Hellion Lady quickly backs away from the entity.

Well, whatever that thing is, I'd like to NOT be anywhere near it. especially the horn, I have a feeling that's secretly a drill.

Hellion Lady walks up to Valkyrie Woman as well.

Hi again! Say, I don't think we've properly introduced yet!

Hellion Lady extends her arm towards Valkyrie Woman for a handshake.

Name's Hellion Lady, and yours?

Enragement Child absorbs the coupons and hands the mystery woman the stuff she's buying.

   HERE'S YOUR , NOW OFF

Enragement Child then closes up shop for now, and goes into the hole-in-the-wall-shaped door to the back room of his shop, where nobody can hear him monologue to himself.

He then inputs a series of codes into a hidden keypad, activating a secret door, which he then goes into and closes behind himself.


♪ Area Theme: Freedom and Security

   VERY INTERESTING
   THIS WORLD SEEMS COMPLETELY DEVOID OF ANY DEBAUCHERY
   BUT THIS IS NOT THE WORLD I FOUND WHEN I REACHED GODHOOD
   ...ALMOST REACHED GODHOOD.

Enragement Child enters a strange square that reads "This is the transportation cube. Get in.", and it teleports him into an even more hidden section of the building, one that leads to a hexagram inscription on the ground. A few cameras step out of the way so Enragement Child can open a portal to


♪ Area Theme: Gentle Madman

Enragement Child exits the portal, and starts walking through a mostly unfinished area, where the halls adorned with posters and props from a certain pizza chain that was quite popular where he was from, as well as stone statues consisting of his face, complete with cap and sunglasses. Clusters of homicidal balloons patrol the areas while super-powerful giant padlocks safeguard higher-security areas merely by existing inside the palace.

Enragement Child takes another transportation cube over to the fourth floor, and enters a room through a door mechanism shaped like a crystal cube that vanishes in a flash of light whenever activated, and re-activates when nobody's in the way of it re-materializing.

   THIS BODY ISN'T QUITE AS TERRIBLE AS THAT ONE TIME I GOT TURNED INTO A GHOST
   BUT IT'S STILL ABSOLUTE COMPARED TO THE POWER I HAD WHEN I NEARLY BROKE THE TIMELINE INTO A MILLION PIECES
   PLUS THESE NEW MEMORIES, PRESUMABLY FROM ANOTHER ME THAT GOT HIS KICKED AFTER TURNING INTO AN EARTHBOUND REFERENCE, CERTAINLY COMPLICATE THINGS
   THEY'RE A CONSTANT REMINDER THAT EVEN IF I HAD GONE THROUGH WITH MY PLAN TO MURDER THE PLASTIC ONES, IT STILL WOULDN'T WORK

Enragement Child walks over to various cabinets, each containing weapon data from various robot masters, and even some reploids.

   THOSE, HOWEVER, HAD ONE THING IN COMMON; URSINE MAN WAS THERE TO THWART MY AMBITIONS.
   BUT IN THIS NEW WORLD... THERE'S NOT EVEN THE FAINTEST SIGN OF HIS EXISTENCE.

   BY THE WAY, AVIAN GHOST, UPSILON, OTHER NARRATORS I MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN TO MENTION
   IF YOU TELL ANYONE WHAT YOU SAW HERE YOU'RE GONNA ING PERISH

Hellion Lady then darts toward Sarah Oasis the moment the latter finishes that sentence!

I WISH FOR INFINITE WISHES!
Nah, just messing with ya, I know that's illegal. What I actually want is a bouncyball for throwing at people!

Well then, guess I'm gonna do a little of this...

Hellion Lady uses 2 Crown Coins to obtain some Zenny, then uses said zenny to buy a Fortune Module for herself, and equips it.

And now I'm gonna be absolutely ROLLING in dough by the end of the next fight!

She then buys herself an Extra Life using what little Zenny she has left.

Hellion Lady launches an Abyssal Twister at StarT!

The moment Hellion Lady is thrown into the twister, she starts screaming at the top of her mechanical lungs until she crashes into Valkyrie Woman!

Oh hi, I recently got thrown into a tornado, how's your day going?

Hellion Lady then dizzily tries to hit DusT with another Boost Punisher.

Oh okay, I guess I'm getting oneshotted before I even morph out.

The explosion yeets Calx across the horizon, switching him out! However, Ensemble's still busy experimenting with her Freeze powers, so y'all know what that means...!

(ATTENTION: THIRD CHARACTER SLOT IS ABOUT TO BE USED.)

Suddenly, a small girl who looks kind of like a demon rushes toward Dust T, and attacks him with a Boost Punisher!

Nice fight you guys got going on! Mind if I barge in? Yes? Too bad, because I'm already here!

Name: Hellion Lady
Shadow/Damage Type
Weakness: Light, Nature
Resistance: Shadow, Damage

Stats
EN: 12 | WE: 13
ATK: 13 | DEF: 10 | SPD: 12

Abyssal Twister | Shadow/Wind Type
38 Power | 95% Accuracy | 6 WE
Description: The user surrounds the target in a vortex of black wind.
Effect: 25% chance to Blind the target for 3 turns.

Demonic Lunge | Damage/Swift Type
24 Power | 90% Accuracy | 2 WE
Description: The user wreaths themself in demonic energy, and attacks the target at high speeds.
Effect: Goes 2 actions earlier than usual.

Malwrath Bolt | Damage/Electric
36 Damage | 93% Accuracy | 4 WE
Description: The user shoots a maroon ball of thunder at the target.
Effect: Worsens stat debuffs on the target.

Boost Punisher | Shadow/Level Type
15 Power | 99% Accuracy | 4 WE
Description: I just realized I forgot to make an actual description for this move. I guess it's either a melee slap or a mid-range pulse of darkness.
Effect: Gains 20 more power for each stat buff the target has. Boost efficiency modifiers applied to the target also apply to this move.
Nerf Ideas: If this seems overpowered, maybe have the boost only be 10 per stat buff on the target?

Memento | Shadow/Damage
100% Accuracy | 16 WE
Description: The user sacrifices most of their life force to debilitate the enemy.
Effect: Debuffs the Attack stats of all enemies by 4 stages. The user's health is then set to 1. If a raid boss uses this, their health remains the same, but they can't move next turn.

Calx exits Stone Body+.

So you have an ability that forces my attacks to gravitate toward you. Interesting.
I highly doubt you can redirect attacks that hit all enemies, though!

Calx uses Aftershock Quake!

...Okay, apparently the ground was zombies the whole time.
Not sure how these things were able to grab me while I was floating, but the current issue is how I'm gonna get them away from me. Don't exactly have much in terms of abilities that surround the user here...

Rhys' Hologram turns his arm into a Thermal Drill, and tries to swat the corpses away.
...Or at least, he swats at the places the corpses were, before realizing the corpses aren't there.

Huh. Guess they... vanished? I dunno, it's erally freaking dark here.

Calx stays inside his Stone Body+, starting to question how these people he's fighting are seemingly pulling stuff out of nowhere.

Calx uses a Weapon Capsule on himself.

Calx tries another Earth Power, attempting to hit Raid Boss Fan, only for his left arm to point itself at Star T somehow!

(EDIT:) Apprently I don't have enough WE. Gonna fire the Level Buster instead.

Calx, having just narrowly dodged the storm of bombs, tries Earth Power on Dust T!

Oh. That is the exact OPPOSITE of good.

Calx goes for another Scrap Coffin on Blast T, hoping to mitigate Blast T's stat boosts!

Calx realizes this is a great opportunity to try out his new move; Aftershock Quake!

Suddenly, a Scrap Coffin is launched at Blast Man T!

I assume that's the one we're fighting?

By the way, just came up with Calx's 6th ability.

Aftershock Quake | Earth Type
35 Power | 100% Accuracy | 4 WE
Description: The user causes an earthquake, damaging all foes. Two turns after this is used, a smaller earthquake is triggered, hitting them again, and then another, even smaller earthquake 2 turns after that.
Effect: Targets all enemies. Hits again 2 turns after it's used, but at 25 power. Hits AGAIN two turns after that, but at 15 power.

Huh, that's a LOT of potential names...
Let's see here... Those first two just look like compound words, "frigine" doesn't sound very cool, "prunia" sounds way too girly even for me...
Hold on, that fifth name sounds pretty cool...
...Yeah, somethin' like "Ensemble"! I mean, it'd probably fit better if I was actually three or so people, but it's a start!

Formerly Nameless, now calling herself Ensemble, then starts experimenting with her freezing powers to try and create stuff out of ice somehow.

Honestly, I dunno what I was even after anymore.
Anyway, you guys have a place I can crash at? As long as it ain't on this rock, of course.

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Calx arrives at Enragement Child's hideaway.

   HELLO FRIEND
MY PRICES HAVE DROPPED SINCE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE
Why exactly is that?
   DEFLATION HAPPENED OR SOME
   NOW BUY SOMETHING ALREADY

Calx looks through the list of products, and notices something called "Upgrade Ability".

What's this "upgrade ability" thing supposed to be?
   IF IT SOMEHOW WASN'T OBVIOUS, THAT LETS YOU UPGRADE ANY ATTACK YOU HAVE AT YOUR DISPOSAL.
Well, that's certainly interesting.

Calx buys an Upgrade Ability.

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Calx feels something within himself evolve...!
Stone Body became Stone Body+!*

Stone Body+ | Earth/Defense Type
6 WE
Description: The user temporarily petrifies themself.
Effect: Reduces all incoming damage by 65% and reduces the infliction rate of incoming debuffs & ailments by 25%. Once activated, the user can't move until the user cancels the effect, but they still gain WE while petrified. Cancelling the effect counts as an action, but doesn't cost any WE.

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   BY THE WAY
   I FOUND THIS THING EARLIER THAT I HAVE NO USE FOR
   IT'S YOUR PROBLEM NOW BREATH

Enragement Child attempts to give Silver Tomahawk to Calx... Who smacks it out of the former's hand!

NO.
I REFUSE to have that THING grafted to my arm EVER AGAIN.
   FINE, HOLE.
   JUST DON'T COME CRYING TO ME WHEN YOU NEED TO SLICE SOME THE APART.

Calx exits the building, and starts wandering about.

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*The + is merely to denote a difference between the initial version of Stone Body and the Upgraded Version, and isn't a new ability, nor is it intended to replace Stone Body in the database.
Speaking of abilities, I'm still looking for ideas for Calx's 6th.