[center][h3][color=tan]Courier 6[/color] and [color=orange]Ratchet[/color] and [color=sandybrown]Jak &[/color] [color=darkorange]Daxter[/color][/h3]
[b]Level 5[/b] - (48/50) EXP (+2, -3 friend heart), [b]Level 5[/b] - (31/50) (+2), [b]Level 3[/b] - (9/30) (+2)
[b]Location:[/b] Land of Adventure - Coral Highlands, Redgraccoon City - Charnal Lane
[b]Word Count:[/b]775[/center]

[color=tan]”Tch,”[/color] the Courier spat, rapidly reloading his revolver. Looks like that kid took a real nasty hit. Well, maybe that was a good thing? Would be easier to convert him back to the side of having proper senses with a friend heart and all. Meanwhile the monster was lookin’ none too pleased with itself, full of broken bones and all. If the deathclaw parallels continued, that wouldn’t rightly matter to this fiend; it’d keep on attacking until they, or it, were dead. But maybe it wasn’t entirely like a deathclaw? Maybe in such an injured state they proved to be far more trouble than they were worth as a meal?

Fuck that. It made the mistake of attacking him when he was being nice.[i]It was gonna die.[/i]

Ivories was stuck up on the coral, but honestly that wasn’t too much of a problem. The donphan howled in frustration at not being able to properly thrash its foe, but the Courier simply pointed its home pokeball at it, causing a little beam of light to return Ivories back, then immediately deployed it again. It was clear that the brave, powerful donphan was looking for an outlet for its aggression at having gotten stuck up on the coral, and this monster was still a convenient target.

[color=tan]”Show me what else y’can do, Ivories!”[/color] The Courier pointed dramatically at the tzitzi-ya-ku.

“Phan! Donphan!” Ivories glared at the enemy and stomped hard on the ground, creating a shockwave that rippled toward the injured monster! It was as though the power of its legs alone were that of a Bulldozer! Not satisfied with its ground attack alone, Ivories used its extra speed boost to curl back up into a rolling ball and shoot high up into the air! It came down hard, uncurling from its ball form and performed a mighty Slam with its trunk!

While Ivories dealt with the injured, now hopefully dead, monster, the Courier rushed over to the Cadet. Snapping his fingers, a large red heart appeared which he then unceremoniously, and without warning, slapped into the young man. [color=tan]”Howdy, yer all better now, call me the Courier n’follow me if’n ya wanna save the multiverse. If not, I don’ rightly give a fuck what ya do.”[/color] He turned back toward the scene of the battle, hoping to catch the end of the tzitzi-ya-ku.

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The damage they had done to the ent so far was intense. The monster was angrily thrashing about, clearly in desperation to finish off the heroes before they could do much more damage to it. Debris flew everywhere, the creature’s noxious poisonous goop shot out like a cannon! Jak was in the perfect position to unload more damage into the monster’s weak point, but unfortunately it focused on shooting directly at him with its nasty rot, and his light eco wings were too clunky to make dodging and weaving a proper tactic. The only way he could avoid it was to rely on gravity!

Jak ended his transformation, deploying his jet board and landing on it with expertise. Of course, he couldn’t use his gun while balancing on the board, and its shockwaves were too weak to really do any measurable damage to the ent’s sturdy exterior. Instead it was back to kickflipping off the hollows and rot warts, planting shockwaves in their faces, in order to keep the swarming masses away from the other fighters.

Meanwhile Ratchet took the opportunity to do some of the most dangerous and skilled platforming he had in his entire career as a galactic hero! As the ent’s tantrum tossed large stone chunks around, he took a running jump up, aided by Clank’s jetpack. He kicked off of a falling stone slab and pounced from another, then another, all the while Clank measuring the trajectories and assisting jumps with small jet thrusts. After kicking off of five stone chunks Ratchet performed a crouched high jump, shooting up even further with Clank’s final burst of jet fuel before being exhausted (and therefore demanifesting).

Ratchet flipped high above the ent, twisting upside down. This was it, his big moment! He pulled out not one, but two guns from his arsenal! In his left hand was the Reaper, while his right held the Bombbuilder! Both trigger fingers twitched and fired, a cluster of demonic energy from one and a powerful remote trigger bomb from the other, both careening straight down into the ent’s weak spot! [color=orange]”Kaboom!”[/color] Ratchet called out, flipping back over to land on his feet on the inside of the cathedral.