Yay, updating at 1am in the night. Am I cool now? 
Anyway, here we go with the real start. There's already more planned, but I promised to get this update done today, so here is the slightly shorter than planned version.
- Episode 1: Gather, Magical ☆ Librarian Squad -
I swayed a bit as my vision blurred.
'Damn, I didn't hit hard enough'I tried to concentrate on lifting my arm again, this time making sure to knock myself out properly.
Just then, I was distracted by a voice in my mind.
""Oh, there you are!""
I twitched.
There was only one person in this library that could communicate that way, by speaking directly to people's minds.
I looked around me, trying to find the familiar figure of my fellow Librarian Esifex, but she was nowhere to be seen...
"Huh?"
"Wo schaust du denn hin! Hier oben!"
I looked up at the sudden voice from above, only to see...
"Ohohohohohoho!"
There, floating down into the room with a loud laugh, was Esifex.
However, she was changed.
'Well, it's not like I didn't expect it, but still....'""Behold! Magical ☆ Mindreader Esi-tan! Ahahahahahahaha!""
I sighed.
Esifex was not wearing her usual Librarian uniform.
Instead, she wore a frilly dress and held a large staff that was topped by a glowing crystal orb.
However, that was not an orb glowing in pink or blue as one would expect from a magical girl.
This one was glowing with a red fire, and...
'Is that an EYE in there? Oh god, it's staring at me!'""Ahahahaha, you can't hide from me!""
'I wasn't trying to hide...'""I can read all of your thoughts!""
'That's not exactly news, and it was part of your name as well...'
""And now you're going to come with me, as the captain has ordered it!""
'Yeah, whatev---' "EHH?"
Before I had a chance to react, Esifex had swooped down and grabbed me by the collar, then proceeded to fly up to the hole in the ceiling.
Just as I had resigned myself to my fate, the flight was already over and Esifex dropped me down onto the roof.
"Auftrag ausgef?hrt, Captain", she happily reported to the girl standing at the edge of the roof, her back turned to us.
"Thank you, Esi", the woman replied. "With this, the squad is complete."
For a moment I wondered who that elegant girl in the colorful kimono in front of me was, then she turned around.
"Ruro? Where did you get those cloth-", I started, before she interrupted me..
"That's Magical ☆ Samurai Ruro-tan from now on."
"Okay.... so, Magical Samurai Ruro-tan..."
"NO!"
"What?"
"You said it wrong!"
"But, it's what you said..."
"It isn't! It's 'Magical ☆ Samurai Ruro-tan!"
"Yeah, that's what I said!"
"It's not! You forgot the ☆! "
".........."
The red-haired girl just stared at me silently.
".......you're joking, right?"
The girl stared some more, starting to look displeased.
".... you're... not joking... Can't I just call you Ruro as usual? You know, since we're friends and all..."
"That's fine as well!", she stated with a bright smile.
I wasn't even trying to make sense of the situation anymore.
"Alright, so... what happened?", I asked, but Ruro didn't seem to hear me.
Instead, someone else answered.
"You saw that book, right? That's what happened"
As I turned my head, I saw Chaore, our resident Schr?dinger's bunnygirl, who was wearing a stereotypical pink magical girl outfit based on a sailor uniform.
It barely managed to cover even a bit of her legs.
"Ruro?", I asked her.
"Obviously. The name's Magical ☆ Bunny Chao-tan, but don't you dare call me that. It's only my looks that have been changed by Ruro, I haven't been turned into a magical girl like the others."
'Hmm, Ruro's got good tastes', I thought as I mustered Chaore's new dress.
I could see Esifex grinning at the edge of my vision.
"So, the book caused all that?", I asked the bunny-girl.
"Yeah. I don't know what happened, but the pages got spread around, and whoever got one has been turned into...", she motioned towards Esifex and Ruro, "...that."
I followed Chaore's motion towards the two girls, one of them chuckling maniacally while the other stood motionless, watching the setting sun.
"Anything we can do?"
"Probably. If we can collect all the pages and seal the book again, I guess that might help.", Chaore said without much enthusiasm.
A shimmer of hope lit up in my heart....
"Though we have no idea where the pages are."
... only to get extinguished at once.
Sure, this wouldn't be the world of the Kaleidoscope if things were that easy.
For now, it seemed, I would have to just play along and pray for the best.
Suddenly, Ruro turned around again, drawing one of her swords in a swift motion.
"Magical ☆ Librarian Squad, are you ready?"
She swung the sword to the side, pointing it at Chaore.
"Magical ☆ Bunny Chao-tan?"
"Yeah, yeah"
"What was that?"
"...."
Chaore sighed.
"For Justice!", Chaore shouted, healf-heartedly striking a pose.
"Exactly!"
Ruro smiled brightly, then pointed her blade at the next person.
"Magical ☆ Mindreader Esi-tan?"
The burning eye on Esifex' staff gleamed.
"Ohohohohohoho! I am always ready to fight evil wherever it shows its ugly face!"
'Can I get the old Esifex back?'The eye darted around and stared at me.
I yelped and jumped back a bit.
Ruro took that as a signal to point the blade at me.
"Moe Moe Tuna-tan?"
"What?"
"It's your name!"
'Why is my name the only one without a 'Magical' in i-- wait, that's not it!'""I think Sakana wants to be magical as well, Ruro-tan. What do you think about that?"", Esifex' voice resounded through our minds.
"Sorry, Sakana, but there are no more of the magical papers left..."
I sighed in relief.
"... so you will have to stay as you are. You will be one of our pets, since every Magical Girl needs one!", Ruro ended with a big smile.
"Your...pet?", I asked in disbelief.
"A magical pet, yes. What else should we do with you, tuna?"
"But...", I started, only to be stopped by the blade that was suddenly dangerously close to my neck.
"Hmmm, you wanted to say something?"
I shook my head.
"Good~. Then next, Magical ☆ Tuna Rider Rou-tan!", Ruro proceeded, pointing her blade at a place behind me.
I froze, then turned my head as slowly as possible, trying to postpone the truth that I knew I would no doubt see in a moment.
As my mind managed to grasp what my eyes saw, all expression left my face and I just stared blankly.
"No."
"Why not?", Roukan asked with a confused expression.
"Because I say so."
"But I..."
"I said get off my---"
Suddenly, I felt the cold sensation of sharp steel against my neck once more.
"Well, maybe... for a bit...", I mumbled, trying to keep an eye on the blade all the time.
"Yay~!"
Roukan jumped up and down happily. She was wearing a lime-green swimsuit, school version, with a nametag designating her as 'Rou-tan', despite her obviously properly grown up body.
However that was less disturbing than the fact that the girl was sitting on... me.
Or to be more precise, she was sitting on half of me.
For reasons unknown, Roukan had apparently decided that my tuna-half would make for an appropriate magical mount.
'No wait, she wouldn't have done that alone. And those clothes...'I turned around once more to face Ruro, who was looking at Roukan with dreamy eyes and swaying slightly back and forth.
"Let's ride into battle, for Love and Justice, yay~!", Rou happily shouted while bouncing around on my tuna.
The sight of this caused Ruro to burst into a spontaneous, but nontheless very impressive, nosebleed that made her whole upper body fly back from the recoil.
Within a moment, however, she caught herself, wiped off the blood and continued her speech.
"This time, we are taking someone new with us on the mission."
I looked up in surprise.
'Someone new? But all the Librarians are here, who...'"Ufufufufufu, dort dr?ben, Thunfisch!"
As I followed the direction Esifex' staff was pointing in with my eyes, something changed.
The sky around as become dark, then
music started to play.
Several colored orbs flew out of nowhere and rotated around a part of the roof that was slightly higher than the one we were standing on, illuminating it with rapidly changing colors.
Then, a cloud of pink smoke arose at the point the orbs were orbiting.
A shadow appeared in the clouds, very clearly that of a girl.
For a few seconds, she remained still, then she stepped out of the smoke and into our view.
Then, after having taken a few steps, she started dancing to the music.
I also noticed that apparently she was the one singing the whole song by herself.
However, it was difficult to make out her looks in the flashing light that came from the orbs.
When the song ended, the girl struck a final pose and held it while the last notes of the song faded and the sky returned to its normal color.
Finally I had a chance to get a look at the girl.
She had shoulder-length brown hair, and was wearing a very revealing set of clothes that was clearly intended to show her audience as much as possible without being explicitely erotic.
'Damn. With that skirt, there's no way Ruro won't like her.'I looked at Ruro again, who was just recovering from another massive nosebleed. She staggered on her feet, but still managed to point her blade at the girl that had just performed in front of us.
Now that she was standing in the broad daylight, the girl seemed rather embarassed with her appearance and was blushing madly.
"This is our newest member", she said. "Magical ☆ K-Polaris"
Soon, there'll be more from the evil team as well. Please look forward to the next Episode~
