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Level 5: 28/50
Location: Weird Big Tower Thing
Word Count: 787
Points Gained: 2
New EXP Balance--- Level 5 : 30/50 [/center]

	Sakura looked over to Junior, who was 'helping' her interact with the map. He was playing with it, making the hologram go this way and that. [color=f49ac2]"Teehee."[/color] She barely surpressed a girlish giggle. Junior was really very cute. But he probably didn't want to hear something like that, so she refocused on her task. Getting close to the console, she rubbed her chin.

	[color=f49ac2]"Yup. I definitely have no idea what any of these buttons do."[/color] Sakura concluded confidently. Then there was a great mechanical noise. The street fighter blinked in surprise, mouth forming into a small 'o'.
	
	[color=f49ac2]"Did you do that, [i]Junior-kun?[/i]"[/color] She asked, raising her eyebrows. She turned and awaited whoever was coming up the lift shaft now. What came up disturbed her. These people fit right into the uncanny valley. It was rude to think it, but they looked gross to her. Short, squat, flabby, obviously unhealthy. They reminded her of the tossed out genetic experiments the bad guys back home were always creating.

	They looked scared. Peach asked questions, Sakura tried to calm them down. [color=f49ac2]"Uh- it, it's okay. We won't hurt you. What's wrong?"[/color] But she didn't get an answer either. It didn't look like they could understand them, or if they could, they couldn't speak any language. Or, at least, one she could recognize.

	A man projected himself over a TV screen. Immediately, by the way he talked to these poor creatures, Sakura didn't like him. He cut himself off, but she guessed he was about to insult them. Princess Peach began discussing terms of passage with him. Sakura wasn't sure what to think about this Tyl Regor guy...but he had 'bad dude' written all over him. Especially when he said he wanted a favor, but didn't say what. Yeah, right. That's classic villain material. No way do they want to owe this guy a favor.

	Sakura stepped aside, casting a worried glance at the so-called Tubemen. Tube? As in, test tube? She guessed he probably created them...in a tube. That, in her experience, could only mean bad news. It was true that a higher than average percentage of her friend group were genetically modified clones, but the person making the clones was always a bad guy. Only bad guys created life in tubes for their own benefit.

	Sakura followed the Guests go, and saw the moving island approach. As it neared, her mouth once again fell open. [color=f49ac2][i]"Masaka..."[/i][/color] She whispered. Tyl Regor confirmed her suspicions- this was the Maw. The massive ship that required a sacrifice to board. The one path that the Master of Masters, the woman she had just dissed aloud, had recommended they take.

	[color=f49ac2]"I just [i]had[/i] to open my big dumb mouth."[/color] Sakura bemoaned. The Maw was also, genuinely intimidating. The poor Tubemen waddled to what looked like their doom.

	Tyl Regor left them and Sakura crossed her arms. [color=f49ac2]"Wondrous Tubemen." [/color]She said bitterly. [color=f49ac2]"Yeah right. Those are the worst people made in a tube I've ever seen. They're miserable."[/color] Now, the Blue Team were left to consider their options. Sakura still hadn't even come up with a real solution to the Bella, Rika, and Shippy problem. 

	[color=f49ac2]"I mean, heck. What if they just, I dunno, waited here? This place seems safe enough. If those guards could just pass out drinking under a tarp, it can't be that bad. Then we can walk back. Or Junior could set up one of his portals." [/color] Sakura suggested.

	[color=f49ac2]"And the Maw- I really don't want to go on there. That's bad business. Infact, from what I've been told, it's downright evil. It literally requires human sacrifice as a ticket! This Tyl guy just figured out a loophole by creating things, I bet. If we could, I'd just sink that ship right now and get everyone off."[/color] She cast a suspicious look at the massive ship.

	[color=f49ac2]"Bella, Rika, Shippy, I think you three would be safer if you just hungout here and looked out for each other while the rest of us moved forward. We take the lift down there, [i]don't[/i] owe this creepy scientist a favor and instead just kick his butt, and then we keep going. Through the other three bases until we reach the boss."[/color] Sakura used her palm to cut through the air, to illustrate her point, plan, and probably general philosophy in life.

	[color=f49ac2]"Anyway. I'd rather challenge the ocean with Shippy and the Atomos then get onboard that spooky, evil ship. The only reason we should go on there is if we want to destroy it, if you ask me."[/color] Sakura concluded, crossing her arms, her cat ears pointed straight up.