Uh-uh, pal. We're goin' you and me, mano-e-mano.
RRGH...
...How interesting that you still have the will to proceed... But all your resolve shalt be broken once I grind you beneath my heal!
YOU MOCK ME!?!?
A taste of your own medicine.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
What's wrong? You can't even beat out your own attacks? You're more pathetic than I thought.
R-RRRGH!!!
Look at me. I don't even need to transform to handle you like a child, and yet you're pushing your limits against one of your own abilities. If I were as weak as this...
YOU ARE THE WEAKEST!
GGGGHNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
As expected, the seabed is solid baryte.
No seaweed or other forms of life detected, as baryte would quickly precipitate on any surface
That... Includes me. I am on a time limit.
It also would not explain the signals received from my waypoint.
Although... I can feel the signal way better now that I am closer to the origin.
AGH GET IT OFF GET IT OFF-
Hm?
You...you helped me?
Eh, you haven't pulled any tricks yet. Figured even if you would, we'd take out the weird "them" thingies you were-

I hav'n't found anyone nice since I left to get th' thing for Mommy before the mirror...n'...Idunno where I went, I-
P-please, calm down. It's okay. Nobody's here to hurt you now.
So, uh...I guess we'll go and clean up the rest of Princess Biohazard's mess up ahead and come back to let you know it's safe to-
I don't wanna be alone.
Mack, look at her. She's scared out of her wits, we're probably the first two people to give her empathy in years...I don't think she even knows how she became...y'know...
Fiine. Guess it'll help anyway if anything shows up here after we leave.
Man, for a stadium it's very... dark...
Yeah, they didn't really have any great ideas
...because they are Fr-
NO... Anyways stop here
Phew, alright. So who's the man around here?
The name everyone knows around here is "Boun Creant", one of the Bound users, like you
Huh... well that's cool... (also wait a minute is Boun Creant a play on Bound and Creation-)
Also, just pretend we don't know his name, we don't want him be frightened or make him bust a move. After all, he is an old man
Alright... oh, isn't that him over there?
Ah... newcomers!
...He said that like it was a goodbye.
Can't afford to worry about that. Walter supposedly revived everyone who either was or is on the battlefield, so there's no time to waste deciphering his words.
Hey, does anyone hear that?
Hi hi~! Looks like plenty of other people are waking up from their naps, too!
Didn't you just get sliced and diced and destroyed!... What's even going on anymore!?
(....So Defteros was cut up!? That sick bastard...)
...Say, what happened to MKII? and Proteus?
...
...He really seemed to miss you, ya know.
*GASP!* HE MISSED ME!? I MISSED HIM TOO!!
(Defteros and Proteus have both been conduits for World Rings in the past. Defteros has wielded the one of Joy and Sadness, and Proteus Rage. Sadness is already taken, so Defteros can use Joy. It suits him better anyway, and that means only two more people to find.)
...Think fast.
OOH! Shiny~!
Now, try to think thoughts as happy as possi--
Done!
...Of course. Only you could be feeling joyful at a time like this...
AAGH... GMAKSGGHHH...
Awww, what? I thought you'd last longer than that!
You know what, MKII?... You're a beast. And not the good kind of beast.
AGN JAKLJS... u-rrgh!!...
Ya growl if things don't go the way you want them to... you bare your fangs if you don't like someone...
...And if that someone's out of your league... well... you either curl up your tail and run away... or get beaten and end up whimpering like a whipped dog.
GRHHHHH!!!...
I can't even feel bad for you. You're such a screwup, you managed to somehow ruin pity for me. Takes a special kinda person to do that...
Well.... all the more reason you'll end up being erased forever.
(Wait, was he just baiting me!?)
FOOOOOOOOL!!!!
Location reached.
Expectations let down...
But further investigation required. The signal remains strong.
Unnaturally geometric elevation. Pentagonal platforms litter this area.
Potential cause: baryte in this area is layered over a manmade or otherwise non-naturally formed structure.
...I would rather not use this...
But database suggests it to be my best option.
...Density calibrated.
Particle size calibrated.
Area of effect adjusted.
...Quantum Disentanglement.
This "tool"... My calibration data for it has been corrupted over the time of disuse.
More practice required.
...
Terrible.
Correlating with data...
This appears to be a building top. Flat pentagonal roofing was popularised in early interplanetary colonisation efforts on type-G cold-climate planets by the CCC.
...Perhaps..?
Incredible.
The inside of the structure appears to have been saved from flooding by the air-tight trapdoors designed to keep heat in.
Few more people left.
Give me the McGuffin.
...Do you know what--
I said hand it here. I don't care what it does! I can not bring myself to stand here and gawk like a no-named bozo like a good percentage of the people here!
What do you want from us, genius? To unravel the secrets of the universe? Do we look like magicians to you?
I'd say you look more like the peanut gallery here to me!
Hah! It's sad because it's true.
That don't make it funny, too!
I am sick of this entire charade. Give it to me now.
(Just as ticked as ever...)
...On second thought. You're the perfect man for the job.
Hrkk... *groan*...
Yay, he's waking up!
Oh, no. He's waking up.
Only one more person to find.
Yes, yes! Oh my god.
...
....Where has your babbling gone to? Or has the gravity of the situation at last hit your feeble intellect?
(...Gh. I said I wasn't going to underestimated him, and he played me for a nitwit.)
There is nothing that sets you apart from any other weakling challenger. Any frail peon that questions my might.... They all come to pass, and you are no exception!!
These tirades are getting real old. Put up or shut up.
....
GH!
Here goes nothing!
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