It didn't take long for Tubbimura to catch on about what had happened. Raimundo had barely gone through three hallways before the morbidly obese ninja began crashing towards him, bellowing in his immense fury. Without the Serpent's Tail, Tubbimura had been forced to simply use his overpowering strength to smash his way through the walls, which were surprisingly thin and weak.
"Fee fi fo fum!" Tubbimura roared. His voice seemed to be coming from directly behind Rai. "I smell the blood of a Brazilian man! Be he live or be dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread!" There was a loud grunt, and he added, "And I will take his Shen Gong Wu and beat him with them!"
Raimundo stepped through a wall and fell through a floor, always feeling Tubbimura just at his heels. He picked up the pace, trying to put some distance between himself and his opponent. At one point, he was going so fast that he could barely see where he was going. Only his focus on the Serpent's Tail kept him from losing his intangibility power and smacking into a wall.
Unfortunately, it was at that point that Lawyer-bot 2.0 stepped in front of him, growing to its full size using the magic of the Changing Chopsticks. Its metal claws wrapped around his Serpent's Tail and his Shroud of Shadows, yanking them both from his hands while simultaneously head-butting him backwards onto the floor.
"I calculated that you would make a turn at this intersection and planned accordingly." The robot explained as he shrunk Raimundo down.
Tubbimura came barreling towards them, holding a single hira shuriken in both hands. The Lawyer-bot waited until he was upon them before activating the Changing Chopsticks. But the ninja was clever, and tossed his shuriken at that exact moment. The star collided with the Shen Gong Wu's magical light, sending the beam back at the robot. It shrunk down to Raimundo's size, along with all three of its Shen Gong Wu.
"Victory is mine!" Tubbimura laughed gutturally. He picked up his two tiny opponents and placed them in a tiny pouch.
"Oh, yeah?" Raimundo muttered from inside the pouch. "You still have to find the center of the maze and get on the pedestal first. And I bet you can't do that, now can you?"
Tubbimura grinned, although Raimundo couldn't see it. "I will win, for my clan is one with the shadows!"
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The water was knee-deep and most everyone was losing their minds with fear. Omi was calm, since he was at home in water. Clay didn't mind, because he was usually serene almost the point of dopiness. Kimiko didn't mind, because she was certain that if she could just jump a few feet higher, she could plug up the holes in the walls with a bit of cotton.
"Can't you turn into a flotation device?" Jack demanded of the Lawyer-bot.
The robot shrugged. "What do I look like? The Chameleon-bot?"
He turned to Wuya. "Do something!"
"What can I do?" Wuya retorted. "I have no Serpent's Tail! I have no Reversing Mirror! I-I have no Shen Gong Wu at all, thanks to you and your baffling incompetence! Why, if I--,"
"Oh, be quiet!" Katnappe snapped.
"Stop with all the yelling!" Vlad demanded.
"Gimme a boost!" Kimiko yelled, unnecessarily loud.
Clay lifted Kimiko into the air. "Is this satisfactory?" He asked with a grunt.
"No!" Kimiko said. "Higher."
Clay struggled to lift her up even more. His arms were full extended and were now shaking. "You…you ought to lay off the pocky!"
Kimiko managed to stuff the holes in the ceiling with cotton, temporarily halting the flow of water. Of course, that solution would only last for a few minutes at best, but that was at least enough time to figure out to get rid of all the water.
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Tubbimura had perfected the Long Distance Tippy-Toe Ninja Shuffle, much to Raimundo's chagrin. The overweight ninja was currently trotting at about thirty miles per hour, moving around corners at breakneck speed. Rai was being shaken around the little pouch along and he was starting to feel a bit queasy.
"I have seen the pedestal!" Tubbimura yelled. "Victory is—ow!"
The Lawyer-bot had changed one of its hands into an electric drill and had just given Tubbimura a tiny but painful jab to the side. That resulted in the ninja jumping a bit too hard, sending the pouch flipping away from his belt and onto the ground, at which point both of its occupants were able to escape.
Raimundo was the first to spring upwards – literally – with the Changing Chopsticks in his fingers. Tubbimura gave a bellow of frustration and charged at him. He stepped forward with just one foot and brandished the chopsticks around menacingly. One of them caught Tubbimura in his left nostril while the other poked him in the eye. The ninja staggered back, giving Raimundo enough time to shrink the ninja down to a more manageable size.
Rai hurried over to the pedestal in the center of the room. His eyes had gotten used to the dark, so he was able to avoid any ditches and obstacles on the ground.
"Yes! I made it!" Raimundo called as he jumped to the pedestal.
"Ahem!" An artificially-amplified voice said. Raimundo looked down only to see the Lawyer-bot already standing on the pedestal. By the time he noticed, it was too late. His foot came down hard on the robot's head. He crushed it as if it were a soda can…being crushed by Godzilla's…much larger brother Mike.
"Sorry, dude." Raimundo said, wincing.
"S'alright." The robot's tiny head chirped. "I still won anyway!"
Then, they all vanished, reappearing
