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Midna: level 9 EXP: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(72/90)
Location: Suoh
Warp Charges: 1 (+1 from fight reward)
Sakura Level 9: 22/90
Karin Level 5: 06/50
Location: Suoh
Word Count: 5,617
Points Gained: 6
New EXP Balance--- Sakura Level 9: 28/90
Karin Level 5: 06/50
Location: Suoh
Word Count: 5,617
Points Gained: 6
New EXP Balance--- Sakura Level 9: 28/90
Karin Level 5: 12/40
(pending)Midna and her Vibrava scouted the streets, buzzing wings and shadow sneaks letting them patrol around the small pack of survivors that was being guarded by the reassuring presence of the two streetfighters. The two flittered in and out of their scouting, guiding the group away from any packs of others and towards the bunker their charges had pointed out.
Thanks to this, a bit of luck, and an odd tendency to drift in a certain direction that Midna noticed, they made it. Not without incident, mind, as there was a close call or two, and they managed to pick up a few hiding stragglers too.
All of these folks rushed forwards once the bunker was insight, flooding the narrow corridor leading to the entrance, and breaking the self imposed silence to call out to the guards to “Open up!” “Let us in”
The response was a number of hatches popping open on the bunker, and numerous guns being pointed out form murderholes, followed by red helmeted guard captain peeking out of another right by the entrance and demanding to know “where you followed? How close are the Others”
“No Others, we snuck by them, now let us in before any come this way” one of the survivors replied urgently after she got over the initial shock of the weapons being pointed at, or rather past, them.
”And if any come we’ll handle them” Midna called over their heads from where she and the other two ladies were covering the entrance from the back of the pack.
The captain made a sound that made it clear he was unconvinced of this claim, before glancing at a subordinate who reported “sensors aren't picking up anything sir!” before cautiously adding”We should be safe to let them in?”
The captain looked visibly relieved at not having to make a hard choice today, before he recovered his professional appearance and commanded “then open it on the double, and let’s get these people inside!”
Locks were swiftly unlatched, and the entrance unsealed, revealing the captain in full as they urged “quickly but calmly please, don’t push or shove”, stepping right back into the role of crowd management, which made the operation of getting everyone inside smooth, right up until it was only the 3 seekers left outside.
“You three, I don’t care if you think you can fight Others, leave it to the professionals and get in here!” he commanded, jerking a thumb behind him to the tunnel going down that the civilians were currently moving down at a far more relaxed pace.
Karin stepped forward, her boot clicking on the pavement as if it were a heel. ”Good sir, Princess Midna speaks the truth. We, The Seekers of Light, are a travelling group of freelance warfighters with a vested interest in the public good. I can assure you we can handle ourselves and will seek out the Others and destroy them for you, free of charge.” She declared. Once again looking to improve their reputation.
”That’s right!” Sakura said with a pumping of her fists. ”Thank you, but you don’t gotta worry about us! We’re pretty tough.” Sakura crossed her arms and smiled confidently.
”And I have some proof right here:” Midna added as a last, unfurling a shadow hand to reveal the small pile of Other spirits she had nabbed.
It was hard to read the captain’s expression due to their helmet covering their eyes, but they certainly didn’t sound impressed as he began to say “I assure you, there are far more dangerous things than Buddy Rummies out…” before a crackle came from inside the room, followed by the the sound of someone calling out “This is the south gate, requesting backup now damn it now!”
The captain turned his focus immediately from the three of them to the intercom, striding just to the side of the door and taking a receiver before barking into it “Stay calm and report… and where is your commanding officer?”
“Jenkins is down sir! Hericks too, and Mary and Rob are hurt!” The man on the other side ran on in a half controlled panic, as in the background there came a loud rhythmic banging sound “They're at the doors, and we can’t open the firing ports without a Brawn Yawn getting in!”
“.... Understood. Remain calm and pull back to the second line of defense and await instructions from the bunker commander” the captain told the soldier on the other end who had signaled to them instead of that commander in his panic, before nodding to a subordinate who started relaying this to their local leader right away.
As Midna peaked inside to understand what was going on, she saw two things: one was a screen showing the panicked caller, as well as at least one of his injured comrades slumped down behind him, soaked in water and convulsing on the floor. The other thing she saw was a map, one detailing information about the shelter and, due to a certain amount of standardization, it was actually visible to normal people like them.
It gave a brief outline of the bunker, such as its main lounge and where the toilets were. It also showed where the other bunker entrance popped out on the city streets. Smart, Midna thought, to have two ways in and out so that, if the defenses broke, the people inside weren't trapped like rats in a pit.
Karin narrowed her eyes and Sakura gasped. Karin used the outline of the bunker to get a vague idea of where they needed to go. After that all they needed to do was follow the sounds of chaos. ”We gotta get over there!” Sakura said, beginning to run into the bunker. Karin caught her by the shoulder.
”That’ll take too long and they cannot open the doors. We shall find an alternative path and flank the creatures from behind. Follow me. Midna-san, use your summons to help guide us.” Karin said. Sakura nodded and followed as the street fighters sprinted away.
”On it … i think I know which way it was already” Midna said. She had, after all, seen some the Others were heading in a specific direction. Sure enough, with that combined with the map on the wall, they found their way through the streets and , once they picked up the sound of something slamming against metal, their destination was more than clear.
Soon they were upon the battlefield: a narrow alleyway leading between the two story buildings of a row of shops which terminated in the bunker entrance. The Others were crowded around said alley way, practically jostling for position to be the ones who would be first inside once the door was beaten down.
Sakura and Karin both recognized the truest threat right away. An amalgamate of a crocodile and a pile of junk, melted halfway into the ground like it was made of water. A disturbing amount of human wooden legs kicked the air where it’s tail should have been. This must be the Brawn Yawn. It slammed against the bunker doors, well past the remains of the fortifications the guards had set up.
There were also sludgy Bile Pools and creaking, flapping Plateau Pendu’s, arms dangling upside down.
”Hey!” Sakura shouted, charging a fireball. She launched it up towards a Pendu. The charged fireball exploded vibrantly and knocked the Pendu up and out of the sky. It landed awkwardly in a heap and began to reorient itself.
”Over here!” She taunted, her heart racing.
Karin strode forth. The Bile Pools were expecting to deal with threats from the inside of the bunker, so the normally ranged enemies were caught by surprise. As the nearest one went to slither away Karin dashed forward and thrust her palm into its center. It was launched, and as it came down she slammed her palm into it, breaking the Bile Pool in twain. Folded over itself, it lay paralyzed, and a bulb-like protrusion made itself known.
”Oh! Light bulb brain head.” Karin said, recognizing it. Acidic water was sprayed at high speed from the other Bile Pools. Karin dashed and jumped to the side, evading it quickly. The other Pengu’s began to gather electricity between their hands. Sakura recognized a ranged attack like that when she saw them. As one lobbed a charge towards Karin, Sakura intercepted it with a fireball of her own. They clashed, and her fireball disintegrated the charge and flew a good fifty feet into the air before dissipating.
Midna, meanwhile, had faltered when the others had charged in because, despite being forewarned about it, the sight of electrical attacks still zapped her flight reflex for a reason she did not understand. She lost her chance to get in a first ambush strike, as the Other were quickly rallying and turning to meet the threats coming from behind.
Flying Pendu quickly climbed higher up into the air, and aimed too sweep over the street fighters in-order to reach the, well, street rather than being stuck in the alleyway. Some of the slug-like bilepools had the same sort of idea, using their slimy feet to climb up the walls of the alleyway to reach sniper spots or the roof.
Oh, and one other foe made a move to reposition, one that was easy to miss: The door banging stopped and the Brawn Yawn … simply disappeared. Karin’s keen golden eyes spotted it, her eyes widening. ”The beast can vanish!” She called out to Sakura, though the brunette didn’t quite understand in the half-moment she had to process the information.
Minda was certainly too busy mentaly freaking out about the electric launching fliers to see that, as she backed up and pulled out both a pistol, which she ineffectually pinged away at them with while drawing out her shadow hand. This she used to form a translucent green orb ringed with bands of runes that swiftly grew to the size of a small car and, which she then batted towards the flying foes as they attempted to exit the alleyway while shouting ”Don’t come this way!” at them.
The shot went straight through her foes, a quirk she had forgotten about that spell due to the stress and the amount of time it had been since she had used it, and so it instead slammed into the wall of one of the buildings. The resulting blast a dust cloud of vaporized masonry down onto the fighters in the alleyway. Dust, and a pair of Pendu who had been clipped by the blast. Sakura and Karin shielded their eyes from the dust. ”Midna-san!” She called out, looking at the clambering Pengu’s and trying to prioritize her targets. Things were hectic, things were hard to parse.
As the cloud descended, those Others who were too close to the streetfighters to tactically retreat instead struck at the pair of ladies: bile pools unleashing conal sprays of water that were hard to avoid in the narrow alleyway and which had considerable knockback, while the Pendu tried to capitalize on the splash attacks to turn wet floor into shocking floor, if they couldn’t hit the woman themselves.
Karin raised her palms and put effort into defending herself. The water splashed against her defensive blue sparks of ki. Sakura kicked one of the fallen Pengu’s, batting it away before being forced to block as well. An electric bolt charge struck the wet ground behind Karin, and the blonde tensed up, teeth gritting as lightning shocked her body. ”Ggh!”
Thus, the spray tagged her, knocking her onto her back and into the electricity. ”Aagh!” Her back arched.
One of the Pengu’s tried a similar trick on Sakura, but the versatile fighter was quick to act to save her friend. Her body flashed orange and an black ink absorbed the electricity as it struck the ground she was standing on. In an instant she was up in the air, grabbing onto the flying Pendulum. She planted her feet on it and kicked it into the earth where it cracked harshly into a coma. Sakura flew towards one of the wall climbing Bile Pool and hammer fisted it once, twice, thrice, plucking it from the wall and bouncing it mid-air. On the third hit it crashed into its fellows.
Karin angrily pulled free from the remnants of the electricity, clambering to her feet and leaning on the wall and holding her head. ”Wretched little..!
Sakura rolled to a stop and charged up an EX Hadoken. While the Bile Pools rose in their pile, she unleashed the fireball with a yell, and when the blue fire cleared they were but ash. There were still a few more Bile Pools and Pengu’s in the alley, but a much more manageable amount. Midna still had her own to deal with though, and some of the Bile Pools were nearly on the roof.
Another electric charge came Karin’s way, but she was ready for it, dropping into a crouch. Even if the electricity reached her knees as long as she faced the damage she could deflect it away from herself.
Midna meanwhile was out of the alley and in the street, and faced with the foes that had escaped it. Some took potshots down into that melee, but most instead of worrying about hitting their own aimed for the out in the open princess.
”Oh goddesses,” she cursed as she dropped her so far worthless pistol and lept to the side to avoid the first shot. Or tried to anyway, but under the pressure of another’s fated end she forgot to use dragon claw to counteract her maglev mod’s sloppiness, and so she did not leap nearly as far as she had intended.
Sparks grazed her calf and caused her to jerk in pain and stumble her next step. That was enough for one of the Bile pools to get a beed on her from the rooftop, and the water blast it shot off hammered into the princess, knocking her back and into the bonnet of an abandoned car.
”Gah…” the princess hissed in pain, but had enough adrenaline running through her veins that she could scrabble up the vehicle, now remembered dragon claws puncturing holes in the metal and glass till she dropped herself behind the vehicle .. which was promptly further ruined by a hail of thunder and water.
The panting pindown princess might have been able to sit tight and await aid from her friends who were making skillful work of their own foes … had something not put itself between them.
With a splash, some of the water left from the Bile Pool’s attacks suddenly surged forward behind Sakura from the entrance of the alleyway as the Brawn Yawn lunged out of that thin film of water like a massive crocodile lunging out of a river at a soon to be death rolled Zebra.
Sakura turned too late, the creature clamping its metal jaws from her thigh to her midsection. ”BWAH!” She made an alarmed, borderline comedic sound as her world turned topsy turvy. as she was thrashed around, her upper body slammed into the wall, cracking it. Managing to prevent her arms from flailing wildly after a moment, she stuck them into the jaw to try and pry it loose, twisting her body to get free. It wasted no time in tossing her bodily, hard, into the wall. The stonework cracked even further. She was stuck in a Sakura-shaped indent in the wall before, with a deflating grunt, she fell face first onto the ground. She got to her elbows and knees, looking up with a grimace at the encroaching beast. Karin pinwheeled across the battlefield and slammed the beast's mouth shut with a downward palm of her hand. Then she slid into it, knocking it backwards and getting on her feet. They faced off as Sakura pushed herself back onto her feet. ”Oof…ouch.”
She recovered just in time to push through an electric charge aimed at the pair. The Brawn Yawn underestimated Karin’s strength and attempted to bull rush her out right, only to get cracked across the face with a resounding metal crunch, tricking it’s neck to the side. Sakura fired fireballs upwards, her firepower surpassing that of her ranged enemies easily enough to keep them at bay, or even turn the tables, as long as she could focus on them exclusively. Neither of them had a moment of focus to spare on Midna’s predicament unless she said something.
A combination of stubbornness and not thinking entirely straight had prevented her from yelling for help. Instead, she had taken a moment behind the car to catch her breath and focus instead on how to get through this on her own.
Step one was to rearm. Step two was to simply leave her cover in a way her foes did not expect.
She slipped into its shadow, and then a moment or so later appeared from behind a cooling unit atop the roof of one of the buildings making up the alleyway where the street fighters were battling. A roof which currently held several Bile Pools perched on the edges of it and, pointedly, no electrical Plateau Pendu.
Which meant the only one with lightning here was her.
With a demon blood stained ax in hand the princess rushed forwards, head clearer and purple glowing claws stabbing cement as she got off the surprise flanking attack she had squandered before. As the Other turned towards the sound or her approaching feet she dropped and slipped, intentionally this time, back knee on the ground while the foot was thrust forwards, sliding under the one shot they got in.
She slashed horizontally with the blade, striking air with it and then a trio of Other with a trio of thunderbolts. The wet monsters were hurled into the air and off the roof, only to be caught as the princess caught herself before that same edge and thrust out a beam of continuous lighting that juggled them in the air.
As they convulsed, she caught a water blast with her shield, sending a shower of thorns back in retaliation, before sending an enlarged and portaled in bear and wolf thundering across the roof in each direction to trample the other roof Other.
With them suitably distracted, she focused on those she was juggling in the air with lighting, waiting for just the last moment of her remaining juice before slapping her shadow hand down ontop of them and sending them slamming down into the ground two stories below.
She pulled the ax back to her chest, put a quick charge in it in the motion and then opened another portal, sending her Vibrava to the left while she rushed to the right to strike the Remaining Bilepools before they could recover from being stepped on by large mammals.
Or that was the plan anyway, only there was an explosion as the car she had been using for cover gave up the ghost. Then a second later a Plateau Pendu rose up to the rooftop and found the prey it had thought was going up in smoke alive and in one piece.
The Pendu in the skies, no longer distracted, turned towards the street fighters, while Pools on the wall above and close to the bunker's door remained, and those below had little time to handle the surround the Other had on them thanks to the Brawn Yawn’s taunting threat.
Karin kicked and sliced at the Brawn Yawn with her leg, dodging its bites. Sakura kept the Bile Pools and Pendu’s occupied with fireballs. It was slow, treacherous going. The Brawn Yawn backed up and fired high velocity spit at Karin, who reluctantly blocked it. It used the opportunity to submerge and erupt, coming at Karin from an unexpected angle. She was forced to leap over it. A distracted Sakura moved out of the way but it clipped her shoulder, knocking her to the ground. She felt water splash against her back. As she scrambled to her feet, the killboxes of the bunker opened wide. With the Brawn Yawn occupied, they opened fire. Bile Pools and Pendu’s were ripped from the air by voluminous machine gun fire. Karin and Sakura stayed low. Karin was confident that they could have won the bout without aid, but not perhaps without an injury.
The Brawn Yawn submerged once more. Without eyes on it, the people in the bunker were forced to close the windows to prevent its entry. But now Sakura and Karin were free to focus on the Brawn Yawn. They stood back to back in the center of the alley.
A tense moment passed, but it pounced at Sakura. She reacted quickly with an EX Uppercut. ”Kurae!” She shouted, the collision lighting up the alleyway and sending the entire beast up into the air, its puddle-like legs trailing beneath it. Sakura exerted herself and halted all of her momentum, sending the Brawn Yawn up while leaving her on the ground. She dashed forward and got underneath it. ”Here we go!”
”Shinku..!” She took a grounded stance, using her Revenge gauge to generate a large amount of Ki. The wind was kicked up and pulled into it as the fireball span. ”Tengyo Hadoken!” The beast was subsumed by fire and froze in mid-air for a solid second as the explosion rocked it in place, before it was sent flying out of the alleyway where it exploded into ash on the street.
”DAAAGH! Yeah! How’s that?!” She yelled. Sakura hopped forward and punched the air up and down. She finished off the pop-off combo with a final kick, that sent her sneaker flying off of her foot. She scrambled to retrieve it, hopping on her other foot.
Karin smiled and flipped her hair, surveying the field one more time and searching for remaining Others, or Midna.
Had she looked a few moment earlier, she would have seen the princess atop the roof stumble at the sudden reappearance of the flying other, a foot slipping on the slime of the bile pools, and her falling from the roof. She caught herself with levitation, no drop would kill this princess, but the Multiple Plateau Pendu beeding in on her well might.
The princess’s breath caught in her throat as she raised her shield and tried to ascend as multiple pinpoint accurate balls of lightning hurled forth … and slammed into the body of her Vibrava as it swooped in to take the blows for its mistress.
”No!” she cried out in alarm … only for all to be reminded or informed of the dragonfly’s deceptive typing, as it grounded each and every one of the shocks and came out of the body block completely unscathed. To add insult to injury, the ton covered creature launched a volley of homing spines like those of Midna’s shield.
”Oh… ha! You cant hurt it dumb birds” Midna taunted the Pendu as she lifted herself back onto the roof, before thrusting her ax forward and commanding her minion to ”Kill them! Kill them all!”
Thus, when Karin looked up, she found not a distraught Minda, but instead the twilight-vibrava blasting the Pendu with bright purple flames till their bulbs popped out (keeping it’s distance so they could not even think of meleeing it), at which point it darted in to deliver an almighty crunch directly to the exposed weakpoints. At the same time Midna had gone all in on handing off those foes to minions, and the portable fire was joined by purble lances as her initiate strikers staggered the Pendru who had to wait their turn to be picked off one by one by the shock resistant pokemon.
While they were at that, Midna cleared out the remaining Bile pools from the roof (quite literally, as used gravity to deal the final blows), while the guards popped open the shutters of the bunker again now that the Brawn Yawn was gone and picked off those still clinging to the alleyway’s walls.
Sakura stuck her shoe on just in time to roll out of the way of a falling Bile Pool. Some of the splatter got on her but gracefully turned to ash. Her heart rate was still racing and she was feeling the hurt, but it was nothing compared to the rush of total victory! She ran up to Karin and the two engaged in a mighty high five, though Karin was more elegant and reserved in her posture the force was there all the same.
”Did you see me?! Oh, man, I had to dig deep for that one. I just broke through a wall! I’m stronger than ever!” She cheered.
Karin nodded and listened, but she was already thinking about the tactical side of things. She was socially adept enough to not bring down Sakura’s victory high. So she just thought about Midna’s sub-par performance. For the first part of that fight she did nothing except prevent them from leaving the alleyway and act as a basic distraction. Considering the vast array of powerful magics at her disposal, something definitely felt off about that. Sakura and Karin were left mostly unsupported. How long would it have taken for Midna to clear out the alleyway of Pengu’s and Pools so Sakura could aid Karin in fighting the Brawn Yawn? Too long, she estimated.
Regardless, Karin strolled to the bunker door and rapped on it with her knuckle. ”This area has been secured, courtesy of the Seekers of Light.” She said to the barrels of the machineguns aimed the alleyway.
”Do you gotta keep advertising us like that?” Sakura asked, a laugh in her voice. She was in the alleyway and burning off energy with a routine of punches and kicks.
Karin just rolled her eyes and smirked. ”How are things in there? Is anyone terribly injured? We have means of transport.”
A hatch slid open and she was presented with the helmet of the very same captain who had spoken to them at the other gate, who had presumably run through the complex to reach and reinforce this gate.
“We’ve stabilized the wounded, and they won't get better treatment in here than anywhere close enough worth transporting them too” they responded, before pausing for a moment, looking from side to side a touch conspiratorially before making a gesture to a subordinate before finally adding, carefully “officially, I can’t condone this kind of vigilantism but … you have my, strictly off the book, thanks seekers. We wouldn;t have been to pull our people back before they broke in”
”Ah, that is good to hear. And of course, Naturally.” Karin nodded with a magnanimous smile. ”We do however, plan on sticking around, so hopefully we can begin working together in a more official capacity, yes?” She chatted casually, casting a look over her shoulder towards her allies.
As Karin handled the pr, Midna dealt with the last of the Others that had tried to slime away on the roof. Then she composed herself, taking a deep breath and releasing the combination of battle lust and fear stress based adrenaline from her system before she hopped down from the roof and floated down, her Vibrava somewhat noticeably still deployed even though the fight was over.
”You’re looking excited” she said to Sakura as she landed next to her, ”Good work handling that chompy thing, I knew you could”
Sakura swept her leg through the air with grace. ”Thanks! I feel great. I think I’m starting to get used to this whole life-and-death thing as long as I have two feet on the ground!” She said cheerily. She glanced over towards the noticeably human shaped indent she left on the wall. It reminded her of a feeling and she reached into her collar and pulled out a piece of debris and then brushed some out of the bangs in front of her forehead. Then she went back to punching the air.
”What about you? We got separated pretty quick, so I didn’t see much of you, Midna-san!” She asked.
”Ah, yeah, things went fine. Just fine” the princess who had gotten out of the fight with only mild water damage replied unconvincingly.
Sakura bounced in place, shifting her weight from one shoe to the other. ”Oh, yeah?” She was still in high spirits but noticed the tone of Midna’s voice. ”You did okay?”
”Mmmm … things got a little hairy, but this thing dealt with the awful zappy ones just fine in the end, and from their it was smooth sailing” Midna clarified a touch more truthfully, as she gave the Vibrava, which had landed on an outstretched arm, a little scritch behind an antenna.
”Oh, good! Yeah, those ones gave Karin a pretty bad shock. Getting electrified is one of the least fun ways to take a hit.” Sakura said. She also went to scratch the Vibrava.
Karin strode up at this point, giving one last wave over her shoulder. ”Ah, Princess Midna. Glad to see you unharmed. For a moment it seemed like we may not have the advantage in the alleyway, but the moment passed quickly. Did the enemy provide some kind of unexpected problem with your spell casting? I couldn’t help but notice the lack of your intervention.” She said. Though the natural tone of her voice tended to make a lot of what she said sound like some kind of subtle, haughty put-down, she was intending to politely ask what went wrong.
Minda pursed her lips, looked annoyed at the tone, then sighed and decided to be as honest as she could within hearing range of Midgar’s forces, which rendered said explanation a bit vague ”A… side effect which affected me more than I expected. Electrical attacks … don’t agree with my psyche. I found a sort of solution however with this one being unaffected by them” she again gestured to the Vibrava … an then pushed its head away when it tiered to nuzzle her comfortingly
Before Karin could respond, Sakura busted in. ”Ooh! I think I know how you feel.” Sakura empathized eagerly. ”One time someone tried to tie up my hands and I got really freaked out for a second. Like instead of getting punched in the face, I got punched in the mind. ”
”Like getting hit in a spot where you were hurt real bad before. It’s a scary thought!” She nodded.
”...I see.” Karin thought aloud. ”A side effect of what, if you do not mind me asking? Just so we can be more careful in the future.”
”That… is a good way of explaining it, yes. Thank you Sakura” Midna agreed, before adding'' ”Though in this case it’s more like …. Being hit in a palace that someone else got hit hard, if you understand what I am saying” while giving a sort of side nod towards the spirits of the Others as a way of explaining where the weakness was coming from without saying anything incriminating, being perhaps too paranoid about being overheard by the guards.
”Ah. I understand. We’ll have to beware these types of enemies in the future, then. Unfortunately they seem hard to avoid entirely.” Karin said.
”I’ll get better at dealing with them” Midna insisted
”Very well. I simply don’t know if you can help it, other than going to your fellow Princess for help.” Karin said, referring to Peach and her unique ability to defuse others.
The princess pursed her lips, and then shook her head, explaining simply that ”I get to much from that one”
”Then just keep it in mind.” Karin said.
Sakura seemed thoughtful, before hopping once. ”Oh, let’s check in with the others!’” Sakura said. She reached inside her white jacket and pulled out the radio from it’s safe hiding space.
Then she pressed the button, broadcasting her message to any Seeker with a radio.
”Hey! This is Sakura.” She said happily. ”Midna-san, Karin-san and I just finished getting some people to a bunker! And fighting some monsters. How are you guys? Where are you guys? Over.” She asked, waiting half a beat.
”By the way every time you get done using the radio, you have to say ‘over.’” She added. ”Uh. Over. Over for real this time. Over.” She looked at them both and winced.
Midna had to smile at that, her friend's silliness certainly helping pick her up her spirits, and she was more than happy to move on from the sore spot that was the issue she had with foes using electricity.
Speaking of them, the princess moved to scoop up the fallen Other and collect her dropped gun, despite how useless the latter had proved against the mix and match monsters (not that her lack of skill had really helped).
Once she was done she asked the pair ”Want any?” while holding a shadowhand out atop which the spirits of the 4 types of Others they had slain lay.
”Uh, no thanks.” Sakura said quickly, listening to the radio.
”I’ll pass as well. I do not want to ally with them, let alone fuse with them. If you wish to use your magic to manage whatever cumbersome items they drop, you may do so of course. I’m still trying to maximize the use of my grappling hook, anyway.” Karin said.
Midna shrugged, and then promptly clenched the shadowhand into a fist, crushing all of the spirits at once.
Once that was all settled, Sakura would try to enact her plan of using the radio to expediently reunite with the other Seekers and debrief. Professional! Sakura didn’t get to be professional very often.
