Chapter 7: More Disasters

"Hurry!"

"What do you think I'm doing?"

"Just run!"

Goal gate to the left guys! Avalanches. And time monsters. A lot has happened in five minutes. We jumped in haphazardly and landed safely in a pile in the Factory.

When did they get snow powers? Tora asked. None of us knew.

Weirder monsters equal bigger problems Arch said.

"Come on guys," Blinx said. It's hasn't even been a day since we lost power, and problems are starting to pop up. This was the third mission we had to retreat from and we can't get anywhere.

"B1Q64 is next on our list," Bandit said. I glanced at Blinx, but he didn't have a visible reaction. We got onto the walkway and arrived at the gate shortly. After hopping into the gate, I looked around. We were on a platform with a ramp leading to a plaza it overlooked. There were tall buildings surrounding the plaza and everything was made of dark stone. There was no one around.

"Time Square. We need to get moving," Blinx said. "The monsters will be farther in." We hopped down off the platform onto the ground, and swept up some trash lying around for ammunition. We walked towards the arch, when I started to feel dizzy. I crashed into Juro.

"You okay?" I nodded. I tried to walk in a line, but I couldn't. I fell, and everything went black.

"Y/n!"

"Are you okay?" Tora asked. I couldn't move my body at all.

I'm okay guys. They sighed. Just stuck.

You sure? Juro asked.

"Yes," I said sitting up. I kept my eyes closed to try to keep the dizziness under control.

"Good thing no one's here," Arch said. We nodded. After another minute, I was fine. We got up and kept moving. There were no time monsters around, along with anyone else.

We came up the Déjà vu Canals, and everything was still silent. Same with the Hourglass Caves.

"Weird," Tora said. Just then she tripped over a rock and fell. Normally we wouldn't be concerned, but she didn't get up right away.

Tora.

Here. She got up a second later. "Might have been my relapse. Like what happened to y/n earlier, but super fast." We nodded and kept looking. We came up on the Forgotten City, and that was deserted too. But when we got to the base of the mountain ramp, we finally heard something. A roar of a monster.

We sprinted up and stepped on some bounce pads on accident, sending us up to a floating platform above the mountain. We all thankful stuck the landings. On the platform there was a monster, the looked like a squash with arms. It was yellow in color with purple numbers on the fat lower half. It had stubby little wings and arms, and the face looked remotely humanoid (imagine Dust King with a different color scheme, wings, no wands, and no beard and horns). Behind it was a human girl with blonde hair in pigtails and a white camisole gown with cropped white balloon pants. She also had on slippers, so I had no idea how she was moving so well.

She spotted us and her face lit up soon seeing one of us in particular.

"Blinx!" she yelled, swinging the board she had in her hands at the monster. It missed by a long shot, but the monster pulled back regardless.

"Princess Lena?" Blinx said in disbelief. He shook it off and ran at the monster, activating his sweeper we followed him.

"Any ideas on the attack pattern?" I asked Lena.

"It sends aerial attacks. The wings can't be used for fights, but it can blow a hard wind. I don't know anything else." I relayed the information to the rest of the team, and we got ready to fight.

I fired the first shot. It was stunned for a few seconds and then it jumped high into the air. We dodged the attack, but it shook the platform like crazy, and we fell. Then it unveiled another attack. It started flashing and fluttering its wings. High speed winds came at us, and we had to grab the floor to avoid being lifted up. Bandit lost his grip and went flying. The monster grabbed him and threw him into the platform. Hard. The monster was also lifted into the air and when the winds stopped, it slammed into the ground vibrating the platform again. It didn't land on Bandit, but it was close to doing that. The monster provided to jump around, trying to grab at us. Juro ran over to Bandit, and pulled him out of the center of the platform. The rest of us attempted to shoot the monster. Some missed, but Blinx hit it. And it angered it when it moved again. This time it didn't stop the winds until we were all in the air, despite all of us hanging on. It changed the direction of the wind so we were slammed down into the platform. Getting up again, Lena was with Blinx, Bandit was next to me and the rest were getting up as the monster started jumping again.

Guys, time controls! I yelled.

We used them all in the last missions trying to not get buried by snow and beat up by time monsters! Arch replied.

I have one Pause. We have to time this just right. Just as Tora said this, Arch hit the monster again.

Does Bandit have a Retry? If so, why isn't it working? Blinx said as the winds tried to lift us up again. I grabbed Bandit and the floor just in time.

Of course I don't. Falling from a tree top and landing on my back, remember? We were all relieved to hear him. Before you ask, yes relapse, and yes can't move. Just finish this.

What do you think we're doing? The winds just wouldn't let up, but I heard an explosion and it stopped. We landed hard.

Use the wind to hit it! Arch said. With three hits, I guessed half its health was gone. But it changed its pattern. This time the wind held us down and out. It lasted for a minute and when it stopped, Tora leaped to her feet and shot the monster.

"Nice!"

"Thanks!" The floor was vibrating again, and the monster got confused somehow. It looked at Blinx, than me, than Tora, and finally Bandit, as if just noticing there was more than one of us. Juro was behind it and had an opening. He took it. The monster was stunned for a moment. Then it roared so loud we had to cover out ears. "Use that Pause!"

Tora hit the button, and everything tinted blue. Our ears were ringing due to the sound, and we couldn't hear for five seconds. We looked around for the monster, but we couldn't see it. Only after the Pause ended did we find it. Above us. It must have used some wind when it was roaring. We saw it too late to dodge. Then Banfit suddenly leapt up and yelled "Pause!"

Well that's a wrap! This is my longest chapter by far, at 1189 words. *party streamer noise* Hope you're all having a good week! Go get 'em fey!

-ThinMintE