Gazing at the three who had came to disrupt her, Psychotris reaches out to search the minds around her… One had annoyingly became many, a woman that could turn into birds, she was curious how that one bleed, how fun it would be to pull her feathers out, on at a time, bit by bit. The next was a man who seemed rather strong and to carry the flame.. No, the same flame as the other, this must have been the brother she so desperately wanted to come save her..
"What can I break you into I wonder.. You wouldn't make for a pretty bird I'm sure."
Then there was that last one that had clashed with her before and ruined her last attempt, that one of note, yes, that one of exceptional note..
"MUST DIE!"
With that she hurls another of the cars at the girl, while generating a maelstrom of debris, while they had succeeded in getting her attention it was not the part of leading her away before more got caught in her torrent of death.
Charlotte despised the woman, but even so she was surprised to see the clown's volatile reaction to her specifically. The pink-haired girl quickly flew above the vehicle, catching it as it passed before setting it down.
"Oh I'm sorry. Are you angry at me?" Charlotte taunted the woman.
"That's strange. You act as if I kidnapped you PARENTS or something!"
Charlotte let the top of the parasol rest on her shoulder with the other hand on her hip. She seemed to have aggro, so she could possibly lead the psychopath away.
"Go ahead and try to kill me then! Going by your track record though, your only real weapon is collateral damage, so I'm not holding my breath without any loved ones held hostage!"
With that, Charlotte began flying away from the area and aiming for a more open space. Hopefully Octavia and Ichirou would catch on.
Her parents had been kidnapped alongside Ichirou's sister. Both he and Octavia knew that this battle was more Charlotte's than it was theirs, and they'd do their best to support her. With Octavia still in bird form, she quickly flew and grabbed Ichirou, following Charlotte's lead to try and get the psycho away from the current area.
Flying after the trio, the other widens her grin, lifting up a few more pieces of debris as she gave chase, following them to what seemed to be a construction site she tilts her head to the side, picking up some materials with the power of her quirk.
"Just because you took others out, does not mean you'll be allowed to pout. I took your father, but now you wish to be such a bother.." With that she seems to be waiting for something as the debris form overhead.
Charlotte rolled her eyes, finally reaching the site. She lowered herself to sit atop a beam, one leg crossed over the other to look down on the villain. She had dragged her to an empty construction lot, but now they needed a plan.
"Ah… yes… I forgot you rhymed… How cute…" Charlotte commented it with an expression missed with disgust and minor disappointment.
"I'll be more than a bother, I promise you."
After that, the girl attempted to wrestle control of the debris away from the woman. More particularly, Charlotte was trying to slam the overhead debris down on her. Charlotte never got an actual fight with the villain, so she wasn't sure how their telekinesis gauged against each other.
"Ahahaha!" With that the other one decides to match power with the other. If it were that simple she would have fallen back before, such an even contest could not be held in doubt. That is to say while Psychotris had to give up control of some of the objects many more she kept a hold on. Spinning them between the pulls of the pair she then launches down towards Ichirou as something of a visible spectrum appears around her, showcasing her reach and influence. On most of the remaining parts that she had to give up controlling she seemed to have clumped them together then fired them out like a cone shaped blast, taking aim at all three, or in the case of Octavia several.
While Charlotte could likely slow her down or even carry out a battle of control, they would likely not be able to defeat her unless they worked together in the face of the psionic juggernaut.
Ichirou and Octavia knew that the circumstances would require that the three improvise some sort of plan, but how? They couldn't just stand around and group huddle. They didn't have Heisuke here to communicate with them; that left them with split second decisions and whatever maneuvers they had in mind.
In this moment, Octavia realized she would need to try and strengthen her quirk to the levels of being able to communicate as a bird.
Ichirou and Octavia saw the attacks and were forced to take action. Octavia turned into a crow, flying low and barrel rolling through the obstacles to dodge. Meanwhile, Ichirou threw a handful of different fireballs in multiple directions, using one to warp himself onto an in progress build. Octavia flew her way to get behind the villain while Ichirou readied his fire in search of an opportunity to shoot at Psychotris. But where was that opportunity? They've never worked together before; but the least they could do is play support for Charlotte.
Ichirou threw one more fireball. This one above Psychotris, just a bit out of reach, and aimed two streams of fire at her. If not for a hit, then at the least a distraction for Charlotte.
"My with such aim maybe you I should maim." She muses, as the streams of fire go over her. One came close enough to hit, but she used some form of psychic shielding to divert it partially, with her attention briefly away from Char the madwoman begins to launch projectiles that she was holding in various directions, almost like a bullet hell as her attention turns to ripping down the structure Ichirou had chosen.
"Hahaha...ah.. Do not worry I haven't forgotten the rest of you!"
Seeing the incoming projectile, Charlotte quickly fell backwards from the beam she was seated on in order to evade the debris. Octavia and Ichirou had begun their attack, giving room for Charlotte to act. Though, Psychotris still sent out missiles of rubble out in every direction, making things more difficult.
"Well, well~ You can speak!" Charlotte hummed, taking some of the construction materials and steel beams to create a makeshift wall against the clown's attack.
Peering past it with her xray vision, Charlotte took a more direct approach just like their first encounter. Chevalier took hold of Psychotris and attempted to yank her closer with a forceful pull. When rescuing the hostages, the villain seemed taken aback by a direct attack on her body. So perhaps she could repeat it and bury the woman for real this time. Or, at the least, give some time for an actual plan.
"Ever heard of deja vu?" Charlotte asked. Surely, the woman would know where this was going, or at least partially. Though this time the target wasn't the building, but Chevalier who would follow up with a strike.
Ichirou cursed and was forced to abandon where he'd stood. The ripping and screeching of metal was making his ears ring, but he pushed onward. He could do what he could to distract her. He shared a look with Fosc, and in turn Octavia nodded a few times in understanding. Once more, she turned into multiple birds, 20 to be precise. The flock moved onward, dodging the oncoming bullet hell as best they could. About 8 were hit and the rest moved in to try and attack Psychotris. Ichirou used that distraction to try and get closer himself, with the intent of landing a punch on the villain.
Meanwhile, one crow stayed behind. Octavia. She flew up to Charlotte's shoulder, fluttering her wings and bouncing up and down with an expectant look in the crow's eyes.
She wanted a plan of action.
"Hahahaha!" It was then as Ichiro threw his punch that the barrage finally abated.. If only briefly as a sheen came from the woman. In terms of pure psychic power she was many times stronger than Charlotte, even she and Heisuke would have been hard pressed.
"If I'm excited I giggle, if I'm bored I whistle! Such a wonderful Melody!" Going back intentionally with the blast she was now central to the construction site, much like the time she killed Rintaro and erased his dragon, she looks at the rest, holding out her right hand as her raw power leaks out, her presence felt in the minds of all nearby, a raging torrent that one would be hard pressed to consider human.
"You aren't afraid of me? Shout out with a tremendous power!"
She says at the rest as she sweeps her hand forward scattering debris and causing them to catch fire as the power strained at her limits.
"Too late! Were you distracted? Hey how does it feel???" She says to them all as a rather large number of objects from the construction site are uprooted and sent into a spin, forming around her body as she flies up, aiming to sweep them all aside as the structure remains form into a nearly perfect helix. Looking down at Charlotte she smiles erratically with her hands spread to the side.
"Don't get so mad at me, everyone was broken, broken at the start! Now Avoid my Perfect Barrage! Fight More, more!"
Suddenly why the woman was constantly kept sedated and why she was considered an S rank villain was readily apparent.
"HAHAHA!" The Debris grew even larger as the fire spreaded to what material was burnable, becoming as erratic, powerful and self destructive as the presence of the woman herself seemed to be, her mental state being what it was no longer a question of why so much as how. If the trio had a plan they would need to work together and to survive.
Charlotte's demeanor faltered a bit as the woman dialed the crazy up to eleven. She swallowed the lump in her throat as the woman began to cackle maniacally. This reminded her of one of those infuriating games that involved memorizing the exact pixels that would keep you safe.
The girl began to deftly maneuver between the debris flying around, focusing on evasion first until she could get a breather, smacking away smaller rubble with her parasol.
"Blue Inferno!" Charlotte called out, taking hold of her comrade and shoving him with considerable force. She might not be able to break through the barrier herself, but with Ichirou's propulsion plus hers, it might be possible.
Ichirou grimaced and tried to dodge, getting hit by one of the objects and getting knocked off his feet. He hissed at the pain, the collision almost overwhelming the pain that his quirk was giving him. Ichirou, however, didn't have much time to dwell on it. Charlotte called his hero name and was suddenly thrusted at the barrier again. He picked up on the plan quickly, pointed his hands behind himself, and used his fire to speed himself up considerably.
The fire around him burned tall and brightly as Ichirou rocketed at Psychotris's barrier again. He reeled his fist back again, putting everything into his punch to hopefully break through and maybe hit the villain.
Octavia looked around and started to realize something. Metal. Everywhere. And she had a taser sword on her.
But she couldn't communicate it at the moment. So she used her bird wings to try and point the metal pieces out to Charlotte.
With the two working together a hole is formed in the barrier, though the damage from the resulting attack only seemed to enrage the other more as she stepped up the efforts behind her barrier, pulsating the debris around her, a large scale counter attack was brewing as her eyes seem to glow staring at them, though it seemed the attack had bothered her more than it was let on as the metal, cement and wood seemed to wane in some parts from the super human blow.
"Just. Die."
She says to the trio looking at them with a look of disgust and hatred, a bit of blood running from the left side of her face.
"DIE, DIE, DIE! DIIIIIEEEEEE!"
As the woman yelled, Charlotte would take hold of her jingly hat and yank it downwards over her face.
"Ta gueule!" Charlotte retorted, ordering the clown to shut up as her attention turned to Octavia.
It didn't take long to understand what she was doing. Charlotte grabbed Ichirou once again and began to push him in a circular motion, bringing him around like a hammer to an anvil to hit the shield once again.
"Sorry, I'm using you again!" Charlotte warned him as she flew over the villain. Once Ichirou broke the shield up top, she would shove Psychotris full force into the metal debris below.
They were close; very very close to getting through to that bitch woman! They almost had her; just a little more force and they could do it! But what could they do-
Before Ichirou could think more on that thought, Psychotris began going berserk. He readied his fists, his body and hands flaring with the life of his blue flames. His pain was prickling and burning every inch of his body, surpassing even his pills. He was pushing past his limits with the adrenaline of this battle chugging him along.
He was lifted into the air again, seeing Charlotte was arching him down again at the villain. Ichirou readied his fists again for another devastating blow.
In this split second, Octavia flung herself off Charlotte's shoulder and moved quickly. Midair, she reformed into her person and tossed up her electric baton, then returned to bird form. This time, about 8 birds accompanied her to set the rest of the plan in motion.
Two birds caught the electric baton and pecked the switch on, the baton crackling with lightning from the taser. As Ichirou delivered the punch to break the top of her shield and Charlotte was thrusting Psychotris down against the metal, bird Octavia lowered the crackling end of her sword onto the metal as well, hoping to deliver a shock powerful enough to down the villain. The rest of Octavia's birds had moved to grab Ichirou and hold him away from the taze so Charlotte could focus on holding Psychotris down.
With the combined assault and trickery of the other, it doesn't seem to work at first as the electricity surges through her body, while the amount of it may have increased the amps did not and while not physically durable or strong, she was by no means a pushover given the state of her mind.
As the other starts to collapse to the ground, she in a fury of wrath and rage, sends out a wave of her projectiles, then collapses it, hitting octavia and her birds in the process, pushing Ichirou back to the ground, she stirs.
"...ha..ha..ha.hahahaha!" With her arms limp and her legs shaky she pours all of her efforts in collapsing her psychic field, aiming to sweep up the rest, aiming to crush, maim and kill everyone around her, including herself, it was nothing short of a suicide bomb.
It was then that Plaguemire showed up, forming out of his grey mist as he threw a syringe through the air.
"USE IT! INJECT HER NOW! DO ANYTHING! JUST STOP HER!"
"W-What's she-" Charlotte began, watching as the clown seemed ready to self-destruct. Their powers were equivalent, however there were so many things the woman could do that the foreigner didn't understand. Thankfully, the creepy bird man appeared tossing up a syringe.
Charlotte was quick to react, shooting herself down to grab the syringe before tackling Psychotris. Straddling to pin the woman, the pink-haired girl jabs the end of the syringe into the clown's neck, pressing down on it to inject the contents.
"I'll KILL YOU! KILL YOU! Kiilll you...kil-" With that the drug worked nearly instantly as her eyes seemed to glaze over, while becoming of a hero, for the case of Psychotris, death may have been a greater mercy. The great wave of psychic power lifts, as the debris falls to the ground, with the villain as well. For now and hopefully for some time yet, the battle was over.
They thought it was going to be over and that would be the end of that. However, they were mistaken. Sorely so. Though Octavia and her birds tried to fight against the pull, she and her birds were no match and were thrust into the lightning against their will. Same with Ichirou.
He quickly adjusted his position to land on his feet, the pain of the lightning, though it hurt, was about the same to what he was growing accustomed to. The real problem was his muscles were cramping and it was making it near impossible to move. Octavia herself was completely stuck as she was, leaving Ichirou to do something while Charlotte sedated Psychotris.
Ichirou forced himself to move his arm, every fiber of his being protesting it but he kept forcing himself until he reached the grip of the sword. From there, he shut off the power.
Once it was done, he laid down against the ground for a moment to try and recuperate from the lightning and the damage of the projectiles he had taken. Meanwhile, Octavia's other birds vanished, but only one remained. That particular bird stayed on the ground for a couple of moments.
Charlotte huffed heavy breaths as she sat over Psychotris. Her hand hesitantly released the syringe and pulled away, still halfway expecting the woman's eyes to shoot open. Once a few moments had passed, the french girl fell back and off the villain.
They actually won this time, though Charlotte still didn't feel like celebrating. She didn't freeze up, but her hands still shook. Why couldn't she deal with a bank robber or something instead of these crazies?
Letting out a final sigh, her attention turned to her friends. Charlotte pushed herself up and ran over to where Ichirou was to check if he was okay.
"Are you okay?" She asked, noting that the birds had all vanished, save for one which Charlotte approached and scooped into her hands.
"Where's Octavia?"
"Why, in your hand!" The other answers, strangely speaking at a normal pitch, Plaguemire's voice had a hint of tiredness to it.
"You two help her out and all three of you rest, we shall take care of the rest, just keep hope in your fellow classmates!" And with that he was off in a mist, taking the clown with him.
Ichirou nodded a few times and forced himself to stand up. He hadn't taken his max dosage yet, so he reached into the bottle and popped one into his mouth, swallowing the pill dry. "I'll be fine... " He answered Charlotte's question, then came the question about Octavia…
Where was she?
Plaguemire mentioned that the bird in Charlotte's hands wasn't Fosc, but Octavia herself. This made him curious as he looked over Charlotte's shoulder to the bird in question.
The little crow opened her eyes and fluttered her wings, standing up on Charlotte's hands and looked around.
She looked at Ichirou and Charlotte, cocking her head at them before looking back at the shiny pieces scattering the ground. She hopped off, using her wings to slow her fall, before snatching a metal piece and flying into the sky. Octavia would then loop around and land on one of Charlotte's hands, dropping the shiny metal onto the other.
With that, Octavia started walking up Charlotte's arm, climbed her hair, and then hopped off to start flying away.
"Octavia!" Ichirou called, wondering what the hell was going on with his classmate. He tried to catch her, but the electricity from earlier tensed his muscles to the point that he couldn't move fast enough.
"Eh?" Charlotte hummed at the statement. She watched the little bird hop around, collecting a shiny piece of metal and giving it to her. Was Octavia still conscious, or was she full bird? Charlotte hoped this was a temporary measure from overusing her quirk…
"Ah-Wait!" Either way, it seemed she would be taking care of a bird for the next while.
