Chapter Fourteen: The Weapon
"Good lord, Coyle...!" Master Mummy stared up at the mechanical abomination hanging above them all. "You created this thing?"
Arachnilok raised itself higher, using two of its ARMS for support, while the other four - and Mimi's own - each raised up into the air, as if it was preparing for a fight. The claw-like ends of each silk ARM began to spin one-by-one.
Okay, don't panic... Ribbon Girl worried to herself, beginning to sweat. Mimi's got those mirror-shield gloves - a white one and the broken one, it seems. So as long as we don't start throwing punches without thinking we-
The upper left ARM of Arachnilok spun into Skully.
...What? Ribbon Girl trembled. O-Okay, so Mimi has the mirrors, a-and then the Hedlok-thing has Skullys on one-side and-
The middle left ARM of Arachnilok spun into a Thunderbird.
Ribbon Girl felt her heart sink. She continued to watch, dumbfounded, just as all her co-fighters did, as Arachnilok continued to equip entirely different gloves on each of its ARMS. A Boomerang, an Ice Dragon, a Retorcher, a Biffler... Its arsenal was diverse.
And finally, as if finishing in its startup, Arachnilok let out a chilling robotic laugh.
"COME AT ME, BRO!" Kid Cobra squealed, sending a Slamamander at it. Mimicutie's left ARM quickly rose up and ensured his attack would collide with her mirror. It sent back at lightning speed, harshly smacking Kid Cobra to the floor.
"Enough." Coyle muttered, walking forward slowly. Arachnilok seemed to watch her intently. "I am your creator!" She spoke, commandingly. "You were my design and you follow my order!" She broadened her shoulders, looking as imposing as she could be. "And I order you to release the girl and deactivate!"
Arachnilok stared at her with its eight piercing-red eyes. After a brief pause, its fangs quickly shunted out of the way of its mouth - the outer ones striking further to the sides, and the inner ones turning downwards. It's jaw lowered quickly and a splittering of cinders began to build up in its mouth.
"SCATTER!" Coyle shouted quickly, before grabbing Ribbon Girl by the back of her collar and jumping the two of them behind a nearby concessions stand. The other fighters each divided for similar cover.
A thick and volatile fireball launched from it's gaping maw and destroyed the pavement where Coyle had been standing. Arachnilok turned around and began to launch more fireballs - again and again, in rapid succession - at the Spring Launcher and nearby Ribbon Twister, causing massive structural damage to both.
Coyle watched from behind the concessions stand. "This is bad... This is really bad."
"What the hell is that thing?!" Ribbon Girl grunted through her teeth, as quietly as she could.
"Hm?" Coyle looked at her from over her shoulder. "Shoot, I thought I grabbed Min Min..." She turned back to watch the carnage again. "It was an experimental Hedlok evolution. I thought it was a little... Overpowered, so I shut it away where it wouldn't be used."
" Why didn't you just destroy it?! " Ribbon Girl angrily questioned.
Coyle rolled her eyes - now was no time to focus on the past.
Ribbon Girl sat on the pavement, pressing her back to the concessions stand. She inhaled deeply, her hands over her face, trying to calm herself. "Okay, so, what do we do to stop it?"
Arachnilok was moving on through the park now, continuing its destruction over to the Twintelle Teacups and Brass Braker - a large pendulum ride shaped with a championship belt theme. Coyle turned again to Ribbon Girl. "I have an idea, but we need to find your girlfriend."
Doing her best to stay calm, Ribbon Girl nodded and, with some hesitation, carefully peered over the stand. "I think she jumped behind the hedge there..."
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Min Min and Kid Cobra watched through the leaves of the bush they hid behind. "Aw hell, man..." Kid Cobra sighed. "She's really wreckin' up the place!"
"No kidding..." Min Min mumbled. "She was bad enough as some copycat, but now she's gone all Super Paper Mario on us. Very Super Paper Mario, actually - that's kinda weird, right?"
"Beats me dawg, I don't play games where ya gotta read a lot."
"Figures." She sighed. "Is she even in control of that thing, though? Coyle was shouting at it like it was in control."
"Probably somewhere in between, dawg. Why else would it smash up the park?"
"Makes sense." She sighed and sat to the ground. "I dunno if we can stop her, man. I'm already worn out."
"Whaaaat?!" He turned to face her again, now. "We've just started, dawg!"
"Maybe you have!" She laughed. "I just held a rollercoaster together so the cart didn't fly off into the sky. That's enough of a work out on its own." Min Min looked to her wrist again - it hurt like all hell, but it was hard to determine much physical damage on sheer ramen or dragon scale. But putting that much stress on an ARM, dragon or otherwise? That was never a good idea.
"Take a sec to chill out then, sis." Kid Cobra peered through the bushes again. "The rest of us can take this one. I just hope she don't target the King before we do - I still wanna get a ride on that, man."
"So how exactly do you think we stop her...?" Min Min sighed, worried. "We had enough problem with Hedlok - and this thing has like two more ARMS and shoots fireballs wayyy faster."
"And its ARMS are all diff gloves, too." Kid Cobra mumbled. "Shits lookin' dire, yo." He grimaced at the sight of a fireball shooting upward and collapsing The Scientific Error from its position high above, where it then fall straight down atop Master Mummy's Haunted Mansion. " Oof. "
"It's gotta have a weakspot..." Min Min nodded. "Big monster things always do, right?"
"OH!" Kid Cobra jumped. "The body! "
"...You mean Mimi?"
"Yeah, dawg! We just gotta rough her up there and the whole thing prob' dies. Why else would it go an' glomp her like that? It needs her!"
"I dunno..." Min Min chewed her lip nervously. "We'd probably have to hurt Mimi a lot for that."
"Yeah! We kill her, it dies too. Easy!"
Min Min glared at him from the corner of her eye. "We aren't killing Mimi!" In honesty, if it were the only option, she'd take it. But Ribbon Girl certainly wouldn't agree to that - not in a million years.
Kid Cobra whined. "Why not? She's been tryin' to kill everyone here!"
Min Min sighed. "Do you see her out there, at all...?"
"No... She musta gone off somewhere else or- AH!" Kid Cobra jumped up suddenly with a gasp.
"Will you shut up already?!" Coyle insisted, as she and Ribbon Girl had just slipped behind the bush with them, startling him.
"Hey hun!" Min Min smiled.
"Hey..." Ribbon Girl sighed, with a relieved smile on her face. She knew Min Min would be alright split up from them for, like, two minutes - but it was still a relief to see her okay.
"Yo, doc!" Kid Cobra chimed. "If we kill babygirl, will the head fall off?"
" What?! " Ribbon Girl gasped. "We are not killing Mimicutie, that's out of the question!"
"Though, for the record? It would work, yes." Coyle shrugged.
Ribbon Girl glared at her. "We are not killing her. Seriously, guys?"
"I don't think we'll need to resort to that." Coyle smiled softly. "Arachnilok never went past a particular prototype stage, so it still has some weaknesses that were never ironed out. Mimi seems to have some technical knowledge - enough to build an electromagnet, find which servers she needed, etc. etc., but I doubt she'd know enough to make the necessary alterations."
"Okay, great!" Ribbon Girl smiled, relieved. The very last thing she wanted to do was kill Mimicutie - she was so close to getting through to her, she knew it. And she would never want something like that on her conscious, anyway. "So how do we stop her?"
Coyle turned to Min Min, with a smile. "How's that Dragon ARM doing?"
Min Min blinked at her. "...Badly? Very badly, actually. I just held a rollercoaster together with it, I don't think I can bring back the scales for a while! "
"Well you're going to have to." Coyle sighed. "Arachnilok's ARMS are made of woven silk. It's stronger than it looks, believe me, but it can be cut through. All we'd need is a sufficiently strong enough Dragon laser - if Min Min charges her dragon ARM as high as she can, that might be enough."
Min Min stared blankly at her. "I can't even bring my dragon ARM back right now, and you want me to charge it to the max for each of those six ARMS?!"
"Yes." Coyle nodded, determined. "But first we have to take care of its shield. The ARM weakness wasn't something I fixed, but it was something I took measures to protect. The head runs a small invisible shield around each of the ARMS, so we'll need to deactivate the shield for the laser to cut through them."
"And how do we do that...?" Ribbon Girl asked. Min Min gave her a sour look for even considering this plan when her dragon ARM was very clearly out of commission for the time being.
"The electrical current from any charged electric ARM will do the job, as well as make all her ARMS limp. And it should deactivate the fireball emitter, so we won't have to worry about being blown to cinders while we chop her ARMS off. I think it's best we loop our ARMS over her and keep the charge as consistent as we can. That'll give Min Min some time to get her dragon going."
"Hnnnn... I really don't like this plan..." Min Min groaned. "This isn't gonna do permanent damage to me, right?"
"I'll get you all the best ARMS medical treatment I can once this is all over. We need you for this." Coyle looked at her with something of a trust in her eyes, like she actually felt she could count on Min Min for this.
Min Min sighed. "I'll try... "
Coyle extended a hand to to Min Min. "Mummy is used to the Megaton, so he can use your Megawatt for now."
Min Min nodded, before pressing her hand with the fingers of her other and gently turning it. A small disc appeared in her hand bearing the image of a Megawatt, which she then handed to Coyle.
Coyle turned to Kid Cobra. "You don't have any electrical ARMS and we don't have any other spares - so it looks like you'll be playing bait. "
"Awww whaaaaat!" He groaned. "Mannn, fine, but I better not get cooked out there!"
"Go find Mummy and Springtron while the rest of us get close to her. Tell them the plan and give Mummy the Megaton." Coyle passed the disc to Kid Cobra. "The faster you move, the more of your precious rides get saved."
"I'm on it!" Kid Cobra nodded, quickly slithering off in search of Master Mummy and Springtron.
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The Ninja Swing, Min Min's Dragon Dare, Mechanica's Choo Choo, Buster Lagoon, and Twintelle's Teacups all lay in ruin as Mimicutie, beneath the mask of Arachnilok, continued on her rampage. Most of Lola's Sweet Street was gone now. The tower to Helix's Stretch Drop was in flames. All around there was little but rubble and smoke.
Ribbon Girl, Min Min, and Dr. Coyle were much closer to her now, carefully watching from behind Springtron's Bumper Blitz.
"How's the ARM, Min Min?" Coyle asked quietly.
"Not great still, but..." She sighed. "I think I can get it to work."
"Atta girl!" Coyle smiled sweetly at her - a rare occasion, to be sure.
Master Mummy, Springtron, and Kid Cobra each quietly joined them being the bumper carts. "You sure this plan will work...?" Mummy muttered, unsure.
"It's the best chance we have." Coyle sighed. "Shy of killing her."
"Which we aren't going to do." Ribbon Girl glared again.
Coyle nudged Kid Cobra. "You're up."
"Right!" He nodded, punching his ARMS together in preparation. "Wish me l-"
"W-Wait, wait..." Ribbon Girl paused. She looked to the floor solemnly. "...I want to try talking to her first."
Coyle glared at her. "I tried to talk Arachnilok off, it didn't w-"
"No, I want to talk to her! " Ribbon Girl pleaded. She looked over toward the monster making its rampage. "I can get through to her, I know it! If she could choose to unhinge it... I mean, it's gotta be worth a shot, right?!"
"... Fine. " Coyle sighed. "Cobra - you jump in the second that thing turns on her again. Got it?"
With a nod from Kid Cobra, and a small kiss to Min Min's forehead, Ribbon Girl nervously made her approach.
Arachnilok turned back and forth between its two next options - progress over to Misango's Nature Safari, which almost certainly still had venerable wildlife in it? Or take down King Cobra, for massive destruction?
"H-Hey!" Ribbon Girl shouted.
Arachnilok turned on a dime, looking down at her, as Mimicutie's legs dangled from beneath.
Ribbon Girl gulped. "M-Mimi, please, isn't this enough...? You've won already! Y-You can stop now!"
Arachnilok continued to stare. Mimicutie wasn't saying anything from within, but she also wasn't attacking...
"I-I'm sorry, Mimi! I'm sorry for everything that the League put you and your family through! It wasn't fair to you a-and I'm not going to excuse the League for that!" She let out a small, nervous sigh. "I just really need you to stop now. If you do... Maybe we can still work something out for you. Y-You're young, and..." She chewed her lip. "...I just really don't like the thought of what they'll think of you for all this. They won't understand what you've been through."
Arachnilok's head moved forward somewhat, and an echo-y and distorted voice came from within. " d."
"B-But they might!" Ribbon Girl insisted, hoping she was getting through to her. "I-If you stop now, maybe I can get them to listen! I'm the champion of the League - that's gotta mean something to them, right?!"
The eight red eyes shined down on her like spotlights. " e?"
Ribbon Girl looked up at her with something of a sorrow in her eyes. "Because I feel sorry for you. A-And I know you're only doing all this because we hurt you."
Arachnilok remained unmoving once again. She stayed like this for quite a long time, even. But ultimately it seemed Mimicutie had already made up her mind. "... w."
Its fangs shot aside once again and its jaw unhinged. Ribbon Girl jumped back quickly, hoping to avoid the incoming blast, but it turned out no fireball came her way - a Slamamander sent Arachnilok flying back, landing it to the brick path beneath.
"Ya tried, sis!" Kid Coyle commented, landing beside her. "But we gotta stick to the plan now!"
Ribbon Girl sighed sadly. "R-Right..." She raised her ARMS reluctantly, ready for a fight.
The others each came out of hiding and joined up with them just as Arachnilok was getting back to its feet (well, ARMS). It let out another large roar before starting to swing its ARMS at them.
Skully to Coyle, barely dodged.
Boomerang to Mummy, blocked.
Ice Dragon to Cobra, dodged but then hit by a follow-up Biffler.
Retorcher to Ribbon Girl, blocked.
Skully, again, to Coyle. Hit.
Thunderbird to Springtron, blocked.
Ice Dragon to Mummy. Hit.
Boomerang to Cobra, dodged.
Skully to Ribbon Girl, dodged but hit by a follow-up Retorcher.
Biffler to Springtron. Hit.
The fight raged on for a while and Min Min hung back as best she could, doing her best to avoid incoming shots and stay out of the heat of things while she waited for her opportunity.
It was Coyle who set up the first of those opportunities, quickly slipping behind Arachnilok unseen and spinning her ARM around its shell. A burst of blue electricity soared through Arachnilok - and Mimicutie, within - from Coyle's Parabola. " NOW! " She shouted to the others.
Ribbon Girl hurriedly slipped her own ARM around Arachnilok too, before Mimicutie could realize what coyle was doing. She charged her Sparky, and the voltage coupled with Coyle's seemed enough - all eight ARMS fell to the floor, limp.
"C'MON, MIN MIN!" Coyle shouted, doing her best to keep her voltage up.
Min Min jumped forward, struck her left hand forward - a Dragon at its tip, ready and waiting - and began to imbue it with pressure. She tensed her muscles as hard as she could, but all she felt was pain.
Master Mummy swung his ARM around Arachnilok too, with the borrowed Megawatt at its tip. "Whenever you can, Min!" He nodded to her, assisting with the charge.
Min Min shut her eyes tightly, trying desperately to build up the dragon within. Come onnnn... Come onnnnnnn... Tiny green speckles began to glitter around the ramen. A-Almosttttt... Thereeeeee...
Arachnilok looked back and forth, unable to move. Mimicutie's legs from beneath began to kick side-to-side, as her ARMS hung lifelessly by her sides.
With a heavy grunt, Min Min's ARM bulked up into dragonhood. She let out a deep exhale, and quickly began to charge up energy within her glove. The cartoonish mouth of the Dragon began to splitter with cinders, getting hotter and hotter, until-
Min Min let loose, and a heavy stream of fire energy shot from out of her glove. It struck through the air right above Arachnilok's upper-right ARM. Min Min, struggling to keep it going, did her best to angle her ARM down more.
SLICE. Arachnilok's silk ARM - the one tipped with an Ice Dragon - fell to the floor.
Coyle grinned, and each of the others seemed relieved that this was working. Min Min focused as hard as she could muster, and kept the stream going. She angled further down again, slowly, until-
SLICE. Middle-right. The Retorcher was now no longer connected to Arachnilok's shell. Two down, four to go.
Min Min fell forward, panting heavily from the immense pain in her ARM. The stream had died and the scaling dragonskin had returned to starchy ramen.
It was clear Min Min would need some time to recharge again, and keeping their electrical assault on Mimicutie up wasn't going to be possible for a greatly long time. The three keeping her down quickly unravelled from her and jumped back.
Ribbon Girl skid over to Min Min and knelt down for her. "Are you okay?"
Min Min's chest heaved up and down as she gasped for air. "I-I'm fine, just... Just need to... Take a minute..."
"You're doing great, Min." Coyle smiled proudly. "You got two of 'em, there!"
Arachnilok roared as its ARMS - Mimicutie's included - awoke once again. It fired of hard with all ARMS in quick succession.
Biffler to Coyle. Hit, blinded.
Thunderbird to Ribbon Girl, dodged.
Boomerang curved through all of them, all dodged.
Skully to Master Mummy. Hit, poisoned.
A spinning Broken Mirror to Ribbon Girl. Hit.
Boomerang to Springtron, blocked.
Kid Cobra's Slamamander, sent returning from the White Mirror. Hit, blown back.
Master Mummy's Phoenix, sent returning from the Broken Mirror as Poison, blocked.
A fireball, somehow miraculously dodged by everyone.
After some time, it looked like it was finally a good opportunity for round two. Ribbon Girl shot forward this time, looping her ARM around Arachnilok's shell. Master Mummy followed up almost immediately, getting the voltage high enough before Mimicutie could react.
Coyle sung her Parabola forth in equal cooperation. " C'mon, Min Min! " She urged.
Min Min took a quick, deep inhale. She pointed her Dragon forward and sought that inner dragonhood once more. The aching was bad now, and attempting to charge it at all lead to a searing pain. But Min Min fought through it - she had a better idea, after last time, of exactly where to look for it. And before long, the deep green scales were back and the Dragon's mouth was foaming once more.
SLI- ...Hm. Min Min couldn't hold it for long enough there - it had only cut about three quarters of the way through the upper-left ARM.
The three wrapped around Mimicutie looked to the semi-connected ARM with worry, but kept the charge going for a moment. Min Min tried desperately, but it was far too early to bring it back once again.
Kid Cobra dashed to the ARM. He grabbed it by the glove-end, careful not to strike himself with her Skully, and gave it a heavy yank back. The first pull split another handful of silk strands at the cut. With one more great pull, Kid Cobra fell back on his ass as the ARM split off entirely.
"YES!" Coyle gleed, as she and the others jumped off one more. " HALFWAY THERE! "
Arachnilok dashed forward angrily, its ARMS swinging with an intense fury.
Thunderbird through to all of them. Dodged by Springtron, but a hit to each of the others.
Fireball to all, all-round miss.
Biffler to Master Mummy. Hit, blinded.
Boomerang curved through all of them. Hits all round, everyone is blown back.
Fireball to Min Min, blocked by Springtron diving-in just in time.
Fireball to Master Mummy. Hit, sent faaaar back in great pain.
Fireball to Coyle, blocked.
Fireball to Kid Cobra, barely dodged. Collided with Springtron's Bumper Blitz.
Biffler to Ribbon Girl. Hit, blinded.
Boomerang to Ribbon Girl. Hit, blown back.
Thunderbird to Springtron. Hit, lost ARMS.
Boomerang to Coyle, dodged a- huh?
Arachnilok's Boomerang ARM collided hard with the crumbling remains of Springtron's Bumper Blitz. It must have struck some of the exposed and damaged circuitry from within, however, as an electrical current was now soaring through its ARM and up to the eight eyed shell. Each of its ARMS had gone limp again, but the Boomerang was still stuck in the machinery, keeping that electrical current going.
The fighters watched in awe as Mimicutie was seemingly trapped. "Okay, we've got a moment to think here." Coyle mumbled.
"No thinking." Min Min grunted, getting to her feet from her protective kneel. "I'm ending this."
"Good luck." Coyle nodded. Ribbon Girl took a step back, concerned but hopeful.
Min Min pointed her left ARM forward, despite the difficulty in raising it at all. She blocked the pain out of her head entirely, chating Don't think! Don't think! Don't think! to herself repeatedly in her mind to keep her from paying any attention to the pain she was in.
With three heavy breaths preceding it, Min Min screamed as she forced her ARM into dragonhood. Tears streamed down her face as she quickly built up her blast, her ARM shaking back and forth unstable.
The beam shot out into a hefty stream of golden light, blasting toward the spot where Arachnilok's upper-left ARM had been. She forced herself to push downward, despite all voices in her head begging her to stop immediately.
SLICE. There goes the middle-left, the Thunderbird.
Just... A little... More... She was feeling beyond light headed now.
SLICE. There goes the lower-left, too. With the Boomerang gone, all that was left was the lower-right, with the Biffler.
The lower-left ARM, mind you, was the one that had been channeling the electrical energy from the bumper carts ride. Without it, Arachnilok was once again free, even with only three ARMS now.
Kid Cobra, Master Mummy, Springtron, and Dr. Coyle all jumped forward to continue the assault.
A hot breath escaped Min Min's mouth as she fell forward, landing flat on the ground, out cold for a moment.
"M-MIN MIN!" Ribbon Girl gasped, dashing over to her. She picked up her girlfriend carefully.
Min Min squinted her eyes open. "H-How many... Did I get...?"
Ribbon Girl looked back to the battle before them. "The Hedlok-thing only has one more, now."
Min Min, her eyes we and her breathing slow and deep, shut her eyes with a defeated look on her face. She pressed her right ARM to her left. "I can't get the last." Her left ARM had, of course, returned to ramen once again. But it was also limp and dead, like it was receiving an electrical current - just, of course, without the electrical current.
Ribbon Girl nodded. "Y-You over exerted yourself..." Her lip quivered. "You need to rest, I'll get you to the sidelines!" She did her best to prop Min Min up and help her to a more secluded place, away from Mimicutie's direct carnage.
Coyle looked over her shoulder at the two hobbling away. "Shit. Min Min's outta the fight."
"She did admirably." Master Mummy nodded.
"Agreed. I'll check on her when we're done here." Coyle dodged under the incoming Broken Mirror. The fight was drastically easier to manage for them now that Mimicutie was only down to three ARMS.
"So how do we take out the last ARM?" Kid Cobra grunted, slipping past another fireball.
Springtron, who had briefly dashed off over to the ruins of the Bumper Blitz, skid back over to the others with a giant piece of rubble in his ARMS.
"Ohhh, that'll do it! " Coyle grinned. The piece he held was a hefty chunk of rock with a sharp piece of jagged metal jutting out from it, almost like a massive blade. "You take the lead, Cobra!"
Kid Cobra slipped over to Springtron and picked up the rubble. It was heavy, and his ARMS were admittedly a little sore from his stream stunt still - but he had made it this far, hadn't he? No giving in now!
"Ready when you are, Coyle." Master Mummy nodded.
Coyle sent forth her Parabola and curved it around Arachnilok's shell. Master Mummy did the same in turn, and the three ARMS Mimicutie had left fell to the floor. Ribbon Girl dashed forward suddenly, rejoining the battle, and joint her Sparky with theirs.
Kid Cobra jumped high into the air and came down with the blade.
SL- ...Oh come on! That barely made it through!
The rubble was firmly lodged in the ARM, but still needed a bit of give. Kid Cobra's extra pushing just wasn't doing enough.
Coyle looked to Master Mummy, and he returned with a knowing nod. She quickly pulled back her ARM and prepared herself. Master Mummy pulled back too, leaving only Ribbon Girl to manage the shock - something she had to strain quite a bit to do.
With something of a battle cry, Coyle threw her hands forward and picked up Master Mummy. She spun him around in the air, extending him high up, and then slammed him down onto the stone part of the rubble. The blade fell through the ARM like butter.
SLICE. And that was it - Arachnilok was now little more than a fancy looking mask.
Cinders began to well up in Arachnilok's mouth.
Ah. Okay, maybe little more than a fancy mask that could still shoot fireballs.
The five of them narrowly avoided the three concurrent fireballs sent their way. Mimicutie was on her own two feet now, and her shining ARMS were up and ready for a fight.
"Don't you ever know when to quit?!" Coyle spat.
"'Least this is more of a fair fight!" Kid Cobra smirked beneath his helmet.
"Okay, so, how do we get it off of her?" Ribbon Girl asked. "It's lost its ARMS but she's still in there..."
Coyle cracked her neck to one side. "OLH units are always designed with a maximum damage intake value. Forces it off your head before the risk of the shell falling apart and crushing your skull."
"And how much do we have to damage it, exactly?" Master Mummy questioned.
"About six times as much as the Hedlok Ribbon Girl fought back at her championship would require. This things tough. "
"Aw mannn, really?! " Kid Cobra sighed. "We're gonna be at this forever!"
"Quite likely." Coyle nodded. "If you can think of anything flashy to really strike it, you've got the floor. But it's this or attacking her body."
" Then we'll fight the shell. " Ribbon Girl insisted firmly. "No one has to die today."
The fight broke out once again, though much more traditionally than what had just entailed.
Kid Cobra's Slamanader to Mimicutie. Hit.
Dr. Coyle's Brrchuk to Mimicutie. Hit.
Master Mummy's borrowed Megawatt. Miss.
Springtron's Toaster. Reflected by White Mirror, struck back at him briefly setting him alight.
Dr Coyle's Parabola. Miss.
Master Mummy's Phoenix. Hit.
Ribbon Girl's Popper. Hit.
Kid Cobra's Hydra. Miss.
Springtron's Tribolt. Hit.
It wasn't long before Mimicutie, beginning to get more and more distressed, attempted for the first time in a while to use her mimicry. She began to fog up - but then a strike from Springtron's Toaster sent her flying back in a twitchy, uncomfortable mess.
Mimicutie carefully got back to her legs, Arachnilok still firmly on her shoulders, with her body still set at herself. There was simply no opportunity for her to change here. It was one against five - she'd never get an opportunity to.
Before too long, Mimicutie began to focus almost entirely on just using her fireballs, spitting them out as frequently as possible. One of them struck Master Mummy head-on, sending him flying far, far back, all the way over to the King Cobra ride.
"Awwww shit, dawg!" Kid Cobra gasped. "She'll knock all of us out 'fore we get that damn thing off!"
Coyle grunted to herself. Kid Cobra was right - Mimicutie had time on her side. Time and fireballs.
Fireball to Ribbon Girl, blocked.
Fireball to Coyle, dodged.
Fireball to Springtron. Hit, sent back toward the rubble behind.
Fireball to Kid Cobra. Narrowly dodged.
Fireball to Coyle. Blocked.
After a moment, Coyle heard her name yelled from the distance. She turned to its source - Master Mummy in the distance, who seemed to have his borrowed Megawatt pressed to the King Cobra's electrical- Ahhh!
Coyle grinned widely. She turned to Ribbon Girl. " Stun her! "
Ribbon Girl sent a charged Sparky to Mimicutie, knocking her ARMS limp once again. Coyle then followed up quickly with a grab. She twirled Mimicutie in the air in a large circle, before throwing her off far into the distance.
Springtron leapt into the air and latched himself onto Mimicutie, looking down at her as they soared through the sky. He began to shimmer in electrical light, keeping her ARMS down for as long as possible.
The two landed squarely on the track of the King Cobra, with Mimicutie's legs dangling off the side. She would have almost certainly fallen, if not for Springtron firmly keeping her up there. But why...?
OH.
The King Cobra - the fastest ride in the park - suddenly collided with the two of them at break-neck speed. The hit struck Springtron first, blasting him into tiny pieces that scattered all across the park.
Mimicutie was sent flying once again, spinning through the air. Arachnilok looked immensely banged up, and seemed to be spluttering slightly from difficulties staying functional. And then, finally, it met its end.
Mimicutie landed head-first to the solid concrete ground and bounced a couple times. The first strike shattered Arachnilok into pieces, forever broken. The second hit snapped her own mask in half, leaving her shining mirror ARMS to coil up by the time she hit the floor for a third time, at which point she rolled several times, some blood splattering across the pavement as she did.
" Mimi! " Ribbon Girl called out, concerned. She ran after her quickly.
Coyle grit her teeth. She wanted to go after Mimicutie - and she would, certainly - but she felt she needed to make a stop first. She turned on a dime and headed over to Min Min to do a quick check on her ARMS.
Ribbon Girl dashed toward the limp body on the floor. As she got closer, Mimicutie began to move, rolling over slightly and carefully propping herself up.
Mimicutie, her face badly bruised, took a weak look at Ribbon Girl and quickly got to her feet. She dashed, though somewhat limping, off toward the remains of Master Mummy's Haunted Mansion, which now had what was left of The Scientific Error sticking out of it.
"W-Wait!" Ribbon Girl pleaded, running after her. She entered the dusty-aired building just in time to see Mimicutie carefully hop down through a large gap in the ground that The Scientific Error had created.
Ribbon Girl followed her, dropping down into the gap to the room beneath. It seemed to be an old storage room.
And it was filled with mirrors.