"Please..." Kodachi sobbed. "Please tell me you have a cure for this curse..."
Kimmy was appalled. How could her own daughter reject her origin like that? "Dear..." she said carefully. "It's all right! If you decide to keep living here on earth, I can understand that. And even if that nice boy doesn't get the rose back, I'm sure Merlon will find another way of helping you..."
"I'm not your 'DEAR'!" the distraught Koopa girl yelled. "Even if you gave birth to me, I refuse to accept a horrible creature like yourself as my mother!"
Kimmy gasped and stumbled backwards. Had Toad not caught her, she would have fallen over on her black shell.
Peach and Sasuke looked at each other, uncertain on how they should act in such a situation.
"Maybe... maybe we can find something of use within the ?-Box we took along with us," Peach then spoke up. "Toad, if you would..."
"Right away, princess!" the little mushroom guy nodded and reached into his pocket. "Um... uh-oh!"
"Uh-oh?" Kodachi asked with a shaky voice. "What do you mean, 'uh-oh'? There isn't supposed to be any 'uh-oh'!"
Toad gulped. "Well, I hate to say this, but... I seem to have misplaced the item box."
The princess sighed. "Oh, Toad..."
Her servant uncomfortably looked down to his feet. "I must have left it behind when we met that boy... I'm sorry, princess!"
"Toad, you are not supposed to call me that!"
Kodachi blinked in surprise. A princess?
"Eeeeee!" the pink-clad girl with the inline skates squealed as she jumped up and down, clutching the yellow box with the question mark to her chest. "What a find! All of these cute things inside! I will take them along and give every single one of them a cute name..."
She knocked against the box from the underside, and a brown leaf came out of it.
"Oooooh!" Nerima's resident kleptomaniac said with awe. "Little Azusa is wondering whatever you could do, little Catherine..."
She picked up the leaf... and it disappeared in a puff of smoke. Instead, Azusa found that suddenly, she had grown a pair of raccoon ears and a fitting tail.
"How cuuuuuute!" she squealed. She stroked the tail's fur. "Ooooh, that feels nice."
"Excuse me..." a voice behind her spoke up.
"GAH!" Azusa yelped and turned around sharply. "Don't startle Azusa like that!"
Her new raccoon tail whipped around... and hit the person that was standing behind her right in the face.
Nabiki let out a chocked gasp as she got thrown backwards. Luckily, she landed in the bushes of a nearby garden.
"Oh my!" Kasumi gasped. "Are you hurt, Nabiki?"
"I'll live, sis..." Nabiki's voice came out of the bushes. "But can you take the number of that truck that hit me...?"
"Did I do that?" Azusa wondered and looked at her tail. She grinned. "I can't wait to find out what my other darlings will do!"
"Oh no, you don't!" Akane yelled as she suddenly appeared next to Azusa and snatched the box out of her hands. "I remember that stuff, that's where that pink-clad girl got the mushroom from that made her grow!"
"Give that back!" the girl with the pink dress demanded. "Those are Azusa's little darlings!"
"Who knows what you'll do with those weird things," Akane grumbled. "I'd rather not take any chances, thank you very much!"
Azusa frowned. "Give them back, or I'll introduce you to little Jean!"
"Oh! Is that a new friend of yours, Azusa-chan?" Kasumi asked.
"Stop asking stupid questions and help me up already!" Nabiki shouted from within the bushes.
"Listen, I don't have time for this!" Akane told the kleptomaniac. "I'm on my way to Furinkan to see whatever is going on... OOF!"
Being hit by her own mallet had to feel similar like this, Akane thought, when she was thrown backwards by the whipping raccoon tail that hit her chest.
Azusa hugged her striped tail. "Good job, Jean!"
Nabiki rubbed her head after Kasumi helped her up back to her feet. "Hey, stop whipping that thing around already before anyone gets hurt!"
Azusa looked at the two older Tendo sisters. "Are you going to take away Azusa's cuties? I think not!"
Nabiki gulped when she saw how Azusa was taking aim with her tail, once again. "I'm starting to think that coming along with Akane was a bad idea, Kasumi..."
"Strange..." Kasumi blinked. "Wasn't it your idea to come along and see if you can shoot any pictures you can sell for an appropriate price?"
Nabiki winced. "Well, maybe..."
Kasumi then reached down and picked up the ?-Box. "Oh, Akane dropped this... I wonder what's in there..."
"Heeeeyyy!" Azusa whined as Kasumi moved down to pick up the box, making her tail miss its target. "No fair moving around like that! Hold still already!"
"Oops!" Kasumi said as she accidentally hit the underside of the box and two objects came falling out. "Strange, I wonder what this is..."
Nabiki looked at the weird turtle shell, the helmet and the hammer. "Well, only one way to find out..."
And she and her sister reached down to take the two Hammer Suits...
Akane shook her head and stood up from the ground. "All right..." she muttered. "This really isn't my day... That's the second time somebody has flung me around like this..." Her gaze the fell upon her two sisters... and when she saw their new outfits, the only thing she could say was: "Holy CRAP!"
Kasumi and Nabiki looked down at the turtle-themed armor they were currently wearing. Kasumi then reached up and felt the solid helmet that had appeared on her head. "Oh my..." she murmured. "Hopefully this doesn't ruin my hair."
Nabiki reached behind the shell on her back... and grinned when she was able to produce a hammer.
She grinned as she threw the hammer up into the air and caught it again. "Well, let's see who can handle a hammer better this time, little sis..."
Azusa laughed nervously. "You're... not going to hit me with that, are you?" she asked.
Kasumi smiled. "Oh no, we would never do that!"
Azusa let out a sigh of relief. "Oh, in that case..."
Kasumi smirked. "We'll just... throw them at you!"
The raccoon-tailed girl gulped.
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