[ Video ] /jacked!

[maddeninghatter]

C-can anybody hear me? My name is Emily.

[ A little girl is weeping. ]

Everyone's dead. Mother and father. My big sister. Everyone.

[ She is a doll come to life. Somehow she has acquired Xerxes Break's NV. Because Pandora Hearts is a canon where Important Things get jacked by little girls. ]

Kevin, where are yoooooooou? Has anyone seen him? I told him, please don't go. I said don't leave me!

[ She sobs freely, inconsolable. ]

Help me! I'M ALL ALOOOOOONE!



[ Looooooming behind her is something enormous; only a small part of it is visible on camera. It's metallic, like armor, and red. ]

Comments

[whitefeathered]

[Fortunately Dove wasn't too far from the Mall. This is one time flying comes in handy, and for once she barely thinks about it as she boards the wand and kicks off.]

'M sending some help. What store are you next to?

[maddeninghatter]

I'm... I don't know. There's a sign, it says... it says...

[ She has only just learnt to read, so the word comes slowly: ]

SP--

SPARK--SPARKS--

Sparks cas-eye-no.

[whitefeathered]

[Cas-eye-no? Casino. Okay. She remembers that place. Okay, she can do this.]

[The memory of the big red thing reappears in her mind, and she swallows sharply. Maybe.]

She's coming. Just hide, okay?

[maddeninghatter]

Hide?

Why should I--

[ There's a little pause. And then... ]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[whitefeathered]

[Yelp!]

What?? What happened???

[Almost there! She's whipped through the entrance to the Mall, making her way through the corridors. Can't this thing go faster?]

[maddeninghatter]

[ She is moaning softly, too terrified almost to speak. ]

Please come!

Pleeeeeeeease come! I'm... I'm so s-scared!

[whitefeathered]

[Well, Aoko definitely wasn't numb any more. Every nerve was awake and . . . well, fraying.]

[It was right about that point that she arrived at the Casino's entrance, hopping off the wand, an unrecognizable figure in white and silver fluff.]

I'm here! I'm here . . . !

1/2

[maddeninghatter]

[ Little Emily had been crouched down, with her hands over her head. When she hears Aoko's voice she jumps up and starts to run-- ]

Oh! You came for me, you--

2/2

[maddeninghatter]

[ --and skids to a stop! ]

Wh- wh- what aaaaaaaare you?

[whitefeathered]

[Oh. Right. Somewhat awkward . . . Dove flushes slightly beneath her mask, tucking her wand back away into hammerspace. Did superheroes ever have days like this?]

'M White Dove. I'm a magical girl. It's okay . . . that girl you were talking to sent me.

[Sure, like that sounds convincing. But. Wait. Dove's eyes dart around the near vicinity.]

. . . Where did it go?

[maddeninghatter]

Oh. O-okay.

[ Emily accepts this explanation readily. She skips forwards to hug the fluffy white silver, er, person. ]

Huh? Where did what go?

[ There's no sign of the red presence; but everything... somehow... has become very quiet. ]

[whitefeathered]

[Too quiet. Dove feels a small tremor of fear flicker through her body -- a tremor she quickly stifles for the sake of the girl hugging her waist. Swiftly, she squeezes back, reaching for the girl's hand to lead her away.]

Never mind. We need to go, okay? Quick-fast -- let's see how fast we can go!