by Juice Box » Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:37 pm
"I just can't believe I'm here again," Pete says.
"Yeah, I feel you, man," Jack replies.
"It's just so full of bullshit, man, you know? I was just at our high-tech safehouse, chilling out with mah homies and Xbox and shit, but then nope, stupid Ninja gotta bring me back into this."
"Yeah, man, I know. Never saw you 'til Ninja mentioned you."
"You damn right there, bruthuh. Yo, reader," Pete focuses his attention on you, the reader. "Why don't you do something for me? Go ahead and click Ctrl+F, then type 'Pete.' Yeah, bro, you see how there are basically only two yellow lines at the top of your scroll bar? And nothing else for the rest of the page 'til Ninja mentions me? That's 'cause I was never here, man! Goddamn ninja!"
"Yo, I'm all up for nagging about the fag ninja, but shouldn't we catch up with the rest of them now?"
"Yeah, yeah, fine," Pete says, breaking through his bonds. "Teleport us up, eh?"
MEANWHILE...
Aziminil just stands there.
She's just a silhouette in the distance for now, but she's there. Juice can feel her eyes staring at the group. Manijure is freaking out and acting like a gay little shittard, fanning himself and shit, while the rest of the team totally keep their cool. Out of nowhere, Pete and Jack appear beside them--welcome reinforcements for their upcoming battle.
"All right," Jack says. "Evil demonic monster in real close proximity to us. What do we do?--"
"WAIT WAIT WAIT STOP!" Repeat says. "Stop stop, everyone stop!"
In unison, she and Juice flick their fingers, and their hair regrows itself instantaneously.
"All right: step one, regrow hair, check," Repeat says. "Our luscious and delicate hair--as well as all our other, more rambunctious female assets--can give you guys adequate moral support."
"Excellent," Jack says, then eyes Manijure. "Though not sure if that'll work on the faggot."
"I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD AFTER THIS."
"Let's get back on topic: we can't touch him," CC says. "It'll corrode us."
"So not all of us can actually fight her," Pete points out, though obviously still disgruntled at the fact that he now has to fight yet another evil demon. He has honest-to-God lost count of all the baddies he's had to take down, it's not even funny anymore.
"Maybe we can't fight her, but we can stall her," Jack suggests. "You know how I work--the completely uncatchable one, in romance and in battle. I can use my teleportation and holo-replicants to keep her occupied, and if she gets close to the real me I can just use my intangibility to phase through her, or leave behind a holo-replicant to make her think she's got me while I turn invisible."
"All right," Manijure says, still fanning himself. "This is great and all, and I am incredulously thankful for all of you gorgeous, beautiful warriors--especially CC, God bless her beautiful face--but this will not be enough to kill her."
"We can try using my larceny on her," CC suggests. "It probably won't work, but it's worth a shot."
"Or we can use my light healing," Juice retorts. "You know these demon guys--some light healing on their face and they all go to shit. Paladin classes wreck them."
The team continues its discussion, when suddenly, Aminizil charges.
"Whoa, whoa, wait, shit," Pete says. "She's coming at us!"
"Whoa, whoa, time out!"
"There is no holding back now!" Manijure says. "Stand firm! Jack--you, CC and I must use our superior stealth, and utilize the Surprise Element, just as Ninja said!"
"Is that some weird gay lingo or something? I'm not a faggot like you, man."
"No, you fool! We must do as Ninja said, and use the Surprise Element!--"
"OKAY EVERYONE CHARGE!" Juice yells.
And so they charge.
Juice knows that, unlike some of her allies, she is completely vulnerable to Aminizil. Which is why she grabbed Manijure beforehand as a human shield.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRHHHHHHH!!" She yells, Manijure's frail composition in front of her. She rams straight at the demon, knocking both of them back. She is completely unharmed, but her human shield yells and shouts in some weirdo way as his skin starts corroding.
"WHY DID YOU EVEN," the wizard says. "OH MY FACE, WHYYYYY."
"Relax, man," Pete says as he approaches them. "Your face was a straight-on pussy-deflector, anyway."
"HUSH YOURSELF, WEAKLING."
Jack and Repeat waste no time keeping the demon occupied--and find a critical weakness: her touch does not corrode metal. Repeat enters her golden form, and watches as Aminizil's attempts to slice her into little threepeats does not work, talons bouncing off harmlessly against her skin. Frustrated, it charges at Jack, only to find out that it was but a holo-replicant.
Some few feet away, CC gets ready to use her ability...