“OW” The purple girl groans “Took you freaking long enough” she quickly flies out from under the tentacle, rubbing her head. “That freakin’ hurt.”

Actually, taking a look now, she doesn’t recognize the girl currently using her strength to fight against the tentacle attempting to crush her.

“Who are you?”

“WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS?!” 

“Uh.” Quickly, she grabs the next lamp post, pulling it out of the cement and holding it like a spear. “I got this.”

She stabs it through the tentacle, right in front of Clover's face, and into the concrete. The monster screeches, and Clover stares at the hunk of metal that nearly missed her.

“You almost hit me!”

The girl looks at her for a second, ignoring the question. “Who are you?”

“Uh… Clover” 

The girl continues to look her up and down. “I’ve never seen you here before.”

“I’ve never been in a battle before! What do I do?!”

“You flew off way to fast!” A stream of red light flies at them. And a girl with curly blond hair in red spandex appears next to them “we weren’t even done with the briefing!”

“There was a monster in the city! There’s no time for a briefing!” The purple girl yells back. Clover takes a step back. 

The blonde looks at Clover. “Who are you?”

“Clover.” She responds.

The blonde girl looks her over, the same as the purple girl. Then looks to the purple girl.

She shrugs, “She was here when I got here.”

The blonde girl nods. “Well, I’m Ember, nice to meet you Clover!” she smiles brightly “I haven’t seen you around before!” 

“This is… new.” She gestures to her whole outfit.

“A NEW MAGIC GIRL?!” she gasps, her smile somehow getting wider. “This is great! We could really use the help.”

The purple girl mumbles something under her breath and flies at the monster attacking the city.

“Come on let's deal with this thing, and we can chat afterward.” Ember winks, and in a flash is up in the sky. 

Clover watches from the ground “I can’t do that!” 

“Get up there!” 

“Who the hell keeps saying that?!” Clover yells, there's still no one around her. 

Suddenly a massive tentacle swipes through the buildings, slamming into Clover. 

“AHHHH!!!!” She goes flying through the air with the carnage “SHIT!” 

“FLY!” The voice screams at her! 

It was either fly or die! Clover spreads out her arms and suddenly she’s up right. Hovering above the ground like gravity wasn’t going to pull her down. 

“OH MY GOD” she gasps for breath, and drops to her feet, her legs giving out and leaving her sitting on the soaking wet road. 

“Are you okay?” 

Clover looks at a glowing girl with a curly blond bun and glowing roller skates.

“Of course, another magic girl.”

“Hi I’m Star!”

…..

Ember uppercuts the monster in it’s weird face. Chipping it’s beak. 

“Iris!” She yells “Stop flying off, we’re supposed to be doing this together!”

Iris, in a purple blur, grabs another tentacle and swiftly locks that one down the same way as the first, impaling it on a lamppost. She wipes sweat off her brow. “I'M DOING MY JOB!” she yells “Maybe you should move a little faster, instead of getting stuck in meetings.”

“UGH!” Ember groans “Why can’t you just listen?!”

Iris goes off again, dancing with the next tentacle and attempting to grab the flailing limb. 

Ember rolls her eyes, the sound of a helicopter draws her attention. Off in the distance is a helicopter circling from afar. Obviously hooked up with a camera. New reporters. Ember looks around. Iris is still messing up the monster very efficiently, on the ground pooling with the water the monster's blood. It was starting to smell too. 

“Crap.” She groans. 

Suddenly, she's slammed into by a tentacle, and driven into the ground. Water and blood go up her nose and into her mouth. The weight is quickly removed and she sits up, coughing and gasping for breath! 

“AGH HAAACK!” She spits it out.

“Are you okay?!” Clover asks.

Ember looks up at the red head girl from before, and another girl, someone she recognizes.

“Star, where did you come from?” Ember asks the girl she recognizes.

“My shift just started, thought I’d come by and help” She smiles, pumping her fists raring to go! “I ran into…this person one my way.” She gestures to Clover.

Ember wipes the blood from her nose and mouth. That monster hit her hard. She kneels on the ground, Star putting a hand on her shoulder. 

“I’m good, I'm good….” She takes a deep breath.

Another loud thud and a screech reveal that Iris was successful in impaling another tentacle. 

Ember sighs “We gotta finish this quick, there’s a news crew in that helicopter over there, and this is getting too bloody. Make quick work of it. Get those tentacles under control.”

Star quickly pulls a spear out of nowhere; it's made of lighting and looks deadly. 

“New girl, what do you got?”

“Uhhhhh” Clover looks over at herself, the blue rubber and spandex had no pockets! At her hip a glowing blue whip appears. “I have this?” 

“That should work great! Try tying up one of it’s tentacles!” Ember tells her. 

Clover looks at the monster, from the ground, as Star and Iris work effortlessly to fight off the creature's flailing arms.

“Get in there!” Ember shouts.

“GO!” The voice yells.

Clover is flying once again, way faster than she means to, right into a tentacle. It throws her off, and flicks out the whip!

“AH! I GOT IT!” She had used the whip to tie up the tentacle! Though all it was attached to was the handle in her hand.

It starts throwing back and forth.

“AHHHH!!!” Clover refuses to let go! 

A flash of blue electricity. And all the town goes dark. No one moves, the sound of the helicopter and sirens are all they can hear.

“Am I alive?” Clover calls out.

“Yup!” A sarcastic voice responds “Overkill much?”

“Ember said to do it!” Clover replies.

“I didn’t know you were going to do that!” She responds. “I just meant hold down the tentacles, not start a city wide blackout!”

“I didn’t know I was going to do that either!”