. "We'll come back and get you!" The two of them jumped out the window. Night was never more grateful that transforming made her more athletic. They landed in unison right in front of the magician.
"Good work." He smirked.
"Why are you acting like you're not doing your best?" Night narrowed her eyes. "You're making no sense at all!"
"Oh, I can answer that." Sunday grinned.
"You can?" Night blinked repeatedly.
"Yeah!" Sunday pointed a finger at Mekuramast. "You're my father, aren't you?"
"..."
"..."
"What?"
Mekuramast sweatdropped, which must have been a strange sight indeed. "Why would I be your father?" Had the new Pretty Cure lost brain cells in the transformation process?
"You're not? Hm..." Sunday tilted her head. "Are you her father?"
"My father lives with us!" Night facepalmed. "Where did all this come from, anyway? You didn't see it on DaiFighter, did you?"
"No!" Sunday looked offended. "It was on Super Ultra Special Team. Keep them straight, okay?"
"I'm nobody's father!" Mekuramast grumbled. "Take yourselves seriously! We're supposed to be opponents!"
"Fine, then!" Sunday punched him and sent him flying back. He flipped over and landed on his feet again.
"Was that whole thing a distraction?" Night asked.
"Nope," Sunday said. "I really meant it."
Night grimaced and ran forward. She sent a series of punches at the magician, who dodged most of them but was hit back by a few. He shot out a scarf-whip from his sleeve and pushed her back into her partner. The two pulled themselves up and glared.
"How can you even be doing this?" Night's grey hair blew in the breeze. "Why are you fighting? You destroyed your own world! Isn't that enough?"
Mekuramast flared his cape out. "You don't know anything yet, Pretty Cure." He snapped his fingers and light flashed in front of them. Both girls shielded their eyes until it was gone. When they looked back, he'd vanished like the magician he was.
"What?" Sunday stomped. "We didn't even get to use the finisher?"
"We got a Moon Piece, isn't that enough?" Night looked away and slipped deeper into thought.
Sunday paused. "...do you think he's Starry's father?"
"Just stop that!" Sunday shrank back when Night snapped at her. "I'm thinking about something serious!"
A few minutes passed. Finally, the darker-themed of the two turned back to the other. "...sorry."
Sunday gulped. "What's wrong, Naka-- Night?"
Night sighed. "It's all too convenient. The Moon Piece was right where we looked for it. Right in our own classroom, even. Do you see what I'm getting at?"
"...what?"
"I think someone, somewhere, knows who we are."
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Yoko: Now it's time for...
Everyone: Asa and Yoko's Comment Corner! (Starry: ~susu!)
Starry: With the exposition about the legend of Pretty Cure, Blue Moon is now officially All-Stars-compliant ~susu.
Yoko: Why? Our author's always complaining that the movies mess up the continuity and it makes more sense for every series to be in a different world.
Starry: I have no idea, but I think it makes more sense since all the fanseries are becoming connected in the same way these days ~susu.
Asa: The author officially apologizes for all the exposition-dumping, which she was actually going to save for a later episode. She just couldn't stop trying to explain what looked like plot holes, I guess.
Kainatrol: I liked this episode enough.
Mekuramast: Only because I was kicked out a window by a teenage girl.
Yukari: I want screentime! Can't my spotlight episode come sooner?
Hoshi: It's coming soon enough! Geez, mallrats like you annoy me!
Starry: Calm down ~susu! We're just about done the episode ~susu!
Asa: See you all next time!
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Next episode: Someone's Seen Us!? But Who Is It?
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Episodes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Bonus 16 17 18 19 20 Bonus 21 22 23 24 Ending & Epilogue
The attacks just kept coming, didn't they? Thanks to Ami-sensei's bright idea to get the students to branch out, Yoko and Asa were now together in a science project for the next month and a half. When they went to the library to check out the books they needed, Binbeat, the annoying eternal child, sent a Hidoinaa into the building to look for Moon Pieces. The two of them had to fight it, and what was more, it had ruined the whole library. Yes, it went back to normal when they defeated the monster, but it was the principle of the thing. Yoko wished that the monsters would listen when she lectured them.
"I'll never forgive you for this!"
Yoko snuggled into the bedsheets. "Yeah, me neither..." She froze and her eyes shot open. "Who said that? Who's in my room?"
"It's just the TV ~susu," Starry chirped. Yoko pulled herself into a sitting position and rubbed her eyes. The little orange creature was sitting at the foot of her bed, watching her in-room TV.
"It's Sunday morning." Yoko tugged her fluffy comforter around her shoulders. "What's there on TV to watch? Evangelists?"
"Are you kidding ~susu?" Starry pointed at the man in a red bodysuit and mask on the TV screen. "DaiFighter is on every Sunday ~susu!"
DaiFighter pointed at his enemy. "You would even attack the school? There's nothing you'll stop at unless I stop you myself!"
Yoko tugged knots out of her long grey hair and tried to lay down and sleep again. "Kawada-san is being a bad influence. Don't wake me up in the mornings like that, okay?"
"Hey!" Starry waved his stubby little arms. "DaiFighter is a noble warrior ~susu!"
Yoko stuffed her head under her pillow.
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Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon
Episode 5: Moon Piece at School? You Know, If You're Wrong Again...
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The white void with its ornately carved walls held another meeting, like it had a number of weeks before. In front of the usual group, the air rippled as a voice emerged from nowhere.
"We're beginning to have a problem." The voice echoed throughout the room that was a world. "Although they don't seem to be much of a threat, the fact remains that Pretty Cure has revived. They are not the same people as the previous group, as Kainatrol and Binbeat have determined, but they still possess the power to protect their world and the Garden of Days."
Binbeat stretched out his arms and tapped his foot. "C'mon, they beat a couple Hidoinaa, but if they were fighting us, we'd squash 'em."
"Don't talk out of turn!" Kainatrol hissed.
The air rippled again. "We are not prepared to take that risk. At the moment, those two girls are of a lower priority than gathering the thirteen Moon Pieces from their town. Besides the power that they would grant us, having them would also mean completing the Moon Dial that we retrieved from the Garden of Days, returning to us the power to reset time and add worlds to the void."
Mekuramast stepped forward and gave a sweeping stage bow, fluttering his cape behind him. "With all due respect, Boss, the previous Pretty Cure were the ones who took the Moon Dial back from us twenty-five years ago. Shouldn't we get them out of the way first?"
"Do not question me on this matter." The voice got louder and the ripples stronger. "There is a high chance of damaging time irreparably and losing everything that the Etherium has done."
Mekuramast nodded and stepped back into line, ignoring glares from Kainatrol. He didn't see how just getting rid of Pretty Cure before going for the Moon Pieces would do anything to the flow of time, but when the Boss said something, you didn't talk back.
Tachimany shifted into twelve soldiers with glittery swords. "Still, it makes us wonder." They turned into five teenage girls with white and gold school uniforms. "Those girls are looking for the Moon Pieces, too. What if they get them before we do?"
Kainatrol slapped her open hand with her riding crop. "Tachimany, stay in one form when we're speaking to you! It's distracting to have you constantly transforming and multiplying!"
Tachimany stretched out, alternating sentences between the five bodies who currently shared their mind.
"Kainatrol."
"You're an animal tamer."
"What kind of performer --"
"--can't deal with a little distraction?"
"The show must go on, you know."
Kainatrol clenched her fist over the handle of the riding crop. "Don't mock me."
Tachimany shifted into their second form, two salarymen. "Don't act like you're in charge. The Boss is." They gestured to the air in front of them, which rippled but said nothing.
"I'm not!" The red-haired woman glared.
The salarymen shrugged. "Even with your mind-control powers, you can't control everything."
The Boss spoke again. "Tachimany had a point before they were interrupted. However, we don't even know who the new Pretty Cure are, much less whether they already have Moon Pieces. Focus first on retrieving those and then on fighting the girls."
Mekuramast adjusted his eye mask.
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When Yoko finally woke up, it was around one in the afternoon. She'd finished her homework, and a few calls had determined that Yukari was busy working at her parents' store, so there was one thing left to do. She left the house, purse packed with everything she could possibly need to live for a week on a remote island, and walked to the post office.
There were no businesses in her neighbourhood. Besides the shrine, there were nothing but houses. Yoko had to walk all the way down to the Seiki Open Mall just to mail off an order for car parts. She wished for the day that she were old enough to own a credit card, but until then, she just had to deal with the risk of someone seeing her. No one had so far, or at least no one had asked what she was mailing. This time was the same, thankfully. She just paid, sent off the envelope, walked out of the post office and...
"Ouch!"
...walked right into Asa, sending her stumbling back. Yoko grabbed her wrist and yanked her up to keep her from falling, blinked, and let go.
"Nakayama-san!" Asa stepped back a little, flushed. "Sorry! But hey, you're just the person I wanted to see!"
Yoko tilted her head. "I am?"
"Yeah! Come on!" Asa gestured to a small alley and ran off. Yoko blinked and drew out her transformation phone with Starry inside. If she was being this outgoing, it had to have something to do with Pretty Cure.
Yoko followed Asa to the alley and looked around nervously -- it was a habit. "What is it?"
Asa gave the thumbs up. "I think I figured out where the next Moon Piece could be!"
Starry popped open Yoko's phone and looked out. "Really ~susu? Where is it ~susu?"
Asa's eyes sparkled. "It's got to be somewhere inside Clair Academy!"
"What?" Yoko gaped. "Inside the school?"
Starry hopped out of the phone and landed on the ground at normal size. "Just like today's episode of DaiFighter ~susu!"
"No way." Yoko facepalmed. "No, no, no, you are not going to go off on random theories based on what you saw on TV this morning. Why would it be at school?"
"Why wouldn't it be at school?" Asa crossed her arms and pouted. "Think about it! The last one was at the clock tower, wasn't it? The others should be at important places, too! Besides, lots of people come to school every day, so if they had it, they could have dropped it there. Another thing: remember a couple days ago? There was a Hidoinaa at the library for no good reason! I think they're looking for the Moon Pieces everywhere in town! Shouldn't we be looking around just as well?"
"Well..."
Starry nodded and hopped over to Asa. "She's right ~susu! Even if we don't find a Moon Piece there, at least we'll have covered a lot of ground looking ~susu!"
Yoko slumped over and sighed. "I guess there isn't any harm in it."
Asa blinked a few times. Yoko had actually listened to her.
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The Master Magician sat atop a roof, examining his eye mask in his hand. Of course, he'd lied during the meeting, though he hadn't actually said anything. He knew exactly who those two girls were, and he knew for sure that they already had at least one Moon Piece. He hadn't even said that he'd seen them until that brat, Binbeat, found out -- presumably from Pretty Cure themselves -- that they'd fought.
Mekuramast was a magician. They kept their secrets.
As long as the others didn't know what those two girls looked like before transforming, they couldn't track them down and steal their Moon Piece. He placed the jewel-studded eye mask back upon his face and looked down at the street.
Wait, there they were. What were those two girls doing? Certainly, they were headed somewhere, and he heard mention of Moon Pieces. If they'd found another one, he'd have to get there, too.
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"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Yoko clung to the brick wall she was climbing with a look that pleaded 'come on, don't let anyone come by and look up my skirt'.
"Of course!" Asa squeezed herself into a half-open classroom window with no such regard for her panties. Yoko heard a crash inside the room before the blue-haired girl stood up, sweatdropped, and opened the window fully. Taking a deep breath, Yoko climbed a little further up and through the window. She panted and gasped for breath.
"I should... take up... a sport," the grey-haired girl wheezed. "This is... embarrassing."
Starry patted Yoko's hand and hopped over to another desk. "Where are we going to look first ~susu?"
"Here, I think." Asa took out her phone and Scan Card and looked around the room. "What would a Moon Piece be hidden as, though?"
"Probably some kind of stone, about the same size as it would be if it weren't hidden," Starry offered -- Yoko slashed the Storage Card and drew out the Moon Piece she already had, which fit nicely into her palm -- "but I don't know for sure ~susu. I only heard this from our leader when I escaped the Garden of Days ~susu."
"What exactly happened there?" Yoko asked, leaning against the wall for support. "Kawada-san might be used to this --" Asa gulped and shrank back into the nearest desk -- "but I still don't quite understand."
Starry sat down on the desk top. "I don't really know all the details ~susu." He frowned. "The Etherium came to the Garden of Days to steal the Moon Dial so that they could regain their power to erase worlds ~susu."
"You said the Moon Dial was where the Moon Pieces are supposed to go," Yoko said. "If the Etherium had it before, then why was it with you?"
"It's because the previous Pretty Cure took it from them ~susu." The little creature smiled.
Asa perked up. "Oh, yeah, the little kid who stole everyone's panties said something like that. Who are they?"
"I don't know ~susu. It was a long time ago ~susu." Starry put a little paw up to the side of his face. "I know that the Garden of Days was attacked by the Etherium back then, and they sent people here to get help because of the legend ~susu."
"A legend of Pretty Cure? How does it go?" Asa propped her head up with her hands. Yoko listened along, having caught her breath.
"It's a legend common to a lot of different worlds ~susu." Starry stood up again. "The world you live in is special because, when another world is in trouble, its power can enter your world ~susu. That's how the two of you received your phones ~susu."
"So that's also what happened with the last people who had this job," Yoko said. "They took the Moon Dial away, therefore making it impossible for the Etherium to control the flow of time on other worlds and add them to their void."
"But now they got it back, except it won't work without all the Moon Pieces, right?" Asa finished.
"Exactly ~susu!" Starry nodded. "We have to find them as soon as we can ~susu!"
"All right!" Asa rose from her chair and slammed her palms on the desk top. "Let's get looking!"
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They searched Clair Academy for unusual stone objects to scan with their Scan Cards. Statues in the art room, jewelry in the lost-and-found, and even the doorknobs yielded nothing, but still they continued to search without hesitation.
"I'm not going in there."
"Well, someone has to."
"Do you want to, then?"
"No way!"
"What's going on ~susu?"
"Starry, you're a boy, aren't you? You go into the men's washroom!"
...Almost without hesitation.
They finally arrived back in the hallway near where they had come in.
"We haven't checked the Lily Class' room," Yoko mused. "Let's go there before we declare this a total loss."
'I was going to say that,' Asa thought, 'only a lot less negatively.' She nodded and opened the door to their own classroom.
It looked the same as it did every day. The desks were neatly lined up, and the supplies were stored in the cabinets, mostly locked away. (Hadn't Yukari been on cleanup duty last? She must have been in a hurry, Yoko thought -- probably to go shopping.) Asa looked over at some papers piled upon Ami-sensei's desk.
"Hey, what's this?"
"What are you doing?" Yoko snapped, making Asa jump and step back a few paces. "Don't read the teacher's stuff! That could be a test, for all we know!"
Asa gulped. "I was, uh, going to scan the paperweight!" She pointed to a small violet stone cat on top of the pile.
Yoko sighed. "If that's the case, I'll do it." The so-called Ice Queen moved over to the desk and swiped the Scan Card in her transformation phone.
The dial lit up. The screen -- where Starry sat when he was inside the phone -- read "RETRIEVAL: V" in English. Why? Everything magical is in English. It's a rule across time and genres.
"It's really a Moon Piece ~susu!" Starry pointed repeatedly at the cat-shaped paperweight.
"Great!" Asa went to grab it.
Yoko smacked her hand away. "Are you crazy? We can't steal the teacher's paperweight! We're already bad enough for breaking into the school! Do we have to add another crime to that?"
Asa held her aching hand. "We can't just leave it here..."
"You could use the Copy card ~susu," Starry ventured. "Then you can replace it with an identical paperweight ~susu."
The blue-haired girl looked at her cards and phone. "Wow, these do everything, don't they?"
"Fine," Yoko sighed. "I guess it has to be done..."
Asa drew out the card that bore two identical creatures and slashed it in her phone. The paperweight duplicated itself, just as the little mascot said it would. She picked up the original, which glowed and turned into its true form -- a shiny black stone with one polished side, the Roman numeral V carved into it. Finally, Asa slashed the Storage card, illustrated with a cute little treasure chest, and the Moon Piece vanished into storage.
"These things are so cool. We need to give them a name, like... CurePhone or CureDial or something awesome like that."
Yoko frowned. "Let's just get out of here before we have to do anything else illegal."
"I suppose that's my cue to come in."
Asa, Yoko and Starry whirled around to see Mekuramast climb through the window. He stepped onto the floor and twirled his simple wand.
"Two Moon Pieces already. This is impressive."
"They're not for you!" Asa held tightly onto her phone. "You'd just use them against other worlds!"
"How can they not be for me?" The magician looked over the group. "Hundreds of years ago, before your predecessors took the Moon Dial from us, our leader discovered it in the first world that was reduced to a void. We now call that the Etherium."
"You mean the first world that you reduced to a void ~susu!" Starry waved his little arms. "You stole the Moon Dial and destroyed that world while it was unprotected ~susu!"
"I had nothing to do with it." He adjusted his eye mask. "This was before my time. My own world was still intact then."
"You sold out your own world?" Yoko stepped forward to stand next to Asa. "You're trying to erase worlds -- people -- as if they never existed, and you don't even have a problem with this?"
Mekuramast glared silently.
Asa nodded. "The reason we have these powers is to stop that from happening!"
The Master Magician shook his head. "You're going to transform, aren't you? Go right ahead."
Asa and Yoko looked at each other and held hands.
"Dual Infinite Phase!"
Asa emerged from the instant light show in her blinding orange-and-pink uniform. "On behalf of the light, I am Cure Sunday!"
Yoko followed in her black-and-navy dress. "In the name of the shadows, I am Cure Night!"
"We are Pretty Cure!"
"We'll defend at all hours..."
"...to ensure a peaceful era!"
Mekuramast nodded. "In that case, let's get started!"
"Aren't you going to summon a Hidoinaa?" Sunday blinked.
"Why should I?" He twirled his wand again, almost absently, as a rope crept quietly towards them on the ground. "I just want the Moon Pieces."
"Watch out!" Night tackled Sunday to the ground just as the rising end of rope would have grabbed her phone. The two of them got back up quickly.
"Observant, aren't you?" Mekuramast whipped the rope back up his sleeve. "Then take this!" Playing cards shot from his wand and exploded around the room. The girls stood their ground and emerged, scuffed and burned, from the smoke (and Starry hid under the desk, not used to being out of the phones during a fight), but the classroom was a broken mess.
"We can't fight in here!" Night twitched. "It's all getting wrecked!"
'What's her thing with property damage?', Sunday thought. 'It all gets fixed.' Regardless, she charged at Mekuramast. While his raised arm blocked her strike, Night popped up beside him and spin-kicked him right out the open window. He flipped right-side-up and landed on his feet on the grass.
"You stay here!" Sunday looked back at Starry. "We'll come back and get you!" The two of them jumped out the window. Night was never more grateful that transforming made her more athletic. They landed in unison right in front of the magician.
"Good work." He smirked.
"Why are you acting like you're not doing your best?" Night narrowed her eyes. "You're making no sense at all!"
"Oh, I can answer that." Sunday grinned.
"You can?" Night blinked repeatedly.
"Yeah!" Sunday pointed a finger at Mekuramast. "You're my father, aren't you?"
"..."
"..."
"What?"
Mekuramast sweatdropped, which must have been a strange sight indeed. "Why would I be your father?" Had the new Pretty Cure lost brain cells in the transformation process?
"You're not? Hm..." Sunday tilted her head. "Are you her father?"
"My father lives with us!" Night facepalmed. "Where did all this come from, anyway? You didn't see it on DaiFighter, did you?"
"No!" Sunday looked offended. "It was on Super Ultra Special Team. Keep them straight, okay?"
"I'm nobody's father!" Mekuramast grumbled. "Take yourselves seriously! We're supposed to be opponents!"
"Fine, then!" Sunday punched him and sent him flying back. He flipped over and landed on his feet again.
"Was that whole thing a distraction?" Night asked.
"Nope," Sunday said. "I really meant it."
Night grimaced and ran forward. She sent a series of punches at the magician, who dodged most of them but was hit back by a few. He shot out a scarf-whip from his sleeve and pushed her back into her partner. The two pulled themselves up and glared.
"How can you even be doing this?" Night's grey hair blew in the breeze. "Why are you fighting? You destroyed your own world! Isn't that enough?"
Mekuramast flared his cape out. "You don't know anything yet, Pretty Cure." He snapped his fingers and light flashed in front of them. Both girls shielded their eyes until it was gone. When they looked back, he'd vanished like the magician he was.
"What?" Sunday stomped. "We didn't even get to use the finisher?"
"We got a Moon Piece, isn't that enough?" Night looked away and slipped deeper into thought.
Sunday paused. "...do you think he's Starry's father?"
"Just stop that!" Sunday shrank back when Night snapped at her. "I'm thinking about something serious!"
A few minutes passed. Finally, the darker-themed of the two turned back to the other. "...sorry."
Sunday gulped. "What's wrong, Naka-- Night?"
Night sighed. "It's all too convenient. The Moon Piece was right where we looked for it. Right in our own classroom, even. Do you see what I'm getting at?"
"...what?"
"I think someone, somewhere, knows who we are."
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Yoko: Now it's time for...
Everyone: Asa and Yoko's Comment Corner! (Starry: ~susu!)
Starry: With the exposition about the legend of Pretty Cure, Blue Moon is now officially All-Stars-compliant ~susu.
Yoko: Why? Our author's always complaining that the movies mess up the continuity and it makes more sense for every series to be in a different world.
Starry: I have no idea, but I think it makes more sense since all the fanseries are becoming connected in the same way these days ~susu.
Asa: The author officially apologizes for all the exposition-dumping, which she was actually going to save for a later episode. She just couldn't stop trying to explain what looked like plot holes, I guess.
Kainatrol: I liked this episode enough.
Mekuramast: Only because I was kicked out a window by a teenage girl.
Yukari: I want screentime! Can't my spotlight episode come sooner?
Hoshi: It's coming soon enough! Geez, mallrats like you annoy me!
Starry: Calm down ~susu! We're just about done the episode ~susu!
Asa: See you all next time!
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Next episode: Someone's Seen Us!? But Who Is It?