We're All Stars Now...

Mai squirmed as much as she could as Shiki adjusted but it was difficult to escape the clutch and all she could do was watch as the wimpy red head, the yappy little chihuahua of the group of all people, was the one hurting Jess.

She cried as she was forced into an even more compromising position with the clutch, the metal knucks digging into her chin and straining her even more than it normally would as her arms flopped like useless chicken wings.

"Nghhh!"

Meanwhile, Allie leaned forward, pushing her face closer to Jess as she watched the girl struggle. Was this the kind of feeling Syd got? Allie couldn't say she hated it in the moment. At least getting Jess back for the hold earlier was very gratifying.

"Eh?" Allie blinked as her hand was knocked away from Jess' throat. She stood there, almost blank face as she tried to figure out exactly what happened. The next thing she knew, her skull was smashed into the ground. She didn't' even bounce and laid limply.

"Get away, Jess-san! Anngh! RUN!" Mai said, giving one last squirm of effort to try and buck Shiki off her while she begged Jess to flee.

Well, that certainly didn't look or sound good.

Shiki visibly winced at the sight of Allie being hammered into the unforgiving ground of the hallway. It was a captivating and bone chilling spectacle--something akin to witnessing the inescapable dread of two trains colliding. The vain rockstar was immediately grateful that it was, in fact, Allie and not herself caught in the valley girl's wrath. Regardless of her awe or her selfish thoughts, the defiant act was more than enough to invoke Shiki's blatant outrage.

"You stupid bitch!"

Unsurprisingly, Syd appeared to already be making her move for Jess. The punkette nearly couldn't resist a strong urge to join her. However, Shiki knew she had her own responsibility in this fight. The valley girl had throttled Allie and, now, Shiki would ruthlessly return the favor! The riled punkette leaned into Mai roughly, transitioning her inverted chinlock into something more fierce. The punkette angrily hugged both her arms tightly around the idol's neck before Shiki squeezed Mai unmercifully with a sleeper hold. The out of control rockstar thrust and pulled wildly at the at the young idol; as if she were attempting to pull Mai's pretty, little, head right off her shoulders!

The sudden realization that with Allie down, she no longer had any bargaining chips hit Jess just as Syd angrily stormed toward her. She backed up and waved her hands in front of her, palms out, in a desperate plea for some kind of sanity.

"Nonono, wait!" She said.

Syd lunged at Jess and threw her arm out to catch her under the chin with a violent clothesline. She followed through with it, dropping down to her hands and knees while she drove Jess down and smashed the back of her head against the tile. The sound was enough to turn her stomach.

Jess stayed down, limp like she was dead. Syd stood up, wild-eyed, and turned on the pair of Shiki and Mai. She grabbed Shiki by the hair and yanked her off of the idol, and threw her at the fallen Allie.

"Get her up and let's go. No fucking around," she grumbled.

Mai scraped desperately at the ground when Shiki switched holds. As the arms coiled around her neck, she scratched at them the best she could with her gloved fingers. However, the fight was slowly drained from the idol and soon her fervent resistances became meager paws at Shiki's arms before she slumped in Shiki's holed and her arms slipped to the ground limply.

"Hey, get off me!" Shiki stumbled awkwardly having found herself unceremoniously manhandled by Syd. An indignant expression flashed across the punkette's face as she glared dangerously at the silver-haired girl. The rockstar was clearly not accustom to having anyone step in between herself and her awful temper. Finding some small measure of composure, the punkette soon offered a bitter scoff as she slipped Hazel from her fingers and tucked the weapon back into a pocket of her jeans. Such a wasted opportunity.

"Fine, whatever. Let's go."

Issuing an aggravated sigh, the temperamental rockstar would crouch down and hoist one of Allie's limp arms over her shoulders, "Come on, Red. Move your fuckin' feet or I'll leave you here with the trash already littering this hallway." Despite her uncompassionate words, Shiki would heave the girl up with a grunt before generously supporting the brunt of Allie's weight. She didn't exactly relish the thought of carrying around dead weight, but the punkette begrudgingly allowed herself to accept the job. Maybe she owed Allie at least this much.

... Even if she was Syd's stupid friend and she should have been the one carrying her!

Jamie kept watch with just her head poking around the corner, even when she knew she should get out of there, until the bad ones started coming in her direction. She gasped and jerked her head out of site, standing with her back to the wall.

They were coming! She had to get out of there.

Her breathing was heavy and her heart thudded in her chest like a Raccoon trapped in a garbage can. Sweat beaded on her forehead. Those jerks were the worst kind of jerks! They were crazy! And they were coming for Jamie next, probably, maybe!

She looked down at the toes of her rollerblades and knew she had to get out of sight before they came around the corner. It'd be curtains for Eve Laurel O'Connor! But then she looked at the heavy plastic bag straining against the handled in her hand, swollen with supplies freshly lifted from the toy store. She knew what she had to do.

She backed up, and waited until she heard them near the corner, and then kicked off and skated as fast as she could so that she rounded the corner at full speed and almost ran straight into Shiki and Allie, plastic bag handles held in both hands like a baseball bat.

"Eat lead, buttsniffers!" She shouted, and took a homerun swing with the bag.

Marbles were made out of lead, right?

The weighty bag collided with Shiki's chest and split apart into nothing, spilling out a clattering torrent of little marbles all over everything. Syd flinched, her hands up in front of her face and flinched, having not the slightest clue what the hell had just happened.

"Um..." Jamie looked at the carpet of marbles, hundreds of them, and then at the faces of the three girls, and knew then with inexorable certainty that she was in trouble. She kicked off in the other direction and took off like a bullet, all the while shrieking like a banshee, and was quickly out of sight.

"AAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"

"I swear, Syd, your girl here has 50 pounds of tits alone. They are like a god damn anchor..."

Shiki grumbled her complaint with a vexed tone, not really expecting much of a response from her alleged biggest fan. Sure, Allie took a little bump on the head, but, aside from that, Shiki thought the beatdown had gone spectacularly. They had totally squashed those bimbos and, now, they should have been celebrating! Not scurrying away like a pack of lowly rodents. What was Syd's deal, anyway? Whatever.

Feeling Allie beginning to slouch in her grasp, the punkette would issue a loud sigh before she paused to find a better way to carry the still-unresponsive-redhead. That was, until some scrawny, little, blonde whirled around the corner like a bat out of hell. The punkette nearly screamed in unison with the rollerblading brat as the girl darted right at Shiki with the clear intention of throttling her with some kind of object.

What followed was easily one of the most natural decisions the punkette ever found herself having to make. Without any hesitation, Shiki would heave Allie's unconscious form forward, hoisting her precariously, before taking refuge behind her protective scapegoat. Jamie's eccentric weapon would burst against Allie's abundant chest harmlessly--well, harmlessly to Shiki--before the air seemed to fill with a scattering spray of lead marbles.

Really, marbles? What the fuck. Shiki could only blink and flinch from behind her human shield, clearly befuddled for a variety of different reasons.

And just like that, without rhyme or reason, the blonde twerp would loudly make her retreat...

There was a long pause, but finally, Shiki would offer some valuable insight on the situation at hand, "Hey, I think Allie's boobs might be bulletproof." Syd could scoff and glare all she wanted, it was certainly something to keep in mind when Shiki found herself in any future jeopardizing events!

"Nn..."

A sudden jolt to Allie's ridiculous chest caused her to open her mouth and groan a bit. Allie's eyes began to flutter open but it was hard to think of anything but the throbbing in her head. She could feel herself being propped up by something pretty soft and turned her head to see Shiki holding onto her.

"...the hell.." She muttered and tried to shrug the punkette off, setting her foot down and not feeling solid ground. When she moved her foot, it rolled and she pulled it up and looked down.

"What the hell?" She said again a little louder and kicked away the marbles that were underfoot.

She looked around at Syd and then Shiki out of the corner of her eye.

"What the hell!?" It felt like it was all that would come out of her mouth before she winced and pushed her hand against her forehead. Just talking made it pulse with pain.

Allie shrugged herself off of Shiki and turned around. She didn't look very pleased considering the other two seemed to be perfectly fine and she had been put out. She put her hands to her hips and looked at Syd. "Why are there marbles everywhere, Syd?" She questioned. "Did those two skanks get away?"

Allie fumed, stomping her foot down, only to step on another marble. "Gaah!" She yelled and kicked more marbles everywhere in a fit, trudging through them as she cleared the small minefield. Once she was past, she looked at the other two and crossed her arms under her chest. "I'M getting a drink." She declared. "Are you coming with me or not?" She asked expectantly, completely forgetting that she had brought Syd around in the first place. Right now she just wanted to get something in her, powder her nose and then fume over the complete humiliation she suffered today.