"Did you get it?" "Yes!" Sakura smiled brightly, holding the card high.. "As usual, Sakura-chan was wonderful!" Tomoyo spoke from behind the video camera. "So, Kero-chan, what does this card *do?*" Sakura asked, glancing up at her little familiar. To her surprise, instead of floating above her as usual, he was waving his tawny limbs in alarm as a silent black helicopter slowly lifted him away from his friends. "What on earth?" Sakura reached out to rescue Kero-chan, even as he dwindled into the distance. "Sakura, save yourself!" Kero-chan shouted, his Osakan accent extremely pronounced in his haste. "Kero-chan!" Sakura held her wand out. "Fly!" She leapt up into the sky, wings springing from her back as the words left her lips. She sped through the air, her attention focused on the magical creature. He struggled gamely with the men that were wrestling him into the helicopter. Kero-chan shouted something, but Sakura could not hear his words over the roar of the wind. As she approached the craft, Sakura fought against the downdraft of the helicopter. She could just make out Kero-chan, his wings gripped by the strange men. Dark spots covered his body...bruises, Sakura realized. They had hurt him. Sakura saw red. She struggled to come up with a plan, something that would free her friend. She flipped through the cards in her mind, passing over the benign, the tame...then smiled. It was not a nice smile. As she pulled the card from her pocket, Sakura thought with an inner shrug that, knowing Tomoyo, she'd probably have found this smile charming, too. Then the card was in her hand and she was shouting, even as she came within earshot of the helicopter. "Shot!" she screamed with an anger that was alien to her. She swerved to avoid the guns of the men in the 'copter. They released Kero-chan to focus on their attacker, but they were too late. The little magical beast, freed, used the moment to alter his form. In an instant, they no longer shared space with a toy-sized being. Bullets whizzed by Sakura, but she knew that they would not hurt her. "Shield" she cried, laughing horribly, then "Shoot!" once again. It was too much for the men in black. Firepower came from nowhere to cut their craft into pieces, while inside they were forced to deal with a lion-sized and ferocious creature. They shouted in fear and defeat – Sakura could hear Kerberos' roar above the noise of battle. In a matter of seconds, they were gone. The sky was clear, the battle over. Kerberos and Sakura returned to earth silently, with only a shared look between them to acknowledge the experience. Tomoyo came running up, camera still rolling. "Sakura-chan, Sakura-chan, are you alright?" "I'm fine, but Kero-chan is wounded." Sakura's voice sounded tired and old – the voice of a war veteran. The camera lowered at that. Tomoyo's eyes were huge with concern. "Wounded? Oh no." She reached into her purse and made a quick phone call. "My bodyguards will be here in a few minutes with some first aid supplies. I told them they were for you." She took a deep breath. "What happened?" her voice was edged with more than a little incipient hysteria, so Sakura moved forward quickly to comfort her. "I don't know," she admitted, "but I think it was..." "It's the Conspiracy Card," Kero-chan said, now once again in his miniature form. He looked at the two women with a grimace, then slowly, almost comically, passed out on the ground.
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