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[b]Level:[/b] [color=8258fa]6 (11 -> 15/60)[/color] | [color=fed428]5 (16 -> 20/50)[/color] | [color=5edaf6]3 (19 -> 23/30)[/color]
[b]Location:[/b] Land of Adventure - The End
[b]Word Count:[/b] 523 (+4 EXP | [b]Overdrive![/b])

Items: [color=fed428]Red Feather* (addendum; -1*), Chicken Thigh,[/color] [color=8258fa]Honeycomb[/color]
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Banjo and Kazooie’s rebounding midair tumble wasn’t the usual result of Beak Bomb impact. With zero delay between contact and detonation the crystal exploded quicker than they could bounce off of it. Given a moment’s pause of confusion as to why they were going end over end in freefall, Banjo reflexively reached out for the obsidian spire. He had missed the ledge by this point, but managed to jam a claw’s worth of digits into the pillar’s side for a loosening handhold. Before he lost his grip, he looked over his shoulder to see Kazooie hanging limply out of his pack, unconscious. When his hold gave out, he made sure to direct his fall to hit face down so as to spare his partner the throe of gravity. The impact was reduced from the stalled height Banjo bought them, but still enough to bounce him once against the ground. Getting back to his feet, he took the Chicken Thigh from his inventory and stripped it of meat in one pulling bite, expecting the health gain to transfer to Kazooie as it normally did (while also trying not to think about the technically cannibalistic implication of directly feeding chicken to his avian friend, had he done that instead). He waited a moment to see if she returned to consciousness before doing anything else.

The duo’s proximity and position relative to the tower saved them dealing with the turbulent gale force that wrapped around the Dragon on its return. Fox and Hat Kid didn’t share their luck. Fox, having landed in the middle of the field inside the spires, made a run for cover the second he picked his head up to see the Dragon rushing headlong downlane. He missed its form this time, but the winds carried him from his feet for a couple hundred yards, past the island’s edge. He managed to slow his arc to a near stop with the inexplicable ‘stalling’ effect generated by pulsing his Reflector before he could be sent too far to recover, and followed by shooting himself back toward land in a blanket of powerful, propulsive flame.

Hat Kid, still in tow with Jr, was left at the mercy of disorienting inertia, equal parts unable and unwilling to detach from the tumbling kart for fear of which way (and how fast) it might send her. She paid for it by face planting against the same black stone as Jr when she was swung directly over him by the length of her line. She was brought to the ground almost as quickly when the kart fell and dragged her down with it. She sat up, rubbing her head with a grumble of pain and annoyance alike, and proceeded to pop a Honeycomb in her mouth like a butterscotch candy for a quick pick me up. Slightly reinvigorated, she stood up, detaching her Hookshot to let it reel back in, and scanned the field to look out for any remaining crystals before heading into the thick of the action. Though a good distance behind her, Fox would be quick to catch up, as would the duo (depending on Kazooie).