Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 8 (Abridged)

Sensettia (narrating?): I'll sing my song. For who and why you ask? Well...
Sensettia: La la, my song~
Monster: (confused screaming in vines)
The Monster swings a vine arm at Viscunam, which Viscunam grazes!
Viscunam: YOU CAN'T CATCH ME THAT EASILY! You'll never take anything from me!
Viscunam counters by turning his Doc Ock arms into blades and spinning them like a blender!
Monster: (pained screaming in vines)
The Monster recoils and apparently its core shines through!
Gomeisa: Still don't want fighting! But, protect everyone from hurt!
Gomeisa's ice walls freezes the Monster's arm and makes a path straight to the core!
MC: Crowne, you're up!

Crowne: Hell yeah!
Crowne runs up to the core!
Monster: (roars in vines)
Crowne heads for the core in the right eye!
Crowne: Wrench Smash!
SMASH!
Monster: (screams in vines)
The arm starts falling apart, so Crowne hops off.
Crowne: Is it dead yet!?
Monster: (roars in vines)
Nope, it regenerated everything for some reason.
MC: WHAT

Gomeisa: Oh no!
Crowne: Well damn, that's some tough regen!
Viscunam: ...hmm. Both of its eyes must be cores then. Maybe it's a fusion of two Monsters or it has multiple cores, but either way the unbroken cores will act as a backup for the other. Others. Whichever.
Crowne: Meaning we have to smash them all at once? Not really a thing I can pull off with what I have.
Viscunam: Yes, not with the way you do things. But I do have an idea of how to blow them away all at once. We use my invention and Girlie's song!
Sensettia: We need more VP for that, right? Got it!
Sensettia starts readying her next song.

Sensettia (narrating): I still hear the laughs right now. They say there's no point because I have small ~~boobs~~ wings...but they aren't the ones I'm trying to impress. It's...
MC: YEAH, SENSETTIA!
Sensettia: !!
Sensettia (narrating): Their feelings are real, and they don't care about my boob wing size. I can't help but smile with someone who can't even fight being so close to listen to me sing.
Sensettia: Yeah, my song kicks ass MC!
Sensettia (narrating): I sing for MC, the one standing closest to me. And for the people really there for me!
Sensettia: Hey, can everybody hear me!? (turns to camera)
Sensettia: What is UP with this Christmas heat, amirite!? But it's cool, we'll take care of it! We're gonna bring you a white Christmas for sure! But we need more VP to do it! So come on everybody, raise your hands and party!
Sensettia starts strumming her keyboard and sings. The VP count on MC's phone starts blowing up!
MC: Yes!

Viscunam: Excellent, Girlie! We are getting so much VP! 95%... 97%... 100%! THERE! The Amp is ready!
Sensettia: I just have to sing at the cores, right? Got it!
Monster: (shrieks in vines)
The Monster is huddling up like it's trying to defend itself.
Crowne: It must've figured out what we're doing!
Viscunam: ...hmph, it's useless before the power of my inventions of SCIENCE! Girlie's song will be an AOE attack...but I'd still like for us to expose the cores first! Gomeisa, Crowne!
Gomeisa: Okay!
Crowne: Got it!
Viscunam: ...let's go! MC, your orders!
MC: Right, let's do this!

The Monster swings around and showers crystal fragments around!
Gomeisa: Stop!
Light gathers into Gomeisa!
Gomeisa: Christmas Hero special!
Gomeisa casts Light Blizzard!
Monster: (screams in vines)
The Monster starts slowing down and freezing up. The arm gets frozen to the walls and floor! And a new path to the cores is made again!
MC: Nice going, Gomeisa! / Crowne, go! / Viscunam, you're up!
(B) Crowne: Right! Viscunam, let's go!
Viscunam: Yes, run down everything that gets in the way of my process!
(C) Viscunam: ...you are counting on me? Very well! Crowne, let's go!
Crowne: Right, don't fall behind!

Crowne and Viscunam run up to the Monster's cores!
Crowne: It's analyzing time! Smash!
Right core, Protect Break!
Viscunam: Behold my dream!
Viscunam's arms turn into blades!
Viscunam: Get it memorized! Omnipresence "Grand Invention"!
Viscunam uses Fury Swipes! Left core, Protect Break! Gomeisa's blizzard special is freezing more of the Monster.
Monster: (gurgles in vines)
The Monster is now frozen and vulnerable.
Viscunam: MC, send power to the Amp now! *(points invention at the Monster)*
MC: On it!

The amp starts charging...
Viscunam: Crowne, Gomeisa, get back to my position! Girlie, it's all on you now! Sing!
Sensettia: Watch me knock 'em dead!
Gomeisa: Sensettia! Want hear more Sensettia song!
Crowne: Rock up, girl!
Sensettia readies her keyboard in front of the amp's mic. She looks at the phone and sees how many viewers are on.
Sensettia: Okay WOW. I gotta focus though! (turns back to MC) Ready! Send me VP!
MC: Sing, baby, sing!
Sensettia faces forward again.
Sensettia: Everyone's counting on me to sing, so I'm giving it my all!
Sensettia's weapon and the amp start glowing!
Sensettia: Recital Manifest "Glänzend Sänger"!
Sensettia sings again, and her keyboard shines. The light goes into the amp to shoot giant sound waves that make the area shake.
Monster: (screams in vines)
The cores start cracking!
Monster: (shrieks in vines)
FLASH
Monster: Love...ly... (poof)

Gomeisa: ...Monster disappeareded!
Viscunam: Yes! We win with the power of my SCIENCE and Assistant Number 1's song!
Sensettia: ...did we win? We did? Yay!
MC: Great work, team!
Crowne: Yeah...now about that weather machine...
Everyone looks at where the Monster was. There's some big round machine there.
Viscunam: Is that the main terminal? It's smaller than I expected for all this. Does it still work...?
Crowne: Dunno. Hope there's some way to fix it...
...
...beep
System: [-----]
The round machine starts shining and groaning!
Gomeisa: WHAT

Crowne: ...is it restarting?
Viscunam: IT STILL WORKS!?
System: [-----]
Crowne: W-wait, gimme a second to see if Space Google Translate's audio function works... uhh...auto-repair...small scale...starter...needed...reactivation?
Viscunam: The builders really built an auto-repair function into this thing? What were they planning for?
MC: Huh. Sensettia!
Sensettia: Oh sure, what's one more song after a million amirite!? ...well then again, there has to be at least one core for the front row seats!
Sensettia sings her heart out. The round machine starts shining again, and the crystal walls turn transparent. Apparently it's night now, and clouds start forming.
Sensettia: It's night already...? Something's happening, so...did it work?
Crowne: MC, do the comments say anything?
MC: Uhh...

MC looks at the stream chat.
Rando A: The Crystal Tower's shining! Wow!
Rando B: It's starting to cool off...
Rando C: SNOW
MC: Yeah it worked! They said it's snowing!
Gomeisa: Yay! Christmas!
Viscunam: Did it really restart working...? Hard to tell what it means by small scale...
Crowne: ...you don't think they planned for it to run for 1000 years but cut it down in half, right? Can't say, but it definitely seems to be working again so job done.

MC is reading more comments.
Rando D: Nice speakers!
Rando E: That girl's songs were awesome!
Rando F: Encore!
MC: That's what they said. Nice work, Sensettia. Viscunam.
Viscunam: ...oh. Well I am a genius! Hahaha!
Sensettia: Hey, are you blushing?
Viscunam: Q-quiet, Girlie! So are you!
Sensettia: Shut up! It's not every day people compliment me like that! ...Viscunam?
Sensettia is now whispering to Viscunam.
Sensettia: ...this feels good, huh?
Viscunam: ...not bad.
The Crystal Tower lights up the night. Clouds slowly fill the sky, and winter returns to the city.

Title Card: The Angel's Song Rings in the Holy Night

The next day
The town is packed and bustling.
Townie A: Hey, play's starting!
Town Kid B: Santa!
Town Kid C: Presents!
Everyone's having fun.
Gomeisa: Happy Christmas, good! Happy people, me happy!
MC: That's great.
Crowne: Yeah. It's actually getting a bit too cold though, shoulda brought a change of clothes.
Committee Member: Thank you all for your work and making this celebration possible.
Crowne: No need for thanks. We did barge into your holy grounds, and we were hired to protect your festivities anyway. So in that sense, we were just doing our jobs.
Gomeisa: Yes, happy festival happen!

Crowne: I wish I could learn how the tower machinery works more and make it so it won't crash again. Would you let me help?
Committee Member: Really? We'd be happy to have you, but are you sure?
Crowne: Sure! I just can't come by that often, but maybe I can learn to maintain it at least.
MC: You sure? You still have a day job to get to, so won't that have to be done on your off time?
Crowne: Ahaha, well yeah I guess my vacation's gonna dry up again. It's cool, I wanna do my best as an engineer and I can't just leave an awesome system untouched. Not like any engineers came to help during all that time. But yeah, there's a bit of self-interest in all that.
Committee Member: ...thank you very much. We will contact you again after some discussion. I wish we could have thanked those other two members as well...
Gomeisa: Sensettia and Viscunam gone...
Crowne: I wonder where they went. They didn't even say goodbye. Then again I guess we could just call their agencies since they were hired to help too.
Committee Member: But we only hired you three. We have no idea who those two are.
MC: What? I thought something was up...

Crowne: Whoa...so they were intruders?
Committee Member: Apparently. But they still saved our planet, so our government is discussing overlooking that.
Gomeisa: Wanted say goodbye...huh? (pulls something from his pockets)
Flashback
Viscunam: My heater machine that runs on snow!
Present
Gomeisa: Oh. Viscunam machine...
A snowflake falls into the machine. It faintly glows and warms Gomeisa's hand.
Gomeisa: Viscunam... (smiles)
Crowne: Welp, we're friends now so maybe we'll see them again if fate is kind.
Gomeisa: ...yes! Will treasure!
MC: I'm sure we'll see them soon / What kind of crazy invention will he make next...? / We'll hear an awesome song!

Elsewhere
Viscunam's spaceship
Viscunam: Hmm...MC asked if I was worried. What an interesting perspective. They are both the Ultimate Observer and an excellent assistant! I will examine everything about them next time I see them! ...but what first? Biology? Ether reaction...? Hahaha, the process is getting even more interesting!
Sensettia: Sensettia to La-la Land, come in La-la Land. If you want MC to be an assistant, try tuning into reality first before asking?
Viscunam: You just don't get my genius, Girlie. I must examine MC one day, for SCIENCE so I can complete my research! I look forward to meeting you again, ahahaha!
Sensettia: You sure got the mad scientist laugh down pat. And after all the good you did back there.
Viscunam: Shut up. You sure seem happy, Girlie.
Sensettia: Ha. I'm not nearly done yet! Not until I sing to everyone I want to sing to!
She still seems happy enough.

Sensettia: Whew, that was a lot of singing yesterday. Where we going to next? Gotta get ready for the next part of my music tour!
Viscunam: (thousand yard stare) ...I take back what I said Girlie. Maybe you should be more sad.
Sensettia takes something out of her pockets. It's the crystal fragment she picked up from the tower.
Sensettia: Tee hee, I guess I did an itty bitty crime stealing something. Oh well, I am a villain. (stares at crystal)
Sensettia: Maybe we'll find a use for it someday even if it doesn't do much now, huh? Bring it! I'll sing a song made only by me and sing it for you, MC! La la, my feelings~...
The crystal shines, like it's cheering Sensettia on.
The End

Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 7 (Abridged)

The vines go away to reveal all the machinery in the walls.
Crowne: ...wow, you don't see that every day. What IS this tower?
Crowne finds an input section upon examination.
Crowne: Huh, generic interface. I can touch it...
Click. Screens pop up with unreadable writings and pictures!
MC: WHAT
Crowne: Okay wow, I didn't expect that to do anything. I wonder if Space Google Translate will work here...?
Crowne uses SGT on her phone to work the machine.
Viscunam: >:( (stays on guard)
Sensettia: Hey Viscunam, weren't you going to make something to deal with the vines?
Viscunam: ...I can't.
Sensettia: wait WHAT
Viscunam: I said I can't! It's not going to help against a Monster! We should focus on surviving, and I don't want to go into the Monster's lair anyway.
Gomeisa: Viscunam, what happen?
Viscunam: ...it's a long story. Short version, I can't handle facing off against Monsters.
MC: Huh, wonder what happened?

Sensettia: ...wow, I never heard you say you can't before. Usually you always yell about how you can do anything with SCIENCE!
Viscunam: (frowns)
Sensettia: ...whoa, you aren't even going to argue?
There goes Sensettia's image of Viscunam after he broke her out of her cage. But maybe he's in a cage of his own.
Sensettia: ...you can still think it through at least, can't you? You know, make something with what's here to deal with the vines!
Viscunam: ...well that, I can do. Blow up the tower.
Crowne: ...! (stops)
Sensettia: W-wait, isn't that overkill?
Viscunam: ...Crowne, what do you think? If these vines are a Monster and that Monster goes berserk in here, is it really that far-fetched a plan?
Crowne: ...it's not impossible, but that'd be a plan if the goal is getting rid of the Monsters at all costs.
MC: WHAT / (stares)
(A) Crowne smiles slightly at MC.

Viscunam: Monsters prioritize predation over survival, and they've been taking over this tower and turning it haywire before we got here.
Crowne: Well, it's in the middle of taking over the tower. Meaning, it's focused on something else besides us.
Sensettia: No way!
Gomeisa: Then...if Monster done with tower...
Crowne: Yeah...it'll be even stronger than it is now. Then it'll look for something else. Sure there's us, but there's also a city nearby.
Gomeisa: Oh no...
Viscunam: ...right. Of course, blowing up the tower now could also backfire and make the Monster flip out if it lives. But...
Crowne: ...there'd be less of them which means it might be easier to fight them then.
Sensettia: Wait, we're really considering blowing up the tower...?
Gomeisa: Crowne...
Gomeisa looks determined, but Crowne gestures for him to wait.
Crowne: I get what you're saying Viscunam, but...
MC: The answer's no, right?

Crowne: Yep. Your idea makes sense, but I'm against it.
Viscunam: What!?
Crowne: Yes, your argument makes some sense, but it's going to take time and resources to actually make it happen. The Monster will probably be done eating the tower by then.
Viscunam: They go that fast??
Crowne: Also... (kaiju Monster incident flashback!) MC and I went through the same situation where someone planned to space nuke our city. We can't accept anything like that happening elsewhere.
MC: Yeah.
Viscunam: BRUTES!
Crowne: Hang on now, your plan still makes sense, so we'll keep it as a last resort. We'd still need to get info and check out the situation for it anyways, so let's do that. We might find something helpful...no guarantees it'll work though.
Gomeisa: Crowne have idea!?
Crowne: Not everything, but Space Google Translate got me the gist of things. (fiddles with machine) Now this screen shows a model of the tower and something flowing up. It's energy from the tower itself, and the whole thing's a weather control machine.
MC: Oh my god!

Viscunam: Wow, this amount of resources is not something you can get on short notice... Still, amazing work to make it all an energy source, armoring, and a piece of machinery.
Crowne: Yeah, crazy how it's been on 24/7...translation's done, I'm pretty damn certain it's a weather control machine when you look at the city. Also, it looks like we're close to the tower core. Here's the map, here's us, and here's the core up above.
Sensettia: ...wow we really came high up. The core's definitely above us, right? It's not gonna turn out to be in the basement levels?
Crowne: Nope. The paths we saw all went up, right? There could have been other paths, but look at the map. (points) There's a big boss door up ahead. Main control terminal's in there.
Gomeisa: Wow...why weather go weird then?
Crowne: Easy. Monsters broke the machine.
Click. Look at all those red dots on the map!

Viscunam: ...what's that?
Crowne: All the machines offline.
Viscunam: But it's almost everything!
Crowne: Yeah. It's not that the machines are malfunctioning. It's that they're just off.
Sensettia: Whoa, it's that hot just because the weather machine is off? What kind of hellhole is this planet?
Viscunam: Nature is going back to how it was...is that what's happening?
Crowne: Yep. The original creators must have been amazing.
Gomeisa: Then, tower gone bad for planet people? Lose homes?
MC: Yeah...I want to help them.

Viscunam: Well that changes what we thought of things. I still support blowing up the tower...but it seems we can only choose to destroy it or fix it.
Crowne: (frowns)
Crowne: ...yep. First we should check it out. Honestly, it's gonna be a struggle to see if it even can be fixed, but we'll never get anywhere without getting rid of the Monsters first anyway.
Sensettia: Yep, this has escalated really fast. Well I'm already here, I'm in for the whole ride.
Gomeisa: But weren't Sensettia and Viscunam here to help fix tower to begin with???
Sensettia: Huh? O-oh, yeah! Of course! Totally!
Crowne: ...alright, let's go. The door should be right over there.
And so Crowne, Gomeisa, Sensettia, and MC start walking looking determined. Viscunam frowns really hard as he brings up the rear.

Later
The party reaches the giant tower core door.
MC: I sense a BIG Monster...
Crowne: Welp. The vine boss must be inside.
Gomeisa: Oomph! Oomph! ...o-oh no, can't move...
Sensettia: Pulling and pushing don't work. Is it broken?
Crowne: I didn't see any damage reported near the door, so I didn't think so. I don't know anything more though.
MC: Hmm...
Viscunam: There are Monsters here. I shouldn't be here...but somehow I still am. Why? I can't afford to be retgone if it comes to it yet...
Flashback!
Viscunam's Dad: Viscunam, inventions are--
Present
Gomeisa: VISCUNAM!

Viscunam: AAAAA! W-what was that for!?
Gomeisa: Viscunam invention help!?
Viscunam: I-I...
Gomeisa: Viscunam many amazing inventions! Talk about so many! Can't invention help?
MC: Seems like a bit much / Please, Viscunam!
Viscunam: B-but...!
Gomeisa: Never seen person make so many amazing things before! Viscunam want be famous, yes!? I want Viscunam be famous too!
Viscunam: (flashes back to earlier in the tower)
Gomeisa: Viscunam, please!
Viscunam: HNNNGH! ...okay fine, I'll stay long enough to open the door! (starts investigating)
Gomeisa: Yay, thank you!
Crowne: ...you were considering bailing, weren't you?
Viscunam: (stares) ...yes. Do you blame me for being afraid?
Crowne: Nah, I think it's great you're sticking around even though you're afraid. Thanks.
Viscunam: Again, only long enough to open the door.

Later
Sensettia: ...any clues?
Viscunam: ...I don't even need my inventions here. The door runs on ether and should open once there's enough.
MC: It's automatic?
Viscunam: (touches door) This door normally gets energy from elsewhere, but it's locked now because it doesn't have enough. It can absorb energy like sounds and radio waves like the crystals. We supply that, then it should move.
Crowne: Wow, you figured it out that quick?
Viscunam: ...hmph, I can figure that out by yesterday's breakfast. Remember how the crystals shone when Girlie sang? If we make the crystals here do it, it'll release the energy the door needs.
Sensettia: My song...? Really?
Viscunam: Yes, I am 100% sure.
Sensettia: ...well okay then! Time to rock!
Viscunam: N-NO WAIT! The Monster might attack as soon as the door opens! At least think of something in case that happens!

Crowne: ...oh, right. We don't know how strong the boss is either.
Sensettia: Can we really do anything...?
Gomeisa: We only fight. Can't make special plans. Viscunam have any inventions use!?
Viscunam: Urk! Monster fighting's outside my specialization!
Gomeisa: Oh...
Sensettia: Hmm... (thinks) Oh! Viscunam, can't we use that one thing?
Viscunam: what thing
Sensettia: You made a giant megaphone thing for me before! Can't we use that to both open the door AND attack the boss Monster!?
MC: Deus ex machina!

Viscunam: ...the Ultra Power Voice Amp? Hmm, hooking it up to your Parallel Weapon makes sense. Luckily I brought it with me! I just need to fiddle with it to make it work here.
Sensettia: Yes, we got it all fig--
Viscunam: Girlie, you're forgetting something.
Sensettia: What? ...oh.
Viscunam: Yes, the high energy requirements. It's the problem we'd already be having using your song to create energy, and I doubt grabbing all the crystals nearby would be enough.
Sensettia: Oh right, last time we caused a huge blackou--I mean, problems were caused. And here I thought it was a good idea...
Crowne: Hmm...well there might be a solution to our energy needs.
Viscunam: How?
Crowne: We're heroes and we have to stream our battles. VP's basically infinite energy in a way, so maybe we can use that...
MC: Oh, yeah!

Crowne: Yeah, we can work this out.
Viscunam: Wait, we're going to use the VP we basically use as MP to attack to power the machine instead? How are we going to get that much VP?
Sensettia: I'll do my best, for Christmas!
Gomeisa: Yes...if no Christmas, many city people sad!
Sensettia: This is gonna be the best concert ever! I'll sing and crush that Monster! And lots of people on this planet believe in this tower, right? I should tune my singing to make them happy.
Sensettia starts thinking about her songs.
Crowne: What? You're gonna mix them up right now? Damn, performers are crazy. Sounds good though, we gotta get those sweet, sweet views with all our work.
Viscunam: But I don't know how to turn VP into energy...
Crowne: I do! I did this last Christmas! And we have plenty of people to make up the audience: all the townspeople hoping we'll solve the weather problem we've got going on.
Sensettia: Oh right, them!
Crowne: I'm a little worried about whether they'll actually watch though. It'd be nice if we had a huge screen to stream this to.
MC: Hmm...

Hey there was a giant screen in town when people were setting up for Christmas in space.
MC: Hey, let's have them stream it on that screen in the event area!
Crowne: Oh right, there's that! MC, can you call the festival committee? Tell them they need to have as many people as possible watch it! This is a planetwide problem we've got on our hands!
MC: On it!
Crowne: Okay, while MC's on the phone, we gotta start working on the adjustments!
Viscunam: Well now that we have those plans sorted out...
Sensettia: ...what now?
Viscunam: I need to remind you all that this is the last chance to back out.
Silence.
Viscunam: This is a reckless plan to charge into an enclosed area with insufficient information on an unknown Monster with erasure on the line. I'm afraid of Monsters and of being forgotten.
Gomeisa: Viscunam...
MC: Why haven't you bailed out then?

Viscunam: ...I don't know. Normally I'd be gone already, and I can't let myself be forgotten before I make the ultimate invention. I still need to decide, and looking at you all irritates me so for some reason...
Sensettia: Well, that's...
Crowne: ...aren't you...?
Viscunam: ...what?
MC: Doesn't that mean you're worried about us?
Viscunam: What?
This apparently has never occurred to Viscunam.
Viscunam: I'm worried about you all...? No, wait...
Viscunam's intuition says he's not.
Gomeisa: It okay, I know that feel! But I protect everyone! No one going to forget!
Viscunam: W-wait, what?

Viscunam flashes back!
Viscunam's Dad: Viscunam, inventions are just a resultant product. The truth is that they're a connecting process, and that connection is important.
Present
Viscunam: Process? I chose to make an unbreakable baton to pass on...and always ran from Monsters... Is the process to get to that point to have everyone I come across be constantly destroyed...? I have to sacrifice them?
Flashback!
Viscunam's Dad: I never had the intention to make that invention. He just proved the worth of having it in the world.
Viscunam's Head: Inventing is about drawing up a world where a thing exists...and having the intention to make it... I see. I...I fear Monsters, but...there is no need for me to consign everything to the trash bin because of it!

Present
Sensettia: Uhh...Viscunam...? You ok--
Viscunam: ...h
Sensettia: What?
Viscunam: BWAHAHAHA! I have made a serious misjudgment!
Sensettia: OW MY EARS
Viscunam: Okay, fine, you win. I'm coming with you.
MC: Really!? Yes!
Viscunam: Not to the bitter end, of course. There's far too much unknown, so if we aren't able to eliminate the Monster...
Crowne: ...what?
Viscunam: We're all escaping together. You're all part of my inventing process now.
Gomeisa: Yay! I protect everyone!
Viscunam: R-right, you do that!
Sensettia: Weirdo.
Sensettia sees that Viscunam is back to his usual self.
Viscunam: Crowne, we will finish this in ten minutes. Come with me.
Crowne: ...got it. I'm a bona fide mechanic, you know.
Viscunam pulls out a telescopic speaker, and he and Crowne get to work on it.

Ten minutes later
MC is ready to turn the livestream on and the party is suited up for battle. Drone cameras and the amplifier doohickey are ready.
MC: Ready guys? It's almost time to roll.
Gomeisa: Yes!
Crowne: Well we came this far. We're gonna survive and party in town after this!
Sensettia: I'm gonna sing!
Viscunam: H-hmph! SCIENCE will defeat you, Monster!
MC: Okay! Showtime! (click)
Sensettia starts singing. The door starts shaking.
Crowne: Nice, look at the view count and VP coming in!
Viscunam: Just a little more and we'll have enough to run the amplifier without cutting into our battle potential! Also, wow I don't think Girlie or me have ever fought with so much attention on us before.
Gomeisa: Oh! Door opening!
The door shines and groans open.
Crowne: Yes! ...!?

Look at all those vines!
Viscunam: So many...
Vine avalanche!
MC: Here they come!
Gomeisa: No!
Gomeisa makes an ice wall that freezes the vines that touch it! Now there's a gap.
Crowne: You did it! Let's go in through the gap!
Gomeisa: Okay! I protect everyone!
Sensettia: Cool! I'll make a medley of two or three of my songs now!
MC: Let's go!
Crowne and Gomeisa go in first. MC and Sensettia go next.
Viscunam: (frowns)
Viscunam hesitates...
Viscunam: ...ahh! (charges in)

Monster: (slithers sinisterly)
The room looks like a shrine, and the walls are covered in crystals and machinery. Vines are everywhere and converge at the top of the steps where the boss's main body seems to be.
Viscunam: Is that the core body!?
Crowne: The tower core should be the furthest part in, and of course it's got a big ugly Monster growing out of it!
Monster: (slithers menacingly)
The Monster's head piece looks towards the party, then screams!

Gomeisa: Monster looking here!
Crowne: Wait, that's not the boss! I mean it's probably the core, but there's two of them...? Whatever, destroy it and we'll be done!
Sensettia: I'm warmed up and ready to rock out!
MC: Here we go, people!
Viscunam: We have so much VP, but it's still not enough for the contraption! MC, don't forget there's also a limit to how much energy can be put into the Amplifier at once! Keep the VP flowing! I'll keep watch for the right time to activate the invention to blow the Monster away!
MC: Okay!
The Monster still looks ready to attack whenever!
Viscunam: Hold that thing back while we gather VP! Girlie, ready!?
Sensettia: I was born ready!
Monster: (screams in vines)
Showtime!
Title Card: The Crucial Big Concert
BATTLE START

Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 6 (Abridged)

There's more machinery on the walls the further in the party goes. Also more vines too. And vine attacks, because of course.
Sensettia: La la la my feelings~
The vines pull back in response to Sensettia's voice!
Gomeisa: Vines calming down!
MC: Good job guys!
The party reverts out, and Crowne sighs.
Crowne: Cool. That was only our millionth fight so far.
Viscunam: There's even more of them! Are they coming from the tower's core?
Sensettia: UGH how much more of them is there!? Is the world telling us to hang them up for decorations!?
Viscunam: Is that a thing Girlie
Sensettia: NO! I'm just saying I'm a singer, not a weedwhacker!
Gomeisa: But have to do this to go in
Sensettia: I know, I'm just sulking about it. Viscunam, can't you science away this problem with something?

Viscunam: Why would anyone make something that specific? And how would that make me famous?
Sensettia: And how usable do you think the crap you already make is?
Crowne: Wait, you came to investigate but haven't looked outside? These vines are causing all our problems. If you've got some doohickey that can clear them away, the people'll memorialize you as a hero.
Viscunam: HMMMM...the tall lady makes sense. Let me see what I can do to Space Macguyver something up for a Space Vine Cutter (temp name)...
Viscunam smirks and mutters to himself as he pulls out a tablet and writes on it.
Sensettia: Wow, you sure talked him into it quick Crowne. Did you know Viscunam beforehand?
Crowne: Nah, I just learned how to handle someone like him. Kouhai's into inventing and goes in on things like that.
MC: Ahh... / That tracks / who
(C) Crowne: Hisaki. Motivate him the right way and he'll jump in and do what you want.

Gomeisa: But Viscunam can make gadget fast?
Viscunam: Ha, I am a genius! I already have a 3D data scan of the vines from the cameras. All researchers know the value of COMBAT DATA!
Gomeisa: Wow!
Sensettia: W-wait, when'd you do that?
Viscunam: Have you noticed the vines grow faster the further we go in?
Crowne: Now that you mention it...yeah.
Viscunam: Okay, put this together with this and...good! Now it just needs an energy source. And I, being the SCIENCE genius that I am, already know where to find it.
Sensettia: Yeah yeah genius, tell us the answer already.
Viscunam: The crystals have been shining in response to Girlie's song.
Gomeisa: Hmm. Think I seen that too.
Crowne: Oh right, I think the crystals in town reacted to music too, even though we never commented on it back then. So I guess it makes sense that these crystals will react too.
MC: Oh yeah, huh. Wonder why?

Viscunam: I don't know how the fortune telling setup works, but it's true the crystals react to a specific frequency. These crystals can gather energy from ether, and they release light ie energy in response to sounds. That means Girlie's songs can draw energy out of the crystals in the tower to power my invention.
Crowne: Oh okay
Viscunam: Yes, but making a machine that can destroy all the vines at once will need a corresponding amount of energy. The tower should suffice though! I'll be done before yesterday's lunch!
Gomeisa: Wow! Viscunam amazing!
Viscunam: But of course! (struts)

Sensettia: Sheesh, he's becoming a total fanboy...
Crowne: He impresses easily. But if Viscunam pulls it off, he'd definitely prove he's amazing.
Viscunam: I need to do more research on these vines. It's like these vines have their own mind as they attack us. I want a sample of this strange life form. (approaches vine)
Crowne: Wait what? You can't tell what that is?
Viscunam: Is it not some plant life form?
MC: I think it's a Monster.
Viscunam: ...a Monster?
Crowne: Yeah, we can't say for sure since we haven't seen a core but MC's Observer senses say they're Monsters. (flashes back to Ch. 5, the kaiju Monster threat) We've seen something like this before actually.
Viscunam: (stares)
Sensettia: Really? Why'd you think we've been transforming to fight them off this whole time? I kinda figured a while ago.
Viscunam: oh no oh no oh no
Gomeisa: Viscunam? What wrong? (touches Viscunam's shoulders)
Viscunam: WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT EARLIER AAAAAA (flails)

Gomeisa: What!?
Viscunam: NO I DON'T WANNA BE RETGONE GIRLIE WE HAVE TO LEAVE
A vine in the corner twitches.
Viscunam: I SAW THAT (pulls something out of his bag)
Viscunam: BEGONE FIEND! Oh no MY LEG! (starts flinging things at the vines)
MC: Oh my god, Viscunam!
Sensettia: Viscunam, wait, calm down already!
Crowne: What's gotten into you!? And stop that before you--
Whoops Viscunam provoked the vines into growing faster and now he's losing his shit even harder.
Sensettia: V-Viscunam, what's wrong!?
Sensettia can tell Viscunam is freaking out in a way different from his usual erratic mania.
Gomeisa: This way! I make ice wall! MC, please transform!
Gomeisa runs in front of Viscunam. MC runs towards him and transforms him.

Gomeisa: Go!
The party regroups around Gomeisa, who then starts making walls to block the vines. The vines however are growing faster than expected.
Crowne: Oh no, we're surrounded!
Sensettia: We're stuck!
Gomeisa: Oof! Can't...keep...walls up!
Crowne: ...alright, it's come to this. MC, transform us too!
Sensettia: Yeah, we have to fight now!
MC: Let's go you two! Execute!
Crowne and Sensettia transform. Gomeisa's walls are starting to crack.
Crowne: Bring it!
Sensettia: Yeah, get out of the way!
Viscunam: (stares in panic)
BATTLE START (more happens after)

Viscunam (narrating): People live and die, data gets lost, and the proof they lived gets fuzzy. But SCIENCE can pass things on to the next generation, bringing people together and building history. Inventing is valued for all that built up connection brought together and expressing it. I know that...but the problem is that Monsters exist.
Title Card: Wise Men Stay Away from Danger
Viscunam (narrating): My father was a great inventor. His research and work was genuine, and he was skilled in organizing existing technology. He was also really supportive of the newer generations, and he backed lots of research and inventions.
Viscunam's Dad: Viscunam, inventing something is just a result. It's a process that ties things together, so don't look so mad.
Viscunam (narrating): I was pouting really hard at a news channel. They were interviewing an inventor who was making hit invention after hit invention...and he was my dad's kouhai.
Viscunam: I'm not mad. I just can't accept this. None of those things would've been made without your basic research! You gave him so much support in making them!
Viscunam's Dad: Oh, you could tell? You've grown.
Viscunam (narrating): Father looked amused. I did not.
Viscunam's Dad: I'm not letting him take the credit or anything, since I never intended to make that thing. It might never have been a thing if not for him.

Viscunam (narrating): I sighed. My father would make things and become a big name inventor too, but he never cared about fame. He welcomed other people trying to do things, so he'd use his funds to help. He shocked me...but I also deeply respected him. And then one day, something stomped all over my respect and his beliefs.
One day
Hero: Hey! Hey! You awake!?
Viscunam: ...what? Huh?
Hero: Oh good you're alive! We got one person needing aid here!
Viscunam (narrating): Monsters attacked the area my father's research lab was in and wrecked everything.
Viscunam: W-wait! What about my father!?
Viscunam (narrating): I tried my best to talk to them through all the pain.
Hero: ...sorry, we didn't find anyone else.
Viscunam (narrating): I was delirious, but I truly believed they just missed him and that this was all some bad dream...but on that day, my father disappeared from everyone's memories.

Viscunam: No, this is my father's research!
Viscunam (narrating): All of my father's accomplishments were retconned to be other people's work. Even that interview I was watching earlier didn't bring him up at all. It wasn't malicious or deliberate. Everyone really did just forget he existed.
Viscunam: How can this be!? Anyone could see through it if they thought about it! And why...why is it only I remember him?
Viscunam (narrating): I remembered everything my father did, but...
Viscunam: !!
Viscunam (narrating): If I were eaten too, then even all that would be lost. Monsters take away memories. I was terrified of them...but I also had a dream that could triumph over that terror. I dreamed that I could make the memories we pass on to the next generation become unbreakable.

Viscunam: Observer, transform me!
Viscunam (narrating): I became a hero with that dream, but I didn't get a license. I wasn't interested in fighting villains...and I was afraid of Monsters. I just used my hero form to use the villain network for my own purposes.
Viscunam: This form is awesome!
Viscunam (narrating): I respected my father, but he was forgotten. Why? He was a famous inventor, but he cared more about bridging generations and passing the baton on. The continuous connection was valuable, and it could cover for individual shortcomings. He was amazing, and his inventions stayed even after he was gone...but his name was taken off of it, like he was never there. That's the part I couldn't accept.
Viscunam: Everyone's going to know me! And for that, I must be truly unique!
Viscunam (narrating): My father was someone anyone should just forget. And...if I somehow disappear along with my memories of my father, I still need to carry his baton forward.
Viscunam: I'm going to make an invention no one will ever forget!
Viscunam (narrating): I must overturn the laws of physics, or at least the part of conservation of mass! Something that can turn one into like a million things, forever! My father passed me the baton, so I can do it! My becoming famous will be just like the wisdom of everyone who came before me becoming famous too! If I can make something not even Monsters can retcon away, I can handle Monsters. But...how long will it take? Can I survive long enough? Can I even fight alongside the Girlie and the other heroes...?
End of Episode

Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 5 (Abridged)

Lots of vines in the way attacking the party!
Crowne: Goddammit, they never stop!
Gomeisa: Nooo, ice wall not fast enough!
Viscunam: My time has come, fiendish vines!
One of Viscunam's Doc Oct tentacles morphs into a blender and shreds through the ice wall and vines.
Gomeisa: Wow!
Crowne: Jackass, you broke the wall too!
Viscunam: Yes, what of--AAH!
With no ice wall to slow down the vine growth and regen, the vines grab Viscunam!
MC: UGH / aww... / well he didn't know to be fair

Sensettia: UGH, I'll go save him! (stands in front of the vines and gets ready)
Sensettia: My song will take care of you!
Sensettia starts singing. The sound waves tear the vines apart!
Crowne: Whoa!
Sensettia: La la la~
Gomeisa: But...
Gomeisa looks puzzled. The vines disappear from the hallway.
Sensettia: Whew! They're gone now.
MC: Thanks Sensettia / Awesome! / New song's cool too!
(A) Sensettia: It's cool, we're going the same way.
(BC) Sensettia: Really? Thanks!

Viscunam: Mgrgrh. Okay fine, well done.
Sensettia: Flattery gets you nowhere~! Okay, let's go.
Sensettia points the way, and the party starts moving.
Sensettia: La la la...
Gomeisa: (stares)
MC: What's wrong?
Gomeisa: Umm...
Gomeisa seems hesitant.
Sensettia: ...huh? What? Something with my song?
Gomeisa: Um...song feels weird. Nice voice, but...something off.
Sensettia: ...like what?
Gomeisa: Sensettia not have fun singing?
Sensettia: ...wait, what?

Title Card: Little Wings and Big Dreams

Sensettia (narrating): I was raised in a place where common sense says singers should have big boobs wings.
Sensettia (narrating): The Earth Sphere area or whatever calls my planet the planet of angels. Most of us here have wings, and the planet has an belief in the power of voices. Specifically, singers with wings have comparatively greater mental effects. Like, science actually says there's a noticed effect on minds and bodies, even on other races, so a lot of us go into jobs involving singing and talking.
Sensettia (narrating): They say having bigger boobs wings gives us more influence with the power of voices, so it became our beauty standard and stuff. If you have big wings as a kid, they single you out for specialized singing and acting education...me? Well...

Flashback!
Sensettia: She's so pretty and her songs are awesome!
Sensettia (narrating): So there was this lady singing by the road. Apparently she's from this city.
Sensettia: I wanna sing like that!
Sensettia (narrating): She was awesome, her voice was great, she had big boobs wings, and people expected great things of her.
Sensettia: I'm sure I'll be like her if I work hard enough!
Sensettia (narrating): Everyone smiled, but they looked conflicted. At the time, I just wondered if I was making a face or said something funny.

Sensettia (narrating): So the country I lived in was more isolated than others. Like, they actually restrict communications to the outside and even restrict leaving the borders. It's probably why I wonder if the past means that much. At some point, people thinking bigger boobs wings is better somehow turned into bigger boobs wings being NECESSARY to being a singer...and the longer I lived there, the less I thought it was weird. Experience and history say so! How was I to argue against that? It was easier to just go along with it all. But yeah, I noticed how people looked at me back then.
Sensettia (narrating): I still couldn't give up on trying to become a singer though. "I'll show them! I'll show them all!" I told myself. And so I threw myself into music study. I wanted to sing and convey my true feelings. I wanted to be someone who could do that and tour around, like that one lady I saw. I think I did pretty well for someone studying on my own...but traditional thought's a lot tougher than I thought it was.

Sensettia: Wow, scouts from big companies usually don't pick people up often!
Sensettia (narrating): I went to the same audition as my friend. We studied at the same place, but only she got in.
Sensettia: Congrats!
Sensettia (narrating): I kept telling myself size isn't everything.
Sensettia: I'll be up there one day! I promise!
Sensettia (narrating): But I was the one with the smallest boobs wings there.
Sensettia: Wing size? Pffft, that's just superstition. I don't care!
Sensettia (narrating): Actually I cared a lot. I kept thinking about it every time I failed. I kept thinking, maybe they were right. Then one day, he came.

Sensettia: La la la...
Sensettia (narrating): I flopped into bed after trailing off on the song I was making.
Sensettia: ...no luck today again. Who am I kidding with these wings anyway?
Sensettia (narrating): I was curled under my blankets. Then suddenly, the whole house shook like a big storm hit
Sensettia: wait what
Sensettia (narrating): Then something blew up and shook me out of bed!
Sensettia: WAIT WHAT
Sensettia (narrating): Some metal thing I never seen before crashed through the roof and destroyed some of my furniture!
Sensettia: Is this a space ship...?
Sensettia (narrating): The door scraped open, and that's how I met him.

Viscunam: ...bleh. Oh, I seem to have landed on ground this time! Last time I hit an ocean floor, so clearly I have gotten better at driving!
Sensettia: (stares)
Viscunam: Oh wait, someone's here? Good thing I didn't run them over. Girlie, is this your house?
Sensettia: ...h-
Viscunam: ...what?
Sensettia: HOME WRECKER! Who are you and where did you come from!? And why don't you have wings? Why do you look like an animal!?
Viscunam: OW OW STOP HITTING ME WITH A KEYBOARD! Okay fine, I owe you repair expenses!
Sensettia: Okay yeah you do owe me that! Now answer me!
Viscunam: O-okay okay, just put the keyboard down, Girlie!

Later
Viscunam: Ahem. I am Viscunam, a scientist from another planet.
Sensettia: A-another planet? Really?
Viscunam: Yes! Is there anything you want me to invent?
Sensettia: wait what
Viscunam: I am flying my spaceship around for SCIENCE! ...research to invent new things whereever I go. I am a wandering scientist, hehe.
Sensettia: Huh
Viscunam: Behold my revolutionary creations!
Sensettia (narrating): And then Viscunam pulled out all these creaky pieces of junk. I mean, inventions.
Sensettia: what
Viscunam: Can you not see how great these inventions are!? Society will tremble before my creative intellect! And I am presenting you with whichever you like as an apology for destroying your home. Hahaha!
Sensettia: Can't I just get money?
Sensettia (narrating): I still looked at his stuff though. One thing in particular interested me.

Sensettia: ...is this a TV? Ack!
Sensettia (narrating): I pushed a button on the side and some show with an alien talking to the camera popped up.
Sensettia: Huh?
Viscunam: Hm? Ooh, good eye to pick that, Girlie. It's a TV that randomly picks up signals from nearby planets. Dunno how far it goes though.
Sensettia: ...can it pick up music programs with singers?
Viscunam: ...that's it? I can get that done by yesterday's dinner.
Sensettia: Normal people just say before breakfast. Whatever, it can do that right?
Viscunam: Of course!  One moment while I press this button on the side...
Sensettia (narrating): And so he took the TV and fiddled with it.
Viscunam: Here we go.
Sensettia (narrating): Then he gave it back to me and watched my reaction.

Sensettia (narrating): There was an alien lady on the screen, singing confidently. Her voice was beautiful, singing a song I've never heard of before.
Sensettia: (stares)
Viscunam: Girlie, it's been half an hour now. You like it that much? Then you can hav--
Sensettia: She doesn't even have wings.
Viscunam: What?
Sensettia: She can sing like that, even without wings.
Viscunam: What, does your race use your wings to affect your vocals? You were singing earlier too. I could hear it in my space ship. Nice voice.
Sensettia: W-what? You could hear that? Thanks...
Viscunam: What? ...wait, did my ship picking up on your song draw it in and cause an emergency landing? That'd mean we can turn sound waves into 4D vectors to move to where other people are. Hahahaha, a new spaceship age is upon us!

Sensettia (narrating): He's so weird, but it feels like he also let me out of my birdcage.
Sensettia: ...Viscunam you are a huge nutjob, but you're also kinda awesome.
Viscunam: Excuse you, I am a genius and my invention talents will make my galaxy famous in the near future! No one will ever forget about me!
Sensettia: ...what?
Viscunam: Nothing, just personal stuff. But I see you really liked my invention! You best memorize my name then, for I am--
Sensettia: Hey Viscunam can I come with you?
Viscunam: What? Take you with me?
Sensettia: Yeah, I'll help you get famous, whatever it takes. So take me out of here.
Viscunam: Hmm... (thinks)

Sensettia: ...no go?
Viscunam: You know what? Okay.
Sensettia: Yeah, that fig--wait what?
Viscunam: I've been wanting an assistant and there's somewhere I want to go to!
Sensettia: What? Where?
Viscunam: One thing at a time. Anyways, you can come if you want to help me. I can get you out of here before yesterday's lunch.
Sensettia: Viscunam!
Sensettia (narrating): And so we left. I went around busking to make our daily expenses, calling it my music tour. I got a dream to sing to people in the universe, trying to prove the old traditions that boobs wings don't matter. I wanted to get so famous I'd wow even the people on my home planet. But...
Some time later
Sensettia: Whew, got a lot of money today! No scouts though, unsurprisingly...I tried so hard. Can I do it?
Viscunam: You done, Girlie? It's almost time to leave this planet.
Sensettia: What? O-oh, yeah!
Sensettia (narrating): I also started to worry about things. What did I want to say? Where are the people I wanted to say things to live? And maybe...am I actually still in my birdcage...?

Present
Sensettia: ...haha, guess it came out. (smiles weakly)
Gomeisa: What? So...not having fun?
Sensettia: No, not that. I love singing and writing songs...so like, you can see I have wings, right? (flaps wings)
Sensettia: On my home planet, most people think people with bigger boobs wings are suited for singing. I don't think I've ever seen a singer with wings smaller than me.
Gomeisa: Oh...
Sensettia: Bigger wings means bigger voice influence. So with my tiny wings... it kinda sucks. I've tried so hard, but it never worked out. Made me thinks things...
Crowne: ...that your birth determines who you are? I know that feel.

Sensettia: I kept telling myself boob wing size doesn't matter! But sometimes...I think that maybe my wings will get bigger tomorrow and I can become a star singer. It's always been on my mind. I still worry my songs aren't getting through to anyone, so maybe that's what came out.
MC: Oh...
Viscunam: (frowns)
Gomeisa: ...no such thing!
Sensettia: ...Gomeisa?
Gomeisa: I love your song! Song reached me!
Sensettia: What...?
Gomeisa: So I want Sensettia love singing too! That way more fun!
Sensettia: Oh... (starts thinking about the crystal fragment)
Flashback Crowne: Hey, maybe we'll figure out a way to better use these crystals in the future.

Sensettia: Something only I can do... my song reached Gomeisa instead of everyone... huh. Maybe I was singing to the wrong people... (slightly tightens fists)
Sensettia: ...hehe, thanks Gomeisa. I think I was about to forget why my songs were my weapons when I was trying to make my dream come true.
Gomeisa: You forgetting...?
Sensettia: Yeah. I sound so stupid. (smiles)
Sensettia: I love and enjoy singing, so I decided to convey those feelings through song to people. It didn't matter if other people evaluated it or whatever.
Crowne: ...looks like you remembered what you wanted to do.
Sensettia: I never noticed whether people had big wings or small wings before. I just liked songs, and I just wanted to sing loud and proud. (walks a little faster and turns to face the party)

Sensettia: Sorry I didn't sing confidently. I haven't really sang in a way that's me to you guys yet. I'm gonna stop singing to people who judge me on my boob wing size. I should first sing for myself, then the people in front of me.
MC: Sounds awesome. Must be hard to get out of old preconceptions...
Sensettia: Thanks. Singing more like me is gonna be great.
Viscunam: ...so what were you worried about actually, Girlie?
Sensettia: Ugh. Well you never seemed like the type to understand people. Anyways, thanks Crowne, Gomeisa.
Crowne: Did I really say anything? Well whatever, if you feel better then cool.
Gomeisa: Ehehe. Want hear more!
Viscunam: (snorts, then speaks quietly) ...hmph. I did see you being all hesitant lately, but if you're feeling better then that's fine.

Later
The tower gets darker further in. A vine-destroyed looking wall has a panel with crystals in it. Also there's some tube thing.
Crowne: Look, something's there.
Sensettia: Why's there machinery over here?
Viscunam: You couldn't tell? This tower is clearly artificial and it's involved with the weather predictions. It's too big to be merely a forecasting machine...so it must be a weather control machine.
Sensettia: Really? That's a thing?
Viscunam: Well we're here right now, no? I cannot wait to investigate the inner area!
Crowne: Well I can understand that. We came to see if the tower really can fix the weather and why it went out of whack to begin with.
Hey look the floor is starting to crack.
MC: I sense evil!

Vines burst in from everywhere!
Gomeisa: OH NO
The vines are slithering around and are starting to converge on the party!
Crowne: They're gonna attack!
Sensettia: Well we can't take that lying down! MC!
Viscunam: My time to show my inventions in action has come!
MC transforms the party.
Crowne: We're almost there now!
Gomeisa: I try hard too! Save Christmas!
Sensettia: Weed whacking time!
Viscunam: Whatever you are, SCIENCE shall stop you!
BATTLE START

Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 4 (Abridged)

Sensettia: La la la~!
Sensettia's Parallel Weapon weaponizes her singing voice to attack. The vines retreat from the party's attacks.
MC: They're going away! / It's working / So, we good now I guess?
Sensettia: Whew. They really are some kind of Monster... I think we're okay now. Hopefully. (reverts)
Crowne: We won't be totally okay until we get at their roots, but yeah things seem okay for now. We should cancel out too to preserve energy.
Crowne and Gomeisa revert.
Sensettia: Thanks for suddenly contracting me, uh...
MC: MC.
Sensettia: Oh okay. Nice operating! I'm Sensettia. I'm a student hoping to be a singer.
Crowne: Oh, so that's why you were singing to fight.
Sensettia: Yep. Wrote that song myself! And thanks to you two, too.
Crowne: I'm Crowne. I'm usually a mechanic.
Gomeisa: Gomeisa! I work in Boss's store!
Sensettia: Who? Oh whatever.

MC: So why are you here? I thought entry was prohibited. You a hero from somewhere or...?
Sensettia: Uhhhh (visibly shocked)
Sensettia: (Crap, I didn't come up with a cover story. I AM intruding and don't belong to an agency so...should I run? But I can't really leave this place without Viscunam's help...)
MC: ...Sensettia?
Sensettia: (But I'm safer with these guys. I can fight with them if we get attacked. But if I slip up, I'll get arrested so...BS something!)
Crowne: Are you talking to yourself?
Sensettia: ...oh! I-I'm totally in the same boat as you guys! I mean there's only one reason for heroes to be here, right??? (fake smiles)
Gomeisa: Oh. Sensettia come check bad weather and stop Monsters too?
Sensettia: YES! That's totally the reason I'm here with another guy who's also totally a hero! Can you help me find him since you're going further inside anyways? He's stubborn, so I'm not too worried about him though.
Gomeisa: Okay! Yay, new friend!
Crowne: (looks aside at MC) ...what do you think? She does seem handy in a fight though.
MC: Let's go. We do need the help, and Gomeisa's happy.
Sensettia: Cool! I can show you guys around just a little bit.
Sensettia turns around and walks off. Gomeisa happily follows.
Crowne: Weird...

Later
Faint light shines through the crystals. Looks kinda eerie.
Sensettia: Ugh. There are vines here too.
Fork in the road! Except vines are blocking certain hallways.
Crowne: This tower layout is bizarre. Well if the vines aren't attacking, we should look for a different way around instead of wasting energy fighting them.
MC: Yeah... / We can't go at it forever.
---
(A) Sensettia: Yeah, not like you guys have infinite energy or anything.
---
Crowne: Yep. Can't tell what leads where, but we should be making progress. We can cut our way through if we have to, but... (looks at all the crystals in the floor and ceiling) There really is a ton of crystals here. If I'm right, this tower's a piece of equipment using all these crystals as an energy source. I wonder what the core's like?
MC: You know what this is? / You know about crystals? / They're energy sources? Really?
(AB) Crowne: Nah, I only know OF them.
(C) Crowne: Well I don't know that much about them.

Crowne: Can't tell on looks alone, but there was this one period where spaceships tried using these crystal looking things as a fuel source. I've only heard bits and pieces from other planets about that time, but apparently these things can store surrounding ether.
Gomeisa: What?
Sensettia: So these crystals are all batteries?
Crowne: Kinda, but they were impractical for usage since they couldn't store up that much energy, so we just went with something else.
Sensettia picks up a nearby crystal and stares at it.
Sensettia: Huh.
Crowne: That one is probably enough for a mini light bulb.
Sensettia: That's it? But it's so big! Well that sucks. (wings sag)
MC: Sensettia?

Crowne: Well, when we found a more convenient energy source, we just switched to that.
Sensettia: This tower is so big that people rely on it, but this one isn't useful at all, huh?
Crowne: I'm no expert so I can't say for sure. It might still be useful.
Sensettia: But you just said this'd only be good for one mini light bulb.
Crowne: From what I know now. Maybe later science will discover some way to make better use of it. It can still hold a certain amount of energy if you miniaturize it, but I know that from basic research I did way back. Never actually tried. Still, things could change. Maybe some day we'll find something only the crystal can do.
Sensettia stares at the crystal some more. It reflects some light.
Sensettia: Huh...people might not look at it now, but maybe later...
Gomeisa: Sensettia? Wings moving.
Sensettia: It's all cool! I'm just feeling a little better is all!
MC: What?
Sensettia: Never mind that, let's go! It's not like I'm totally not worried about him.
Sensettia sets off. She seems to have a spring in her step now.

Title Card: Crystal Fragment

Later
The party enters some room with a high ceiling. There's few vines here.
Sensettia: Wow, so there ARE places with some space in them. I bet the acoustics here are great if I sang.
Crowne: Speaking of, it's kind of a waste you only sing in battle.
Sensettia: What?
MC: Yeah you sound great!
Sensettia: But...it's just a weapon here. It's not that big a deal...but thanks.
Gomeisa: Sing more! Makes me want dance!
Sensettia: Really? Is it that much of a dance tune...?
Crowne: He danced on his home planet, so he'll dance to anything.
Sensettia: Oh...well we're in a nice place, so I'll just sing a little. (inhales)
Sensettia: The shining star flowers play the song of the universe~
Crowne: Wow, that song really hits different when it's not going through your Parallel Weapon.
MC: Yeah...

Gomeisa: ...huh? (cocks head)
MC: What's up Gomeisa?
Gomeisa: Song feelings feel different when not hero, but...
Some weird sound starts cropping up.
Sensettia: Wait what? (looks around)
Gomeisa: Monsters again?
Crowne: I mean I can sorta hear that rumbling, but it sounds like something else in there.
It sounds like some kind of engine. And then there's a voice.
MC: ...is that someone laughing?
Sensettia: ...I think I know that ugly laughing. (slightly frowns)
Viscunam rides in on a little buggy!
Viscunam: HAHAHA! There you are, Girlie!
MC: WHAT

Sensettia: Viscunam, where'd you get that buggy!?
Gomeisa: He friend Sensettia looking for?
Sensettia: Friend is stretching it, but yes unfortunately.
Viscunam's buggy drops crystal fragments as he suddenly skids to a stop. Maybe it's Akira style.
Viscunam: It is a portable four wheel drive mini buggy I invented! Do you know how many stairs I would have had to climb? How many bad floors? Behold how it folds back up!
Crowne: You know, that thing is actually kinda interesting. What's it run on?
Sensettia: You should hold that thought. It's probably definitely defective somehow.
MC: Is he an inventor? / Weirdo / He kinda hot...
(C) Sensettia: You what? Your tastes are weird...

Viscunam: ...huh? There are other people here? Girlie, did you get caught by punks again?
Sensettia: What? No! They're heroes and--
Viscunam: Never fear! I shall save you with SCIENCE!
Sensettia: Stop pulling crap out of your bag and listen to me already!
Viscunam: There is nothing to worry about! I will have this all fixed in a jiffy and--oh wait my sensor is going off.
Viscunam pulls out some loud ringing thing.
Viscunam: Hmm? (approaches MC)
MC: W-what?
The sensor gets louder and is going off so hard it starts burning up. BOOM!
MC: Oh my god it blew up!

Viscunam: WHAT
Viscunam picks up the blown up pieces and thinks to himself out loud.
Viscunam: My Ether Crystal Searcher reacted to a person...well they're an Operator and Observer so ether flow is supposed to circle around them but...if there is that strong a reaction then...
MC: Sorry, did I do something?
Viscunam: Hmmmm... hehehehe! I have finally found the Ultimate Observer!
MC: what
Viscunam: I have been searching for you since forever!
Sensettia: Wait what
Viscunam: I cannot just stand here! Come with me! Let me research you!

Crowne: Dude what the hell are you on about!?
Viscunam: Oh! Yes! An Ultimate Observer must also have guards! But that shall not stop ME! I must study you for SCIENCE! To complete my research, by force if need be! (pulls out phone) Transform!
Ta-da! Doctor Octopus Viscunam has transformed!
MC: WHAT
Sensettia: Wait Viscunam what are you DOING!? Ugh, he's not listening anymore! Sorry, help me knock some sense into him! As in, beat him until he stops moving!
Crowne: Well I guess we have to if he's attacking. MC, transform us!
Gomeisa: Yes, must calm friend down!
The party suits up!
Sensettia: Viscunam, listen to me already!
Viscunam: Don't you stand in my way, Girlie! You are coming with me, Observer!
BATTLE START (more happens after)

Viscunam: Noooo!
Viscunam is knocked back and out of his suit. Sensettia sighs and quits out too before walking up to him.
Sensettia: Dang it, do you always have to make things so difficult?
Viscunam: I can't believe you would get in my way too, Girlie.
Sensettia: Don't you give me that when it was YOU attacking MC! Look, they're helping us! And there's an order to things when asking people for research help! Whatever it is you're doing, it doesn't need you to kidnap people! Be friendly and ask!
Viscunam: ...hmm, that makes sense. Very well, I will stop with the forceful approach. But I haven't given up!
Sensettia: Yeah sure whatever. I can't tell if you understand or not.

Crowne: Okay, we done with that? Good.
Gomeisa: Glad we stop him! Is he hero?
Sensettia gasps at the question and leans into Viscunam's ear.
Sensettia: Viscunam, we're telling them we're heroes investigating the place. We're trying to get in anyways, but the vines are in the way so we're working with them as heroes. Got it?
Viscunam: Fine. For science! You want me to play along, is that it Girlie? I am perfectly capable of acting out something like that. Once this is done, I'm researching MC next, hehehe... (smirks at MC)
MC: This all seems above the board.
Sensettia: ...try NOT to laugh and smile like a creeper.

 Viscunam: (clears throat and spreads arms out) Ahem! I just got carried away with SCIENCE a moment ago! I am the great inventor Viscunam, and one day everyone will know me!
Sensettia: YOU CALL THAT AN APOLOGY!? (reverse roundhouse kicks Viscunam)
Viscunam: OOF! W-what was that for, Girlie!?
Sensettia: I'm not hearing anything along the lines of "I'm sorry" before you introduced yourself!
Viscunam: OOF! ...u-umm. I'm sorry...
Sensettia: So you can look sorry. That's progress in your case.
Viscunam: how dare you make a fool of me like this
MC: Such friendship / uh, you okay?

Viscunam: Ahem. I am this girlie's colleague. I hear you simpleto--I mean you people are looking to go further in as well, so I will accompany you.
Sensettia: I'm sorry guys he's just like that, please understand. He might go off like some crazy boyfriend sometimes, but it's fine now. I'll smack him if he does something stupid again.
MC: Nice to meet you / This is my life now / Haven't I seen someone like you before...?
Crowne: I'm Crowne. Hmm... a self-absorbed guy who's into research and inventing. Sounds like someone I know, though he's a bit different. Are inventers just like that?
Gomeisa: Gomeisa! So many inventions, surprising! Viscunam amazing!
Viscunam: Oh, someone here does understand my greatness! Ahahaha!
Sensettia: Yeah you should cut down on the compliments before his head carries him to the stratosphere.
Viscunam: Quiet Girlie! Stop being jealous just because you have the understanding of a flea!
Sensettia: EXCUSE ME!?

Gomeisa: Viscunam have other inventions? Want see more!
Viscunam: Oh, okay! One moment... (rummages through his bag and pulls something out) I put this away since I don't think it'd be used in this weather we're having.
Viscunam pulled out some sort of drinking glass shaped machine.
Gomeisa: What this?
Viscunam: It warms you up using snow.
MC: what
Viscunam: A heater that lights up and runs on ice or snow! It's just like magic!
Sensettia: ...why not just use a hand warmer then?
Viscunam: You have no sense of romance and adventure Girlie.
Sensettia: Can somebody check outside for flying space pigs? Or check if space hell froze over?
Viscunam: Well I don't understand romance and adventure myself, but the masses like it, yes? I researched it, for SCIENCE!
Sensettia: Well that tracks for you.

Crowne: Uh, this thing is clearly crap at efficiency from what I can tell. But the dream behind it might be a thing...
Gomeisa: Wow! Just like igloo or God's ice walls!
Crowne: No not really?
Gomeisa: But snow warming you same idea! So that amazing! Just like magic!
Viscunam: Hmm! You might have a head for SCIENCE, boy! You can have it, I am in a good mood now.
Gomeisa: Really?
Viscunam: Yes! Take it and tell everyone who gave it to you!
Gomeisa: Yay, thank you!
Sensettia: Is getting junk like that really something to celebrate?
MC: Well if he's happy, it's fine I guess.
Viscunam: Rejoice, people! My inventions will clear the way! Follow me! (walks off)
Sensettia: ...sorry about him, guys. I promise he has his helpful times despite being...like that.
Crowne: Well he's a lively one. That buggy still looks pretty nice.
Sensettia: Oh. Well okay then.
And so the party continues on.
End of Episode

Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 3 (Abridged)

Organizer A: Oh no, how could this happen?
This is the event organizing agency, and the party is brought to a meeting room where the organizers are agonizing over the situation.
Organizer A: I've never seen a fortune be wrong before, much less be this wrong. And the event starts tomorrow! (turns toward party and bows)
Organizer A: Thank you again for taking care of the Monsters in town. I don't know what'll happen, but we'll probably have to put things on hold. Sorry about that, since you came all this way to work.
MC: No, things happen...can't anything be done?
Crowne: ...hmmmm. The Monsters show up now, and the Crystal Tower breaks its 100% accuracy record.
Gomeisa: Umm. Two things related?
Crowne: Can't say for sure since I can't prove it either way. But if the crystal is what I think it is, the tower isn't really making predictions. If spirits are real, then okay then. But if the tower can influence the weather? It's possible the Monsters have something to do with it. If that's true, we got some super space tech going on here.
MC: Hmm...

Crowne: ...if there's a Monster up there, we can destroy it. Can't say I can fix things until I can look at it all, assuming I'm even right. I say we should check it out. We can at least see if we can find out why the fortune was wrong.
Gomeisa: Oh, right. Maybe can't fix weather, but want to help if brings back festival!
MC: (turns to the committee) Can we go to the tower?
Organizer A: GASP!
The tower is holy grounds to the planet's people. Also no one actually knows what it's like in there. there's lots of resistance to the idea of letting offworlders inside.
Crowne: Between the weather, the wrong prediction, and the Monsters? Something is clearly up with the place, and it's really likely Monsters are related to it all.
MC: Our job is destroying Monsters. If there's any there, we'll take care of them.
Crowne: Yeah, this is part of securing the festival. Can't we get permission to go in and investigate?
Committee discussion intensifies.
Organizer A: ...okay. If Monsters are doing something, we can't stop them ourselves. Please go. And if you find any Monsters...please save the tower from them.

Later
The party has been given a map to the tower, which Crowne is looking at.
Crowne: ...well we sure talked big. What do we do if it turns out we can't handle things on our own?
MC: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it / We can still do things / Eh, it'll work out
---
(C) Crowne: Damn, you're optimistic.
---
Crowne: Yeah, you're right. We asked to go, and if anything can be done it's up to us.
Gomeisa: Whatever needed, I do my best! Bring back Christmas!
Crowne: Wow, you're still on that? Well whatever motivates you.
Gomeisa: Christmas important! Must be big happy day!
Crowne: ...yeah, it's come this far, so let's do what we can guys.
And so the party heads for the tower.

Flashback!
Some snowy Christmas ago in Orient City, Gomeisa's POV...
Procy: FUCK OFF
Wolf: Uppity little midget! We're taking that big baby with us next time!
Procy: You'll be taking a big fat L courtesy of my goddamn hammer next time if you show your ugly ass faces again!
The villains hobble off. Procy cancels out of his suit and sighs.
Procy: ...well damn, all bark no bite. They actually thought they could take me?
Procy approaches Gomeisa, who's been trying to hide himself.
Procy: ...okay they're gone. I don't think they'll be back anytime soon.
Procy smiles. This isn't enough to make Gomeisa stop shaking. He cries, remembering how terrified he was being shoved into a dark cage, mistreated, and brought to an unknown planet.
Procy: Uh, I said they're gone. Stop crying...ugh, this is why I hate kids... (thinks)
Procy: ...fiiine, I'll try using that thing the customers gave me. (goes inside his bar)

Procy eventually comes back out again, dressed as Santa!
Procy: M-Merry Christmas! I've got presents for good boys and girls and whatevers! ...uhh, what Christmas songs do I know? (hums)
Procy dances and sings, blushing furiously the whole time. Gomeisa doesn't actually know what Santa is yet, but seeing the performance makes him feel better.
Procy: DID YOU JUST LAUGH AT ME!? Dammit, I was thinking I was overdoing it! ...well at least it made the crying stop...what, presents? Wait, you actually CAN understand me? Uh, I was just saying things, I don't actually have anything... (scratches head)
Gomeisa looks up at the falling snow.
Procy: ...oh yeah, it usually snows this time of year. Well, how about I teach you about Earth culture? With how huge you are, it'd be faster if we did it together. Come help me.

Several hours later, Gomeisa and Procy make an igloo. Procy prompts Gomeisa to go inside, where he finds it to be surprisingly warm.
Procy: Nice huh? It's an igloo, you see them a lot in snowy countries in Earth...why are you looking so moved?
Gomeisa remembers a time when he first saw the God Tree on his home planet covered in ice. Flashback inside a flashback!
Dancer: Why do you look so worried, Gomeisa? ...oh, haha. God won't die from that. When winters get this bad, God makes those ice walls to protect itself.
Ice walls are things God makes to survive winter. Maybe God was as warm inside as he is now.
Present inside a flashback
Gomeisa: What are you smiling for, weirdo? Well then again, if you're smiling then it's cool.
This was the day Gomeisa found his smile again in a land far away from home. This was the day Gomeisa first found something nice about Earth, thanks to Procy. This was the day Christmas became a day of pleasant memories for Gomeisa.

Title Card: To the Holy Night's Holy Grounds

The party reaches the Crystal Tower and enters.
Crowne: Huh. I wasn't sure we could get in here, but it looks like we can go further in a bit.
Gomeisa: No Monsters here. So not Monster's fault...?
Crowne: Can't say yet. They might be further in. Also it's a lot cooler in here than I expected with the heat outside.
MC: Oh yeah, huh. Wonder why?
Gomeisa: Oh! Crystal must be protecting! Like igloo!
Crowne: Really? Well the walls being that thick look like they ought to be insulating.
Gomeisa: Like God's ice walls! Tower must be like God for city people.
Crowne: what
The walls and floors start shaking and cracking.
Crowne: Wait what? Earthquake?
Willies!
MC: I sense Monsters!

Vines crash into the room!
Gomeisa: WHAT
Crowne: Are those vines or tentacles!? Oh god there's more of them!
The vines are approaching!
MC: The vines are Monsters!
Gomeisa: WHAT
Crowne: So there ARE Monsters in here!
More incoming!
Crowne: Hmm...I doubt the vines are the main body, so I guess it's like the kaiju Monster that attacked Orient City with the core elsewhere.
MC: So it's this thing's fault?
Crowne: Maybe.
Gomeisa: This Monster stopping Christmas...?
Crowne: Whatever, we gotta fight! MC!
MC: Right! Execute!

Signal surprisingly good. Drone camera deployed, and Crowne is ready to roll.
Crowne: Time to get to the root! Wrench Smasher!
Crowne cuts the vines! The vines regenerate!
Crowne: Oh goddammit!
The vines snake towards Crowne!
MC: Look out!
Crowne: !? Hup!
The vines use Vine Whip!
Crowne: Hey wait, do these things have a mind!?
Gomeisa looks scared, but then balls his fists in determination.
Gomeisa: If we stop Monster...right, must save Christmas!
Crowne: Die already, you overgrown weed!
A vine circles around to Crowne's back.
Gomeisa: !! Crowne, look out!
Crowne: Wha--whoa!?

The vines gouged the spot where Crowne just was!
Gomeisa: Ouch. You okay?
Crowne: Y-yeah, thanks. Why'd you do that when you aren't even suited up!?
Gomeisa: Because don't want Crowne hurt.
Beep beep
MC: Huh?
Phone: New Path detected. Subject: Gomeisa. Connectivity: Very High
Gomeisa stands back up.
Gomeisa: Thanks to Boss and everyone...I got better. I can protect everyone better now...but it hurts to hurt others even with healing power.
The phone glows brighter!
Gomeisa: I want to protect home, like igloo! Where nobody need hurt in warm, safe place!
MC: You're gonna fight huh? Ready Gomeisa?
Gomeisa: Yes!
Phone: Connect?
MC: Execute!

Crowne: Hey wait, what was that light!?
Christmas Gomeisa, go!
Gomeisa: What?
MC: Yes! / A Santa suit? / It's kinda sexy...
Gomeisa: This same Santa suit Boss wore! Reminds me of day learned about igloos!
Crowne: Procy wore that? Really? That aside, someone got a totally new hero suit? Feels like I've seen this before. Is that your power MC?
The vines approach again!
Crowne: How much can these things grow!?
Gomeisa: I take care of it!
Gomeisa holds his arms up and creates an ice wall! The wall blocks the vines and freeze them!
Crowne: It stopped them? Actually it froze them!?
Gomeisa: Ice wall protect everybody!
Crowne: They're slowed! Wrench Smash!
The frozen vine shatters and doesn't regenerate.
Crowne: I don't know how that worked, but they stop when they hit that wall!
MC: Surprising / Gomeisa, push forward with your walls!
(A) Crowne: Gomeisa, move forward with your walls!

Gomeisa: Okay!
Gomeisa focuses and creates a path with his ice walls.
Crowne: Okay, let's get going!
Suddenly, somebody screaming is coming this way!
???: NOOOO
MC: WHAT
Sensettia: Why'd things turn out like this!?
Sensettia is being chased by vines and runs into the party.
Sensettia: Huh!? People!? H-hey, get away from here!
MC: Why are YOU there!? Come with us!
Gomeisa: Oh no, she can't come this way like this!
Gomeisa stops making walls. Sensettia slips in through the opening to group with the party.
Sensettia: Whew, I'm saved! ...well actually we're still in trouble I guess...huh, you guys heroes?
MC: Heroes and Operator.
Sensettia: You're an Operator!? Okay things should be good now. I'm Sensettia, contract with me please!
MC: WHAT / You're a hero too!?
(B) Sensettia: Uh...yeah!

Sensettia: Please, I got separated from a friend and this in an emergency! I'll fight on your side!
Crowne: Well, we can use the help actually.
Sensettia: Yes, that!
MC: Oh okay then.
Wireless contract sent! Accepted.
Sensettia: Okay! Transform me!
MC: Here we go, execute!
Sensettia transforms!
Sensettia: Nothing to fear now!
MC: Oh my god you're a musician!?
Gomeisa: Wow! Cool suit!
Sensettia: Oh right, I'll introduce myself later! Battle first!
Crowne: Agreed. Gomeisa, can you make a hole in the wall?
Gomeisa: Okay!
Crowne: First things first, we're cutting the vines up! Ready guys!?
Sensettia: Yeah! I'm gonna pull my weight now that I'm up! (readies keyboard weapon) Listen up, Monster!
BATTLE START

Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 2 (Abridged)

MC: Ugh. Slept badly...
The next day, it's oddly hot upon waking up. Like sauna level hot.
MC: GODDAMN HOT
MC jumps out of bed and looks out the window. Look at all that sunlight! Where's the snow? There are heat hazes, it's so hot.
MC: WHAT
Beep beep. Knock knock.
Crowne: MC, did you see outside!?

Title Card: Christmas Irregularity

Hot.
Gomeisa: W-why?
Crowne: Suddenly tropical Christmas. What happened??
Guide: Oh no, how can the fortune be wrong!? And not just wrong, but super wrong! What happened to the snow!?
Chaos!
Gomeisa: Townspeople worried...
Crowne: Yeah, freak weather changes do that.
Gomeisa looks around worriedly, then notices a child.
Girl: Mommy, what's gonna happen with Christmas? And Santa?
Mom: Do you SEE this weather we're having? Come on, we have to get home.
Girl: But... (cries)
Gomeisa: Oh no...
Gomeisa looks up and sees a snowflake decoration.
Gomeisa: Christmas...
Crowne: ...they said the weather fortune uses crystals, but I'm PRETTY sure I know what the crystals are. Which means...something at the tower is causing this? (thinks)
MC: Figure something out Crowne? / Oh no, how could this happen?
Crowne: ...no wait, it's all just guesswork. We should first ask what's gonna happen with our gig and if there's anything we can do. Managers' HQ is by the big tree, right?

Suddenly!
Townie: AAAAAA
The screams are getting closer!
MC: WHAT
Monsters: SCREEE
Gomeisa: !? Monsters here!
Crowne: Goddammit, why now!?
Townie: HELP
Gomeisa: Man attacked! Must help!
Crowne: MC!
MC: Let's go! Execute!
Gomeisa and Crowne are suited up!
Crowne: Gomeisa, you heal and protect the civvies and I'll play decoy! Got it?
Gomeisa: O-okay!
BATTLE START (more happens after)

The party is walking to Manager HQ and checking for other Monsters on the way.
Crowne: ...ugh, hot.
MC: And it's not even summer. / Can't stand heat / I guess it's better than it being too cold...
Gomeisa: ...
Gomeisa listens to the city people's talks.
Townie A: The festival is tomorrow, what do we do?
Townie B: We'll have to cancel it. Plus we have Monsters now...
Child C: Nooo!
Townie D: ...I know how you feel, but what can we do after what just happened? I guess we still have our lives? Spirits protect us...

Gomeisa: ...people really looking forward festival.
Crowne: Yeah, look at all the work they put into getting ready.
Gomeisa: ...Christmas stop, huh...?
Crowne: It'll still be a thing, but...the festival's probably kaput with the heat. And Monsters just turned up. We got rid of them, but people will worry about more coming. How can anyone celebrate like this?
Gomeisa: Oh no...
MC: You were really excited, huh?
Gomeisa: So sad...want see songs and dance. But festival stop even more sad.
Crowne: You're really into Christmas, aren't you? Especially for an alien. Something up with that?
Gomeisa: Christmas...important memory me. Boss maybe not remember, but...means lot me.
Gomeisa: Can...Hero me do something?
Digivice noises.
Phone: New Path detected. Subject: Gomeisa. Connectivity: Weak.
MC: Huh?

Meanwhile at the Crystal Tower
Sensettia: ...wow, pretty place. Nowhere else is as tall from a look outside, and it's so sparkly in here. Do the people of this planet know what it's like in here?
Viscunam: Who cares about "pretty"!? The technology here is what's really important! This is clearly an artificial building. When I analyze and appropriate this tower, my legend will truly begin! Hehehehe...
Sensettia: You've got no sense of beauty, you know that? But yeah, we finally got all the way into here, so we might as we get something.
Viscunam: Hmph. The beauty in my research and the beauty in scenery are unrelated. Girlie! Get to work if you want your cut.
Sensettia: Yeah yeah, I know. You just can't wait to make your next trash heap, huh?
Viscunam: T-trash!? Your brain just isn't refined enough to appreciate my inventions!
Sensettia: Yeah sure, whatever. You do your research, and I get my pay to do live concerts on other planets. It's not so bad to remind myself this is just a job to fund my music tour. I can join you on your...great research whatsit.
Viscunam: Hmph. That's why you joined me to begin with. You can take most of the royalties since I don't want it. SCIENCE! My next invention will change history, and I'll figure something out in here! Maybe! Heheheh, it was worth coming here!

Sensettia: ...wow you really don't care about money for someone who looks so greedy. Anyways, you gonna tell me what's in this tower yet? The residents don't even come here, so why did we?
Viscunam: Oh! Are you finally interested in my research Girlie!?
Sensettia: No, not THAT mu--
Viscunam: I've learned Somewhere about the technology used in this tower! There is evidence this crystal is obvious a product of SCIENCE that this planet's people don't know of, and completing my research means we need to get to the tower core and investigate Something there--
Suddenly, shaking!
Sensettia: Ahh! Earthquake!?
Viscunam: Huh? That's not what earthquakes feel like!
Sensettia: Then what just happened!?
The walls and floors crack as vine things start coming in!
Sensettia: WHAT
Viscunam: Girlie, get down!
The vines wall off Viscunam and Sensettia from each other!
Sensettia: HEY! What am I supposed to do now!? Viscunam!
Viscunam can't hear her.
End of Episode

Live A Hero Christmas Melt Countdown Episode 1 (Abridged)

Procy: S'up. Weird seeing you two together.
Crowne: Hey, long time no see. And yeah, it's always about work when I come here.
Procy's bar, Hero's Guild Earth Camp. MC and Crowne are here together.
MC: Hi Procy / Wow feels like forever ago / FLUFF
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(B) Procy: Huh, yeah it has, hasn't it?
(C) Procy: No touching!
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Procy: Hey Crowne, when WAS the last time you were here?
Crowne: Well I AM a Parallel Flight hero, but I've been busy with my day job that I haven't done hero work much lately. I can finally take some time off, so I figured I should come by.
Procy: Yeah, lots of spacecraft work near the end of the year with people going home. Wanna drink? I'll give it to you cheap.
Crowne: Haha, thanks but I'll have to pass. I'm here for work now and Huckle is gonna bug me if I do drink.
MC: So you do want to drink... / Your secret's safe with me~ / I want a drink too
(A) Crowne: It's a bar, I can't help it. It's fine, that's not why I came here today.
(BC) Crowne: You're supposed to be keeping it together.

Crowne: Sooo why'd you ask us here?
Procy: I wanted to talk to you about a job.
MC: What?
Procy: There's this job being passed around my agency...
Door opens.
Gomeisa: Oh! MC, Crowne! Hello!
Gomeisa is carrying some small boxes under his arms.
MC: Hi Gomeisa / Long time no see! / Hug!
(A) Gomeisa: Hi! Feel free relax!
(B) Gomeisa: Yes, been long time!
(C) Gomeisa: Oh no, arms full! Can't hug back!

Procy: Hey Gomeisa. What's that?
Gomeisa: Christmas decorations!
Crowne: Oh is it that time of year already?
Gomeisa: Yes!
Procy: He's weirdly into this and asked to decorate. C'mon, make it quick, it's business time.
Gomeisa: Oh, right! Excuse!
Gomeisa walks further into the bar where there's an undecorated tree.
Gomeisa: Hmm hmm hmm~ (starts decorating)
MC: Well he's having fun. Christmas, huh?
Procy: Speaking of, this job's related to Christmas.
Crowne: Huh. Is it a holiday party security detail?
Procy: Close enough. But it ain't on Earth. It's a colony planet's Christmas party.
MC: An Earth holiday on some other planet? Really?

Procy: Well they're having their version of winter this time of year and have their own festivities around this time, and Christmas got mixed in with it.
Crowne: Oh. Cultural exchange? That's how Christmas in Orient City was done too, before.
Procy: Yeah, it's meant to remind of connections with connected planets or something? But there's been a lot of villain activity in that star system lately, so they're asking hero agencies for help in case they attack during the party and the request came to me and Gomeisa.
Crowne: Huh. Sooo why do you wanna talk to us about a job you guys got?
Procy: ...I can't take it. I'm already booked at another Christmas event, but I can't go and say no to this one.
MC: Don't you have to? Why can't you?
Procy looks at Gomeisa.
Gomeisa: And pretty star top!
Procy: He's been really excited for this job once he heard about it. It's some sort of music festival kinda thing, so he wants to go come high tide or hell. (scratches head in embarrassment)
Procy: Well, it's good money. I don't have to go myself, but I can send someone else for a finder's fee...also I want him to get some experiences outside my shop and to take his feelings into consideration.
Crowne: D'awww.
Procy: Shaddup. ANYWAYS, I want you guys to go with him. Every other agency's already booked for Christmas, and I can't ask anyone else. (clasps hands) Pleeeease?

Later
MC: And that's what happened.
Huckle: Huh. Well I looked at the details and it seems okay. You can go, but I'm worried about the number of people available for dispatch. *(puts tablet down and sighs)*
Huckle: Ryekie, Akashi, and I are going to be on a business trip.
Akashi: We're gonna see the agencies we're usually in touch with, right?
Huckle: Yes, I wanted them to see you, and it's a good time to get known.
Ryekie: You're used to hero work now, so now's the time for you to try out the business side of things! Market yourself and maybe you'll get more work!
Akashi: I'm getting nervous now...
Ryekie: Just be yourself! Sure there'll be VIPs, but we'll be there to help!
Akashi: oh
Huckle: Ryekie, stop making it worse!

Huckle: Anyways, can anyone else go?
Mokdai: Hmm. I'm interested, but it's on Christmas Day, right? I have a video to edit...
Sui: I'm booked for a fashion show on the moon with Master. This music festival thing sounds fun though. I wonder what it's like?
Akashi: Christmas stuff I guess?
Mokdai: It's a huge event, so think of all the food! I wish I could go...
Sui: I bet their stage outfits must be nice. It sounds interesting...what about you and the others, Exio? Melide might like this.
Exio: Sorry, Yoshiori and I have to pass. Can't let ourselves be seen in public much. I'd like Monomasa and Melide to go if possible though.

Huckle: Well if we can't send anyone, we can just turn Procy down...
Crowne: Hey wait, there's still me and MC. I can go. It's been a while since I did hero stuff anyways, and I wanna help.
Huckle: Aren't you busy with space mechanic work?
Crowne: We're on Christmas break now, and I need to use my leave. I don't have plans though, so spending my break on this sounds good. How about you, MC?
MC: Well not like I have plans / I'd love to go with you, Crowne! / Christmas with Gomeisa!
Crowne: Cool, let's go take that job then.
Huckle: Thanks. We owe Procy a lot, so I want us to do whatever we can for him when he asks. Take care on the trip!
And that's how MC, Crowne, and Gomeisa went on a trip to this other planet on Christmas Eve.

Title Card: A White Christmas on Another Planet

Later on Planet Whatever It Is
Worker A: Lower that sign! Slowly!
Worker B: Is that thing slanted? ...oh, now it's good. Move that star to the left!
Christmas decorations in space! Stars, snows, candles! Giant stage! Everything's coming together.
Crowne: Wow. Even on Earth, Christmas events usually aren't this big.
Guide: This is the biggest tourist spot of the year and the whole city becomes part of the event area.
The guide from the client organization board is pointing out and explaining things to the party.
Guide: We got four other stages too, each with stalls and restaurants around them. And they're big enough areas that we have shuttle buses going to each one.
MC: Seems like a lot to guard... / I wanna see everything!

Crowne: ...where's Gomeisa? Wasn't he just with us?
Gomeisa: Oh! There you are!
Gomeisa has several cups of sweets in his arms.
Crowne: Oh, were you shopping around?
Gomeisa: Hehe. Saw nice caramel almond store. Big tree, merry music! Wow! (starts eating caramel almonds)
MC: Well he's enjoying himself.
Gomeisa: Christmas! Still work, but need fun! Sing! Dance! Eat candy together! Because Christmas!
Crowne: It's supposed to be more dignified, but I guess all that other stuff is what Christmas is to you, huh?
Gomeisa: Christmas birthday for...someone, yes? Wow, so many people say happy birthday!
MC: I guess?

Gomeisa: Love Christmas mood! Decorate tree, celebrate together...just like home planet festival.
Crowne: Well there's all sizes of trees. But yeah, this festival is hopping. Wouldn't some snowfall make it perfect?
Guide: We got a fortune saying it'd snow tomorrow, so we'll have what Earth calls a white Christmas?
MC: Fortune? What?
Guide: What? Oh! On this planet we get weather reports through a weather fortune and not a weather forecast from spirits in the Crystal Tower. The crystals tell us, and they're always right.
Crowne: And suddenly we're in a fantasy zone. What's this crystal thing?
Guide: Uhh...oh, here's a crystal! (picks up a shining, transparent rock the size of his palm)

Gomeisa: Pretty...look like Ether Crystal.
Crowne: Hmm...well whatever. How's it work?
Guide: We ask the crystals which link to the Crystal Tower and bring back a fortune.
The guide points to some big building off in the distance in some wasteland.
Guide: That's the Crystal Tower. It rules our planet's weather and is like a protector god. In the past there wasn't anywhere safe to live because we had terrible heat waves. Stories say we gathered up crystals to make the tower and wish for peace. Then boom! It started raining, and plants grew where crystals were. And then we started praying to the tower. It's never been wrong, and lots of people believe in it. Earth scientists were surprised their weather forecast machines weren't as accurate.
MC: Huh. How's it work...?
Crowne: Hmm...
Guide: (puts crystal away) Okay, let me show you to your hotel. Thanks for being our security tomorrow.
That night
MC looks out the window. It's starting to snow.
MC: Nice. I wonder what the event's like?
Something occurs to MC.
MC: Don't fortunes turn out wrong sometimes too, though?
Whatever. Bedtime!
End of Episode