TROUBLE

Tyuki had some attitude.

Bliss had a lower lip curl into a look of retribution, but she ate it.

Then, something accosted her.

Accosted her like a pro.

A pro at getting treated like a chump by Tyuki.

"His hand smells like mango hand sanitizer." Bliss leaned down over the know unconscious goon. "He better still have- jackpot." To ease Tyuki's complaining, Bliss also grabbed the walkie talkie at his side, but this hand sanitizer smelled like a field of mangoes uprooted and replaced all the nose hairs in someone's nostrils. And, that someone was Bliss.

Bliss zip tied the man to a pipe and then slapped a piece of tape over his mouth. "Alright, we're good here. Time to head through the vent."

Bliss hopped in the vent. Nothing terrible happened. She took another step, pushing the grate out of the way and stepping into a large room. Too bad Bliss never got any light powers and vampires could not see in the dark. "Hey Tyuki, give me some light."

The room opened up into a major problem and once illuminated it became much more present. At least it looked problematic. A giant metallic cylinder sat within the apex of the vents, taking in the majority of the airflow, but without any discernible intentions on its own. "I'm gonna need to take a look at this. Go find the villain lair."

"Why are you using you elbows?" Bliss rubbed her own fragile, boney elbows, wondering what she could break if she hit something. Probably a humerus. "I don't think I would find Abby or Kyrie with my elbows. I could however find out what this giant thing in the middle of the room is. And, why something so new is in the middle of this plant."

The estimation Bliss made rang true, but Bliss did not say why it rang true. Bliss remembered seeing some of the machinery running to the machine, but putting her finger on the pulse evaded Bliss. Putting her ear up to the side of the machine, Bliss listened to nothing. No sound. No machinery. No hum. But, it felt warm to the touch. "I would say this shouldn't be warm, but we're in a power plant, so I guess it all makes-" Bliss felt her voice echo in an empty room. "Tooki? Are you still here?"

The wall before Tyuki fell before the might of her elbows. Her massive elbows. Her elbows that could take no more, giving the wall all it could take. When the wall fell, so did the secrets it hid.

A giant room filled with glass tubes lined the walls about the room. Each looked large enough to hold a full grown bear and half a shark, more than large enough for a person. And people did in fact share the room. Towards the side of the room, Kyrie sat tied to a chair in a pair of jeans with a black T-shirt with enough tape over her mouth to keep her from using any of her vocal projection to mess everything up.  

Just as Tyuki entered the room, a finger tap would come from behind her. A red haired girl wearing a red and black sailor scout outfit would appear from seemingly no where, whispering into Tyuki's ear. "Hey! Be quiet or she'll hear you. We gotta save Kyrie, then we can stop this crazy lady."

A very distinct smell of grape moisturizer hung around Abby's neck.

The smell almost was rancid enough to drown out the approach of footsteps coming back into the newly created laboratory.

The loud shriek did not help Tyuki hide her presence in the lab. It's probably easy to assume Tyuki knew Kyrie would do that. Tyuki might have a plan, but most likey, she just wanted to help her friend, and helping people is a great thing to do.

"Helping your friend might have helped me a bit more." A voice rasped as it stepped forward. "I need test subjects. You look like you could help me out quite a bit." With her hair pulled back tighter than the seal on any of the tubes now shattered on the ground, the lines across the spectacled woman's forehead looked faint. "I see you have the habit of breaking all of my things too. I don't appreciate that."

The sound of movement rustled in the background. "Now, you can see my latest creation." A heavy smell of grape seeped through the room. "I've been experimenting with something a little special. A contraption that turns smells into living machinations. Witness Alexander The Grape."

A golem standing ten feet tall with purple features stepped into the room, peering down at Tyuki with eyes as deep as amethysts. "Me smash?"

"Yes."

"Me smash!" Alexander brought his massive club down to knock Tyuki to the ground.

"Bliss!" Abby rushed through the halls into the power room where Bliss continued to tinker with the machine. "Bliss, Tyuki is in trouble!"

"What happened? And where have you been? Lil' Bliss could have broken something expensive." Bliss took off the access panel to the power converter, peering into the insides of the machine. "You tried to help her right?"

A singularity rested in the middle of the shell.

"I came to get you."

Bliss felt like reaching out and touching it, but she held her hand back. "So, that's a 'no'. You did not try to help. Awesome grape moisturizer. You know Tyuki is allergic to that right? I almost killed her with afruit salad twice."

"I got you! And, I did not know that." Abby felt like poking the singularity as well, but when Bliss pulled back, Abby kept her hands to herself.

"So, which one of us is investigating this thing and which one of us is helping Tyuki? Am I doing both, cause I feel like I'm doing both." Bliss looked over to the path Tyuki carved out.

"I can help." Abby joined Bliss in looking down the hallway with less enthusiasm.

"Watch the machine. I think it has a quantum singularity that is draining power from the plant while at the same time- just watch the machine." Bliss started walking.

Bliss would not save Tyuki. Nope. Not in this post.

She is making her way towards Tyuki, but on the way, Bliss tripped, hit her knee, yelled at the floor, and picked herself up. Bliss picked herself off the ground and dusted herself off. Then, she located an access hatch. "I've got an idea."

The mad scientist madly tied Tyuki back to back with Kyrie, putting the tape back over Kyrie's mouth to keep her loudness in check (Superhero Fun Fact: duct tape can stop superhuman screeching!). "Now I have two little morons to tend to." A long syringe would go into Tyuki's arm, pulling out some juicy Tyuki power. "You probably did not notice on your way in because of your inadequate awareness and intelligence, but I've been using a quantum regulator to disperse genetic material into golems. Now, this is interesting." She tossed the syringe into the machine, letting it spin around.

"Now, back to work." A crazy look took over the scientists mouth as she pushed a piece of tape over Tyuki's mouth.

A shadow moved from the side of the room. That shadow was badass. Two swords crossed across the chest of the grape golem, sending grape juice projectile behind her against the wall. Slowly the grape juice turned into a a graphic image reading out GIRL ALIVE! BAKA! Two more swords drew out from two more arms, slicing the golem's legs. Then, with a flip of auburn hair, Bonnie looked over towards Kyrie. And. "Tyuki!"

Bonnie pulled out a water bottle at her side. "Yui, look who it is!" Slowly the water bottle began to seep out a liquid other than water.

This is the thread where Bliss goes ham and saves the day. Or at least begins the saving of the day.

Climbing through the access hatch did not work wonders for Bliss' back. Crawling through the hatch worked better for her back, but her outfit would not look better for the wear. "Tyuki is worth it. I'm not even going to bring it up when I bail her out." A smudge of built up slime rubbed against her gloved arm. "I might bring that up. If this is tough and she's fine, I'll bring it up."

The sound of high energy girls rejoicing in ecstasy. Then, an odder voice made its way into the fray.

"Who said you were free to go?" with her hands held behind her back, the scientist walked back into the ruined lab, disappointed with the display around her. "And who said you were allowed to bring those swords into this lab? You know things have been invented since swords that made them obsolete right?"

A small device appeared in her hand. She pressed her finger down against a button. "I'm not talking about guns either."

A rumbling shook the rest of the room. Shrieking as loud as Kyrie could, a golem entered the room, punching it's hands together, dripping with grape juice. A massive fist balled up and prepared to use reverse wine making process on Tyuki.

Ice began to build up around Tyuki, covering her in an ice block. "Don't worry." Bliss hopped out of the shaft and looked at Tyuki as the last of the ice overtook her. More ice would build up inside of the grape golem, slowing it's movement and delaying its punch. Once critical mass met Bliss' expectations, telekinesis began to do the rest of the work by exploding the ice block inside of the golem.

Bliss hopped behind the frozen Tyuki, almost being pushed out of the way by Bonnie, followed by Kyrie. "I didn't make this big enough for all of us!"

Once the grape explosion subsided, Bliss released Tyuki from the ice block and jabbed an EPI pen into the side of her neck. "Good as new!" Bliss turned to the scientist, cracked her knuckles, and took a step forward. "Now, for your turn."

"Still yours."

The grape golem began healing itself. Once the grape golem rejoined itself, grape tendrils began to form.

While the right opportunity could allot Bliss a good deal of badass Blissery, the wrong move could wind up with Bliss in the same situation the mad scientist put her in back on the beach in whatever state she decided to go to that particular day. While the mad scientist never out and out tells anyone she is going to take parts from them to use to build other creatures, the intent is heavily implied.

Her first step needed Kyrie to let her go. "Yes, Kyrie. We are all very excited the monster died, but it just came back so-"

The scream rang out just in front of Bliss, letting Bliss avoid some of the collateral damage coming from Kyrie's screech. The golem before her did not pass by unscathed though. Pieces of grape shot across the room, leaving Bliss with little time to shield Tyuki from the incoming rain of grape. But, Bliss came through. And just to show the scientist who was boss, Bliss made sure the ice barrier erupted towards the most expensive looking computers in the room. "I don't like you very much and I'm glad your lab is busted and all of your weird golems are dead. Booyah." Drop the Ash-respect.

After the golem broke down into goo, it began to form up again. No reason to steal powers if it is not going to use them. The exact line of reasoning in the golem's head when it began to freeze Yui.

While Kyrie and Tyuki tended to the golem, Bliss ran after the scientist, turning her fist into a solid block of ice and hoping to deliver some cold justice. The frozen fist actually hurt Bliss more than it did the scientist, but it did hurt the scientist.

And, the scientist intended to return the hurt to Bliss by pulling out a laser pistol and aiming straight between Bliss' eyes. Nothing came out with the pull of the trigger. A smile formed over Bliss' face, knowing her telekinesis managed to apply a safety to the gun. "Having trouble?"

"No." Instead of pulling the trigger, the scientist reared back and hit Bliss in the head with the pistol, knocking her to the ground.

Before the pistol could come back for use as its primary role, a blade cut through the barrel. A scowl overcame the typically apathetic look on the scientist's face. With her pistol damaged, the scientist merely looked to her wrist and pressed a button.

A strong magnetic pull grabbed Bonnie and slammed her against a pillar. "Stupid magnet! You're going to get it so bad!" Bonnie struggled, but could not break her arms loose from the magnetic pull. While her cybernetic arms remained pinned, her swords could still move freely, meaning the magnet either did not have the right polarity or its pull was too weak. Either way, Bonnie could figure it out later by asking Bliss science questions. For now, Bonnie needed to get to the next level.

In order to get to the next level, Bonnie needed to loose some weight. Flipping her swords around, Bonnie sliced to cut both of her robot arms off, allowing her to drop to the ground.

Lifting herself up from the ground, Bliss watched as Bonnie hit the ground. "Woah! Woah! Did that hurt?! I mean, you just cut your arms- I mean pretty much your arms off! Are you okay?!"

Bonnie did not stop to answer as she charged the scientist with all of her might and only half of her arms.

Bliss pushed herself off the ground, pulling herself up against a computer console as Bonnie blew past her. It took a moment for Bliss to regain her bearings after the blow to her head. The glare of the screen felt like a sharp needle going through her eye, but those sharp needles worked wonders with pinning Bliss' attention to the screen.

Just as Bliss took more interest, Bonnie blew by with both swords glaring off the fluorescent lights beaming from above. While her stroke looked perfect, it drew nothing from the mark. No blood. No smirk. No existence. It rang false, but Bonnie took it as a deathblow, leaving behind her thought to be vanquished foe as she moved towards her allies.

A matter of confusion set in with Bliss at the disappearance of the scientist. A hologram? No, it hit her with a gun. Teleportation? With the quantum drive she left in the previous room, it would not escape the limits of what Bliss assumed could be on deck. She readied a telekinetic blast in preparation for whatever may come, but she found her attention drift.

The names of the files along the screen all carried a date and name. Most likely an experiment carried out for what ever means this scientist hoped to accomplish. Bliss immediately moved the files to attempt to send an E-mail to herself with the files attached.

"That's stealing." The stoic voice of the scientist echoed in Bliss' ear with the pressing of a button on her wrist triggering the jolting of electricity.

As monitors flew into the grape abomination, electricity began to cackle about inside of its body. A grape ball shot out of him, seeking to hit Bonnie in her back, releasing electricity into her circuitry. It stood up with an overcorrected posture, taking in air to fill its chest before unleashing a sonic scream to keep Yui from taking physical form. Finally, the creature sent a tendril out to wrap around Kyrie's mouth, keeping her screams to herself.

The creature would pound its fists together, setting its gaze on Tyuki.

Bliss ducked her head, letting the scientist punch past her, landing her fist in the monitor. "Get off my chill space." A piece of ice would form in front of the scientist's chest as Bliss shot a burst of telekinesis into the block, shooting the scientist back into the wall. Everything in Bliss wanted to go over and start beating her until either A ) nothing was left, or B ) Bliss felt like she could not be beat anymore.

Something else popped up though.

A pout came to Bliss' mouth as she turned her head, and dropped her eyes, to the perils of Girl Alive! She popped her fingers, fixed her skirt, and rubbed her nose.

"Hey! They probably don't like that very much!" A full compliment of ice shot out towards the grape monster. Several shards lodged deep into the gut of the monster, letting Bliss slowly detonate each shard individually until the creature went further to the ground. As long as the creature could heal, Bliss could detonate shards of ice.

Bliss knew it.

And, so did the scientist.

"Retreat!" The scientist pointed to the creature as the shards continued to slice through its healing factor. "I still need to introduce you to the stargirl I found! Then, this infantile and shallow girl will no longer stop my plans!"

In the distance, the machine Bliss initially found, began to roar as engines pushed it forward into the sky, breaking through the ceiling, while the grape monster moved to grab the scientist and usher her away from the fight. A slew of explosives flew out from her lab coat, exploding in front of Bliss with the blast sending Bliss back to the wall. "I will see you again!"