We're All Stars Now...

Syd grunted with the thud of Mai's elbow against her belly and bent forward. She reached out to grab the annoying idol's hair, but the girl was already cannonballing herself into Shiki.

Syd scowled. Shiki always seemed to be in trouble. She could tell the two bimbos were targeting her as the weaker one.

Jess's standoff with Shiki ended as Mai bowled her over, and suddenly she was at a loss for what to do. She couldn't run without Mai. She didn't feel right just stomping the punk rocker like they had been doing to her. The silver haired one seemed... nuts

She looked at Allie, standing off on the sidelines, and instantly sprung into action. She snagged the girl by her red hair and yanked her in close, and doubled her over with a sharp knee to the midsection. She tucked her head under her arm and constricted her forearm tightly against Allie's neck, and grabbed the waist of her skirt with her other hand.

"Back off, freaks!" She warned. "If you don't want your girl to end up with brain damage! I'll break her skull wide open!"

The tile floor could do considerable damage to the little prima donna if Jess were to plant her headfirst, and suddenly she had Syd's full attention. The deranged silver-haired girl took one step forward, but then stopped. She folded her arms over her chest and sneered at Jess, as if daring her to do it. Syd might even enjoy it more than Jess.

"Um..." Jess stammered, and glanced at Mai.

Allie shook her head as Mai tackled Shiki after freeing herself from Syd. This wasn't exactly going as she had hoped. In fact, the two ditzy dummies were doing a better job than two hardened hardcore girls and it was only Syd and Allie then! Then again, Allie had been humoring the other two a bit and it turned into Allie having to save them once more.

Until she was caught be the flash of green hair. How was Jess that fast!

"Guuuhgh!" The knee.

"Hnnngh!" The strain against her neck. She screamed bloody murder while her fists patted uselessly against Jess' curvy hips.

Mai, meanwhile, swung her elbow at Shiki and tried to roll away, hoping she could crawl over to Jess while she had hold of Allie.

Shiki managed to get her arm up, partially blocking Mai's desperate elbow. The blow would still sting, bringing a curse from Shiki's lips, as Mai made an attempt to disengage herself from the punkette. However, the relentless rockstar would lunge with both arms, grabbing Mai's ankles as she attempted to crawl away before roughly pulling the Japanese girl right back into her clutches. This silly, little, idol wasn't getting away that easily! Pouncing to the sit heavily across the girl's back, Shiki would grab a handful of the young girl's hair before yanking the the idol's head backwards sharply. A smooth, if hasty, gesture would allow the raven-haired punkette to produce Hazel, Shiki's affectionately named brass knuckles, from the back pocket of her jeans.

"Now, wouldn't that be a shame," with the weapon entwined tightly in her fingers, Shiki ominously reeled her clenched fist above both her and the captured idol's head while she addressed Jess' threat, "What do you think is going to happen to your stupid friend here if you pull a nasty stunt like that?"

Shiki huffed softly from her perch, a reckless grin came to her glossed lips. After the incident with the pepper spray, it was hard for Shiki to not feel some small sense of appreciation in regard to the scrappy redhead jumping to her defense. Her twisted sense of honor compelled her to at least make an effort. If nothing else, she hoped the standoff would at least cause Jess to hesitate and, perhaps, buy Syd enough time to actually do something. Then again, maybe not.

Allie and Syd were supposed to be friends, right?

Whatever the case, Shiki wouldn't find herself losing any sleep over the thought of Allie's potential head trauma, but the vicious punkette would most definitely--and gleefully--return the favor to Jess' ridiculous, cat-ear-wearing, friend.

Now, things were really getting interesting!

Jess clasped her hands together to tighten her arm around Allie's neck to keep her quiet. She needed to think.

She groaned inwardly when no one seemed too interested in the annoying redhead's safety. Honestly, Jess never had any intention of making good on her threat to crack the girl's skull on the floor. She didn't have it in her. These other girls, though... they had called her bluff entirely on accident, and she would not put it past them to do something like that. Or worse.

"Mai..." She said, almost pleading with the idol.

"Your friend's pretty cute..." Syd said, and took a menacing step toward the pinned idol. "You have fun with Allie. We'll have lots of fun with this one."

Jess' jaw dropped in horror. She glanced frantically for the canister of pepper spray, but it was behind Shiki. She did the only thing she could think.

"HELP!" She screamed, and Syd laughed and laughed.

Mai struggled as much as she could with Shiki on top of her, holding her hair and threatening her with brass knuckles while Syd taunted her from afar.

"Nngh!"

Mai squirmed as much as she could in Shiki's grasp and slapped her hands against the ground. Still, whatever was going to happen to her, it didn't need to happen to Jess as well.

"Jess-san! Onegai! J-just get out of here! Please!"

While Mai pleaded, Allie was fuming as best as she could while being choked out. Well, at least Shiki had her back. She expected as much from Syd but she was used to the silver haired nihilists attitude. Still, she wasn't going to get out of the situation she was in with help from the anarchists.

"Hngkh!"

Allie gnashed her teeth and balled her fist. She tried to jam her fist between Jess' legs and force the green haired girl to release her.

Shiki gave Mai's soft hair a cruel and sharp tug, "Ugh, shut up!" The rockstar had heard enough high pitched wailing for one day--she hadn't even started punching the miserable brat yet! Needless to say, it was quickly becoming hard to resist the urge. For the time being, Shiki focused on keeping the idol properly pinned and actively aware of the shiny, black, brass knuckles that threatened to rain down upon her pretty, little, head.

Neither Mai, nor her stupid cat ears, were going anywhere soon if Shiki had her own way.

"Aagh!"

Jess cried out and dropped to the floor, releasing Allie as her hands both went between her legs to cover her poor sex. She laid over her knees, her butt in the air and her head on the floor, and moaned in pain.

"Ohhhhhh my gaaawd..."

Syd stopped laughing and licked her lips. Her red eyes greedily soaked in the sight of it. "Allie," she said, pointing to the green-haired girl on the floor. "Get your claws in her face. Make her scream." She pantomimed what it would be like raking her fingernails into the girl's face and grinned maliciously.

Allie watched Jess crumble to the ground with a satisfying grin. She bent down and yanked Jess' green hair hard, forcing her to look at Allie's twisted smirk as Syd egged her on.

Allie held her free hand in the air threateningly and then pressed her nails against Jess' cheek. She made an indent in Jess' cheek but then shook her head.

"No. She's pretty, Syd. It's not nice to mar her face. Besides, she choked me!" Allie then yanked on Jess' head to expose her neck as her hand went down and her fingers wrapped around it.

"Oh! Did you see that? She just punched your girl right in the juicebox!"

Shiki giggled in deviant glee, unable to contain her cruel amusement. This day was just getting better and better by the moment! The thoroughly entertained punkette had certainly underestimated her new, redheaded, friend. Despite her constant yapping, the young girl certainly had a ruthless edge to her. Shiki rather liked this side of the girl.

Feeling inspired by Allie's delightful display, the rockstar shifted her own perch along Mai's back. Scooting forward and lifting up both of her knees to properly squat over the idol's lower back, Shiki forcefully reached down to hoist and stretch Mai's upper body backwards before draping the Japanese girl's arms over both of Shiki's inclined knees; effectively trapping the young idol in the beginnings of a camel clutch.

Shiki wouldn't even bother removing Hazel from her fingers as she reached down and gave Mai's petite chin a wicked tug, "It's no fun to just watch, right?... Let's you and I have a little fun."

Jess' eyes fearfully found Allie's, and the sadistic look on her face, as the girl wrapped her hands around her throat. She gagged, and grabbed at Allie's fingers and struggled to breathe.

"Ghhhck..."

"Mm." Syd expressed her approval and leaned her shoulder against the wall to watch.

Allie was fucking crazy. The dangerous kind of crazy. And now that Mai was pinned down and camel clutched by the other one...

There was one other thing Allie was, though: soft. And Jess wasn't getting taken out by some prep school princess.

She swung her arms up and forcefully knocked Allie's arms away, and violently grabbed a handful of hair at the top of her head. She yanked her down and tucked her head under her arm, and before Syd had any chance to react, she jumped up and dropped onto her back, crushing Allie's skull into the hard tile floor.

"FUCK!" Syd roared, and pushed off the wall to advance on Jess.