[center][h2][color=gray]Utena Soriyu[/color][/h2][/center][hr]

The MFF personnel were whipped into a frenzy by Akari's passion and Akane's orders, thrust into gear as they moved to save the captured MFF members before anyone else could even react. Protests from the willing captives was summarily ignored as the rank and file began working on breaking open the cages and moving the civilians out of [b]The Cavern[/b]. Utena too was shaken out of her... whatever it was you could call what she was feeling at the moment, realizing that she still had a job to do. 

[b][color=gray]"Right! Can't let myself be outdone by the new Major so quickly!"[/color][/b] Utena said as she slapped her cheeks, activating her wings and taking to the air as she followed Akari deeper into [b]The Cavern[/b]. They were fast, fast enough to catch up to the tentacles as they withdrew, even fast enough to actually cut up a few of the tentacles before they could disappear from sight completely, freeing their prisoners as they advanced further and further in. But soon enough they were surrounded only by complete darkness, only the light of Akari's flames and the comparatively weak glow of Utena's flashlight.

But then a familiar face of goo slithered out of the darkness, towering over the MFF officers with a lasivicious grin on her watery face. Utena squinted at Goomie carefully as she drew her sword, something almost immediately feeling off about the GMG she was so familiar with. [b][color=gray]"Hey Akari... she's smaller than usual."[/color][/b] Her eyes scanned over the GMG as something else clicked in her mind. [b][color=gray]"And the guys she just captured aren't in her."[/color][/b] Indeed they weren't, her gooey body was suspiciously absent of any recently captured MFF personnel.

A loud plop sound echoed through [b]The Cavern[/b] behind them as Utena turned around, back to back with Akari as the puzzle solved itself. [b][color=gray]"We might be in a bit of trouble."[/color][/b] Utena muttered as she stared down a second Goomie, passed out MFF members plastered to the ceiling above her with a gooey tape.