[center][hr][img]https://i.imgur.com/jMoG51b.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/XUvv02U.png[/img][hr][/center] [i][color=764820]Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow![/color][/i] Lisa writhed in pain, as whatever Dr. Cross threw at them, electrocuted the living daylights out of her. Or it was something like that. It didn’t feel hot at all. It just [i]hurt.[/i] Eventually, Lisa fell to the ground, as she looked over to Ella. She couldn’t help but feel compelled to reach her hand out towards her friend before she lost consciousness… … Then it stopped. She felt relief. Yet disappointment. [color=764820]”... Let’s do it again another time, okay?”[/color] Lisa chuckled. [color=e77fbf]"No way!"[/color] Ella had ended up curled up on the floor, her magical girl outfit dispelled so she was back in the jarringly black hoodie and skirt. She was closer to Lisa than she had been when hit, as if she'd been trying to move towards her. [color=e77fbf]"That hurt so much! Why do you want to do it again?"[/color] [color=764820]”Oh! You’re such a crybaby! Who isn’t into a little electro-torture?!”[/color] lisa laughed, as she climbed to her feet. Ella shook her head, pushing herself up into a sitting position and looking around. [color=e77fbf]"Wait, where's Saskia?!"[/color] Lisa dusted herself off. That was a good question. [color=764820]”Maybe-”[/color] There was a boom not too far away. Normally Lisa would have been all for running away but with Saskia missing… Lisa grabbed Ella’s hand. [color=764820]”Let’s go find them!”[/color] [color=e77fbf]"Yes, let's go, they might be in danger!"[/color] Ella gripped Lisa's hand tight and dragged her towards the booming sound - through the completely destroyed wall. They didn't have to go far to find Saskia. Ella ground to a halt as soon as she saw them. [color=e77fbf]"Saskia!"[/color] Saskia was in the middle of the dining room, destroyed table and chairs scattered around them. Three blood tendrils held them up above the floor. They were covered in mutilated flesh and blood, bone spears sticking out from random parts of their body. Painful, dark red clotted wounds were visible beneath the gore coating them. Another blood tendril was brutally picking through mangled remains, stabbing or squeezing anything that might still resemble a body part. They paused upon hearing Ella, head slowly turning towards the two of them. Their bloodstained lips pulled up into a half smile, eyes devoid of any emotion. The tendril stopped rummaging through the remains and lifted, pointing at them both. [color=DC143C]"Oh, you're late. I already killed them. Let's kill the rest."[/color] [color=764820][i]Yikes.[/i][/color] Lisa thought to herself as she stared at the scene. Her eyes darted from left to right, she twiddled her thumbs. Something was off here. Saskia wasn’t… Saskia. [color=764820]”Um… no,”[/color] Lisa awkwardly laughed. [color=764820]”Let’s find Kimberly and Jordan and get out of here.”[/color] She shot both of her thumbs towards the exit… or one of the holes in the wall. They could hear the sounds of the chaotic fight underground… which let Lisa know that they were still alive. [color=764820]”Cool!”[/color] she said with a smile. [color=764820]”Let’s help our friends!”[/color] [color=e77fbf]"Yeah let's go help them!"[/color] Ella nodded. [color=DC143C]"What do you mean no?"[/color] Saskia tilted their head. [color=DC143C]"Help them kill, or help them escape?"[/color] The tendril that wasn't supporting them shot out, wrapping around a destroyed half of the table. They threw it towards the hole Lisa had pointed to, haphazardly blocking it. [color=DC143C]"I won't let you trick me out of tearing this entire place down."[/color] To punctuate their point, a tendril shot past the two of them and slammed into the wall with a bang, punching a crater into it as debris fell to the ground. Lisa looked over her shoulder at the hole in the wall… Her jaw dropped. There was something wrong with Saskia, but what? What changed? Wait… could it have been that weird rock she found on the side o- No, the one [i]Dollhouse[/i] gave her. Lisa smiled, awkwardly, extending a hand… [color=764820]”[i]Saaaaaaaaaaakia![/i] Can you show me that cool rock you found the other day!?”[/color] [color=DC143C]"You’re just stalling for time."[/color] Another blood tendril shot past them, slamming into the wall again, as if caging them in. At the same time more blood leaked from wounds on their body, forming a thin layer of armour, and two blood blades came from her arms. Ella let out a gasp. [color=e77fbf]"Normally she can’t use that much blood!"[/color] [color=DC143C]"I don’t want to hurt you."[/color] A struggle appeared in Saskia’s eyes for a moment, before going back to a deep blankness. The tendrils drop from the walls, smashing into the ground and hooking into it. They pulled themselves forward, towards Ella and Lisa. Contrary to their words, they swung their arms to the side, a blood blade slicing at both Ella and Lisa. Lisa screamed as she fell to her back - blade missing her by inches. By reflex, Lisa summoned a horde of spiders which pooled at her feet. [color=764820]”Saskia, stop! What’s gotten into you?!”[/color] [color=e77fbf]"[i]Saskia[/i], no!"[/color] Ella shouted, jumping back and just avoiding being sliced. She shook her head, pulling out her channeler. [color=e77fbf]"I think she’s been corrupted by darkness, Lisa! We need to snap her out of it like in all the anime I watch!"[/color] [color=DC143C]"What’s gotten into me?"[/color] Saskia intoned, blood tendrils pooling inwards and swirling around her - trying to clear out the spiders. She raised a foot to try stomp on Lisa’s leg, bone spear shooting out from it. [color=DC143C]"Nothing. I’m just destroying everything like [i]we[/i] should- you’re the ones standing in my way."[/color] Lisa immediately backpedaled, as it seemed like they were doing this the hard way now. Her mouth opened up and she spewed spiders at Saskia. They seemed completely unbothered as the spiders bounced off their armour, a couple getting stuck in thick blood. [color=e77fbf]"Ahhhhh- I’m the shining light in the darkness, prism power protect me!"[/color] Ella yelled, jumping back and spinning around as she started to go through her magical girl transformation. Saskia rolled their eyes, blood tendril stabbing out and spearing Ella’s shoulder. She grimaced but [i]kept[/i] going, awkwardly twisting as prismatic light coated her and changed her outfit. They then turned back to Lisa, another tendril shooting towards her chest. Spider legs sprouted from Lisa’s back, and launched herself into the air. Attaching herself to the ceiling, she then applied the Acid-Burst spell to the spiders in her armor. [color=764820]”... This isn’t you, fight it!”[/color] [color=DC143C]"There’s nothing to fight."[/color] Saskia raised her hand and shot a blood bullet at Lisa, which hit her directly in the titty. [color=e77fbf]"There is! You’re not normally like this! Where’s the Saskia that would do anything for her friends?!"[/color] Ella shouted. She’d finished her transformation, legs lighting up in a myriad of colours. She jumped forward as Saskia raised another tentacle to go after Lisa, blocking it with her leg. [color=764820]”... [b][i]Ow, my titty![/i][/b]”[/color] Lisa grabbed her own titty as it began to bleed. She grit her teeth… now it is time to get serious. The floor ruptured in front of Saskia and a barrage of spiders came spewing out - only to immediately have the acid burst spell applied to them. All the while, Lisa had pulled some spiders aside and cocooned them, and they grew larger and larger… she had five so far. The plan was not for all five of them to reach full size. The plan was to stall Saskia out to get one of them. The acid burned through Saskia's blood armour, eating away at the flesh of her arms and legs as she reinforced the vulnerable areas. They pulled back in their blood blades and reinforced the armour, blood crawling across dissolved skin. A tendril wrapped around Ella's leg, lifting her up and slamming her into the ground. At the same time Saskia ran towards one of the cocooned spiders. She forcefully slammed into it, bone spears shooting out all across the front of her body as she tore into it. Ella twisted around, shooting a burning light from her Channeler which cut through the tendril holding her. She rolled over, past it, and leapt at Saskia with a glowing foot, which Saskia blocked with another tendril. [color=764820][i]One down.[/i][/color] Lisa thought to herself as she crawled further away… her range was impressive enough to work. Unlike Ella, Lisa was not an up-front fighter, and she would get clobbered by Saskia if she wasn’t careful. They needed a plan… Where the hell was that stone? It sucked, but they had to disable Saskia. She sighed as a wave of spiders came from the unseen corners of the room, from underneath the tables, the chairs, the furniture that nobody was paying attention to. They quickly flooded the floor underneath Saskia’s feet… and Lisa applied the Acid-Burst spell to them all. They could, at the very least, heal Saskia after this. Saskia barely reacted as acid splashed across her feet, splattering up her legs. It ate through the blood armour again and right to the bone of her thighs and feet. The blood tendril split back into four, three dropping to push her off the ground in place of destroyed feet. The other smacked at Ella, stopping her from getting close enough to actually attack. They moved forward, a spear covered fist punching into another cocoon. At the same time, they raised their free hand and shot off another blood bullet at Lisa… which hit her in the other titty. [color=764820]”... [i][b]OH GOD DAMN IT![/b][/i]”[/color] Lisa screamed, grabbing her other titty. Both of them were oozing blood… Saskia was going through the cocoons, but that wasn’t a problem as she created two more glowing cocoons around the room. They had to do something a bit more drastic… Lisa summoned two spiders from out of the vents and they crawled above Saskia… and they slowly descended, aiming for her eyes. Again, they could heal them. As the spiders lowered, Saskia’s head snapped up. The blood tendril fighting Ella shot up, spearing through the two spiders. But it gave Ella an opening. She jumped in, aiming a shining foot at Saskia’s waist. At the same time colour spilled from her bracelets to her arms. The foot connected, knocking Saskia back even as multiple bone spears pierced through it. Ella then grabbed Saskia with her strengthened arms. [color=e77fbf]"[i][b]Lisa![/b][/i] Get them now!"[/color] Ella held on for dear life as Saskia’s blood tendril spun around and pierced her shoulder, multiple bone spears shooting out into her. They had to play dirty to get Saskia to stop… Spiders came out of the hidden corners of the room. Flooding the room, but also exhausting Lisa further - they covered the tendrils that Saskia were standing on, then they crawled up to their eyes. Then she applied the Acid-Burst spell again. The acid exploded across Saskia's face, completely penetrating their armour. Their eyes dissolved and skin dripped off their skull, like wax from a burning candle. Muscle was eaten away to reveal the bones inside. Their free blood tendrils flailed about madly, piercing Ella's side and back. Ella gritted her teeth and kept hold of Saskia, face and upper body also peeled off by the acid. Then, finally, Saskia stopped struggling and went limp against Ella. The tendrils melted, dark blood splashing across the floor. The bone spears slowly pulled back into her body. [color=e77fbf]"Can I have some healing spiders?"[/color] Ella groaned, hooking one arm under Saskia's destroyed legs while the other supported her back, properly carrying her. The healing spiders came out the pores in Lisa’s hands, and she immediately flicked them into Ella’s face without a second thought. She immediately came down from the ceiling - using her spider legs to brace her impact - and then lingered above Saskia. She quickly dug her hand into Saskia’s shirt from their collar (getting a titty grab in), looking for that damned st- Found it! Without a second thought, Lisa tried to pull it off, only to find out that it was fused to Saskia’s chest. [color=764820][i]... Of course.[/i][/color] [color=764820]”... I-it’s stuck!”[/color] Lisa shouted. [color=764820]”Ella, give me a hand!”[/color] Ella also stuck her hand down Saskia's shirt, hand curling around the stone (and Lisa's hand) and trying to pull it out with still colour enhanced strength. [color=e77fbf]"It ain't budging! Maybe… maybe I can burn it out?"[/color] [color=764820]”... That’s not going to work,”[/color] Lisa shook her head, as tiny spiders came from the insides of her sleeves. They quickly traveled from her hands to Saskia’s body, and wrapped themselves around the Orange stone. [color=764820]”This is going to hurt….”[/color] She applied the Acid-Burst spell, and Saskia’s flesh around the Orange Stone was dissolved, Lisa tried pulling at it, she managed to pull it - but it was still stuck to their skin. [color=764820]”God damn it!”[/color] Lisa shouted. The phone in her back pocket began ringing… [color=764820]”Ella, get that for me,”[/color] [color=e77fbf]"Alright!"[/color] Ella shoved her hand in Lisa’s pocket, accidentally touching her butt in the process. She leaned forward to awkwardly pick up the call with one hand, still holding Saskia in her arms. [color=e77fbf]"Hello, Ella speaking!"[/color] “... Get the fuck out of there, mami!” Lupe shouted over the phone. “I don’t care what you’re doing! Get the fuck out of there, right now!” [color=e77fbf]"Shit how do you know- ahhh, Society spies- okay!"[/color] Ella turned to Lisa, looking a bit panicked. [color=e77fbf]"It’s Lupe, she says we’ve gotta ‘get the fuck out of here.’ I can carry Saskia- lets deal with the stone later!"[/color] “Please, Dios mios, get out of there, mami!” Lupe said over the phone. “[i]Everyone[/i] is heading there. Trust me mami, hang up the phone [i]and get out of there.[/i]” Thankfully for the girls, the giant spiders that Lisa had created were ready. Unfortunately, they were not equipped for flight, as they were armed with raptorial limbs, and Lisa facepalmed as she wished that she could make a spell that reverted them back to normal. However, they would have to improvise, as she ordered one of them—a Hobo spider with the raptorial limbs of a praying mantis—to come over. There was hesitance, Lisa turned towards Ella… [color=764820]”... We should get the stone off of them, first.”[/color] [color=e77fbf]"Yeah, it’ll be worse if they wake up and go on another rampage!"[/color] Ella agreed, shifting Saskia in her arms so that she could pull out her channeler. She cast a burning ray of light on the skin still attached to the orange stone, trying to burn it off. [color=e77fbf]"Then we run, cause Lupe says [i]everyone[/i] is coming!"[/color] It was still attached, would they need to use surgery? That was when Lisa grabbed it, and yanked at it hard as she could before a spider leg burst out of her back, and it swung around to slice it out. At the same time, Ella continued to burn away the skin around it. It… seemed to work in combination with Lisa’s slice as the skin attaching it got thinner and thinner, until it [i]finally[/i] came out. Leaving a horrible gaping hole in Saskia’s chest, skin covered in all sorts of burns. It looked horrible. [color=e77fbf]"Let’s go!"[/color] Lisa grabbed it and tossed it across the room - it fell into one of the holes in the ground that Gomander created, and that was the last of it. She knew that Saskia shouldn’t have trusted those Dollhouse weirdos. They were nothing but trouble! [color=764820]”Help me get them on top!”[/color] Lisa shouted, as she knelt down and tried to lift Saskia up. [color=764820]”We can at-”[/color] “... Leaving so soon?” Morningstar’s voice could be heard, as a giant portal opened on the other side of the room. He stepped through, and various horrific monsters stepped through with him. [color=764820]”... Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck,”[/color] Lisa moaned, as she rolled her eyes. “Your friends are still fighting Ignatius and A’lon,” Morningstar noted. “However, you three are so obsessed with my defeat, so….” He put his hands out. “Here I am, all of me.” [color=e77fbf]"Morningstar!"[/color] Ella shouted. She carefully put Saskia down, stepping in front of her and Lisa. Quieter, she whispered, [color=e77fbf]"Lisa, heal Saskia, quick!"[/color] Lisa knelt down, and her healing spiders came from her hands then crawled over to Saskia and dug into their flesh and flesh them. Then, yelling again, she pointed at Morningstar. [color=e77fbf]"You’ve finally decided to stop being a coward! Finally, your reign of tyranny is going to come to an end. I will vanquish you, for everything that is right and beautiful in this world!"[/color] “Well…” Morningstar narrowed his eyes. “... Here I am. Come and face me! And let’s bring this circus to an end already!” Ella didn't say anything else. Instead her legs just lit up with prismatic light, and she launched herself forward with a flying kick towards him. However, he opened his hand and created a portal in her trajectory… and she flew inside, and came out aimed towards Lisa’s spider. [color=764820]”.... [i][b]ELLA, YOU SMOOTHBRAIN![/b][/i]”[/color] Lisa shouted as Ella literally let herself get goaded into a fight. What didn’t concern her was Morningstar himself, but the minions he had at his side. The spider she had was killed and- The ceiling burst open, and Lisa covered her eyes. Rapel lines came down, as she heard, [h2]“... PRA, EVERYONE ON THE GROUND!”[/h2] [color=764820][i]... Wait,[/i][/color] Lisa thought to herself as she heard boots hit the ground. [color=764820][i]Was that Clem?[/i][/color]