Vaudevillain

Shizuka whooped as she leaped from her high flying ninja kite. Only a few others had joined her on the descent, the rest choosing a more ‘normal’ entry of landing their shared aircraft. Figures she’d get stuck with the boring ones. It wasn’t like the kite was hard to fly!

Sure, there were barely handholds and an incorrect twitch could send you spiraling to the ground, but that was just part of the excitement! Speaking of which, something was going on down below right this moment.

With another cry of joy, the villainous ninja separated from the pack and dove straight toward the growing fracas in her sights. Heroes and villains alike were in a huge mess of a brawl, weapons and fists flying like fireworks on the Fourth of July. She caught the tail end of many shocked faces, likely newbies unused to the back and forth of super power fights.

Well, Shizuka certainly wasn’t no newbie, and not even the double negatives in her thoughts could change that!

A quick application of her power conjured a clone, which she used as a foothold to reorient herself. The clone used her momentum to shoot off toward a particularly bulky looking hero. There was a flash of steel and then a fluttering of cloth. Except, the bulky hero didn’t fall. Instead, the sword Shizuka’s clone carried broke.

“No fair,” the villainess grumbled. What use was flashy anime finishers if heroes no-selled them. The hero didn’t even stop to take out her clone! No, that ‘honor’ went to some other random shmuck.

Huffing, Shizuka decided she’d go and pick on someone her own size. Like, her heroic ninja counterpart! Yeah, that was the perfect idea. Merls basically made Shizuka, but good.

And draped in white, which would make it totally easy to find her!

With a snicker, Shizuka vanished in a cloud of smoke, conjuring a number of clones to search for Merla.