September

Kiran holds up Leia's hand and shows it off to Natsumi. "This is exactly what it looks like!" he insists. "We are on the most romantic date ever right now! Wait, NATTY? WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE? No, don't answer that. No time. It's great! Now we have enough people to try fighting that thing! Let's go!"

He tries to turn and charge back towards the crab and butterfly. But holding onto Leia's hand turns out to be his downfall as she stops him.

"Wai.. Wait... I... I have many questions, but we're both poisoned... We need to go to the hospital or find a way to heal..."

"Oh, no! Poor Leia-person!" Natsumi gasps. She pulls her into a hug. "Don't worry, it'll pass in a few minutes. You don't need to go to a hospital or anything, your key will purify the toxins. There, see? You're looking better already!"

Kiran coughs. "I got his by some spores, too. Na-a-a-atty-y-y-y, you're going to nurse us both back to health, right?"

Natsumi lets Leia go and instead grabs Kiran by the collar. She begins to shake him violently. "WHY DID YOU LET LEIA-PERSON GET HURT!?"

"I'm? Sor? Ry? Nat?" Kiran says. When she finishes the throttling, he shakes his head to clear it. "Aren't you upset about me being hurt or anything?"

"Yes! I am!" She plops her hands on her hips. "If something had happened to you, I still would've been upset!"

Buttons walks around the corner with a look of surprise. "Uh. Nat? How are... you even here?"

Natsumi runs over and grabs them both. "Oh! Buttons! Tai-person! You're OK!? Thank goodness!"

"Yeah, but... Why are you here?"

"To help you! I snuck out."

"Yeah, yeah, this is all great," Kiran says. "But can we deal with the monsters now? There's this giant butterfly, and now some kind of freaky crab?"

"We...!" Natsumi gets cut-off mid-sentence as she drops to her knees and gasps in pain. Suddenly her summoner outfit disappears, and she's in a pair of bright-pink pajamas instead. The shadow-lady that was right behind you disappears, as well. "Ah... Wh-what... was... that...? My key. I can't... use my... key...?" Natsumi clutches her chest and seems out of breath just speaking.

"Natty! Why the hell are you here, damnit! Youre gonna get hurt!" Tai rushes to her side and helps her up. "We have to go. Fast. Buttons and I found what made this place colorless. And it ain't happy."

"I just told you, Tai. I came to... help you..." Natsumi says. She doesn't protest to being helped up. "Um... I think... something... did something to one of my Shikigami...? Um... Something... that can stop you from using your Soul Key...?" She shakes her head and tries her key again. Her armor appears, translucent, for a brief moment before fading again. "Whatever it was, it's... wearing off. Slowly. I think I'm OK. I can walk."

"Wait, ain't that bad?" Buttons asks. "Really, really bad? If we can't use our Soul Keys..."

"We can't fight!" Kiran finishes.

"Hell, some places in here we can't even survive without them," Buttons points out. "If that happened in the wrong place..."

"Or while you were poisoned?" Kiran suggests, patting Leia on the shoulder.

"...Yeah, that would be bad..." Natsumi says. "We should probably go."

"Aw, I wanted to fight the thing," Kiran says.

"We'll come back at another time. We need to leave. We need to leave NOW, before Mr. Butterfly catches us. I'm closing the walk. Let's go."

Kiran and company make their way to the portal, pausing to make sure the poison has worn off and Natsumi can use her key again. When the crab and butterfly round the corner, they nope the nope out and leap through the portal. When they step through, they find Mattea sitting in a car right outside. "Hey, are you dumbasses all still alive?"

"Yep," Natsumi answers.

"Uh... Why are you here?" Buttons asks. "First Natsumi, now you."

"I mean Natty's nice, so I understand her coming to help. But you?" Kiran asks.

"Ah, shuddup," Mattea answers. "I figured you morons would probably need a ride home."

"Yeah, whatever," Tai says. "Well, we got about as much information we could and we all made it out. So I guess this was a success? Whatever, let's just go."

(A) Hop in and flirt with Mattea
(B) Thank Mattea
(C) Wait for the bus
(D) Refuse to leave until everyone talks some of this stuff out
(E) Shove Tai into Mattea's arms
(F) Naptime!
(G) Head back into the portal
(H) Snuggle with Natsumi
(I) Try flirting with Leia more
(J) Hang out with Buttons
(K) Try to hook up with Tai...?

Iunno. Depends on what they are. As many as could logically happen. You couldn't flirt with two people at once. You could shove Tai and talk to someone. But probably not Tai or Mattea if you did that.

Actually... Yeah

F this let's bounce

F, E, G.

Lets get a pre-emptive strike.

But can't we just drive the car into the portal and then soul up when we remerge on the other side.

I will change my vote to

F E at least lets Ram it when all of us are in the car.

But, we also could transform as well as plant gurl... Which is a moot point anyways because Kiran didn't see any of that