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Rainbow Sparkle Power Friends Reunion Part 5.

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Amy took the shot glass from Zander, and went into the kitchen, poured a small shot for herself and knocked it back, grimacing as the vodka went down, then poured a second shot for Zander, went back into the garden, carrying the bottle, and handed the glass to Zander, who knocked it back and held the glass out again for a top up, Amy poured. "okay looks like I'm driving," Angel noted. "..." Zander looked like he was about to say something then stopped, he put the glass down and rubbed his hands over his face, trailing his fingers off his chin, "okay this is not what I expected," he pointed at Kat, "I remember you now, you put the quarter back in hospital with a dislocated shoulder, elbow, knee and ankel, several broken fingers, a fractured jaw." "he didnt want to take 'no' for my answer, I was just the first to insist." Kat replied, Zander looked down at his hands, "things at home weren't great, I wasn't in a good place and we had the pressure of saving the world from the millennium cultist on our shoulders, it happened, I'm not proud of it." "okay, so what happens now? Are the cults back?" "we don't know." Claire answered, "what we do know is something happened earlier this week that woke the old items up, charged them I don't know which it is," she finished. Kat carried on," the intelligence from before the dawn of humanity," Zander and Amy both looked like they had questions, Gabriel had bum shuffled onto the grass and was throwing handfuls of glitter up in the air, and giggling in delight" says there are 2 portals forming that it can detect, which gives us a window to train." Amy got in first," before the dawn of humanity?" Kat looked at her daughter, "apparently" "what does it look like?" "no idea, it's in some kind of crystal tube that's full of a weird gas so we can't see it, but the impression is, it's bigger than a person." Zander got his question out,"why you 3?" Angel, Kat and Claire looked at each other. Claire answered, "it has something to do with our genetics, the 3 of us have a fairly rare gene that we share with the intelligence from before the dawn of humanity, another species and Atlantian Priestesses..." "and before you start on the tin foil hat speech, this stuff," Angel indicated her armour and the shield, "were made by the second lot, in a bid to destroy all humanity, they failed. Diamond Rainbow there had some tests done on her fan and the metal was a weird alloy of copper, zinc and gold, each panel is a single diamond," Angel planted her spear in the grass" this was singing to me which is how I found it, " she looked at the shield and noticed a new cut out in the metal," this," she ran her hand over it," wasn't there this morning, " she picked up the spear and slid it into the cut out, it was perfect for her eye line, she turned, sighted on the missing fence panel "carnelian blast" she said, the beam foowshed down the garden and blew another branch off the unfortunate tree. "the only time I've seen anything like this is in the films" all 4 kids not busy throwing glitter in the air watched the beam with varying degrees of awe "I'm seeing, the believing is being worked on." Zander said, he reached for the bottle and poured himself another shot "so you could be whisked away to fight something and to what?" "we don't know, one of the things we need to learn is how to close the rips, Morven, the 4th member of our old group, seemed to have the most natural talent in that department, and the last time we saw here she was trapped on the wrong side of a rift." Kat finished, shuddering at the memory of her friend loosing an arm, "she was the one who had the red hair wasn't she?" Zander asked. "yes" "lived out by Wheeler Ave Park?" "yes" "had the bow and the daggers, wore the blue outfit?" "yes" "and she's trapped on the other side?" "it's called the Umbral realm or the shadow realm, emotions are heightend over there, its confusing. The millennium cults looked to open our world up to it." Claire filled in. "You know I was surprised nothing happened in 2012 thinking about it." Kat mused, "what with the whole Mayan calendar thing." Angel looked at her husband, "so if I ring you saying you need to pick the kids up, then it means something to do with this" Angel waved to encompass the 3 of them and what they were wearing, "has come up, okay?" "sure, I think it's a bit much to take in in one go." Zander replied. "I understand hun, but it's this or... Well it's this. " Angel didn't want to think of the alternative, "Change back?" Angel asked, they did the movement and said the words and changed back into the training gear they'd been wearing earlier. Claire suggested they meet up for a run up the Canyon Park on Sunday morning, with the stipulation of no magic and no ambush with water bombs. Gabriel and half a ton of glitter were put in car seat, another half ton was dragged into the house, and they waved Angel, and Zander and the kids off, Claire got back in her car and drove home to Pamona. Kat and her daughters ordered their usually Saturday take out, then she got the hoover out and made a start on removing the glitter while Thea took the Warhammer into the woods and practiced with it. When Kat had finished this round of hoovering Amy broached her next question. "so this thing, how does it work?" "I have no idea, it's something I can feel. It's like we said, something in the make up of the weapon was singing to me. It chose me I think, the armour was similar, although I think the old guy had seen the choices before and picked the plates with a... Frequency is the closest word I can give you, that matched the things we already had." " so how do they work? " "It's something to do with channeling Earth Energy, as far as I understand it, we can focus a fraction of it to discharge through the weapon. " " so lay lines are like a recharge point? " " I think so, I don't understand it, to be honest this is something I only found out today, 20 years ago it worked, I didn't question it." "so how do the rips happen?" "I have no idea, last time around the Heralds had people working on this side to open the way, the old guy said that this time they are working from the other side to force an opening, so we need to learn to close them. So after my run tomorrow I'll be going to the Tomb to learn how to do it, or at least get a start on it, which means I'll need you to cook dinner okay? " " I was kind of hoping to come with you to get a look at the Tomb. " Amy asked looking hopeful. " that does means bringing Thea as well, we can't leave her here on her own." " okay." "are you hoping that something sings?" Kat asked. "Yes, kind of, I think." Amy replied. "it's hard enough being 15, saving the world is a heavy responsibility to lump on your shoulders as well." Kat scrambled for her lap top bag and got out the DNA tests," okay, Claire gave me these the other day," she opened the pack and read the instructions, and took her own sample, handed Amy one and asked if she wanted to do it herself or have Kat do it, Amy read the instructions and did it herself, leaving the last test for Thea," I'll give those back to Claire tomorrow to get this processed and we can see if you have the gene." again there was a knock on the door and the food had arrived, "do you want to plate up or go and get your sister?" Kat asked. "I'll plate up," Amy replied, going into the kitchen and getting plates and cutlery out, Kat walked out of the sliding doors and down the garden, through the hole in the fence and found Thea hitting a tree with the hammer. "anything?" Kat asked "nope, just the hammer." Thea stated. "the foods here, come on," Kat took the hammer off her daughter and started walking back towards the house, "there's a dna test at home I'd like you to take, find out if you have a particular gene, okay?" Thea looked at her mum, "the same one you have?" "yep" "okay" "tomorrow afternoon, I'm going back to the Tomb, hopefully to learn how to close the rifts", Kat looked at Thea, " Amy wants to come, and do a bit of tomb rading I think, do you want to come?" "are you kidding?!" Thea looked really made up, "yes! I'd love to see this place, what's it like?" she asked, "mind the glitter," Kat sighed as they walked back into the house, "black stone walls, grey white lights, chilly air, dust, hundreds of prisoners from an unspecified time ago, and a crystal tube that talks to us," they sat at the dining table and Amy put their meals in front of them, before getting hers and sitting down as well," one last thing, you can't tell anyone about this, no one. Okay? " Kat looked at both girls, both agreed." eat up, your Kim chee is getting cold." The next morning was sunny and warm, Kat put a fresh t-shirt and shorts on, down stairs she poured yesterday's coffee into a flower bed, cleaned it up and put a fresh pot on, she kicked herself for not putting a water bottle in the fridge the night before, so she put her purse in the laptop bag, along with the dna tests and reminded herself to stop at the store and buy some chilled water. She made pancakes for the girls to have breakfast, left them a note to let them know about the pancakes, then set off for the canyon Park and the hiking trails, picking up the water and getting to the park as Angel pulled in to parking lot, they greeted each other and stretched, there was a bit of banter about the up coming run and who'd come last. Claire who had a longer drive got there 5 minutes late, adjusted her fit bit and approached Angel and Kat, "morning!" "morning." "hay, so plans?" Angel asked "I was thinking of running up to the picnic point, have a drink, over to the far side, and back on the other side of the canyon, avoiding the horse shit." "why not go that way first then, we can get the crap out of the shoes on the road back?" Angel suggested "I hadn't thought about that, okay makes sense." The 3 of them set of together, Claire's regular exercise paying dividends as she outpaced the other 2, pausing regularly to let them catch up on the winding bridleway, after 20 minutes they reached the turn and grabbed a drink, then down to the base and up the other side to the picnic area, where Claire was again waiting.

"I used to come here nearly everyday when the girls were little," Kat puffed, sitting down on one of the benches "its a nice view" Angel panted, getting her breath back, "have to bring Gabriel up here some time, when we've managed to wash the glitter off" they sat, drank some water and enjoyed the view for 10 minutes. Kat spoke up, "I'm going to the Tomb this afternoon, going to see about learning how to close the rifts." she took a drink. Claire looked at her, "that's a good idea, we just used to beat the crap out of the bad guys and Morven did that bit, we need to learn how to do that." "I'll take notes, let you guys know. I'm also planning to practice with the new stuff while over there, see if there's more we can do with it than the older stuff." "you mean up the rating of the cartoon from G to PG13?" Angel joked. "maybe, we don't know what we will be going up against this time. We fought magical creatures once and got our asses kicked, knock downs and stunning blows are okay for humans as they can't hurt us when we're powered up but it doesn't sound like we'll be fighting people this time. I want to make sure they're down and staying down." Kat finished " have you wondered if there is any more kids out there that it's contacted? " Claire asked " I hope not. " both Angel and Kat said together " it's just that it's just the 3 of us doing this, it might be too much for us." " if we can get on top of it 3 might be all we need, maybe find a way we can integrate a computer into it's system then we can track things ourselves? That would help a bit, wouldn't it?" Kat asked. " maybe use that DNA database to track down others with the marker you talked about, but see if they are able to use the stuff?" Angel suggested. " miss use of FBI computers and a public access DNA database, yeah don't see any disciplinary action if that goes wrong." Claire grouse, she took a drink. Kat checked her watch, then asked Claire about the database, getting her to email a link later, as Kat could check while on breaks from work on the lap top. They talked about training for a while, and then jogged down the paved road back to the parking lot. Kat unlocked her car and brought out the heart wand, "hands on" she said, holding the shaft, Claire and Angel both put a hand on the gem, "amethysts healing heart," she said, there was a brief pulse of purple light and a warmth spread through them all, tense muscles from the exercise relaxed and they felt better already. "I missed that," Angel said, "shame it couldn't do anything the last time we fought." Kat apologised. They arranged a group chat on what's app for the evening to get everyone up to speed on the latest round of training, got in their cars and drove home, Kat's route took her past Papas Sandwich store so she pulled in and got herself and the girls lunch.

Monthly Vow 12th Of June To The 13th of July

Okay, I admit I pretty much missed any goals I set last month, actually after checking the last monthly vow post, I didn't expect to get much done anyway, and I started writing again which, while not 40k or miniature related is still something creative and I'm enjoying it. Targets for next month, well I have the grave yard kits to still do, but I'm aiming to get one finished, just need as there's plenty of details in each one, and I need an led kit for one as well, the pistol arm still needs doing for Lazarus, if I run him with the plasma as a captain I also have to give him a power fist, LT's get a lot more variety than Company Masters,I'll still be writing the Rainbow Sparkle Power Friends Reunion story, part 5 should be going up, and checks time, later today at some point, going forward I'm think a part per week depending on how it's grabbed me. At least one of the Repulsor tanks will be finished this month there is also all the alternative minis for the Lords Of Old Troupe to do, and lastly,but first the Gouf Custom I got will be built first, not sure about painting it just yet, will see how it goes.

Review Time

And boy is it a short one and blogger seems to be fritzing out when I try to upload a photo, so not sure if it's my end or their's but I've tried WiFi and data and it's not working on both, so I guess it's more likely their end.

Started off with a white night, I did the horses for the dread Knights, and the base coat for the paladin as well as adding the Cru Ella Devile mini to this project, I spent a fair bit of time on ebay getting the rest of the Phoenix Lords, all apart from the Dire Avenger one, as the Exarch I've already got is the same pose, just minus the pistol and a less flamboyant helmet, I've now got them all for this project.

The purple was done on the 2 minis for the Lords of Old the next night as well as the black on the riders as I had taken the contrast black out of the box, as well as the purples.

The 2 dread Knights got there contrast black and dawn stone highlight, bones got the camo shade wash, the metal was done with brass scorpion.

The next unplanned thing was a Warp Spider Exarch conversions, this time using the new Drazhar mini as the base, thanks to the mate of mine who'd donated loads of bits I spent a while rooting through the De bits for the guns that look kind of like the Web spinners, an arm I could use to put it on, the trophy skull, and a dual couple of claws from a talos kit to put on the mouth

After those had been found and I'd attached the fangs / mandibles with green stuff I rooted through the Harlequins bits as the Jain Zar had been armless, I gave her a fusion pistol and a pole arm, I also glued a 2 pence piece to the base as the big hair gives the mini a high center of gravity.

There were 3 troupers with Kisses, so I'll be running Cru Ella Devile as a 4th kiss, Jain Zarr and Fire Dragon Phoenix Lord will be my fusion pistols, and I and 6 of them are stage projections. Beyond that it was writing this month and the usual pre new edition malady of what's the point.

Rainbow Sparkle Power Friends Reunion Part 4.

Rainbow Sparkle Power Friends Reunion Part 4.

The sounds of activity in the garden drifted in on the wind, while Kat centred herself, she was unsure how long she'd been meditating when she registered the sound of a car pull up outside and a babble of voices emerged followed by slamming doors, multiple footsteps and a knock on the door, Kat stood and walked over to the door and opened it, Angel and her kids were outside, her oldest daughter, Valentina was about 12, the middle son, Raul was about 8 or 9 and she'd already met the youngest, Gabriel at the bar. the other day. The kids were introduced to each other and went out into the garden. Another a knock at the door and Claire was let in in her FBI jogging suit. Angel looked her up and down, "do you wear that on stake outs? Like jogging around a hide out in that, does it not draw attention?" "the yellow FBI on the dark blue does stand out" Kat agreed. "fuck off" Claire replied, "so what's the route plan?" Kat discrided the route out of to the river in the woods, and on to the lightening stroke tree, then back over on the other path, about a mile and half in total, Claire played with her fit bit, and stretched, Angel and Kat both stretched. " what's your best time?" Claire asked. "about 15 minutes, but this isn't a race." Kat replied," come on let's get going." As the trio went out into the garden Angel wondered where the kids were, and Kat suggested they must have gone upstairs and be on the games machine. The 3 of them set out and made good time, reached the tree, and turned back on the other path they reached the bridge over the river and crossed when Amy shouted "loose" and 8 water bombs looped over a bush quickly followed by 4 streams from the super soakers, 2 of the balloons hit Angel on the head, one got Claire and 1 got Kat, the streams missed because of the shooters laughing, the 3 soggy adults walked into the ambush site to find the 4 oldest kids laughing, and Gabriel standing up holding onto a bucket, bouncing up and down with excitement and shouting "wea, wea, wea, momma wea!" he pointed, Angel picked him up and covered him with her wet hair, he shriked with delight "yes momma wet! I take it this was your plan?" Angel asked Kat. "I thought it would be a good bonding exercise for everyone, rather than them staring at screens all afternoon." the logic may have been sound but the implementation could have been better. The adults left the kids to their water fight in the woods and walked a soggy walk back to the house, Kat passed out towels and poured 3 glasses of wine, everyone took a drink. " that wasn't what we intended." Claire said Kat replied, "not really but you can't expect 5 kids to get on with no frame of reference, no unifying action, and at the moment unless Angel brings her partner in, Amy is the prime child care option. How would he take you dropping everything to go and save the world again?" Angel looked thoughtful and took a drink," I think we need to let him know. And you 2?" " married to the job" Claire said. "Devorced and not looking owing to deep seated psychology problems revolving around abandonment and trust issues" kat replied into her glass. "so I need to tell my partner, what's the best way to spring this on him? Hi honey, 20 years ago I helped save the world from a demonic invasion and for some reason they're trying again so I have to squeeze into an outfit I last wore when I was 17 and a lot smaller to save the world again." "maybe we should just do the transformation when he turns up to pick you up later?" Claire suggested "we are going to need to try that at some point." Kat pointed out. The 3 got their items out and put them on the table,"what time is he picking you up?" Angel gave a time, "gives us a couple of hours more. Do we do it now, and do we have to say it? " "if we are doing it, can we go outside, I'm still finding glitter from years ago when I hoover." the 3 picked up the items, drained their glasses and walked out into the garden. They tried to doing the movements, but nothing happened, embarrassed they looked at each other. " on 3?" Angel asked, Claire and Kat nodded. " 1, 2, 3," all 3 women intoned the words they never thought they'd speak again. "with the power of friendship, love and glitter, we will fight for the world" they intoned together. Each women glowed, from within, a rainbow rose above them and glitter flowed over the garden. As the rainbow subsided the women looked at each other, the then down at themselves. "oh hell no" Angel said "at least it fits you still..." Claire offered as she looked down at her own outfit "was this always a tankini?" , the scar from the horn very visible in the cut out of her outfit. "my ass is hanging out" Angel moaned, as she tried pulling the frilly orange skirt down to cover her dignity "you have more ass now" Kat said, the purple micro skirt and crop top leaveing the old, straight scars on her thighs, lots of them, as well as on her upper arms, visible " I was hoping for something more appropriate", she muttered, she went and got the flip phone out of the house, stamping any glitter off before she went in, opened it up and put her thumb on the crystal "hi, so we've done the transformation and I think we'd like to change the outfits if possible, maybe a bit of armour?" The intelligence replied, "you're immune from mundane attacks, why would you want to change your outfits?" "we aren't teenagers anymore? After getting trampled last time I'd like something a bit more armoured, and would like to hide this scar" Claire said. "to be honest I'm surprised this even fits me," Angel said. "it's practically magic from your point of view the dress will change as you do." "okay we might be immune to mundane weapons, but magical things can affect us, and there doesn't appear to be the same sort of cultist activity as last time, so I'd like something that would help keep me alive against magic and demon weapons as I feel we'll be facing that more than dick heads playing about to end the world. " Claire stated " wasn't it immortality they were after? " Kat questioned. " oh my god, how much under boob? " Angel tried adjusting her carnilean orange top. " can we add armour to the outfits? " Claire asked The intelligence thought," I believe so." and the 3 women transitioned to the Tomb. The black stone walls and odd lights looking fimilliar again, the fluid in tube moved sluggishly, the voice filled the room," follow the light", a willow the wisp formed and the of them followed it, walking down corridors they hadn't seen before, even Kat who'd slept here some times hadn't explored these chambers, dust and stale air was all they encountered, walking past an opening Kat saw a large chamber, filled with tubes like in the Tomb, from the quick glance she saw there was at least 12 of them, an opening on the other side was the same, she called the others and they walked into the chamber, it was huge and circular, and filled with hundreds of tubes all filled with the same mixture. "okay what the hell is this place?" Claire asked, the usual black stone walls, and red gold fittings on the tubes, a closer inspection of the tube showed it wasn't glass as the modern world knew it, it may have been a crystal of some type, there was nothing there on any tube they could see that looked like a control panel, eventually they walked back to the corridor and found the wisp was waiting for them, another minute of walking and the wisp took them into a side room, on the floor where several crystal circles, with a matching panel in the low celling, the voice filled the room, "stand on the circles and you will be measured." they did as asked, a beam of light linked both crystals, and a warmth entered each woman. "what was that last chamber?" Kat asked. "this is a prison, the Nephilim we captured are held asleep here, until humans are no more." "what?" Claire asked "at the birth of humanity my kind bred with humans, and created the Nephilim, they wanted to destroy all humans, we were able to stop them, but we couldn't bring ourselves to kill them so we sentenced them to sleep until the world could be theirs, we couldn't bring ourselves to destroy our wayward children." The light went out and it took a moment for their eyes to adjust to much lower light levels, a doorway had opened in a wall on one side of the room," please enter the armour, a selection of amour will be available shortly. " the 3 walked through the doorway, in the next room were racks of spears, swords, and other weapons, all taller than an average human weapons of the same type would be and made of the same reddy gold metal. They all had a closer look at one of the spears, taking it from the rack, the shaft was wider than should be comfortable, under the head was a small compartment, that clicked open, underneath was a red gem stone and a sliver of a strange pinkish rock, looking at the spear head embedded within the metal was an arrowhead of the same red gem, Claire clicked the cover back in place and did the cheer leader bit with it, spinning it around her head. "impressive." kat said, she took the spear and looked around the room, and noticing something in the distance, several chunks had been blasted from one of the walls, Kat brought the spear up and sighted down it, she could feel a strange tension in the weapon, she willed it to fire, but nothing happened, and she sighed, and and relaxed a bit, " rudy stun blast?" she tried still nothing. "try amethyst?" Claire suggested "amethyst stun blast?" Kat said, a beam of purple, with red edges shot out of the spear head and struck the wall. "oh yes." Claire and Angel both tried the spear, Kat told them about the tension, it seemed to take about 10 seconds to recharge after Kat got it to fire, before Angel could feel the tension in the weapon, her blast was triggered by a call of carnelian blast, the beam was orange with traces of red, and Claire's was white with red, they each picked up one of the spears, then looked at some of the other weapons. Angel stopped halfway along a rack of spears and clocked her head to one side and frowned, "can you hear singing?" "pardon?" "I think this one," Angel touched a spear, the tip glowed with a fimilliar orange glow, "was calling to me." it looked like it had been crafted for her. "it's not the strangest thing I've heard today. " Claire replied. Kat was walking past a warhammer and stopped, "I can hear it now," she looked at the weapons, one was smaller than the others and it was humming to her, she reached out and grabbed the handle it glowed purple. "okay hush, so let me see if I can find mine in here," Claire walked along racks of weapons, but heard nothing, she moved onto some exotic looking things, this time, Angel noticed something shifting in the rack as Claire walked towards it, she stopped and smiled, " I hear it," she reached out and took hold of a sword, it glowed briefly with a white light. The 3 of them returned to the archway, and not long after another part of the wall opened and 3 piles of armour were there on top of each was what looked like a black cat suit, each set of armour sang to the one it was in tune with. " err, do we just put this on over this?" Angel asked, tugging at the orange tankini "put the black suit on first, the armour plates will fit onto the black suit, and it will bond with your priestess outfits" the voice replied. "priestess outfits?" "my kind, the Nephilim and your Atlanitians all had a priestess class that could channel the Earth engery and that let them perform feats. You each carry within you that ability, it is why the armour and weapons react to you as they have." Claire, Kat and Angel looked at each other, each putting the black suit on first, then they helped each other get into their armour" when you change back, the items will bond, your new weapons appear after you change back into your new armour." " would it be possible to mount the spear head on the back of this glove?" Kat asked," rather than carrying around the polearm." "I believe so, do you all wish this?" Claire and Angel agreed "I will have the adjustments done by this time tomorrow. I will return you home now." The 3 of them transitioned into the garden, stirring up more glitter, then they looked at each other, "descended from ancient priestess?" Angel asked. "still not the strangest thing I've heard today," Claire replied, "wine?" Kat asked, looking again at her friends, "let's change back first." they used the original items and waved it around and spoke the words, "everything is safe" and changed back into what they had been wearing before. "lot of scars Kat." Angel said. "I struggled to cope, the cutting helped. In a way, it reminded me I was alive." Angel held her hand, "if you hadn't disappeared on us we'd have helped you, it wasn't easy for either of us afterwards, lots of questions that we couldn't answer." "somethings haven't really changed." Kat replied. They talked about training and practice ideas and fielding request for drinks and snacks until there was a knock on the door, Angel's husband was let into the house, and introduced to everyone. Angel looked at her kids and her husband and smiled, "Zander honey there's something you need to know, we did something 20 years ago, and it looks like we'll have to do it again and soon. And there's something we need to show you all." while Angel was talking, Kat had poured a shot of vodka from the freezer for Zander, and handed it to him, " you'll want this in a moment, " she said," okay everyone into the garden, there's about to be a mountain of glitter. " everyone went out into the garden, Angel, Claire and Kat walked onto the grass and got everyone to stay on the deck, they drew the items, and intoned the words " with the power of friendship, love and glitter, we will fight for the world" Again they glowed, from within, the rainbow rose above them and glitter flowed over the garden. Gabriel shrieked with delight and clapped, Amy looked surprised, Thea, Valentina and Raul stood open mouthed and Zander knocked back the vodka in one. "hurh, can I have another?" he asked, holding out the glass.

Just realised I should change part of the Rainbow Sparkle Power Friends Reunion story, involving the weapons and armour from repurposed Nephilim to the Defenders of humanity. So here's the bit that will be edited into the blog post when it's done, but leave the original here

The 3 friends walked through the opening into the next chamber, they saw racks and racks of weapons, the nearest set of racks had spears, Angel counted 20 on the first rack, and 5 more racks with the same amount of spears on each rack, for a total of 100, beyond the first set of racks was another this one had various different weapons, Claire walked past the spears to see what else there was, Angel followed her, Kat plucked one of the spears from the rack, in the head there was what looked like emeralds, she put it back. Angel stopped and tilted her head. "Can you that?" Angel was standing beside a spear, she looked at one in particular. "I dont hear a thing" Claire said, looking at Kat, "nothing here. Oh wait" Kat turned her head from side to side "I hear something from this one" Angel reached out and touched one of the spears, and the only visible difference between this and any of the others was this one looked to have the same carnelian stones set in the head as we're in Angel's shield, there was a shimmer of orange light along the red gold length of the weapon as Angel picked it up. "that's new" Claire noted, she walked slowly past the racks,"ah, i can hear something" Claire slowed down and ran her fingers along the rack, she looked at the spear head and saw diamonds embedded in the head, her fingers closed around it a white corona hazed out from the spear head, Kat picked up the one that had been singing to her, purple light hazed between her hand and the spear, holding it in her hand Kat felt like a part of her she hadn't know was missing had been returned. Claire was doing a cheerleader baton twirl with hers, Angel was sighting down the room with it at the far wall, she breathed out, "Carnelian beam" and a beam of orange light with traces of yellow, lanced down to the far wall blowing out a chunk, "what the fuck?" Kat asked "how the fuck more like" Claire said. Angel looked at the other 2, "I don't know how, I felt a tension in the weapon and willed it to release the words helped focus it." Claire and Kat lined up where Angel had been and adopted the same stance, Kat felt the pent up tension, "amethyst beam!" a purple beam with a black core fwooshed from the spear head and impacted into the back wall, "Diamond beam" Claire's beam went a split second later, this was white, with traces of rainbow light in there. "oh that's better" Claire said as the debris from the impact skittered across the black stone floor. The 3 of them went deeper into the room beyond the racks of spears were racks of weapons, kopesh like swords, straight swords, axes, hammers and maces, all made from the same red gold alloy, they stopped at the end of the spears. "one at a time?" Kat asked the others agreed, Angel went first as she seemed to be the one to hear the singing first, she walked down one side slowly, pausing at the end of the racks, "there's 2 rooms off to each side here," Angel turned pointing to both sides of the room. "what's in there?" Claire asked, Angel put head round the doorway, "armour, lots of suits of armour on this side, and," she walked across the room to the other doorway, "more suits of armour" Angel walked back up towards Claire and Kat, about 2/3rds of the way back she stopped and listened, she bent towards the rack and pulled out a large round shield, with a notch in, "okay a large shield and a spear," she slipped the straps over her arm and pulled them tight, the leather as supple and new as if it had just been made Angel struck a pose with them. Claire waved Kat forward, she followed Angel's footsteps, walking down one side of the room, at the last rack before the doorway Kat heard the keening, she looked down at the choice, of the weapons there one seemed to be rhimed in purple St elmos fire, she picked it up and gave it swing, it was like it had been made for, she walked back up to Angel and Claire. "your turn." Angel said to Claire. Claire walked down the opposite side that Kat had, getting to the last of the racks she stopped beside a long slightly curved sword, she also took a small shield out of the rack, white light flickered across it's face as Claire fitted it to her right arm, hefting the sword in her left arm, Angel and Kat joined her, "Kat you go first, I'd suggest trying that side room first," Claire said, point to the same side she'd got her weapon from, the 3 of them walked to the doorway, and Kat walked through first, on each side of the room under a light was 25 suits of red gold armour, some looked to have been built for men some for women, although none of them were sexualised, this looked like armour that was meant to keep you safe first and foremost, Kat walked down one side, Claire leaned in and whispered to Angel, nodding towards a suit, Angel shook her head, Kat was oblivious to this looking at each suit as she went, noticing a gem stone on the breast of each suit, she looked around and saw the purple stones near the doorway, and skipping the other suits, she heard the keening as she got closer to the suit that was singing. "okay now what?" she asked "ask the Intelligence?" Claire suggested, Kat took out the flip phone and put her thumb on the top crystal. "yes?" the Intelligence asked "okay I've found a suit that is singing to me. Do I strip off and put it on?" "for now, place your hand on the gem on the chest, then return to the chamber with the circles of light when you have all found the suit attuned to you." "okay" Kat placed her hand on the gem, again the St elmos fire hazed over the armour. Kat suggested to Angel and Claire to look for a suit that had the gem stone matched their colour. "okay I was already thinking that as I noticed the gems on the chest, but there's no diamonds in here, but there is a black stone, is that obsidian or Jet?" Claire said pointing at the one suit that had a black stone on it. "not a clue" Kat said, as Angel walked up to the orange gems, "no nothing here, let's try the other side." the 3 of them walked back across the room and again saw 12 sets of armour on each side wall with 1 suit on the wall cross wall, Claire walked straight up to the suit with the diamond "that's mine," she said touching the stone white lightning flashed over the suit , Angel found the one singing to her, and touched the stone, again the orange lightning played over it. They returned to the first room, and stood on the circles the light played over them, each of the ladies developed their coloured glow, there were 2 pulse of white light and one pulse of black light and the 3 of them were standing in their armour, with their new weapons, the old ones had been mounted on the back of Kats and Claire's hands, Angel's was on her shoulder. They each looked at the others and smiled, they walked back to the Tomb, "so where does this stuff come from?" Kat asked the Intelligence. "we built it for you. We built them for the Glorious 100, the first of humanity that we gave the ability to use Earth Energy to, to aid in defending humans from the Nephilim, we made 50 males and 50 females at first over time we had to make more, and also you bred as only humans do, sometimes one of your own would be able to manipulate the Earth Energy. It appears that over the years the ability has become rare amongst you." " okay, so what you're saying is the 3 of us here are the descents of the first people you created that can do this?" Claire asked " yes. " the Intelligence replied. " hur, nope not sure what to make of that " Angel said. " possibly the strangest thing I've heard today. Listen is there someway of putting the spear head on one of the gauntlets? The warhammer is a 2 handed weapon as is the spear if I just have the bit needed to fire the beam and the head mounted it'll mean I'm less encumbered " Kat asked The Intelligence took a moment to think about it, "I believe I can do this, do any more of you require this alteration?" Claire said she did, Angel demured, "it will take a day or so for me to work do this." "thanks," Kat and Claire said "is that all?" The Intelligence asked, when no one had anything to say the Intelligence translated them back, when their eyes had adjusted to the light in garden they found that they'd been changed back into the training gear they'd been wearing earlier only now it was speckled with glitter.

Next Step

Minor steps on the conversion. Still rough, really need to place the sword arms better.

Next Warp Spider Exarch Conversions

Starting another of the Drazhar Warp Spider conversion, this time I'll be using the new plastic mini for body, which is on the way, got 2 of the DE weapons that look similar to the spinners. The skull is from one of the Venoms side rails, the fangs are from one of the Talon kits. Hope this one works.

Rainbow Sparkle Power Friends Reunion Part 3

Rainbow Sparkle Power Friends Reunion Part 3. Saturday morning dawned bright and warm, Kat went down stairs in her slippers, pj's and dressing gown, and got a fresh pot of coffee on, she went over to the book case while the water filtered through and pulled out the cartoon film of the old adventure, the one that ended the series, and put it in the player, while it played through the copyright notice and trailers she got a bowl of cereal and poured herself a coffee, sitting down she watched the cheap animation start, Thea joined her on the sofa, with Amy following about half an hour late, just before the last rift opened at Trinity in New Mexico for the other side the animaters used a place called the Bisti Badlands as their reference, on one side you had a nuclear test sight on one side with its semi apocalyptic blasted waste land and the wind blasted barren desert on the other side.

The 4 girls in the cartoon stood firm at the rift, until one of the 4 Heralds, the serial protagonist of the show, managed to project a Minotaur onto the Trinity side, the cartoon girls were busy throwing power blasts, and Morven/Sapphire was casting the binding power to close the hole in reality when the charge from behind caught them by surprise, rather than showing Diamond Rainbow impaled on its horns like had happened the cartoon had her floored by a blow from its club, Tangerine Dream turned and beat it down with several dream strikes from her shield, Morven/Sapphire spoke the last incantation to seal the rift, and the Minotaur in a heedless dash dragged her across with it, the cartoon showed the 3 remaining friends tearful but hopeful that they'd saved the world, not like it had been with Claire in hemorrhagic shock as she bled out around the horn, Angel with several stress fractures after beating the crap out of a monster twice her size and 3 cases of PTSD and feeling like even though they'd saved the world, the loss of one of their number had lead to a break up of the team up for nearly 20 years. Kat wiped away her fresh tears, and Thea hugged her, "love you mom." she said, holding her tight. Amy joined the hug. "so what really happened? We've seen the film several times now and you've never reacted like that before" Kat swallowed and sniffed back her tears, and went over the details of the fight, mostly it had been close until the end, with Claire on the horns Angel going berserker on the Minotaur, then it somehow getting up, and biting down on Morven's arm and shoulder, it running through the closing rip with her hanging from its mouth. The last sight Kat had had was Morven falling beyond the event horizon, an arm missing where it had been bittern off, how Kat had screamed and tried to follow, to get Morven back but was too slow, how they'd been transfered to outside a hospital and how the last time she'd seen Angel and Claire was as they were taken away into the trauma room for emergency surgery and several minor operations to realign an arm, Kat already being kick out of her home for undisclosed school displian and falling grades had gone off grid for about a year, sleeping rough mostly, before being found by her aunt who'd taken her in, put in touch with a Councillor and when Kat had trusted her enough to tell her the story, also with War Child, first for the specialist help required and then as a Councillor herself after they'd helped her get the qualifications she'd needed. Kat looked at the wall clock, "better get some lunch on, before everyone gets here later." Amy looked at her mum, "I'll do lunch, you get a shower." "thanks" Kat went upstairs and showered, putting on some cycling shorts and a loose top, she went down stairs and got the pasta and salad Amy had throw together, the 3 sat and ate. As Thea washed up and Kat dried and put away, Thea asked "how much did dad know?" "Enough, it isn't easy for me to talk about it, but I told him a few things, he liked the idea of being with someone that had saved the world, dealing with the baggage wasn't something he could handle." "so that's why he left?" "part of it, but I wasn't great at dealing with it either, it wasn't his fault, don't fall out with him about it." Kat warned. After they'd finished washing up Kat had an idea, "do me a favour, go and grab the super soakers." Thea looked slightly confused but went to the garage and came back on with 2, "and the rest," Kat chided her daughter, she came back with the other 4,"pass me 1, and you go and fill those on the back tap," Amy came in as Kat was filling the second one. "cool a water fight!" "no, this is a plan, grab those 2," Kat pointed to the full ones, "and follow me." "okay..." Amy picked up the water pistols and followed her mum to the garden. "right as you know my old friends are coming round today, we doing a training run through the forest out back, I'd like you and Angel's kids to go into the woods and set an ambush for us," Kat explained the route she'd be taking and left it up to Amy and Thea to work it out between them, the girls huddled together, Amy suddenly leaned back and gasped, looked at her mum and closed her mouth, and went back in the house, a huge smile on her face, Thea had her 'up to something' look, Kat left them to what ever it was they were doing and went and put a couple of bottles of wine in the fridge, some vodka in the freezer and a fresh pot of coffee on.