Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 363: Repetitive IIF and MM2 Shenanigans

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Date: 10:50:32 PM, December 8th to 10:57:20 PM, December 8th;
8:04:56 PM, December 9th to 10:39:22 PM, December 9th;
3:22:29 PM, December 10th to 10:16:54 PM, December 10th, 2006.

Metal Man is at HQ, when he gets yet another call. "...What is it..." He brings up the screen, and sees Douglas. "Oh, you. What do you want today?"

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Oh, the usual... except not. I just found out that my dex isn't connected with the others anymore. Why is this?"

Metal Man: "I can't just let you see everything the other Questers would. That'd be silly... would you let me peek into everything of yours? That's what'd happen if I reactivated those features."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Uh." *Holds up his spear* "I figured you could this whole time."

Metal Man: "I turned it off in exchange for turning off your access to our files. You know. So nobody gets to spy on one another."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "I thought of it as more of a lifesaver. Hmph. I've got nothing to hide, Metal Man. You may still think I'm the Aetos that randomly pushed things and caused problems, but as long as I know that I am Douglas Craft, I'm sure I can fight the spirit. I'm here to help you ensure a peaceful Nintendus. I don't see why you have anything to hide now."

Metal Man: "Ah. I had in mind either the spirit you refer to or Charles, who both made problems. I'll think about it."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Also, you may want to review this video." *Sends Metal a video recording of the whole operation from last session* *Logs out.*

Metal Man (GM): Continu-WEEEEEEEORRRR
The Questers remain in the Chaotic zone; now with supplies from the Toad shack, they merely must cross... *dun dun dunnn* The Valley of Nonsense!

Digifanatic: "And now, the insanity really begins..."

Dragoshi: "...Yep."

Fizban: "...this is quite an odd place."

Metal Man (GM): The path to the valley is clear; you can walk right over to the edge of it.

Digifanatic: "Just don't have it get to you, alright, folks?"
*He starts to walk...*

Fizban follows slightly behind Digi.

Dragoshi: *Follows.*

Bonecrusher follows as well.

Metal Man (GM): You walk on over to the edge of it, and discover a steep, switchback path going down, made of decomposed gravel.
You may attempt to climb down; it looks difficult, though.

Digifanatic: "Hmm... can anyone make a makeshift parachute or something? Or will we have to scale down this?"

Fizban: "Hmm... ...well, I suppose I will try first."
*He starts climbing down.*

Digifanatic: "Now..."

Metal Man (GM): You begin climbing down.

Digifanatic: "Of course, if someone can just float their way down and we can just take a hold of them, that's also a safer possibility..."

Dragoshi: .oO(...Hmmm... Maybe...)

Metal Man (GM): Fiz slides down the slope.
He barely manages not to crash into the bottom, which, for some reason, is full of spikes.
Luckily, he's okay; just a little dirt-covered.

Fizban: "...well, that was particularly lucky."

Digifanatic: "Oh boy..."

Dragoshi tries to summon two albatrosses that're bigger than the usual ones.

Metal Man (GM): Roll for it.
Yup.
Anyone else climbing down: Climb checks.
Bonecrusher also climbs down.
And so does Digi.
You're now at the bottom... and confronted by... a confusing puzzle!
Three vases; one red, one blue, and one green.
And a sign.
'Destroy the vase which has no opposite.'

Dragoshi: "...Vases AGAIN?"

Digifanatic: "No opposite, hmm..."

Dragoshi: "That could go in so many directions."

Digifanatic: "Hmm..." *Goes back to his art knowledge* "Green is the complementary color of red..."

Fizban: "However, blue and red are similars to create purple."

Dragoshi: "Indeed."

Digifanatic: "Right. And since they are similar in that category..."
"That they make purple..."

Fizban: "...perhaps it is telling us to destroy no vase."

Dragoshi: "Possibly."

Fizban: "Since they all have opposites, then we should destroy none of them and continue on."

Digifanatic: "And I'd like to go back to my complementary theory... so, of the three, blue is a complementary of neither red nor green."

Dragoshi: "After all, the sign does seem to contradict the facts."

Digifanatic: "Hence, it has no opposite."

Dragoshi: "...Then again... That also makes sense."

Digifanatic: "Dragoshi... maybe because a balance is necessary."

Fizban: "Are you sure, Master Fanatic."

Digifanatic: "I wouldn't be surprised if I was correct based on that."

Fizban: "Then you would not mind being the one to break the blue vase."

Digifanatic: "Maybe this puzzle comes from such a land where balance is valued..."

Dragoshi: .oO(I wouldn't be surprised if you WEREN'T, considering how strange this place is so far... But, then again, never know)

Digifanatic: "Nah, I have no problem smashing it."

Metal Man (GM): This land, however, has no balance.

Fizban: "Then on with you."

Digifanatic goes over to the blue vase, picks it up (if he can), and heaves it to the ground.

Metal Man (GM): It breaks... but a loud 'BUZZZ' occurs, and the vase reassembles. A flying toaster hits Digi in the head, dealing 50 damage. Then it steals 1000 of his coins.

Digifanatic: "Ow!"

Fizban: "...I suppose not, then."

Digifanatic: "At least I had a good reason..."

Dragoshi: "..." *Waits for someone else to do the other two vases.*

The Wraith: *The spirit flickers into sight.* "...Remember where we are..."

Dragoshi: "...You expected logic to work in this place?"

Metal Man (GM): This leaves red... or green.

Fizban: "Indeed. I suppose the most illogical thing to be to simply try to smash the wall."

Metal Man (GM): Merry Christmas! I mean... you may choose.

Fizban: "Or all vases."

The Wraith: "Would you agree, that red can be considered the opposite of either of the other colors...?"

Dragoshi: "..." *Nods.*

Fizban: "...yes, indeed. I see..."

The Wraith: *He drifts over to the vases, lifts a hand to aim his palm at the red one, and lets loose a blast of energy.*

Digifanatic: "Most likely I would not think logic works, but coming from the fact that these things come from all sorts of other places, just compiled in this glitchy realm... At least the rules from their original places would apply."

Fizban: "...well, we should not dally. What shall it be?"
*...looks, shrugs, then brings his staff down on the red vase.*

Metal Man (GM): Fizban is electrified and knocked down to 1 HP, and loses 10,000 coins.

Digifanatic hands Fizban an Ultra Shroom...
He downs a Vial and a normal Shroom himself.

Metal Man (GM): This leaves the green vase.

Fizban: "...well, that was unpleasant..."

Digifanatic: "Hmm... well, green it is."

The Wraith: "...Hmm." *He then looks to that wall.* "...Maybe you were onto something there."

Fizban takes a few rounds worth of TP to heal himself to full. Good thing, his magic.

Digifanatic: "Keep it anyway."
*He smashes the green vase.*

The Wraith: "No, don't destroy the vase..."

Digifanatic: "Hey, I'll blame myself."

Metal Man (GM): Julian is there too.
So... wall, green vase. What do ya do?
...Silly me.
*Smash* Wall goes down!
Next area: You must walk across a tiled hallway.
Wall went down from green one exploding.

Fizban grumbles, dusts off his robes, and takes a look at the new area.

The Wraith: "...Onward." *He goes to move on.*

Digifanatic moves on...

Bonecrusher follows.

Metal Man (GM): You walk onto the tiled floor...

Dragoshi waits for the others to be hit with a tarp or a trap, or something, and moves on if they aren't, albeit carefully.

Metal Man (GM): SCLORK! SCLORK! Two spikes fly out of it and stab Digi and Bonecrusher in the foot!
15 damage each to them.
Must be another pressure plate spike trap.

The Wraith: "...Hmm. Watch your step."

Fizban: "...hm." *What color are the titles?*

The Wraith: *He looks to where the spike traps were, how they're arranged compared to each other.*

Digifanatic: "Oh my..."

Metal Man (GM): It's a basic steel gray tiled floor.
All of the tiles appear to be... pressure plates.

Digifanatic now looks at the floor as well, trying to determine what is best...

Metal Man (GM): Yes.

The Wraith: "...This is interesting."

Metal Man (GM): There's concrete walls to the left and the right.

The Wraith: *He looks to the walls... Also ti--Alright...*

John: *About how far apart are these walls?*

Metal Man (GM): 10 feet apart

Fizban: "...Master Spirit. Could you see the mechanisms under the plates by slipping underground?"

Digifanatic: "That sounds like a decent idea..."

Fizban hrms softly, then strikes at one of plates with the end of his staff.

Metal Man (GM): It shoots a spike upwards, then retracts it once the pressure is gone.

Fizban: "...or perhaps..."
*He strikes it again, holding it down.*

The Wraith: "...I could try that..." *He backs up so that he's not over the tiles, and goes to dive under the ground.*

Metal Man (GM): You dive under, and see the plate mechanisms. You could easily defeat all of them in a few minutes.

The Wraith: *He pops his head back up.* "Hand on juuust a moment..." *He then dives back down and goes to disable the nearest trap.*

Digifanatic: "Bingo..."

Metal Man (GM): You pull loose a critical string that links the pressure plate to the spike; it is broken.

The Wraith: .oO(...That'll do.) He proceeds to do this to several more... Rather than bothering with every single one of them, he just 'cuts' a path wide enough for the walkers to comfortably travel through.

Metal Man (GM): You do so; you make a path in the center from start to finish. It is now walkable.

The Wraith: *He travels back the same way he came, looking at the traps to make sure they're still disabled before resurfacing.* "Alrighty, then! Just make sure to walk down the center aisle, and you should be fine."

Digifanatic starts walking said path.

Dragoshi: *And, Dragoshi zooms along that path!*

Bonecrusher follows.

Digifanatic: "Beautiful."

Fizban: *Walks along as well* "Well done, Master Spirit."

Metal Man (GM): You walk on across, and then encounter a room with three paintings. The sign below them says "Those who lose sight of their goal may pass."

Digifanatic: "Okay, now that's just screwed up."

The Wraith: "...Mm-hmm..."

Julian Sawyer turns off auto-follow mode! And looks at the three paintings "Like everything else ain't."

Fizban: "Interesting..."

Digifanatic: "Lose sight... close your eyes? Walk backwards?"

Julian Sawyer: "You go an' do that."

Digifanatic: "I'm just trying to give out plausible ideas... give me a few seconds."

Julian Sawyer: *What are the three paintings of?*

Metal Man (GM): The first has melting clocks; the second looks to be one stolen from Kuja's personal tower, as it has Kuja portrayed in a positive, glorious light;
The thrid is an ancient Bowser painting which once hung in a mission too long ago to quite remember.

Digifanatic: *Looks at the first one* "Oh, that Dali one from Saturn Valley..."

Julian Sawyer's gonna burn 'em.

Metal Man (GM): With what?

Julian Sawyer: *Bonecrusher.* "Bonecrusher! Set those paintings on fire."

Fizban: "...hmmm..."

Digifanatic steps aside and lets that business be handled...

Bonecrusher shoots fireballs at the paintings.

Metal Man (GM): The paintings catch on fire, and burn away.
Nothing happens.

Julian Sawyer: "Now that's outta the way..."

Digifanatic: "Well, I guess I'll go by my original idea..."
*He takes a look to ensure he's at the right angle, and looks to see what sorts of barriers there are ahead of them...*

Metal Man (GM): A wall is in the way.
That's all you see. And the sign. The flames did seem to vanish after hitting and burning the paintings; odd.

Fizban hrms softly, moving forward and looking at the wall. He touches it.

Bonecrusher charges the wall..."Grrrr..."

Metal Man (GM): Your hand goes through it.
Bonecrusher runs right through it.

Digifanatic: "Whoa!"

Fizban: "...ah ha, to lose sight of your goal. We would be more interested in the paintings, and in examining them, we would continue."

Digifanatic dittos that, albeit at a slightly slower pace...

Fizban: "Ingenious."
*He moves through as well.*

Dragoshi: "...Meh" *Walks through the wall.*

The Wraith: *He flickers back in again.* "Excellent..." *He follows the others.*

Julian Sawyer heads on.

Metal Man (GM): Next up, you have a puzzle which would make Deloth, err, Alexia buzz with excitement: It's some sort of complex machine to turn a key in a door. A key which otherwise cannot be turned.

Julian Sawyer: "I jus' wanted to burn 'em. Didn't know that'd do anything."

Digifanatic: .oO(Everyone's been getting in some good ideas since we left. This is nice!
"Julian, with those last two, I understand."

Metal Man (GM): You have a stack of old VHS tapes, a big pipe, a red button connected to explosives, ten magazines, a bottle of gasoline, some weird sphere labeled 'Kinetic energy capture', with a hand that turns attached to it.
The sign says 'Use four items to turn the key in the door'
There is a key in the door.

Julian Sawyer: "...This don't make ANY kinda sense."

Fizban: "...ah ha. A device of nonsense."

Digifanatic: "Neither has anything else."

Dragoshi: "...Fun."

The Wraith: "Mm-hmm..."

Digifanatic: "Hmmm..."

Julian Sawyer: *What kinda magazines?*

Fizban: *Facefault.*

Digifanatic tries thinking backwards: what would make the hand turn? MNT check.

Metal Man (GM): You think of setting your hair on fire.

Fizban: "...hmmm..."

Digifanatic: "Nope... not that... Got to be something obviously more orthodox than that..." *Tries it again.*

The Wraith: "...Hmm... The hand would turn the key, obviously... And it'd require kinetic energy..."

Fizban: "Hmmm... well, the first is obvious."

Dragoshi: "So we start with the sphere then."

Digifanatic: "Yeah..."

Fizban takes the sphere and hooks it so the hand will turn the key.

Metal Man (GM): It clicks into place.

Digifanatic: "Three more items to go, though..."

Fizban: *Also makes sure that he can't turn the key himself...*

The Wraith: "...An explosion would be plenty of kinetic energy. Since we are to use four items, perhaps the gasoline and the button's explosives would be the last two... Perhaps..."

Digifanatic: "Hmm... burn the magazines and use that for the energy device?"

Julian Sawyer tries to hook up the pipe to the sphere.

Metal Man (GM): It doesn't seem to have anywhere to hook up to it with.

The Wraith: "Ah... I didn't see that pipe. Could be used to funnel the energy..."

Julian Sawyer: "Sure it could. Does the sphere have any entry points?"

Metal Man (GM): Nope

Julian Sawyer: "Hmmm..."

Digifanatic: "Well... four of the items..."

Julian Sawyer checks out the magazines.

Fizban: "...may I?"

Digifanatic: "I think the tapes are out of it..."

The Wraith: "At your own risk, of course... I'm just speculating, here."

Digifanatic: "I don't know what you can do with the tapes..."

Metal Man (GM): 2 inches in diameter, 5 feet long.
They're old auto magazines.

Fizban: *Will try the following. He sets the pipe up so it is at an angle with the ground, using the sphere to hold it in place. Then, he sets the explosives at the edge of the other side of the pipe, trailing the button as far away from the explosives as possible. Finally, he stacks the VHS tapes in a stack right next to the button to blow the explosives.*

Metal Man (GM): They sit in place; now all you need to do is push over the pipe.

Julian Sawyer chucks a spare rock at the tapes to knock 'em over.

Metal Man (GM): Er, tapes fall over, blow up the explosives with the button, which launches the pipe into the sphere, knocking it really quickly; this causes the hand to turn and the door to flip open.
It reveals yet another puzzle! (Man, this valley is evil)

Digifanatic: "Well done."

Metal Man (GM): There are two paths to the middle of the valley; one is on fire, and the other is not.
The sign says "Take refuge in irony."

Digifanatic: "It's better than fighting. Refuge in irony? Got to be the fire."

Julian Sawyer: "You go check it out then."

Fizban: "To die by fire when we have come this far. That is surely ironic."

Julian Sawyer: "...You people don't even know the MEANING of the word ironic..."

Digifanatic: "I do."

Fizban: "And what, pray tell, would you suggest, Master Sawyer?"

John: *What's the non-fiery path made of?*

Julian Sawyer: "I suggest lettin' Digi check out the fire path. See what happens."

Digifanatic: "I believe the irony derives from that people would think the fire path is more harmful, yet the other one has some strange substance that is more harmful! Take refuge, and I don't mind sacrificing myself in this sort of situation..."

Editor's Note: Behold, the long awaited explanation behind Digi's logic for going down paths other people see as harmful: The value of self-sacrifice to detect bad paths! Alas, Panzer never understood this, and thought it was something magical to keep suggesting Digi take the 'bad' path, but Digi knew the path was potentially bad the whole time and didn't care, because technically Questers died so often the most important thing was to conserve lives and therefore send one person to their doom to save everyone else's rather than everyone losing 1 life at once!

Julian Sawyer: "Just walk the damn path."

Digifanatic then walks down the path with the fire.

Metal Man (GM): Digi vanishes.
You hear the scream of someone being burned to death.

Dragoshi: "..."

The Wraith: "...Hrm."

Fizban: "...well, that certainly is odd."

The Wraith: *He waits...*

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...I dunno if I should say I expected that, or not)

Metal Man (GM): Digi appears to be gone. Anyone else going to try a path?

Fizban: "...it is merely a ruse."

Dragoshi: "...Prolly'."

Julian Sawyer: "It's ironic either way."

Fizban: "...well, I suppose I will try as wel."
*He walks down the firey path as well.*

Metal Man (GM): Fizban vanishes; you hear another scream of burning and death.

The Wraith: *He pulls out his dex, and sees if he can get a bead on either of the two that just walked in...*

Your dex goes: "ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION."

Metal Man (GM): It then plays the Missingno cry.

The Wraith: "...Should've expected as much." *He puts it away.*

Metal Man (GM): You may continue picking paths.

John: *Neither of them reappear?*

Metal Man (GM): Indeed.

The Wraith: "Well, one thing can be certain; I can see down that other path. If it were to lead to death, one would be able to tell from here..."

Dragoshi: *Nods.*

Bonecrusher seems to be freaked out.

The Wraith: "But on the other hand..." *He drifts over to the fiery path. And, rather than just diving in, he goes to reach forward and wave a hand through it.*

Metal Man (GM): The Wraith is sucked in; more burning death is heard.

Bonecrusher stays away from that path... shakes in fear.

Dragoshi: "Bah. You're merely afraid of a vocal illusion is all. ...Hmm... Maybe." *Pulls out a coin. Tosses it into the fire path, testing something.*

Metal Man (GM): It vanishes into the path.
You hear the sound of a coin melting.

Dragoshi: "...Huh. There goes that idea."

Metal Man (GM): No screaming coins for you.

Bonecrusher slowly walks across the other path.

Metal Man (GM): You see Bonecrusher vanish and the sound of being ripped to to pieces ensue.

Dragoshi: "...Fool."

Metal Man (GM): That leaves... Dragoshi? To choose.
Fiery path or normal path, both seem evil.

Dragoshi shakes his head, then moves across the fire path.

Julian Sawyer: "I hate puzzles like this..."
*He flips a damn coin *
*Fire Path!*

Metal Man (GM): Julian vanishes into the fiery path... as does Dragoshi. *Screamage*
.....
On the Fire Path
Everyone but Bonecrusher has appeared here, unharmed.

The Wraith: "...Well, then."

Metal Man (GM): However there's a wall blocking the way back.

Dragoshi: "...Yep."

Metal Man (GM): Bonecrusher's pieces rain down, then reform to make Bonecrusher.

Bonecrusher shakes in horror.

Metal Man (GM): This area is sorta fiery, but not dangerous. It leads to a massive stone statue of an angel holding a crescent moon.

Julian Sawyer: "... That was somethin' else..."

Digifanatic: "Strange, indeed."

Dragoshi: "..." *Nods.*

Julian Sawyer: *To the statue!*

Metal Man (GM): The way ahead is blocked by a wall of fire; only thing is, the statue has a sign on it.

Dragoshi: *Ker-follow! He reads the sign.*

Metal Man: "Only those who are vandals can pass."

Bonecrusher shakes his head... appears to not want to follow.

Julian Sawyer: "Think that means we gotta deface the statue..."

The Wraith: *He grins... and looks around for something that could be used to mark. Particularly black or other dark colors...*

Metal Man (GM): There's soot and brimstone... everywheree!!!

Fizban: "...simple enough."
*He takes some brimstone, then paints a mustache on the statue.*

Digifanatic: "Well... at least this doesn't involve contraptions and such..."

Metal Man (GM): The statue glows.

The Wraith: *He goes to test a bit of charred... something, to see if he can safely... Do what Fizban already did.*

Metal Man (GM): *Rip* ...Did it just step off of its pedestal?

Digifanatic also takes some brimstone and... doesn't do anything with it yet.

Dragoshi: .oO(I do NOT like that glow... Or that either)

Julian Sawyer: "...Aw hell."

The Wraith: "...Oh boy."

Metal Man (GM): Suddenly, it grows a real mustache... an Eggman mustache.

Fizban: "...oh dear."

Metal Man (GM): And then it begins speaking with his voice, despite being an angel with a crescent moon.

Dragoshi: "...Aw shi-" *FACEPALM.*

???: "Wa ha ha haaa! I am the most intelligent statue in all the world! And you shall all die from my crescent moon! BJORK! ERROR 52! I will win!"

Metal Man (GM): It floats upwards, and then gains an upside-down halo. You can't quite tell, except it casts shadows upwards.

The Wraith: "Hmm... Looks like it needs a bit more 'defacing'... Wouldn't you agree?"

Dragoshi: "Yes. Yes it would."

Metal Man (GM): The head of it morphs into a glitched image of Eggman's; its crescent moon bursts into flames.
BATTLE
Questers vs. WTFSTATUE

Julian Sawyer: "Fiz, you in trouble."

Metal Man (GM): Roll inits.
Order: Dragoshi, Wraith, Julian, Wtfstatue, Fizban, Digi, Bonecrusher

Dragoshi: *And, Drag draws out his scythe, then proceeds to try and cut up the statue twice.*

Metal Man (GM): Hit, hit
It's pretty fast, but you hit it anyway.
Aaand it gets stunned.

Dragoshi: *Then Drag proceeds to... Throw a molotov at it!*

The Wraith: *He buzzes in swiftly, vanishing for a Hell Raiser then following the explosion up with a series of attacks from the Lighttech stone.*

Metal Man (GM): Hit hit hit miss hit hit miss
This is where your dice luck from yesterday went!
Wtfstatue

Julian Sawyer goes for the weapons early and gets a...
*Beer Bottle! Julian chucks it at the statue*
*SMAAAAAAAAAAAAASH.*

Metal Man (GM): The statue meets beer bottle of doom.

Julian Sawyer then takes his fedora off his head, squeezes the feather so the diamond-edged blade pops out around the brim, then throws it at the statue for a Hat Trick!
He catches his hat on the return and runs out of TP.

Metal Man (GM): Miss!
Wtfstatue
It begins its reign of terror... by launching eye lasers at Digi. Digi! How incomprehensible! Impossible! Monkeylocity!
Ahhhh!!! 33 damage per hit!
Then it rips off its right arm... and tries to beat Bonecrusher over the head with it!
*SMACK* 50 damage!

Digifanatic: *Zapzord.*

Dragoshi: "..."

Metal Man (GM): And then it opens its mouth... and screams at Fizban!
25 damage, daze if that hits.
It ends its turn there.

Fizban: *...wait, if I'm NOT hit?*
*He fires a fireball...?*

Metal Man (GM): If you're hit by daze, but not hit by anything else afterwards.
So, -2 TP to you. Then fireball. Which hits.

Digifanatic is, of course, a bit annoyed, but then again, this place is filled with strange things. To start the turn, he decides to give the statue a shot of Celestial Fury, followed by an Aerial Strike.

Metal Man (GM): Hit miss hit

Digifanatic: *EoT.*

Bonecrusher begins with an uppercut.

Metal Man (GM): Miss

Bonecrusher tries again.

Metal Man (GM): CRIT
It hovers right back--although cracked.

Bonecrusher pass.

Dragoshi starts off this round by using a move he hasn't used in a REAL long time- Indignation.
*And, the nasty array of blue lightning and sparks miss, as he tries something else...*

Metal Man (GM): Miss, then random.

Dragoshi: *An amethyst shard. Which he throws at the statue.*

Metal Man (GM): Miss. Stupid statue.

Dragoshi: *...Yea. EoT.*

The Wraith: *He doesn't waste any time, flitting to each of the statue's sides to deliver a fierce blow to the kidneys before flitting back to the starting side to go for a Power Launch...*

Metal Man (GM): Hit Crit hit
Whoops.
It is, however, nearly dead.

Julian Sawyer: *How far away is this thing?*

Metal Man (GM): 2 units

Julian Sawyer's gonna smash it with a...
*SLEEEEEEEEEEEDGEHAMMER.*

Metal Man (GM): Sledge indeed.

Julian Sawyer takes out a sledgehammer, weighs it a bit in his hands. "Yeah, this'll do." *Then he grasps it near the sledge part with one hand, keeps his other hand on the back end, then rushes the statue and tries to ram the sledge into its head!*

Metal Man (GM): It smashes like a giant watermelon.
*Schloomp* The spray of watermelon-tasting water puts out the flames.
No coins. Merely... a mysterious guy in a white robe outfit. Why, the mysterious man from the Nintendo temple!
He appears over the fountain.

Dragoshi: "...'Ello."

Bonecrusher starts drinking the water.

Fizban: "...ah, hello there."

Prophet: "I am the Prophet... and I have come... to help you succeed! ...And escape this nasty realm."

Julian Sawyer: "...Lucky us."

Bonecrusher: "Mmmm..."

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Prophet: "All you must do... is obtain for me the sword, Schnelltott. Lost for ages... none have ever seen it. And I need it... to extract some innate magical energies inside it."

The Wraith: "...And what plans do you have for this blade, Schnelltott?"

Julian Sawyer: "John's got it."

The Wraith: "..."

Prophet: "...That is so very convenient. All I need to do is take energies not used for slashing out of it. These are of a more... soul-filled variety."

Digifanatic: "Oh..."

The Wraith: "...Very well, though I might note that it has already been stripped of many of its powers." *He spins, vanishing, and the sword appears in his place.*

Prophet: "Ah... but not the soul of the true creator of it."

Metal Man (GM): He holds out a hand, and collects a strange white light; the Prophet guy looks more... solid.

Prophet: "Now... I am afraid it is too late for your friend? Foe? The Magellean Military, for the IIF have already begun attacking them; but I shall give you the knowledge needed to stop any IIF agent."

Metal Man (GM): He summons... an electrical bug. One of the Quester ones.

Prophet: "Hurl one of these and their shield is dead... throw a second one and THEY die!"

The Wraith: "...Very useful."

Julian Sawyer: "...Well that's easy."

Prophet: "Thus is the weakness of wearing so much technology."

Dragoshi: "...Oh, am I gonna have FUN doing so."

Digifanatic: "Oh, sweet..."

Fizban: "...very."

Prophet: "Now... that is your mission... I shall send you to your headquarters, now."

Metal Man (GM): He creates a blue warp in front of him.

Prophet: "I will see you again once the ruins have been freed of their corrupting influence..."

The Wraith: *He reappears as himself, the sword put back away, and nods.* "I thank you..."

Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, thanks for the hint."

Digifanatic: "Thank you indeed."

Dragoshi: *Bows down in thanks*"A-thank you, good sir..."

The Wraith: *He then goes to drift through the warp, if there are no further interruptions.*

Bonecrusher warps.

Digifanatic: "Well, with our various strengths combined, this last phase should be a cakewalk!"

Metal Man (GM): Mission Completed
+10,000 coins

Digifanatic: *Warps.*

Metal Man (GM): +4000 EXP

The Wraith: *Level up! Level 70!*

Digifanatic: *Level 69!*

Dragoshi warps as well... And is only 348 EXP away from level 81. >_>

Julian Sawyer: *Everyone's a warpin'*

Digifanatic this guy's been getting some good EXP lately!
"My, my... with what we've learned, business will be open."

Metal Man (GM): You're all back at HQ.

Metal Man (GM): NnnnnnnnnnnWha?
It is the morning. Outside the Ancient's crater.
...There are 100 IIF men here, in lines, decked out in their normal equipment.
They have their laser machineguns at the ready; with Shadow at their head.

Shadow: "Today is the day we take back the world! Those fools don't know it, but we created what they live on... and their foolish belief in an Aran only dooms them to destruction. Form up; then march forward; kill everything."

Metal Man (GM): The soldiers salute, then lift up their laser guns, in attack formation, and begin marching forward. Shadow waits for them all to walk ahead of him, then marches behind them, ensuring they stay in their rectangular formation.
Needless to say, this sets off every single alert imaginable at the Magellean Military base.
Valhalla Tower
Douglas is in his chair; the screens suddenly show the entire regiment of incoming soldiers, and alarms go off left and right.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "What?! What's going on!?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...Sir! Sir! It's just like the old days! We're being... invaded. We must ready all our forces to repel these people. The IIF."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Damn! I thought the Questers would have attacked them by now!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...No, the IIF claims they destroyed the Questers."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "We need to activate all of the defenses possible... wait, what?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "See this;."

Metal Man (GM): He shows a video of Shadow taunting the Questers... then obliterating them with a sphere of chaotic energy.

Douglas Craft shakes his head. "Amazing."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "No traces were found. It is a class above previous X-zone weaponry. And they're willing to use the same on us if we resist."

Metal Man (GM): He gets a crazed look on his face.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "This is where the X-zone shield will save us!"

Douglas Craft facepalms and sighs.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "We have no choice but to deploy our weapon... based on ancient Lunarian myths... the Disintegrator Cannon. It is a... prototype... but that doesn't matter. They're within 3 miles and rapidly advancing. They've dispatched all scouts to have reached them!"
"Ricky had nearly completed it before he died... I'm sure it would honor him to destroy the fools with it."
"...And if things get worse..."

Metal Man (GM): He takes out a data disk... and another one.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Indeed. Those IIF can easily take down several Koopas on their own... we need something powerful. Do you know the risk of something ill-favored happening?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Gerald Virus... and Trevor's code. But we shan't use those today--I don't know the risks, they were never tested."
"We can only hope it works when we fire it."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "And this is possibly our only hope..."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "These men have shot down entire spacecraft before. It was rumored they were Ivan's last stand force, intended to wipe out Kuja entirely if triggered. ...Without a Kuja to kill, they now wish to kill us, and the Questers. On your word, I will fire the cannon."

Douglas Craft sighs. "Alright. We will win this!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Our men are ready to engage should they reach our perimeter."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Very well. Fire the cannon."

Metal Man (GM): And so... The Light Side War begins.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Cannon charging... aiming... mako energy at 50%... ...3... 2... 1..."

Metal Man (GM): *KABLAM* You hear a high-pitched noise, then a sonic boom.

Douglas Craft crosses his fingers. ("Vengence for the Questers...")

Metal Man (GM): Sensors show the ray hitting dead center of the enemy group.
The smoke clears... ...The middle two rows of 20 people are completely gone.
But there's 80 left! ...And a huge amount of electricity appears to be flying out of the cannon building.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...Oh dear. It appears it overloaded before it hit maximum power. We're going to have to kill the rest manually."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Ugh... if that's possible."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "The cannon itself appears to be destabilizing reality around it... that will be difficult to manage. Uh... anyway... all units have been set to engage."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Get to work on repairing it. FAYTH, I'll need you for a moment."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "X-zone Field V.2 activated."

F.A.Y.T.H.: "Affirmative."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Repairs are... beginning. Er. This will take a while."

Metal Man (GM): The enemy forces march directly into laser fire, protected by their force fields.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "FAYTH, can you prepare any other forms of strategy to win? Illusory doubles of each infantry member, perhaps?"

Metal Man (GM): They stand at the barrier. For a few moments, it looks like their fire is in vain, and they're getting nailed, although not enough to knock down their shields.

F.A.Y.T.H.: "They don't appear to care what forces are against them; we outnumber them 30 to 1, well, more now."

Metal Man (GM): Then Shadow holds up a hand, and a white light from above shines on him.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "...What?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Wait a minute... that hedgehog has the same energy Ivo Robotnik and Sephiroth once used in a similar situation! Data coming in... yes! It is definately some higher power."
"I'm trying to get a lock on it. Maybe we can shoot it down with our cannon."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Tell me what it is, before you fire."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "I can't tell. I can only aim at it. It is of a similar energy signal to The Void, only the inverse... so it does not represent Chaos."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "What happened when Ivo and Sephiroth called this power?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "They became dramatically more powerful, and nearly unstoppable. ...That's right, only Shadow... ro The Void... managed to stop Sephiroth when he had such power. ...Like that."

Metal Man (GM): You see Shadow creating a barrier which blocks all the lasers shot at it.
Then the force field is struck by a multitude of chaotic-looking energy balls, which cause the field to crackle when hit.
The systems inside the tower begin to erratically malfunction and spark.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "FAYTH, send a distress Beacon to the first moon's base..."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "This is... unimaginable. There's enough power in one of those orbs alone to take down a Kuja cruiser. The X-zone can't hold all of it!"

F.A.Y.T.H.: "Signal sent. The warp up there is ready, should we have to flee."

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* An entire console explodes from the damage. Shadow's image appears on another terminal.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Bob, do we not have any ---"

Shadow: *Comms* "Surrender or be annihilated."

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* That console dies, too.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Great..."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "I'm working on it. Without Ricky or Trevor, we're doomed. Ah! There is one possibility... contacting Diolize... but our long-range communications are fried... in fact, we can't reach Quester HQ either."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Ricky and Trevor were evil. You would be doomed WITH them.:."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Shields are at 55%."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "...That's what the distress beacon to the First moon was for."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Oh... Uh. Hm."

F.A.Y.T.H.: "I thought you meant the second mo--" *BLAM.*

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "!?"

F.A.Y.T.H.: "...We managed to get the Second Moon base's communicators to relay it before all power died in the comms area."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "However it appears Diolize is unable to interfere; he says... he isn't powerful enough? He says something, however, about the Questers. I can't make it out; too hazy a transmission."
"Hm. We need some brilliant ideas, Douglas; I'm running out of options. Shields at 29%."
"If only Charles were here... he'd be like all the other people who attacked... I'd send other bases after him, but... wait a minute, that's it!"

Metal Man (GM): He suddenly begins altering the properties of the shield. You see the disintegrator gun glowing, red-hot.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "I got an anonymous tip. Something about firing the entire shield at them. The raw power would rip them to bits. It may damage the gun beyond recovery... what do you think?"

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "But Shadow is invincible... Do it, but we would probably need a way to deal with the hedgehog. Still, I'd rather face Shadow alone, then him and 80 agents."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Indeed."

Metal Man (GM): The gun charges up... and... BLAM! The shield goes down, 70% of the bases' systems go offline, but all the IIF agents are toasted.
It continues going, though, and blasts a big hole in the crater, causing an entire sector of the stuff inside to fall over.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...Whew."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Now-- Woah."

Metal Man (GM): Shadow gets up, from the blast, minorly wounded. He shakes his head, and points at the tower.

Shadow: *Comms* "So you aren't as stupid as I thought. Very well. I have a deal for you, then."

Douglas Craft calls the Lighttech Keyblade into his hand.

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* Before you can do anything, Shadow appears in the throne room.
However, he doesn't seem ready to fight.

Shadow: "That was... a test, if you will, to see if you were worthy of... joining our mission."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "What's your mission?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "You were never worthy of more than death, scum. The Magellean Military will triumph!"

Shadow: "Long ago, the world we live in was created by the Phantom Lords. They have been dethroned by that monstrous Void creature, and your own people advocate an even worse person named Aran, who promised to destroy the world if he was revived."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "They are unknowing of it, and they will not know of it, but that doesn't explain what you want to do about it."

Shadow: "Your mission, should you pick it, would be to integrate with our forces your fresh meat... and aid us in restoring the Astral Realm."

Douglas Craft walks some, lining up Shadow between him and the warp.

Shadow: "The Questers are already defeated. You're the only enemy left if you dare resist."

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Interesting offer. And... then what?"

Shadow: "The world, once under the Phantom Lords again, shall remain as it was before they were dethroned. The cycles will go, and you will be allowed to go on with your business. I can offer you enough technology to restore everything destroyed here; and much, much more... have you ever wanted to manipulate time?"

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Well then. I suppose I'll say that--" *Blitzes his hand up and delivers a blowback to Shadow.*

Shadow: "...Anyway. Hesitation is a sign of traitorous intentions; either join us now or--" *He is knocked backwards a tiny bit... and laughs.*
"Be destroyed? Be my guest, then."
"I only killed you three times before."

Metal Man (GM): He walks to the side; you could easily dash for the warp.
Meanwhile, the entire dang building begins exploding.

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "...YOU were the one who killed me in that place!?"

Shadow: *As the building is exploding* "Yes... and I shall do it again... for the last time."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...Arpway ownay!"

Shadow: "What is this? Some sort of programmed obsolescence?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Uh... I am Ivo Robotnik! And I have come to steal your powers!"

Douglas Craft shakes his head. "No, you won't! Transfer to the other bases, AI's." Wind Transmutation and flee to the warp. 9 Units/TP.

Shadow: "...You aren't---" *WARP* *WARP* *WARP*
"...Well, it may not have been successful, but now I can do what I've always wished to do. Destroy Valhalla!"

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Bob, can you perhaps self-destruct the base?"

Metal Man (GM): *At the other base.*

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "He's doing that for us."

Metal Man (GM): *Camera shows Valhalla exploding into a million pieces, as well as the runways, the Valhalla 2, and all sorts of things being shredded to pieces.*

Aetos: (Douglas Craft) "Great... Now, we have to do something about this attack..."

Metal Man (GM): And that ends this pre-mission thing.
Battle 1 of the Light-Side War goes to: IIF. Casualties: Valhalla, Valhalla 2, Valhalla home base, airport, and a good couple thousand soldiers.
The IIF only lost 100 men and a portion of their crater-base.

Metal Man (GM): Dramaaaahhhhhhh
The Questers are at HQ. Metal is looking at a screen, rather distressed.

Julian Sawyer's in his usual chair "What's the word, Mets?"

Alexia: "...What's wrong?"

Metal Man: "That wasn't very good... not only did they nearly kill you, but the Magellean Military just got its butt kicked by the IIF."

Dragoshi: *Drinking from a can of orange soda*"...Yikes."

Julian Sawyer: "...Isn't that kinda a good thing?"

Metal Man: "...They can just as easily come down here and beat us up next, if they want. Did you discover anything that could stop them?"

Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, but they took out the Military for us/."

Alexia: "So how do we defend ourselves?"

Julian Sawyer: "All we gotta do is throw the bugs at 'em."

Dragoshi: "Yea. Ya know those bug things?"

Julian Sawyer: "One takes out the shield, the other takes out the soldier."

Fizban: *Leans back in his chair* "...but I would think that even those devices that the robed man spoke of may not be enough."

Metal Man: "...Too bad Aetos never knew that. Charles would be furious if he knew Valhalla had burnt down by IIF weaponry."

Julian Sawyer: "...They took out Valhalla?"

Dragoshi: "...Yea. It has something to do with them having too much-...Wait. What?"

Metal Man: "Blew it into a million pieces."

Alexia: "Shee-yat."

Fizban: "...excuse me, Valhalla?"

Metal Man: "It's dead, and without Trevor, it's staying dead."

Julian Sawyer: "...Fuck YES!"

Metal Man: "And they blew it up in Tower Form... heck, they survived two direct hits from a disintegration gun."

Julian Sawyer: "I assume this means they killed Aetos for us while they was at it?"

Metal Man: "No, sensors indicate he escaped to another base... which is about to be attacked."

Fizban: "...then that is our target."

Julian Sawyer: "What other base?"

Metal Man: "The Second Moon? No. We are to use what you discovered to strike from behind. ...Your approach not only renders their guards useless, but there's only 45 or so left in their entire outpost."

Dragoshi: "...45? Huh."

Fizban: "So, you wish us to go BACK to their base?"

Metal Man: "We blow them to smithereens with their backs turned."

Julian Sawyer: "...Didn't the Second Moon blow the fuck up?"

Metal Man: "..." *Facepalm* "Even before Diolize fixed it, only a portion of it blew up. But the IIF appear interested in... 'fixing' that."

Julian Sawyer: "Didn't the BASE part blow up?"

Metal Man: "Yes. Until we heard transmissions from a secret one which had been rebuilt. It remained secret until some rather loudly and poorly transmitted distress signals went to it."

Julian Sawyer: "...We gonna hafta blow up the whole damn thing when we done, then."

Metal Man: "I think the IIF are doing that for us."

Alexia: "Sad that they'd let their cover be blown like that."

Metal Man: "At least, there was something about a hedgehog attaining orbit without any mechanical means to aid him."

Fizban frowns deeply, leaning backwards in his chair.

Julian Sawyer: "...Ohhhh boy."

Fizban: "...must we attack the Military?"

Metal Man wipes his hands off. "Blow up the base, and we only have Shadow left. Well, and two commander-less Magellean Military bases. And Iggy. We're attacking the IIF."

Alexia: "...Shadow?"

Fizban: "I know this, and I readily agree."

Bonecrusher: "He black, right?"

Fizban: "I mean to question Master--"

Julian Sawyer: "Let's go blow shit up."

Fizban turns and looks at Bonecrusher, startled.

Metal Man: "Shadow. He has been showing up with increasing proximity..." *Facepalms* "He is the black hedgehog, yes."

Dragoshi: "...Yep."

Metal Man: "But, yes. You need some more explosives for this."

Julian Sawyer: "Then load us up, Mets!"

Metal Man: "C-4 is a joke. We have some new Lighttech stuff."

Metal Man (GM): You hear a squeaky table on wheels come in, with a box for each you; inside are weird green tubes with clocks and red buttons on them.

Alexia: "..."

Metal Man: "Press the red button, you have 15 minutes before it explodes. It cannot be reversed. It can be wirelessly activated."

Dragoshi: "...Fun."

Fizban: "...remarkable..."

Metal Man (GM): 10 tubes per person, although they eat up an inventory slot.

Julian Sawyer takes his.

Metal Man: "When they do explode, they cause 10 times the damage of C-4, so, make sure to be far away when that happens."

Bonecrusher chooses not to take his.

Fizban stands up rather slowly and slips the box into one of his many pockets.

Dragoshi: "...So, what's the blast radius on these things?" *Takes his box.*

Metal Man: "Your main foe left here, then, is not the agents, who you can knock down like so many houses of cards; but any other... experiments... involved. ...100 feet radius... of a sphere."

Alexia: "...Experiments?"

Julian Sawyer: "Shit that's gotta go boom."

Alexia puts her box in her backpack.

Metal Man: "The IIF are a technological bunch; they're likely to have experimental things which cannot be taken down by bugs alone."

Bonecrusher: "Ooo... toys... nah!"

Metal Man: "But also are not as well equipped as IIF Agents, and easier to defeat. Although whatever wicked special abilities they might have may be a problem."

Fizban: "Then we will be wary."

Metal Man: "Also, the cave may be worth a second look, if you have any info on it. The IIF didn't make most of their tools from scratch... ...They stole it from there."

Fizban: "...ah yes, that reminds me."
*He reaches into a pocket and pulls out that energy cell. *
"I found this in that cave area."

Dragoshi: "..." *Sips from his soda* "...What's that?"

Alexia lowers her head and closes her eyes. Something seems to be troubling her.

Metal Man: "Hm. That appears to be a next-generation energy source."
*He picks it up and has the computer scan it.* "Marvelous. One of these has the power of a hundred AA batteries."
"These could make more laser weapons possible; the ones I and others have are limited by their current power sources."

Fizban: "...well, I have no use for it."

Metal Man: "I shall see what can be done with it. Anyway, the warp is open; all you need to do is come home safe... and avoid Shadow."

Fizban moves into the warp.

Julian Sawyer enters the warp.

Dragoshi: *Then remembers he was holding a can of soda.* "...Ah, dammit. Good thing it's empty." >_>;; *Incinerates it, then walks towards the warp.*

Alexia enters the warp.

Bonecrusher begins to cry.

Metal Man (GM): Everyone else gets into the warp.

Metal Man turns his back, and looks at some papers.

Metal Man (GM): Metal Sonic walks into the warp?!?!?!?
WARP
You appear in the same place as before. The same three agents see you, and are about to fire; each of you, however, has many of the bugs now. Which you can just throw.

Dragoshi pelts all of 'em with bugs!

Fizban does as well.

Metal Man (GM): The shield crackles and dies; then they turn to run, only to be bugged to death.

Julian Sawyer lets everyone throw theirs while he conserves his.

Metal Man (GM): The way ahead is open; to the reception-ish room.

Julian Sawyer moves forward.

Dragoshi: *Forward, march!*

Alexia heads forward, switching her gun for the chain.

Fizban moves forward as well, looking somewhat upset.

Bonecrusher sobs as he follows.

Metal Man (GM): You can go down, or to towards 2, 3, or 5.
Tower 4 has... collapsed and exploded.

Julian Sawyer: *To 2!*

Fizban checks something in his Dex, wondering if that staff is still there and if the DNA thingy is still on.

Metal Man (GM): You can also plant some explosives in here; it'd definately destroy the catwalks to this tower.

Dragoshi: *To two as well.*

Alexia: *Follow.*

Smash Dex: "The staff and DNA protection are the same."

Julian Sawyer plants explosive in GM-Marked locations before leaving for Tower 2

Fizban shrugs and follows.

Bonecrusher follows.

Metal Man (GM): One explosive is all that's needed; it clicks into place.
Tower 2 is guarded the same; 3 agents get ready to attack you. You know the drill.

Fizban: *Will let other people bug them this time.*

Dragoshi: *Bug 'em, Danno.*

Metal Man (GM): They fall down like the others. But the door is stuck shut!

Bonecrusher finds a tree and tries to yank it out of the ground.

Metal Man (GM): ...There are no trees all the way up here.
Maybe if you leaped 100 feet down.
No, you're 100 feet above it on catwalks.

Fizban: "...exert your authority on the door, Master Sawyer."

Alexia tries to pry open the door with TK.

Metal Man (GM): Roll it, Alexia.
The door isn't even dented.

Bonecrusher tries to ram the door down, with no regard for Alexia's safety.

Metal Man (GM): It's toooough.

Julian Sawyer rubs his hands together, then RP-Draws out a Sledgehammer, for which to use with extreme authority on the door.

Alexia simply steps back and out of Bonecrusher's path.

Julian Sawyer waits for Bonecrusher to fracture his shoulder.

Metal Man (GM): You hit that door good! ...Ow oowowowowowwow
20 damage to Bonecrusher
You make the tiniest dent possible in it.
The IIF people's guards may have failed... but their machinery still is obnoxious.

Julian Sawyer: *NOW Julian goes to smash the door in with the Sledgehammer of Demolition.*

Metal Man (GM): Roll, as usual.

Alexia watches BC break/dislocate his shoulder.

Metal Man (GM): For crits only. The hammer breaks in two on the door.
It appears the door is insanely tough, and its menacing control panel continues to say 'Access denied'

Bonecrusher using his off shoulder, goes to bash the control panel.

Fizban hrms, then places a bug on the control panel and kindly asks his Dex to open the door...

Julian Sawyer: "...A'ight." *Julian tosses the broken handle of the sledgehammer over the side* "Someone hack the control pan-" *Grabs Bonecrusher by the scruff of the neck before he can.*

Metal Man (GM): The door opens for Fizban.

Dragoshi: *Facepalms.*

Metal Man (GM): Slowly, but open-tastic.

Alexia: "Nice."

Metal Man (GM): Inside is another lobby... ...except it's already been ripped asunder.

Fizban: "Sometimes, force is not the answer."

Dragoshi walks through the now-open path.

Fizban moves inside as well.

Alexia heads inside, looking around.

Bonecrusher grabs Julian by the neck and lifts him off the ground.

Metal Man (GM): Alarms go off, in vain, and you see some legitimately dead IIF agents inside.
The steps down are open; mainly because nothing appears to work in here anymore.

Dragoshi: "...Yep. Corpses. Think we should check the lower floors?"

Alexia: "Could be a good idea to check for experiments..."

Bonecrusher starts picking the skulls up off the ground and hitting them with his club.

Julian Sawyer: "You see any experiments? If there way, they'd be attackin' us."

Fizban: "I don't see any experiments... which might be a good thing, I'd imagine."

Alexia: "I meant on the lower floors."

Julian Sawyer: "Which is where we's goin'." *Heads down.*

Metal Man (GM): You, seemingly, can't go into any other buildings from here, as the doors are all closed, and burnt shut.

Dragoshi: "..." *Goes off to chick the lower floors as well.*

Alexia: *Going down.*

Metal Man (GM): Down.
The second floor has... scientists on it. Avast! This is truly the making of... something.
Their computers have flashing messages on some sort of nifty project. Not just nifty, though. They say 'X-zone Weapon Offline' and 'Critical Gamma Error'

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(Peculiar...)

Julian Sawyer looks for any place to plant Super C4.

Metal Man (GM): Plenty of places. Like on the computers.

Fizban glances around for anything that says DNA.

Bonecrusher looks for stuff to throw around.

Julian Sawyer lays down the exploding goodness.

Dragoshi: .oO(Oh, SURE. Plant the damn C4 BEFORE we check the remaining floors. Yeesh)

Alexia simply stands there, head down again.

Fizban: "...Lady Alexia?"

Metal Man (GM): Nothing with that on it. Bonecrusher: Dead bodies and unstable looking electrodes.

Bonecrusher starts randomly chucking corpses.

Alexia: "..."

Dragoshi: "..."

Fizban stops in his search and stares.

Metal Man (GM): Corpses fly around. This is clearly defeating the IIF.

Dragoshi: "...Let's just move on."

Julian Sawyer: "Seriously, how'd he survive long enough to JOIN US?"
*Julian: Now with stair-steppin' action!*

Alexia silently follows the others.

Dragoshi: "...Simple. Dumb luck. VERY dumb luck." *Follows.*

Metal Man (GM): Going on down, you begin to realize why those guys were dead.
This floor down here is full of broken circuit breakers, as well as... a massive gun. Except the tip of it is still smoking.

Bonecrusher follows... is extremely aggravated.

Metal Man (GM): It looks smashable.
It also has a lot of controls on it.

Julian Sawyer: "...That's a big gun."

Dragoshi: "..." o_o

Metal Man (GM): Expensive, burnt controls.
There's a huge hole in the wall from where it fired.

Julian Sawyer: "What're our policies on big guns we just... find?"

Dragoshi: "..." *Shrugs.*

Bonecrusher: "What this button do?"

Fizban: "...I am not sure."

Julian Sawyer calls up Metal.

Dragoshi: "...Don't press. Eugh. Don't even know if it WORKS."

Metal Man: (Dex) "What is it?"

Bonecrusher: "That no fun..."

Julian Sawyer: "What's our policy on big guns we just find?"

Dragoshi: "...So? It's the smart thing to do"

Julian Sawyer shows the gun in question to Metal.

Metal Man (GM): (Dex) "Well, if possible, we take them to HQ. Otherwise we blow them up, or dismantle them. I'd suggest dismantling that."

Bonecrusher grabs the gun.

Julian Sawyer: "You got it." *Flips the dex shut*
"Mets says to take it apart."

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(GOD. Flippin' FOOL.) *FACEPALM.*

Julian Sawyer: "...Or we could jus' let Bonecrusher keep doin' what he's doin'."
*He heads down before Bonecrusher does something that kills them all.*

Bonecrusher points gun at Alexia, but he can't seem to find the trigger.

Metal Man (GM): Bonecrusher grabs it; but it's still stuck to the ground.

Alexia looks up with a bemused expression on her face.

Dragoshi: "...Can I PLEASE hurt him?"

Bonecrusher: "No... or she get it."

Alexia: "..." *Mindblast #3*

Fizban sighs, then places a bomb on the gun and moves away.

Julian Sawyer is not currently in the room. But if he was, you'd think he'd say something to the effect of "Hell Yes"

Dragoshi: "...He said to DISMANTLE it."

Bonecrusher: "Oww..."

Dragoshi: "Not DESTROY it. There's a difference, yanno." *Rolls eyes.*

Bonecrusher backs off, goes over to a corner and starts crying.

Fizban: "I do not believe any of us are capable of dismantling this device. Now, let us continue onward."

Alexia casually walks to the next room.

Fizban walks on as well.

Alexia: "What a fool..."

Fizban: "He is quite foolish..."

Dragoshi: "..." *Slams his head against the wall in agitation, then follows the others.*

Metal Man: *Still on the dex* "...Don't make me taser y'all."

Bonecrusher: "Who 'dat?"

Fizban: "Man of Metal, will a bomb on the gun work just as well as dismantling piece by piece?"

Julian Sawyer: "Hey, you've seen what he does. I treat him has a living battering ram."

Alexia: *Opens up her Dex and talks as she walks* "I'm sorry, Metal, but if he tries to get revenge one more time, I'm gonna have to throw him out of a window somewhere."

Metal Man: *Dex* "...A bomb on that could destroy more than the gun."

Fizban: "Then that part is accomplished."

Dragoshi: "...I don't think that's what he meant."

Metal Man: *Dex* "...As in you, me, and the planet?"
*Dex* "Just disable it or leave it alone; an indirect blast will only bury it."
*Dex* "Blowing it up, or ripping it out... that's baaaaad."

Dragoshi: "...We should really remove the bomb on it, though."

Fizban returns, takes the bomb off, then catches up. Jeez...

Julian Sawyer: "Jus' place a bug on the control panel!"

Metal Man (GM): You're on floor 7, now; this one is a burnt out computer room. There's nothing left of anything in the middle of it.

Dragoshi bugs it. That should disable it.

Metal Man (GM): The bug prevents it from being re-activated.
You can continue down, but down below is nothing more than debris.
The gun appears to have taken out most of the tower on its own.

Alexia: "Dead end."

Dragoshi continues further down... Or not.

Julian Sawyer: "A'ight, back to the beginnin' then." *Julian heads back to the room they originally warped into.*

Alexia heads back also.

Dragoshi: "...Well, to the next tower, then." *Goes back up to the room with the gun, checks to see that the bug is working, then heads back.*

Fizban: "I do hope we find that DNA computer..."

Julian Sawyer: "What DNA computer?"

Bonecrusher follows, he grows more agitated as the mission wears on.

Dragoshi: **

Metal Man (GM): So then, you have the choices of... towers 3, and 4.

Julian Sawyer: *Tower 3!*

Fizban: "The red device said that there is a computer in this base that has the DNA information that allows people to hold the IIF weaponry."

Alexia: *Tower Three!*

Fizban: "Though I can't imagine those staves could generate magic."

Dragoshi: *Tower tres.*

Metal Man (GM): Tower 3 is... interesting.

Julian Sawyer: "Assumin' you can find any."

Alexia: "Great. Now what?"

Fizban: "I discovered a box back in Tower number one."

Metal Man (GM): The guards aren't there, the door is open, and there's nothin' but broadcast equipment and monitors the world.

Julian Sawyer: "Good for you."

Dragoshi: *...Down we go, I guess.* >_>

Julian Sawyer promptly plants a Super C4

Alexia: *Down-dooby-doo-down-down.*

Julian Sawyer: *And then heads down.*

Alexia: "I have an odd sense of foreboding..."

Bonecrusher follows.

Metal Man (GM): You go on down and see more cameras.

Julian Sawyer: "Good for you."

Metal Man (GM): These also show... the Second Moon, and Shadow. It's blurry, though, and involves more explosions, before dying out entirely.
The electrical hum only gets louder as you go down.

Dragoshi: *...Down we go. That is if the cameras are inactive.*

Metal Man (GM): You get down another one, and see several computers, and a locked sector down below.

Alexia: *Down.*

Metal Man (GM): With 'WARNING' signs everywhere.

Alexia: "..."

Fizban: "...well, that isn't pleasant."

Dragoshi: "...Yep."

Julian Sawyer: "Looks like we found the experiments..."

Metal Man (GM): The computer can easily be set to unlock the containment... but you're unsure as to the possible good things that could come of that.

Julian Sawyer: "Where's the Ghost when you need him..."

Alexia: "...We need mines."

Julian Sawyer: "We need to be able to see through that door without openin' it..."

Dragoshi: *Nods.*

Alexia: "We need floating cats too. ...What? They're cool."

Fizban: "...well, it is our choice. Open? Or do not open?"

Bonecrusher: "Me eat cats."

Metal Man (GM): The door is pretty much sealed. You can open it, or not.

Julian Sawyer: "I ain't touchin' the damn thing I so don't got my name over it if somethin' goes wrong."

Dragoshi: "...Seconded."

Fizban: "...then I will be the one. ...if... I knew how to work that device." *Points at the computer.*

Metal Man (GM): The computer is simple; but complex to a non-user.
Maybe you can try magic on it?

Fizban casts a little magic on it. Let's say... oh... mage hand.

Metal Man (GM): The computer unlocks the doors; alarms go off. The breaking of chains is heard.

Julian Sawyer: "You all saw it! Fizban did it, not me!"

Alexia: "Get ready, everyone!"
*She switches the chain for her gun.*

Metal Man (GM): What looks like a man in normal garb walks out... except he's covered with broken probes and has broken chains dragging behind him.

Dragoshi readies his scythe and machinegun.

Fizban: "Master Sawyer, for once in my existence, I will say this. So prepare, because I will not say it again. ...ahem... shut your gob, you wanker."

???: "Hah! I knew it! The Questers would free me, so I could terrorize the world with my completely unnatural powers!"

Julian Sawyer: "...Say that again, in ENGLISH."

Dragoshi: "...No. We were just curious as to what was below there."

Julian Sawyer: "Not Brit-ease."

Alexia: "So, um, could you go back in? Please?"

???: "Yes, I know. I also know that Alexia should stay away from that Orc. And that you're all plotting to kill me if I appear hostile at all. Also that man who doesn't understand British is from New York."

Dragoshi: "Wouldn't the latter appear obvious?"

???: "But there's nothing you can really do to stop me; besides, I don't care about you. The people who created me must pay."

Julian Sawyer: "You mean the IIF?"

Fizban: "...ingenious! Could I ask who and what you are, good sir?"

Dragoshi: "...Ah. 'Kay. Who are you, anyway?"

???: "The burden of so much knowledge... ... ...you want to blow up this building, don't you?"

Julian Sawyer: "That an' the others."

???: "Gimme one of those large exploding things you have."

Julian Sawyer: "An' if you could kill that black hedgehog that's currently in space while you're at it, that'd be great."

Dragoshi: "...Pretty much, y-...Only if you promise not backstab us."

???: "...Him? No, he was the only one able to keep me locked down there."

Julian Sawyer: "Could you help US kill him?"

Alexia: "Or headquarters, or Toad Town, or pretty much any other friendly place."

???: "There isn't much I know about him. All of you put together are more likely to know some weakness... you know. Whatever that magical stuff you keep associating with him is."

Dragoshi: *Puts his scythe away, then pulls out one of his super C4 things*"So... You wanted one of these, right?"

Julian Sawyer: "Hmmm... how much you know about Business?"

Alexia: "So you know our names, origins, and backgrounds, but not how to beat Shadow?"
*She raises an eyebrow.*

Retz: "I'm Retz, myself. A project name only. Which I should spill the beans on." *He holds out a hand and it psychically levitates to him* "I'm one of the first of a new generation of IIF Agent."

Fizban: "...a psion!"

Retz: "Posessed with psychic powers, knowledge that spans many decades, a full understanding of the language of the Neo-Ancients, and normally, an unending devotion to those people they say are controlling things. But that last part fizzled. They accidentally gave me psychic powers first. So I foiled them. Jerks, jerks, the lot of them!"
"Now let's see what I can do to this respectable but outdated explosive."

Julian Sawyer: "An' I applaud you. How much you know about business?"

Alexia: "Julian, shhh. Let the psion talk."

Retz: "What type? The Businessman, who I've heard about, or business around this world?"

Julian Sawyer: "Second one."

Retz: *Idly rewires the explosives and... wires it into the computer?* "This'll use the entire base's own power to increase its destructive capacity. Well, not much, but I can fix that." *He raises a hand and Julian glows blue for a moment* "...This place is messed up, and I'm the genetic abomination!"

Julian Sawyer: "...Uh, K..."

Retz: "So ol' Shadow wants to kill a bunch of hierarchical warlords who have dwindled down to a false heir... hmmm..."

Fizban: "...blast... I had wished to collect that staff..."

Julian Sawyer: "We wanna kill 'em to, but if he does it for us, we ain't complain'."

Retz: "You want a staff? One of those staves? They're too much trouble and too weak. I can make ten times that! I was, after all, programmed to increase their technology."
"Something about a Wily guy and an Iggy guy being too expensive."

Fizban: "I only wish for something that can aid me and my friends in the battles to come."

Dragoshi: "Question. Seeing as you know a lot, do you think it'd be possible to merge parts of weapons these guys have with my own weapons?"

Retz: "Also some freakish bit about Robotnik genes. I'm not insane, though, so they probably didn't use too many."

Fizban: "If you can do that for us, I'm sure we would greatly appreciate it."

Retz: "...That's a bit too much to ask; it'd be impractical."

Dragoshi: "...How so?"

Retz: "Okay, I have this set. You better come with me, and away from here." *He seals the containment doors* "There's much worse things down here, that we shall never have to bother with."

Dragoshi: "...Sure thing."

Julian Sawyer: "Righ'..."

Fizban: "Aye..."

Retz: "...Tower 5 is the main component of this place. ...And also full of some stuff you need to know." *Begins walking upstairs* "Who chucked all these bodies around?"

Julian Sawyer: "Big Ugly over there." *Nods towards BC.*

Fizban: "That would be the orc."

Dragoshi: "...What the others said."

Bonecrusher growls at everyone.

Alexia: "Not to mention pointing the big gun in that first tower at me."

Dragoshi: "...Yea. That."

Retz: "That will not do... no more waste of time. Shadow will be back here sooner or later. And he'll rip all our arms off if he sees us."

Dragoshi: "Aye. Lead the way."

Retz makes his way to the top; now going across the catwalks.

Dragoshi: "...I'd prefer to KEEP mine. ...Even if there-Ah, nevermind." *Follows.*

Fizban: *Follows, moving forward a bit* "It is odd to find a psion here."

Alexia follows Retz.

Retz: "They created me as a prototype of something you'll meet the next time the IIF attacks."

Bonecrusher follows, head hanging.

Retz: "...This isn't the only place they can attack from."

Metal Man (GM): *He makes is way to Tower 5, in the middle.*

Retz: "They'll be nastier, though. I'm only 2/5ths the potential I'd have otherwise."

Dragoshi: "...Yikes."

Alexia: "Charming little thought."

Metal Man (GM): He makes his way into the central tower; holograms float in the middle of the ceiling.
You see, simply enough, silhouettes of the Phantom Lords.

Retz: "Okay, now, you've probably been wondering why these people don't die, and what makes them so tough."

Dragoshi: "...Quite."

Retz: "Well, they're the Phantom Lord's own company."

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Retz: "Each one of these ole' lords has the power of The Void, if not more. They once ruled your history. Ever wonder why Nintendus kept on getting bad? Their will. Until Trevor destroyed their realm, they had near complete control, and sent bad guys at you like ping-pong balls."
"Not directly, but in that fate-sorta way. Bad guys who wanted a whack at you eventually got one."

Julian Sawyer: "Huh. The Fury musta been one'a the weak ones then..."

Retz: "Yes, well, I have another bombshell. When you killed Trevor, you killed the only thing around that was able to stop them."
"He sucked, but he would have been far better defeated after going through the Phantom Lords like jokes."

Dragoshi: "..."

Julian Sawyer: "...K. Problem was he wanted to kill all of us first."

Fizban: "...well, that is a interesting bit of news..."

Retz: "Well, it would have been more convenient had you escaped him, but that's water under the bridge. There is a way to stop him, though. Unfortunately, you also messed that up."

Metal Man (GM): He takes out a ruined piece of staff.

Dragoshi: "...Yea. Well, that's the way life go-?"

Alexia: "...Any other failsafes?"

Retz: "I don't know why, but they said whatever this went to, if it hadn't been destroyed, would have made them vulnerable. Also you destroyed the Chaos Emeralds, which, again, would have challenged them. And the Time Stones, Ivo got to first."
"There's some others, but I have to do this now." *He takes out a disk and downloads the data files.*

Editor's Note: Retz of course has only convenient excuses for why suddenly doing something else would make sense, but I side with the Questers here in that the previous plot never offered them these answers. This is definitely a type of GMing that I'm glad I ditched; nothing valuable comes from giving an "I-told-you-so" speech that would have required the Questers to borderline godmod and break the game to have done in the past. Not to mention while the Questers were doing poorly, perhaps that is what needed to happen this mission. Instead of having a know-it-all do the mission for them, which is even more boring than Bonecrusher uselessly throwing corpses around.

Dragoshi: "...Anything ELSE that might challenge them? Or is that for la-...Okay, then."

Retz: "I don't know how you're going to stop them, but this will buy us time for research on that topic later."

Fizban: "...may I see that?"

Retz: "The data? Or this?" *He floats the bent-up old piece of staff to Fizban.*

Fizban: "The staff, if you would."

Retz: "Data complete. Now give me another bomb thingy."

Dragoshi gives him another bomb.

Metal Man (GM): He attaches it.

Dragoshi: "So... Anything left?"

Retz: "Okay. Now we can leave... for---"

Metal Man (GM): You hear an explosion.

Dragoshi: "...Dammit. If that's who I think it is..."

Metal Man (GM): Retz is knocked over by a massive I-beam. The door behind all of you has been ripped off.
Shadow walks in, dusting his hands off.

Shadow: "Well well well. It looks like you didn't stay dead. I'll have to fix that. Anyone like being ripped to shreds by antimatter?"

Alexia whirls around, glaring.

Julian Sawyer: "...Well that's just great."

Dragoshi: "...Yes. Very much so."
*In response to Julian.*

Fizban: "This does not bode well..."

Alexia: "No shit, Sherlock."

Dragoshi: .oO(...THAT's a first.) >_>

Shadow: "No quips? You won't even attempt to defend yourselves? You take all the fun out of my job."

Editor's Note: Well, the problem here Shadow, is that you are basically unbeatable. So what are they supposed to say? "Aha! I will beat you, invincible, unhurtable enemy that will surely kick our asses yet again and cause us to have to be saved by some coincidence!"

Fizban: "...I find this odd."
*He talks right at Shadow.*

Shadow: "I have all the power and more... you are useless now. The IIF will always rule, and none shall defeat us."

Dragoshi: "...Uhh... Nah. Not gonna comment."

Metal Man (GM): You hear a clank, then another clank, and then finally something slightly taller than Shadow. You can't tell until you hear the voice from it.

Alexia: "...?"

Dragoshi: "...?"

Fizban: "...ah ha."

Metal Sonic: "You may be able to cheat with magical powers, but I am Metal Sonic; and I defeated the Questers too! Except... you're nothing like who you claim to be, so I must kill you."

Dragoshi: "...Mind if I slam my head against the wall before this starts?"

Alexia: *Thinking* "THIS'll be interesting."

Shadow: "Pathetic." *He punches at Metal Sonic, who does a counterpunch. He then goes to fire some strange ray at Metal Sonic... who instead gestures to the Questers.*

Julian Sawyer: "I got an idea."

Fizban: "Well then, all the pieces are on the board..."

Metal Sonic: "Inferior beings! Channel your mental power to block his higher-power's help!"

Metal Man (GM): Everyone: MNT checks.

Editor's Note: Well, I guess Metal Sonic is going to repair this trainwreck where the other part of my brain had been busy crashing it into the ground. But I do not forgive the side of me that made that really boring on-rails Retz section!

Julian Sawyer: *Watch, as Julian fails spectacularly!*

Metal Man (GM): Shadow nearly obliterates Metal Sonic, but then suddenly is overcome with a massive headache. The glow is gone.

Fizban: "...higher po--that is it."

Shadow: "What is this... your will is stronger than mine? Damn! I'll have to kill all of you myself!"

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(Should I use this as an attempt to hit Shadow... Or not?)
.oO(...Nah. He could prolly' flagrantly abuse Chaos Control)

Metal Man (GM): He takes out two machineguns and points them at the Questers.

Shadow: "Gerald demanded you all die... so does the IIF... you will die... you killed Gerald... you cannot be allowed to live!"

Julian Sawyer: "Hold that thought." *Julian attempts to bug the machine guns.*

Metal Man (GM): You throw them at the machineguns. He becomes so angry the bugs explode from the force of his chaos manipulating abilities.

Shadow: "Those... bugs... will... also... die!"

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...Oy.)

Metal Man (GM): BATTLE
(((((( Questers (and Metal Sonic) vs. Shadow ))))))

Fizban: "...then I suppose we will do this the hard way."

Julian Sawyer: "Damn."

Metal Sonic: "I will make sure he cannot escape. You deal the damage."

Metal Man (GM): Turn order checks.

Dragoshi: "...Sure thing."

Alexia crouches into her battle stance.

Metal Man (GM): Shadow is insanely fast, as his name goes; good luck hitting him.
Order: Shadow, Dragoshi, Julian, Fizban, Bonecrusher, Alexia
Shadow starts off by doing something unexpected; he tosses away his guns.

Shadow: "What was I thinking--guns are useless! I shall destroy you with the power of Chaos Control!"

Editor's Note: Now if only he said that in-character in his video game. (Actually, he did come to understand that as of the sequel, Sonic X Shadow Generations.)

Alexia: "...Didn't see that coming."

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...Great. I knew he was gonna flagrantly abuse Chaos Control, but I didn't expect him to do so in THAT way.)

Metal Man (GM): He holds out his hand; orange energy flies inwards at Julian from all sides. Like... spears.

Shadow: "Chaos spear!"

Metal Man (GM): 17 damage per hit... ..Two crits? @_@
He then rockets forward and tries to punch Alexia really hard.
30 damage, throw; it hurls you all the way across the room (8 units) into the wall, adding 10 more damage.

Alexia: "AAAAAAAAAAAAA--" *WHAM.*

Metal Man (GM): He then goes to hit Fizban three times with rapid karate chops.
10 damage per hit.
He finishes off his turn by picking up a large block of metal (ripped off of the building) and hurling it at Bonecrusher's head.
28 damage, stun from that.

Dragoshi first, Drag starts off the turn by quickdrawing his scythe, then attempting to slash Shadow with it twice.

Metal Man (GM): Hit, miss; he's hit once but leaps quickly around the second one.

Dragoshi: *Then Drag proceeds to... Summon the almighty deathmech!*

Metal Man (GM): Hit.

Dragoshi: *Which blasts the high unholy HELL out of Shadow for a whopping 56 damage! EoT.*

Metal Man (GM): Julian

Julian Sawyer's gonna stick to the high Accuracy attacks as he starts off with trying to slam his boot sole into Shadow's face with a Big Boot!
*CRIIIIIIIIITICAL BOOT!*

Metal Man (GM): Indeed.

Julian Sawyer then lunges forward and tries to slam his fist into Shadow's face with a Haymaker!

Metal Man (GM): Hit.

Julian Sawyer then tries to finish off by catching Shadow in a grapple!

Metal Man (GM): Miss

Julian Sawyer: *Damn EoT.*

Fizban: *Immediately throws up a shield over himself before he unloads a blast of fire at the speedy rodent.*

Metal Man (GM): Miss, as he leaps over it.

Bonecrusher: *You see his eyes glow a deep red... he seems to be getting agitated. RAGE*
*He goes over to Shadow (AGGRESSIVE ATTACK) and then "Batter up!"*

Metal Man (GM): Hit.

Bonecrusher he then steps up and lets 4 fireballs fly.

Metal Man (GM): One hit.

Bonecrusher passes.

Alexia runs back to the others, using all of her TP. EoT.

Metal Man (GM): Shadow is lookin' mad... and without any cheap superpowers to mow you down with, he decides instead to fire a massive ray of chaos energy at Julian... after a little charging.
185 damage if that hits, 4 knockback. Shadow, however, is only able to chuck another object at Fizban after that; this time, he rips out the holo-console and hurls it at him.
*Smack* 25 damage, stun

Julian Sawyer: *And Julian's down. You asshole.*

Fizban: *Merely has his shield take the shot.*

Dragoshi: *And, Dragoshi does JUST that, by attempting to flipkick Shadow and use the scythe to gain distance.*

Metal Man (GM): Yup.

Dragoshi: *Then Drag proceeds to try and drag Shadow forward with the scythe ...But misses and takes 5 damage instead.* >_>
*And, we finish this turn off with...*
*An albatross!*
*Which misses. ...Dammit. EoT.*

Alexia: "Wielding your chickens again?"

Dragoshi: "...Albatrosses."

Alexia: "Same thing."

Dragoshi: "Get your freakin' birds right." *Rolls eyes.*

Fizban: "The type of flying creature it is doesn't particularly matter right now!"

Dragoshi: "...Also, you are sadly, sadly mistake-Yea. Pretty much."

Julian Sawyer: *But Julian back on his feet and he's got a... Switchblade. GODDAMMIT*
*He tries to cut Shadow open anyway *
*Fat chance.*

Metal Man (GM): Miss

Julian Sawyer: *EoT.*

Fizban: *Growls, feeling his magic is taking too long to cast and fire, as he is probably going to hit nothing. He decides to get down to business, going into an AGGRESSIVE ATTACK and firing off a bolt of lightning, followed by two series of magical missiles at him.*

Metal Man (GM): Hit
Hit miss miss hit miss hit

Bonecrusher goes over to Shadow, again with AGGRESSIVE ATTACK attempts to take another homerun cut.

Metal Man (GM): Miss

Bonecrusher then throws a clothesline (club first) at him.

Metal Man (GM): Miss

Alexia tosses Fizban an Ultra Mushroom and gets into her Return Postage stance. EoT.

Fizban gets 50 HP back?

Metal Man (GM): Yup, Fizzy.
Shadow decides to throw some interesting objects. Namely, Dragoshi at Julian.

Fizban: "You have my thanks!"

Julian Sawyer: *Well fu-BLAMMO.*

Metal Man (GM): And now for him to see if he can actually hit Julian.

Julian Sawyer: *Hah!*

Metal Man (GM): Nope. Dragoshi flies into a wall.

Alexia: "No prob."

Dragoshi: *Ow!*

Julian Sawyer's too fast for ya!

Metal Man (GM): 28 damage, stun to Dragoshi.
He decides to hurl Bonecrusher at Julian.
*Chuck.*

Metal Man smash.

Julian Sawyer: *Damn!*

Metal Man (GM): 30 damage to both; stun to Bonecrusher.
Then he decides to attack Alexia with Chaos Spear.

Fizban twirls his staff in a circle... oh no.

Metal Man (GM): Near-crit, but not-crit. 17 damage per hit; Return postage causes whatever ones it effects to miss you and fly into the walls.
Ah, right. Halve the damage you take, then.

Dragoshi downs a Recov Vial. EoT.

Metal Man (GM): He stands up, once more, heavily wounded from being hit by his own attack. He shakes his fist.

Alexia: "Didn't see THAT coming, didja?"
*She is breathing heavily, though. Another hit or two and she's dead.*

Shadow: "You aren't making it easier on yourselves... I am only a messenger. This defeat only means that... the Phantom Lords will be here soon to deal with you."

Metal Sonic: "Go cry to your Phantom mommies and daddies then. I am the true master of the arena!"

Julian Sawyer: "Yeah, but that means YOU'RE dead."

Shadow: "Master THIS!" *Punches Metal Sonic's head off and escapes.*

Julian Sawyer: "...Or not."

Alexia: "..."

Julian Sawyer: "Damn!"

Dragoshi: "..." *Chuckles at Metal So-Then groans* "Oh, son of a BITCH."

Metal Man (GM): You could try to chase him, but he just warped out.

Alexia facepalms.

Metal Sonic: *His head* "...Oof... last time I insult some jerk."

Dragoshi: "...Want me to pick up your head?"

Metal Man (GM): Retz finally gets out from under that beam.

Julian Sawyer: "Retz, how you doin'?"

Metal Sonic: "I can fix it myself." *He picks it up and screws it back on.*

Retz: "Ow... one inch more and I'd have died."

Julian Sawyer: "Good. 'Least you ain't dead."

Alexia helps Retz up.

Retz: "We have to leave... now. Shadow must be getting ready to summon the Phantom Lords here."

Bonecrusher comes out of his rage and is now winded.

Alexia: "Cheating little rat..."

Retz: "All we can do is blow this place up, forcing them to waste their time rebuilding."

Dragoshi: "...Yea. Definitely a good idea."

Julian Sawyer: "Like I wanted to stay anymore." *Julian calls in for a Warp home.*

Fizban: "Then let us fly."

Metal Sonic: "If only I could fight him for real some day... he seems tougher than I thought."

Metal Man (GM): The warp appears. The timers begin on the bombs.

Julian Sawyer: "Let's go!" *Julian heads into the warp.*

Alexia: "...What about you, Retz?"

Bonecrusher sluggishly heads for the warp.

Julian Sawyer: "He's comin' with."

Retz: "Why'd I want to live here?" *Enters the warp with Metal Sonic.*

Dragoshi motions for everyone else to head back to the warp, then enters himself.

Alexia enters the warp.

Fizban makes sure that that piece of staff isn't lying on the ground, in case Retz dropped it or something, or the data for that matter, then steps into the warp.

Metal Man (GM): After you all leave... *Dramatic camera angle*
A man wearing black shoes walks in. You can only see his shoes, too.
He looks at the mess, and speaks in a gruff voice.

???: "Those Questers shall not live another month... after this."

Metal Man (GM): He then walks away; moments afterwards, the entire facility explodes.
Mission Completed
+10,000 coins
+6000 EXP
And now I go AFK. I'll do yer moves tomorrow and the day after it.

Julian Sawyer: *Level 92!*

Fizban: *200 something...*

Bonecrusher: *I'll be checking out then.*

Alexia: *1900 until I hit level 60.*

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