Your Magic Bracelet Doesn't Make You a Hero? (Miri)

"How evil can perfume samples be?" Danny lifted the bottle barely bigger than her thumb to her eye.

The ever so bright Tori held up a tablet detailing an incident in which a group of teenagers showing no will of their own robbed a bank- and oddly enough, the people within the bank not only allowed it to happen, but assisted in loading the van. "Something about it makes people lose their minds."

"If someone loses their mind, it typically means someone else found it." The illuminated screen lit up the inlets of Danny's bracelet as she took the tablet into her hands. "The only thing people reported-"

"Was the smell." Tori's finger slid the screen over to the next page. "A smell from a manufacturer who imported it from somewhere in Japan. They are scheduled to give more free samples as a sponsor of the Los Angeles Sports Fashion Show."

"Do we have invitations?" Danny handed the tablet back and took a seat behind a desk.

"We don't need no stinking invitations."

And invitations they did not have or need.

Instead, Danny used some quick mechanical arrangement of her bracelet to open an otherwise unworkable door. Between nervous workers, blaring music, and general crowd noise of the area, Danny and Tori slipping into the backstage barely took any work at all. No fights, no threats- Danny did jam the lock on a door keeping some models locked away while her and Tori slipped into character, but that was acceptable. They had not even noticed yet.

Danny pulled a long sleeve pink and black dryfit shirt down over a black and pink skirt. "I gotta say I love these shoes. Way more bounce than what I'm used to."

"If nothing else, we got some good samples. Do models have to give the clothes back?" Tori pulled a pair of blue athletic socks up to her knees, keeping the pleats in her field hockey skirt nice and pressed with her half sleeve snug shirt staying in place.

"If we don't ask, we can always just forget and wear them out." Danny pulled her bracelet out from under her sleeve, giving her free access at a moment's notice. "If we stop some sinister plot, it will be a very believable excuse."

Sound continued to invade the dressing room every time a door from the backstage to the front exhibit hall opened. The small dressing room Danny and Tori invaded gave them just enough room to get ready in peace- but they found they were not the only ones invading the room.

"What's that smell?" Tori looked to the vent near the top of the wall.

"Uh oh." Danny lifted her eyes.

I don't know where Ryzo is. Stop asking me.

"Does that smell terrible?" Tori wanted to keep her handed over her nose, she really did, but something about that smell called to her.

"We went over this enough! Evil perfume! Mind control! Do. Not. Want!" Danny grabbed Tori by the collar of her shirt and pulled her to the door.

"But, but it smells so-" Tori stumbled back, putting up somewhat of a struggle against the pull from Danny, but not enough to keep Danny from getting her to almost safety.

"We are not smelling the thing we are trying to keep from getting smelled by-" Danny stepped out of the room, holding her hand over her face. Her elbow caught a tall blond woman in the face before she could take any direct look at her. "Oh! Blond lady!"

"We're keeping blond ladies from smelling this stuff?" Once the door closed, Tori stopped struggling to get out of Danny's grasp.

"No- well, I mean, yeah, we don't want her getting mind controlled, but- um, I mean." Danny took her hand off of Tori's collar, flashing her bracelet in front of Miri. "Hey lady, if you smell something- don't smell it. Cool?"

"Oh sorry, I wasn't trying to tell you what to- what are you doing?" When Miri grabbed Danny's wrist it only slightly alarmed her. When she began to call her an elf princess and unsnap the links, it did more than just startle her. Without her bracelet a whole lot of nothing came to be. "Hey! Give that back!"

"I don't think she's right in the head." Tori tried to lean in to whisper to Danny, but halfway through stopped caring and just let it linger in the air.

"It doesn't put me in a prison!" Danny snatched the bracelet back. "It lets me put other people in a prison. Well, if I want to and can focus enough energy on- doesn't matter. The thing is, it is magic. Good magic."

"Well it is- Tori took a sniff of the air.

"Oh my god. Rule one of the mission." Danny quickly put her hand over her nose- leaving her bracelet off her wrist. "We need to find a way out.

"Do we actually know which way the smell is even coming from?" Tori looked down the hallway to see a locked door. Then down the far end to see a fire escape at the very far end. "I mean it could be the fire escape that-"

"Sounds good!"

"Oh no, the princess!" Tori let go of her nose to try and grab Miri as she ran. "She's so regal!" Tori's nose began to lift her head to a more fluffy plane. Why stop an elf princess? Tori was not an evil bracelet. Danny had a bracelet. Maybe Danny was evil.

"Part one of the plan!" Danny yelled with her hand over her nose and mouth. "We can't even get past part one because an elf princess showed up!" Danny looked over to the corridor the hapless partners ran down, opposite of the fire escape. "Stop! Stop!"

Danny ran after, thinking long and hard about putting up a turquoise barrier in between herself and the door. "Okay, stop! Last warning and then I have to be super!"

Danny had to be super. She put wrappings around Miri and Tori's legs and barred the door. "There! Now you-"

The air began to seep into Danny's nostrils.

"Hey!" Danny looked happy with her hand over her face. "You aren't delusional anymore." Danny kept her shirt over her nose for the time being.

"She was going to shoot you with a bow. Made of magic." Tori took the cue to get her shirt over her nose as well. "We're just overlooking-"

"It was magic, Tori. And she is really pretty, and let's be honest, pretty people can get away with a certain number of bad things. So, we'll just look the other way on that one." Danny started to look for something as her current plan would not work out. She needed to be free for ass kicking.

"Let's go find some scarves or something."

"Nice scarves!" Danny tried opening a door to the side, hoping to find scarves- and not evil people.

"And she's off." Danny spoke from beneath her makeshift gas mask as the elven princess broke into a sprint to get to her dog.

"White girls really like their dogs." Tori moved next to Danny, watching Miri as she tore through the fire escape with a fury no cat owner could ever dream of moving with. "The ears mean she is an elf and not crazy right?"

"We're going with that and hoping she didn't get some experimental surgery." Danny began to smell something less fragrant and more sinister hit her nostril. "It will be so much worse if she is crazy."

Tori began to take off after Miri, while Danny hesitated for a moment. She looked down a hallway and even took a sniff of the air. None of those things filled her with anything good. "Tori!" No response came from the swinging fire escape doors. "Well dangit." Feeling her gumption take over, Danny made her way down the auxiliary hallway, getting closer and closer to a shrill laughter ringing through the halls.

Someone locked a door. Maybe locked to normal people, but to Danny- and her bracelet forming into a crowbar- no door would ever be truly locked. The hinges budged and the handle shook as Danny kicked in the door she pried open. For such a smart girl, Danny really did not know what the words 'subtle' meant, but she did know what 'punch' and 'face' meant.

"Just to let you know, as a superhero, what you're spraying in here is enough to warrant the full capacity of a beatdown!" Danny cracked her knuckles. "Now turn on a fan or open a window and I might go easy on you!"

"We meet again?" Danny shook her head to try and get a grasp on the situation. "Which one were you again? I go through a lot of villains on the regular, and I don't remember Princess Prince being one of the ones I beat down recently. Or, were you like an outcast and we went to high school together and now you're trying to get me to notice you?"

Danny kept any turquoise weapons from sprouting out or hitting Naomi, a good sign of peace, but more out of confusion than mercy or the path of least resistance. If it did turn out to be some crazy stalker, sending someone to the asylum with a body cast would not look good for a hero. "Are you the villain formerly known as Perfume?"

Tori would trail Miri, hoping the princess would stop sooner than later. "A dog?" Not what she expected, but definitely a good sign. "He looks like a good boy! Look how excited his tail- oh, you're moving again!" Tori ran behind Miri, trying to keep up with her long legs while also wondering where Danny scuttled off to.

Following Danny around always had a way of making things go from strange to strange from a stranger, but this time it lacked the Danny element. A usual precursor to the signs of something getting far worse. "Princess Elf, do you have your dog chipped? I think it's the law that you have to do that. We can just check the app; let me see your phone."

"Dreamweaver?" Danny sounded out each syllable. "If you're a villain why not Nightmare instead of dream. I guess it is pretty long. Do you weave though? I'm just not really following the logic of this idea." Instead of wailing on Naomi, Danny continued to wrack her brain to remember this villain. "How about you tell me where we met. Was I with someone? Maybe I just found them more interesting than- were you a henchwoman?"

The joy of the surroundings faded around Danny and her oblivious station towards them. The birds chirped in unison with their merry song with their distorted smiles now taking shape. "Okay, Dreamweaver, so this stuff is fake." She sniffed the air around her. "But, that is the same smell. Got it. The perfume is making people see things. I don't get the end game of all of this though, so instead of getting it." Danny conjured up a giant turquoise mallet. "I'm just going to beat you down now."

"I think 'cool' would be what you should go with. An oldy but a goody, and not so trying that you come across as out- um, can you say 'lit', but say it like a joke, but only you are in on the joke." Tori followed Miri through her dog search, hoping they did not come across a Petsmart.

Tori let out a gasp and grabbed for her phone. "He is so cute. Let me get a picture of him. Hold him up! Hold him up!" Tori swapped through filters to get the best look. She took the picture, then noticed the absence of anyone other than Miri in the picture. "I think people just- the pug is gone! I didn't even get him in the picture!"