Aikatsu Legend: Distortion

Chapter 2

It had been a week or two since the hidden Aikatsu machine had been discovered, and Kari and Uso had been coming to the underground almost every night- performing and creating coords out of any scraps they could find, trying their best to improve their Aikatsu in any way they could. So far, they'd had managed to avoid raising any suspicion amongst other students, but they weren't sure how long they'd be able to keep that up. They just knew that if anyone were to find out, they'd have to find some way to silence them before they reported back to Sachiko in hopes of being rewarded with anything to break away from the monotony of daily life at Origin Academy.

Uso and Kari were performing when it happened; someone had found their underground castle. Someone had invaded their world.
A large clunking sound followed by a chorus of smaller clunks permeated the single hallway leading to the hidden room. The two secret idols froze, looking rapidly at each other as they stopped singing- Kari turned to Uso and nodded- running back to twitch off the music as Quinine jumped into Uso's hands. Quinine, her ultimate weapon. Uso leapt off the stage, Kari following her- his Spritzee following close to him. The two peered around the corner and saw someone, a girl with short, messy, lilac hair. She had deep violet eyes that appeared to be narrowed constantly, her ears were covered in all sorts of earrings, all silver and purple.

She'd been watching the performance. Uso didn't even take a moment to register what the girl was doing before she flicked out her arm, letting go of Quinine and allowing him to release Stun Spore, but the lilac haired girl was able to evade the attack with no difficulty, nimbly dodging each spore nonchalantly. Uso's eyes narrowed- so this was how it was going to be, huh?
"Double Team," Uso's expression remained blank as she spoke. Quinine jumped up and multiplied into 30 small Oddishes, each of them jumping on the purple haired girl and pinning her down. Uso flicked around as she helped pin down the girl, who wasn't even struggling, she just looked annoyed. "Alright Kari, get a shovel- dig the hole, we need to hide the body. I'll finish her off just-"

Uso's speech was rapid and panicked as Kari just stood there with a bewildered expression.
"Usoki. No. We're not going to-" Kari mumbled, noticing Uso's usual death stare getting more and more sharp.
"Calm your star printed panties, Kari! No one will know! If we let her live, she'll tell everyone about us being idols and we'll be done for!" Uso tightened her grip on the girl, noticing Quinine was getting bored.
"Uso, if we kill someone then we're just as bad as the twins." Kari narrowed his amethyst eyes as he stepped over and tried to peel Uso away from the girl.
"Kari, I swear to Arceus- if you help me on this, I'll get you all Cherri berry tarts you could possibly want." Uso said firmly, looking Kari straight in the eyes. They both hesitated for a moment.
"ALRIGHT! Where's that shovel?" Kari laughed out, about to rush off, much to Uso's unexpressed delight.
"Are you always this incompetent?" A voice coldly spoke from below, it was the girl- her eyes filled with a mix of annoyance, anger, and, strangely enough, intrigue. A cold smirk appeared on her face as she freed one of her arms and managed to push herself to sit upright.

"Shut it." Uso muttered, looking down at the short purple haired girl- trying not to show any sign of being surprised that they'd managed to get up.
"It's kind of hard to take you seriously when you're wearing those frilly dresses." The girl chuckled slightly, a grumpy expression on her face. "Now stop attacking me before Astral Candle burns you and your friend to a crisp." Uso looked around and saw a small Litwick sitting there.
"I got the shov- Holy Arceus Usoki, STAY AWAY FROM THAT!" Kari proclaimed, panicking slightly as he span around his shovel to point it at the Litwick- holding it like a sword.
"For idols you're not great at making people smile." The girl muttered blankly. "This is why you need someone who actually has some skills in music."
"...Excuse me?" Uso tightened her grip as she picked up Quinine firmly, looking at the girl with a bitter expression.
"Ooooh, this is going to be bad~" Kari giggled to himself, Scarfy floating in closely to watch- a smirk curling on Kari's face.
"Neither of you have any vocal talent whatsoever. Also, your idea of Aikatsu can only be described with 'dumb' or 'generic'." The girl with lilac hair didn't even look at either of them as she spoke, she simply crouched down and picked up her Litwick.
"Well, then- would you like to show us all the amazing skills you totally have in Aikatsu and performing?" Uso twitched, fairly agitated as she furrowed her left eyebrow. She was trying to stay calm, however the bitterness in her voice simply kept increasing.
"So, you attack me; threaten to kill me; get a means to bury my corpse if you were to somehow in someway kill me which would be pretty impossible... And now you're demanding I perform for you, Ribbons." The girl's voice was low and void of emotions as she slowly but sharply stepped forward at each point, edging Uso into a corner.
"Yikes." Kari stood stunned, looking at the two. He knew he should probably step in but for now him and Scarfy simply enjoyed the show.
"You're the one who invaded our castle. For all we know you're some Sachiko supporter who'll report us." Uso's fist clenched as she looked up at the girl, in an attempt to stand her ground.
"You're not very bright are you?" The girl closed her eyes, turning around for a second before flicking around with an electric guitar. "I guess I'll show you how real music is done."
"A guitar?" Kari tilted his head as he sat down, looking at the strange black and blue instrument- it was covered in signatures and strange 'p' logos.
"No, it's my midnight pathos." The girl closed her eyes, strumming a chord as a Frillish appeared behind her and plugged it into an amp. "Allow me to introduce you to my Six member team... Bloody Shadow," She pointed to the Frillish, who quickly sung out a melodic note. "Hell castle," A Golett stepped forward and bellowed a loud scream. "Astral Candle," The litwick from before letting out a distorted higher scream which clashed with the Golett's screams. "And finally, Master of Doom." A Cottonee drifted out from behind the girl, they had a sweet little expression, cute even. The Cottonee them proceeded to let out the loudest, most ear bleeding scream. This caused Kari to yelp in surprise a little before Uso calmed him down. Uso had her arms and her legs crossed, trying to seem disinterested.
"That's only 4 members." Uso narrowed her topaz eyes, huffing.
"No, it's 6." The girl insisted, her voice grumpy as she refused to make eye contact with Uso.
"Are the others in the PC or somethin'?" Kari asked, tilting his head- flicking one of the magenta locks of his wig. The girl grew quiet, there was no witty response or back talk there was simply an eerie silence for a moment. The girl's Litwick's expression twisted completely to display a worried look, the small ghost type slowly started to quiver. The atmosphere of the room suddenly intensified and grew darker and tenser with every second of silence. The girl's eyes widened slightly as she gritted her teeth, rage covering her gaze. Without hesitation the girl started to talk again with intense fury in her voice.
"Are you actually daring to suggest I'd use those infernal machines? That I'd confine my precious partners to that cold, mechanical prison? That I'm another common trainer who treats Pokemon like tools or objects?!" With each sentence the girl's voice became more and more louder and progressively more enraged. Uso and Kari exchanged nervous glances, Uso swallowing as she saw how uncomfortable Kari appeared to be with the situation. "Look at me when I'm speaking," The girl hissed. "If you're going to treat me like a tyrannic, monster who would imprison their Pokemon and prohibit them from changing. Or worse, forcing change on them... then you should see yourselves as terrible, horrible, creatures who do not deserve to breathe the air you're polluting." As the girl continued to monologue, Uso's attention diverted to the girl's bag in the bag- it was shaking slightly and resonating a strange electric blue colour. Suddenly the girl's speech grew quieter, growing more tired with every sentence. Behind the girl, her litwick was standing with one of their waxy paws touching the girl's leg, they were draining her energy in an attempt to calm her down. The girl noticed this and suddenly the atmosphere returned to normal in the room, she calmed down and picked up her Litwick- upset that she'd worried her partner again.