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[@Savo][@Gentlemanvaultboy][@redbaron1234][@Crosswire][@The Ghost Note]

Rendezvous with Brown was terse, then boisterous, then challenging, as she popped her arm into place without a second thought then dared anyone with the stones to race her down the hill.  Her body radiated steam, and an oddly cozy warmth, so the cold was a little nippier as she took off slogging through snowfalls.  [color=FBDE41]"Well, sure!  But I have very short legs!"[/color] Askin tried calling, shoving through snow after her at a very unimpressive speed.

The others were falling from the sky quickly, efficiently.  Clover had already landed, brushing off her parachute like a cobweb, and Isko and Aline straggled behind Brown, Aline over the moon at Brown's feat of near-death.

[color=lime]"Well this is convenient,"[/color] Otsana remarked. [color=lime] "Usually have to spend a good while getting everyone back together" [/color] 

[color=FBDE41]"I think it's the team spirit,"[/color] said Askin, well behind Brown as he struggled over to Otsana.  [color=FBDE41]"Before you know it, we'll be so efficient we'll need matching beanies."[/color]

Flaming wreckage and pulverized bodies bloom like flowers across the tundra, black and red bruises on the snow.  Askin would be glad to put this stretch of hell behind them, but then Clover's voice comes from one of the corpses, "Say, we got a live one!" 

[color=598527]"Lets keep moving for now,"[/color] Jonas called back, carelessly. [color=598527]"If she lives, she lives and can make it to the fight. For now we can't waste any more t-"[/color]

And another interruption; the kshk-shks of metal on snow as five--are those CDs?--struck the ground in formation at Jonas's feet.  Then there was another person crashing the party; first here, then there, then overthere, reappearing in bursts of smoke as he shouted, exuberantly, with each pop, "Ninja!  [i]Ninja![/i]  Ninja!"  Then, finally settled into

"Well look who it is: Jonas and the Cult of Langer..." He started chuckling, "More like Lagner. Geddit? Because ya'll laggin' behind!  I wasn't even gonna show up since I expected you to been have the Power Stone by now, but it seems getting a magic pebble from a tin can is too much work for the great and powerful Jonas Langer so I came here to save you from embarrassing' yourself even further.  I know, somehow, that's possible"

[color=FBDE41]"-but if we're lagging,"[/color] Askin said to himself, [color=FBDE41]"aren't you lagging too since you're here with us, or-"[/color]

Jonas broke the CDs with a sweep of his foot and waved off Jaden impatiently, with some biting comments on his music which, Askin privately thought, were not entirely deserved from what he'd listened to.

[color=598527]"Lets get going everyone, the clock is ticking and we need to beat Oh-One's shiny metal ass before he enacts his plan; Clover, again, leave the soldier alone, if they make it, they make it.  And since ninja boy seems so keen on talking shit, if he tries anything, sabotage or all that jazz, put him down and return to the fight, though I doubt that'll take much effort to put him down,"[/color] 

Jonas straightened, like a dog catching a scent.  Then, carving through the air, a thin thread of brutal red light cut through the sky; the sound of metal on metal, the sound of fighting.  Askin squinted; it looked like there was a fight somewhere way down along the tundra.

[color=FBDE41]"Oh-One,"[/color] Askin said quietly, mental math tumbling about his skull.  [color=FBDE41]"He's away from his tower..."[/color]

[color=6ecff6]“So, what’s the plan for when we reach the fight?”[/color] Isko asked, tactfully not letting Jaden's showboating or Jonas's grumbling derail them.

With a sweep of Askin's egg-yolk overcoat, a huge wooden coffin appeared out of the thin air; the luggage, and the goodies.  Popping open the coffin's side, Askin produced Otsana's snowmobile-with-sidecar.  [color=FBDE41]"While the big man's out on the battlefield, we should get a team beelining for the tower, no?  How fast can you drive this thing, Otsana?"[/color]