Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26216676-20180409180330/@comment-26892768-20180410181552

(Hooray I was accepted)

(Now then)

(Time to do something a bit different)

(And provide context for what my characters are doing before they got portalled off to the town)

To say Ms. Fortune is in a bit of a tight spot would be an understatement.

She wasn't expecting for this new Medici goon to be much of anything. Like, ''come on. Someone from the circus? ''Really? Okay, to be fair, a popular person from the circus - Ms. Fortune vaguely recalls seeing her a few times on TV before - but still, someone from the circus. Not exactly what she thinks of when she thinks ''mafia material. ''So, Ms. Fortune was expecting an easy fight.

Now, she has to admit that she may have overlooked a few things. Like, say, how those acrobatics make circus girl really hard to hit. Or how that hat capable of lifting boulders can hit like a truck.

And there's also the knifes in her boots, but Ms. Fortune isn't counting that one against herself because how would she have seen that coming?

All that, combined with the fact that she was ambushed right after she ate - seriously who does that - and...well, Ms. Fortune's getting her ass handed to her on a silver platter.

A very shiny silver platter.

Because circus girl is making this as flashy as possible.

As if she needed the insult to injur-

"Merry-Go-Rilla!"

Ms. Fortune's train of thought is promptly interrupted by a certain armed hat grabbing her, shortly followed by circus girl swinging around her a few times before slamming her into the ground, the impact causing Ms. Fortune's head to pop off.

She curses as her head rolls and hits a few stones before stopping next to a wall. Ms. Fortune spits out some blood and turns to glare at her attacker. "You know, last I checked, the Medici broke the law, not the laws of physics!"

Yeah, Ms. Fortune still doesn't get how that move works.

"I think you've got bigger issues that that, Fortune." Circus girl promptly backhands Ms. Fortune's body with her hat as it was rearing for a strike from behind before throwing her body over to her head. Ms. Fortune takes a moment to grab her own head and reattach it. "Like, say, handing over that Life Gem? Now?"

Ms. Fortune slowly gets up, shaking. She can't fight her. She needs some time to rest and prepare before she can actually fight this circus goon...maybe, if she explains that she ate the Life Gem the Medici are so desperately looking for, they'll just put her into some sort of cell and she can have time to pl-

No. She owes it to the Fishbone Gang to at least try to escape, even if she can barely stand.

"Come on. We both know you can't take much more of this. Just hand over the Life Gem, and the Medici will be out of your hair." Circus girl gestures for Ms. Fortune to put it in the hand of her hat.

Ms. Fortune growls. She reaches for her tail. "Kiss...my...a-"

Then she promptly falls through a portal.

"-nyaaaaaAAAAAAAAAow!" Ms. Fortune yelps, before groaning in pain. She briefly sees the circus girl's shocked look of surprise before the portal snaps closed, but even that doesn't really help her mood. She sighs. "...Oh, this is just the cat's meow, isn't it? First I get cornered after I've eaten lunch, then I get beaten up, then some weird portal thing opens up out of nowhere and dumps me in an alley with nothing to..."

Ms. Fortune pauses as she glances down. "...with only a cardboard box to cushion my fall! Yeesh! Does the universe have it against me or something?"

She's got more, but she pauses when her left hand brushes up against something. "...is that plastic?"

She then turns her head and sees Funtime Freddy with his exposed endoskeleton head.

''"Gah!" ''Ms. Fortune quickly scrambles back, the fur on her tail standing on end.

Meanwhile, Cerebella looks at where Ms. Fortune was only a few moments ago, mouth gaping in shock as she tries to register what just happened.

Then the wall shakes as Cerebella punches it with Vice-Versa. "Dammit!"

She was this close. ''This close. ''All she had to do was just snag the really important artifact from some random Feral cat burglar and hand it back over to the Medici. It was simple, sure, but considering how important this Life Gem thing is, it's the least she can do for the family who practically gave her the life she has now.

And she knows she'd been close. Sure, Fortune's ability to detatch her limbs threw Cerebella for a loop at first, but she'd been able to quickly adapt. If that portal hadn't showed up, Fortune would've tried whatever attack she was using as a last resort, inevitably failed, and then it wuld've just been a matter of taking her to a Medici storehouse, getting her back to prime condition - because yeesh, that's the roughest beating she's ever had to give; Cerebella usually only needs a few punches in with Vice-Versa before people come to their senses, but Fortune is particularly stubborn for some reason - and then getting her to tell them where the Life Gem is. Easy.

Except that didn't happen because of the random portal that came out of nowhere.

Cerebella punches the wall a few more times for good measure, and then sighs. What's Vitale going to think? He was counting on her to get the job done, and now she's going to come back empty-handed...wait.

No. No, this doesn't have to be the end.

Cerebella knows that the Medici have a few ties to the Skullgirls Labs. Maybe - just maybe - they might have something that can track Fortune down wherever she is now?

It could work. She can still do this.

For the ones who gave her everything...the man who gave her everything...

With a new goal in mind, Cerebella starts to head out, and promptly falls through a portal.

She lets out a brief yell of surprise before hitting the ground next to a random building.

"Ugh..." Cerebella rubs her head, noticing that Vice-Versa has an appropriate expression of pain at the moment. "Talk about a rough landing..."