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[color=77bb99]"Offer assistance, not advice, in a crisis!"[/color]

[color=888888]— Book Kidd[/color]

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[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5656223]Book Kidd[/url]
Max MP: 50 Current MP: 37 - 8 = 29
Casting: [Projectile] 0 + [AoE E] 2 + [Damage X C] 6 = 8 

Gear: Clip Light (6) Disguise (6) Gift (6 Probiotic Supplements) Grenade (6) 
Molotov (6) Smoke Bomb (6) Handcuffs (6) 
Leveraging: N/A
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Kidd was absent mindedly listening to Phoebe as he flung another ball of sinew and blood at their opponents. [color=77bb99]"Uh, I mean, probably?"[/color] He shrugged his shoulders. [color=77bb99]"But without the workshop manuel for the ship, I don’t think we’d even know what the engine looks like. I mean, what’s with this thing? It seems like everything is made out of black cubes and slime. Unless you saw something different on board?"[/color]

She hadn’t, of course. Other than some of the glowing light fixtures, everything had that low poly look like a dated arcade game. 

The magical steel meteors closed in on a few targets, but the ship was suddenly rocked by two massive quakes. What they lacked in power they more than made up for in volume. An explosion around the hands swallowed up the well armed slime that had been firing on Rika, and another explosion of steel rocked the side of the ship. The cubic debris were reduced to splinters as well, which had to inhibit their ability to be used as weapons. What had looked like a hopeless skirmish just a few seconds ago was looking much more manageable. Rika’s spell had protected the hands, cut of the aliens from powerful reinforcements, and did significant damage to the hull of the ship.

Significant damage.

To the hull.

Of the ship.

[color=77bb99]"Hey!"[/color] Kidd pointed at Rika. [color=77bb99]"Who I want to love is none of your damn business! This certainly isn’t the place to bring up my ‘yaoi hand’ or whatever!"[/color] Then when the ship creaked, Kidd turned his head to look at his massive hands.  [color=77bb99]"Oh dear…"[/color]

While the hands were no longer being attacked, the strange ship was breaking apart under them. Some of the hands tightened their grip, only for the ship to break free and leave them with a handful of giant metal cubes. Others still held on, And one side of the ship started to lift upwards. 

[color=77bb99]"Not good!"[/color] Using his superior athletics, Kidd was able to jump onto the side of the ship. Though he didn’t weigh nearly enough to actually pull it back down. The ship wasn’t going to be getting away (yet) but anyone inside was likely going to lose their footing very soon…

[color=77bb99]"Where’s the engine? We gotta stop it!"[/color] 

But even with all this going on, more slimes trickled out of the new holes made in the ship. 

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[color=ff6347]"Wowie woo, that’s interesting."[/color]

[color=888888]— Mika Fang, Cerberus[/color]

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[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5656223]Mika Fang[/url]
Max MP: 30 Current MP: 24
Casting: N/A

Gear: Taser (3 shots) Mastermind (40 credits - 10 for 3 smoke bombs) Smoke Bombs (2)

Leveraging: N/A
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As it turned out, the giant ceiling fixture was moving just a little too fast for Mika and Jack to jump out of the way of. Yet neither of them were hit either, as they both seemed to phase through it and arrived at the other side. Mika looked at Jack and raised an eyebrow, amused that they both seemed to have the same power. 

[color=ff6347]"Of course, leader."[/color] Mika returned her focus to Ashley. It made sense that she would be the best person to run ahead, but she had been making an effort to be more of a team player. She still remembered the fight against the weretigers in the casino where she openly mocked her superior officer. In truth, she still found monsters to be utterly disgusting creatures. And a slime version of an esper, even one that made it her mission to shelter monsters, was an aberration  that she would have liked to have slain with her own hands. But there would always be time to kill monsters. Her other squadmates? Her superiors? Their time was fleeting and they needed rescue. 

So she agreed with Ashley’s request, and ran ahead, expecting Jack to follow after them. The Slime Queen did not pursue Ashley or the others, and seemed to recognize that there were still many espers by the entrance of the ship. But then Jack saw about trying to stop the other mavericks and shark from advancing. Mika trusted the stranger, but it was anyone's guess if leaving her with a bunch of espers she seemed to be hostile towards was a smart idea.

[color=ff6347]"We’ll be okay."[/color] She wasn’t sure why she said that, other than to reassure herself. Ashley was put together enough to not need someone to baby her, and Nina seemed like the epitome of chilled out. 

But the next face they saw was a friendly one, as Marrie came down the hallway. Though she looked a little determined and was futsing with some device in her hand. The door she was standing in front of opened and she walked inside. 

[color=ff6347]"Huh."[/color]

Mika didn’t know Marrie that well. She knew Ashley knew her, she knew she was there when her mother died, but it wasn’t like they had ever spoke. Perhaps it was that curiosity that had her looking into the room where Marrie had gone.

…

Marrie wasn’t concerned with the people behind her. There was something far stranger before her. 

The lab didn’t look that much different than anything else. Just more cubic instruments with a few glowing bricks here and there. The giant slime that was almost as big as the room itself? That would get anyone’s attention. 

It had a nice cool, cyan shade. Though various espers and monsters were floating around inside of it. Marrie noticed Stacy, Mika and Ashley noticed Binky, and Nina noticed Luna. They seemed to be unconscious and floating inside the massive slime, unharmed. Was the slime drawing off their energy somehow, or had they been defeated and this was its way of preventing them from further retaliating? It wasn’t clear, and it didn’t really matter. It needed to be stopped. 

The slime groaned. Some primordial screech that belonged to an apex predator from beyond the stars. It couldn’t move out of the room. It was a cylinder that stretched from the floor to the ceiling. But that didn’t stop it from growing many, many tendrils. The space around it was starting to fill up fast, but not before Marrie noticed another door inside the room. There had to be more people in there right? While there had to be two dozen espers inside the slime, more had to be deeper inside. 

The slime stretched and contracted, and the ceiling outside the lab started to move. Tentacles were coming from the ceiling now, twisting and stretching their way towards the espers. Whatever they were facing, it had yet to sate its appetite. 

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[color=a4f4f9]"Is it too late for a Ben 10 reference?"[/color]

[color=888888]— Dan Daggernose[/color][/center]

It only took a moment to cut dan free, and then he was up. Unfortunately, there had been a cave in ahead, and more unfortunately, it seemed like the lot of them were trapped with the slime queen. Though really, she looked more like a maid than a queen. A very menacing maid, but a maid none the less.

[color=a4f4f9]"Oh man!"[/color] Dan started to panic. [color=a4f4f9]"I can’t help Marrie from here! We’re trapped!"[/color] 

But the other espers had cooler heads than Dan. Which was why they were able to react when the slimy entity stretched out its arms and pointed in two different directions. One of its fists were aimed at Jack, and the other one was aimed at Nukkelina. The metallic blocks in the Slime Queen’s body glowed before nets were fired in both of their directions. Jack's melody collided with a net, eviscerating it on her side. But the imposter queen wasn't done. She spun like a top. The centrifugal force caused her arms to stretch and curl in the air, until they were scraping the walls. Even if her nets missed their target, her fists would surely find anyone that stood still for too long. Yet the room was not perfectly smooth. There were small alcoves where one could take shelter if they needed to.

Yet.

The giant block that Slime Queen had slid at them earlier was still in the room, and one of her outstretched hands grabbed a hold of it. Was she going to throw it again?