[center][h3][color=tan]Courier 6[/color] and [color=sandybrown]Jak &[/color] [color=darkorange]Daxter[/color] and [color=red]Cuphead![/color][/h3]
[b]Level7[/b] - (35/70) EXP (+2), [b]Level 5[/b] - (4/50) (+2), [b]Level 2[/b] - (18/20) (+2)
[b]Location:[/b] Spiral Mountain
[b]Word Count:[/b]796[/center]

The place was utter chaos. The battle became an extended hit and run, hide and seek exchange, with their own group getting several skirmishers into the tower, back again, and once more into the breach. Not wanting to take any of the attention onto himself, Jak had to move more methodically. He could run, roll, and jump at full speed while invisible, but it didn’t last long and took just as long to recharge as it did to utilize. Naturally he fell behind, but figured it was for the best in this instance. The normally talkative Daxter knew not to utter a peep to ruin their distinct advantage, which would soon present a great opportunity. Two of the sharpshooters had been killed, others injured, and two more fell from the tower down below.

Cuphead, having been revived by the Ace Cadet a short while ago, was dropped off at the base of the tower. The giant and the swordsman in blue were engaged with whole groups from their entourage, quite busy with that. He thought about jumping in, but he didn’t want to get in the way. He knew he could be reckless sometimes, but he didn’t want to repeat the mistake he had just made. He may have been impatient, but he could learn! Instead, he looked to Imani and Sniper, dazed by their fall, and ran in (finger) guns blazing! [color=red]”Golly, this pea shooter sure isn’t too slick. Sure wish I had my charge beam!”[/color] he said, showering the two with a hailstorm of small energy bullets, mostly only capable of scratch damage.

Meanwhile, Courier 6 nodded acknowledgement to the Ace Cadet for reviving him and kept to the cover he had found with Princess Peach and Kamek. The last thing he remembered before being turned into a trophy was firing off a full clip from Michael’s anti-material rifle in VATS. If he remembered correctly, he was able to hit two of the enemies: the giant and the woman in the bikini. He had to take stock of the battlefield before jumping straight back into things. He listened carefully and watched, activating VATS to get infinite time to observe, but never using its targeting system. From the looks of things, the giant was still alive and kicking despite the grievous wound from a gun designed to blow up [i]tanks,[/i] but the bikini sniper was gone. No doubt all that was left of her was some red mist. Another enemy seemed to be gone too: the old man. He couldn’t see the boy in blue, but listening there were still the sounds of battle elsewhere, and the old man would undoubtedly be incapable of a melee fight, so he reasonably assumed it was the boy. That left the other two who had fallen from the tower.

The Courier reloaded the anti-material rifle with his pack of rifle ammunition and spoke into his PIP-Boy. [color=tan]”GT, I need suppressing fire on the snipers on the ground.”[/color]

“Boss, I’m glad to hear you’re ok!” Gaige-Tron’s synthesized voice spoke back from the PIP-Boy speaker. He couldn’t help but grin.

[color=tan]”An’ bring Bugfoot, but I don’ want ‘im engaging. Might not get close ‘nough an’ I don’ want ‘im gettin’ hit. Keep Drumstick where she’s at.”[/color]

“Got it, boss!” The connection cut out, and just then Cuphead came charging toward the sniper and Imani, firing off his pea shooter while jumping up and down like a maniac. The Courier snorted in amusement, then lifted up the rifle to take aim.

Right on time GT came charging up the hill, firing off her built in pea shooter (the handgun received from the living bullets, not the magic finger energy of Cuphead) right at the two enemies. The robot and the ceramic cup acted as a pincer against the snipers, coming in from opposite locations, Bugfoot the heracross creeping in from behind GT.

The Courier breathed in, and held it. [i]V.A.T.S. activated. Targeting Sniper, torso. Probability of hitting: 89%.[/i] Now that he was on solid ground and the distance much closer, naturally the chances of success were much, much higher. [i]Targeting Imani, torso. Probability of hitting: 82%. Targeting Imani, head. Probability of hitting: 75%.[/i] Even a headshot was likely at this point, but undoubtedly overkill. Just stick to the torso, then. He queued up one shot for each of them, in the chest. [i]Fire![/i]

[color=darkorange]”Now Jak!”[/color]

In an instant Jak and Daxter reappeared right behind Imani and Sniper, the invisibility broken not by Daxter’s voice, but by Jak’s weapon. He had the morph gun out in Scattergun mode and fired a large cone blast of red eco point blank.