[WolfEx]

Once a high and mighty home for Donkey Kong and his gang, his treehouse and his island is now in complete ruin. If you were to eye the area at a distance you'd see groups of Infected marching around the area, most heavily in the destroyed treehouse at the center of the island as if trying to protect something, gravitating around a singular point. Piles of broken wood and various forms of debris that washed ashore over the years line the grounds here in various areas. There are a few corpses of dead birds around the place too, unable to fly over the sea and live freely because of the Starvia in the air, they simply suffocate and die plopping to the ground below lifeless and helpless. You can hear the sounds of waves crashing, which some might even say is peaceful, but in reality the waves are crying, wailing for comfort in such a troubled place. Banana peels both rotten and in different sizes decay all across the area. Busted open fruit and vegetable life are scattered and rotting around the tree house and beneath the trees, which are wilting. This island was no longer a party place, nor a place of solace and escape, the happiness and excitement has been drained completely from it. It must be restored before it's too late.

MISSION START!

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Amatarasu, taking on the form of a normal white wolf to a normal being, looked over to the distant ruined treehouse. She could see silhouettes of enemies she would need to defeat once they were there as part of the mission she had taken up with the help of three other individuals. The landscape was terrible, and it reminded her of when she had to restore the lands of Nippon of cursed zones. Unfortunately, there were no Guardian Saplings that she knew of that could restore the beauty of nature. She watched over Earth with the other Gods such as Sakuya, she was the mother of all things living and good on Earth. Here however, she had no connection with this planet named 'Li', yet she still wanted to help these poor beings. The thought of all citizens here dying was frankly saddening. Walking around the Life Sphere, she received many pets and cuddles by random strangers, received nicknames like "Snowy" and "Wolfy", just like back at home. Besides, if she had not helped to find an end to this disease, Nippon as well would be meet its end with Planet Li. 

When she had first arrived to the planet, Amatarasu had attempted to perhaps paint flowers and restore a dead tree to its living state, only to see them quickly die again. She assumed that the area was either cursed or the air was full of toxins, which forced her to hurry her pace, luckily finding the Life Sphere quickly enough, and learn of how she can contribute. There was apparently two theories of how to rid of Starvia of two apparently famous individuals: One by some a hatted, moustached, short human that talks with a funny voice that makes me want to eat pizza, who proposed that a well-trained group should venture to the source of the disease and destroy it. A blue talking rodent on the other hand (What weird God had been creative enough that day to make that?) had suggested flying off and destroying the planet. Being a Goddess, she thought that idea was insane. Did anyone know how hard it was to make a planet in the first place, and create all life on it? Ungrateful little...

Anyways, the distant destroyed treehouse was a far but sad sight to see. Perhaps she would assist with those primates she can help to restore the treehouse as well with the help of the Celestial Brush. She was good at fixing things, she supposed. That would be soon enough, but she wasn't having high hopes with this team of hers.

She had never seen anything like it. A strange metallic, modern type of machinery capable of moving and even talking! He called himself A.I.M, having a very monotone voice. Perhaps it was someone in very impressive armor? It looked capable of causing much damage, but she could take him if he were a threat, she supposed. It reminded her of a giant children's toy. 

There was a small child with them, a boy name Boyd. What creative people his parents seem to be, especially since they come to believe that he is capable of venturing into a ruined treehouse full of enemies, and his only weapon is a giant mochi. ...Wait, it has eyes. And a mouth. What sort of magic is that?! That thing looks rather fun to chew on and very edible, what could it provide on this mission? Well, she was bound to find out.

And then there was another what she assumed to be a boy with his size and structure. A living scarecrow, actually, but the farmer seemed to have put in extra effort into detailing its clothing and especially that mask. At first impression, she thought the scarecrow was an infected, but it had not attacked or anything... It must of been part of there group.

Amatarasu glanced back over the land. The first thing they would probably need is oxygen tanks, reading on the sign that the primates couldn't make it far on the way. Like mentioned before, she would paint flowers and trees to provide oxygen for them, but they die away quickly. She let out a solemn sigh, sitting down so she can raise a hind leg and scratch herself behind her ear.

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This place was pretty far from the Life Sphere, farther than Skull Kid had ever been, which made him nervous. The fact that he had three teammates to back him up relaxed him though. The best thing to have in times like these is people to help you out. Maybe it was only on this mission, but he still felt thankful for these companions.
The landscape had been devastated by the outbreak. The biggest factor to Skull Kid was the smell. Dead and rotten fruits and vegetables covered the ground, growing mold and filling the air with awful smelling fumes. If you took three steps without looking, you'd likely step in something mushy. Besides the smelly produce, plants of all sizes, from small ferns, to massive trees, were wilting and falling apart. It was clearly a great jungle before the virus arrived, filled with all manner of lush and colorful flora. It was depressing to see a forest like this in such an awful state.
The destroyed treehouse didn't bring about feelings as strong as the forest did, but it was still depressing that someone else's beautiful home had been wrecked. Mobs of unidentified Infected roamed all around the wreckage. The sheer size of the groups was intimidating, regardless of the kind of creatures that might make them up. Skull Kid started thinking of ways to get around all the mobs, since they were all out in the open, then he remembered that the goal of the mission was to eliminate all the Infected. Jeez, that would definitely prove difficult without coming up with a way to eliminate large numbers of them easily. That'd be something to think on.
And what about the requirement for good air? The White Wolf can apparently heal these plants, but it doesn't last long in a contaminated area like this. That would help, but would it sustain all of them? He could only hope so, since he couldn't really contribute anything to help with this. Maybe the A.I.M. creature had something up it's sleeve? The fourth member of the team, a boy and his strange pet, seemed unlikely to provide any kind of help in this area.

Skull Kid waited for someone else to either begin moving forward, or put together a game plan.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The trip to the old broken down tree house was a long one. A.I.M. even kept track of how long it’s group took to walk all the way out to this infected ridden cesspool in case it was within the theorized time that a creature could be infected by the airborne virus. Luckily there was still plenty of time before then, but the robot kept track because its databanks told it everything the fellow combats were capable of. The wolf was easily the most threatening since most of what its databanks came up with was unknown. It was obviously something not from the more known universes. The kid with the blobby creature was a difficult one too, but his presence did not give off as much power as the wolf’s. The robot knew the Skullkid already, so he wasn’t much of a big deal at the moment anyway.

The soulless machine gazed at the ruination of the nature in the area and didn’t give off any sort of reaction. The robot was built into a world that was already in ruin so it didn’t have much of a reference to the beauty of the wilderness; it saw it more as the enemies’ habitat than anything else.

Funky Kong mentioned that the team may need oxygen to help breathing in such a toxic and putrid smelling area, but A.I.M. did not need to breathe nor did the noxious gas faze the green machine. The only problem the robot could run into is if the toxic air was to gunk up his systems, which was entirely likely in this area. If anything A.I.M. would also need an air filter to pump out the goop build up.

The robot finally came to a halt once the tree house was within its vision. It twisted both its torso and its head around to look toward the group. “If there is a plan, this unit will comply with orders. If not, then this unit can suggest a battle strategy.”

[Lucciola]

Boyd hadn't been on this planet long, and all he knew was that it was called Li. And that there were strange creatures here, that even reviled what he had Blob had in their adventures. Right now he had a big white Wolf nearby which he'd heard was on his team for this mission, along with a little kid in some kind of tribal get up that didn't look much like any islander nation he knew of. But the worst thing was the area itself, he could get past the robot because he'd seen such thing before. Unfortunately this once big lush forest was now in ruins, and was almost completely dead much like Blonoia had been before they got rid of the Evil Emperor.

He was more worried about the goal behind this mission, being that they were to clean this place up. At first he thought it'd be an easy mission of just general cleaning, and he hadn't really read the finer print detailing the complete removal of infected. Neither he nor Blob were really battle hardened warriors that could take on this many creatures, if they could get to a head of the infected guards. They could set up a trap to remove large amounts of infected, he even had an idea to get past them but he figured he'd best talk to the others first.

"I'm not sure about a whole plan, but I have an idea about getting past though infected. And if I can find a higher place, with some way of bringing that down on these infected. Or even just using the higher position, I think I can do some damage to some of these infected. We're not large scale battlers, but we can set traps and ambushes" explained Boyd. Blob listened in to what Boyd had to say and nodded in agreement, Blob also looked back at the Wolf and smiled hoping the thing didn't try to eat him.

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Amatarasu had looked up to the robot as it looked over the distance, intrigued by it. Her ears perked up and she made a small noise of interest and surprise as it turned its entire torso and talked without emotion, which had approved of her last theory of it perhaps being a person in impressive armor. Or it could be a giant toy possessed by a ghost, which seemed much more realistic. Well, the giant ghost toy had said something about orders, not that she could say anything to them. She was a wolf, after all. As an answer to the metallic being, Amatarasu yawn for her own response and curled up on the grass.

Her ear flickered and she picked up her head to gaze over at the boy with the food-pet when he had spoken of perhaps ambushing the enemies or setting traps, in which she can come up with a few ideas for, like her Cherry Bomb definitely coming in handy if she were to roll it inside and they can ambush them after it exploded. Perhaps one of them could create a distraction somehow and ambush them all together. They had to keep in mind the place was already falling apart as well, though...

Amatarasu blinked at the bob's smiling toward her, starting to paw at the strange creature and no longer thinking about her possibilities at the tree house as she was distracted. Since it was not human and probably nearer to animalistic, she assumed the blob can see her true form with the floating Divine Instrument on her back, red markings and all. Was this thing just a living mochi? It look like mochi... She pawed at it lightly. It felt like mochi. She sniffed at it. It... didn't really smell like mochi, but it still could very well be one. Amatarasu poked at it again with her snout before lightly gnawing the blob softly, not wanting to cause it harm since it was being so nice, but she immediately regretted it as she pulled away her mouth and hacked, wiping her tongue on her paw and white fur as an attempt to wipe off the taste of the pasty, jelly substance.

[WolfEx]

---((MOD POST))---

Now that everyone seemed to have assembled together and began communicating with one another they would hopefully forge a decent plan of action for the numerous enemies below. If they looked around one more time more closely, they'd see a large group of Infected circling the main treehouse. If they looked through the cracks and gaps of the treehouse they'd see two rather large alligator creatures at the top dancing around. Near the waters edge they'd see a line of Klaptrap patrolling the beaches drooping saliva from their infected mouths just itching to bite anyone coming even close to their radius. Looking further in the plains they'd see bee like creatures buzzing around the area with their stingers out in a raging fit. If they saw near the piles of wreckage just some feet in front of them down a slope on the hill everyone ended up standing on they'd see scattered Infected poking at the debris lying about as if trying to find something important of some kind. A wise choice must be made to choose which path to go down to get to the Treehouse, either together, or split up. There were the hungry Klaptraps near the water, the circling Infected surrounding the Treehouse in the middle of the entire island which was just a long straight walk to get to the middle of it all, and there was a giant field of angry bees flying around kind of diagonally right from the Treehouse which was a little farther than the middle path. Then there was the path closest to everyone, which was directly below them on the hill they waited at which lead to a small meadow that connected with the coast line where the Infected are seen scattered everywhere toying with the dibris. The layout looks like this:



Each icon represents a group of enemies. With the enemies in the Treehouse itself a mystery. This map was made possible thanks to Funky Kong and his knowledge of the area.

Tread carefully, and be smart in your decisions. Anything could happen, no room for mistakes with so little oxygen.

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Well, Skull Kid didn't know which way to go, but he could suggest something to help with luring large numbers of infected into a trap.
" I am able to move from one spot to another by disappearing from point A and reappearing at point B. I could get the attention of a group, allow them to follow me a distance by only running, then, once they were near enough to the trap, I could be behind them, and they would never notice. I could also do this to simply get them out of the way and off the path if we want to get to the Treehouse first"
This had all been said rather quickly, and in only a few breaths, since he was a bit intimidated by the presence of the wolf creature, even though it seemed nice enough.
When he looked at the four possible paths they could take, the paths through the plains and through the debris seemed the most dangerous. Large, angry looking bees hovered over the plains, and Skull Kid was not well equipped for combat with arial enemies. The mission was time sensitive, and the path through the debris was the longest, and would require them to fight two groups of enemies. These opinions were not voiced, as the other members of the team seemed perfectly capable of realizing the second thing, and were likely able to fight anything in the air.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

A.I.M. scanned the battle while listening to its teammates brainstorming ideas. It recorded where all the enemies were and kept in mind the suggestions that the other two (since the wolf was unable to speak it seemed) were making as it calculated a battle strategy. A.I.M. didn’t know of the white wolf’s abilities so it was incredibly difficult to strategize. The green machine eyed the middle path for a short while before it turned back to its allies.

“I can provide you with higher ground if you require it, civilian Boyd. You could hold on to this unit and I will fly over the enemies and allow you to attack. Civilian Skullkid could provide a distraction so that the enemies would not detect us flying overhead. The canine could pick off any foes that we might miss afterwards” the robot brainstormed “that is all this unit can offer as of now, if any of you can build together a better strategy it would be advisable.”

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Amatarasu looked to the monotoned-ghost when it spoke of the plan, not minding much that she would need to wipe out the rest of the leftovers the robot and mochi-controlling boy would miss. The main problem that remained however was which path to take. The canine took the map from the grasps of whomever was holding it, using her nose to roll it out and reveal its layout flat on the ground.

According to this, the longest trail was the one farthest east, which was also trashed with debris that would be a chore to get around, also the fact that time was an important factor. She used her tail and dragged the tip of it to scribble over it to take it out as an option with her ink of the Celestial Brush. Next to it was the plains, which seemed to be guarded with what looked like giant bees. She scribbled over that trail as well, since if they were to use A.I.M  and Boydas stealthy attackers above ground, it would ruin the point. The ones left were the Middle Way and Beach, which happened to be connected with one another. She sat, contemplating. The middle way would seem quicker, however, though the Beach was a bit of a longer trail only slightly, it included a key element: Water.

Now if they were to take out all of those enemies at the Beach and give her a chance to perhaps paint in some algae, which produced the majority of a world's oxygen, they would be able to take in at least a little bit of that fresh air before it were to die away again and move on to the treehouse quickly. With that plan set in her mind, the wolf barked and circled around the beach's trail with her brush/tail, wagging with it and glancing up to the other members of the team.