Team Hazmat

Team Hazmat consists of Wilhelmina Beijerinck, Milly Geiger and Augusta Garett. They are the first team of magical girls who were ever assigned sewer duty in order to protect the City's sewage workers from monsters that managed to crawl into the sewage system deep enough not to be affected by the Great Barrier's neutralizing effect.

## Formation

Team Hazmat was formed in C.S.Y. -3 amidst massive protests of sewage workers in The City. The workers were outraged at the dangers and rising death toll of working in the sewers due to monster infestation in the depths. The monsters started finding their way there around C.S.Y. -35 and over time their numbers grew enough to pose a threat to sanitation crews. Due to involvement of Foundationalists, the City kept refusing the workers Magical Girl protection and asked them to rely on long telescopic stun rods that were supposed to keep monsters away from them, but did a very poor job in this regard.

Augusta Garett, the adoptive daughter of two sewage workers, whose biological parents (who also worked in sanitation) were killed in a monster attack, was dissatisfied by the City's treatment of the workers and vowed that should she receive The Dream, she would use her powers to protect her parents down in the dark, twisting depths. Coincidentally, she and her two friends Milly Geiger and Wilhelmina Beijerinck, also kids of sewage workers, received their dream on the same night, right amidst the protests. Realizing that they were granted the exact kind of powers and costumes that would allow them to operate in the grungy depths without issue, they petitioned the C.D.D. and Founder's Church to be allowed to patrol in the sewers. After a bombastic speech about destiny and Founder's will that Wilhelmina came up with, they were granted their request and formally registered as a special duty magical girl team under the name Team Hazmat, and they each took their titles based on their powers - Gas, Waste and Virus.

## Fighting Style

While formally a team, on a routine day they often split up, each one being assigned a group of sanitation personnel to protect while they work. This is done so that they can cover more ground - each girl is more than capable of handling ordinary monsters alone after all. However, should there be reports of a large group, or a powerful monster in a sector, the team gets together and head there to take care of it. Workers evacuate the area and do not continue work until an all-clear signal is given.

They have excellent crowd control capabilities, which make them practically untouchable in the narrow underground tunnels. Working together, they use smart combinations of their abilities to dispatch even the most powerful of foes.

## Fame

All of The City sewage workers revere them as heroes - thanks to their efforts, not a single worker ever got injured or killed while under their watch. Their reception by the wider public has been different however.

Most of the City's residents do not even know of their existence, and those who do respect them, but do not give them the reverence reserved for other magical girls.

As for other magical girls, most also have no idea who they are, and while those who do usually respect them for taking on such thankless duty, some of the more popular ones view them with contempt and sometimes even ridicule them. In those circles, they are knows as "The Grunge Gals."