Star's Allies
Chapter 6 - Neural Nexus
"Where's Taranza!?" Magolor yelled to the robot, as he slammed his free hand to the ground, making magic projectiles shoot out to the 'bot he was fighting.
His other hand was still holding his shield, and because of that, his attacks aren't that effective compared to the thunder and rain the robot dealt.
Magolor scowled at his situation, and started to close in on the robot as an advantage, as he edged ever closer to the firing mecha.
Slowly but surely, his shield slowly whittled down by gunfire.
This is going to be dumb…
…
Magolor ran for his life to the machine, one hand holding his now barely functional shield and what looks like a much stronger attack on his other hand. As the 'bot started to step back to keep some distance, Magolor jumped in order to close the distance, as the robot stopped shooting.
Unfortunately, he forgot that he was in a moving ship. The robot stopped to deliver a punch to Magolor.
The winds were quite strong, too, at that height.
The ship turned and sped, and with the knockback from the 'bot, this leaves Magolor no time to react as he swung backwards to try and—
Clang!
Metal shuddered as Magolor caught on to the Lor's deck railings, his shield now completely out, with his attack now at its peak.
That certainly was risky, and his chest was definitely pounding.
"Hhhh…."
That had been way too close for comfort. Sure, he could probably float down, but he wasn't sure the robot would allow him to just float there unimpeded.
In fact, the rain of bullets still continued as Magolor hung on the edge of the railing.
It's a wonder how no bullets have hit him yet.
Wait, that wasn't a jin-
Pain shot through his fingers.
Magolor screeched in pain as his hand was demolished by a well placed shot. He was currently hanging on the Lor with one hand.
Ah, screw it. I'm taking another risk.
Magolor looked ahead of the Lor, and tried to visualise the path it'll take.
And then… Magolor was gone, not even a trace of him left on that railing, except for his blood.
The robot walked around to search for Magolor, kicking doors open as he goes.
The searing pain shooting through Magolor right now was terrible.
He managed to at least bandage his hand, but it was out of commission for the next few days or so… unless he could get quick healing, which is rare in most cases.
The robot kicked open more doors out on the deck as Magolor prepared his ship's controls on the ready.
I really hope this works…
Magolor flipped his ship a full 180 degrees upside down.
The robot fell, and Magolor turned his ship upright again.
The robot managed to stay on the hull with its physique, but it had managed to land on top of a cannon, which Magolor wanted.
This was his chance.
"Full power, maximum charge…."
The power output went nuts.
As the robot climbed ever closer to the top, Magolor shot his star cannon.
Whung...!
The robot was sent to the ground with tonnes of star power. A crater formed around the robot as it crash landed on the wintry lands below.
…
CRASH!
Taranza woke up.
Looked around him to see a ruined landscape.
"Shit…" Taranza swore as he looked around for a sign of life.
That crash sound earlier might help…
Taranza ran as he tried to pinpoint the location of the crash, trying to locate his way back to 'lor. Thankfully, lights were a big help.
Taranza raced off to the distance.
…
Sooner than usual, he made his way back to find Magolor panting, his hand bandaged, and himself walking to the robot in an evenly calm pace.
Taranza approached the wizard.
"Hey, sorry I'm late…"
"Where were you, actually?" Magolor stopped.
"I was knocked out, mate! This robot," Taranza pointed, "managed to knock me out!"
"Well that explains why you took so long to get here…"
Taranza directed his eyes to Magolor's shot hand.
"What happened to your hand?"
"Shot by this piece of trash." Magolor commented, kicking the robot as he said so.
"Well, we'll be fine on the fighting department."
"If you sa-"
Whirr…
The robot's hatch opened to reveal an awake Susie in the pilot seat.
This Susie, however, looked down and mopey, her eyes glazed over, wearing a helmet attached to a billion wires leading back to the robot.
"Uh...hi?" Taranza greeted.
"I don't think she's here to say hi," Magolor quipped, as he took on a battle stance.
In response, Susie moved erratically, as she shot her blaster at the duo. It looked like it was a puppet show, with an extremely realistic doll being the main focus. Susie's arms were quite literally connected to the helmet and her legs were too. She was a living puppet.
"Well, why don't we-mffff!"
Susie threw cash at Magolor's face. As Magolor tried to remove the accursed paper now all over his face, Susie delivered a punch straight between his eyes. Taranza jumped in to help, but was shot in the thigh with Susie's laser pistol. It didn't faze Taranza as he went on and dragged Magolor off some few meters.
With that, both magicians held their respective sore spots and pushed on. "Hupla!" Taranza presented mid-battle.
Taranza made a directional trampoline. As he enticed Magolor to come and shoot at the mirror-like web, Magolor did so, and now Taranza is sending attacks from a safe location (namely, the surrounding rocks or trees). His mirror were angled enough to hit Susie.
As the two pummeled the iron menace using their witchcraft, the robot spoke.
...
"Don't continue in this journey." Susie's eyes flared purplish-black as she stopped for a second to deliver that message.
"What?" This was new. Magolor expressed shock as his past experience told him nothing of communication. It looked like she was corrupted too; shouldn't she not be able to talk, based on Kirby's account?
"Terrible fate awaits you by the name of the heart. Do not progress further."
"How about no thanks!?" Taranza answered, firing multiple web shots.
"Unacceptable. This is a warning. Do not progress."
Yeah, no.
This was the consensus that Magolor and Taranza both came up with.
…
As both continued their battle, they noticed Susie wasn't falling down or taking any damage. Past attacks did not bruise nor draw blood from her.
She was completely unfazed by Taranza and Magolor's attacks!
Confusion rolled in.
"Is she just brushing those off or does she have invincibility?"
"No, I think we're doing something wrong here…"
Susie kept on attacking the duo, leaving no time for thoughts as they were forced back into a battle.
Rockets started flying from the robot behind Susie, though it lay immobile against the dirt. The flying missiles shot at their targets, as Magolor dived for cover and Taranza kept on firing, despite all the guns aimed at them.
"I'm going to shoot a black hole at her!"
Taranza whirled his head to Magolor. "You're gonna WHAT!?"
Magolor readied the spell with his one hand.
astral stars high above return all to nil-
Magolor's hands (both shot and in working condition) glowed purple as he threw the pocket-sized black hole.
Taranza evacuated the area as best as he could, trying to get behind the robot.
The black hole expanded and ate away the bullets and rockets, and Magolor closed the hole a second later, fainting in the process.
The black hole dissipated into purple mist, as Taranza jumped on the robot behind Susie and webbed up the exit points of its guns. Susie aimed her guns at Taranza. One shot nailed one of his hands, but he ignored it as another long web pieced together at his remaining hands and slung Susie into the robot with a smack, effectively creating a webbed prison for the two entities who now couldn't do anything.
Taranza huffed as he stared at Magolor's hands, still glowing purple.
"What attack was that…?"
Magolor returned to his mind's solace as he stepped onto the floor of his ship.
Another Magolor came, wispy as one could look, as they both sat on a chair.
The two started arguing.
"I had to use that branch of magic!"
Magolor slammed his hand on the paper-filled desk, as he held one up.
"That magic is forbidden! It's the same one they're using!"
"I know, so that's why I'm researching them! So that we can gain advantage over Jamba!"
Multiple papers have something written on them. On closer inspection, they all wrote of one thing; a purple heart foretold to awaken on use. Of course, they were all cryptic, which didn't help Magolor at all.
The other Magolor's face turned upside down, revealing an overly large eye staring back at Magolor.
"Look, Jamba will come, and we can't prevent that. Kirby needs to kill the damn thing, and they took Kirby!"
"They're playing it too safe… And Kirby's crucial here… So we plan now, but can we not use the same magic they're using!? It doesn't feel right…"
Magolor sighed, as he stood up.
"I'll try, soul. I can't guarantee it, but I'll try."
Magolor exits the copy of his ship to the cold snow outside.
"No. We'll try. We did some good together, after all."
The other Magolor went back as he focused his attention to the faux ship's panels and papers strung around the room.
Taranza has been standing over the robot for what seems like hours now. The sun had risen up; the day begun; and Taranza was already tired after the bullet hell Susie threw at him.
Magolor was still out cold, too. That didn't help with things, especially when his hands started to glow purple like when he was possessed with the dark heart, spewing that crazy attack…
Susie was still tied to the metal shell, as he stood watch over the machine looking at Susie, who returned his gaze with the same expression he saw before. He had no idea how to dismantle the corruption this time. 'The best option would be to get Magolor to help… if he's still there,' Taranza planned, as he started daydreaming, looking at the clouds as Susie's employees exited the company ship and started to look at their boss tied up beside a new robot they did not recognise.
Murmurs started to ring across the field.
"This does not look good for our company…"
"The boss looks like she's gone a full day without sleep!"
"This spider is trying to do something to her!" One particular employee assumed.
Magolor, wake up now, please. I can handle multiple foes, but not office workers.
…
Ah, there he is.
Taranza stepped down from his position to Magolor as the egg stirred.
"That went well…"
Taranza shook Magolor.
"What magic was that? Seriously?" Taranza asked, worried.
"The same type of magic our enemies use. Corruption."
"I was worried, dude!" Taranza yelled. "What are your worrying for? It's harmless, just requires a lot of power. It's the most dubious type of magic, so I can see your point…" Magolor brushed it off with this long explanation.
Taranza did not get his explanation. He wasn't that versed into magic. His worry comes from his concern for Magolor's safety during this "corruption" magic, worried that he'll fall victim like the dark heart victims. It glowed the same purple and black as did the hearts, after all.
…
"Anyways… you've handled it while I was asleep, right? Nice job, by the way."
Susie, who was still stuck to the metal, didn't react.
"Yeah, about that... " Taranza started, "I don't actually know how to remove the corruption.
"What do you mean? Didn't it exit from the victim like usual?"
"Uh, well, here's the fun part. No. I didn't want to compromise Susie as well, so here we are."
Magolor took a glance at Susie, who still had glazed eyes.
"Time to get working, I suppose."
Magolor climbed on top of the metal and started to look at the wires from Susie's head to the robot itself.
It was a complicated mess.
Taranza, who saw even Magolor struggling at the mess of cables. "Right!" Taranza pointed to the crowd of employees. "Who's good at wiring, electricity, and all the general sciency stuff!?"
A few people raised their hands. "Help this nerd here do this puzzle!"
The few technicians or so in Susie's crew stepped up to help Magolor.
Magolor opened the Metal General up, as Taranza removed the web in that location.
Inside was a bigger jumble of wire. One particular thing though, was that this time, it formed a core around something. Something acted as a power source, and removing that would help. He had a guess as to what actually is covered by the wires down there.
"Right, we are going to remove the inside wires, but be careful; there's some dark magic in there, and it may do something to you. I'd rather not risk touching it," Magolor warned, as he dove in the 'bot to untangle the wire mess. The technicians decided to leave that to Magolor as they worked on the surface wires.
Susie was still in the deep dark as her emotions amplified to a thousand, exerting pressure to her as she crumbled down with memories around her. A cloud of hope lingers in her mind, and even though she was in hell right now, and that cloud must be somewhere.
Even if pain shot at her from all angles as her mind breaks down during the first part.
Her mind focused down on one thing as dark surrounded her in every direction.
Crumble.
"An exit…"
There was a door.
Not that big of a door, but it had some interesting features.
This door cracked and crumbled under some sort of imaginary weight. Susie ran towards the door. It was a red door, with a winged heart emblem embezzled on its face. The door had multiple cracks on it.
flashes of her parents enticing her to give up
Susie tried to pull out a gun, which didn't appear on her person.
Fun.
The door cracked more, and light shone through the holes of the cracks.
Susie stared at this. What sort of sad rescue is this!?
it isn't a rescue, it's your demise
She decided to break out herself.
NO
Pain shot through her head. Memories flooded her head, amplified to crush her. She fell to the ground, struggling to crawl to the door. It was even worse now. Before, it was simple, constant pain. Now, it was devastatingly painful, almost like the first one, back when her family was shown.
The spark lit a fire that the corruption takes good note of, and then bombards her with emotion until she can't handle it anymore, like a bottle spilling its contents when filled to the brim.
The pain kept her down as the door slowly cracked more, allowing more light to pass through.
She kept pushing on. She approached the door and leaned against it, allowing the door to move slightly. As the door cracked further, the ease to be pushed on increased.
Another crack allowed the door to move slightly more.
A single push yielded her more space to go through.
Soon, the door opened under the cracks, and it fell like leaves once Susie was through.
The mental pain slowly disappeared. Memories came back like normal. She turned back to the darkness. Multiple pictures crowded the entry.
Newer ones crowded her in the light, as she watched video after video of the same events, but told in a completely different manner.
Her mother was caring. Her father cared, and still cared even after Star Dream became his obsession.
Their smiling faces etched on Susie's mind.
...
All she saw of the memories back there were exaggerations. They didn't happen at all. It was like a bad dream.
Flashes of true events bounced inside her head, as they circled around Susie.
Susie gave it a thought for a moment.
She wanted to show the old man a lesson, yes, but by using her mother as a prompt?
I don't really get that. Mother was kind to her even before I left for the planets to be with her dad. Even until she died, she still loved me.
Even dad was still nice to me before Star Dream ruined him. He still remembered, just too entranced by the machination that was Star Dream to care.
I suppose I was just caught up in the moment. That immense feeling I felt wasn't just coincidence, too...
Looking back at it, it may have jerked an emotion or two, unprepared to see those settings again, to see her dead parents again. It was awkward, maybe the slightest bit teary eyed.
But that was enough for whatever took hold of her to exploit the small emotional state she went through for that split second, times a thousand.
Enough to make her fall under the spell of… whatever she was forced to eat, to forget reason.
…
Well, it might've also come from her dad's obsession of furthering his company… which undoubtedly got passed down to her...
She might've been a tad bit heavy on gathering money… but isn't that the point of a company? To give products and receive pay?
Her company isn't going to crash, and she'll get out!
She giggled, having just thought of that. Eventually, it died down. Susie returned to her normal, serious self.
What matters now is that she managed to get out of that hellhole. Now, where's the exit…?
Oh.
A mass of strings made a barrier to an even stronger light.
It looked like cables, actually.
Thos cables are slowly being stripped away from the door, rearranging themselves as the different colors connected to different ports.
A puzzling situation.
…
She had to get closer. Figure out this mess.
There were different color ports, which the cables are connected to, and different colored wires, which correspond to the ports.
It wasn't hard to put two and two together.
Susie tried to move a cable herself, which she connected to the same color port.
She did the same on the other side.
The cable disappeared from her view, as she placed the jack into the same color.
Bingo.
The technicians and electricians were still struggling. Magolor had a headache now, trying to unjumble the wires. Taranza brought them refreshments every now and then, as he played support to the team of puzzlers.
"Wait, it's rearranging itself," one of the electricians said, as he dropped down the robot.
"What?" The others took a look.
True to the electrician's word, the cable floated, and connected to a different port. All without his input.
At least, that's the outside wire.
Magolor checked back at the inside.
It was still a giant ball.
"Well, at least we don't have to do two…"
Magolor took a look back at the rearrangement of the wires outside. They all correspond to the same color port.
Magolor noticed this, and he started trying to unjumble the inside, when all of a sudden, the wires inside the robot exploded, leaving a small, dark heart inside the robot, clattering in the metal.
The metal itself slowly went away, and Magolor warned the people to step away from the site, as he himself stood up and brushed off the dust from his person.
Unlike last time, what if he doesn't destroy it…?
Susie had been going at this puzzle for quite a while. She just had to connect the last few lines and…
The last wire was gone, and Susie ran towards the now blinding light.
As she stirred, she thought she heard some sort of explosion happening in the background.
Grass and web greeted her as her eyes opened back up.
"Welcome back to the real world!" Magolor shouted from a safe distance away. Taranza smiled at her.
"Get me out of here already!"
"Alright, fine, fine…" Taranza volunteered, as he walked to Susie and untied her.
The heart laid there untouched as the two went a good distance away. The heart suddenly floated up, this time not cracked, just… blinking heavily.
It rose into the air and flew towards a seemingly random direction. Magolor took note of this. Jumped in joy, as he had finally found a good lead again.
With direction noted and the team back, Magolor headed back to the Lor as they begin to set sail, following the speeding heart, now unseen by the travellers.
The Lor had been going at it for hours. Magolor was fast asleep, and so was Taranza. They do need their rest, after all.
Taranza could not sleep. He was wide awake. Thus, he decided to entertain himself by snooping around Magolor's things.
As he looked at Magolor's possessions, his papers and notes were the most interesting things Taranza viewed.
Filed on a cabinet near where Magolor slept is the papers once scattered about the landscape where Magolor talked to himself. Of course, Taranza did not know that, and began to read.
The musty papers tells a story.
It told of a story where a long lost civilization revered a god.
A story which quickly turns dark.
This god was named Termina.
It was he who caused destruction in the multiple worlds he rampaged through, uncontrollable.
He spread bloodshed in those planets, who turned empty once he was done. Word was, he threw a moon so hard it broke the planet's core and froze the planet completely. This became known as Shiver Star.
Termina's rampage would continue for another few thousand years until the civilization enacted upon a seal which sealed him inside the Jamba heart, a powerful seal based on care and love for one another.
Termina turned this around when he was sealed, corrupting the heart from inside out. Fearing more trouble, the ancients chipped off the heart into shards and carefully stowed them away.
The heart's pieces was said to be able to piece together the Jamba heart back together and produce more corruption on its own.
A couple of notes lay where "corruption" was mentioned.
Magolor had been studying his magic seriously ever since his betrayal, and he is at least knowledgeable in the study.
To find the word corruption in the story was not good.
Magolor's notes wrote a detailed description of the corruption.
"Corruption is the branch of magic wherein suggestion, emotion, and amplification of mental or physical power are generally used. It can lay waste to both mental and physical health.
Your feelings, however small they may be, might be enough to incapacitate you and make you vulnerable to suggestion.
Suggestion can make your body do things it would not do. Change it with powerful or different entities. It can amplify, yet rid you of control as you become a spectator to their little show.
The best way to counter this is to already have resolution. To have closure is the best medicine for this. If you are unaffected, though you may be in shock for a few milliseconds when the transition of magic hits you, you will see logic or at least be able to fight back."
This note lay upon the old paper, locked behind a cabinet. It was what Magolor initially learned, yes, but he had not delved deeper until Kirby beat some sense to him.
To find 'void' in the study of this magic was not comforting.
It mentioned everything Magolor now knows about Jamba, however.
It was a goldmine of information they needed.
Taranza returned the papers back to its original place. He now knew what they were facing.
Jamba.
Taranza went back to his room and tried to sleep after he finished a quick read of the collection of passages.
Susie sat in her office, making changes and plans to the company's views and policy.
She decided to not only make products for profit, but to also give the public useful things at a cheaper price.
It might hurt their stock and economy for a bit, but they'll make it.
As for the company policy…
Susie was having trouble on that one.
She had based it off her father's company. Well, one or two rules…
She wasn't really a rulemaker. More of a rulebreaker. She rebelled against her dad, and tried to steal Star Dream. That went amazing. She still remembered Pinky knocking her father out from that golden robot.
Well, policy's still changing.
"Ah! What about…"
Susie went back into writing ideas, and finalizing them on paper.
The employees were mostly happy at this new change in their boss as she presented her new plan the next day. The robots… were deactivated, so they weren't happy at all. Susie was going to invest in new ones, and that'll help with her plans for the future!
The two ships sailed across the sky for another few days or so. As they began their routines of stopping for things, Magolor managed to get more Energy Spheres back to the ship. It involved bees… with spears!
Thankfully, the bees weren't hostile, and they happily handed Magolor the spheres in exchange for some new, sharper spears.
They had all ten of the spheres in the area now, and Magolor didn't sense anymore using his vision and the ship's radar (Magolor had installed one), so they stopped less. Susie's still stopped more, but they're going for recreational purposes now.
Somehow, Bandana was still able to send them supplies every week or so, but this time in a smaller crate.
It contained less, too.
"It was for convenience!" he said, as King Dedede had not known where they are and decided to send his team up the mountain to find the ship.
It was cold, half wet, and the dees did not get good pay. So, they protested, having to carry a giant box up the mountain.
Dedede opted for a smaller box instead, sending his troops up the mountain… again.
As the environment slowly turned from icy mountains to a small canyon, the ships docked at this new environment.
Susie's employees took another breath of fresh air as they walked on the soil and sand.
Magolor was still cooped up in researching (and healing his shot hand), as Taranza went outside to enjoy the sun.
Susie was also doing her work… outside. It wasn't practical, but she still got her job done. She had been revising the company's mission and vision, as she asked for opinions from her employees. It was a collaborative task; everyone pitched in at least one idea.
Taranza sat down on the edge of a small cliff the ships were docked to and he enjoyed the breeze the wind gave him.
Nature was kind today, proven by the clear skies, calm wind, and a warm sun.
Sectonia would've enjoyed this.
Taranza imagined how she would react to this breath-taking view, high up in the canyon top, sitting by the edge, and admiring the sight.
It was another break day, and he'll enjoy it to its fullest.
A few days after the incident, they were back in tip top shape.
Rest did indeed help their troubles after all, and relaxation was the exact medicine Magolor and Taranza needed to recuperate from the past week or so. The fights have been getting to both of them…
Susie was still lounging, thinking of improvements to her now much better company. Breaks were more often, and it seemed to encourage the employees more, so why not?
Overall, the team had been going great, bathing in the sun and watching the view of the massive ridges and canyons with a shining sunset just below the horizon.
Rest was a good thing.
Taranza was currently doing it, sleeping on the warm rock of the cliff.
Magolor even stopped locking himself in the Lor and enjoyed the morning sun today.
This was one interesting day, for sure.
Magolor looked across the canyon, over to the other side.
Their ships had been docked by the canyon cliffs for a long while now; should they move it again?
They hadn't been making progress on actually eliminating Jamba Hearts, after all.
"I want more holidays…" Magolor groaned as he reluctantly headed back to the Starcutter and began advancing across the land once more.
"Oh? We're moving?" Susie noticed. "Pack your things! We're heading for a wild ride!"
Susie's ship also followed.
…
Taranza had been asleep on the cliff rock. He was also now left behind.
As he woke up from his nap, he noticed a lack of ships in his area.
"Guys?"
"Don't tell me you've left me again…"
One embarrassing mistake and turn-around later, Taranza was back on ship, irate at Magolor.
"I'm sorry…"
"Yeah, I know.. but could you not leave me this time!?"
Taranza sighed.
"Fine, fine…" His mood bounced back. "So! Where we heading?"
"Actually, I'm just scouting…"
Magolor pointed to the ship's map, as he began searching for notable things.
"What about this circle thing?"
Taranza pointed out a strange structure at the map. It was a circle. Well, more of an oval…
"Looks like a ruin of some sort," Taranza noted by it's corroded sides.
"Miiight be interesting… let's make a pit stop then?"
"Dude, it's your ship."
Magolor beeped through the intercom.
"We're heading to a circular structure! Just follow me!"
His intercom was loud. Very loud.
It was also quite good at ship-to-ship communication.
Susie heard that message loud and clear.
The two ships headed to the circular ruin.
Upon landing, it was not just a circular ruin. It was, in fact, a colosseum. A very large colosseum. On the very edge of the building, lay a stone tablet investigated by the curious travellers.
"The two knights of valor will fight here. Prepare your swords." Magolor read the tablet with ease. Only three came into this colosseum today, and that was them. Who was the "two"?
Magolor had a few guesses.
…
Susie wondered for a moment. What could this mean? She had looked at the tablet itself, written in modern language, and yet it seemed as old as the ruin itself.
Very mysterious.
Taranza already looked shaken by the tablet itself, as if he knew what is going to happen.
Maybe it had some clue? Two knights...
rumble rumble crack rumble
All three turned around at the ground rumbling on the centre of the colosseum.
The earth shattered as the two knights rose behind them. Two dark hearts rising up as well. Seems like the one from a few days ago joined the group too, as one of them is noticeably larger compared to the other.
The ship-dwellers stood on guard.
Susie EX, Lost Mind
Affected by the power of the Jamba Heart, she falls to the mass amplification of memory alteration, and due to past events, have had her mind connected to a robot from that era. She resisted the hold of this temptation enough to not fall completely, and thus needed to be controlled by the heart directly for her to willingly attack others. In truth,truth she has half buried her past with her father and had no qualms with her mother, but these moments were isolated as she fell to the dark heart.
AN:
Conclusion to Susie. Next up, two knights!
Didn't want to make a Taranza copy, so I decided to go with this route instead.
General knowledge of Jamba is finally given, and so I can reference this piece when I fail to deliver on the dark heart moments.
Pretty nice chapter, I'd say.
My naming tendencies will probably affect chapter names once I find a good word.
Other than that, I'd like to thank the critiques and comments, people gave me, as well as the faves and follows.
icanwrite13: People need some help once in a while. Even Magolor. Also, thanks for your feedback on the bosses!
Kirbzarmon: Hm. Interesting to take note of. I'd rather have the group take on a fun time anyways… too bad the world's going to end, so fights are unavoidable. I'll just need to tweak my approach to bosses.
rachael. : Hey, thanks! Hyness is doing just fine. Very peachy.
Winterdargon: I'm not that well versed into Planet Robobot, actually. I suppose I did mess up slightly last chapter, but hopefully this chapter covers that mishap. Thanks for the info! I'll try to get my writing better as time goes on.