Buy Bright

Spirit Guard Serenity battles Cell-celia at a Buy Bright store.

**Buy Bright** is a location in *Magical Girl Policy*. It is a franchise of electronics stores, with one such store in Kessia City serving as the set of the Spirit Guard's battle with Cell-celia. It is the series' equivalent to the real world's Best Buy.

## Description

Buy Bright is a standard electronics store, stocking various devices and media on numerous shelves. It is apparently a popular place to shop, as it is noted to have a fairly large number of customers present when Rob and friends visit one in Kessia City.

## History

### Week 5

Trace heads to a Buy Bright in Kessia City in order to deploy Cell-celia, Platicore's latest monster. With some difficulty, Trace employs perception filters so people in the store don't notice her setting the monster up. Once Cell-celia is ready, she takes on the appearance of an employee and is left to drain Investiture from the people, which she does via a virus that is placed on any phone she touches and spreads via text message.

Some hours later, Robynne, Cory, and Eli stop by the store to find a birthday present for Cory's father. They run into Stacy, who is looking to replace her phone case, and at Rob's suggestion goes to find a sturdy Dolphin Crate one. Stacy buys the case and has the disguised Cell-celia attach it for her, at which point her phone is infected. Meanwhile, Robynne gets a similar sensation to when Investiture is drained in her vicinity, so she has Cory and Eli text the rest of the team about this apparent monster. After watching Stacy talk to the employee and leave, then texting Stacy to confirm her suspicions, Rob figures out the mechanics of the virus and that the employee is the source. She has her friends exit the store with her infected phone so they can give it to Will for examination while she battles the monster. Eli warns her about starting the fight before the other Spirit Guards arrive, but Rob is adamant about trying to kill the monster before its rapidly spreading virus makes it too powerful.

Cory and Eli leave, while Robynne heads to the restroom to transform into Spirit Guard Serenity. Unknown to them, Cell-celia can sense their movements via wireless signals and has caught on to their suspicion of her. When Rob's signal suddenly vanishes into the Transformation Station, Cell-celia waits outside the restroom, then reveals her true form to burst through the wall and attack Serenity as soon as the Spirit Guard reappears. The wounded Serenity orders the people in the store to flee, and gets Cell-celia to gloat while her healing factor works. Spirit Guard Charity arrives and heals Serenity, but the two fail to make much headway against their opponent's steadily growing capabilities until Valor appears, who uses her Rising Spirit walls to hinder the monster's signal vision and open it up for a killing blow. After Serenity is chastised for her recklessness, she serves as a decoy for the police waiting outside and leads them on a chase for a while so Valor and Charity can escape undetected and the Hush Corps have extra time for evidence cleanup.

Word of the Cell-celia attack instantly breaks out, to the point that Stacy manages to hear about it on the radio on her way home. The event offered the first sighting of the newest Spirit Guard that was previously only in Nick's falsified photos of Rale Valley Mall security footage, but witness accounts of her appearance are inconsistent due to the Standridge Circle's perception filter and Serenity's Disconnection Effect.

Some time later, Trace returns to Buy Bright to retrieve Cell-celia's empathic capacitor and the collected Investiture within. She is frustrated that the monster lasted less than six hours and got itself pinned to the hard-to-reach ceiling, and expects Platicore will be similarly angry at the former.

The next day, a ConSpiriters meeting is held, but no substantial information in light of the recent attack could be found. NightKnight leaves said meeting and finds Robynne and Stacy on promotion duty. When he reveals he is a ConSpiriter, Stacy comments on how she, Rob, Cory, and Eli were at Buy Bright just before Cell-celia appeared. He is ready to question them on the matter, but Rob makes herself cry in fear over moving to a city with real monsters in order to shut down the discussion and protect her secret identity.