Heart Soldier Senshi

[idolpro]

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a car.

You're wearing a time-worn, windblown version of your uniforms, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME% in the year %CONTEMPORARY%+1. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing the results of a recent attempt at revolt in a city in %COUNTRYNAME%: worker’s success at managing a nearby gold mine led to dreams of every man being a king - the revolutionaries may have been successful had it not been for a concurrent jailbreak and mass slaughter putting local authorities on alert, buying time for military intervention - the town was nearly levelled to the ground, with few survivors.

But you seem to remember - you survived, didn’t you?

...Also, below the main headline about the failed revolution, there's something about Those Who Crave Hands? Huh.

Anyways, you've got marketing to do! ]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

[A CHOKED YELL]

[Mars falls to his knees, immediately clutching his arms and shivering shivering shivering--]

[and then with a flash of light he de-henshins, looking. . . perfectly fine! but also a little haunted]

Jesus.

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

That sucked.

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

Jesus.

[with a curse, he finally looks up at the scores, and--]

[whispering to himself negative seventeen?!]

[also he still has his arms wrapped around himself even though the chill is gone, and the frostbite isn't visible in this form]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

[Holds a hand out to him]

We need a new plan.

You okay?

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

[breathes out, eyes slipping shut for a moment. when they open, he takes Mori's hand]

Yeah. I'm okay.

Are you?

[giving him a look of concern too since he was a model last round as well]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

I'm better than I could be, but...

[Shudders just thinking about it]

...Nothing that'll keep me down.

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

. . . [breathes out and nods. yeah. he feels the same]

You're right. We need a new strategy.

Negative fucking seventeen.

[they fucked around in round two but in round one they were actually trying!!]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ferociousfuckingnerd]

We put too many people up. Left ourselves open for everyone to downvote on.

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Immediately dropping down next to him, hand on his shoulder. ]

What happened?

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

Fffffucking frostbite--

[his teeth are still chattering from the chill even if the physical effects are gone]

S'fine. . . it's gone now that I'm not transformed anymore.

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ OK BUT THERE ARE STILL MORE ROUNDS . . . ]

They froze you?

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

Yeah.

[AND HE'S A MODEL IN THE NEXT ROUND SO LIKE. . .]

I was lying in the trash can for what felt like hours. I couldn't move. Couldn't speak. Everything was covered in ice.

[. . .]

More fucking. . . time perception shenanigans.

[obviously it wasn't really hours but it sure did feel like it]

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ jesus christ

Giving his shoulder a squeeze ]

You've been in for two rounds now. There's no reason for you to go up again in the next one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

[tch]

[wrinkles his nose, chin tilted up, eyes flashing with some kind of determined, rebellious fire]

. . . I can take it. I ain't afraid of anything they throw at me.

[EVEN TIME SHENANIGANS AND GARBAGE BINS AND FROSTBITE]

Re: DISCUSSION

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Gives him a Look ]

I'll fight you over it after we see how this current round pans out.

In the meantime -- we're going to need to downvote if we want to pull out of this.

Re: DISCUSSION

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ okay moratorium on beating up on mars, clearly. ]

Mars?

[ kneeling down beside him. ]

Are you okay? Where did you go?

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

[GAMES ARE OVER, SHIT IS SERIOUS NOW]

[he's scowling, the haunted expression now shifting into irritation]

The fucking. . . trash bin. I couldn't-- I couldn't move.

Re: DISCUSSION

[dragonheartedgirl]

They buried you alive in garbage?

[ good gods.... ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

Frozen garbage.

[close enough that he isn't denying it]

My other form's all frostbitten now.

Re: DISCUSSION

[420blazeit]

[ grabs for his shoulder as soon as she's able. ]

Mars, hey... [ squeezes, tightly. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

[sucks in a sharp breath and then lets it out. . . slowly. . .]

Frostbite. . .

Re: DISCUSSION

[420blazeit]

...c'Mere. [ opens her arms. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

[. . . huffs]

[and flops into her outstretched arms]

I'm fine. The frostbite's only in my henshin form.

Re: DISCUSSION

[420blazeit]

I don't care. [ she's going to wrap her arms around him, and even her tail, and keep him in a tight hug. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[foolmetwice]

[. . .]

Sappy.

[but he doesn't sound like he minds]