Up, in the skies, a few meters high,a robot stands above the destroyed city, observing the group below, his propellor spins as he thinks to himself.

Megaman 5 intro (sega genesis version)

Alright… we can't mess this up!

Gyro T turns to the other 3 robots on the top of the dilapidated building, unfortunately, they are all occupied at the moment, One reading a worn newspaper, while the other two are playing noughts and crosses in the dust, Gyro T rolls his eyes, before making a whistling sound, the robot reading the newspaper lets out an audible sigh, before storing it away. And walking over to the noughts and crosses, kicking the dust to stop the game

Aww what? I was about to win! Spoil sport-

No time for that in afraid. We've got company-

Blast T walks over to the edge, looking down, the rest of the robots walk over and look down, the last robot produces a rose out of who-knows where

Our blustery friends are correct my dear explosive artist! The question is now will our new friends be able to presevere with their new challenge set by the rainbow reaper, or will th-

Star T is cut off by blast T instantly jumping off the side of the building down into the street below


LAST ONE DOWNS A ROTTEN EGG!

The other three all look completetly baffled, before Dust turned to Gyro and Star

Well… you heard him.

Dust then also jumps off the building, causing Gyro and Star to follow, all 4 landing on the floor moments later Infront of everyone! Blast strikes a pose as he lands, before letting out a holler to grab everyone's attention who hadn't noticed the 4 robots falling from the building

YO! LOOK OVER HERE!

There's a mild pause, and Dust T awkwardly makes a coughing moment before nudging Gyro T

Huh? Oh crud-!

Greetings fellow survivors! We are simply fellow travellers traversing this desolate land, but we can't help but have overheard you're current predicament, what with all the chalice and needing to prove your strength and responsibility.

Star T then steps forward, rose still in hand

My sky high friend is correct! And as legendary heroes ourselves, we would like to help you on your quest to become heroes of this long gone realm, still clinging to it's sparks of hope!

Dust T nudges Star T out of the way

...Yeah, what star said, basically, we're going to put you all through some training,prepare you for any threats to come on your quest for 'worthiness' and whatnot and because some of you desperately need it.

Blast T then proceeds to vault over Dust T

And hold nothing back! Because we won't be holding back either!



...no pressure though, if you're still buying items or wrapping up conversations and what-not

I think the main counter to this would be something that could knock out toad man early, potentially a proto strike protoman, or a charge module dynamo man, granted against the computer your probably set

Plantern's... Eyes show as much shock as his little button eyes can, but he sways forwards to mimic the motion of nodding

hmm, I'm also sure that any allies you have fought alongside before, aswell as the people we fight alongside now, are proud of you, but yes, dwelling on the past won't help us now, I suppose your best port of call would be to...maybe prove our worthiness to that rainbow person?

Cloud then returns from the shop, approximately 1500 zenny poorer. (Skill bought)

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Cloud man T
Core: electric
Subcorewind
Weakness: explode,missile
Resistance water,earth
HP:26
WE:22
ATK:10
DEF:21
SPD:21

Moves:
Buster charge

Storm bolt (Prototype's cloud weapon)

Hurry-gale windWE:5 : generates a powerful wind blowing behind the user and their teammates, grants a temporary +5 speed for the 3 turn duration

'Encouraging' jolt electric/swiftWE:10: User fires a small jolt of electricity at an ally or themselves, the turn after this move is used, the recipient of the move can make an additional move

Stormy Skies Electric/waterWE: 12Accuracy: 99%damage:90- The user takes a turn to charge before firing a stormy cloud over the battle field, striking 3 enemies! after this move is used, water and electric moves gain a slight 1.25 X damage increase, while flame type moves only deal 0.75X the normal damage!

Slack off Neutral WE: 6: The user slacks off, losing their turn to recover 50% HP and gain a passive WE regen for the next 2 turns

Clearing winds wind 50% of all WE: The user produces a blast of wind, removing all negative stat changes and status effects from the player and all team mates

(Skill) : Cloud nine opportunity: Cloud man gains the same amount of zenny and exp from the attack of a player who has received buffs from Cloud man in the last 3 turns.

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Plantern pauses, for a split second the light within goes completely out, before it reignites in a dim glow

Well,It wasn't always just us 5, but when your in the line of work we are, you...see a lot of good plants fall, we were all lucky to just get stuck in that seed packet to be honest-

Plantern continues to look at valk for a short time, pondering what she is saying, he'd give her a reassuring pat on the back but..

..She'll live, the injuries haven't been life threatening... And, j think even if you had managed to restore her, she wasn't built or grown to take such heavy damage like that, unlike everyone else here,so when she got hit by that Hydrakin, there wasn't much anyone could do to get her back fighting... Still, We all saw how you tried to help everyone during that fight,for all we know more people could have been in the same situation as the captain is if it wasn't for you.

Plantern's light dims slightly

I just hope nobody sustains enough damage to the point of being unable to come back, I... Don't wanna lose any teammates again

Noticing that valk seems to be having what looks to be a mental breakdown, Plantern splits from the rest of the group and burrows underground,appearing out of the concrete next to her, now back in full glow,looking at her with concern and confusion

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At the same time, cloud T enters the shop valk was just in, having...'borrowed' brickell's zenny reserves, what will he buy? We don't know.

Somehow, Bloom and doom all manage to drive brickells ship out of the cave, Brickell herself is still unconscious in the bed that Alice made for her, as they park with the rest of the team, BnD all gather around Brickell

Well, she's alive, but if we have any sort of encounter like that again soon,we may need to sit out of the raid to protect her

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The hand in the gold pile sticks out again, this time shuffling and shifting their hand around the gold pile they're in, before grabbing onto something and pulling themselves out of the treasures

...just 5 more minutes...


(Stats and moves later, not that it matters much right now)

Cloud grumbles before reluctantly leaving the cavern,

Perhaps those 'unworthy' weirdos can help me out, I'll just, tag along with them and see what happens-

(Editor's note: this ISNT the boss,tune back in in a few days to see your next foes!)

Plantern lets out an "eep" and burries into the ground,submerging behind trio, thus begins the wack-A-mole

Plantern watches trios pathetic display, distracting him from his fearful look at the forming final boss. He rolls his black dot eyes

Threepeater gets up and twiddles there non existent thumbs in a sign of protest for a turn while waiting for the rest of bloom and doom to revive

Plantern revives first, only to find that his light just, isn't on, he watches in awe and fear as the hydralings all fuse together,not noticing a hand sticking out of one of the undisturbed treasure piles

♫ Innocence glitched - the binding of isaac

Couldn't you have just, destroyed the Anti-Omni meme? might have stopped it from causing more havoc, unless it was like, sealing something inside-

Sharena pushes open the large door at the end of the staircase, leading to the same room thea originally entered the room, the scratches in the walls and the broken skeletons as proof

....Huh, that's odd, i could have sworn we would have had to fight something here, but by the looks of things, someone already has...

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Thea stands her ground as the shadow covered narcian charges towards her, as soon as he gets close enough, she slams maltet down into the ground, generating gigantic ice spikes that stick out of the ground, one of the ice spikes drive directly through "Narcian",despite this, he seems unaffected, the phantom pushing through the ice and slamming it's axe down on top of thea, only giving her seconds to block and parry the blow.

Ah ha ha ha! Grovel worm!

Thea scowls as she moves back, blocking each of the wild swings of the axe, attempting to find some opening, eventually, she manages to duck until a horizontal swipe, and proceeds to attempt to impale "Narcian" in a different spot, driving the spear right through where the mans heart would have been with surprising ease, until the spear collided with SOMETHING,the phantom of narcian moved back, dropping the axe

Ah -- ha h-! Gro-l wo-!

The phantom then glitches, before vanishing, revealing a partially damaged core floating where thea had struck, Thea looked at the core with confusion as it continued to float, before an alarm began blaring within the now glitching and corrupting castle.


Thea then watched at the core seemed to be enveloped by shadow once again. Taking the form of... someone she didnt recognize. The phantom tried to speak, but all that came out was....

.. .----. -- / .- / .--. . .-. ..-. . -.-. - / .-. . .--. .-.. .. 63 61 20 6f 66 20 79 6f 75 2c 20 61 66 74 65 72 20 61 6c 6c 21

Thea then pulled her weapon out of the ground, and braced for phase 2.

♫ Vs Freyja - Fire emblem heroes

As the blistering barrage strikes each of the plants,causing then to wilt and fall to the ground, Threepeater barely manages to hang on, was it because of the frying pan? Was it due to the willpower to stay alive? Was it pure luck, he didn't know, but he wasn't going to just, waste this opportunity to try and protect the others.he let's out a noise what sounds like a trumpet, and suddenly several other peashooters, all of different types and variety emerge out of the ground, all ready to fire

Alright...this is it, our last stand, it all comes down to this.

READY. SET. FIRE!

Threepeater then begins to rapidly spin, firing out another maelstrom of peas, the other types of peashooter then all begin to rapidly fire peas, activating nature overdrive

After being hit by the ice skater, despite it making no sense for them to be slipping due to being rooted in the ground. Threepeater temporarily turns into an ice peashooter variant, before firing off a much weaker nature overdrive to hopefully hit SOMETHING

Peony.exe:The crash bin?

Peony pauses, thinking to herself

Peony.exe:Alright let's see here... The crash bin should be quite deep in the undernet, all things considered,if I recall it's located near the graveyard! So just keep heading deeper into the undernet until you get to area 10! I think-

Watching ghost of stache have his little moment, Threepeater nudges Fumeshroom and makes a "get a load of this guy" motion.

In the background of the fight Brickell turns and looks up at the speakers on her ship, that had been destroyed when the rest of the fourth wall speakers had broken, she makes a frowing face before going into the ship to fix them

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Cabbage pult scowls at the missed cabbage pult, and prepares to fire another cabbage lob at the ruby hydrakin!

screaming loudly both in anger and the fact he's on fire, cabbage pult launches another cabbage lob at [amber hydrakin}{flame_crystal}

A cabbage lob is launched at garnet!

Plantern looks on at scrap getting wiped off the face of the earth via punches, a look of dread appearing on his face. he continues to shine on, hoping to appear as some form of beacon for the rest of the plants and his team mates!