[Coolshaymin]

The Mad Mole was trying to escape but it looked like Ninetails was having none of that as a weird substance flew at him.

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The mole got covered in the toxic mud before he exploded into a pop and revealed a small chicken that was inside. That was then pounced upon by the Ninetails. Out of the fox dropped two Poison Mushrooms and a Super Mushroom for the taking.

Meanwhile, the Dual Scream started playing it's message again to tell Luigi to pick up. It appears Tails had something to say. "I am picking up the power source very near you, Luigi. Do you see anything?" Tails asked.

Metal Sonic looked at the handheld device the plumber had for a moment before it's head turned downwards to stare at the floor. He could sense some immense energy levels he was not sure how he missed when he was down there. It almost felt like whatever it was was stronger than him... He was not about to allow that if it was another robot of Eggman's. He could also use some of that power for himself... Metal Sonic turned around before running at the door that lead into the Flying Battery. He then kicked down the door before running in to head to the lower levels, taking flight as he reached max speed.

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Ninetails stomped on the remains of the metal mole, finally standing panting over them.
He sniffed at the mushrooms inside it, curling his lips at the strange scent. He peered at Luigi, he was able to use these, right? "Luigi," He barked, "These mushrooms are usable by you, correct?" He pushed them toward them, padding toward the food left behind by the metal monkey, crunching down a slice of bread before leaving them behind.
He looked up at the metal hedgehog, about to ask why he had provided his presence, before it dashed off.
"Urrggh!" Ninetails snarled, "Luigi! Hurry, we give chase!" And padded to the ship, using his smaller size to move faster.

Damage: 11%
Mini: 1 more turn.

[TartoonHand94]

"Oh Yeah! You bech-a I do!"Gladly acepting the mushroom from Ninetails. "Just what I needed!" he gleefully exclaimed, putting the mushroom away for safe keeping.
"Hmmm, you'll-a never know when a Poison mushroom'll come in your handy..." He pondered the poison mushrooms before carefully putting them away.

A vibration in Luigi's pocket jolted him once again, thinking for a split second that the poison mushrooms activated somehow. He checked his pocket and retrieved the Dual Screen with a sigh of relief.

"Oh Two-Tails! You won't-a Believe what just happened to me and Ninetails!"[/font] Luigi began enthusiastically. "There was-a mushroom throwing mole, this monkey that throws the coconuts and these a nasty hornets and ...I'll tell you all about it later." he pardoned, bringing his focus back to the matter at hand.
"Near me? I t-think there's-an intense source of power right in-a front of us!" referring to Metal Sonic. Luigi's eyes followed Metal Sonic's eye line to the floor and stared with him, scratching his head until Metal Sonic broke into the Flying Battery and zoomed down the corridor.

"Huh! Yes! Right-a behind you!" Luigi hustled behind the little Ninetails. He hesitated at the door, looking into the darkness before him. "On second thought, I'll cover you from out here!" Luigi called, cowardly.
Turning around to view the creepy scenery and exposed exterior of the ship. Luigi realized how alone he'd be out there, with not many places to hide if danger reared it's ugly head out there anyway. Not to mention He still had the communication to Tails, crucial to the mission. He had to be brave, for everyone's sake. ...and he really didn't want to be left alone in this creepy place.

"...Wa-Wait-a for me!" Luigi called in reconsideration as he grit his teeth, closed his eyes and ran into the Flying Battery after Ninetails.

[Coolshaymin]

The interior of the flying base now sunken was pretty dark. There was a few lights on but they were pretty dim and flickering constantly. Metal Sonic seemed too fast to keep up with as he seemed to disappear after passing the ramp into the base. The first location was one with 3 chases. The room had two doors branching off on the sides of the square room.

There was bright neon signs that were flickering on and off and sparking that indicated what was in the rooms. There was one marked Research Bay. The other was marked as Robot Generation. Both rooms seemed dark and hard to make out what exactly was inside until you entered. Optionally, there was a corridor directly head that no doubt lead deeper into the Air Ship.

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Ninetails slowed as it became obvious that he wouldn't and couldn't catch the metal hedgehog, stopping as it disappeared into the airship.
He risked a glance around, the unfamiliar sensation of unease filling his chest at the strange lights and words.
He looked back at Luigi, perhaps he could explain what all these rooms were.

Damage: 11%

[TartoonHand94]

Luigi only at the last moment noticed Ninetails stopped in the flickering darkness. He tried to stop running too, but his momentum was too strong and there was too little friction on the floor. He came skating across the floor and bumped into Ninetails.



"Wuohauw...I'm-a sorry I missed the Freezie... a POW block'll do the trick.~ Luigi non-sequitur dizzy. After shaking his head and realigning his hat, Luigi recovered and looked around.
 "Gah!" Luigi gasped, cowering into Ninetail's tails. "Where-a are we?" he yelped, his head darting around like a pigeon's.

Luigi quickly noticed the neon signs above the doors, and amidst his shivering, began to read them.

"R-resea-search B-bay? R-rob-bro-bot Generalitation?" Luigi stuttered out  "I-i don't-a like the sound of e-either!" Luigi turned to see the hall way directly ahead that lead deeper into the Air Ship.  "A-and I don't-a like the Look of in there n-neither!"
"I'm-a suggest we j-just-ago back, whacha-you say, N-nine?" Luigi nervously tried to bargain with the kitsune. 

[Coolshaymin]

The lights in the dark interior continued to flicker on and off. The surroundings of the ship gave creaking sounds as the two stood there. Sounds echoed throughout the dark place. It was hard to tell what direction the sound was coming from as it bounced all around the creaking air ship.

A blueish light could be seen flickering on the other side of the Research Bay Door though the room's features were still difficult to make out. There was a some bright light and torch like sound coming from the Robot Generation Room. Through the flashes of light one might be able to make out what look like giant round capsules with yellow buttons on top that contains mysteries. The lights flickered further down the hall though not much can be seen. There was a choice of direction to make. There was the option to go back outside... but that does not seem like it would accomplish much.

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(Ninetails is an antagonist in Okami, not the Pokemon Ninetails.)

Oh, so this human seemed to know what these things were! Too bad this human had the bravery of a mouse.
The blue light from the "Research Bay" caught his attention, leaving him to pad inside, "I have no intention of leaving, this is far too intresting." He called back, tilting his head as the sounds bounced back and forth through his head.

Damage: 11%

[TartoonHand94]

"D'ow I was afraid you'd say that..." Luigi sighed trapped in his obligation. "S-s-so, wh-which-a one do we-a t-o-ta-ke-take?"

The amount of echoing noise did nothing to calm Luigi down. It'd be crazy to pick any one of these directions, but staying out in the open like that wasn't. He had to do Something.

"Sigh, ok-ko-kay, hows-a-bout-a this?:" Luigi started, trying to swallow his fear. He covered his eyes with one hand and began to point between the three options one by one with his other hand.

"Eenie, meanie, mienie, meek, the kitchen sink has sprung a leak, Mienie, eenie, meanie, mench, patch and fix it with a wrench. How much noise will it make? How many twists will it take?" as he continued to cycle through the paths.
"Uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, sei, sette, otto, nove, dieci-" Luigi could start to sense Ninetails growing impatient and skipped to the end of the rhyme.
"-Eenie, meanie, mienie, mixed, complimenti, the sink is fixed!" Luigi quickly ended, pointing a way to go. He couldn't bare to bring his hand down from his eyes to see what he picked.

(roll to see what Luigi ended on)

1. Forward,

2. Research Bay.

3. Robot Generation Room.


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[Coolshaymin]

The lights in the Research Bay were completely off except for the source of light in the ruins of a once mighty war blimp. The source of light was a computer listing various information. The information all seemed to be in some sort of cryptic code as it just went on about Badniks, new test subjects, and a line of "Robotic Hedgehogs" went on the only decipherable parts of the code.

From the angle inside the room and the light of the computer one could make out several tables and small data cards. There was also a machine in the center that looked like a giant pod with a button on the side. The only other thing of note was a bunch of tools of varying types lying around and cabinets that seemed too jammed to pull open.

However, staring at the computer screen for some time would result in a strange video playing. It showed some kind of room with several pods that contained several models of robotic hedgehogs. The screen flickered past several dates with nothing happening... That is until one where one of the larger pods were suddenly empty. There was glowing red eyes in a corner of the room with all other features impossible to make out. The rest of the footage turned into static until returning to the encrypted code.

Luigi's Dual Scream then would go off as Tails was trying to call him again.

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Ninetails followed the human's choice and ducked into the room, briefly lowering his body as he expected and attack. None came.
He slowly stepped around, trying to decipher the strange notes lying around, but while he understood the language, he couldn't tell what the words were referring to.
The video was the most confusing part of all, all he could tell, the metal hedgehog had probably started here.
He just started to pad back to the entrance, when Luigi's gadget went off. He stopped and perked his ears, maybe the fox had found the power!

Damage: 11%

[TartoonHand94]

In an epic battle of duty vs self-preservation instinct, Luigi fought himself into the Research Bay.
Luigi instinctively headed for the single source of light in the room, the computer, sleuth-fully inspecting the rest of the room along the way.
Surveying the tables and swiping them for dust with his finger, and inspecting the tools.
He finally reached the computer screen and watched it.

"Hmmm-a" Luigi tried to read the cryptic code. (Roll for how much Luigi understands)
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"Robotic Hedgehogs?" Luigi scratched his hat. "Now where have I seen-a one before?..." Luigi pondered.

An all to common gasp escaped Luigi when the video started playing. "Th-that was-a scarier than the Pokemon movie!" Luigi whined, knees weak and quaking.

And with expert timing, the Dual Scream went off, ricocheting Luigi off the ceiling into Ninetail's tails.
"We really got-a to change the ringtone on this thing!"Luigi said grunted, annoyed with it giving him the spooks for the umpteenth time.
"Oh two-Tails! It's-a so good to hear from you again in-a times like these...WHAT-A-HAVE-A-YOU-GOTTEN-US-IN-A-TO?!?" Luigi complained.

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[Coolshaymin]

Tails raised an eyebrow at Luigi's accusation. He knew Luigi was a coward but this seemed ridiculous. It's not like there were ghosts aboard the Flying Battery... was there? "... I just asked for some people to investigate an abandoned base. From what you said earlier though it sounds like the badniks here was rebooted. I thought every badnik here would be powered down... the oddest thing is though that I do not remember those Badniks aboard the Flying Battery. Makes me wonder if that place was used more recently..." Tails explained.

"That does not matter right now though. It seems you lost track of the source. It looks like it is heading very fast too. It looks like it is heading for the control center that is further down the hall... You said you saw it right, Luigi? What did it look like?" Tails asked curiously.

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Ninetails butted his head into the conversation, doing his best to hear and understand everything being thrown at him, while he was a god, he wasn't a mechanic after all!

At the mention of the power source, he didn't wait for Luigi to respond, giving his own contribution, "It resembled a metal hedgehog, striking resemblance to the hedgehog you call Sonic." As soon as this was said, he peeked out of the room, trying to locate where the control room would be.

Damage: 11%

[TartoonHand94]

A few deep breaths brought Luigi back to his senses.

"Sigh, I'm-a sorry Tails but this is-a heavy stuff!" Luigi tried to apologize for his cowardly "But this isn't-an abandoned anymore! The Bad-nickles Have rebooted! And if that wasn't an-enough, the strongest-a one has been reactivitated!" Luigi hyperventalated, getting some left over panics out.
"It's-a the one that-a looks like-a Mario's-" Ninetails cut Luigi off right there to describe Metal Sonic to Tails."-y-yes! It's-a Him! And he's-a on this ship some-a-where!" Luigi shivered as he stayed behind till Ninetails located the control room.

"I'd-a say I don't-a want to see him again but..." Luigi hesitated "But the last-a time we saw him... he-a Saved us! I don't-a know why, but something in my (currently twsting) tummy tells me he might-a be on of our side."