[center][h2][color=Silver]Alien Command Deck[/color][/h2][/center]
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The alien commander tapped a finger on her armrest in annoyance as she watched the battle unfold on the screen.  Was the monster strong?  Yes, it's abilities to ignore physics and bend reality to its will through the use of signs was quite the ability; however, the monster had some severe limits.  The signs were useful to be sure but they were also quite limited: First, they could only be used with a sign that actually existed.  Second, the signs were limited to ones that one might actually see on the road that were used to inform traffic, third, the range was limited and the time was limited.  The monster made good use of its options but there was really only so much it could do.

Every monster was equipped with a microchip at conception that gave a direct line back to the ship, meaning they could view what the monster was viewing, plus their telescoptics could easily view anything on Earth from above with perfect clarity.  The monster had done some clever maneuvering and achieved some success on the battlefield, but it was nowhere close to taking out even one of its assailants as of yet.  It had knocked the woman around a bit and iced the mech's leg but it was painfully obvious the monster was getting cornered.  It was boxed in and despite its speed would soon lose the area needed to dodge.

With a click of holographic touch screen, an electric impulse was sent to the monster, to prioritize finding the barrier's source over combat.  She had seen enough of the monster to know that this first one was indeed a failure.  There was a reason this planet had yet to be conquered, clearly sign master was not up to the task but it could still prove to be of some worth if they could narrow down the barrier's location in the meantime.

[center][h2][color=Silver]Earth - Coral City - Currently Cubed[/color][/h2][/center]
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For a moment it seemed like Sign Master had been making some progress in the fight, but the butterfly guy had started taking direction action and had prevented him from getting a clean hit on the manhole man.  The water lady was also proving to be rather slippery and suddenly everyone had decided to counterattack all at once!  It wasn't fair!

An electric jolt later and Sign Master suddenly knew what he had to do, continue the mission and abandon the fight if he could, but how?  He was currently cubed, a water strike was coming in, the butterflies suddenly turned into a swarm of killer locusts, and Mech had a bunch of nasty missiles getting into position to turn him into a slab of metal!  Sign Master was in quite the pinch!  Then he realized something, manhole man had come up through the ground which meant the 'perfect cube' was not so perfect.

[indent][color=f7941d]"Alright you obstructions have put me behind schedule long enough!  Time to jump this joint!  Well, tunnel actually!"[/color][/indent]

Creating a tunnel sign, he angled it down and instantly a tunnel appeared for him to slip down into.  He quickly jetting down into it as narrowly missing the water strike and the barrage of light threatening to cut him down to size, unfortunately the butterflies kept coming.

[indent][color=f7941d]"The heck are you, a swarm of bees!?"[/color][/indent]

Sign Master complained as he made sure to tilt the sign back up, changing the trajectory of the tunnel ahead to make into into a sort of U-shaped tunnel to slip out from under the cube's wall.  As soon as he exited the tunnel he quickly got rid of the tunnel sign , causing it to vanish, trapping most of the butterflies underground, but a few managed to get through in time and strike him in the back.

[indent][color=f7941d]"Ow, ouch!  Sheesh those things sting, good thing I avoided most of the swarm!  Well I have to get back on schedule or I'll be stripped down for parts!  See ya losers!"[/color][/indent]

His chest sign having given out he fashioned a new one and put the plate on his chest for extra speed and bolted for the city.  He needed to get some better readings and fast before he was intercepted again!