The DD Brigade!

It took a second for Marigold to realize how she had heard that voice before. She had definitely heard it in person, but she slowly figured out that she actually recognized it from a now-banned Twitch stream that she had watched avidly. She had always been ashamed to watch the stream, basically for the same reason that it had ultimately been banned, but she couldn't lie to herself that she hadn't done it.

The voice from the other side of the bathroom was that of Saki-chan, the leader of the DD Brigade. When Mari strained to listen, she realized that she could hear the sounds of the other DD Brigadiers in the bathroom too. They must have come as a group.

Lynn always insisted that they had to view the DD Brigade as their competitors first and foremost. That was mostly just her obsession with one-upping Saki, Marigold had always thought. But Lynn had done a good job of fermenting that sort of rivalry between the two groups, to the point that Marigold now felt a little uncomfortable being in this room with them without her fellow BB Brigade members backing her up. Come on, Lynn, she thought to herself. You got us into this, and now I have to deal with it myself.

"Mari?" Saki's voice came again. So familiar. The two had interacted a few times before Lynn had really gotten intense about the competition, and they had been friendly, even. "LittleLambX3?" Well, that clinched it. If Saki still knew Mari's tag then there was no way she was getting out of this conversation now. Somehow Saki had been able to figure out that it was her just from that little yelp? Ridiculous. Maybe the DDers had seen her go into the bathroom.

"Saki?" she responded. Basically the safest option she had. "Is that you?" As she pretended to 'feel out' the conversation, she slowly started to put her costume back on. There was no way she would be able to get the armor back on in time so she would have to settle for just the quilted black bodysuit that she had thrown on the floor. It was hardly 'decent,' but it was better than talking to Saki in her compression vest and her lacy white panties.

"Yeah!" Saki said. "Are you okay, honey?" Marigold couldn't tell what was going on, exactly. Saki-chan was hardly the monster that Lynn made her out to be, but she wasn't exactly this kind of girl, either. Was she trying to trap Mari somehow? She couldn't help but be suspicious.

Slowly, Marigold left the stall, edging out behind the door and emerging in the bathroom. The DD Brigade were all in front of the mirror, touching up their makeup. It looked like they had just done a costume change, and now they were putting on the finishing touches. Apparently they were taking a page from the BB Brigade's book, because now they were dressed as Overwatch characters, too. Corinne was dressed as Sombra, even doing the little touches of circuits in hair paint on the side of her head. Rachel was dressed as 'Femji.' The armor was next-level impressive, even looking like metal with a cool faceplate. But the most impressive part of Rachel's costume was the immaculately-sculpted butt. Tessa, as usual, was wearing her costume skin-tight. She was Symmetra, and it looked like she might have actually only been dressed in a small bralette and thong, with the rest of the costume actually painted onto her body. Mari couldn't help but gawk a little, and think about how the X-ray glasses wouldn't really do much in her case.

Most amazing of all, though, was Saki. She had chosen the costume that no one in the BB Brigade had dared to go for, even Lynn: Widowmaker. She had painted her skin, and her glossy violet bodysuit might as well have been painted on, too. With her back turned to Marigold, it was clear that every inch of the Widowmaker costume was perfect, including her so very round-and-bouncy bottom. She had her hair-- or was it a wig?-- up in Widowmaker's distinctive ponytail, with a perfect recreation of Amelie's goggles adorning her forehead like a crown. Her heels were way higher than Marigold ever would have dared to try to wear. She looked head-to-toe incredible.

"Are you alright, honey?" she said, not even looking over her shoulder at Mari. Wow.