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“Are we sure this will work?” A teenage girl with blue hair asked, adjusting her glasses.
“It has to.” Another girl, this one with red twin tails said.
“We got the data from Traum, so it should go without a hitch.” A girl with short green hair said, grinning.
“And with the power of Mother Heart….” Hagumi looked down at the white crystal in her hand. “We can… no. We will fix things.” She said, looking at the older girls and smiling.
“Well according to everything Traum has… without the proper precautions there is a 75% chance we shall all become babies if we go back in time.” The green haired girl said.
“EH?! You serious, Aika?!” The redhead asked, her eyes bulging out of her head. “Aww man, how’d we fight like that?!” She groans.
“Relax Junko.” The green haired girl sighs. “I’m sure that won’t happen to us. We’re the Pretty Cure after all.”
“Yasu is right! We’ll all be fine!” Hagumi nods, looking earnest.
“And if anything like that happens, I’ll be there!” Harry said, standing on Hagumi’s head.
“And how do we know nothing is gonna happen to the furball?” Junko asked, rolling her eyes.
“Hamsters are immune to all side effects of time travel.” Harry said simply. No one here had the information necessary to call him on this.
“So.” Yasu said, crossing her arms. “We move as soon as morning comes, we’re gonna get inside Criasu Corp, and we’re gonna go and save history”
“Fix.” Aika said, smiling softly. “Save implies we are stopping a new danger. We are going to eradicate the danger already present in that era. We are fixing history, not saving it.”
“Save, fix, who cares, we’re gonna stop the bad guys!” Junko cheers. “But maybe after some rest.” She adds, yawning.
“I’ll take the first watch!” Hagumi said, hiding her hand up. “You all need the rest!”
“No way kid, you’re our magic ticket.” Yasu smiles, ruffling Hagumi’s hair. “I’ll take it, you get all the rest you need to get us in there.”
“I’m not some baby…” Hagumi mumbled, puffing her cheeks.
“Not ‘til we go back in time!” Junko snickers, going to her tent.
“Oh? Are you so sure you are not going to be one too?” Aika asked, smirking.
“Course I’m not, I’m the strongest after all!” Junko said, flexing.
“But Yasu is the oldest so it makes more sense for it to be her who’s the exception.” Hagumi giggles, sitting near the fire.
“I’m sure it won’t happen to anyone.” Yasu smiles.
The girls all began settling down, except for Yasu who sat a bit away from the fire, watching as everyone began to sleep peacefully.
“So.” Harry said, taking his human form and sitting next to her.
“Get rest, you’re going with Hagumi tomorrow.” Yasu said, stretching as she stood up.
“I got a cushy ride in her pocket, I can keep you company.” He said, leaning against a tree.
“Fine, whatever.” She said, taking a few steps away.
There was a beat of the silence, the wind blowing between them.
“You’re not planning on making it in with her.” Harry said, cutting through the silence.
“I’m planning to. I expect that only one of us will make it.” She sighs, crossing her arms.
“And you expect it to be her?” Harry asked, placing a hand on Yasu’s shoulder.
“Hagumi has that connection to Mother Heart…” Yasu mutters.
“And she’d do anything to make sure you all can make it back.” He said.
“That’s why she can’t know about the chance we won’t.” She said, looking up at the stars with a sad smile.
“They’re the only things that shine… You know… I almost forgot that’s what the cities were like before everything froze.” She said softly. “I think if I make it back with Hagumi and everyone… I’d like to spend a night just watching the city…”
“Yeah, I’d like that too.” Harry smirks, looking at the stars.
Hagumi laid awake in her sleeping bag, having heard the whole conversation. She took a deep breath, before nodding to herself. She was going to make sure that all of them made it back to the past, and when they did… they’d all see the lights from the city, and smile together.
Morning came and the girls all woke up. Aika had the last watch and had prepared a breakfast for everyone, it was simple stuff they’d all scavenged.
“Well, let’s head for Criasu Corp!” Junko said, cracking her knuckles.
The girls look at each other before nodding and taking out their PreHearts. “Heart Kiratto!”
“The Pretty Cure of Hope! Cure Tomorrow!” Hagumi said, spinning around.
“The Pretty Cure of Destiny! Cure Mirai!” Yasu said simply, looking forward.
“The Pretty Cure of Fate! Cure Avenir!” Aika said, flicking some hair out of her face.
“The Pretty Cure of Will! Cure Demain!” Junko cheers, punching her fists together.
The four cures look at eachother and nod, Harry takes his Hamster form and jumps into the pouch on Hagumi’s hip.
The girls jump up, coming out of the forest they were in, and locking eyes on Criasu Corporation.
At Criasu Corporation, Oshimaida were swarming around the ground floor. Of course this wouldn’t be a problem for the Pretty Cure.
There was a crash as the cures went through a window near the top floor.
“This way!” Cure Mirai said, pointing down a long hallway.
The cures start running down the hallway, finding a large room with a large machine in the center.
“That was…” Cure Demain mutters, looking at the device.
“Ohohohoho!” A voice rang through the room.
“Papple-! Avenir! Get the machine running, we’ll hold her off!” Mirai yells.
A woman dressed as if she dressed straight out of the bubble era walked into the room, the clicks from her heels carrying a sinister echo.
“Oho, you little cuties are trying to use that old thing?” Papple asked, casually dodging a swing from Mirai. “Don’t you know the side effects?”
“Yeah, maybe you should try it, granny!” Demain said, kicking her.
“What was that…?” Papple asked, smacking Demain away with her fan.
Cure Tomorrow steadied herself, before lunging at Papple with her Pretty Cure Sword.
Papple caught the sword with her fan, throwing it to the side, flinging Tomorrow into a wall.
“Almost….” Avenir said, working on the device, which started whirring to life.
“Hmph, Mr. Traum saw you all got the data last time. He said he wanted you captured.” Papple said, stepping towards Avenir, once again dodging Demain and Mirai as they tried to tackle her.
“No!” Tomorrow yelled, starting to glow.
“What was tha-?” Papple asked, turning around as the glow from Tomorrow became more and more intense, before light burst forth from her.
“I SAID NO! WE’RE GOING TO CHANGE THE FUTURE! AND THEN WE CAN ALL ENJOY THE LIGHTS FROM THE CITY!” Tomorrow yelled as the blast of light knocked Papple away, and forced herself out of her transformation.
“S-She heard that…?” Mirai asked, helping Hagumi up as the device finally booted up.
“Everyone! It’s working! Let’s hurry through!” Avenir said as Mirai ran over to the portal it had opened up.
“You two first.” She smiles, helping Hagumi stand at the edge.
“Let’s go!” Demain said.
Hagumi steps in, beginning to float through the time portal.
“Fine… You all want to go so badly… let’s see how you all like the past that awaits you.” Papple said, pushing herself up and slapping the control panel, before pushing the other three cures in.
“I’m sure you’ll be ready to fight again by the time we freeze everything.” She smirks, shutting off the device.
“Ah…. I need to write a report now…” She sighs, looking around the empty room. “I swear, those cute little brats have no respect… calling me a granny?”
In the portal Hagumi gasped when she saw everyone get pushed in.
“Yasu!” She cries, reaching out for the older girl.
“W-We all made it…” Yasu said in shock as her, Aika, and Junko were all glowing slightly as they floated around behind Hagumi. “Hagumi! We all made it!” She said reaching back to her, though they couldn’t quite reach.
“Well it seems like now all we do is hope those effects won’t kick in.” Aika said, adjusting her glasses.
“We’ll be fine!” Junko said, waving her hand.
The four all let out a sigh of relief. The white Mirai crystal Hagumi had began to glow, covering her with white light.
The other three began glowing in the colors of their cure outfits before they began drifting off in slightly different directions.
“Uhhhh… guys, what’s going on?” Junko asked. As her and Aika got closer to the edge of the odd tunnel they were in.
“I… I do not know. I assume things are working to…! Papple may have changed the coordinates when she hit the consol!” She gasps, covering her mouth.
“So only Hagumi’s gonna hit the target…” Junko groans, the glow on her and Aika growing stronger, before they hit the edge, finally leaving the tunnel, popping out of time wherever they might.
Hagumi gasps, tearing up slightly at this.
“It’ll be okay, I know you can do this Hagumi!” Yasu smiled, her glow starting to grow.
“I-I-” Hagumi stammers.
“And when we all get out, I’m sure we’ll look for you and we can see the city together!” Yasu nods.
“Y-Yasu! Take my hand!” Hagumi squeaks, reaching out to Yasu as she gets near the wall of the time tunnel.
“Don’t cry, Hagumi, you’re a pretty cure! You can do this!” Yasu said, reaching out for her.
The two kept stretching and it seemed like they were just about to touch, but they just barely brushed their fingertips against each other, and just like that Yasu hit the wall, vanishing like the other two.
“I-I…” Hagumi started crying.
“Hagumi!” Harry said, getting out of her pocket and grabbing her hand. “You have to be strong for them.”
“B-But… they’re the ones that always protected me…” Hagumi whimpers.
“And now you have to protect others so you can find them again!” Harry said, sound determined. “Like Yasu said, you have to be strong for them!”
“Y-You’re right…” Hagumi nods, wiping her eyes as they neared the end of the tunnel. “I’m a pretty cure… we can do anything!” She said, smiling as they exited the tunnel.
They came out above a city. Hagumi gasps as she looks around at all of the lights, before the two start falling, eventually landing with Hagumi and another girl hitting each other in the head.
“So… The Pretty Cure went back in time…?” A man with greasy black hair said, sitting at a desk with a name placard on it, one that read ‘George Traum’.
“Yes sir, I made sure they arrived after we were set to.” Papple said, placing the report on his desk.
“All of them?” George asked, looking through the report. “I think all except for the small one.”
“No matter, she isn’t a threat…” George said, pushing a file forward. “Now, when you three get back there, you are to head to the location detailed here, and follow my instructions to the letter, understand?”
“Of course sir. Anything to fulfill the Company's mission.” Papple said, with a smile and a wink.
“And don’t do anything to sway the boy until I say so.” George said as she left the room.
“Of course!” Papple said as the door shut.
George gets up, looking at a picture of himself and a woman with a young blonde girl. He sighs, setting it down next to a set of schematics that seemed to be for a robot.
He walks over to the window, looking out to the frozen world, seeing people stuck in place, one split second preserved forever.
“I promise… I will fix this world… I will make one that I can live in.” He said as the picture frame shattered all on it’s own.