recolle | [Semi-closed] Bingo Bango Bongo...

[Eleanor sat at a table in the corner of the Recolle library, her laptop and a cup of coffee next to her, as she waited for Minako to arrive. The girl had asked her to help with setting up a blog, which had made Eleanor realize just how much she'd been neglecting her blog lately. Whoops?]

[So she was absently working on an update as she waited for the other to arrive.]

Okay.

[Eleanor spoke in a half-whisper as she and Jake stood in the lobby of the Recollé police station. Without pointing, she nodded towards the guard watching the desk.]

All you need to do is chat that guy up for a minute so I can slip inside and get to Togusa's desk. Easy, right?

[Time to play a prank on an authority figure...]

This is so ridiculous...

[Eleanor stood in the Towers, frowning to herself and readjusting her purse on her shoulder over and over. She was here to 'pick out a nice gift for Jim from hist registry' but she 1) Didn't want to get Jim a gift, 2) She certainly didn't approve of this marriage! and 3) If she had to do this, she didn't want to give him something nice!]

[Was the bingo card really worth this? With a huff she turned to give up, only to nearly walk smack into someone.]

Oh! Sorry, my bad.

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[Eleanor stood in the center of the clearing by the beach that Yukiko had shown her for power training, going through some basic stretches as she waited for the other girl to show up. She'd been there for half an hour or so, practicing, and the ground around her was littered with random things, rocks, empty cans, tennis balls, basketballs, things she could use to practice her telekinesis.]

[She'd been tossing them around earlier, but now she was just calming waiting for her friend. In theory they were going to try a bit of a mock-spar, but Eleanor did have a new surprise under her belt...which was kind of necessary when going up against Yukiko's guardian angel thing.]

[Benefits of summer vacation was the high school was pretty much empty except for summer school, so Eleanor had commandeered one of the music rooms for this...exercise. 'Compose an Ode to Janet'. Bloody Hell. At least she wasn't doing it on her own.]

Okay, so. [She turned to Leo and grinned.] Full disclosure? I can't really sing.

[Setting up this knitting blog was something she hadn't been sure she should do. It is, of course, always a question of time-- how much she has available when she's in school and working.

(There's also that familiar guilt about not using the extra time to look for her brother, but it's easy to set it aside after it pinches her.)

Minako arrives with a cute computer bag slung over her shoulders alongside her purse, and the first thing she does is set a knit octopus next to Eleanor's laptop.]

As a thank you present, for agreeing to help me. I wasn't sure if I should go with realistic or cute, but cute is my specialty, so...

[He nods. He's actually pretty excited about this one. It's a cute, harmless prank, after all.]

No problem. Anything particular topic for me to run with or just flapping my gums?

[Eleanor looked up in surprise at the knit octopus, reaching out to pick it up and look it over as Minako sat down.]

It is completely adorable and you can't have it back. [She grinned a silly grin and set her new octopus on the edge of her laptop.] And cute is always better. Real octopus's are pretty weird looking.

In theory Togusa is out to lunch so I really only need a couple minutes to get to his desk and back. He's got this...book, right? It's blue so it has to be a retrospec thing. I'll just grab it real quick.

So... [That hadn't answered his question, had it?] Talk about whatever you think will keep a cop distracted for three minutes?

[The extra information is always helpful.]

Roger that. [He salutes.] Good luck, comrade! [He will offer her a fistbump for luck before slipping off to do his duty.]

[ If Leo had known they had to sing this thing, he might’ve had second thoughts about committing to it. But since they were already here, they might as well go through with it.

...And maybe Eleanor’s confession helped a little. ]

Full disclosure? Neither can I, [ he replied with a laugh. ] At least we’ll suck together. Do we need music for this or are we doing a capella?

[Eleanor grins, fistbumping him back.] And you as well, my friend.

[Said in absolute solemnity before she steps back a bit to give him a moment to get started before she starts towards the hallway that will take her deeper into the station.]

Iiii don't know. I mean, I'm hoping we can get away with just words. I do not want to try and write an actual song...

[She hadn't entirely thought this through, really.]

Maybe we can just make it a...spoken word ode. Are those a thing?

[Yukiko stepped out of the trees without any hesitation, fanning herself with that strange looking weapon she'd been given. Some sort of metal that was too light and too hard to be steel, ornately worked with scenes of the sea, and razor edged. It was more to be somewhat intimidating than because she planned to use the darn thing. It was too dangerous, and even if she could heal...Eleanor was still Eleanor.]

Sorry I'm late, Al was yapping at me when I didn't bring him so I had to give him a good scratching.

[Closing the fan with a -shick- sound, she grinned.]

Ready then?

That puppy is going to be completely spoiled.

[Eleanor tone was good-natured as she said this, looking amused at Yukiko's little fan-closing snap. Well, if they were being showy...]

[She gestured to the side with both hands and a handful of small objects...rocks, cans, etc...fluttered into the air to float in a circle above her head.]

...Whenever you are, I am.

Alright then.

[Blue flames wreath her hand, the by now familiar tarot card appears, and Yukiko's Persona bursts into being. It looks at Eleanor, bobs it's head, and sets that katana at the ready.]

Go.

[The Persona opens with a stream of fire, nothing that would do a ton of damage, just a beam not unlike sunlight. Pew pew]

[Eleanor was never sure how to treat the persona, but she nodded back when it nodded at her. It was Yukiko, right? Sort of? But not? If she nodded to it did that count as nodding to Yukiko? Oh, right, fighting now, thinking later.]

[Eleanor side-stepped out of the fire, not quite fast enough, and it caught her in the shoulder but didn't do much more than sting. And then she thrust her hand out in front of her, fingers splayed, and two of the cans above her head shot forward at Yukiko.]

[It was. Sort of. And it would defend her, of course.

The metal woman moved like liquid, flowing into a guard position, blocking the cans with her wide shield-like arms and sending them flying.

And then it lashed out again, a wider arch of flame flashing through the air at chest height. ]

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[Eleanor had to dive out of the way to avoid that, her rocks falling to the ground as she did so, but when she came up in a crouch she gestured and several of them shot into the air again...this time, rather than going straight at Yukiko, they arced in several different directions to come at her from three sides.]

If they weren’t before, they are now!

[ He rubbed his hands together in anticipation. ]

Okay. So how should we start this? [ He’d never come up an ode before how do they work. ] Um… “Mrs. Janet, with the only blue eyes left on the planet…?”

[For his part, Jake doesn't make a show of things, as much as he kind of wants to be dramatic about this. It requires stealth or at least not acting like a total obvious moron. You know, normal.

Since he doesn't have any crimes to report or anything like that, he makes up a story about his best friend studying forensics up at the university and wanting to set up a chance for him to talk to some real police officers on procedure and so forth. It's a pretty mundane topic but hey it's something distracting?]

[Oh! hell! Rocks. Yukiko whirls, her fan batting aside one of the stones like a baseball, with her Persona intercepting another. She twists, her new martial arts skills helping her take the third on the curve of her shoulder. It stings, but not too bad.

Sumeo-Okami darts forward then, sword swinging in six...seven...eight rapid cuts. They're not designed to do more than open shallow scratches, an obvious attempt at pulling punches.]

[Eleanor was not quite prepared for that assault, and she fell back as the persona darted forward, letting out a startled noise of pain as she was slashed across the cheek, arm and hands. Okay, this wasn't working. She had been right, she couldn't go toe to toe with a magical guardian angel with a sword and fire powers. But...]

[Well, maybe she didn't have to?]

Let's see you how like this!

[It was mostly bravado as she shouted out the words. She hadn't really figured out how this new thing worked, but she knew it did. She could feel it there, all the time, like her muscles wanted to run, to jump, to climb. So as the persona started to pull back, Eleanor scrambled to her feet, bunching her legs up, and then she sprang up into the air. Five feet...ten? Ten feet easy.]

[And came down to land right on Sumeo-Okami's shoulders. For a second, it looked like she couldn't hold her balance, and honestly, she couldn't, her arms pinwheeling, but rather than try, she just launched herself off the persona and straight at Yukiko in a full-bodied tackle, a big grin on her face.]

Oh I like that. [Eleanor laughed.] Hmmmm.

Miss Janet, probably, though. Since they aren't married yet I assume.

Miss Janet, with the only blue eyes left on the planet, how we...envy your...talent?

[Well that was impressive. Even the Persona is taken off guard, and shifts when she feels weight on her shoulders. There are two options here. Fly up and let Eleanor fall or just accept it and let her pinwheel down towards Yukiko.

The choice is clear: the funnier option. Eleanor falls, and Sumeo-Okami surges forward, whipping around. Not in time to stop the falling teenager, but Yukiko has that well in hand.]

I don't think so!

[Her fan snaps shut in an instant and she sidesteps, her martial arts training making it an easier dodge, since Eleanor had taken the time to stand up there and be a little shitter to the poor Persona. Spinning away with a dancer's grace, her foot sweeps in a circle in the sand and she lowers herself into a fighting stance.

And flicks two fingers in a 'come on' gesture.]

[Semi-closed] Bingo Bango Bongo...

Minako

Jake and Togusa

Vera

Yukiko

Leo

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