[Maverick Hunter Zero]

DEX ROLL: 20{Critical Evade Lunge!}
Ragna just managed to get out of the way by vaulting backwards to avoid being buried in earth, but in doing so, he wound up getting cut off from his fellow teammates who were now fighting the Dead Hand in the area beyond the collapsed area that he was in.

And with him on the opposite end, no telling who might turn up or what might happen; so Ragna would be forced to either wait out the battle or see if he can't find another way to join the fracas against a foe who was invisible to normal sight.

{Ragna is currently trapped on the opposite end of the battle zone, and is trying to find another way around to where Paula and Dark Pit are located.}

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The rock tomb failed to hit a target despite its incredible reach, Ragna narrowly escaping the tumbling stones. The aftermath was a very impressive wall that seemed to seal to the ceiling. Unfortunately in addition to this, Ragna was shrouded completely in darkness due to the only sources of light being on the other side. With the estimated endlessness of the cavern there was easily a way around it, but that would require Ragna to actually be able to see anything beyond his own two hands.

The darkness consumed the area around him, the mumblings of something in the distant echoing, however, it felt like it was in his ear already. The white limbs seemed to be nowhere around him as of now, even then though there was a looming presence of doom even more than earlier.

The hands were repelled by the fire being unleashed by Dark Pit, even though it was a mediocre assault at best. The arms retreated back into the ground, perhaps as a means to earn the element of surprise once again. Regardless, the pure white limbs seemed to be scorched quite well upon their retreat.

While the invisible beast was able to get a slight snack off of the girl, she was rebellious enough to plant her frying pan somewhere onto the invisible being’s body. In return the being let out a low toned holler that bounced around the cave like a rubber ball in a tight space. As though something responded, the high pitched screaming sound was thrown into their direction once more.

(pzTxjw93p_1d100: Sickness prevented)

A few of the dark angel’s flames went astray from the initial blast of it, landing further into the darkness. A withered and dry brown skinned foot stomped it out, and with it came the collective groans of what could only be assumed as an army. Soon, the shrunken and lifeless faces of the creatures known as Redeads emerged from the darkness. Wandering towards the duo in a woozy fashion. On an initial head count, there seemed to be around thirty or so and counting as more and more poured in from the darkness. Howling and hungry, the reanimated corpses converged on their location.
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[Coolshaymin]

After taking a break from his frantic fire conjuring, Dark Pit heard some strange noises. "Um, Paula? Does it sound like a Zombie Apocalypse down here suddenly to you?" Dark Pit asked before turning around and spotting, sure enough, a horde of zombies. "Great, Redeads," This mission seemed to be going further and further downhill the longer this fight went on. Not only was there no sign of eliminating this Dead Hand, there was now a horde of Zombies to deal with as well. The smart idea right now seemed to be to run, the problem with that was it was too dark to find an exit easily, if there was one, and Dark Pit was the only guy that can fly out of here and he doubted he could carry both Paula and Ragna out.

"Well, anybody have any ideas? Because I am fresh out," Dark Pit said in frustration. If only Viridi still had the powers to grant miracles, but that was not going to happen. If a regular miracle happened, that would be nice too, but Dark Pit knew not to get his hopes up. Bringing out his Doom Cannon, he fired a few shots to keep the zombie like Redeads back.


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p_1d20+2

p_1d20+2(... Dark Pit, Baby, you need some aiming lessons.)1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+2

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Paula bashed her pan into the creature, breaking free from its grasp. She fell to the ground and clutched her bitten shoulder as the invisible creature growled at her, she was about to resume fighting it when she saw Dark Pit crash into the ground with his wing bones sticking out. "I'll handle you in a second.." She said as she ran to Dark Pit and crouched down beside him to check on her fallen allie. "Are you ok Pitto? Or whatever your nick name is?" She said to Dark Pit as he got up and asked her why it suddenly sounded like a Zombie apocalypse at where there are.


"What do you..Oh i see why." Paula said as she pointed towards the horde of Redeads slowly heading towards her and Dark pit. As the two quickly stood up Dark Pit took out his Doom cannon and started firing towards the Redeads, no soon after did Paula followed suite by firing PSI Fire towards the army.


xs|baQ_Ap_1d20+3(PSI Fire)

Paula managed to burn away some of the Redeads, however more soon appeared. Paula quickly took steps back as she continued firing PSI Fire at them. "There's too many of them. Everytime we kill one another one just takes its place. I hope Ragna's ok, i cant see him anywhere!" She said to Dark pit as she looked up towards the giant hole in the cavern roof that took them all down to the cave.

Paula soon after answered Dark pits question about planning for a way out of the cave.

"Well i have two options. Option one, i can light whatever's behind me, hopefully there's a path out of this cave. Or option 2, i can try and call for help via telepathy, however we'll be done for before help could come...I'm going to go with Option 1." She said as she stopped firing at the redeads and shot a bit of fire behind her. Hopefully to reveal a path out of the cave.


p_1d20+3(Lighting up the cave!)

(Special PSI cooldown time = 1 turn remains)


Damage: 18%


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[Maverick Hunter Zero]

With Ragna on the opposite side of the wall of dirt and a reanimated zombie construct apocolypse on the opposite end, Ragna could easily hear mumbling, if it wasn't any stragglers or a Gibdo, then it would be safe to assume that there might be one in the area somewhere.

"Gotta get moving, though it'd be alot easier if I still had some light, dammit. Oh, well... best to feel my way through this hellhole, and maybe I'll find what makes this place tick!" Ragna said, his eyes begining to adjust to the gloom of this place, the only source of light being on the opposite end of the wall which had the Dead Hand and an undead hoard in the vicinity.

WIS ROLL: 11+1=12{for perception... Just nine ribs short of a full rack.}

Ragna began to make his move, feeling his way along as though he were blindfolded. Even though he still had his cracker launcher, which was strapped to his back as he still had it equipped to him, he dare not fire another round unless it was safe to do so, mainly because this place would most likely lead into that hidden facility and would be the least of his worries if he wound up caught. Ragna would just have to rely on both his eyesight getting better in the dark and his intuition to lead him to where he had to go, an all too familiar scent of something sinister begining to reach his nose as he continued to plod along in the darkness.

{NOTE A: Give Ragna only one encounter please, no hoards.}
{NOTE B: I also want to find some way for ragna to aquire the Lense of Truth during his search for a viable exit.}

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The horde continued forth with ease even after being struck by the PSI Fire. The moment that one fell, another would take its place within seconds. Although they weren’t advancing towards the duo’s location any time soon considering the relative slowness that Redeads had. Dark Pit’s concerns continued to go unheeded and really it was surprising in general that he had no ideas to drive the advancing force off. Perhaps something E Gadd stated during their briefing would give him a new way of looking at things. That is if he remembers anything that was stated in the briefing or what was within his own pockets.

The light spell that Paula cast was completely successful, making the largeness of the army ahead of them all the more terrifying due to their sheer size. All of them radiated that sickening purple glow. It was like a sea of pure horror, the faces of the reanimated monsters bobbing up and down like waves. All the light uncovered was the boundaries of the cave, proving that the cave was indeed not endless, but still quite massive in size. From their perspective there was still no visible exit, besides the holes that were created to bring them down this far. The Egg Cracker was still in its previous position, significantly damaged and most importantly flipped on its side.

The white hands arose around the duo once more and readied themselves to hold the two down so that the horde could overrun them much quicker. Although, just before they could, a familiar stout figure arose from the Egg Cracker.

“AH HA HA HA! See, Big Top, we didn’t miss any of the action!”

“That wasn’t my concern, my concern was that we were going to die!”

“That’s a trivial matter, Big Top. As you see this will be our biggest and final show! We’ll give these adventurers something to treasure for the rest of their lives!”

“None of us will live that long!”

“Ah, but you forget Big Top! This is an Eggman creation! Every mad scientist includes a self-destruct button on their machines! We’ll make mincemeat of this horde and their base in a single blow!”

“You’re insane!”

“No, I’m the Master of Catastrophe!”

The squat being then leapt back into the shuttle and by the sounds of it, he was fiddling around with something mechanical. Just as MC Ballyhoo retreated, so did the white hands. They arose once more around the Egg Cracker and began to bash the hull of it, trying desperately to get inside before the fool could succeed in his plan. The army of Redead quickly divided themselves in two separate groups, one half to continue to terrorize the duo while the others went to aid Dead Hand.

As for Ragna, unfortunately he couldn’t find anything besides the rubble from the collapsed roof. The darkness was not present forever though. As Paula’s light spell activated, it showed the demon infused warrior that he was not sectioned off from his group completely. Light from the ends of the wall that separated the group showed that if he moved fast enough he could rejoin his allies by simply walking around the wall. The cave was far too big for the collapse to separate them indefinitely.

The sounds he heard earlier soon disappeared as MC Ballyhoo announced the news about the self-destruct button to his allies. He could see the caravan from his position and also that Dead Hand was attempting to stop its activation. Ragna might want to choose to intervene.

[Coolshaymin]

Dark Pit was about to think on Paula's suggestions until Viridi spoke up again. "Dark Pit, are you forgetting something? Something very important?"




"Huh? What do you mean 'forgetting something important?' Its not like we have a 3rd option."




"Actually you do Dark Pit. In fact you were told how to handle a situation exactly like this."



"Huh? When was I told how to handle something like this?"




"Out of curiosity, Dark Pit. how well were you paying attention during the Briefing?"




"Oh, that boring thing? I took a nap while the old man was rambling."



"... You really are Pit's clone... CHECK YOUR POCKETS YOU LAZY ANGEL! YOU HAVE THE KEY TO SURVIVING IN YOUR POCKETS!"




"Huh? When did this Assist Trophy get in here? Kackle? ... oops."




"Oops?! Do you know how much trouble getting you playable again would be?! Now use that stupid Assist Trophy and do not fall asleep during briefings next time!"



"Fine, Its not like I needed you to tell me to use it."




"You did need me to tell you had it in the first place now USE THE STUPID THING!"




"Fine, I'm on it... Wait... When did that loudmouth get in the van and... HE'S GOING TO DO WHAT TO MY RIDE?!"




"Pittoo, ignore him and use the Assist Trophy already!"



"... Fine, just do not call me Pittoo! Okay, Paula, I am going with option #3," Dark Pit said as he pulled out the Kackle Assist Trophy and held it up. "Now scare the army's pants off Kackle!" Dark Pit said summoning Kackle to scare off the approaching army.

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Paula watched as her PSI fire lighted up the cave and looked down at the path. She was dismayed to not find an exit out of the cave..It seems if they want to escape they have to climb the giant hole the Egg cracker made. Things only got worse when the horde of Redeads were not showing signs of stopping..In fact there multiplying!

"The only exit is that hole..I hope this dosent get worse!" Paula said as her words were jinx due to the white hands appearing around the two, about to grab them again. "Were surrounded!" Paula said as the hands reached down toward the two. However they stopped and disappeared into the ground when Ballyhoo and Big top appeared from the cracker and tried to self destruct it!

"That was close..But that guy with the talking top hat is going to blow up the cracker..Use Kackle Pit!" She said to Dark pit, She was secretly listening into his and Viridi's conversation. Just then a group of Redeads approached the two, some still wanting the two munched.

"I'll delay this group as best as i can, you stop the Egg cracker from blowing up!" She said looking at the horde and fired PSI Frost at them to make them move slower..Or stop them in there tracks!


TTlHv1UIp_1d20+3(PSI Freeze These Redeads!)

Damage: 18%1d20+3

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Thanks in large part to Paula, the cave became a veritable sea of undead horor; it would become much worse as Ballyhoo and Big Top would anihilate the zombie apacolypse... Using the only means of getting the hell out of this place as the explosive!

Ragna would intervene at the right moment because thankfully, the blasted animated golems were not looking his way, and his target was still the invisible elephant of the mission, the Dead Hand. "Dead Center! Time to show you the reason I alone need to be feared by the monsters, kiddo's." Ragna said, as his Seithr Aura, reached a level so menacing and malevolent, that even Black Shadow would be put on high alert, even worse, All those in this very location would hear the resounding roars of a terrible monster as a black paling erupted from the ground and coraled not just the Dead Hand, but all Redead surrounding it, next second, The sounds of the Bloodscythe slashing, hacking, and cleaving everything within the paling could be heard as the song Black Onslaught played and Ragna cut to the beat, finally at the end of the admonishing melody, the paling exploded and would send even something like the Dead Hand into orbit around Li.

Hopefully it would be enough to thin out the ranks of undead horors in this cave, leaving the rest as easy pickings for the sudden explosion to occur, whilst Ragna slinked back behind the protection of the wall and eventual safety from the explosion soon to come. But not before fireing a Cracker Shell to get Paula and Dark Pit to get to safety ASAP!

STR ROLL: 17+2=19{BRUTAL BLACK ONSLAUGHT OF BRUTALITY!}
DEX ROLL: 20{Critical Cracker Shell of forewarning!}

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The ghost pirate known as Kackle erupted from the assist trophy like a beacon of light. The large astral projection of a skeletal Kremling filled a good chunk of the cave, the roof of it just being a tight fit. The creature did as its name suggests, roaring with laughter as its fury burning eye peered upon the army of reanimated carcases. Paula’s attempt at freezing the corpses failed merely because their basic instincts kicked in and caused them to flee away from the scene, the skeletal monster acting like a sheep dog.

One would think that that would be enough, but Ragna apparently wasn’t of that state of mind. He rushed to the scene right before the Redeads could flee back into the darknessand began to pick them off like barn animals. His black onslaught ripped through them like tissue paper due to the fact that they chose flight over fight mode, however, Dead Hand was not within the horde. In fact, the white zombie’s body was still invisible to the warmonger so it was highly unlikely that he would be able to snag the creature with such a blind maneuver. He did manage to launch some of the Redead’s through the roof though.

Meanwhile, within the cockpit of the Egg Cracker MC Ballyhoo was busy searching over the command console for something that might be of use to both him and his team. ‘Team’, E Gadd didn’t actually approve of his being there, but given that he was able to figure out a way to get the group out of a jam, he might be thankful for it. During his fiddling though, a white hand managed to punch through the hull of the craft, a swift duck was enough to save him from the punishment. The fist whipped back out the hole it created, readying itself for another attempt.

“How long until they figure out there is no self-destruct button?” the hat hastily whispered to his companion.

“HAH! Those mindless creatures couldn’t hope to figure that out!” Ballyhoo replied as he continued to act like he was doing something to the command console.

“That’s an awfully pessimistic tone you have for our allies…”

“I was talking about the infected… WAIT, they don’t think I’m that crazy do they?”

“…”

“What?”

“No comment”

The second after the two stopped babbling, the floor right behind them exploded open, like a large being had rammed straight through. The duo looked at each other and shrieked since they couldn’t see a target. MC Ballyhoo snatched his microphone and began to blindly swing his accessory at the air in front of him.

[Coolshaymin]

Dark Pit turned around to let Kackle do its job so he can protect his ride... Wait a second... "The Egg Cracker has no Self Destruct button!"



"You just now figured that out?" Viridi replied.



"He is so going to pay for tricking me... What is that Ragna guy doing? No way... He is wasting his Final Smash on enemies that I made run away first? He just wasted what could of helped us later."



"It is a very odd move to make."



Then Dark Pit heard what sounded like someone breaking through something. "Okay, we got rid of the Redeads, that still does not take care of the Dead Hand. How are we supposed to take care of that thing? Its too hard to hit it when we can not see it. All I have is my Boss Killing move but if it does not connect it would be a waste. Any ideas, guys? I am out."

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Paula looked as her Frost did not do anything to stop the oncoming horde and was about to warn Dark Pit when the redeads heard and got distracted by Kackle and the sounds Ballyhoo and Big top were making inside the Egg cracker. Just then she saw Ragna appear from the darkness and watched as he slaughtered a few redeads across the cave thanks to his final smash. She sighed happily knowing one of her allies are ok and might of managed to navigate his way out of the darkness thanks to her PSI and turned to Dark Pit.


She walked towards the bark angel and kind backed up his criticism of Ragna using his final smash at such a useless time "It is odd, it could of helped us with Black shadow if we manage to meet up with the other group and have a battle with the being, but then again we were struggling with that horde back there. As for the Dead hand, when it bit into me it made growling noises..So maybe we should listen to see if its growling nearby?" Paula said to Dark pit as she looked at the white hand trying to get to Ballyhoo and Big top.


"Looks like Ragna's got the other situation covered." Paula said as she tried to listen for the Dead hand to see if it will growl again.

Damage: 18%

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Ragna was unfortunately forced to get into the mindset of a cold-blooded N.O.L. destroying govornment smashing military hater, and dive into the the fracas once he realised there would be no 'Li Shattering Kaboom', Chopping the appendage of the Dead Hand clean at its wrist, and proceeding to mercilessly slaughter the rest of the appendages in the same manner. Once the appendages were dealt with, Ragna would soon jump into the Egg Cracker from the back end.

Ragna thought to himself as he jumped into the Egg Cracker to defend Ballyhoo from whatever was coming. "Damn moronic worm, that egg bodied dictator wouldn't even think to implement a self-destruct button...  I guess even idiots have nishaps!"

"Heads up, you two.  Let's find a way to stall or annihilate the Dead Hand until then!  and YOU, stay out of the way whilst me and the others deal with the invisible elephant in the cave!" Ragna said; abruptly scolding MC Ballyhoo with that last bit, ready to fight to the death if need be to ensure the success of the mission.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The white limbs continued to tear away at the bulky machine with extreme haste, that was until Ragna came along and began to dismember some hands. The blade wielder only managed to amputate two arms before the source creature became wise of what he was up to. In turn, two arms came to replace the ones that had been rendered useless, grabbing the mutilated hands as they sprung out of the ground. Ragna was made an easy target since he was alone in this struggle. The new arms chucked the old ones hands directly at the red reaper’s left arm, remembering the metal taste of his right. If the palms managed to make contact they would clamp their grip around said limb and begin to dig their sharp fingers into his skin like knives. Another limb promptly smacked Ragna away from the Egg Cracker entrance.

Meanwhile inside the Egg Cracker, MC Ballyhoo was having no such luck with fending off the creature much the same as the rest of the team. His intention was never to actually fight the thing, but he did at least draw it out. Unfortunately his plan seemed to go completely over the rescue team’s head considering they didn’t exactly spring into action. Ragna did, but there were two other able bodies who he would have also appreciated if they jumped in.

Soon though, the invisible corpse grabbed the flailing announcer and prepared its jaws for its feast. “WOAH!! Well Big Top, turns out this is our final show! Big Top, you were the best co-host a guy could ever have!” Ballyhoo wailed as tears streaked down his face like a pressure washer.

“I HATED YOU TOO!”

Just before they could be eaten though, Ragna shouted directly at Dead Hand, revealing the fact that there was no self-destruct button whatsoever. “Seriously? Nice to know our sacrifice meant ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!”

In outrage of their trick, Dead Hand tossed them aside like a rag doll and burrowed back underground, Ballyhoo was merely a ploy and considering he posed no real threat to the white corpse it would be a much more favourable idea to go after the ones who could actually fight and leave him for last and easy pickings.

As the Sunshine Stadium duo were tossed and about to collide with the floor, their descent suddenly became a lot slower. The limbs of Dead Hand suddenly lost their quickness, allowing Ragna to pick them off with ease if he so chose, though considering how effective that has proven it might not be worth the time.

The sounds within the cavern were also significantly muffled, and soon the voice of A.I.M. echoed from the control console of their vehicle. “Attention all units, abort mission. The Chaos Control will not last forever. Unit Miles Prower has permission to use Unit Mr. L’s experimental Dual Scream to find the quickest escape possible. Team Raging Ram, unit Ivo Robotnik will be within your location very shortly. Unit Captain Falcon prepare the Blue Falcon for escape. This unit and unit Adell will see to the leaders.”

As soon as that transmission ended, another tapped in to their signal. A familiar raspy voice on the other end of the line. “Get everyone into the Egg Cracker as quickly as possible and then press the big red button! I’ll be there shortly.”

[Coolshaymin]

"Until what?" Dark Pit asked in confusion until the Radio in the van informed them. "Did Ragna just tell the future?" Dark Pit then looked at Ballyhoo slowly falling. "Crap! A.I.M. must of not known of the hitchhiker so he did not exempt him! Ragna, stay in the truck back of the truck! Paula, you get in the back with him, I'll the Master of Idiots, over there,"Dark Pit said. He did not really want to save Ballyhoo, but he did not want to meet that loser if he's infected. Besides, he was the fastest of the 3 with the Power of Flight so he was the most qualified. Dark Pit sped over to Ballyhoo before he could hit the ground and picked him up then flew over and threw him in the passenger seat before flying into the Driver's seat before deactivating his power of flight and taking a second to make sure everyone was in before hitting the big red button.