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[color=a187be]Level 8 - EXP 6/80[/color]
[color=#FF5349]Level 7 - EXP 8/70[/color]
The Midnight Walk
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Although the rest of White Team was in unison to go around the track, Ramattra was not exactly thrilled about the idea of abandoning the straightest path available, but made no fuss when the consensus was to go around the dart-brandishing monkeys. The majority rules in this scenario, as well as Ramattra’s lack of immediate information for the upcoming area; he trusted Sandalphon’s best judgment for the scenario. Plus, he was certain there was plenty more to do around the stagecoach while the group made their decision.

The monkeys seemed… keen to stop the bloons from reaching the end of the track, but their stationary manner seemingly restricted their dart-throwing capacity, and ultimately would allow a couple of bloons to leak through their defenses. Not to mention, their forces were lacking in numbers as only a handful of towers stood ready for the onslaught of multicolored bloons floating neatly along the path. Ramattra sighed. [color=bc8dbf]”Such poor tactics would have them defeated in a real battle.”[/color]

In the near distance, Tenna, who was travelling alongside Ace and Ganondorf, could finally be seen approaching the winding path. The other two, having successfully escorted the TV-star, would return to their own matters, and (begrudgingly) allow Tenna to travel with White Team to Edinburgh. The Galeem-influenced CRT would watch atop a hill as the handful of monkeys pop-pop-popped the bloons in succession of one after another. This must have been some game that they were playing! A game that involves popping as many threatening-looking balloons as possible! Oh, Tenna just loved playing games, and if his new friends were playing with these monkeys, surely he was invited as well. 

Tenna rushed to the foot of the hill joyously to join the monkeys in bloon popping action. With a huge grin on his face, he would attempt to converse with one of the towered primates. [color=#FF5349]”Say, mind if I borrow some of those [color=662d91]GrOoVy[/color] darts you have there?”[/color] Despite his new friends ignoring the monkey-littered path ahead, the small creature Tenna conversed with seemed to understand that he wanted to help and would need his own darts to do so. The small sworn-enemy-of-the-bloons would hand Tenna a large amount of darts. He got the feeling he should return these once he’s done helping. 

Ramattra, who had been waiting for plans to be made, began to grow bored with the idleness the Stagecoach had taken, and opted to wait nearby as he watched the equipped monkeys battle with the conga line of bloons varying in defenses. He noticed the newcomer, however, who had split himself into twelve miniature copies of himself and stationed himself at various strategic points on the snaking path. The monkeys [color=#FF5349][i]and Tenna[/i][/color] worked diligently to pop as many bloons as they could before they escaped the swirly path ahead. Ramattra found it partially amusing that each miniature Tenna had their own small pile of darts to chuck.

Layer by layer, they cleared the swarm of bloons leaking in. It wasn't until [url=https://bloons.fandom.com/wiki/Lead_Bloon]specialized[/url] bloons began filling in the fields that they began to have trouble, their defenses not properly equipped to pop through the metallic exterior of the Lead Bloons. The Omnic, bored of waiting, opted to help clear the rubber menaces while the rest of the group decided what route to take. At the very least, helping clear some of the hazards ahead could provide an extra pathway. One of the cylinders protruding off the Omnics' arm began pumping his artificial veins with Alchemist Cocktail, Ramattra converted to Omnic Form and began crushing the metal-coated bloons, just to keep himself busy.

If Tenna and Ramattra managed to clear enough bloons in the time that White Team regrouped, they would have a grace period between waves.