[Canon Update (or That moment that allowed Ellen to know how Setsuna was feeling) | Video]

[hearts_beat]

[And the video feed snaps open to reveal a very bad moment - a plethora of bad guys (including a certain black cat) on an odd platform. Perched on a clocktower's spire is a white cat with what appears to be earplugs in its ears. On the ground near by? Hibiki and Kanade. Why aren't they transformed? Fairy Tones caged up in the same clocktower. Looks like things are going downhill for the Suite team... until the cat wakes up. As the cat walks to a lower platform with a book set up there, it speaks - that's Ellen! Or rather, Seiren.]

Hummy, there's no use trying to stop me!

[A brief silence before...] I'm not stopping you. I'm your friend, so I'm not going to get in your way!

Hummy! What are you saying?!

[Seiren starts chuckling before something strikes her. She blinks in shock, looking down] What? What was that?

You don't need to worry about me, Seiren.

[Seiren shakes her head, regaining her confidence] Hummy, you're as dense as ever. I'm about to sing the Melody of Sorrow. The world will fall into sadness. Is that fine with you?

Yes!

Ha...?

Even if this world falls into sadness, everything will be fine!

Why would you say that?

Because when that happens, you'll be crying with me. So, everything will be fine!

I can't stand this! How dense can you get?!

Sorry, I'm so dense. [And as Hummy smiles at Seiren, you can probably see tears forming in the cat's eyes.] No matter what happens, we're friends! We're best friends forever! [And Hummy starts singing. The hauntingly beautiful Melody of Happiness. And it's obvious taking its effect on Seiren. Whatever villainous resolve was in her is wavering badly as memories flood in. GOOD memories of her and Hummy before things spiraled out of control and she went bad...]

That's enough of FRIENDSHIP! Cure the Melody of Sorrow!

Stop this!

Believe in them. A miracle will definitely occur.

[Seiren gets into place and...]

Start the Melody of Sorrow!

[...nothing happens. Seiren's frozen, unable to let out a note. Hummy seemingly broke through!]

Seiren... I was right to not believe in you. [And Mephisto makes his move, snapping his fingers to activate the plugs in Hummy.] Hummy! Listen up! Friendship? Love? Trust? That's all useless! Erase the happiness and drown the world in the Melody of Sorrow! That is your mission!

[And Seiren SNAPS, slashing at the book and scattering the notes gathered inside!]

What are you doing?! The Tones! Don't you run! COME OUT, NEGATONE! [And Mephisto lets out a powerful energy that slams all of scattered notes into the clocktower as Hummy and the Fairy Tones escape and back into Hibiki and Kanade's arms.]

Hurting Hummy...

Bringing the world down in the notes of sorrow!

UNACCEPTABLE!
UNACCEPTABLE!

[As Hibiki and Kanade transform into Cure Melody and Cure Rhythm to deal with the beast, things go from bad to worse as Hummy finds herself being flanked by those strange devices and Mephisto's other goons, Trio the Minor! And that's all that Seiren can stand...]

Stop... stop it... STOP IT! STOP MAKING HUMMY SAD!

[And a miracle DOES occur. The tag on Seiren's collar? It breaks, unleashing a bright blue light, causing Seiren to transform one last time, taking a human form... a FAMILIAR form. As she rescues Hummy and lands back on the platform, everyone can see... she is the third Suite Precure! Seiren's reaction? Drop Hummy, look around in a panic and RUN. Not even Kamen Muse can stop her as she BOLTS from the battlefield.]

[And as the video ends, we see Ellen, present day, all smiles and everything, unaware of what's going on or what was shown.]

Well, that was an odd dream, but... no problems here! What did I miss? Something about a "talk like a pirate" day? Ooh, that sounds fun...

...why does that sound familiar, too? Oh, it can't be nothing!

(OoC: WHOOF, I need to stop this! Normal text is Ellen/Seiren, light blue is Kanade, pink is Hibiki, italics is Hummy, bold is Mephisto and bold + italics is Otokichi. It's about time Ellen's secret has been revealed.)

Comments

[wildmelody]

Eeeeellleeeeennnnn~

[There's a Hibiki grinning at you.] Guess what just haaaappeeeeeennnned~

[hearts_beat]

Eh? What happened? Did I miss something? [Totally innocent here, but she doesn't like that grin, Hibiki!]

[wildmelody]

So Ellen's a Precure now! I guess we shouldn't be surprised should we? You were so cute when you screamed into the ocean!

1/2

[hearts_beat]

...

You... you caught up...

[hearts_beat]

And did you just mention that moment on the comms, too?!

[wildmelody]

Heeeee like anyone gives a whit?

... well, maybe except Ako. But hmm...

1/2

[hearts_beat]

I do!

Wh-what did the comms show? I mean, th-there's something else here...

[Give her a minute and...]

[hearts_beat]

Did they have to show THAT MOMENT?!

Oh, now I'm sure everyone thinks I'm a coward!

[wildmelody]

Oh I'm sure you reacted just fine for your first outing as a Precure! After all, it didn't get to show the whole screaming into the bay now did you?

[hearts_beat]

Hibiki, I ran! I dropped Hummy and ran? No other Cure's probably done that before!

[bag_has_snapped]

[Elsewhere, a certain red-headed Cure's gonna sneeze oddly...]

[wildmelody]

Oh don't worry about that, you did fine! It's not like Hummy didn't instantly track you down anyhow...

[hearts_beat]

...she wouldn't give up, that's for sure...

[wildmelody]

Hummy is the most persistent of all talking animals. I'm sure you two would have run into each other even if you were actively avoiding one another!

[Uh Hibiki? She WAS actively trying to avoid Hummy.]

[hearts_beat]

Um... I was trying to.

[wildmelody]

... ah. Right, right, I forgot about that little tidbit.

So we're teammates now then. That means you get to join the little club, get a free t-shirt, let Erika measure you for outfits, Yayoi draw doujinshi for you, etc etc.

[hearts_beat]

...wait, what? Back up? Th-there's no need for me to have measurements made! Or doujinshi drawn of me! Really!

...oh, no... wasn't Erika going around trying to recruit everyone for that show they were doing?

[wildmelody]

We can skip the doujinshi unless you let Yayoi go all out. But yeah, Erika was definitely recruiting everyone for the fashion show. It's going to be insane.

[hearts_beat]

...

I... I think I'm starting to feel a little ill now...

[Oh, you can tell the girl's faking.]

[wildmelody]

Oh no, if we're drafted, your drafted. C'mon you, lets go get an outfit for you.

[hearts_beat]

But... but, all of those people! And being with the other Cures!

[wildmelody]

I doubt you'll be able to get around it, Ellen. Better just go with it.

[handwritten]

[x_battousai]

It sounds as though you have had a difficult past.

Re: [handwritten]

[hearts_beat]

Yeah, you... could say that.

Re: [handwritten]

[x_battousai]

That is a common thing where I am from, with our country in only its eleventh year without war. But I like to believe that you can move on from a dark past.

[former_endboss]

...how many of you Precure are there anyways?

[hearts_beat]

...fourteen? I think? I'm not sure. I kinda didn't bother counting everyone...

text btw

[former_endboss]

It's rather a lot, however you slice it. Why are there so many of you?

[hearts_beat]

From what I understand, we're actually from different points in time. I'm from 2011 and I think it goes all the way back to 2004 and all the way forward to 2012.

[former_endboss]

So is it like a limited term contract or something, where you can only be a magical girl for a year?

[symbolofhappiness]

So that's how it happened for you, huh? I can't really blame you for running, since I did the same thing. Honestly... you did much better than I did. [At least Ellen, y'know... did something with her shiny new powers, even if it wasn't much.]