"Yeah. I dunno how practical it is as a tactic, though. Have to get up pretty high."

"If you get a magical girl mad at you, I bet she'd follow you up there without thinking through it - especially if she's got buddies, and you'd have an advantage even against a group with that."

"Oh, good point."

"Speed's a pretty easy boost to get, too, once you wrap your head around flight - no one I know of's making day trips to the moon, but I've gotten girls who never practiced low oxygen environments to overshoot into the upper atmosphere before. Makes them easy pickings."

"...These power levels are kind of absurd."

She laughs. "The dubiously extant mystery masquerade enforcers definitely have their hands full. But, yeah, low Earth orbit: gorgeous, I bet if we really pushed ourselves and were smart about it we could do a moon trip over summer vacation, and artifact wielders who can't have giant atmosphere spanning fights if they feel like it aren't being creative enough. Which's why assassination is my jam if I actually want someone dead with minimal fuss."

"A moon trip sounds like fun."

"There's a lot of skills that go into it apparently, including being willing to deal with the tedium of flying for a few days, but the moon'll give us something to shoot for."

"It is a traditional target."

"...Now I'm imagining that in a supervillain plan sort of way."

"What, are you going to hold it hostage against the world's governments?"

Mock seriously: "The dividing line between a villain and a supervillain is presentation. The question is not whether stealing the moon is useful; the question is whether it is grand."

"I am enlightened."

"What would you do with a moon, though?"

"Hmmmmm... Haven't thought that far."

Ellie laughs.

"You seem like someone who'd do something useful with a moon. Perhaps I'd gift it to you."

"I have no idea what I'd do with a moon either. Build something out of it or in it, maybe."

"The moon is a great place for a supervillain lair, you know. Very classy."

"We'd have to install a weather system. I wouldn't want to live somewhere without thunderheads."

"Hm... Good point. And Venus is rather out of our way. Jupiter's even worse."

"I bet we could figure out some way to do it."

"It'll be a fun experiment, if nothing else!"

"Yeah."

Heeee.

She flops on the grass.

"Whatever we do, it's gonna be great."

Flop.

"Yep."

"I'm glad I met you. I wasn't expecting- any of this."