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[b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 9[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////// (93/100)
[b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] Seiran Underground
[color=Aquamarine]Warp Charges:[/color] 4
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Virgin Victory teleport room
Top of the Split mountain
Outside the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage
Tostarena Town
S.O.U. Building
Seiran Clinic
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[color=Aquamarine]”that’s it, roll over doggy”[/color] the princess barked at the Other as her and Raz’s concussive blows knocked it off its feet and onto its back, only to swiftly add [color=Aquamarine]”wait no, I mean, sorry Peach”[/color] when she realized just how insensitive what her mouth had said was. 

In what felt like karma to Midna, the flipping over the thing that had been (or still was? She was having difficulty processing that) somehow made the situation worse, as it picked itself and started operating upside down, with heads hanging under it, and proved to somehow be even more dangerous in this form.

[color=Aquamarine]”I said I’m sorry!”[/color] Minda yelled as she fled from the spikes striking up from the ground, the first of them having clipped her wolf’s back leg while she was storing her clubba club, resulting in that being a very narrow chase.  

[color=Aquamarine]”Red shift was the chimeras! I didn’t know Otherfication was a thing!”[/color] Midna called over to Blazermate’s question about what was the cause of this, before demanding to know from the PSYCH-OFF personnel [color=Aquamarine]”Is this a thing? How did it happen? Can it be undone?”[/color] in a fruitless hope that they knew more about what had happened than she did.

As for what they should do, well, Goldlewis seemed to think that keeping up the attack was the right thing to do, the giant of a man hammering into the Other, knocking it back and ending its borrowing spike attack. For a moment. Then it screamed and filled the air with dust and debris, obscuring itself from view much the same way the smoke clouds had done for some of the other Other earlier. 

Then the spikes began again.

[color=Aquamarine]”Oh for the goddess’s love, again with the smokescreen!?”[/color] the princess complained, while also once more being thankful for her mask as it prevented her from choking on the dust. Rather than go on the run from the spikes again however, she instead leapt off of her wolfos, sending it home to lick its wound, and summoned her vibrava in its place. The dragonfly looking pokemon grabbed her back with now well practiced ease, and combining both its flight and her levitation, the pair took to the air to be well out of range of the ground based spike attacks.

That gave her time to think and speak while she swooped across the battlefield seeking out the towering form of the transformed Peach.

[color=Aquamarine]”Maybe we should fall back? It’s,- Peach is- whatever it is is huge, we could easily trap it in these tunnels. Collapse a ceiling, seal it somewhere. Then we’d have the time to work out how we can-  if we can save her, without worrying about anyone getting hurt while we do”[/color] she called out a suggestion as she flew.

Despite her suggestion of a non-violent solution, if/when she found the Peach-Other, she would still attack. Luka had a point after all, she knew: every moment the other was allowed to keep spear striking was one where someone might stumble in the dust cloud, and get impaled. Having learned from Goldlewis she knew enough blunt force could end the impalement attack, and she had plenty of that. So that was her plan. 

She would swoop down, and land on the shoulder of a summoned darknut, the towering undead rising out of a portal right next to the Peach-Other once again, and once again after it had fully arisen it delivered a shield bash to its side. At the same time Midna drove a mighty palm strike with her shadow hand from her shoulder perch, hoping the combined blunt force strikes would knock the Peach-Other off balance again and disrupt its attack.

While it felt a little cliche to rely on the same spell twice, if it worked it worked. Though she really would prefer if the Peach-Other would [color=Aquamarine]”Stay down this time!”[/color]

Then she’d take off once more while her shadow darknut sank back into the twilight realm, and then calling out [color=Aquamarine]”It’s over here!”[/color] to try and inform anyone who wasn’t yet in the know of the Other-Peach’s location.