video; un: ushiromiya

[entreats]

[ Even as the image can be seen, it seems like there's still a moment of set up, tiny hands fiddling with the Omni like they're trying to get the perfect shot.. But then there are two faces visible. Two faces that are looking decidedly younger than usually - it's Ange and Ruby, looking like they definitely can't be much older than six years old.

And looking very excited. ]

Um, so, so..! We heard that there's some sort of reaaally scary snake monster out there! So.. we thought we'd help out everyone and get rid of it! Because Ruby.. She's a really, reaaally cool huntress! [ Ange may be Will-Smith-esque posing at Ruby for emphasis right as she says that. ]

[Ruby just stares at the camera briefly until she notices Ange's hands pointing her way. She blinks and quickly starts to flex her twiggy arms to the camera.]

Yeah! We're super strong and awesome and we've got tons of weapons! [Ruby gestures to a sack of potato's and a large collection of sticks that they've gathered up.]

That snack is going to be- a- -uh- a, a piece of snack!

[ While Ruby is saying that last part, it seems that Ange has already moved over to grab one of the sticks for a demonstration. As she's running back towards where Ruby and the Omni are, she's waving the stick wildly. ]

We'll get it just like thi--

[ Ange manages to smack the stick right against the device, turning the view sideways before it just cuts out entirely.

Oops. ]

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video | un: kanakana

[growingblueflame]

[ Forgive Rena because the moment she sees two tiny precious girls, she snaps into kyute mode and it doesn't occur to her who she's seeing. ]

HAAAAUUUUU you two are too adorable!! Rena is going to have to take you both home!!

Video | Clickclickbloom

[littlelikeroses]

Of course we are! You can't kick butts if you aren't cute!

It's a real rule my sister told me!

...Do you have candy there?

[Ruby NO!]

[happymeal]

[ Ange may look a tad flustered to hear herself being called cute..

But it's quickly overtaken by the surprise at the other thing the girl says. ]

Home..? Oh, we're already home! [ The meaning is going about five miles over tiny Ange's head. ] We were just practicing in the yard...

Video | un: mister_hatter | 1/???

[payingfordeliverance]

[Haha, aww, if there's cute little kid hands showing up first this is bound to be adora --]

2/????? etc

[payingfordeliverance]

[-- wait. These kids look like --]

[payingfordeliverance]

[Oh sweet Pandora Jesus.]

[payingfordeliverance]

[Where the hell is Qrow? Does Qrow know this is happening? Does he need to tell Qrow immediately? Did Qrow already know and fail to invite him over? If so he's going to put a frog in Qrow's bed. No no no wait wait wait there is an order to this sort of nonsense, where the hell is the button that --]

okay done

[payingfordeliverance]

Hey, hey, a fight this incredible shouldn't be confined to the network, right? I want to come watch it in person!






[Heart attack quota for the first six months of this year: Filled.]

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[mactirebeag]

[Somehow one of these girls seems kind of familiar to Mebh...but the word "huntress" and how they're both claiming they can take on that monster immediately reminds her of someone else she knows.]

You're huntin' a monster with just some sticks? Sure it'll eat you both right up first.

[She's not going to admit that she has no idea what a snake is. There have never been any snakes in Ireland, after all.]

[littlelikeroses]

Nu-uh! We got potatoes too!

It's not gonna know what hit it, we're gonna beat it two ways from next tuesday!

video | un: ilikemeat

[velvet_teen]

[ Is she the voice of reason?? Why. Why!!! The video comes in on a closeup, halfway through a highpitched screech. ]

-'d better not! It'll crunch you up like nothing!! That thing half-killed me, and I could beat you both up!

[ Interacting with children appropriately: #nailed it ]

[littlelikeroses]

Nuh-uh! You don't look so tough!

I could beat you with one hand tied behind my back!

I'm a real Huntress and I don't lose to anybody!

un: eudaimonikos; video

[eudaimonikos]

[oh my god. holy shit. is this how humans feel when they see children in danger????]

Where are you right now?

[happymeal]

[ Ange is totally unaware of any alarm here. Instead she just smiles widely at the face on the screen. ]

Hi, mister Michael! [ .. well, apparently there's at least recognition.. ]

We're just in our yard! But we're gonna go out soon to try and find the bad snake! Do you know where it is..?

video | un: runesmith

[inkedspell]

[Have a fellow small person who is looking very tired but also very interested.]

You're a huntress? Are you part of a guild?

[happymeal]

[ . . . . . .

There's obviously some thinking time going on here. Because while Ange is going along with the entire huntress thing, it's not exactly something from her own world. But she doesn't want to seem like she's just echoing Ruby either.. It's hard!! ]

Are huntresses.. part of a guild..? [ Ange slowly asks, awkward about basically admitting the fact that she doesn't know that here. ]

video; un: lowell

[vibing]

[ Another tiny person is glaring at the camera, judging them. Say hi to ten-year-old Yuri who managed to figure out the Omni ]

You can fight a monster with sticks. You need a sword.

[happymeal]

I have a sword in my room!

[ Look, clearly fellow kids know exactly What's Up. So Ange doesn't even seem to doubt this boy's advice, instead quickly piping up with this information. ]

.. but.. it's a little heavy. I dunno if I can carry that and fight a monster..

text - UN: IceCream

[threelayers]

That sounds like a great idea!
Bring it on, I say! You two want some back up!
I've got this great friend who can totally help out!

[... the video kicked in and there was a brown-haired Neopolitan, or perhaps better termed Trivia Vanille standing there, waving at the screen. Whatever friend she was talking about, they weren't in the screen. She looked no older than them.

This... was probably a bad idea. Especially since that friend? Totally imaginary.]

[happymeal]

[ See, Ange isn't catching on to that fact at all yet. She's just figuring that this girl's friend must be somewhere off-camera, right? Maybe she lives somewhere else, and the girl has to call her friend over!

That isn't so weird at all. ]

Really..? What's your friend like..? Are they super strong? [ There's a slight pause, and then Ange seems to realise something. ] Oh, are they also a huntress?!

video; un: caripan

[expiera]

[My, my! Is this the same miss deadpan she met barely a few days ago? The eye-catching hair of red stylized with the telltale twintails make it unmistakable, and she's got an equally adorable friend with her too! (Ange was right, the Trench is wack. Gloucester was utterly normal and uneventful in comparison.) Whether Ange remembers the fattydingdong bread inhaler newcomer she helped, the feed is opening to the selfsame woman with short blue hair, wearing glasses this time and beaming quite brightly at both girls.]

Goodness! With such a [precious] valiant and inspiring declaration, I'm sure anything with an evil bone in its body would recoil at your very approach. Snakes are cowardly creatures and like to slither around in hard-to-see places though, trying to look for them would probably be rather boring. [No, someone did NOT get (or care about) the memo that snakes are venerated creatures here in the Trench, but whatever,] Are you two brave huntresses sure you don't have greater evil to smite, so to speak?

[happymeal]

[ There is a hint of recognition in Ange's eyes, but it's pretty faint. After all, she only met Ciel once before. Her Trench memories have been transferred over to this much younger form, but that's a lot of information for a six year old brain to work with.

Which means she just squints at the screen for a moment, trying to tell why this person looks so familiar, before momentarily giving up and deciding to instead answer her question. ]

What greater evil could there be though, miss..? I haven't heard of anything else that's bothering people here.

video; un: LSKennedy

[makingthetime]

[OH GOD—]

Looks like you guys have it well in hand, huh? [says Leon, who is internally panicking and mentally cycling through his supplies. Does he have grenades? He should buy grenades. He should also buy more bullets. Is there a rocket launcher around here? He needs to find a rocket launcher.] Although, you got room for one more hunter coming along?

[Because holy shit these are fuckin' babies.]

[happymeal]

Huh? You wanna join us, sir?

[ Technically there should be a bit more Stranger Danger here, given the fact that Ange absolutely does not recognize this man.

On the other hand, she knows a whole lot of adult men in this place and they are all really nice, so that kind of starts killing the stranger danger vibes.. Enough so for her to start smiling at him. ]

Sure, you can! Do you have a combat stick? We have lots, so we can share..! [ Please, Leon. Who needs a rocket launcher when you can have a stick? ]

text; un: grollschwert

[hauntedsavior]

Hey, Pthumerians? Probably MK? Buddy?
When I said give me a sign that I didn't leave Recolle all the way behind?
I didn't mean flood me with kid versions of my friends.

[siiiiiiiiigh.]

I already know you two aren't gonna listen to me,
But if you do decide to go hunting for a giant snake thing, at least bring an adult with you.
Preferably an adultier adult than me.

[happymeal]

[ Oh, they're getting a message on here now! Cue a few moments of tiny Ange just.. squinting as she tries to figure out what this message is going on about.. It's kind of hard, but she's really trying her best! After all, if someone was nice enough to send them a message, they should send something back! ]

aaaa dult

[ Welcome to a six year old trying to type. ]

y o u


come?

video; un: quibbler

[creidim]

[ Oh, dear. It looks like Luna isn't the only one with some... shifting problems. Only these two are... very much tiny children, rather than swapping genders. Still, at least there's a lot to her that's still very much Luna even if she's now a... giant teenage boy. ]

I... think it might be best if the two of you don't go after the snake-monster. [ Are they going to listen? Probably not, but she's trying. ]

Maybe leave it to us older ones, yes?

[happymeal]

[ Wow. Wow.

There's something about this message that seems to greatly interest Ange - though it has nothing to do with the words of caution. It'd probably be a lot more productive if that's what Ange was interested in, but alas.. She's instead staring at the image on the device, squinting really hard. Like she's trying to think.

After all, this face seems familiar to her, yet not at all. And it takes a few moments to place it, but then Ange seems to have figured it out. She may be young, but she's still relatively bright in some ways! ]

Mis.. ter.. Luna?

[ She's getting there. ]

I think.. you look a little different today. [ Understatement of the century there, Ange. ]

Video | un: Cass

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Oh. So.... THAT'S what those weird people were talking about when they mentioned snakes.]

Well, you're kids now. That's great.

[It's not great.]

Guess that's what they meant by "shedding".

[littlelikeroses]

We are great!

And you’ve got blue hair!

video; UN: seeingtheworld

[schoolingfish]

Are you sure the snake monster's bad, though? Because sometimes people go after something because it looks scary, but really it's just a terrified sea monster kid.

[happymeal]

.. really?

[ Apparently this young Ange has never heard of such a thing before. Something about the way she curiously blinks at this person appearing on the screen seems to indicate as much - it's very genuinely curious. ]

But aren't all scary monsters bad..? They always are in stories!

video | un: diggs

[justoscar]

Uh, kids.... you both are forgetting lesson one to hunting monsters.

[Ossi was in the house and aware enough of what was happening-- she was just a little distracted that she had evidently stepped into the life of her counterpart... called Oscar.

Even in different dimensions, some things always stayed the same.

She leaned in toward the camera, sass turned up on high...]

Ruby, do you remember what that is?

[happymeal]

[ Usually Ange might have been a little bit more concerned about seeing this sudden change.

But considering she's a simple-minded young girl right now, and Ossi still looks enough like Oscar for her to clearly recognize the other, what she's saying suddenly feels so much more important than any change about her. ]

What?! There's a lesson one?! Ruby didn't tell me..!

[frogfear]

[Willow raises a concerned eyebrow. Normally, she wouldn't bat an eye at Ruby, especially, battling some horrifying monster that has decided Trench is its very favourite place to hang, but...

They're, like, six? And armed with sticks?]

Hey, um. Maybe... Don't... Do that just right now?

Video | Clickclickbloom

[littlelikeroses]

What do you mean by that!?

Are you on the snakes side or something!?

video; un: atsushi

[undermoonlight]

[Oh no...

Atsushi's not good with kids, but..! Is that..]

Ange-chan? Ruby-chan? What-

[And there goes the device. Atsushi is gripping his own with some panic now as he tries to reconnect the call.]

Ange-chan?! Ruby-chan!? Wait, don't go fighting a snake yet! You're too tiny!?

[happymeal]

... huh?

[ Apparently Ange doesn't concern Atsushi's concern in the slightest. Sure, she does recognize the boy, but at the same time she's not too sure why he's freaking out like this.. It's not like there's anything going on that's worth panicking over, is there? ]

Is something wrong..? Do you need to be taller to fight monsters..? Ruby didn't tell me about that..

Video; un: darkness

[survivalthroughhate]

[It's definitely Maul's Omni though Maul himself is much changed, reduced to his eight-year-old self. He seems very interested in the thought of killing a snake monster. After all, his master had told him he'd need to do really tough things to prove he could be a Sith Lord when he was a grown-up and this seems like it'd be just the sort of thing he'll need to do.]

That's gonna be really hard. Do you need help? I can help! We'll kill it and kill it and then it will be all dead!

[happymeal]

Well.. [ The word stretches on, as Ange seems to think about the offer.

At she doesn't seem to recognize the other in either of their current forms. So she's just considering it as a totally neutral offer here. Even the killing part doesn't stand out to her, because.. well, it's a monster, people always kill monsters in stories, right? ]

I guess we can use more help.. It sounds like it's a really big monster, after all!