[Mari]

Rosalyn's doppelganger stepped into her slash and just kinda... grabbed the blade of her sword, showing a flagrant disregard for her own wellbeing as it dug deep into her arm. She then shifted to grab the wrist holding Rosalyn's blade and move closer to her, planting her foot firmly behind the other where she stood before giving Rosalyn a hard shove back, forcefully tripping her and knocking her down. She then moved to step on Rosalyn's chest in an effort to keep her from squirming away, drawing a familiar looking pea shooter with her uninjured arm and attempting to fire off several shots into Rosalyn!

Nearby, G&W faced off against his golden doppelganger... and made the ballsy choice to throw the experimental starvia cure at it. The vial!! ... The doppelganger produced a golden chair from his being, smacking the vial out of the air and shattering in the process. This had the unintended effect of getting it all over himself. The effect was almost immediate. The doppelganger, unlike its counterpart over with Rosalyn, stopped in its tracks and began to quite plainly freak out. There was an effort to get the solution off of its body, but the deed was done and the extent of the solution's potency rapidly became clear. Being a body made entirely out of mutated shadow bugs, a cousin of the starvia, the golden game and watch began to ... disintegrate where it stood. Holes began to appear in its body where the potion had splattered, spreading up and consuming its entire being. New bugs attempted to join with it, but only seemed to prolong its suffering. A few long moments later, the golden game and watch was but a pile of ash on the floor.

It might become readily apparent why Ciel had only wanted to test the cure on a sample rather than a live test subject. The starvia 'cures' had a loooong history of being lethal if they were even slightly less than expected. Whether this reflected how it would behave in an actual test subject was unclear.

And Ciel... Well, Ciel would probably be more upset at the revelation that Rosalyn was responsible for all of this if well... her doppelganger wasn't ruthlessly unloading into her while she was down. It made it a tad difficult to concentrate, y'see. It quickly became apparent, much to Ciel's alarm, that she was going to be executed where she laid if she didn't do something. But she was hardly a fighter, and she was in too much pain to aim her own pistol! G-Goodness, Milan was going to be furious when he got back. More importantly, though, she was going to get trophied! But that was a fate she couldn't sit with. Disaster or not, she needed to take steps to protect herself, because right now she and her companions were the only things preventing disaster. It was time to call in some backup.

Crack! An assist trophy generator gave off a burst of light as Ciel called in the cavalry.

A well-built man graced the battlefield

Little Mac popped out into the room, staring Ciel's doppelganger down for a moment as they both registered each other's existance. Ciel's doppelganger raised her pistol to meet him, only to get slugged in the jaw just before she pulled the trigger! The blow rocked her petite body, nearly throwing her off her feet and sending her shot into the ceiling. A couple of followup punches to the belly and face and Ciel's doppelganger was thrown to the floor. Staggering back to her feet, Ciel quickly healed the edge off of her many wounds with curiph before quickly zoning in on Ringo to see how she was doing.

Nearby, Ringo's doppelganger approached her with that same easy pace. The spirit candle lit up in Ringo's grasp, responding to the touch of a soul. For a brief moment, her doppelganger recoiled at the sight. Bugs tended not to like fire. However, after a moment it seemed to realize how small the flame was compared to its new form and began attempting to reach past the flames to grapple with Ringo, barring its teeth rather savagely in a disturbing faux smile. However, as it began doing this Ciel caught up with it and, without giving it time to realize it had left itself open, delivered a quick overhead slice with a beam saber she'd picked up from nearby! This cut straight through the grasping arms, which dropped to the floor and deformed back into a couple of shadow bugs. Ciel then threw her weight into a shove and pushed the doppelganger away from Ringo. Her arm visibly trembled. Just the imagery of attacking Ringo, even if she knew it wasn't real, was a bit upsetting for her. Turning back to Ringo, Ciel's gaze softened.

"

Are you alright..? Stay close to me and I'll try and keep them off you so have some room to breath, okay..?

"

...Didn't you get shot like, six times Ciel? She seemed to be handling it well enough, mostly because Curiph had partially healed the wounds already. They hurt, but she wasn't overwhelmed or anything. Meanwhile, a couple of new doppelgangers appeared. A doppelganger of... Shizuka? Where had they learned to copy her?? She began approaching Game and Watch. Meanwhile, doppelgangers of Chase and Aile using Model OX approached Ciel and Ringo. Ciel froze up for a moment, glancing at Model A.

"

They're taking DNA from Model A! They could have dozens of samples from him!

"

[Deleted]

Rosalyn rolled her eyes. "I'm a scientist Ringo, I take risks for the benefit of the Life Sphere, such as tampering with Mr Game and Watch's drink. Speaking of which." Rosalyn tried to move her sword out of her doppelganger who walked through it. "Crap." Her eyes widened as she was thrown on the ground, pinned and then shot with pea balls in the face, hurting her as her sword fell to the side. "Grr, stop!" Rosalyn reached for her sword and tried to decapitate her doppelganger before it could fire another shot at her again.

As she did so she noticed that Game and Watch had thrown a vial towards his own doppelganger, who appeared to be burned by the experimental vial, which made her realise the key to stopping them. She looked around for Ringo and Ciel. "Guys, that vial Game and Watch had just thrown, we need more bottles of it if we want to stop them!" She yelled in the laboratory.

---

Rosalyn Hollotus: 20%

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Once the vial went airborne, Mr. G&W instantly recoiled, shielding his face because someone had to take caution for his dashing good looks. His vision picked up on his golden counterpart pulling something from hammer space and hoped that the doppelganger wasn’t familiar enough with the new body to know about the bucket. Oh, how the plan would backfire if it used the bucket. After pulling back his flimsy limbs though, he was pleasantly surprised that the creature used the chair instead. Sometimes having an arsenal of weapons so large that you forget what half of them do was advantageous.

As the glass container shattered, Game & Watch clasped his head in distress, only to then realize that that’s exactly what he wanted to happen. Look, he really wasn’t ready to throw himself into a fight today. With the evil clone disintegrating to the ground, the Flat Zoner began to wobble himself back onto his feet victoriously. He held his fists to his hips and then pounded his chest in uproarious laughter. The momentum of his fist caused him to stumble backwards slightly, but all in all he felt quite accomplished. Albeit, he was ready to take a nap.

He was attracted to the sound of his name among the ruckus, a natural reaction from his more arrogant days. It took a bit for him to realize why the mad scientist was mentioning him outside of the whole slipping stuff in his drink (could he sue for that? Can he sue people?), but then he registered that she was making comment on the vial that he threw. Well, if they had more of those on hand then the whole situation would be resolved a lot quicker. Oh yeah, maybe he should mention that. He began to chime and ring wildly, like an alarm clock that was someone forgot to put on snooze. He pointed to the podium and then back to the remains of his miniature statue. While he was distracted though, a golden girl tackled him to the ground.

Mr. Game & Watch kept an arm’s distance from the clone of Shizuka, shoving his hand in her face to prevent her from striking him while he laid prone on the floor. He had no idea who she was, better yet he was confused as to why she was attacking him, he looked nothing like her! These clones were following the rules at first, but now they’re attacking whoever they want, he called foul! Either way, he was not in the mood to face off against whoever she was, and they needed to get more of that Starvia Cure. He had no idea where it was, but he was certain one of the scientists did, so he needed to take the heat off them somehow.

Feeling light headed already, he supposed that there was only one option he had left. It had been quite some time since he used it and he didn’t know if he had the energy for it, but if he wanted to sleep tonight the situation was more than just about him! With a release of chaotic energy, G&W’s four limbs split into eight and his mass increased nearly tenfold, taking up a huge majority of the room. He let out an uproarious “DOOT!” and began to lash his tentacles at the infected foes. He had one for each of them, swiping the doppelgangers away from Ciel and Ringo in specific so that they could retrieve the supplies if there was any to find.

[Rina]

"TAMPERING IS STILL TAMPERING! GIVE US A WARNING NEXT TIME!!"

It's pretty much set-and-stone that Ringo's not going to like Rosalyn anytime soon for what she did. Tried as Ringo might, trying to shoo away her clone with the candle wasn't doing much of anything. They're averse to the flame, but a tiny ember isn't going to intimidate them from taking another bite at her. Ringo, composure completely gone, screamed, her cry for help promptly answered with Ciel hacking the arms off with a sword. The series of events froze Ringo up in an attempt to process it, snapping back to her senses upon Ciel trying to pin down the partially dismembered clone and checking in on her.

"I-I'm okay, but that clone isn't going to get held down!"

She planned to find a coutermeasure to all of this, but everything is starting to look bad. Clones of rather unfamiliar folk began materializing...and they've got their eyes on Model A.

"Wait- WHAT!?"

Ringo quickly snached Model A, hoping to keep it away from the bugs' reach. From the clone-mageddon to the sudden Ocropus G&W, she's having a hard time keeping her calm. It's so much to handle!

[Mari]

(

My hero... Those things were biting me in places I didn't even know you could reach!

)

Model A gratefully snuggled into Ringo's arms, doing his bet to hide from the bugs attacking them. Nearby, Ciel quickly learned what Ringo meant and awkwardly waggled her sword in the Ringo Doppelganger's abdomen, letting its laser properties burn up all the bugs it came into contact with. It was certainly a lot more effective than a regular sword, and in just a second and a half there wasn't enough of the doppelganger left to get back up. What was left quickly disintegrated back into its bug form, retreating back toward the source of the chaos.



Meanwhile, Rosalyn succesfully decapitated her doppelganger. The doppelganger's head flew through the air and landed nearby. Bugs fleed from the wound in her neck. But... her body was still rigid and unyielding. It clung to Rosalyn, keeping her where she was, almost as if... "Stop it! Stop it!" the doppelganger called out in a perfect imitation of Rosalyn's voice. It pulled its own head off the ground with a free hand, which was displaying a twisted grin that didn't match the hollow look in her eyes. It was like someone was pulling at the corners of her mouth in a poor imitation of a smile. Her body sat on Rosalyn's, pinning her down between her legs. She then shoved her face at Rosalyn and it bit into her shoulder and neck from the side, once tearing a large chunk of cloth off of her clothes and the second biting into her flesh. She bit hard, a bone in Rosalyn's shoulder crunching and breaking in the process. The doppelganger's free hand, of course, was dedicated to fighting with Rosalyn's arm--namely the one without any broken bones keeping it from working properly. It didn't have to overpower her. It just had to buy time, and it was capable of both. Pulling back, the doppelganger's now bloodied mouth was displaying a more savage, yet genuine smile. It had known joy in its one and only desire. The doppelganger lowered the head back down, this time going for Rosalyn's neck.



It struck Rosalyn. However, before it could get a proper grip with its mouth something caught the doppelganger and it was violently launched off of her, its body going flying across the room leaving its head helpless this time. Soon, they both disintegrated into a cloud of bugs fluttering around, scurrying to escape the wrath of a giant black octopus. ...Inktipus? Is this the Splatoon x Game & Watch crossover we've all been waiting for? In a quick series of events, other doppelgangers soon met a similar fate. The room was now swarming with bugs, only they were mostly retreating away from the octopus in the room instead of biting people. Game and Watch had bought them much needed time and a quick path. The moment of truth had arrived...

"

...That was all of it. There was enough cure in there for at least ten doses.

"

Ciel held up a familiar syringe with her free hand. Game and Watch ... had just thrown the entire reserve. More reasons she wasn't entirely sure if it had really been a cure. That much cure could have probably made even the healthiest person very sick via overdose. After all...

It was made of a very toxic base.

"

...But I think I know which part of the cure is responsible for that reaction!!

"

With that, Ciel de-actived her laser sword and made a rush across the room. At the opposite end, the mass of modified starvia began to grow. It was taking shape again, this time into something... large. Ciel ignored this, scooping up some of the test subjects still on the table. Namely, the other syringe. If the Starvia somehow got ahold of that, ...she didn't even want to think about the implications. It could be nothing. It could be the loss of Model A, and the end of Ashe's hero days as a result. It could mean the biometals at large becoming a hostie threat that needed to be solved. It could mean Model W being brought to the Sphere. So many possibilities occured to her, none of them were acceptable. She might've grabbed the cookpot or the heart of compassion too, but honestly she didn't have a clue how to use them or if they even did anything at all. ...And if she did she probably would've skipped them anyway. Plus, she needed a free hand for the not-so-secret ingredient.

Delfino Goop.

Ciel picked up the the can of goop, rushing back to Ringo and presenting her the syringe she'd just rescued. It still had a cap on it, making sure it was sterile and safe to handle.

"

...This formula goes with Model A. Whoever built him wanted to limit who could use him by bloodline, but this formula is meant to bypass that security. We should probably make sure to keep it away from those doppelgangers. If you want, we can test it now. It could help us defeat this new viral strain. You'll know it works if you can hear his voice.

"

Ciel would of course offer to administer the shot if RIngo agreed, and sure enough the formula would work as promised. A rather young boy's voice would greet her ears from her arms.

(

Hey! Girl! ...Gosh, this is some serious deja vu for me. Uhm--If you can hear me, yell "Mega Merge" while you're holding me! I can help you blast these gross bugs and protect your friends!

)

((Ringo is being offered a situational boon! Fusing with Model A will make her a lot faster and grant her access to all of Ashe's weaponry, including A-trans))

Before Ringo could actually take Model A's advice, assuming she took Ciel's offer in the first place, a large figure blotted out the ceiling lights, casting a shadow acros the room. Ciel turned her gaze and immediately had to do a double take, because not one but two huge saws were racing across the floor toward her and RIngo. She quickly reached out and pulled Ringo into a protective hug, slipping in front of her so that the saws passed right by them on either side. They quickly punched through the back wall, leaving holes in their wake.

A gigantic, multi-thousand pound metal fortress on legs formed from the mass of mutated shadow bugs, taking up a good portion of the room. Its toothy maw caused Ciel to go weak in the knees with a certain fear. 

She knew, just from taking a look at the massive pseudroid, that her house was less durable than it was. The implications were dire. She knew then that they had failed to contain the shadow bugs. If it wasn't the damage to the house, it would be the air vents or the water pipes. There was no such thing as a perfectly sealed house. Not one you could also live in, anyway. That meant they only had one recourse. The viral strain didn't appear to be infectuous like the starvia. She wasn't sure carnivorous insects were a huge improvement, but she had noticed they weren't experiencing any hallucinogenic or weakening effects that would normally come with the steady onset toward infection. Undoing the cap on the goop, Ciel eyes the false pseudroid with intent.

"

It's taken on a single form. If we can defeat it now, we might be able to deal a major blow to its numbers and drive it back for a time. We have to cover it with as much of this icky goop as possible! ...I think eight arms might be helpful for that.

"

Ciel held up the canister for anyone who wanted to use its contents, specifically eying Mr. Game and Watch. She didn't like asking him for help, but well... he had a lot more reach than the rest of them. She just hoped no one got bitten or stepped on or smacked or sawed... She doubted they would survive with that much weight and power behind each admittedly sluggish strike from the behemoth.

[Deleted]

Rosalyn smirked when she managed to decapitate her doppelganger. "I guess your the brawny copycat to the brainy original." Rosalyn taunted the clone, but, she said something that made her confused.

"Wait, what...What ar---But before she could do anything, she got pinned by the clone and bitten into by the shoulder.

She held in her pain, but she wanted to scream as she heard the sound of her bone crushing.

"GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!" Rosalyn screamed to the top of her lungs as she kicked the clone off of her, but got hit by the clone's head.

She knew that if it bit into her neck she would revert to her trophy form due to the severe injury it would give her.

She would end up like that one woman from that Italian zombie movie that she watched.

Had it not been for the last minute intervention of GW who had pulled the clone away from her. It allowed Rosalyn to reach Ciel and Ringo while the doppelgangers began to form into one thing.

She grabbed her shoulder in pain, as the wound was still bleeding, very much. She ran over to Ciel and the box she had before looking in it.

She also kept a close eye on the monster as well in case it approached. "Gloop, we need ones that are like ones that originated from Isle Delfino, i'm guessing you have it?" Rosalyn asked Ciel, wanting some of the gloop so she can help defeat the monster once and for all, before it escapes.

And if that monster escapes into the Life Sphere, then it could hold dire consequences.

Something which Rosalyn needed to prevent no matter the costs.

---

Rosalyn Hollotus: 35%

[Rina]

"One problem down...and much more go to."

And just one, even. Ringo cradled Model A safe from harm and whatever bugs that attempt to siege on the machine...bit...thing. He's sentient, but Ringo has yet to register the voice that's speaking from Model A. She was much too engrossed on the chaos ensuing to let it sink in, then shifting her attention to Ciel handing her a syringe. A formula to make her "compatible" with Model A, huh? Well, not EXACTLY that; it's more of a bypass than anything. So Model A is only usable to those with compatibility...? It would be handy to utilize his powers, but it hasn't occurred to Ringo that she has a certain resonance to it. She isn't sure about it until...

The giant, bug-infested machine came to life, ready to revolt!

"AAAA!"

Ringo was frozen, not knowing what to do, until...

"!?"

She finally heard Model A call out to her. Wait, she can hear it? Only her, even? There's not much time to think of her options, though! One more minute of hesitation would lead to destruction of this lab! Ringo heeded Model A's words, calling the command.

"...Mega Merge!"

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The octopus monster’s tendrils recoiled after they completed their intended duty, saving the lives of innocents and no doubt re-earning him the rightful reputation of a hero! That said, his tiny snoot began to puff in and out as Mr. Game & Watch grew more exhausted. The transformation gave him a slight boost of energy, but if he were human he would be as pale as a ghost right about now. Frankly, he didn’t know why he was still capable of functioning, perhaps it was his species equivalent to adrenaline? It would make sense, the situation was still quite dim despite his best efforts to keep it under wraps. As the clones disintegrated though, he thought that he could breathe a sigh of relief.

Unfortunately, the modified Shadow Bugs only crumbled so that they could regroup into the form of a much bigger beast. Mr. G&W hated amorphous enemies, it was so difficult to tell when they were dead. Back in his day, beating enemies to a pulp meant they were defeated. Considering that Mr. G&W was now the second largest thing in the room, it naturally meant it was up to him to keep this new beast restrained. It also meant that there was a whole lot less space for him to maneuver.

Mustering all the strength he had left, the flat octopus lurched forward. Before he had to come up with a plan of his own, Ciel turned his attention to something more useful. He had no idea how or why the goop would be effective against the enemy, but science lady said it was important, so G&W was going to listen to science lady. Besides, the best he could muster was hit it until it stops moving. One of the octopus’s hind tendrils snatched the object. On further reflection, he realized that he had a very similar item floating in his Bank Account, so if things ever got out of hand he knew where they could get more.

Floating forward, the monstrous invertebrate didn’t have to move far. His tendrils shot outward, constricting the limbs of the other giant beast and elevating himself as far above the creature as he could. He begun with sprinkling the goop around the beast’s sides, but got fed up with how little was leaking from the vial, so he cracked it like an egg and split it open directly on the bionic beast’s turbine-like head. He re-enforced his grip around the creature like any true octopus would its prey to keep it from moving and allowing the goop to settle.

[Mari]

((Dearly sorry for the delay! I had a brain block, but I think I know how I want to handle this. Due to things I will be forced to move on without Star.))

“ R-Rosalyn... are you okay? You... Mr. Game and Watch has it... R-Rosalyn?? Rosalyn!! ”

Ciel could see that somewhat was wrong. She could see it in the way Rosalyn ran, to the way she stood, to the increasingly vacant look in her eyes. And finally, to the way she began to wobble and lose her balance. She had been dealt a grave wound. She hadn't just been wounded, though. A terrible toxin was flowing through her veins, seeping into her heart, corrupting her being. It turned out that the greater infected manifestation's bite was very much venemous, and it was taking a rapid toll on Rosalyn's mental state. Ciel rushed to try and catch Rosalyn as she began to fall over, but proved to be too weak and promptly got squished by the bigger woman instead. ...Well, that was sort of catching someone? More like breaking their fall. Ciel's chest tightened with anxiety as she squirmed to sit up, holding Rosalyn in a sitting position. It wasn't lost on Ciel what was happening. She recognized the symptoms, and she knew that Rosalyn was being infected. She silently resolved to try and save her, but she couldn't do a thing while her lab was under attack.

She just had to hope they'd finish the fight before Rosalyn became fully infected and started attacking them.

Nearby, the infected Bifrost screamed in agony as the delfino goop coated his body. It almost seemed to melt him, creating enormous and grotesque holes as he began disintegrating before their very eyes. Ciel stifled her reaction, turning her head partially away and watching with a single eye. For a moment that was all they really could do, as the toxic slime was certainly not safe for humans to touch either. Not in the concentrations that had just been smeared all over the infected Bifrost anyway. ...Wait a moment.

...Game and Watch was touching it with his bare ... tentacles. Ciel's eyes widened with realization. She knew that the delfino goop reacted violently with the starvia, and even did so with this new strand of shadow bugs mutated directly from his blood. Did that mean... it'd do the same thing to him? Ciel was decisively watching. Game and Watch with immense concern. At least, until something incredible distracted her. A burst of light, and a close friend undergoing what could only be described as a magical girl transformation sequence.

Ringo could feel a sort of flexible skintight armor enveloping her body. It might replace her normal outfit or alternatively fit underneath it. Who could say how Model A might uniquely represent the person it fused with? One thing was for sure. She had a nice set of light-weight armor covering her, perhaps with heavier plates in strategic positions. A sense of superhuman strength coursed through her like electricity, filling her with an energy that was difficult to describe in a way that a normal human could comprehend. Because at this point, Ringo wasn't quite a normal human anymore. 

...She was a Mega Man.

As the infected Bifrost continued melting away where it stood, thrashing as it steadily disintegrated, it abruptly seemed to burst open, a core of shadow bugs shielded from the goop by their dying bretheren flying out and making a break for it! They were much fewer in number, but there were still quite a lot of them relatively speaking. Maybe not enough to form a new enemy that was a serious threat, but enough to escape and become a problem. Just then, stabilized targeting reticles began appearing in Ringo's vision. Little crosshairs hovering over the insects. Some even hovered over sections of the walls where insects had begun escaping through the ventilation. It was like augmented reality. Her eyes were suddenly capable of perceiving this digital overlay, and each reticle represented a target Model A was locking onto.

( --Right! See those red marks? Those are the shadow bug ... things! You have two laser shots on your back. Whip 'em out and start firing as fast as you can at every red mark you see! I'll help you make sure you hit every target. Let's do it before they escape! )

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Mr. Game & Watch hooted in uproarious laughter from his snoot as he watched his demonic creation melt under the power of the Delfino Goop. It had been so long since he fought such a creature, it was like being blown over by a stream of water after venturing through a desert. And best of all, he used a combination of his brains and brawn. Well, maybe he borrowed the brain from the science lady, but he acted upon it, which was enough for him to be satisfied.

As he watched the beast fizzle away, he had a sneaking suspicion that something was wrong. Mind you, Mr. G&W was not at 100% and was on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion, so his slowness to realization could be excused. What might not be excusable is the fact it took him a few seconds to realize that the tentacles that he was using to grapple the beast were slowly but surely dissolving exactly like it. The glazed eyes of the octopus suddenly exploded into full on saucers. Panic consumed the disoriented creature’s mind. With a split-second decision, the octopus lifted one of its uninfected tentacles tall, morphed the tip of it into a hammer, and sliced off the affected tentacles (yes, Mr. Game & Watch uses hammers to slice, don’t question it).

The severed tentacles flopped onto the ground, squirming in pain until they ultimately succumbed to the ooze. The rest of the octopus soon fell as well. The snoot dooted its last doot as the leviathan collapsed to the ground, safely out of reach from the rest of the goop. With a light thud, the paper-thin beast shrunk back into the humanoid form of Mr. G&W, the severed tentacles translating to a missing hand and foot for him in this form.

The flat man gave a mighty huff and then decided it was nap time. The beast was slain, yadda, yadda, he’ll do the parade and whatnot after a bit of shut eye. Should he worry about his amputated appendages? Nah, it’s not like he was gonna bleed out. He doesn’t have that messy blood stuff.

[Rina]

Everything that happened around her was blinded by what's happening to the mathemagical girl herself. The bugs taking hold of Rosalyn, the goop causing a messy reaction with the bugs, none of that was the focus with what's happening to Ringo. A bodysuit embraced every limb and curve, and her original outfit was completely changed. The entire ensemble still closely resembled her Suzuran uniform in some fashion, but there were bits of armor that took the place of her school sweater vest. Was this...the power of Model A? It felt incredible...The protection can be felt, yet it didn't hinder her movements at all. She was still regaining her bearings on the transformation, only for the outbreak growing out of hand snapped her back to reality. There's a serious SNAFU in the lab right now!

"Mayday! MAYDAY! We've got a chemical reaction gone wron-"

Just before she could convey her status report, Model A's voice ringed in her head. Crosshairs? That is certainly something she wouldn't normally see...There was no time to question it though. If it lets her lock onto them to try and blast them away, might as well try! Nothing will be done if she just stood there in a panic!

"Stand back, this might get messy!"

Heeding Model A's advice, she took aim at the locked-on bugs with a laser...

[Mari]

((Just you and me, Rina !))

Multiple reticles appeared highlighting the location of each bug, perhaps even cluttering up her vision a bit. Her already amazing eyes were now enhanced with augmented reality to see without seeing, Model A doing all the complicated analysis behind the scenes with who knew what kind of advanced technology to enable her to detect enemies straight through walls. Heat vision? Electromagnetic detection? Echolocation at a frequency the human ear couldn't hear? Who knew?

( ...Alright. Now release the trigger to fire! )

When Ringo released the trigger on the laser shot, a bolt of plasma would fire out, changing directions like an arcing lightning bolt as it raced around the room, penetrating straight through the walls to reach its targets and leaving small burn marks in their wake, thankfully not actually catching anything on fire. The bolt of plasma continued bouncing back and forth across the room for several long moments, thankfully seeming to avoid the innocents in the room without needing to be controlled. After a few very long moments full of sizzling plasma racing overhead and the sounds of tiny insectoid bodies hitting the floor, everything went quiet.

( ...That's all of them, I think. Nice work! I think you figured that out even faster than Ashe. )

The house was ... a mess. Burn marks all over the place, damaged flooring and furniture, and of course the giant puddle of liquified starvia in the middle of the floor. One could only imagine how Ciel though about all the property damage, because well--she wasn't going to tell them. There were too many more important things demanding her attention right now. First, what Ringo had just done. Ciel timidly approached her with wide eyes, shaking off the stress of the battle they'd just fought in and carefully inspecting her. That--Yup. That was definitely megamerging. That meant she'd cracked the security on the biometals that normally prevented them from merging with just anyone.

“ Ringo... That was incredible! ”

Ciel moved to wrap Ringo in a tender and grateful embrace, accented by a rather sweet kiss brought on by feverish emotions. She could be felt shivering very slightly; the poor girl was still lowkey recovering from the terror of the near disaster that had occurred. She silently hoped that Ringo appreciated the moment of comforting affection as much as she did. Moments after she broke the kiss, however, Model A would chime in again.

( I nabbed a DNA sample from Doctor Ciel. --Sorry if that was a bad time. ...Are you two... in love? )

Model A seemed rather curious about what had just happened. The tone of his voice suggested this was new to him. Ashe had never been in a relationship before. If he were a bit less naive, he probably would've been able to answer his own question just by observing. But well--He was a floating rock person. He was therefore not the best at understanding body language. Else he probably just could've observed the look of admiration and extreme fondness in Ciel's eyes as she gaved upon their savior and come to his own conclusion.

And then she abruptly realized she was forgetting something important.

“ --Oh! Rosalyn still needs help. Let me tend to her. ...You did really good, Ringo. I think you just saved a lot of people. Me included. ”

Ciel went about carefully picking up the wounded Rosalyn and Game and Watch with considerable difficulty but no lack of determination, shifting them into more comfortable looking positions away from the starvia goop so that she could begin doing some first aid to the best of her ability.

( Anyway, A-Trans is available whenever you want it~ All you have to do is say "A-Trans" out loud or let me know you want to transform some other way and I'll help you take the form of anything I have a decent DNA sample on. You should try it out! My name is Model A, by the way. Is it okay if stay with you? I don't really like being in a glass case all day, and I don't think Ashe is coming back anytime soon... )

Meanwhile, Ciel observed the wound Rosalyn had received from that bite. It was... getting worse. Her eyes widened. She'd definitely seen a body react like that before. That was an infection spreading. The sudden realization that the venom 'injected' into Rosalyn contained some form of starvia-like virus hit Ciel hard. By the looks of it, Rosalyn's body wasn't fighting it off. Which meant... she had to cure the starvia in the next hour or two to save her. No biggie! No pressure!

[Rina]

Ringo held the trigger of her blaster down, readying her aim to fire against the bugs. The power of her weaponry...it felt incredible! The laser charge was easily felt, but it didn't threaten to sear her when she handled it. She was able to focus, locking down on the crosshairs that appear to superimpose themselves on her targets. There was no visor to be had, but she could see them like she was, thanks to Model A.

"Take THIS!!"

She opened fire, releasing the trigger and letting loose the beams. She expected a singular laser or a spread, but what she witnessed was certainly beyond her expectations. There was a laser, but it chased after the locked-on bugs and incinerated them as it darted to and fro. Which also included plenty of collateral damage. Her expectations were...all over the place. On one hand she's amazed at Model A's abilities, but on the other hand...the lab is a wreck. Ringo heard Model A's voice akin to a headset communication device, but it was all in her head. To Ciel, she might be talking to air, but considering this technology is familiar to her, Ringo can assume she'd know.

"I did? It just...felt natural to me. When I took aim with the blaster, it clicked- Whoah!"

Her ramblings were quickly interrupted by Ciel's praise and affection, which helped her bring her back down from the adrenaline rush to a more grounded calm. The damage report could wait...

"Heh- Guess it's that obvious huh?"

Ringo chuckled to Model A, having no intention to deny the claims. Looks like Ringo would have to write up something about romance to him, seeing as it's foreign. Back to the damages. She kept an eye on Ciel, inspecting the wreckage caused by the bugs and blasts.

"No problem! Crisis averted! Well...sorta."

Sorta being the research being incredibly sidetracked. Ringo saw the mess and...ew. There's goop everywhere and...

"'A-Trans', huh? You got it, Model A...OH NO!"

..an infection! There's what Ringo was afraid of! Calm quickly turned to panic as worst case scenario just happened!

"Where's the serum!? Or the research on it?!"