"Anaya! Are you okay?" With Anaya Falling off her griffin, Scout was lucky to summon a dragon illusion before the spirit mage was trampled. If one looked closely, they'd see that the glyph in the witch's hand was turned into five iridecent strings, one for each finger, connected to the illusion. The puppet seemed life-like, with it attacking and being "hit" by the bloodmares to ploy the beasts. 

Anaya carefully got back up on her feet, and dusted herself off. "Yeah, im alright. Just a few scratches and bruses though.." She replied to Scout, turning to her wounded griffin. "Here!" Scout threw her opal necklace to Anaya. "Its a healing necklace, you can use it to fix them!" She explained to the mage.

Anaya walked over to the mythical creature, unhooking the necklace and wrapped it around her griffin's neck. "There you go, boy.." she whispered to the beast, it's wounds slowly shrinking to nothing, like time had reversed. She gave Scout a thumbs up, to show that the beast was alright.

"Sweet- Huh?" Before Scout could climb down the building she was perched on, however, she noticed Lily and Alex giving chase to Minnie. "Hey, she's getting away!!" The witch yelled, before giving chase herself.

"Oh no.." Anaya mumbled to herself, before turning to her army. "Everyone fall back! The target is making her escape!!" She commanded, before climbing back onto her griffin, and catching up to Scout.

But it was already too late.

Fright stopped Scout in her tracks, as she wittnessed Lily get kidnapped by Sonia. "No..." She managed to say, with Anaya landing next to her. "Impure brat." The spirit mage scowled at Minnie, before turning to the witch. "You're strong, I can tell.."

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"..Why dont we work together, and defeat this corrupted time wielder ourselves?" Anaya proposed, her hand outstretched.

Scout's expression darkened, her hands curling into fists, before turning to the mage, and shaking her hand. "Let's do it." She answered, her red eyes turning a pure orange. Her tree like tentacles growing out of her back, Scout used one to grab the car that Minnie used aganst Helga, spun it around a few times, before releasing it at the gothic magical girl. Paying mind to the others and their attacks.
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Minnie was taken by surprise by the sheer amount of barriers erected around her; it was a risky expenditure of mana, but the chronomancer was trapped, unable to escape from his charge...Until Alicia bombarded the barriers with her barrage of light arrows. Due to them homing on Minnie, each one of them hit the large construct, until the barriers were destroyed.
[color=f26522]"Hah! The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool!"[/color]
Minnie waited until the last minute, and then leaped over the charging clones, letting them run right off the edge of the roof. As for Alex himself, who rushed under her, she was about to let loose with her revolver, only to glance at the car thrown her way. She grunted, and instead shot at the car; it was slowed enough that it lost it's momentum, and dropped right on top of the magical boy. Though his barrier mostly protected him before breaking, the weight of the metal was enough to stop him in his tracks. She landed with grace, and gave a mocking curtsy.
[color=f26522]"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."[/color] She then leaped back, making sure Alex would be unable to trap her again, her revolvers twirling like wheels around her fingers.

Sue would very quickly realize that she was not the tactician that she thought she was. All of her fury turned into embarrassment in an instant. “Oh, gosh!” She hopped off of Alicia's shoulder and took to the sky, circling around the battle. The familiar was unsure if she could help in a situation like this.

Alicia's face twitched in annoyance as her arrows flew in, only to impact some sort of barrier around Minnie. The familiar hadn't mentioned that so it was probably because of Alex rather than their opponent. "Son of a..."

This was why Beacon was better overall. The members knew what their companions could do and were trained to fight with each other. Now she had to worry about the close range fighters interfering with her attacks or just putting themselves in a position where she might hit them instead of her intended target. It was a bit frustrating, to be honest. What she wouldn't give to have some of her friends here right now to deal with this mess.

"Fine," she huffed as she drew back the string on Star Seraph. She would just have to cut back on the arrow spam. Lining up the shot she fired a few arrows around Minnie, going for suppression rather than actually trying to hit her. Maybe that would do the trick and help them beat her.

"[color=aba000]No![/color]" Alexander made a small square shapped barrier on the ground underneath the truck, which he then made grow upwards. As heavy as the truck was, his magic was stronger than that, so it was able to push it off of him. Then he patched himself up with his magic, before reaplying his forcefields "[color=aba000]You...are not getting away![/color]" Were it not for the large amount of magic that Sol was constently channeling to Alexander, he would be starting to run out. Yet since he did have an influx of mana from his patron, he had plenty of power to work with. Working quickly, he conjored a new barrier, this time a large dome traping himself and his foe in it. However since it was so large, a few other magical girls were also trapped inside. He put seven layers over his barrier to fortify it, and began enchanting himself again. He then made a large spiked tower shield out of  barriers attached to his left arm, and also made a blade coming out of his wand. With his weapons and outfit, he looked like a noble knight "[color=aba000]I'LL MOUNT YOUR HEAD ON A PIKE IN MY FRONT YARD![/color]" However he didn't sound like one.

"Tsk." Scout mimicked Anaya's scowl seeing her first idea go to waste. "Come on!" She said to the mage, her tentacles growing long enough to boost the witch, and to give chase to Minnie as well. Aiming her rifle at the cronomancer, Scout took her time to focus her shots, so she can preserve mana.

On her griffin, Anaya circled the barrier to catch Minnie by suprise. "Wait...hold it.." she told the beast.

"Now!!"

With her command, the griffin swooped down in front of the gothic magical girl, emitting a battle cry. Anaya leaped off the beast with her twin pistols, and fired at Minnie's weak point.

Minnie's eyes opened at the massive barrier that spread over the entire neighbourhood, it's hexagonal patterns overlaying over each other as the layers were placed on top.
Alex felt how his mana font strained to supply him with the necessary power to sustain the rapid spells, and felt his chest hurt as the gigantic barrier was overlaid multiple times; it was as if a mighty bonfire had been lit over a single log, soon to consume it to mere cinders.
But, if the intention was to threaten Minnie, then it seemed to work; she looked less than pleased, especially when the other girls began shooting at her. Minnie shot the griffin on reflex, causing it to reel back and bellow from the pain before it crashed onto a building. The chronomancer let a rapid flurry of shots from her spinning revolver, and reversed Anaya's shots aimed at her clock eye. She leapt away, trying to avoid Scout's shots, but ended up moving into Alicia's firing line. Thanks to her injured leg, she was unable to avoid fire in multiple directions, and was caught in the crossfire. She then dropped down to the street after having seemingly been shot by the two. 

She ended up landing right in the midst of her mechanical soldier dolls, who had won over the possessed knight dolls, their spirits having left them due to Anaya's lack of focus. She stood up, her dress ragged, and her expression angry, the hands of her clock eye turning rapidly around.
[color=f26522]"Enough with this farce! I shall compose a Zeit Waltz of Death for you!"[/color] 
She rose up, and sprinkled the bullets caught in her dress off of her; she had extended a thin slowing field around her that made projectiles lose their effectiveness.
She used the remaining numbers of dolls to form a protective phalanx of dolls with their bayonets extended, and began conducting once more. Now, clock portals opened in a cirlce around her, minions came out in waves, soon flooding the streets. In addition to weapon-wielding ones, there were also dolls who carried musical instruments, such as violins and trumpets. They began playing in unison:

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The music the dolls produced seemed to have an effect; as the symphony rang out, the movement of the dolls accelerated, until she was completely enclosed by layers upon layers of them, forming a pile the size of a building.
The music turned louder and louder, nearing a climax.
 [color=f26522]"Just try and break through! In a miniscule minute, your time is up!"[/color]

Alexander was in pain, as he had never used up this much mana this fast. However he was too enraged to care. Using healing magic on himself, he was able to fix the little damage that over exerting himself caused. Although healing himself just made it hurt more, he took the pain in stride. After taking a few seconds to catch his metaphorical breath, he felt his body starting to relax just a little, as it was no longer 'overheating' so to speak. Alexander took one look at the wall of dolls and yelled "[color=aba000]you think mere [i]toys[/i] can save you from my wrath!?[/color]" He quickly made a new barrier, one with a strange new shape; that of a drill. It's base was larger then he was tall, so he was able to hide behind it easily. He then dispelled the sword barrier on his wand, and held out his weapon to the center of his new barrier to sync the two together. With a thought, the drill barrier began to spin, faster and faster until it's surface became a blur. Alexander began to pant under the effort he was excerting, but he grit his teath and ingonored it. Once his drill was spinning fast enough, he charged straight at the horde of dolls. This time, he didn't let out a battle cry, as even in his bererker state, he knew he couldn't waste the breath.

Anaya payed no mind to being shot. Even if it did stung, it would take more simple bullets to knock her out. The necklace around her griffin's neck 'reversed' the beast's injuries, it shaking it's self off and walking back to the mage, but leaving chunks of debri behind. With Minnie creating her own barrier with the mechanical dolls she conducted, Anaya climbed back on her griffin, and the beast started to slash away at the dolls. 

Using the debris left behind, Scout made a makeshift sledgehammer, and joined the other two in ridding the barrier.

Once again Alicia found her new strategy to be a bit more effective than the last, as Minnie moved right into her mine of fire and took the hit seemingly without intending to. She fell back down to the ground, wherein new minions with instruments appeared in addition to the ones already present. It was really too bad that they didn't have their own disposable army at the moment, wasn't it. 

She was not, however, expecting the accelerating tempo as those minions formed a giant pile and began to spin around Minnie. She had the feeling that if it made it to the end they would be in for a less than pleasant time, so the pruident thing to do would be to stop her before that happened.

"Guess I'm moving then," she said to no one in particular as she skirted the combat zone, to get in a position where she could shoot without having to worry about someone getting in her way again. Not that it would stop another barrier being suddenly in her path, but she would just have to live with it. Something told her that its user wouldn't suddenly become conscious of allied combatants any time soon. 

Alighting upon a new perch, she poised on one leg as she quickly drew up a bead on her target, her other leg pulled up to cross over the one she was standing on. "Hit her Star Seraph," she commented to her bow as she fired, sending arrows zipping in quick succession at the physical barrier. Smal explosions rang out where they impacted as she helped to grind down the obstacle they had to deal with. They were on the clock, so she had better work fast. 

Several doll minions leapt out of the formation at the attacking Mahou, but were easily sent flying by Alex' spinning drill, Scout's smashing and Anaya's griffin swatting them off, resulting in a rain of porcelain. [color=f26522]"Futile! All the world's a stage for only me, the shining star"[/color]
Minnie screamed desperately as her mountain was blasted by Alicia's explosions of light, eroding it rapidly. [color=f26522]"Three! Two! One!"[/color] She counted. Her eyes opened wide when Alex broke through and she saw the drill heading straight for her, and then closed them.

[color=f26522]"ZeitgHAAAAHHHH!"[/color]

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Minnie opened her eyes, and saw the unfurling chaos around her, frozen to a still, Alex' expression in unmoving fury. She had succeeded in perforfming her spell of stopping time, but she could not smile, or enjoy the achievement. She slowly moved her hands to her waist, and felt the drill as it pierced her. She gasped out blood from her lips, and chuckled weakly.
[color=f26522]"A stage all of my own...And yet, I'm too late to my own scene. Such a magnificent tragedy."[/color]
She shook violently from the pain, yet she still managed to stay conscious.
She reached out towards Alex, and cupped his cheeks. Then, she kissed him.

[color=f26522]"Thy lips are warm."[/color] She felt the strength in her body waning.
[color=f26522]"Time is cruel, indeed. Then I'll be brief. O happy drill! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.[/color]

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Alex struck Minnie with the drill, and sent her flying all the way across the street, until she hit a lamp post, causing it to bend. She laid still as she dropped to the ground, and soon, her magic disappeared; the dolls faded into dust, as if time had caught up with them, and her elaborate gothic lolita dress had turned into a [url=https://i.imgur.com/ScnuDLq.jpg]less elegant wardrobe[/url] However, despite her end, she carried a faint smile.

It was over.

They finally killed Minnie.

Her eyes turning back to their normal color, Scout's tentacles retracted back into her body, as she fell to her knees transforming back to her normal self. "W-we did it.." She chuckled hoarsely, but why does she still feel bad? Is it cause she let Lilly get captured? Or is it for the gothic magical girl's blood on her hands? 

"I'm sorry.." Scout apologized to Alex. "I must be a bad luck charm when it comes to my friends."

Anaya squeezed the witch's shoulder, in an attempt to reasure her. "Atleast the time user died happily. Still, i'd liked to get some answers from her." She said, before turning back to the other two. "Light and Reinforcement users, do you have any idea where the Lighting user went?" She asked Alicia and Alexander.

With the only target of revenge dead, Alexander's rage born fortitude crumbled, and he fell to his knees "[color=aba000]Fuck![/color]" His entire body felt sore, with his legs specifically feeling like jelly "[color=aba000]they said something about a sacrifice for this 'Lady Justine' woman. Dammit, they said she was the last one too! I don't have time to waste! Hell, I might even be out of time for all I know.[/color]" He forced himself to his feet "[color=aba000]I finally find out that my magic isn't some wimpy back row stuff, but can let me get right up in people face and wreck their shit...and I can't even be happy about it.[/color]" Alexander broke down the large barrier surrounding them all and recycled the magic that made it. The he turned to the other two girls and asked "[color=aba000]I don't suppose either of you know a way to the Overcity? I've got some ass to kick there.[/color]"

"Ah, I can find an entrance to the overcity, but we might need some help to actually get there." Anaya told Alex, reverting to her normal form herself. "If we can find someone who can take us, we can hurry and rescue your friend."

"[color=aba000]That...is great news.[/color]" Alexander said "[color=aba000]although I can't think of anyone willing and able to help us with that. So unless either of you do, then we're just going to have to ask every magic user we can find. Which may take awhile.[/color]"

"Right. Let's split up then."