Spelunking in the Night

At the continued violent threatening, and the apparition of a brand new, even nastier weapon, the remaining IronShield flinched, then raised its shield in the air and turned about to run in panic down the hall. Unfortunately, as much as this particular family of virus was quite capable of turning on the spot rapidly, it's ability to actually move away was very sluggish, and it was almost a slow-motion caricature of running away as Scourge mindlessly laid into it with her weapon. The conflict, if such it could be called, was over swiftly. All that remains was a scattering of junked data and various amounts of convertible zenny.


-=Not Real Hall Monitors=-

IronShieldA: FLE-DELETED
IronShieldB: DELETED
Snoozy: DELETED

-=Not Really Herself Tonight=-

Scourge.Exe: 170Hp [Normal]

-=Terrain=-

60% Normal [Main Hallway]
20% Wooden [Wooden benches for seating, on either side of the hallway][This functionally acts like grass terrain, except that it will convert to Coal instead of Soil, if burned.]
20% Glass [The walls of the hallway are mostly windows. On Scourge's left, they are black on the outside, likely leading into some exterior night space. On her right, they lead into what look like lecture rooms, meeting rooms or class rooms.]

Hall is straight, but an opening slightly behind scourge and the IronShields looks as though it leads into a side-room.

-=Battle 1, Victory=-

Rewards: 610z
With the enemy well and truly routed, Sofia saw all of them melt into shadowy black apparitions, which quickly dissipated into smoke. The smoke funneled itself into a trail that was sucked quickly towards the woman, where it entered through the enormous screws below her shoulders. The woman inhaled sharply as all the smoke disappeared, and she appeared to grow slightly bigger before Sofia's eyes. In addition, the hardened bandage that had stuck out earlier softened and re-wrapped itself around the woman's arms. However, it began to do so much more quickly, forming a thick pair of purple gloves. The woman stood tall, clenching her newly-covered hands tightly, and turned back towards Sofia. Between her bangs, Sofia could see a single purple eye, glaring straight ahead. However, just before she could address the woman, she briskly walked right past Sofia, and down a small opening in the alley that they had missed.

"Ah, wait! Wait for me!" called out Sofia, as the girl hovered after her, though painfully slowly.

[Battle 2 - Ready.]
[Scourge.EXE: 170 HP.]
As scourge wandered into the side doorway, she'd discover what appeared to be a small classroom of some sort. A grid of wooden desks filled most of the space, with low storage cabinets running the length of three walls. The fourth held a large screen that was likely used for teaching. Each of the cabinets had several small gages on them, each holding what looked like a very agitated collection of bunny viruses.

At the back of the class room, a green crystal rotated slowly on the furthest shelf, but Scourge wasn't going to have too much time to take that in: upon seeing her, all of the caged bunnies began to spark and hop in their cages, growing more restless until, with a series of electrical snaps and the sounds of springing metal, they began breaking swiftly out of their imprisonment.


-=Class Pets?=-

BunnyA: 50Hp [On Shelf A]
BunnyB: 50Hp [On Shelf A]
BunnyC: 50Hp [On Shelf B]
BunnyD: 50Hp [On Shelf C]
BunnyE: 50Hp [On Shelf C]


-=Night-Time Delinquent=-

Scourge.Exe: 170Hp [Normal]

-=Terrain=-

100% Normal

-=Objects=-

Desks A-I: 30Hp [A three by three grid occupying most of the room, with ample walking space between][Wood]
Cabinets A-C: 50Hp [waist-high cabinets that serve as shelving, running along the back and side walls][Wood]
Broken Cages A-E: 20Hp [on the floor in front of each of the shelves][Metal]

GMD: 25Hp [On Cabinet B]

-=Battle 2, Start=-

As Sofia hovered through the small doorway, the room lit up, and she heard the bell ring. "Oh, I'm late," she muttered, as she floated over to the front, and started sifting through the cards that were laid out on the front-most desk. This school looked kind of odd, as it just had these flashcards that showed big pictures on them. Two of them she had seen earlier, of the blue knife and the big plus sign. Spreading out the cards, however, got her a lot more. Some of them looked quite familiar, like a little alien-like creature with a lightning bolt on it. Others, like the electrical cone, she didn't quite recognize. Sofia then lined them all up and stacked them neatly on the desk, and looked around.

The classroom had a few bunnies in cages, though they looked a bit agitated, likely from lack of feeding over the weekend. "Oh, no, who was in charge of the feeding the pets?" said Sofia. She looked back down at the desk, and a clipboard with an attendance list had shown up on it. She lifted it up and started to read it, trying to find the person who had been responsible for the rabbits. Or, well, attempted to read, as the letters kept changing as she looked at it again and again. There was one name at the top that never changed, though, so it might have been her.

She looked back up, and there was a stark lack of students in the room too, save for the one woman she had been following. The bandage-wrapped woman looked about the classroom with a vicious glare, scoping out the rabbits, which now looked a little more than agitated. The noise coming from the metal cages was getting a bit deafening. "That's weird, everyone's late. The bell's already rung," muttered Sofia. She looked up behind her at the wall clock, but that too was unhelpful, since its numbers constantly shifted about, and she couldn't read the time. "Oh, well. Was there an assembly today, Miss..." she started, reading the name off of the clipboard. "... Scourge?"

The woman's piercing glare suddenly shifted to Sofia, with an obviously audible crack from her neck. The girl seemed to paid her no mind, though, as she looked past the woman's shoulder. "Ah, that's your name, then. Well, at least you're on time. Could you turn off that green lamp for me, by the way, Scourge? I don't know who brought that in but it's really bright and getting in my eye," said Sofia. "Scourge" shifted her view from the front to the back, and raised her arm towards the crystalline light source. The "lamp" was dimmed down to a manageable level, though it was mostly the light being blocked from all the bandages Scourge had wrapped around it.

At this point, the rabbits broke out of their cages with a loud clang, sending metal pieces everywhere about the room. "Ah, they broke the cages..." said Sofia sadly, though fortunately she didn't get any of the debris her way. She was going to have to clean it up now, which was a bit of a pain, but not too bad. Sofia brought up the cards in front of her, and looked back up. The bunnies were lined up in a semicircle from what she could see, so... "Ah, here we go," she said, motioning to pick up one that had a Boomerang on it. The card shattered as she did so, and she looked back up. "Scourge, you're up."

Sofia's bandaged companion didn't need to be told twice, as her bandages started to unfurl from her body, creating a ring around her feet. It didn't take long before it was a sizable amount, and Scourge kicked up the ring, which had already hardened into a smooth, sharp ring of razor-thin bandages. She picked it up with her arm, and swung it in a circle about her, while at the same time surveying the position of the bunnies to attempt to get the best angle of attack. Then, a third of the bandage ring vanished as she then launched it towards the bunnies, starting with the one to her right. The weaponized bandages would then swoop around the classroom, tearing up anything it came into contact with, while Scourge herself readied up to avoid any counterattacks from the disgruntled rabbits.

// Summary
[Sc.1] Sig: Reinforced Linens, on GMD // 40 HP Casing
[Sc.2] Act: Take Aim // Accuracy+ on 1 Attack
[Sc.3] Chip: Boomerang1, on all Bunny // Wood 60, Arc Attack, Acc B+
[Sc.4] Act: Prepare to duck below any attacks // Dodge
Still viewing the events on the net in something of a disassociated daze, Sofia assessed the situation and commanded her navi without really grasping what she was doing. The results, however, were decent enough considering that. After wrapping up the mystery data in a safety cocoon of bandages, Scourge lined up an ambitious array of targets with her attack. The bunnies seemed to recognise hostility when they saw it, and several began to dart around on their cabinet tops more rapidly, while others set their ears crackling.

The boomerang was released before the first bunny could launch its attack, and it was sliced into data a moment later. the second in line dived off the shelf, as the projectile whizzed by overhead, then launched a crackling ring back towards Scourge. It didn't seem to have a proper line of sight, though, and missed her completely. The boomerang arced around the outside of the room, cutting far more accurately through where the third bunny had been a moment ago, before it, too dodged off the desk and under a table. Not doing any dodging, the bandage-clad mystery data was perfectly in the arc needed to clean up the pest problem, though it escaped unharmed while the boomerang tore through its bandage protection letting its light glitter freely again.

The final pair of bunnies in line with the arc each launched shocking rings towards Scourge before the projectile got around to them, and despite her best efforts to avoid them, both rings managed to nail the unofficial pet-carer with a minor shock and a short stunning sensation that would limit her options for a little while. The boomerang itself cut cleanly through one bunny, but the subsequent hits on its earlier targets had made it more and more unstable as it travelled, and it didn't manage to connect with the last one, which plopped off the shelf and onto the ground after firing its attack. The other nifty feature about weapons like this is that they come back to their wielder, but after passing through a total of six targets it was a very unstable boomerang that winged its way back towards Scourge at the end. Catching it properly was out of the question, but she did manage to avoid getting hit by the thing at least. It blew past her and embedded itself in the front board with a thump.


-=Class Pets?=-

BunnyA: 50Hp [Under Desk D]
BunnyB: DELETED
BunnyC: 50Hp [Under Desk H]
BunnyD: 50Hp [Under Desk C]
BunnyE: DELETED


-=Night-Time Delinquent=-

Scourge.Exe: 150Hp [Normal][Stun2!]

-=Terrain=-

100% Normal

-=Objects=-

Desks A-I: 30Hp [A three by three grid occupying most of the room, with ample walking space between][Wood]
Cabinets A-C: 50Hp [waist-high cabinets that serve as shelving, running along the back and side walls][Wood]
Broken Cages A-E: 20Hp [on the floor in front of each of the shelves][Metal]

GMD: 25Hp [On Cabinet B][Casing Broken!]
"H-Hey, why can't I move?"

Sofia grunted slightly, as she tugged on her suddenly-frozen limbs. Stuck in front of the desk in a weird standing pose, she must have looked pretty silly to all the students. Well, except that the only student in attendance was the bandaged woman in front of her, so maybe it wasn't all that bad. Tingles of painful static ran through her arms and legs, like the few times she had fallen asleep on her arm. The feeling that you get when you wake up, and all the pins and needles are stabbing into your legs, so you can't stand up without feeling like an inverted porcupine. That sort of thing. Sofia looked at Scourge, and surprisingly saw that she was in the same position. She would have laughed, if she wasn't stuck.

"Whoa!" she exclaimed, as the bandage ring that had been thrown earlier whizzed past her. It grazed right through her arm, though strangely enough, it didn't look like it did anything. She didn't even feel any wind whoosh past by or anything, let alone the bandages themselves. That was good, though, at least she could worry about one less thing. Right then, the bunnies around her looked pretty threatening. If she got to move properly soon, she could probably swerve out of the way of some rings they would throw.

Actually, were rabbits supposed to throw rings like that? Maybe, Sofia told herself, they were some kind of mutant rabbits. Mutant rabbits that looked like they were made out of a slinky spring. She remembered an old videogame she had with rabbits. It was some kind of shooter game where you had to run around some bushes to find some rabbits to shoot with a shotgun. Maybe she could use one right that moment, even. Or maybe Scourge, since it looked like she could move now. Sofia nodded her head slightly, and the cards appeared again. Luckily, she did have a shotgun. Two of them, in fact, though one looked like it had a picture of a cornstalk on it. Maybe it was a special discount for farmers.

Two cards shattered in front of her, and Sofia turned to watch Scourge again. The woman's bandages on her arms began to unfurl once again, except this time, they stayed mostly on, whirling about her arms. Scourge leapt backwards slightly, putting her arms together in front of her and interlocking her fingers. The bandages quickly formed the twin barrels of a typical shotgun, which she aimed at one of the desks with one of the bunnies hiding under it. A deafening bang sounded through the area, and Sofia's vision started to blur. Then, Scourge switched her sights on the remaining two, and fired the other round. The world shook again with the rattling noise of the shotgun and its muzzle flash, and Sofia started to see some weird patterns on the desks. Something that looked like... flowers?

// Summary
[Sc.1] Act: Stunlocked (No movement)
[Sc.2] Act: Attempt to break stunlock (If successful, perform a Dodge)
[Sc.3] Chip: Shotgun, at Desk H + Bunny C // Null 50, Spread1, Acc A
[Sc.4] Chip: CornShot1, at Bunny A/D // Wood 50, TrickShot1, Acc A
As Scourge was stuck, limbs frozen in shock, one of the bunnies took a shot at her. Smacking her with another electric ring from its spot under its desk. The new shock broke her out of her stasis. Though her arms and legs, after feeling returned to them, began to tingle again with the threat of lockup. But she would have enough time for some payback before she lost mobility again.

The other two bunnies chittered in laughing glee at Scourge's plight as she took up a stance to dodge, launching their own attacks from under their own desks. Unfortunately Scourge was still slow from regaining the use of her limbs again and was smacked by both of the incoming rings. In a little while she was going to have the worst case of stiffness.

However, her counterattack was just as effective. One of the desks was reduced to a pile of kindling by her shotgun blast, blowing the poor rabbit away. Then with another awesome display of power, flowers littered the spots where the other two bunnies were. There was nothing left of the two bunnies among the petals, except hard earned rewards. And, eventually, probably angry administrators wondering what happened to one of their desks. Do you know how much those things cost?

Oh yeah, and there was still a green glowing crystal on one of the desks. Like an apple for a teacher.

-=Class Pets?=-

BunnyA: DELETED
BunnyB: DELETED
BunnyC: DELETED
BunnyD: DELETED
BunnyE: DELETED

-=Night-Time Delinquent=-

Scourge.Exe: 130Hp [Normal] [Stun3]

-=Terrain=-

100% Normal

-=Objects=-

Desks A-I (but not H): 30Hp [A three by three grid occupying most of the room, with ample walking space between][Wood]
Desks H: DELETED
Cabinets A-C: 50Hp [waist-high cabinets that serve as shelving, running along the back and side walls][Wood]
Broken Cages A-E: 20Hp [on the floor in front of each of the shelves][Metal]

GMD: 25Hp [On Cabinet B]

-=Battle 2, End=-
Rewards: Zapring1, 800z

OPEN GMD: Y/N
"Ooooh, my arms are all stiff now," mumbled Sofia, as she hovered over to the remains of the bunnies. The world around her was shifting in and out of focus, as she saw Scourge move up from beside her, and touch the crystal lamp on the shelf. The lamp then began to disintegrate in front of her, revealing...

[Open GMD.]
The GMD opened to reveal...

...

...

...

...

A BurnSquare1 battlechip!

GET: BurnSquare1
It took a little while, but the lamp disintegrated into... a candle? Wow, either they were cutting corners in administration or something was really wrong. The candle disappeared in front of Sofia, however, as the world around her began to phase in and out. The pattern of flowers appeared in front of her again. She turned to Scourge, who was standing over the torn up bunnies. They had started to melt into a purple haze, which flew up into a small stream, and flowed directly into Scourge's metal screws on her shoulders. The bandages that wrapped about her body started to tighten and unwind in places, as a pair of black boots formed around her feet. Sofia was about to reach out to her, when her vision started failing entirely.

"Oh, it's morning already..." she mumbled, as she closed her eyes, and Scourge disappeared from her sight.

CLOG Dream state halted. Shutting down processes.
RETS prsn://08e1:0133::4a10::1111/0000/
CLOG Jack Out "Scourge.EXE"... Transfer OK.


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