[center][color=darkgreen][h3]Linkle[/h3][/color] [color=darkgreen][b]Level 2[/b][/color] - (5/20) EXP [color=darkgreen][b]Location:[/b][/color] 1-1, Ancient Garden --> Scrapyard, Left Side [color=darkgreen][b]Word Count:[/b][/color] 1,260 [/center] [hr] As soon as Din told her what was what Linkle wanted to run off immediately after the offending rabbits, but she could still feel the weight of The Master on her shoulders. She couldn't just run off if he was still out of it. She did graciously accept crossbow back from Ratchet. "I'm happy you got some use out of it. Well, you know, not happy that you ran into trouble but really glad it helped get you out of it." As she leaned down to slot it into her boot, still supporting The Master with her other hand, the rabbit gun sipped out of where she'd put it in the rim of her shorts and clattered to the ground. She reached down lower to pick it up, wondering what she was going to do with it. It wasn't as though she had a bag or anything to store it in. Heck, she had thrown on her old green cloak then thrown the new fuzzy rabbit one on over it just because otherwise she had no place to carry it. She couldn't just abandon the green one, after all. Not if she was on her quest. A possible option came up when, Goddesses be praised, the cowboy and the Zer0 showed back up. Just those two, though. She was about to ask what had happened to Death when the cowboy dumped his big new weapon into Ratchets hands. The cat took to it almost instantly, just like the crossbow, spinning the barrel and holding it so naturally that even she could tell he was used to it. She wondered if he could use any old weird thing you put in his hands. Then he ran off with the cowboy, along with Blazermate and Zer0. after the marauding rabbits. "Give them a kick for me!" She called after them. Michael said something about covering their ears as he took some kind of...was that some kind of long staff...out of his case and put it up to his face. Wait, hold on, was that another- The earth shattering boom the cracked the air around them all but confirmed that it was, in fact, another gun, and Linkle groaned while bringing up her hand and pressing the side of it up against her ear. She looked out in the direction he'd fired and saw that the hat was now spinning on the ground, the rabbit carrying it just... gone. It was just gone, instantly. She looked at the man in amazement. "That was louder than any bomb I've ever heard. I've thrown bombs the size of horses at monsters and they didn't do that. Seriously, how does that thing not blow up in your hands?" She said with a giddiness slightly tempered by the fact that the next rabbit in line had just scooped up the hat and done on its merry way. It had been loud enough to wake the pig man, at least, who pulled back his hook and dug into the ground, pulling himself up and shoving Linkle and the Master back a few cautious steps. Bowser, of course, had tried to lay down the law but then had taken off after Kirby like the others and it made Linkle slightly uncomfortable to note that, despite knowing better than anyone that size didn't matter, that there was no one else in the group quite as big as the pig man. Tora didn't seem afraid, though, and took it upon himself to try and clarify the situation to him along with Din. By that time The Master seemed well off enough to walk on his own, and so the rest the of the group followed after the vanguard toward the scrapyard. [hr] It was surprising to see an actual battlefield here. She hadn't expected these things to be fighting one another. It was actually sort of heartening to know that their wasn't just a target painted exclusively on their backs. The rabbits where the same as they had always been, but they came in a lot more flavors. The metal things, though, that going to be trouble. She'd seen how her arrows did against the turtle shells earlier, she didn't expect to have a much better time against those guys. It would be all bombs, all the time, and they took a bit to charge. On top of that, the metal guys all had guns. Real guns, like Michael's, not the little energy guns the rabbits carried that left big red burns. She thought back to how the rabbit carrying the hat had just disintegrated, and shuttered despite herself. If she'd made the mistake she'd made on the rabbits against those things, what would have happened? No matter what, she bet it would have been painful and short. That didn't seem to stop the others though. The group that had run off earlier had dived into the fray, weaving between those bullets trying to get to the hat that contained Kirby and the pig man joined them almost as soon as they arrived. Michael and Agoston, though, wanted to talk strategy and the sick girl started down the leftmost path stating she was going to scout ahead on her own. That was a prospect that, given recent events, Linkle was wary of. She looked back over the battlefield. This was actually sort of familiar. She felt as though she'd seen this somewhere before. Maybe in a daydream? Two army fighting, with their third small force coming in. The guy in the middle, guarding the way to the castle, looked like one of the enemy commanders. Probably the metal people, considering he was in their territory, but then who was leading the rabbits? Where were they? She knew that if you wanted to end a battle you just took out the leader, it was getting to them or stopping them from running that was the hard part. That didn't mean you abandoned you friends, though. If you lost them the battle may as well be over. So what was the right thing to do here? The group of heroes headed down to save Kirby were probably fine, you could trust people like that to survive especially if they were in a big cluster like that. If you left one alone, though, you'd end up wasting time running across the battlefield to rescue them when they got into trouble. So the answer was obvious. "Hey, wait up, I'm coming with you." Linkle called out, setting off down the left path before turning around and calling back to the still undecided group. "Master, stay there. I think we lose if you go down. Agoston, Din, cover Michael, someone that can attack the entire battlefield is super annoying so they're going to come after him once they realize he's the one shooting. I'm gonna go down this way to make sure nothing bad happens." With that she turned and sprinted after Minako. "Sorry if you wanted to be a lone wolf or something," she said as she caught up. "But when I went off on my own, this happened." She pulled open her cloak and ran a finger around the scorched edges of the hole the rabbits weapons had burned in it earlier. "It looked worse before Blazermate patched me up." She continued sheepishly, pulled both bows out of her boots as she walked forward. "And did you see those guys that came back from the canyon? Or what Ratchet and Din ran into? For all we know, the rabbits boss could be down this way."